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Latest Articles: War, War, War
No, Prisoner-of-War Bowe Bergdahl Did Not Get Americans Killed
Post Date: 2014-06-05 06:16:39 by Ada
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Frustration trumps fair thinking where possible deserter is concerned On June 30, 2009, U.S. Army Pvt. 1st Class Bowe Bergdahl apparently walked away from his platoon’s encampment in Afghanistan’s Paktika province, near the border with Pakistan. That is to say, Bergdahl may have deserted. Captured by the Taliban, he spent nearly five years in captivity. U.S. and Qatari officials negotiated Bergdahl’s release on May 31, swapping the emaciated American captive for five suspected terrorists in U.S. custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. And now some soldiers and military families are blaming 28-year-old Bergdahl for the deaths of as many as eight Americans in Afghanistan during ...
Harry Reid: 'Glad' to Get 5 Taliban Out of Gitmo and Into Qatar
Post Date: 2014-06-04 16:22:16 by BTP Holdings
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Harry Reid: 'Glad' to Get 5 Taliban Out of Gitmo and Into Qatar Image: Harry Reid: 'Glad' to Get 5 Taliban Out of Gitmo and Into Qatar Tuesday, 03 Jun 2014 09:03 PM By Greg Richter Republicans and some Democrats have criticized President Barack Obama for releasing five Taliban leaders from the Guantanamo Bay military prison in exchange for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he's happy they've been freed and sent to Qatar. "Guantanamo has been there far too long, and I think that we should get them out of there as quickly as we can," he said of the remaining 150 prisoners still classified as "enemy ...
Go Bowe! [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2014-06-04 08:42:27 by Ada
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The Gitmo prisoner swap that sent Bowe Bergdahl into the loving arms of the psych ward at Landstuhl Military Hospital near Ramstein AB, Germany is in the news. The swap is viewed by the Republican Party establishment, in an election year, as an Obama media diversion from delicious and well-deserved dereliction of duty charges against the Veterans Administration. Republicans are also unhappy, and neoconservatives particularly so, because it signals the public end of the end in Afghanistan — an endless play-war for the United States government that all but evaporated from the mind of the American public several years ago. In an age of economic contraction, average Americans see no ...
Hating on Bowe Bergdahl
Post Date: 2014-06-04 07:27:58 by Ada
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What’s behind the vicious campaign against the last American POW in Afghanistan? Embittered by double defeats in Iraq and Afghanistan, driven out of both countries with their tails between their legs, the War Party is looking for scapegoats, and has found one in the least likely place – the ranks of the US Army. That’s right: the "support the troops" contingent is now intent on re- torturing Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, a 26-year-old Idaho native held captive by the Taliban for five horrific years. A concerted campaign, stage-managed by "Republican strategists" – i.e. Richard Grenell, former Romney foreign policy consultant fired for being too gay – is ...
American Exceptionalism Justifies War on Humanity
Post Date: 2014-06-03 16:14:30 by Stephen Lendman
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American Exceptionalism Justifies War on Humanity by Stephen Lendman It OKs mass murder. It permits flouting rule of law principles, norms and standards. America is a terror state. Criminality continues on an unprecedented scale. Permanent war is official US policy. One country after another is ravaged and destroyed. Millions of corpses attest to America's barbarity. No nation in world history matches it. Obama exceeds the worst of his predecessors. He's a war criminal multiple times over. Advancing America's imperium matters most. US hegemonic ambitions risk global war. So does its rage for full spectrum dominance over all land, surface and sub-surface sea, air, space, ...
Obama in Europe
Post Date: 2014-06-03 16:13:31 by Stephen Lendman
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Obama in Europe by Stephen Lendman Wherever he goes, trouble follows. He's the latest in a long line of rogue US leaders. Contempt for rule of law principles, duplicity and moral cowardice define them. Pretense otherwise doesn't wash. Obama exceeds the worst of his predecessors. He's guilty of high crimes too grave to ignore. Millions worldwide call America a pariah one. They do so for good reason. Its imperial agenda targets fundamental freedoms for elimination. Obama went all-out to destroy them on his watch. He did so at home and abroad. He made planet earth unsafe to live on. More than any of his predecessors. He waged political, economic and hot wars on humanity. ...
THE WAR ON TERRORISM IS ONE FINE SCAM
Post Date: 2014-06-03 07:59:41 by Ada
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Throughout the Cold War, the proponents of the national-security state assured us that the only reason the United States needed to adopt this totalitarian-like apparatus was because of the international communist conspiracy emanating from the Soviet Union and Red China. Once the Cold War was won, the statists said, America could restore the limited-government constitutional republic that the Constitution established. Of course, the argument was a sham. The proponents of empire, standing army, and CIA knew that the possibility that the Cold War would ever end was virtually non-existent. They knew that the “communist threat” could be used as a perpetual justification for the ...
“False Flag Terrorism” to Sustain America’s “Humanitarian” Agenda
Post Date: 2014-06-02 20:24:42 by Lorie Meacham
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In late May 2014, President Obama rolled out his foreign policy initiatives at West Point and said nothing new. Every lie he uttered is just a retread cover for the same old, same old disastrous foreign policy the US has engaged in since the cold war began shortly after World War II. The fact is Washington has been regularly practicing this same modus operandi for over sixty years. Through constant use of false flags deceptively blaming the designated enemy of the United States, starting with the dual threat of the Soviet Union and China’s spreading Communism in the early 1950’s, then in this century fabricating the al Qaeda enemy’s spreading terrorism and now back to a ...
US troops 'kidnap' 4-year-old drone strike victim from hospital, allege parents
Post Date: 2014-06-02 19:27:52 by Lorie Meacham
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A four-year-old girl whose face was blown off during a US drone strike in Afghanistan was kidnapped by American troops and hidden by an international organization, her family says. The child, named Aisha Rashid, was travelling with her parents, a sibling and several other relatives from Kabul to their home in the village of Gamber in Kunar province on a hot September day, when the drone exploded, Expressen.se reported. An uncle, Meya Jan, is at home on his farm in that village when he receives a phone call about the strike from the neighboring village. He and others rush to the strike. Suddenly they hear a voice. "Water, water..." It is Aisha. She is missing a hand, her leg is ...
If his lips are moving, he’s probably lying: Obama goes back on campaign promise to remove all U.S. troops from Afghanistan
Post Date: 2014-06-02 18:56:16 by Lorie Meacham
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“We are bringing our troops home from Afghanistan. And I’ve set a timetable. We will have them all out of there by 2014.” President Obama spoke these words at a campaign stop in Boulder, Colorado, just a few weeks before the 2012 Presidential election. Taking a swipe at Republican nominee Mitt Romney, who didn’t have a timetable for troop withdrawal, Obama warned, “That’s what’s at stake in this election.” Nearly two years later, President Obama has decided to keep nearly 10,000 American soldiers on the ground in Afghanistan past the initial 2014 deadline, the Associated Press reports: The two-year plan is contingent on the Afghan government ...
Kiev Cluster Bombs Lugansk
Post Date: 2014-06-02 15:45:08 by Stephen Lendman
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Kiev Cluster Bombs Lugansk by Stephen Lendman On June 2, Itar Tass headlined "Administration building in Luhansk caught by fire after air strike, five dead, ten injured," saying: "The fourth floor of the Luhansk regional administration building was caught by fire after an air strike carried out by a Ukrainian fighter jet." "A huge number of ambulances and fire crews have arrived at the scene to extinguish the fire and evacuate the injured." "According to reports, five people were killed and at least 10 were injured in the attack." "The administration building is surrounded by people in military uniforms who are asking the crowd to ...
U.S. Senator Praises Syrian President for Fighting Wahhabi Terrorists
Post Date: 2014-06-02 15:29:15 by Lorie Meacham
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In a letter to Syrian president Dr. Bashar Assad, Virginia state Sen. Richard Black described the Syrian president “heroic” and commended him and the country’s armed forces for “exhibit[ing] extraordinary gallantry in the war against Saudi-backed terrorists.” “I write to thank the Syrian Army for its heroic rescue of Christians in the Qalamoun Mountain Range,” the letter begins. Assad posted Black’s letter to his Facebook page. The Washington Post later confirmed that Black, a Republican from the 13th District in Northern Virginia, had sent the letter. “You have followed the practice of your father by treating with respect all Christians and ...
Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl: Prisoner of the War Party
Post Date: 2014-06-02 07:37:51 by Ada
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His release may spark a major controversy Is US Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl a traitor or a martyr, a coward who walked away from his unit or a symbol of how a misconceived war used US soldiers as pawns in a losing geo-political game? This is going to be the issue as the prisoner swap with the Taliban takes incoming fire from Republicans like John McCain and others opposed to "negotiating with terrorists." Yet the real issue goes deeper than that: Bergdahl was profoundly disillusioned by the war, and his capture by the Taliban would never had occurred if he hadn’t walked off base – in plain language, deserted, as this 2012 Rolling Stone piece by Michael Hastings makes ...
Battling for Ukraine's Soul
Post Date: 2014-06-02 03:50:21 by Stephen Lendman
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Battling for Ukraine's Soul by Stephen Lendman Eastern Ukrainian freedom fighters aren't quitting. They reject Kiev putschists. They deplore fascist governance. They want fundamental democratic rights everyone deserves. So do Maidan activists. Nonviolent ones. Thousands. On Sunday, they convened a People's Veche (assembly). The first in two months. In Kiev's Independence Square. Thousands participated. To decide whether to continue tent city activism. "We are not going to go away," they said. They're watching president-elect Poroshenko. They'll give him a month to deliver on promises made. On Sunday, activists spoke publicly. They said they protested ...
Has American PoW defected to the Taliban? New evidence shows soldier who walked off into Afghan desert hated Army and was 'ashamed' of U.S.
Post Date: 2014-06-01 10:51:25 by Jethro Tull
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The real Homeland: Has American PoW defected to the Taliban? New evidence shows soldier who walked off into Afghan desert hated Army and was 'ashamed' of U.S.Bowe Bergdahl, 26, walked out of U.S. base in Afghanistan in June 2009 and was captured by the Taliban The day before leaving camp, he emailed his parents about how he had become extremely disillusioned with the Army and American policy By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:00 EST, 7 June 2012 | Updated: 10:56 EST, 8 June 2012 var twitterVia = 'MailOnline'; DM.has('shareLinkTop', 'shareLinks', { 'id': '2156258', 'title': 'Has American PoW defected to the ...
U.S. soldier freed in Afghanistan, five Taliban prisoners leave Guantanamo
Post Date: 2014-06-01 05:19:42 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The last U.S. prisoner of war held in Afghanistan was handed over to U.S. Special Operations forces on Saturday, in a dramatic swap for five Taliban detainees who were released from Guantanamo Bay prison and flown to Qatar. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl had been held for nearly five years by Afghan militants and his release, following years of on-and-off negotiations, suddenly became possible after harder-line factions of the Afghan Taliban apparently shifted course and agreed to back it, according to U.S. officials. Bergdahl, 28, was handed over about 6 p.m. local time on Saturday, a senior official said. The U.S. forces, who had flown in by helicopter, were on the ...
New Data: American Drones Killed Hundreds of Pakistani Civilians
Post Date: 2014-06-01 04:55:58 by Lorie Meacham
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The US’s program of drone strikes in Pakistan has, according to recent reports, slowed down considerably. But while this will encourage various observers, and while the Obama administration earned some praise for committing to more transparency and accountability in its drone operations, it is still covertly conducting lethal attacks abroad (in Yemen, for instance) – and official details on what it has done in Pakistan are still anything but forthcoming. Some light has been shed on how the drone program works; in October 2013, the Washington Post revealed how the NSA is also involved in the targeted killing program. And early in 2014, The Intercept published more details about ...
War on Fundamental Rights in Ukraine
Post Date: 2014-06-01 04:08:43 by Stephen Lendman
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War on Fundamental Rights in Ukraine by Stephen Lendman Previous articles called it war without mercy. This writer's new book as editor and contributor explains the most significant post-WW II geopolitical crisis. Escalating it risks global conflict. Obama bears full responsibility. Washington stops at nothing to advance its imperium. Imagine the unthinkable. John Pilger fears Washington "threaten(s) to take the world to war." "We in the west are backing neo-Nazis in a country where Ukrainian Nazis backed Hitler," he said. "(A) silent coup has taken place in Washington and rampant militarism now rules." Ukraine is "a CIA theme park." Its ...
Afghanistan...New US Territory Or 51st State?
Post Date: 2014-06-01 01:43:54 by Lorie Meacham
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If you missed the most recent article by Stephen Lendman about Afghanistan and our permanent occupation of that nation, it is a worthwhile read. http://rense.com/general96/afgperm.html I am merely providing some chronological facts in this piece that are in my book ‘One Way Ticket to Crawford Texas’ and were part of the basis for my presentation at ‘9-11: Confronting the Evidence’. Americans need to know why Bush and these Fascist Zionist Neocons planned permanent occupation of Afghanistan even before September 11, 2001. Of course, Washington DC does not want to admit that but there is plenty of evidence to connect the dots and prove that Afghanistan is a key and ...
Obama’s Foreign Policy: A US Military-Intelligence Agenda Which Seeks to Destabilize the Planet
Post Date: 2014-06-01 00:55:29 by Lorie Meacham
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It has been a busy weak for President Obama. On Memorial day he secretly flew off to Afghanistan just to let the troops know he genuinely cares and is thinking about them. Or so his PR advisors want it to appear as his ratings continue slumping and his disastrous foreign policy continues to come under heavy fire from all sides. A true characteristic of psychopaths is that everything they do is to self-servingly promote their own image and position. Currently finding himself on the defensive, what does Obama the psychopath do? He opportunistically rushes off as Commander-in -Chief to spend the day that America mourns its fallen warriors with the live ones still fighting his lost cause in ...
Is Obama Blundering Into a Syrian Quagmire?
Post Date: 2014-05-31 18:35:31 by Lorie Meacham
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With his address at West Point, President Obama succeeded where all his previous efforts had failed. He brought us together. Nobody seems to have liked the speech. A glance shows that the New York Times and Washington Times, the Financial Times and Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal were all disappointed with it. As was said of one of Harding’s addresses, it was “an army of pompous phrases marching across the landscape in search of an idea.” What Obama has is less a foreign policy doctrine than a foreign policy disposition. He is a reluctant interventionist. He got us out of Iraq and is taking us out of Afghanistan. Yet he was pushed into a war on Libya that ...
America’s Abandoned $6-Billion Missile Pyramid
Post Date: 2014-05-31 17:14:39 by Lorie Meacham
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The Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, nestled along North Dakota’s remote northern border, is one of America’s most fascinating examples of military waste. It’s a pyramid-shaped missile silo that was part of the Safeguard program, an elaborate missile-defense system meant to protect that U.S. from Soviet ballistic missiles. This bizarre building was to be the first of 12 such sites scattered across the country. The Safeguard program began in the late 1960s as a method of protecting America’s ability to strike back against any attempt to disarm Washington’s nuclear capabilities. Safeguard would detect any incoming threats to the Minuteman missiles. It was a ...
Ukraine army deflated as guerrilla warfare unfolds
Post Date: 2014-05-31 06:20:54 by Tatarewicz
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SLOVYANSK, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's armed forces suffered devastating new losses Thursday, underlining the scale of the challenge the country faces in quelling a guerrilla-style insurgency that has proven to be agile and ruthless. A rebel rocket attack brought down a military Mi-8 helicopter ferrying out troops, including a general, on the outskirts of Slovyansk, killing at least 12 people onboard. Acting President Oleksandr Turchynov told parliament in Kiev that rebels used a portable air defense missile against helicopter. Slovyansk, a city of 120,000 people, has become a focal point for the armed pro-Russian insurgency and has for weeks been encircled by Ukrainian troops. ...
Mercenary Extremists in Eastern Ukraine
Post Date: 2014-05-31 04:10:13 by Stephen Lendman
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Mercenary Extremists in Eastern Ukraine by Stephen Lendman On May 29, Itar Tass headlined "About 300 Ukrainian mercenaries from Syria fighting in south-eastern Ukraine - source." Most "are from western regions of Ukraine, a source in the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces says." More on this below. A previous article explained the following: Bild am Sonntag is Germany's largest Sunday circulation broadsheet. It reported Academi operatives near Slavyansk. It's uncertain who hired them, it said. Washington's dirty hands are involved. Russia's Foreign Ministry said: "(I)n the absence of support from the Ukrainian population, the Maidan ...
Giant Spy Drone Cruised Right Over Top of Commercial Airliners
Post Date: 2014-05-30 18:59:58 by Lorie Meacham
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Global Hawk was on a mission to prove it could use civilian air space A U.S. Air Force RQ-4 Global Hawk spy drone flew from Italy to Norway during NATO’s recent Unified Vision 2014 exercise. It was the first time one of the airliner-size RQ-4s had crossed busy commercial air space in order to perform a military mission. The radar-equipped remotely-piloted vehicle flew from its home base in southeastern Sicily—from where Global Hawks daily conduct missions over Africa—across Europe to Norway. The goal was to demonstrate the capability of NATO’s evolving Alliance Ground Surveillance system to route an unmanned aerial vehicle through European territory. The Atlantic ...
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