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Latest Articles: War, War, War
America: Addicted to War
Post Date: 2013-08-14 14:47:50 by Stephen Lendman
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America: Addicted to War by Stephen Lendman It's been that way from inception. America's history reflects violence. It's blood-drenched. It glorifies war. It does so in the name of peace. America believes war is peace. It's part of the national culture. Eventually it's self-destructive. Today's super-weapons make the unthinkable possible. Hyman Rickover knew. He knew decades ago. He founded America's nuclear navy. In 1982, he told Congress: "I do not believe that nuclear power is worth it if it creates radiation." Then you might ask me why do I have nuclear powered ships?" "That is a necessary evil. I would sink them all. I am not ...
Will or Won't Obama Attack Syria?
Post Date: 2013-08-14 02:44:13 by Stephen Lendman
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Will or Won't Obama Attack Syria? by Stephen Lendman US regime change plans are longstanding. War was planned years ago. US-supported proxy fighters wage it. Obama didn't initiate conflict to end it. At issue now is what's next. Insurgent invaders are no match for Syria's superior military. Guerrilla fighting can continue interminably. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel warned about America embroiled "in a significant, lengthy, and uncertain commitment." Joint Chiefs Chairman General Martin Dempsey said: "Once we take action, we should be prepared for what comes next. Deeper involvement is hard to avoid." At the same time, he outlined multiple options. ...
US Watchdog Slams Afghanistan Aid Waste
Post Date: 2013-08-13 22:33:01 by Dakmar
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ISLAMABAD — A U.S. audit of billions of dollars it provided to rebuild war-ravaged Afghanistan shows many projects are plagued by poor planning, inadequate inspections, and a lack of accountability. Since 2009, the U.S. government put $32 million into a project to prevent insurgents from placing explosives under roads. But according to the U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, no-one knows how much work was done. In his July report to Congress, Inspector General John Sopko said it has been impossible to confirm the number of contracts issued for the project or whether required devices were installed in some 2,500 locations. It is one of many incidents of a ...
US Government “Protection” of Al-Qaeda, US-Saudi Terrorist Black Hole
Post Date: 2013-08-13 13:15:31 by Ada
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Prof Peter Dale Scott writes: For almost two centuries American government, though always imperfect, was also a model for the world of limited government, having evolved a system of restraints on executive power through its constitutional arrangement of checks and balances. Since 9/11 however, constitutional American government has been overshadowed by a series of emergency measures to fight terrorism. The latter have mushroomed in size and budget, while traditional government has been shrunk. As a result we have today what the journalist Dana Priest has called two governments: the one its citizens were familiar with, operated more or less in the open: the other a parallel top secret ...
Is Afghanistan a Dead Man Walking?
Post Date: 2013-08-13 08:14:14 by Ada
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Inspector General provides grim metrics of failure Brad Pitt’s most successful box office film to date is about a man’s race against time to save the world from zombies. He does this by putting together clues or "crumbs" left behind to puzzle together how the planet was overrun by the undead, and what he has to do to fix it. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) John Sopko (left) Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) John Sopko (left) The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) seems to be in his own race against time to stanch the bloodletting of our investment in that country before his ...
New York Times Fuels Anti-Iranian Sentiment
Post Date: 2013-08-10 02:53:39 by Stephen Lendman
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New York Times Fuels Anti-Iranian Sentiment by Stephen Lendman Times editors, columnists and contributors support the worst of US policies. They regurgitate official lies. They abhor truth and full disclosure. They substitute managed news misinformation. They do so consistently. They advocate business as usual. They betray their readers in the process. They do it unapologetically. They march in lockstep with imperial lawlessness. They call aggressive wars liberating ones.They're in bed with corporate America. They're silent about police state repression. They believe NSA spying keeps America safe. They want Edward Snowden prosecuted. They call responsibly exposing government ...
Engineering Potential Disaster in Syria
Post Date: 2013-08-09 02:55:13 by Stephen Lendman
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Engineering Potential Disaster in Syria by Stephen Lendman The old saying goes be careful what you wish for. You may get more than you bargained for. Washington's wars often don't turn out as planned. Middle East, North African, Eurasian countries are embroiled in conflict. No end game looms. Unresolved conflicts continue. Escalation's likely. US-sponsored death squads infest the region. They commit mass murder and destruction. Official silence followed Al Nusra militants massacring 450 Kurdish civilians. Media scoundrels reported nothing. Mostly women and children were slaughtered. Assad's often blamed terrorist crimes. Syria's infested with extremist fighters. ...
US-Backed Death Squads Massacre Hundreds of Syrian Kurds
Post Date: 2013-08-08 02:54:29 by Stephen Lendman
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US-Backed Death Squads Massacre Hundreds of Syrian Kurds by Stephen Lendman Western leaders are silent. Media scoundrels ignore what demands headlines. Cold-blooded murder doesn't matter. It's too insignificant to report. Managed news misinformation substitutes. Syria is America's war. It was planned years ago. Death squads were recruited. Al Qaeda, Al Nusra, and other terrorists are Washington's shock troops. They're well funded, armed, trained and directed. Their mission is mass murder and destruction. They target innocent civilians. They slaughter them in cold blood. Assad's wrongfully blamed for their crimes. US-sponsored aggression is called humanitarian ...
Syrian Conflict Resolution: Stamp Out Terror
Post Date: 2013-08-05 13:46:25 by Stephen Lendman
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Syrian Conflict Resolution: Stamp Out Terror by Stephen Lendman Previous articles explained. America wants unchallenged dominance. It's ravaging Middle East/North Africa/Eurasian countries. It's doing so to achieve it. It's destroying them one at a time. It's committing mass murder and destruction. It calls it a small price to pay. It wants the region colonized. It wants it balkanized. It wants control of its oil, gas and other strategic resources. It wants state industries privatized. It wants new US bases. It wants them for greater control. It wants its people exploited. It wants puppet leaders replacing independent ones. Syria is Washington's war. It was ...
Heightened Russia Bashing
Post Date: 2013-08-03 02:53:23 by Stephen Lendman
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Duplicitous Committee of Inquiry on Syria by Stephen Lendman In September 2011, Paulo Pinheiro was appointed Chairman of a three-member International Commission of Inquiry for Syria (COI). Its mandate is investigating human rights abuses. It's an imperial tool. Pinheiro abhors peace. He turns truth on its head. His reports bear testimony to his bias. He points fingers the wrong way. He blames Assad for Western-backed terrorist crimes. He does so consistently. On July 30, Syria's permanent UN envoy Bashar al-Jaafari addressed the General Assembly, saying: "The Commission of Inquiry on Syria is still deliberately blowing things out of proportion when displaying its findings, ...
Committing War Crimes is a Duty; Reporting Them is a Felony
Post Date: 2013-08-02 08:26:18 by Ada
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Bradley Manning is the only combat veteran of the Iraq war whose service is worth honoring. Like hundreds of thousands of servicemen, Manning carried out unlawful orders to participate in an illegal war. Unlike any of the rest, he took necessary action to expose discrete criminal acts committed in the larger context of that illegal enterprise. While serving as an intelligence analyst in Iraq, Manning sometimes felt as if he were “watching nonstop snuff films,” according to a New York magazine profile. His job consisted of sitting at a work station and evaluating Iraqis as targets. This meant “reducing a human being to a few salient points. Then he made a quick decision ...
Pentagon Has Awarded Contracts To Al-Qaeda In Afghanistan
Post Date: 2013-08-01 20:04:03 by Ada
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Image: Report suggests al Qaeda militants are being awarded US contracts A new independent report reveals that lucrative U.S. military contracts have been granted to militant groups in Afghanistan with direct connections to the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. The report, submitted to Congress by the U.S. Army Suspension and Debarment Office, states that American officials are citing “due process rights” as a reason not to cancel the agreements with the extremists. A Bloomberg article quotes John Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, who notes: “I am deeply troubled that the U.S. military can pursue, attack, and even kill terrorists and their ...
Waging the Battle of Syria
Post Date: 2013-07-30 03:05:14 by Stephen Lendman
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Waging the Battle of Syria by Stephen Lendman Syria's conflict began in March 2011. Resolving it remains elusive. Previous articles explained it's Washington's war. It was planned years ago. It's about advancing America's imperium. There's nothing civil about it. It's about toppling another independent government. They're not tolerated. Washington wants pro-Western puppet ones replacing them. War rages. Tens of thousands died. Dozens more do daily. Obama remains unaccountable. His hands are blood-drenched. He's a war criminal multiple times over. He thrives on death and destruction. Western-sponsored death squads invaded Syria. Assad's wrongfully ...
Forgotten War, Forgotten Soldiers
Post Date: 2013-07-28 13:02:34 by X-15
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U.S. prisoners of war were left behind in North Korea, China, and Russia after the Korean War and the Pentagon failed to win their release or a full accounting of their fate, according to research contained in a new book that is highly critical of U.S. POW recovery efforts. “The Obama White House and Pentagon show not a trace of urgency in recovering our Korean War POW/MIAs, perished or alive,” said Mark Sauter, the book’s co-author who has spent more than two decades investigating missing soldiers. “Time is running out for many of their family members, not to mention American POWs reported in North Korea long after the war, if any still survive,” he told the ...
Don’t Be Alarmed by the Drone Blimps Hovering Over D.C. They’re Here to Stop Cruise Missiles
Post Date: 2013-07-27 16:57:42 by SilverStorm
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Wait What, cruise missiles? Don’t Be Alarmed by the Drone Blimps Hovering Over D.C. They’re Here to Stop Cruise Missiles By Brian Resnick July 26, 2013 | 8:18 a.m. If America is attacked, we might be saved by blimps. No, not state-of-the-art jet fighters that can fly well beyond the speed of sound. But blimps: lumbering, relatively jovial blimps—the manatees of aviation. Within a year, a pair of souped-up $2.7 billion blimps (price includes R&D) will be floated 10,000 feet above the District of Columbia and act as a 340-mile-wide eye in the sky, detecting incoming missiles and the like. The design and testing phase for JLENS—the (deep breath) Joint Land ...
Shocking 'Extermination' Fantasies By the People Running America's Empire on Full Display at Aspen Summit
Post Date: 2013-07-27 08:11:33 by Ada
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Security Forum participants expressed total confidence in American empire, but could not contain their panic at the mention of Snowden. Seated on a stool before an audience packed with spooks, lawmakers, lawyers and mercenaries, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer introduced recently retired CENTCOM chief General James Mattis. “I’ve worked with him and I’ve worked with his predecessors,” Blitzer said of Mattis. “I know how hard it is to run an operation like this.” Reminding the crowd that CENTCOM is “really, really important,” Blitzer urged them to celebrate Mattis: “Let’s give the general a round of applause.” Following the gales of cheering ...
Russia and China Prepare for Global War
Post Date: 2013-07-26 11:45:10 by Stephen Lendman
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Russia and China Prepare for Global War by Stephen Lendman Both countries want peace, not war. America threatens them. Defensive readiness is prioritized. Forewarned is forearmed. NATO's a global alliance. Washington heads it. It's a geopolitical threat. It menaces humanity. It's expanding worldwide. It's allied for offense, not defense. It plans war, not peace. It's comprised of 28 member states, 22 partner ones, seven Mediterranean Dialogue allies, four Istanbul (Gulf) Cooperation Council Initiative states, and eight other global Partners. It works cooperatively with the UN, EU, and Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. South American and African ...
Jeremy Scahill blasts ‘Murder Inc.’ Republicans: They want torture as official policy
Post Date: 2013-07-26 07:01:50 by Ada
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Journalist and author Jeremy Scahill ripped into Republicans Thursday on Democracy Now over their support for so-called enhanced interrogation techniques. At a Senate hearing on the closing of Guantanamo Bay prison held Wednesday, conservative activist Frank Gaffney had criticized President Barack Obama’s use of drones to kill suspected terrorists. Gaffney said Obama’s approach to terrorism was “less humane” than locking suspects up indefinitely at Guantanamo Bay and force-feeding them. Scahill, perhaps the most prominent critic of drone strikes, said Republicans would be doing the exact same thing as Obama and secretly loved the President’s national security ...
Georgia: The New CIA-NATO Arab Terrorist Training Center
Post Date: 2013-07-26 06:54:47 by Ada
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Training the next commandos for the next wave of terror attacks to be carried out by the next big terror cell(s) The following announcement came straight from Georgia’s Ministry of Defence: The final phase of the Basic Mountain Training Summer Course is underway in the Sachkhere Mountain Training School under the NATO’s Partnership for Peace (PFP) program. 18 military servicemen of the Ukraine, Jordan and Egypt are invited to course. … Successful graduates will be awarded with the relevant certificates after completion of the training. After graduating Basic Mountain Training Summer Course foreign partners will have opportunity to attend further stage of summer and winter ...
Obama Plans Full-Scale War on Syria
Post Date: 2013-07-25 03:06:11 by Stephen Lendman
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Obama Plans Full-Scale War on Syria by Stephen Lendman He exceeds the worst of George Bush. He's currently waging multiple direct and proxy wars. He's insatiable. He's a war criminal multiple times over. He's got lots more killing and destruction in mind. His agenda prioritizes war on humanity. He lusts for conquest. He wants unchallenged US dominance. Millions of lost lives don't matter. They're a small price to pay. He's got lots to answer for. Survival's up for grabs on his watch. Dismissive Americans don't understand. Perhaps they don't care. They're letting him get away with mass murder. Since conflict began in early 2011, ...
Hoax exposed: Gen. Dempsey rebuffs speculations he called for Syria raids
Post Date: 2013-07-24 23:38:28 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV: In truth, the calls for ‘kinetic strikes’ on Syria came from Senator John McCain of Arizona, a member of the Israeli lobby who met with Al Qaeda leaders in the Arab country in late May, 2013.” News media favorable to Israel and, quite inexplicably, supposed “anti-Zionist” blogs, are carrying a strange story attributing threats of “kinetic strikes” against Syria to General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, America’s highest military leader. Thousands of news and conspiracy sites misquote General Dempsey as advocating “brute force” against Syria and favoring use of “kinetic strikes.” Here are ...
Lindsey Graham Wants War with Iran at the End of the Summer
Post Date: 2013-07-24 17:44:30 by X-15
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Sen. Lindsey Graham told a "cheering" audience Tuesday that if the relationship between the U.S. and Iran doesn't improve by the end of summer, he will ask Congress to authorize going to war. The idea is silly because obviously it'll never happen, and it's probably a ploy for re-election. "If nothing changes in Iran, come September, October, I will present a resolution that will authorize the use of military force to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear bomb," the South Carolina Republican said, according to a post on CQ Roll Call, which was picked up by Think Progress, at a conference for members of Christians United for Israel today. "The only way ...
Total Failure Of Foreign Intelligence As Spy Agencies Miss Massive Al Qaeda Prison Break
Post Date: 2013-07-23 09:46:08 by Ada
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They’ve spent hundreds of billions of dollars to monitor the activities of every single American by turning their listening networks on purported domestic terrorists operating in the United States. They know your underwear size. They know where you drove your car today. They know what you put up on Facebook, texted to your wife and emailed to your friends. And they’ve done it all in the supposed interest of “national security.” If, however, you were an Al Qaeda terrorist coordinating a large-scale prison break to free senior members of your mid-east terror organization, you would have been able to operate with impunity. As you read the following report from Abu Ghraib ...
ALL AMERICA MUST SEE THIS! Breaking Reality ~ 2013
Post Date: 2013-07-21 15:37:43 by christine
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What's Next for Syria?
Post Date: 2013-07-21 03:02:21 by Stephen Lendman
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What's Next for Syria? by Stephen Lendman Conflict drags on interminably. Dozens or more die daily. Syrian forces outmatch Western-backed death squad terrorists. They're not rebels. They're lawless invaders. They're US proxy fighters. They're imported from dozens of countries. They're waging war against sovereign Syrian independence. Don't expect duplicitous Western politicians or media scoundrels to explain. Assad's military outguns and outflanks Washington's shock troops. Reinforcements keep coming. Libya 2.0 looks possible. Perhaps likely. Russia hopes for a September international peace conference. Originally a June one was planned. Why bother ...
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