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Latest Articles: War, War, War
Saudi-Led Invasion of Yemen Begins
Post Date: 2015-04-02 13:48:14 by Stephen Lendman
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Saudi-Led Invasion of Yemen Begins by Stephen Lendman When American or US proxy forces wage naked aggression against other countries it's called liberating them. When nations being attacked defend themselves, they're called terror states. On April 2, Reuters reported "dozens of unidentified troops land(ing) by sea in Aden…" Perhaps ahead of mass Saudi-led invasion plans. Houthi political council member Daifullah Shami told Sputnik News foreign troops disembarked from Saudi and Egyptian vessels. Ansar Allah movement member Ahmed al-Shami said: "The number of troopers who landed in the Yemen port of Aden is unknown, but we are talking about dozens." ...
McCain Urges Preemptive Israeli Aggression on Iran
Post Date: 2015-04-02 12:45:43 by Stephen Lendman
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McCain Urges Preemptive Israeli Aggression on Iran by Stephen Lendman McCain is one of many neocon lunatics infesting Washington. He's viciously racist, militantly anti-Iranian, hawkishly over-the-top and dangerous. He chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee. He has considerable influence over US defense policy. He wants war on Iran. He opposes resolving issues over its well-known peaceful nuclear program responsibly. More on this below. He issued a lengthy statement on Lausanne talks full of Big Lies. "…Congress…recognize(s) the threat of the Iranian nuclear program," he blustered. "Although (terms of a possible deal) could modestly slow Iran's ...
U.S. DEFENSE SECRETARY: WE MIGHT BOMB IRAN EVEN IF A PEACE AGREEMENT IS SIGNED
Post Date: 2015-04-02 07:56:22 by Ada
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People Want Peace … But the Military-Industrial Complex Wants War U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said that a deal with Iran wouldn’t necessarily prevent war. Military.com reports: The U.S. will reserve the right to use military force to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon even if a deal is reached Iran’s nuclear program, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Tuesday. “The military option certainly will remain on the table,” Carter said as negotiators in Lausanne, Switzerland, struggled to reach an agreement ahead of a March 31 deadline. “One of my jobs is to make sure all options are on the table,’ Carter said in remarks at Syracuse ...
Saudis Bomb Russia's Consulate in Yemen
Post Date: 2015-04-02 05:37:15 by Stephen Lendman
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Saudis Bomb Russian Consulate in Yemen by Stephen Lendman During US-led NATO's rape of Yugoslavia, China's Belgrade embassy was willfully bombed. Claiming by mistake didn't wash. The Pentagon included China's embassy on its target list. Yemen is Obama's war. Saudis and other regional states involved are US proxies. Months of planning preceded air and naval strikes. Yemeni targets were carefully chosen - among them Russia's Aden consulate. Maybe its Sanaa embassy is next. Bombing its Aden consulate is part of Washington's increasing confrontation with Moscow - a reckless agenda including vicious propaganda, US Ukraine policy, its growing Eastern European ...
A Yemeni's Call for Help
Post Date: 2015-04-01 07:37:26 by Stephen Lendman
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A Yemeni's Call for Help by Stephen Lendman No one understands the horrors of US imperial wars better than victims experiencing it. Overnight Tuesday, a Yemeni national emailed this call for help, saying: "Dear Mr Stephen, In the name of humanity and what you believe in, we call upon you to transfer our sufferings and make influential humanitarian INGOs, scholars, decision makers all over the world hear our children screams out of fears & listen to our sufferings due to this aggression led by arrogant dictators of Arabia who are bombarding our towns, destroying infrastructure and killing civilians. Yemen prior to this aggression was dying and this brutal aggression would ...
Obama's Dirty War on Yemen
Post Date: 2015-03-31 05:52:34 by Stephen Lendman
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Obama's Dirty War on Yemen by Stephen Lendman Candidate Obama was elected promising peace. On October 28, 2007, he said: "I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out of Afghanistan by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do." "I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." Instead he escalated. America's war on Afghanistan continues. Permanent occupation is planned. Obama arguably is America's most belligerent president ever. He exceeds the worst of his predecessors. Multiple direct and proxy wars continue raging nonstop throughout his tenure - against Afghanistan, ...
Pakistan to join Saudi coalition against Yemen rebels - senior official
Post Date: 2015-03-30 19:25:39 by Jethro Tull
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(Reuters) - Pakistan will send troops to Saudi Arabia to give military support to a coalition of mainly Gulf states fighting Yemeni Houthi rebels, a senior government official said on Monday. Largely Sunni Muslim Pakistan - a regional ally of Saudi Arabia, the Gulf's main Sunni Muslim power - would join a Saudi-led military coalition conducting air strikes against Shi'ite Houthi forces, the official said. The air strikes are targeting the rebels' southward advance on the port city of Aden, the last bastion of Saudi-backed president, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaj Asif denied that the country had made a decision to send troops to Saudi Arabia, ...
Britain Prepares for Nonexistent Russian Attack
Post Date: 2015-03-30 14:43:59 by Stephen Lendman
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Britain Prepares for Nonexistent Russian Attack by Stephen Lendman Britain is run by the same kinds of lunatics infesting America. Prime Minister David Cameron and other UK officials hype nonexistent "Russian aggression." Last summer, Cameron said NATO must show Russia it "means business." It won't be "intimidated." Member states must "strengthen (their) ability to respond quickly to any threat, to reassure those Allies who fear for their own country’s security and to deter any Russian aggression." In mid-March, UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond ludicrously called Russia potentially Britain's greatest threat. "We are now ...
Britain's Foreign Secretary Matches Kerry's Bullying, Bluster and Big Lies
Post Date: 2015-03-30 14:26:24 by Stephen Lendman
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Britain's Foreign Secretary Matches Kerry's Bullying, Bluster and Big Lies by Stephen Lendman America and Britain partner in each other's high crimes. Their longstanding relationship dates from the 19th century. It's modern form emerged post-WW II. Imperial interests are shared. When America goes to war or plans one (direct or proxy), Britain marches in lockstep. One rogue state supports another. British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond and John Kerry specialize in bashing independent governments they want replaced with ones their regimes control. Hammond's Foreign Office condemned Syria's right to defend itself against US recruited, armed, funded, trained and ...
US-Sponsored Slow-Motion Genocide in Yemen
Post Date: 2015-03-30 04:53:18 by Stephen Lendman
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US-Sponsored Slow-Motion Genocide in Yemen by Stephen Lendman Bush and Obama administrations murdered Yemenis for years - through drone terror-bombings and internal subversion killing mostly civilians. Yemen is the region's poorest country. Its people suffer horrifically. US imperial policy exacerbates conditions greatly. Before leaving to participate in Iranian nuclear talks in Lausanne on Sunday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov highlighted Washington's typical double standard hypocrisy. On the one hand, it ousted Ukraine's democratically President Viktor Yanukovych - replacing him with putschist Nazi thugs. On the other, it supports illegitimate Yemeni president ...
US troops drive in eastern Europe to show defense readiness
Post Date: 2015-03-29 18:15:32 by Jethro Tull
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PRAGUE (AP) -- A convoy of U.S. troops driving through eastern Europe that opponents threatened to block has entered Czech territory.In a campaign on Facebook and pro-Russia media, activists condemned the convoy, pledging to stop it. But opponents were clearly outnumbered by those who came to three border crossings Sunday to welcome the troops.No incidents were reported.The "Dragoon Ride" convoy started last week from Estonia and passed through Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, before entering the Czech Republic on a return journey to a German base.The soldiers took part in the Atlantic Resolve exercise intended to demonstrate NATO's readiness to defend its members.The convoy got ...
Obama, Rogue Arab States Support Mass Murdering Yemenis
Post Date: 2015-03-29 13:49:11 by Stephen Lendman
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Obama, Rogue Arab States Support Mass Murdering Yemenis by Stephen Lendman Yemen is Obama's war. It was planned months ago. Military campaigns require extensive preparation. They're not launched overnight as headlines suggest. Saudi and other rogue Arab states were enlisted as US proxies to mass murder Yemenis. Obama usurped diktat authority for wars without end. He's waging multiple direct and proxy ones - endless ones for power and profit. Yemen is his latest naked aggression. Conflict could continue longterm. Over the weekend, airstrikes intensified. Countless thousands may die. Perhaps another refugee crisis looms. Yemen is the latest Middle East country mired in ...
New York Times Editors Endorse Murdering Millions of Iranians
Post Date: 2015-03-29 13:09:52 by Stephen Lendman
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New York Times Editors Endorse Murdering Millions of Iranians by Stephen Lendman Times editors are neocons masquerading as journalists. They have no credibility whatever. They're key parts of America's Big Lying Machine. They suppress hard truths. They blast out daily managed news disinformation rubbish. They support all war of aggression America wages or plans. They're in lockstep with imperial mass slaughter and destruction. They serve wealth, power and privilege exclusively. They're unapologetic about where they stand. On March 26, they featured former Bush official/unindicted war criminal/neocon hardliner John Bolton. He took full advantage. He urged Washington ...
Israeli Stooge Abbas Supports Obama's War on Yemen
Post Date: 2015-03-28 12:07:02 by Stephen Lendman
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Israeli Stooge Abbas Supports Obama's War on Yemen by Stephen Lendman Israel appointed Mahmoud Abbas Palestinian Authority leader to provide enforcer services - dirty work it subcontracts. He's hugely corrupt. He amassed great stolen wealth serving Israeli interests - conspiring against his own people. He's a Palestinian Judas, a longtime Israeli collaborator. He has no legitimacy whatever. He belongs in prison, not high office. On Thursday, he expressed support for Saudi terror-bombing - naked aggression by any standard. He backs US-installed ousted puppet Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi. He ludicrously called restoring him to power important to create Yemeni security and unity. ...
Israel Joins Obama's War on Yemen
Post Date: 2015-03-28 08:59:43 by Stephen Lendman
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Israel Joins Obama's War on Yemen by Stephen Lendman Obama terror-bombed Yemen throughout his tenure. He murdered hundreds of noncombatant men, women and children in cold blood. He's at it again. He's waging proxy war against Houthi rebels. He's using rogue state regional allies to do his dirty work. Houthis ousted illegitimately US-installed puppet Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi. Israel quietly joined Obama's dirty war. On March 22, Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi accused Washington and Israel of using Takfiri extremists to stage terrorist attacks on Yemeni civilians. Mosques were targeted. Scores were killed, hundreds injured. Al-Houthi urged Yemenis to unite ...
WHY SHOULD BERGDAHL SUFFER MORE THAN GENERALS WHO DID FAR WORSE?
Post Date: 2015-03-27 18:21:02 by Ada
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Why Should Bergdahl Suffer More Than Generals Who Did Far Worse? What punishment should Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl receive for allegedly deserting his post in Afghanistan? The answer comes by asking another question: What punishment has been handed out to American generals and politicians whose incompetence caused far more bloodshed and grief than anything Bergdahl did? A key thing about justice is that it should be fair — people should be punished no matter their rank or title. The problem with the bloodlust for more action against Bergdahl — beyond his five years of horrific suffering as a Taliban prisoner — is that inept generals, rather than being court-martialed or demoted or ...
Kiev's Ongoing Dirty War on Donbass
Post Date: 2015-03-27 11:31:38 by Stephen Lendman
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Kiev's Ongoing Dirty War on Donbass by Stephen Lendman Fascists don't wage wars to quit. Kiev's dirty war of aggression on Donbass didn't stop. It slowed to give junta forces time to regroup, rearm, and ready for resumed full-scale combat. Minsk ceasefire terms proved worthless. Kiev violated them straightaway - like 2014 peace initiatives it spurned. Virtually everything it agreed to it breached. Multiple violations continue daily. On Thursday, a Lugansk People's Republic (LPR) military spokesman said: "From 11:00 PM yesterday evening to 6:00 AM (Friday) morning, representatives of the people’s militia were recording the movement of armoured vehicles of ...
America at War, Again
Post Date: 2015-03-27 06:07:01 by Stephen Lendman
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America at War, Again by Stephen Lendman War is America's national pastime, not baseball. It's a longstanding sick addiction. The business of America is waging permanent wars against one nation after another. Nonexistent enemies are created. They're attacked, ravaged, destroyed, controlled and plundered. They're ruled by US-installed puppets. Their people are ruthlessly exploited. Governance of, by and for everyone equitably is strictly forbidden. Freedom is a four-letter word. Longstanding US policy represents a shocking contempt for rule of law principles, democratic values, peace and stability. War on humanity is the American way. Make no mistake. Yemen is ...
How The US Government and US Military Became Murder, Inc.
Post Date: 2015-03-26 17:28:52 by Ada
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Andrew Cockburn has written a must-read book. The title is Kill Chain: The Rise Of The High-Tech Assassins. The title could just as well be: How the US Government and US Military Became Murder, Inc. The US military no longer does war. It does assassinations, usually of the wrong people. The main victims of the US assassination policy are women, children, village elders, weddings, funerals, and occasionally US soldiers mistaken for Taliban by US surveillance operating with the visual acuity of the definition of legal blindness. Cockburn tells the story of how the human element has been displaced by remote control killing guided by misinterpretation of unclear images on screens collected ...
Rand Paul Proposes Boosting Defense Spending
Post Date: 2015-03-26 15:29:51 by PnbC
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His amendment would add $76.5 billion to the defense budget Just weeks before announcing his 2016 presidential bid, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is completing an about-face on a longstanding pledge to curb the growth in defense spending. In an olive branch to defense hawks hell-bent on curtailing his White House ambitions, the libertarian Senator introduced a budget amendment late Wednesday calling for a nearly $190 billion infusion to the defense budget over the next two years—a roughly 16 percent increase. Click for Full Text!Poster Comment:If I were Ron Paul, I'd have a rotating device installed in my future gravesite just to get a head start on spinning in my grave.
Putin and Assad Address Western Imperialism
Post Date: 2015-03-26 13:59:55 by Stephen Lendman
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Putin and Assad Address Western Imperialism by Stephen Lendman US-dominated NATO is humanity's greatest threat. Its rage for war may kill us all. Last November, Putin told Tass "(w)e are strong because we are right." Russia alone continues going all-out for regional peace and stability. Washington recklessly pursues endless conflicts. Yemen exploding in war is the latest example. Obama bears full responsibility for what's happening. US-deployed Red Sea warships may join Saudi and other Gulf states' naked aggression, according to CENTCOM. Ukraine remains in the eye of the storm. Low intensity war could explode full-force any time at Obama's discretion. ...
Secret US Intelligence on Yemen Compromised
Post Date: 2015-03-26 11:32:33 by Stephen Lendman
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Secret US Intelligence on Yemen Compromised by Stephen Lendman On March 25, the Los Angeles Times said Houthi rebels obtained secret intelligence documents on so-called US Yemeni counterterrorism operations. They included names and locations of confidential informants, as well as plans for further targeted drone strikes. The Times said "US intelligence officials believe additional files were handed directly to Iranian advisors by Yemeni officials who have sided with the Houthi militias…" Damage to US Yemeni intelligence is "severe," said the Times. "The US still plans to fly armed drones over Yemen from bases in Saudi Arabia and Djibouti, but officials ...
More US-Sponsored Middle East Aggression
Post Date: 2015-03-26 05:46:53 by Stephen Lendman
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More US-Sponsored Middle East Aggression by Stephen Lendman Washington already turned Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria into free-fire cauldrons of violence, instability and chaos. It partners with Israel's long war on Palestine. It backs the most of the world’s worst tinpot despots - all Middle East ones. It's responsible for millions of deaths and appalling human suffering. It's now using Saudi and other thuggish Gulf states as imperial proxies - waging war on Yemen, naked aggression by any standard. International law is clear and unequivocal. No nation may interfere in the internal affairs of others. None may attack others except in self-defense. Doing so ...
Military: Bergdahl may face life in prison if convicted
Post Date: 2015-03-25 17:02:34 by BTP Holdings
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Military: Bergdahl may face life in prison if convicted Associated Press By ALLEN G. BREED and LOLITA C. BALDOR 9 minutes ago FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who abandoned his post in Afghanistan and was held captive by the Taliban, was charged Wednesday by the U.S. military with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy and could get life in prison if convicted. Misbehavior before the enemy, which carries a maximum sentence of up to life in prison. Desertion carries a maximum of five years. Bergdahl could also face a dishonorable discharge, reduction in rank and forfeiture of all his pay if convicted. The case now goes to an Article 32 hearing to be held at ...
US-Created Violence and Chaos in Yemen
Post Date: 2015-03-25 13:39:58 by Stephen Lendman
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US-Created Violence and Chaos in Yemen by Stephen Lendman Yemen is one of many examples of what happens following lawless US intervention. Obama waged drone war on Yemen throughout his tenure - indiscriminately killing many hundreds of defenseless victims, mostly civilians. Like Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya and Palestine, Yemen is a cauldron of violence and instability threatening to spin entirely out-of-control. In January, Houthi forces ousted US-backed Ab-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's regime. They took over the presidential palace. They extended control to other parts of the country. Last year, Obama ludicrously touted Yemen as a success story. Saying US strategy "of taking out ...
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