World-News

'Ghosts of Afghanistan: The Haunted Battleground'

Jonathan Steele, Counterpoint Press: 'This tarnished history of peace talks and cease-fire agreements appears to have imbued U.S. decision makers and the American electorate with a deep prejudice against them.... Since freedom must not be compromised, the notion that a war to safeguard and spread liberty should give way to talks sounds weak and unworthy of a nation that is the world s sole superpower and whose sacred self-appointed mission is to prevail.'

http://www.truth-out.org/ghosts-afghanistan-haunted-battleground/1317932200



The Threat of Warships on an 'Island of World Peace'

Noam Chomsky, Truthout: "Jeju Island is once again threatened by joint U.S.-South Korean militarization and violence: the construction of a naval base on what many consider to be Jeju s most beautiful coastline.... The protest now taking place on Jeju counts as a critical struggle against a potentially devastating war in Asia, and against the deeply rooted institutional structures that are driving the world toward ever more conflict.'

http://www.truth-out.org/threat-warships-island-world-peace/1317996246



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