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Latest Articles: War, War, War
Charlottesville removes statues of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson
Post Date: 2021-07-10 17:47:37 by AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt
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Charlottesville removes statues of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson The final scene of a five-year saga that began with a high-school student circulating a petition, inspired an infamous white-nationalist demonstration, landed in the hands of lawyers and ultimately the Virginia Supreme Court, and has now ended with the statue being carted off to parts unknown unceremoniously on the back of a flatbed. A crowd was there to see it off this morning: Click for Full Text!Poster Comment:Jews Caused the Civil War http://www.jewworldorder.org/jews-caused-civil-war/ We Thought They Were White - Dontell Jackson - An African-American apologizes for misattributed perceptions of white racism ...
Say Hello to the Diplo-Taliban
Post Date: 2021-07-10 07:26:26 by Ada
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Deploying diplomatic skills refined from Doha to Moscow, the Taliban in 2021 has little to do with its 2001 incarnation A very important meeting took place in Moscow last week, virtually hush-hush. Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of the Russian Security Council, received Hamdullah Mohib, Afghanistan’s national security adviser. There were no substantial leaks. A bland statement pointed to the obvious: They “focused on the security situation in Afghanistan during the pullout of Western military contingencies and the escalation of the military-political situation in the northern part of the country.” The real story is way more nuanced. Mohib, representing embattled President ...
The Onion Predicted America's Middle Of The Night Pullout From Bagram In Afghanistan
Post Date: 2021-07-07 07:33:46 by Ada
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Nearly a decade after a satirical piece ran about 'slipping out' of Afghanistan, American troops unexpectedly cut the power at Bagram as they left. New details about the U.S. military's sudden, nighttime departure from Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, which had been a major hub for the United States and the NATO-led coalition in the country for nearly 20 years, emerged over the weekend. The last Americans reportedly left unannounced, ostensibly for operational security reasons, but they turned off the power, which in turn cut the running water at the base, as they departed. The nature of this withdrawal came as a shock to Afghan troops who are now stationed at the base and ...
World War III with Russia and China: Good Idea – Or Great Idea?
Post Date: 2021-07-06 18:09:15 by Ada
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Every signal is pointing to the fact that whoever is controlling the US military (we don’t know who it is, but it is clear that it is not any visible face in the Biden Administration) believes that starting dual wars with Russia and China is not just a good idea – it’s a great idea. This week, Russia made statements saying they will push back hard against the US if they keep making these aggressive moves they’ve been making ever since Donald Trump was forced out of office in the coup. Click for Full Text!
Almost as soon as the US military left its biggest airbase in Afghanistan, looters rolled in
Post Date: 2021-07-03 07:30:17 by Ada
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Bagram, the biggest airbase in Afghanistan, was ransacked within hours of the US withdrawal. Afghan officials said the US didn't coordinate the withdrawal with them, though the US military denies this. Looters stole laptops and gas canisters. It's not a good sign for the future of Afghanistan. See more stories on Insider's business page. Within hours of the US withdrawal from Bagram - the largest airbase in Afghanistan and the long-time hub of America's longest war - looters rolled in. The looters stole laptops and gas canisters from the base, said Darwaish Raufi, a district administrator for Bagram, per the New York Times. Raufi said the US withdrawal from the base ...
Bombing Afghanistan After the Troops are Gone
Post Date: 2021-07-02 06:19:39 by Ada
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If the military officials who talk to the press get their way, the U.S. war in Afghanistan will never end. This became execrably clear on June 9, when the New York Times published an article quoting anonymous Pentagon dignitaries informing us that after the U.S. leaves Afghanistan, it may continue to bomb the country, if it doesn’t like how things go. You read that right. President Biden says the war will end. The geniuses in the Pentagon say no it won’t, we’ll keep bombing. I confess I did a double-take reading this apparent mucking up of the chain of command. We all knew that military bigwigs become rebellious when told to wind down a war. We got a display of that when ...
Donald Rumsfeld, Killer of 400,000 People, Dies Peacefully
Post Date: 2021-07-01 07:35:05 by Ada
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Do not mourn the defense secretary. Mourn his victims. There were nearly too many to tally, but his Pentagon refused to count anyway. Updated Jun. 30, 2021 7:06PM ET / Published Jun. 30, 2021 6:40PM ET The only thing tragic about the death of Donald Rumsfeld is that it didn’t occur in an Iraqi prison. Yet that was foreordained, considering how throughout his life inside the precincts of American national security, Rumsfeld escaped the consequences of decisions he made that ensured a violent, frightening end for hundreds of thousands of people. An actuarial table of the deaths for which Donald Rumsfeld is responsible is difficult to assemble. In part, that’s a consequence of ...
Who Is a “Terrorist” in Biden’s America?
Post Date: 2021-06-21 18:28:14 by Ada
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War on domestic terrorism Far from being a war against “white supremacy,” the Biden administration’s new “domestic terror” strategy clearly targets primarily those who oppose US government overreach and those who oppose capitalism and/or globalization. In the latest sign that the US government’s War on Domestic Terror is growing in scope and scale, the White House on Tuesday revealed the nation’s first ever government-wide strategy for confronting domestic terrorism. While cloaked in language about stemming racially motivated violence, the strategy places those deemed “anti-government” or “anti- authority” on a par with racist ...
Congress is voting to repeal the wrong war authorization
Post Date: 2021-06-21 07:05:54 by Ada
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Congress is pretending to be productive. In the news business, we call certain stories “evergreens” because they are essentially always true. One example of this kind of story is “Congress does something pointless, again.” Full disclosure: My faith in elected leaders died when I began covering municipal meetings years ago, spending hours listening to township supervisors argue about stormwater runoff while the bored reporter sitting next to me scrawled Bruce Springsteen lyrics in his notebook. But Congress always manages to find a way to take the art of wasting time into a Banzai Charge of bulls**t. To wit: Lawmakers are close to repealing the wrong authorization for ...
Who Wants To Hear My Crazy, Kooky Conspiracy Theory About 1/6?
Post Date: 2021-06-19 15:34:52 by Ada
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Glenn Greenwald has a new article out titled “Questions About the FBI’s Role in 1/6 Are Mocked Because the FBI Shapes Liberal Corporate Media” about the backlash against right wing media highlighting the incredibly suspicious fact that rank-and-file participants in the January 6 Capitol riot have been harshly prosecuted while many of its actual leaders and organizers have not been. Greenwald goes over the FBI’s extensive and well-documented history of using undercover agents and informants to entrap easily manipulated individuals into participating in “terror” plots that they themselves initiated and then swooping in to save the day, how unlikely it is that ...
Who Wants To Hear My Crazy, Kooky Conspiracy Theory About 1/6?
Post Date: 2021-06-19 15:14:33 by Ada
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Glenn Greenwald has a new article out titled “Questions About the FBI’s Role in 1/6 Are Mocked Because the FBI Shapes Liberal Corporate Media” about the backlash against right wing media highlighting the incredibly suspicious fact that rank-and-file participants in the January 6 Capitol riot have been harshly prosecuted while many of its actual leaders and organizers have not been. Greenwald goes over the FBI’s extensive and well-documented history of using undercover agents and informants to entrap easily manipulated individuals into participating in “terror” plots that they themselves initiated and then swooping in to save the day, how unlikely it is that ...
To Fight Crime, The FBI Sponsors 15 Crimes a Day
Post Date: 2021-06-19 07:55:36 by Ada
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Americans are suffering the blowback of the FBI’s mafia-style justice. Law-abiding citizens now paying the price for the government’s insatiable greed & quest for power. “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.”— Friedrich Nietzsche Almost every tyranny being perpetrated by the U.S. government against the citizenry—purportedly to keep us safe and the nation secure—has come about as a result of some threat manufactured in one way or another by our own government. Think about it. Cyberwarfare. Terrorism. Bio-chemical attacks. The nuclear arms race. Surveillance. The drug wars. Domestic extremism. ...
The Criminalization of Dissent
Post Date: 2021-06-07 09:31:42 by Ada
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One of the hallmarks of totalitarian systems is the criminalization of dissent. Not just the stigmatization of dissent or the demonization of dissent, but the formal criminalization of dissent, and any other type of opposition to the official ideology of the totalitarian system. Global capitalism has been inching its way toward this step for quite some time, and now, apparently, it is ready to take it. Germany has been leading the way. For over a year, anyone questioning or protesting the “Covid emergency measures” or the official Covid-19 narrative has been demonized by the government and the media, and, sadly, but not completely unexpectedly, the majority of the German ...
Porklips Now!
Post Date: 2021-06-03 05:39:08 by Esso
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Memorial Day: Remembering the Political Lies that Spurred Mass Killing
Post Date: 2021-06-01 09:14:20 by Ada
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On Memorial Day, the media do their usual sacralizing of war. Instead, it should be a day for the ritualized scourging of politicians. During the last 70 years, their lies have resulted in the unnecessary deaths of almost 100,000 American soldiers and millions of foreigners. And yet, people still get teary-eyed when politicians take the stage to talk about their devotion to the troops. On Memorial Day 2011, for instance, the Washington Post included numerous touching photographs of graves, recent widows or fatherless kids by the headstones, and stories of the troops’ sacrifices. The Post buried a short article in the middle of the A-Section (squeezed onto a nearly full-page ad for ...
Memorial Day
Post Date: 2021-05-30 17:37:21 by Lod
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Memorial Day is their day, isn't it? It is supposed to be the day a grateful nation pauses to quietly thank the more than one million men and women who have died in military service to their country since the Revolutionary War. Or is it the day the beach resorts kick into high gear for the summer season, the day the strand is covered by fish-belly white people basting themselves in coconut oil, the day the off-season rates end and the weekend you can't get in a seaside seafood restaurant with anything less than a one hour wait. Or is is one of the biggest shopping center sales days of the year, a day when hunting for a parking space is the prime sport for the holiday ...
Autonomous drones may have ‘hunted down’ and attacked troops in Libya without human control – UN report by RT
Post Date: 2021-05-29 08:16:02 by Ada
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A UN report found that autonomous drones armed with explosive devices may have “hunted down” fleeing rebel fighters in Libya last year. If true, the report chronicles the world’s first true robot-on-human attack. According to the report, anti-government Libyan National Army fighters, under military commander Khalifa Haftar, were retreating last March following an unsuccessful attack on Tripoli, when they ran into a swarm of terrifying aerial opponents. They were “hunted down” by unmanned drones, as well as “lethal autonomous weapons systems,” the latter of which can be programmed by controllers to seek out and attack targets, and carry out these ...
Afghanistan: George W. Bush’s First Disastrous War
Post Date: 2021-05-25 08:54:10 by Ada
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It was a misguided effort from the start, built on lies and false idealism, and it has left a bloody legacy Former President George W. Bush is bewailing President Joe Biden’s plan to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan. Bush told Fox News last week, “I’m also deeply concerned about the sacrifices of our soldiers, and our intelligence community, will be forgotten,” after the war ends. Unfortunately, the vast majority of the American media has already forgotten how Bush’s lies turned U.S. intervention in Afghanistan into a quagmire that pointlessly killed and maimed thousands of American soldiers. After Al Qaeda hijacked four airplanes on September 11, 200 ...
Suitable for Framing
Post Date: 2021-05-24 16:23:03 by Ada
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The term “anarcho-tyranny” was coined by the late great Sam Francis to mean a condition in which the state tyrannically regulates the lives of the citizens but refuses to enforce fundamental protective law. When Francis was alive, gun control was often used as an example. The state harassed citizens over their ownership of firearms but did nothing to protect them from violent criminals. A modern example is something people experience every day. Drive around any city and you will notice the streets are festooned with cameras. This is true in the surrounding suburbs. These cameras primarily function as a revenue enhancement for state and local government. You cannot drive ...
Liz Cheney Lied About Her Role in Spreading the Discredited CIA "Russian Bounty" Story
Post Date: 2021-05-16 07:44:41 by Ada
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As part of her ideological war to reclaim the GOP for neocons, the now- deposed House leader falsely denied her role in a tale designed to block withdrawal from Afghanistan. In an interview on Tuesday with Fox News’ Bret Baier, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) denied that she spread the discredited CIA "Russian bounty” story. That CIA tale, claiming Russia was paying Taliban fighters to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan, was cooked up by the CIA and then published by The New York Times on June 27 of last year, right as former President Trump announced his plans to withdraw troops from Afghanistan. The Times story, citing anonymous intelligence officials, was then continually invoked ...
Pimp this book
Post Date: 2021-05-13 07:21:50 by ghostdogtxn
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Will Biden Have Blood on His Hands in Afghanistan?
Post Date: 2021-05-11 07:16:32 by Ada
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President Biden has announced that America’s forever war in Afghanistan is finally coming to an end. He says that U.S. forces will exit the country by next September 11. That’s a good thing. And it is long overdue. But there is one big problem with Biden’s timetable: It violates an agreement that the U.S. government entered into with the Taliban to exit the country by May 1 of this year. Under that agreement, the Taliban agreed not to attack U.S. troops prior to their scheduled departure on May 1. With Biden’s decision to deliberately violate the agreement by unilaterally extending the withdrawal to September 11, he is knowingly placing the lives of the 3,500 ...
Safety First
Post Date: 2021-05-10 10:41:53 by Esso
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Poster Comment:Damn, that cracked me up.
An Empire in Love with Its Afghan Cemetery
Post Date: 2021-05-08 08:38:11 by Ada
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One cannot but feel mildly amused at the theatrical spectacle of the US troop pullout from Afghanistan, its completion day now postponed for maximum PR impact to 9/11, 2021. Nearly two decades and a staggering US$2 trillion after this Forever War was launched by a now immensely indebted empire, the debacle can certainly be interpreted as a warped version of Mission Accomplished. “They make a desert and call it peace,” said Tacitus – but in all of the vastness of the Pentagon there sits not a single flack who could imagine getting away with baldfacedly spinning the Afghan wasteland as peaceful. Even the UN bureaucratic machinery has not been able to properly account for ...
CNN Going Full Iraq on China
Post Date: 2021-05-03 10:23:07 by Ada
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This is at the top of CNN today: There is a 90% chance that this is simply made up by some intelligence agency. The CNN article only gives his surname – “Zhou.” For those who don’t know, there are tens of millions of people in China with that surname. I don’t think it would be physically possible to navigate both the Chinese and Taiwanese navies, let alone the American spy grid. Furthermore, I don’t really think you could get across the entire strait in a dinghy. It’s 200 kilometers. Click for Full Text!
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