World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/04-0

Are Democrats Immune from Public s Growing Anti-War Sentiment?
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/04-8

As US Pushes For Syria Strike, Questions Loom over Obama Claims in Chemical Attack
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/09/04-1

The Oxymoron of the Day: 'Humanitarian War' in Syria
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/04-6

Attack Syria? 'Nobody Wants This Except the Military-Industrial Complex'
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/04-0

The World Should Join in Call to Stop US War in Syria
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/04-2

--------

The twisted premises implicit in the drive for war

Independent Institute
by Anthony Gregory

09/03/13

The hidden premise, of course, is that the U.S. government necessarily must intervene, bomb, wage war, and inflict mass bloodshed as a remedy to foreign horrors. It is taken for granted that nonintervention is no option, which assumes that U.S. intervention tends to cause more good than bad, or is worth the effort even if it sometimes fails. This premise is steeped in a cold utilitarianism and stands in tension with the actual results of U.S. policy over the last few decades...

http://tinyurl.com/kawj9o6



Perpetual chaos and crises

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

09/03/13

I find it absolutely fascinating how the president, along with his national-security state apparatus, can instantaneously throw the entire nation into crisis mode, this time with everyone in angst over whether the president should or should not bomb Syria. It s a perfect demonstration of the power and influence that the U.S. national-security state and its military empire around the world have over the American people and how easy it is for this apparatus to keep the American people in a state of perpetual chaos, crisis, fear, anxiety, and turmoil...

http://fff.org/2013/09/03/perpetual-chaos-and-crises/



Obama s strategically incompetent, useless and nonsensical war push

The Nation
by Bob Dreyfuss

09/03/13

In the midst of President Obama s reckless push for war on Syria, the International Crisis Group has put forth a useful counterpoint, namely, a path toward a diplomatic solution... But it s too late, since Obama (with the able assistance of the Israel lobby, pro-war neoconservatives, and hawks of all kinds, liberal and conservative) is all but assured of getting Congress to approve his wrath-of-God strike. Obama assures the public and Congress that his aims in attacking Syria are limited, and that he isn t seeking regime change in Syria, but I don t believe that for a second...

http://tinyurl.com/lcr4mfj



American empire blocked at starting line

CounterPunch
by David Lindorff

09/12/13

Let s be clear here. The people of the US and the world have won a huge victory over a war-obsessed US government and an administration that was hell-bent on yet again launching a criminal war of aggression against a country that poses no threat to the US or its neighbors. Overwhelming public opposition in the US and the nations of Europe, as well as most of the rest of the world to a US strike on Syria have forced the US to falter and to accept the idea of a compromise deal offered by Russia...

http://tinyurl.com/oz7my6a


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

--------

The 7 Choices Left to the Military-Industrial Complex
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/09/paul-rosenberg/power-corrupts-2/



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=empire
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=American+people
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=US+government
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=US+Congress
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=US+strike
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=neocons
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=conservativ
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=regime+change
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Syria
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Russia
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Putin
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Israel
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=national+security
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=war+push
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=industrial+complex
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=legacy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=intelligence
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=anti-war
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=humanitarian
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=interven
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=bombing
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=bloodshed
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=chemical+weapons
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jon+Queally
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=John+Nichols
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mairead+Maguire
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Anthony+Gregory
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jacob+G.+Hornberger
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bob+Dreyfuss
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=David+Lindorff
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Paul+Rosenberg
-----