Selected Articles: Overseas Interventions of the United States. More Denial, More Problems…

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Global Research, November 03, 2015

By Tom Carter, November 03 2015

The new US Department of Defense Law of War Manual is essentially a guidebook for violating international and domestic law and committing war crimes. The 1,165-page document, dated June 2015 and recently made available online, is not a statement of existing law as much as a compendium of what the Pentagon wishes the law to be.

bankimoon1UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon Condemns Obama’s Actions on Syria

By Eric Zuesse, November 03 2015

The U.N. headlined, “Ban Ki-moon (UN Secretary-General) and Peter Maurer (ICRC) on the world’s humanitarian crises – Media Stakeout (Geneva, 31 October 2015).” The 23-minute news-conference video there included him saying (13:50): “I believe that the future of Syria, or the future of the peace talks, … should not be held up by an issue of the future of one man. I believe that it is up to the Syrian people who have to decide the future of President Assad.”

GUERRE USATowards a Foreign Imposed “Political Transition” in Syria? The Broader War, US Threats directed against Russia

By Peter Koenig, November 03 2015

Just imagine, Kerry, in a propaganda-painted gesture of goodwill, forges the Vienna Peace Conference, this past Friday, 30 October. The results are inconclusive, but on to more talks in Geneva; no longer ‘Assad must go’, but rather the concession that “Assad is going to be part of any transitional governing body.” – Why a foreign imposed transition? Transition seems to become a propaganda indoctrinated fait accompli.

AfricanStandbyForceUSAFRICOM, An Instrument of “Imperialist Peace-Keeping” in sub-Saharan Africa

By Abayomi Azikiwe, November 03 2015

A military exercise by 5,400 troops from various African Union (AU) member-states in South Africa is aimed at the creation of a continental-wide African Standby Force (ASF) designed to engage in peacekeeping and stabilization projects. A preparation process began in late October and continued through the first week of November in the Northern Cape at Lohatlha.

Once  upon a time, a dental or medical exam was an opportunity to read a book.  No more.  The TV blares. It was talking heads discussing whether a football player had been sufficiently punished.  The offense was unclear.  The question was whether the lashes were sufficient. It brought to mind that punishment has become a primary feature of American, indeed Western, society.

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