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Latest Articles: War, War, War
Travelin' Soldier
Post Date: 2013-12-30 22:25:43 by Lod
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Debating Syria
Post Date: 2013-12-29 02:58:21 by Stephen Lendman
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Debating Syria by Stephen Lendman When is a debate not one? When New York Times editors sponsor them. They've had them before. They've got a new one on Syria. Debates should give all sides equal time and space to air views. Times editors changed the rules. They made their own. They exclude anti-establishment viewpoints. Opinions contradicting state and corporate policy are prohibited. Vital truths are suppressed. So is free and open dialogue. Dissent is marginalized. Groupthink is sought. Readers get biased views only. Managed new misinformation is longstanding Times policy. In August 2012, Times editors presented three similar views on how to end the Syrian war. They were ...
Hearts and Minds (Full Documentary) For Vietnam Vets
Post Date: 2013-12-27 02:13:40 by noone222
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Mig-15 Shocks the West - Korea
Post Date: 2013-12-24 18:05:10 by Lod
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Great story at URL.
Conflict in South Sudan
Post Date: 2013-12-24 03:03:31 by Stephen Lendman
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Conflict in South Sudan by Stephen Lendman Until July 2011, Sudan was Africa's largest country. Balkanization changed things. It's now the third largest. South Sudan broke away. It did so by national referendum. Ordinary people were lied to. They were told independence would elevate living standards. Nothing changed. Business as usual continues. Internal conflict exacerbates things. Sudan's history reflects longstanding violence. Ordinary people suffer most. More on this below. Obama supported division. Omar al-Bashir's Khartoum government is targeted for regime change. Division was step one. At issue is Khartoum's sovereign independence. Its ties with Iran. ...
AK-47 designer Mikhail Kalashnikov dead at 94
Post Date: 2013-12-23 16:54:22 by X-15
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Moscow • Mikhail Kalashnikov, whose work as a weapons designer for the Soviet Union is immortalized in the name of the world’s most popular firearm, died Monday at the age of 94. Kalashnikov once aspired to design farm equipment. But even though his most famous invention — the AK-47 assault rifle — sowed havoc instead of crops, he often said he felt personally untroubled by his contribution to bloodshed. "I sleep well. It’s the politicians who are to blame for failing to come to an agreement and resorting to violence," he said in 2007. Kalashnikov died in a hospital in Izhevsk, the capital of the Udmurtia republic where he lived, said Viktor Chulkov, a ...
John Bolton: Edward Snowden 'Ought To Swing From A Tall Oak Tree'
Post Date: 2013-12-22 14:18:30 by X-15
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Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton spoke out against former government contractor Edward Snowden for leaking classified details on the National Security Agency's controversial surveillance practices, suggesting Snowden should "swing from a tall oak tree" as punishment. Speaking on Fox News on Monday, Bolton, who served under former President George W. Bush, characterized Snowden's actions as treason, and urged against any public talk of amnesty. "I must say absent some other important piece of information, it has to be one of the dumbest things that I've seen in a long time, to be speculating about it publicly, even if they are ...
Making War, Not Peace, in Syria
Post Date: 2013-12-22 02:55:15 by Stephen Lendman
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Making War, Not Peace in Syria by Stephen Lendman On January 22, so-called Geneva II peace talks begin in Montreux, Switzerland. On January 24, they'll continue in Geneva. They're dead on arrival before beginning. Radicalized elements dominate anti-Assad forces. They reject peace. So does Washington. Syria is Obama's war. US-supported death squads wage it. Obama didn't target Syria to quit. He wants Assad ousted. He wants a pro-Western stooge replacing him. He bears full responsibility for what's happening. He's been ravaging and destroying Syria since March 2011. He's not about to stop now. He's gone all out to perpetuate conflict. He deplores peace. ...
US Death Squad Diplomacy in Syria
Post Date: 2013-12-21 02:57:50 by Stephen Lendman
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US Death Squad Diplomacy in Syria by Stephen Lendman Radicalized elements dominate anti-Assad aggression. Salafist extremists are heavily involved. They comprise Washington's main fighting force. They get active US support. Al Qaeda, Al Nusra, and other groups hold territory in northern Syria. In November, the Islamic Front was created. Zahran Alloush heads it. His father, Mohammed, is a Salafist cleric. Zahran controls about 50 brigades. He commands tens of thousands of fighters. Saudi Arabia funds them. They're waging US proxy war on Syria. Saudi analyst Jamal Khashoggi said: "For us in Saudi Arabia, the worst scenario is to let (Assad) survive. He has to go." ...
Saudi ready to act alone on Iran, Syria: ambassador
Post Date: 2013-12-19 09:14:33 by Tatarewicz
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Washington (AFP) - The West's policies on Iran and Syria are a "dangerous gamble" and Saudi Arabia is prepared to act on its own to safeguard security in the region, a top Saudi diplomat said. "We believe that many of the Wests policies on both Iran and Syria risk the stability and security of the Middle East," the Saudi ambassador to Britain, Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz, wrote in a commentary in the New York Times. "This is a dangerous gamble, about which we cannot remain silent, and will not stand idly by," he wrote. The bluntly-worded warning was the latest in a series of public statements by senior Saudi figures expressing displeasure ...
New York Times Editors Support Wrong Over Right
Post Date: 2013-12-19 03:01:26 by Stephen Lendman
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New York Times Editors Support Wrong Over Right by Stephen Lendman Longstanding Times policy is consistent. It promotes establishment values. It supports wealth, power and privilege. It endorses global US dominance. When America goes to war or plans one, Times editors march in lockstep. Propaganda substitutes for truth and full disclosure. Managed news misinformation is featured. Editorial policy defends the indefensible. It backs wrong over right. It justifies what demands condemnation. It supports banksters looting the federal treasury. It does so by not exposing and denouncing them. It does it by not demanding top Wall Street officials be prosecuted. Monied interests run America. ...
A Sozzled Apprehension of Politics
Post Date: 2013-12-17 15:55:57 by Ada
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“Give them a whiff of grape,” said Wellington, who understood I am seated in front of the Optiplex, drinking Padre Kino red and garnering insight. The garnering is tough these days. Still, to this end nothing is so effective as cheap Mexican wine at thirty-nine cents a trainload. My stepdaughter says “Google, lo sabe todo,” Google knows everything. Ah, but Padre Kino, the Great Purple Father, understandeth everything. All right, the news. I should know better than to read it, but I don’t. First I encounter a sententious suit-and-tie federal civil-serpent from NSA saying the Edward Snowden has endangered the national security of the United States, eeeek. At this, I ...
US Supported Death Squads Massacre Syrian Civilians
Post Date: 2013-12-16 15:13:18 by Stephen Lendman
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US Supported Death Squads Massacre Syrian Civilians by Stephen Lendman They've done it many times before. They do so with full US support. Major media scoundrels wrongfully blame Assad. Other times they turn a blind eye to crimes too grave to ignore. On Monday, US cable TV channel lead stories featured junk food news. BBC led with Syria's refugee crisis. It omitted what viewers most need to know. Obama bears full responsibility. Culpable allies include Britain, France, other key NATO partners, Israel, and rogue Arab state allies. Qatar's government actively supports Syrian death squads. It owns and operates Al Jazeera. Its lead story covered Aleppo fighting. It blamed ...
Making the World Safe for War Profiteers
Post Date: 2013-12-16 03:06:52 by Stephen Lendman
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Making the World Safe for War Profiteers by Stephen Lendman Adam Smith said governments are "instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor." Wars are waged to make them richer. Howard Zinn called war "terrorism magnified a hundred times." Make it many thousands of times. Michael Parenti said "the best way to win a Nobel Peace Prize (is) to wage war or support those who wage (it) instead of peace." In his book titled "The Face of Imperialism," he discusses a richly financed military/industrial complex. Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff call it the "military-industrial media complex." Waging wars requires selling them. Public ...
Hardball US Geopolitics
Post Date: 2013-12-14 03:04:01 by Stephen Lendman
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Hardball US Geopolitics by Stephen Lendman America seeks unchallenged global dominance. No holds barred tactics pursue it. Rule of law principles don't matter. Means justify ends. Might makes right. Events are manipulated. Wars, economic disruption, financial terrorism, and other upheavals play out in real time. Grand schemes reflect them. Ongoing Ukrainian protests didn't erupt by chance. Washington's dirty hands manipulated them. Obama officials want Kiev turning West, not East. They'll stop at nothing to achieve it. They want Russian influence weakened. They want Ukraine's potential ruthlessly exploited. They want its people transformed into serfs. They want ...
US Hawks Want War on Iran
Post Date: 2013-12-13 03:04:22 by Stephen Lendman
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US Hawks Want War on Iran by Stephen Lendman Neocons infest Washington. Norman Podhoretz is one many loathsome examples. On December 11, he headlined a Wall Street Journal op-ed "Strike Iran Now to Avert Disaster Later." No respectable editors would touch this trash. Responsible ones would denounce it. Journal editors embrace it. More on this below. Podhoretz isn't America's only lunatic hawk. Others favor cruise missile diplomacy. In April 2008, a Wall Street Journal editorial headlined "Bush and Iran, Again." It spuriously said Tehran "is contributing to the death of GIs, is arming our enemies in Iraq, and is proceeding to ignore the world by ...
Hello Vietnam
Post Date: 2013-12-12 12:41:25 by Hmmmmm
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Poster Comment:You're either with us or against us! SSDD
Mass murder in the Middle East is funded by our friends the Saudis
Post Date: 2013-12-10 07:34:36 by Ada
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Everyone knows where al-Qa'ida gets its money, but while the violence is sectarian, the West does nothing Donors in Saudi Arabia have notoriously played a pivotal role in creating and maintaining Sunni jihadist groups over the past 30 years. But, for all the supposed determination of the United States and its allies since 9/11 to fight “the war on terror”, they have showed astonishing restraint when it comes to pressuring Saudi Arabia and the Gulf monarchies to turn off the financial tap that keeps the jihadists in business. Compare two US pronouncements stressing the significance of these donations and basing their conclusions on the best intelligence available to the US ...
Israeli leader backs out of Mandela funeral (false flag alert)
Post Date: 2013-12-09 15:22:53 by Jethro Tull
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From the article: Nearly 100 heads of state, along with tens of thousands of mourners, are expected at the memorial in a Soweto soccer stadium.Poster Comment:Does anyone else find it unusual that Bibi can't scratch together a few shekels to get his butt to the Soweto soccer stadium for the global event of a lifetime, an event filled with the international elite packed into a soccer stadium? Maybe his maxed out MasterCard isn't the only reason he isn't going?
The Phony Pullout from Afghanistan
Post Date: 2013-12-09 06:38:03 by Ada
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Those wondering what lies in store for Afghanistan need only look at the way the British Empire ruled Iraq in the 1920’s. As Shakespeare wrote, “what is past is prologue.” Imperial Britain created the state of Iraq after World War I to secure Mesopotamia’s vast oil deposits that had become vital for the Royal Navy. To control this artificial nation seething with unrest, Britain imposed a puppet king, Faisal, and created a native army commanded by British officers. Britain’s colonial rule was formalized by the 1930 Anglo-Iraq Treaty, a deal between puppet and master. But real power in Iraq was held by the Royal Air Force, which was “granted” two ...
The Men Who Weren't There
Post Date: 2013-12-08 16:14:04 by Lod
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Estimating the cost of WWII deaths to US at URL -
C2C - The truth about Pearl Harbor - 12-7-13
Post Date: 2013-12-08 11:13:52 by Jethro Tull
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How U.S. Economic Warfare Provoked Japan’s Attack on Pearl Harbor
Post Date: 2013-12-07 14:37:19 by Jethro Tull
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How U.S. Economic Warfare Provoked Japan’s Attack on Pearl Harbor Ask a typical American how the United States got into World War II, and he will almost certainly tell you that the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and the Americans fought back. Ask him why the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, and he will probably need some time to gather his thoughts. He might say that the Japanese were aggressive militarists who wanted to take over the world, or at least the Asia-Pacific part of it. Ask him what the United States did to provoke the Japanese, and he will probably say that the Americans did nothing: we were just minding our own business when the crazy Japanese, completely without ...
Orange Revolution 2.0?
Post Date: 2013-12-05 02:55:26 by Stephen Lendman
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Orange Revolution 2.0? by Stephen Lendman Ongoing Ukrainian protests bear its earmarks. Whether it succeeds remains to be seen. Ordinary Ukrainians are being manipulated. Internal street thugs are involved. They're militants. They've been recruited to cause trouble. They're mostly young. They're Western oriented. Washington's dirty hands are involved. Color revolutions are a US specialty. At issue is eliminating independent sovereign states. It's co-opting former Soviet Republics. It's drawing them into NATO. It's increasing American dominance. It's using EU membership as bait. It's doing so despite no tangible benefits. Promises made to be ...
Unindicted US War Criminals v. Iran
Post Date: 2013-12-05 02:54:37 by Stephen Lendman
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Unindicted US War Criminals v. Iran by Stephen Lendman Former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and George Shultz are two of America's worst. Kissinger was an early architect of new world order harshness. He's guilty of multiple crimes of war, against humanity and genocide. Just societies would have imprisoned him long ago. His rap sheet includes millions of deaths, mass destruction, and unspeakable human misery. He deplores peace. He endorses state-sponsored terror. He was a leading practitioner in government. He symbolizes imperial lawlessness. So does Shultz. He was Nixon's Treasury Secretary. He represented Wall Street. From 1974 - 1982, he served as Bechtel ...
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