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Latest Articles: War, War, War
Exclusive: New document details America’s war machine — and secret mass of contractors in Afghanistan
Post Date: 2014-05-30 09:26:16 by Lorie Meacham
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On Tuesday, following his surprise Memorial Day visit to Bagram Air Force Base outside Kabul, President Obama announced that the United States plans to keep at least 9,800 U.S. troops in Afghanistan until 2016, further delaying the end of what he calls “America’s longest war.” But in his remarks at the White House, the president didn’t say that the nearly 10,000 U.S. troops he’s asking to remain in an “advisory role” will be augmented by a huge army of private contractors. As they have in Iraq, contractors will vastly outnumber the U.S. uniformed forces training Afghan troops as well as the special operations forces providing counterterrorism operations ...
Christians’ Love Of The Warfare State Is Killing Other Christians
Post Date: 2014-05-30 09:22:01 by Lorie Meacham
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When Will Evangelical Christians Start To See Through This Charade? Ever since the George W. Bush administration, evangelical pastors and churches have been America’s loudest cheerleaders for virtually every act of war the U.S. has waged against foreign countries. For pastors such as John Hagee, wars of aggression in the Middle East are predicated upon the notion of protecting Israel–even though military meddling by the United States has only served to make life more dangerous for Israel. But leaving Israel out of the equation, evangelicals are the first to trumpet U.S. wars of aggression. I would even suggest that the favorite hymn of most evangelical churches these days is no ...
RAND AND NYT HYPE NEW DOMESTIC TERROR THREAT
Post Date: 2014-05-30 08:23:32 by Ada
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Mysterious and shadowy American suicide bomber in Syria exploited to reinvigorate war on terror The RAND Corporation is working with the CIA, the FBI, the National Counterterrorism Center and the Department of Homeland Security to hustle the next phase in the the perpetual war on manufactured terrorism — American born and bred terrorists, trained by al-Nusra in Syria, returning home to wage jihad in the heartland. Officialdom in the United States is spotlighting a reported suicide truck bombing allegedly conducted by an unidentified American in the northern province of Idlib. Jihadist social media, Click for Full Text!
How Officials Tried to Censor One of the Biggest Stories in the World
Post Date: 2014-05-30 07:23:23 by Ada
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When Germany surrendered in World War II, military leaders told reporters to keep it a secret. 1945 edition of Australia's The Sun newspaper (Reuters) Sixty-nine years ago this month, world leaders tried to delay the reporting of one of the biggest stories of the 20th century. They might have been successful, too, if not for one rogue journalist. On May 7, 1945, Edward Kennedy, Paris bureau chief for the Associated Press, went around American censors to report the news that Germany had surrendered in World War II. Naturally, his decision frustrated the military officials who were trying to control the timing of the story, but Kennedy's decision infuriated his fellow journalists, ...
Exclusive: New document details America’s war machine — and secret mass of contractors in Afghanistan
Post Date: 2014-05-30 07:12:58 by Ada
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What is a huge army of private contractors secretly doing in Afghanistan? A leaked PowerPoint presentation explains A U.S. soldier stands at the site of a suicide car bomb attack in Kabul February 10, 2014. A car bomb in the Afghan capital Kabul killed two United States contractors for the international security force ISAF on Monday, the NATO-led force and a U.S. official said. (Credit: Reuters/Mohammad Ismail) On Tuesday, following his surprise Memorial Day visit to Bagram Air Force Base outside Kabul, President Obama announced that the United States plans to keep at least 9,800 U.S. troops in Afghanistan until 2016, further delaying the end of what he calls “America’s longest ...
Obama at West Point
Post Date: 2014-05-30 03:56:58 by Stephen Lendman
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Obama at West Point by Stephen Lendman On May 28, Obama addressed West Point graduates. Why anyone showed up, they'll have to explain. Commissioning ceremony is traditional. It requires new "US Army officers to solemnly swear (to) support and defend the constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that (they) bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that (they) take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that (they) will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which (they are) about to enter so help (them) God." They're supposed to support, respect, and abide by ...
Reactions to Obama at West Point
Post Date: 2014-05-30 03:56:03 by Stephen Lendman
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Reactions to Obama at West Point by Stephen Lendman This writer's accompanying article called his address typical Obama demagogic mumbo jumbo. He justified the unjustifiable. He defended the indefensible. He repeated one Big Lie after another. Media scoundrels reacted. The New York Times headlined "Obama Warns US Faces Diffuse Terrorism Threats," saying: He "tried…to articulate his vision of the American role in the world on Wednesday, telling graduating cadets here that the nation they were being called to serve would seek to avoid military misadventures abroad, even as it confronts a new set of terrorist threats from the Middle East to Africa." Fact: ...
War Without Mercy Continues
Post Date: 2014-05-29 04:04:25 by Stephen Lendman
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War Without Mercy Continues by Stephen Lendman Sergey Lavrov calls it fratricidal war. "The West tried to use Ukraine not as a uniting link on the European territory, but as a watershed," he said. "Those who advocated such policy did not worry about it that much." "The elections in Ukraine should put an end to violence and serve as a start of dialogue." Russia wants Eastern regions provided humanitarian aid. Its urgently needed. Its Foreign Ministry said Moscow is "receiving urgent requests from individuals and organizations based in the conflict zone in the eastern Ukrainian regions, where hostilities led to human casualties and multiple injuries, ...
Afghanistan: Permanent US Occupation Planned
Post Date: 2014-05-29 04:03:08 by Stephen Lendman
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Afghanistan: Permanent US Occupation Planned by Stephen Lendman America came to stay. Obama saying "(w)e will bring America's longest war to a responsible end" is false. It's his latest Big Lie. His Monday statement included many others. "The United States did not seek this fight," he said. "We went into Afghanistan out of necessity, after our nation was attacked by al Qaeda on September 11th, 2001." "We went to war against al Qaeda and its extremist allies with the strong support of the American people and their representatives in Congress; with the international community and our NATO allies; and with the Afghan people, who ...
Perspective: Elliott Rodger’s Rampage…Enough!
Post Date: 2014-05-29 00:36:56 by Lorie Meacham
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Frankly, I’ve had it with the asphyxiating 24/7 media coverage over the past week of this madman’s savagery. (Not to mention all the emails expressing outrage and seemingly inconsolable grief at the “awful, pointless loss of life,”, etc., etc., etc.) My response: Get over it. Step away from the media avalanche, clear your heads, and look objectively at the bigger picture, my friends. Considering the carnage we Americans have wreaked over just the past 50 years, butchering literally millions of innocent women, children and infants around the world, it would take a million ‘Elliott Rodgers’ to level the scales. We, as a nation, have butchered innocent people ...
Metastasizing The Lies Of War
Post Date: 2014-05-28 21:58:57 by Lorie Meacham
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Every Empire that tried to rule the world has failed. Previous efforts dealt with much smaller parts of the planet This time the goal is nothing less than crushing everything And everyone on the entire earth, except for Those self-selected Chosen Few! When George W. Bush got his ‘License to Kill’ anyone and everyone anywhere in the world; from a complicit congress which chose to abstain from having any formal part in their constitutional duties which they were charged with ruling on: The trajectory of this failure of the world was set in what is about to be turned into the rubble that we have all earned a thousand times over. That’s a fact, because the Amerikan public ...
Military Plans To Test Brain Implants To Fight Mental Disorders
Post Date: 2014-05-28 08:34:00 by Jethro Tull
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, is launching a $70 million program to help military personnel with psychiatric disorders using electronic devices implanted in the brain. The goal of the five-year program is to develop new ways of treating problems including depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder, all of which are common among service members who fought in Iraq or Afghanistan. "We've seen far too many times where military personnel have neuropsychiatric disorders and there's very few options," says , a program manager at DARPA. DARPA is known for taking on big technological challenges, from missile defense to creating a business ...
War Without Mercy
Post Date: 2014-05-28 03:41:26 by Stephen Lendman
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War Without Mercy by Stephen Lendman Ukraine's President-Elect Petro Poroshenko ordered it straightaway. He wants Eastern freedom fighters crushed. He calls them "terrorists." He declared war without mercy. More on this below. A 1990s board game is called War Without Mercy. It's surreal. It's a game. Warmaking is play-acting. No one dies. Opposing forces are rated for offense, defense and movement. Armor against infantry warrants bonus rolls. One side may attack en masse. With overwhelming force. For quick conquest. Or do it incrementally. Air combat lets players launch fighters, bombers and transports. Naval operations wage war at sea. Weather rules introduce ...
Post-Ukrainian Election Violence
Post Date: 2014-05-27 03:29:28 by Stephen Lendman
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Post-Ukrainian Election Violence by Stephen Lendman Billionaire oligarch mega-crook Petro Poroshenko is Ukraine's new president. Illegitimate coup- appointed officials anointed him. Sham election-rigging rubber-stamping followed. Fascism defeated democracy. Obama said "we commend the resolve of all those who participated, as well as the efforts of the Ukrainian government to conduct these elections in the face of those threats." NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen is a convenient US stooge. He "congratulate(ed) the people of Ukraine, who peacefully exercised their right to vote in Sunday's presidential election." "They showed their commitment ...
Obama in Afghanistan
Post Date: 2014-05-27 03:28:35 by Stephen Lendman
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Obama in Afghanistan by Stephen Lendman He left Washington Saturday. He arrived in Afghanistan Sunday. It was his fourth visit. He stayed less than four hours. Earlier trips were in March 2010, December 2010 and May 2012. Obama addressed US troops. He did so at Bagram Air Base. It houses one of America's notorious torture prisons. Dozens of others operate globally. Guantanamo is the tip of the iceberg. Bagram is called the Parwan Detention Facility (aka Bagram Theater Internment Facility). It's next to Bagram's air field. It was formerly called the Bagram Collection Point. In mid-2011, it held 1,100 political prisoners. Maximum during Bush years was 600. None have POW ...
Neocon WaPo Editors Urge War on Syria
Post Date: 2014-05-25 13:28:11 by Stephen Lendman
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Neocon WaPo Editors Urge War on Syria by Stephen Lendman WaPo editors long ago fell from grace. Credibility is entirely gone. Watergate-type exposes are verboten. Editorial policy fronts for power. Extreme hawkishness defines it. New owner Jeff Bezos has CIA ties. He's in bed with the devil. He was bought. He was paid off. He got a $600 million CIA contract. It's double what he paid to buy WaPo. Late last year he said: "We look forward to a successful relationship with the CIA." Perhaps it involves much more than meets the eye. He expects lots more business. For sure CIA officials want plenty back besides Amazon Web Services (AWS). Bezos' disturbing history ...
US-Led NATO's War on Humanity
Post Date: 2014-05-25 03:28:28 by Stephen Lendman
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US-Led NATO's War on Humanity by Stephen Lendman US-led NATO threatens humanity. It's an imperial tool. It's a global killing machine. It prioritizes war. It deplores peace. Humanity's survival hangs in the balance. It includes 28 member nations, 22 Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC) ones, seven Mediterranean Dialogue countries, and four Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI) states. They comprise nearly one-third of world nations. NATO plans exponential expansion. It wants new members and partners. It wants them on all continents. It wants them virtually everywhere. It wants a global military established. It wants unchallenged control. It wants all outliers ...
Memorial Day: a musical salute to AmeriKan imperalism
Post Date: 2014-05-24 10:48:20 by Jethro Tull
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Disgraceful Security Council Resolution on Syria
Post Date: 2014-05-24 03:45:49 by Stephen Lendman
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Disgraceful Security Council Resolution on Syria by Stephen Lendman France proposed it. Doing so serves Washington's interests. France is a convenient US proxy. It has its own regional aims in mind. It partners in Western imperial lawlessness. Not according to French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius. "The members of the United Nations Security Council must unite to bring the Syrian tragedy before the International Criminal Court," he said. Fact: The ICC serves Western imperial interests. Fact: It targets victims. Fact: It absolves perpetrators. Fact: It ignores its mandate. Fact: It has no credibility whatever. Fabius: Syria "flout(s) war "rules…on a ...
Kiev's War on Freedom
Post Date: 2014-05-23 03:54:30 by Stephen Lendman
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Kiev's War on Freedom by Stephen Lendman Western-supported coup-appointed putschists have no legitimacy. Waging war on freedom reflects official Kiev policy. Washington endorses it. Upcoming sham May 25 elections exclude democracy from ballot choices. They're at the same time as Kiev aggression continues. They're attacking Eastern Ukrainians. They're murdering them in cold blood. So-called "anti-terrorist operation(s)" reflect state terrorism writ large. Fascist regimes operate this way. They reemerged in Europe. Coup-appointed Kiev thugs represent its epicenter. Upcoming elections are rigged. Democracy is pure fantasy. Results are largely pre-determined. ...
Irresponsible Syria Bashing
Post Date: 2014-05-23 03:53:43 by Stephen Lendman
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Irresponsible Syria Bashing by Stephen Lendman Syria's June 3 presidential election approaches. It's historic. It's the Syrian Arab Republic's first ever free, fair, open presidential process. Twenty-four aspirants registered to compete. Parliamentarians Hassan al-Nouri and Maher Hajjar were approved. So was Assad. He's overwhelmingly popular. He's expected to win easily. Syrians want no one else leading them. He's especially trusted now. He's defeating foreign invaders. He's doing it responsibly. He's fighting for Syrian freedom. For its independent sovereign rights. He's up to the challenge. He's winning. He's defeating Obama's ...
Washington Risks Global War
Post Date: 2014-05-22 14:32:11 by Stephen Lendman
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Washington Risks Global War by Stephen Lendman This writer's edited and contributed to new book discusses what's ongoing in depth. It explains why it matters. It sheds light on what's likely coming. It's titled "Flashpoint in Ukraine: Why the US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III." Twenty-two distinguished analysts contributed content. They include: Robert Abele Michel Chossudovsky Edward Herman Nolan Higdon Michael Hudson Mickey Huff Andrew Kolin John Kozy Cynthia McKinney John McMurty Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya Michael Parenti David Peterson James Petras Peter Phillips Jack Rasmus Paul Craig Roberts Rick Rozoff Rodney Shakespeare Jeffrey Sommers ...
U.S. Sends Military Personnel To Chad
Post Date: 2014-05-21 19:49:59 by Lorie Meacham
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It has now been officially announced that the United States will yet again be committing troops to a foreign theatre. As FOX News reports, President Barack Obama formally announced in a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner on Wednesday, May 21, 2014, the deployment of 80 U.S. military personnel to Chad under the pretense of helping locate the 300 Nigerian schoolgirls allegedly kidnapped by Boko Haram. The White House stated that “These personnel will support the operation of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft for missions over northern Nigeria and the surrounding area.” Lt. Col. Myles Caggins, the Pentagon spokesman, further explained that the ...
NATO False Flags in Ukraine
Post Date: 2014-05-20 09:31:25 by Ada
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Download video (103.28 MB) US intel source claims Ukraine part of NATO secret campaign Gladio; psychopathy tests for our leaders; and a mainstream host storms out the studio after a vicious exchange on false flags. Seek truth from facts with Questioning the War on Terror author Kevin Barrett, StopImperialism.org’s Eric Draitser, James Corbett of The Corbett Report, and possible 2016 presidential candidate Jesse Ventura. This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. RT: NATO accused of false flag attacks in Ukraine. Coming up. Announcer: The third force in eastern Ukraine.Kiev copies George Bush’s plans for Iraq.And mainstream hosts storm out the studio. RT: ...
NYT Editors Defend the Indefensible
Post Date: 2014-05-20 03:43:05 by Stephen Lendman
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NYT Editors Defend the Indefensible by Stephen Lendman Jill Abramson is gone. Dean Baquet replaced her as executive editor. Deplorable policy remains unchanged. It's featured daily. It's done so in articles, commentaries and editorials. Disgraceful op-eds are standard practice. Scoundrels are invited. Truth-tellers aren't welcome. Misinformation rubbish is featured. What readers most need to know is buried. Lies, damn lies and Big Ones infest Times pages. Yulia Tymoshenko is a former illegitimate Orange Revolution prime minister. She's billionaire mega-thief. She accumulated wealth the old-fashioned way. She stole it. She was imprisoned for embezzlement and serious ...
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