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Drums of More War
Post Date: 2012-11-25 03:00:57 by Stephen Lendman
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Drums of More War by Stephen Lendman Cast Lead and Pillar of Cloud represent skirmishes. Syria's one on a higher boil. Expect full-scale war ahead. It could happen any time or perhaps next year. These conflicts portend more to come. Washington, Israel, and NATO plan them. Regional collaborators go along. One or more of them ahead may become targets. They'll know, or should, when they're excluded from future plans. As a well-known poker saying goes: If you've been in the game a while and don't know who the sucker is, it's you. Israel wants to be a regional hegemon. Washington seeks global dominance. Achieving imperial aims requires eliminating rivals and ...
Osama bin Laden Is Really, Really Dead
Post Date: 2012-11-24 09:29:26 by Ada
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Internal emails among U.S. military officers indicate that no sailors watched Osama bin Laden's burial at sea from the USS Carl Vinson and traditional Islamic procedures were followed during the ceremony. The emails, obtained by The Associated Press through the Freedom of Information Act, are heavily blacked out, but are the first public disclosure of government information about the al- Qaida leader's death. The emails were released Wednesday by the Defense Department. ~ Huffington Post Dominant Social Theme: Oh, he is dead. Yes, we killed him. He is gone. Dead. We are so great. And he is cold and dead and drowned. Free-Market Analysis: We have written numerous stories about the ...
Did Israel Overstep This Time?
Post Date: 2012-11-19 03:26:59 by Stephen Lendman
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Did Israel Overstep This Time? by Stephen Lendman Rogue states get away with murder only so long. Eventually their crimes catch up with them. Israeli policies are self-defeating. How long can killing civilian men, women, children, infants, and the elderly be called self-defense? Palestinians and eyewitnesses explain best. Mondoweiss contributor Adie Mormech saw smoke rise after Israeli bombs exploded. "Words fail me," he said. Bombing feels almost constant. "I can barely write a sentence with more news." Six injuries from one bombing. A four-year old child struck playing in the street. An elderly Zaytoun neighborhood man killed. Four others injured. The same ...
US building $92 million military headquarters for Afghanistan
Post Date: 2012-11-18 23:36:06 by christine
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The Power Principle pt. 1 [Empire]
Post Date: 2012-11-18 07:36:43 by noone222
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Poster Comment:Secession from the Banking Empire through non-participation in their monetary scheme, ie., THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM, is the only way to stop them short of a full on revolution.
The World’s Next Genocide
Post Date: 2012-11-16 21:16:33 by scrapper2
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AT a recent meeting hosted by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, Peter W. Galbraith, a former American ambassador who witnessed ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia, made a chilling prediction. “The next genocide in the world,” he said, “will likely be against the Alawites in Syria.” A few months ago, talk of possible massacres of Alawites, who dominate Bashar al-Assad’s government in Syria, seemed like pro-regime propaganda. Now, it is a real possibility. For more than a year, Mr. Assad’s government has been committing crimes against humanity in Syria. As it fights for survival on the streets of Aleppo and Damascus, the risk of ...
Pentagon Says 75,000 Troops Might Be Needed to Seize Syria Chemical Arms
Post Date: 2012-11-16 18:35:25 by scrapper2
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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has told the Obama administration that any military effort to seize Syria’s stockpiles of chemical weapons would require upward of 75,000 troops, amid increasing concern that the militant group Hezbollah has set up small training camps close to some of the chemical weapons depots, according to senior American officials. The estimated size of the potential effort, provided to the White House by the military’s Central Command and Joint Staff, called into question whether the United States would have the resources to act quickly if it detected the movement of chemical weapons and forced President Obama, as he said in August, to “change my ...
Coming to Terms With the Taliban
Post Date: 2012-11-15 06:59:04 by Ada
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Washington’s playbook has been reduced to “drop back and punt” in Afghanistan. Everybody knows that there have been on-again off-again talks to obtain a political settlement, but there has been much speculation over what exactly is taking place since the Taliban ostensibly ended negotiations in March over U.S. hesitation to release five senior prisoners held at Guantanamo. The talks were nearly invisible in the press, even though their existence was confirmed by the Afghan and U.S. governments as well as by the Taliban itself. Such talks are the sine qua non for American departure from the country in 2014 because without an agreement a prolonged civil war with continued U.S. ...
David Petraeus May Have Committed Much Worse Crimes In Afghanistan
Post Date: 2012-11-15 00:38:45 by scrapper2
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While ousted CIA Director David Petraeus eats dirt for his extra-marital affair, some people would like him to answer for much more serious crimes. There is evidence that Petraeus, when he commanded US forces in Afghanistan, oversaw the intentional bombing of funerals and civilian rescuers with drones, which constitutes a war crime according to The International Criminal Court. For years the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) has reported on the use of the double tap—a strategy used by terrorists that involves bombing a strike site multiple times in relatively quick succession to maximize devastation—and there are documented instances that Petraeus employed this tactic as ...
American Immorality Is At A Peak
Post Date: 2012-11-13 19:15:45 by Ada
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When Chris Floyd is at his best, as he is below, he puts things in perspective for readers that they otherwise never confront. Obama has won reelection, and his supporters think that somehow things are going to be different. Fat chance. While evil continues to envelop America, the public is focused on CIA director General Petraeus’ resignation. The FBI spied on him and found that he was having an affair with his biographer, a woman 20 years younger than his 60 years. What is it with Americans and sex? Why is an illicit affair the ONLY reason for removing someone from political office? Why is it that government officials, presidents and vice presidents included, can violate US ...
Israel Shells Syria and Gaza
Post Date: 2012-11-13 03:22:12 by Stephen Lendman
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Israel Shells Syria and Gaza by Stephen Lendman A previous article said beware of false flags. For months throughout the Syrian conflict, possible full- scale Western intervention loomed. It still does. Post-US elections, it's more likely, not certain, but reports suggest expect it. Several stray mortar shells from Syria struck occupied Golan. No injuries were reported. Israel holds Damascus responsible. On November 9, Israel warned Assad. Vice Prime Minister Moshe Ya'alon said, "We see the regime in Syria as responsible for what is happening along the border." "If we see that it is spreading in our direction, we will know how to defend the citizens of the State ...
Syrian Opposition Unity Deal
Post Date: 2012-11-13 03:21:31 by Stephen Lendman
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Syrian Opposition Unity Deal by Stephen Lendman Last week, Doha hosted Washington's reinvented scheme to forge new Syrian opposition unity. Only pro-Western puppets need apply. So-called Friends of Syria are its enemies. Most live outside the country. They haven't been there for months or years. They're out of touch. They have no connection to what most Syrians support. They're involved for whatever benefits them at the expense of the majority of the population that opposes their agenda. Many opposition figures boycotted the meeting. They want no part of Washington's scheme. Movement for a Peaceful Settlement in Syria leader, Fateh al-Jamus, told Voice of Russia ...
Petraeus: Resignation or Sacking?
Post Date: 2012-11-12 03:04:22 by Stephen Lendman
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Petraeus: Resignation or Sacking? by Stephen Lendman Some observers call Washington a city of scandals. Lots of intrigue reflects daily life in the nation's capital. Elected and appointed officials come and go. Most often it's uneventful. Other times once powerful figures fell from grace or scandals affecting them rose to the level of affixing a "gate" suffix on what happened. Watergate, Whitewatergate, Iran/Contragate, Koreagate, Travelgate, and Troopergate among others come to mind. Perhaps Petraeusgate will enter the lexicon of political scandals. You read it here first. Forget resignation over extramarital sex nonsense unless state secrets were compromised. Lots ...
Veteran's Day Requires a Rethink
Post Date: 2012-11-11 21:09:24 by Buzzard
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If central bankers start all the wars, are veterans heroes, or mercenaries & dupes? Wars are the closest thing to hell on earth. Of course, they are devised by satanists. Why do we accept them as inevitable and acceptable when they are not? When the United States and England loaned Mexico money in 1903 using its customs revenue as collateral, Illuminati banker Jacob Schiff cabled his English counterpart, Ernest Cassel: "If they don't pay, who will collect the customs?" Cassel replied: "Your marines and ours." (The Life of Otto Kahn, p. 22) Marine General Smedley Butler (1881-1940) confirmed that he was "a high class muscle man for Big Business, for ...
Houston Veterans Day - Helicopter Flyover Downtown
Post Date: 2012-11-11 09:09:12 by GreyLmist
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Behind Petraeus’s Resignation
Post Date: 2012-11-11 06:52:50 by Ada
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Exclusive: The resignation of CIA Director David Petraeus over an extramarital affair marks a stunning reversal for the longtime media darling. But some in President Obama’s inner circle are not displeased the neocon- friendly ex-general is gone, reports Robert Parry. The messy departure of CIA Director David Petraeus over an extramarital affair removes the last high-ranking neoconservative holdover from George W. Bush’s administration and gives the reelected President Barack Obama more maneuvering room to negotiate a settlement over Iran’s nuclear program. Petraeus’s resignation along with a public acknowledgement of an affair, reportedly with an admiring female ...
Several hundreds of Syria insurgents are foreigners: Opposition leader
Post Date: 2012-11-11 02:20:39 by Tatarewicz
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The newly chosen leader of the main foreign-backed Syrian opposition group has admitted that several hundred foreigners are fighting along insurgents against Syria’s government. “We know we have some fundamentalists, maybe Syrian and Arab and foreign, but they are very few. From more than seven-thousand fighters in Aleppo, there are several hundreds of them,” said the president of the so-called Syrian National Council, George Sabra. Sabra called on the international community to provide weapons to the insurgents “without any conditions.” Sabra, who was recently chosen as the new SNC leader during a meeting in Qatar, also stated that the number of insurgents ...
Why Did CIA Director Petraeus Suddenly Resign … And Why Was the U.S. Ambassador to Libya Murdered?
Post Date: 2012-11-10 18:47:32 by bush_is_a_moonie
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The Deeper Questions Behind the Ambassador’s Murder … and the CIA Boss’ Sudden Resignation While the GOP is attacking (and Dems defending) the Obama administration in connection with the murder of the U.S. ambassador to Libya, there is a deeper story. Sure, it is stunning that the State Department never requested backup or that people such as Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Shaffer allege that President Obama personally watched in real time the attacks as they occurred via video feeds from drones flying over the Benghazi consulate. But these claims only can be assessed – and the whole confusing mess only makes sense – if the deeper underlying story is first exposed. ...
Obama's Post-Election Militancy
Post Date: 2012-11-10 03:09:55 by Stephen Lendman
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Obama’s Post-Election Militancy by Stephen Lendman Obama didn't miss a beat. He picked up where he left off. He's America's most belligerent leader. He's waging multiple direct and proxy wars abroad and at home by other means. Despite pressing unresolved domestic issues, he celebrated his electoral victory belligerently. On November 7, he bombed Yemen. Washington's been waging proxy war there for years. Daily attacks occur. Drones are the weapon of choice. Remote warriors conduct sanitized killing on the cheap. Death and injury tolls rise. Mostly civilians are harmed. On November 8, Press TV headlined "US drone kills three in Yemen." US media ...
Apple Censors Drone War
Post Date: 2012-11-09 05:03:47 by Tatarewicz
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Apple Inc., which has received over $9 million in Pentagon contracts in recent years, has rejected from its App Store, and therefore from all iPhones, a simple informative application. Drones+ is an application that shows no depictions of the carnage of war and reveals no secret information. It simply adds a location to a map every time a drone strike is reported in the media and added to a database maintained by the U.K.'s Bureau of Investigative Journalism. Apple has rejected the app as "objectionable and crude." Drone wars continue because the U.S. public is unaware what is being done in our name with our money. We are interested in knowing where our government is ...
Overreach: America's Imperial Waterloo?
Post Date: 2012-11-06 02:50:40 by Stephen Lendman
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Overreach: America's Imperial Waterloo? by Stephen Lendman Arrogance defines US imperialism. In 1945, America's economic, political and military dominance stood unchallenged. In his book titled, "The World in Crisis: The End of the American Century" historian Gabriel Kolko said US decline "began after the Korean War, was continued in relation to Cuba, and was greatly accelerated in Vietnam - but (GW Bush did) much to exacerbate it further." Obama exceeded the worst Bush policies. If reelected, he'll surpass what he's already done. So will Romney. Will waging war on humanity be America's Waterloo? Immanuel Wallerstein also sees US dominance ...
Caught in the Act
Post Date: 2012-11-02 14:16:15 by Stephen Lendman
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Caught in the Act by Stephen Lendman Washington wages direct and proxy wars dirty. Favored allies are cold-blooded killers. Cutthroats are America's favorites. The more vicious the better. America's so-called responsibility to protect (R2P) is a license to brutalize and kill. Guns for hire willing to commit unspeakable crimes for a buck are recruited, armed, funded, trained, and deployed to commit the most heinous ones imaginable. Nothing too gruesome is out of bounds. Killing goes on daily like sport. Massacres are strategically timed. Last June, death squads murdered over 100 Houla civilians. They were executed in cold blood. Children were slaughtered like adults. ...
Half of military drones may broadcast unencrypted footage
Post Date: 2012-11-01 21:19:42 by Buzzard
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The unmanned drones that have become a hallmark of the Obama administration’s foreign policy wreak havoc across the world every day as part of the broadening war on terror, but you don’t have to be an insurgent or soldier to have a front-row seat. The US military relies on stealthy, remote controlled Reaper and Predator drones — unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVS — to take out insurgents and suspected terrorists overseas without ever putting boots on the ground. But while the transmissions sent from the empty cockpits to control centers around the globe broadcast each and every move of America’s insanely expensive and extraordinary technology, that doesn’t mean ...
Drone Warfare: An Illegal Tactic Sure to Perpetuate U.S.-Muslim War Indefinitely
Post Date: 2012-11-01 09:52:58 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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It is a profound but nearly universal mistake among Americans (and others) to think that the withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan in 2013 or 2014 will end the American war with the Muslim world that began on September 11 in 2001. It seems that the current administration in Washington and much of the American foreign policy community are determined to validate a version of Samuel Huntington’s unfortunate forecast in 1993 that the “next” world war would be a war between civilizations. The two main candidates for the American presidency seeking election next Tuesday have each indicated a commitment to pursuing this war through measures of programmed unilateral killing ...
Beware Post-Elections
Post Date: 2012-11-01 03:29:21 by Stephen Lendman
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Beware Post-Elections by Stephen Lendman Electoral priorities feature rhetoric, not new adventurism advocacy likely to rile voters. Post-election, anything goes. The Middle East pot boils. Endless conflicts persists. Car bombings, other violence, and instability are daily Iraqi realities. Afghanistan is America's longest war. It was lost long ago. Nonetheless, it shows no signs of ending. Libya is a raging cauldron. US-led NATO ravaged the country. Fighting continues. Washington's puppet regime has no legitimacy or control. Jamahiriya resistance wants it ousted. Libyan freedom fighters have good reason. Western stooges represent NATO, not liberation. Their nation lies in ruins. ...
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