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Latest Articles: War, War, War
U.S. Foreign Policy in one picture
Post Date: 2012-06-12 21:37:44 by christine
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Regime change in US, Israel to end war crimes: Analyst
Post Date: 2012-06-12 20:34:40 by Original_Intent
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An analyst says “Regime Change” is needed in both the US and Israel to stop “war crimes in the name of human rights” in Syria which in reality aim to weaken Iran and eliminate any resistance against Israel. “'Coming to the rescue of the Syrian people' under a fake 'humanitarian' R2P [Responsibility to Protect] mandate is intended to destabilize Syria, weaken Iran and enable Israel to exert greater political control and influence over neighboring Arab states including Lebanon and Syria,” Professor Michel Chossudovsky wrote in an article on globalresearch.ca. “A war on Syria is also a war on Palestine,” he said, adding that military ...
Commander says Navy sending most advanced ships and planes to Pacific
Post Date: 2012-06-12 07:25:06 by Phant2000
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The commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet said Monday the Navy will be sending its most advanced vessels and aircraft to the Asia-Pacific region as it builds up its presence by assigning most of its fleet there. Adm. Cecil Haney said a policy recently outlined by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to deploy 60 percent of the Navy's ships fleet to the Pacific by 2020 is about capabilities as well as quantity. "It's not just numbers -- it's also what those platforms, what those units, bring to the table," Haney told The Associated Press in an interview at his headquarters in Pearl Harbor. Haney cited as an example the Littoral Combat Ship which can operate in shallower ...
Pressure Builds for War on Syria
Post Date: 2012-06-12 03:25:00 by Stephen Lendman
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Pressure Builds for War on Syria by Stephen Lendman It's baked in the cake. Preparations began months ago. Regime change plans are longstanding. The road to Tehran runs through Damascus. Washington runs everything. It controls the process. At stake is regional dominance. Key also is shutting out Russia and China. War is the strategy of choice when other methods fail. Insurgent attacks won't oust Assad. Increasingly war looks likely. Only its timing is unknown. For months, regional states, including Israel, have been supplying insurgents with weapons. They're entering cross border. Lebanon's Khamat Airport is used. It borders Syria. It underwent reconstruction for ...
Patrick Cockburn: America is deluded by its drone-warfare propaganda
Post Date: 2012-06-11 07:15:33 by Ada
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World View: The use of unmanned aircraft to assassinate its enemies is guaranteed to backfire on Washington As the US and its allies ponder what to do about Syria, one suggestion advanced by the protagonists of armed intervention is to use unmanned drones to attack Syrian government targets. The proposal is a measure of the extraordinary success of the White House, CIA and Defense Department in selling the drone as a wonder weapon despite all the evidence to the contrary. The attraction of the drone for President Obama and his administration five months before the presidential election is self-evident. The revelation that he personally selected targets from the top ranks of al-Qa'ida ...
Insurgents Named Responsible for Syrian Massacres
Post Date: 2012-06-11 03:55:05 by Stephen Lendman
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Insurgents Named Responsible for Syrian Massacres by Stephen Lendman A Syrian documentary aired on June 9, and a June 7 report by Germany's leading broadsheet provide more evidence. Both refutes Western and scoundrel media misinformation. More on the latter below. On May 10, suburban Damascus suicide bombings killed 55 and injured hundreds. The attack happened near Syria's military intelligence complex. Children were killed. So were drivers and others heading for work. At the time, SANA state media said rescue workers collected "15 bags of limbs and torn-off body parts" from the scene. The blasts also destroyed 105 cars. Western reports spuriously blamed Assad. He had ...
Stepped Up Media War on Syria
Post Date: 2012-06-10 04:10:17 by Stephen Lendman
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Stepped Up Media War on Syria by Stephen Lendman When America goes to war or plans one, media scoundrels march in lockstep. Journalism is the first casualty. Managed news misinformation substitutes for truth and full disclosure. Cheerleading propaganda is relentless. Readers and viewers are betrayed. Imperial wars are called liberating ones. Separating fact from fiction is challenging. Only replacing independent regimes with pro-Western puppet ones matters. Media scoundrels support it. Blood on their hands doesn't deter them. Steady income eases conscience pangs. Soul selling pays well. NYT and Washington Post editorials discussed below reflect the latest White House statement on ...
France will start withdrawal from Afghanistan next month
Post Date: 2012-06-10 01:41:01 by Tatarewicz
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France will start withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan next month and will complete the pullout by the end of this year, French President Francois Hollande says. The withdrawal "will begin in the month of July, will be carried out and be completed at the end of 2012," Hollande said on Saturday. The announcement was made hours after at least four French soldiers were killed and five others wounded in a bomb explosion in eastern Afghanistan. Three of the five injured soldiers are in a critical condition. Around 3,500 French soldiers are deployed in Afghanistan, mainly in the capital city of Kabul and in the eastern Kapisa province. Kapisa has proved a tough fight for the ...
U.S. again bombs mourners The Obama policy of attacking rescuers and grieving rituals continues this weekend in Pakistan
Post Date: 2012-06-09 13:36:24 by tom007
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U.S. again bombs mourners The Obama policy of attacking rescuers and grieving rituals continues this weekend in Pakistan By Glenn Greenwald 338 more (updated below) In February, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism documented that after the U.S. kills people with drones in Pakistan, it then targets for death those who show up at the scene to rescue the survivors and retrieve the bodies, as well as those who gather to mourn the dead at funerals: “the CIA’s drone campaign in Pakistan has killed dozens of civilians who had gone to help rescue victims or were attending funerals.” As The New York Times summarized those findings: “at least 50 civilians had been killed in ...
David Sanger's War on Iran
Post Date: 2012-06-09 03:26:05 by Stephen Lendman
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David Sanger's War on Iran by Stephen Lendman Sanger is New York Times chief Washington correspondent. Previously he held other posts. He's reported on foreign policy, globalization, Asian issues, and nuclear-related ones. Cooperatively with other Times correspondents, he won two Pulitzer Prizes. Its board might consider retracting them. After Obama's 2009 inaugural address, his characterization of the new president was dishonest and delusional. He called his new administration "a stark repudiation of the era of George W. Bush and the ideological certainties that surrounded it." His connection to Chicago politics and monied interests reflected otherwise. So did ...
In constitutional republics, presidents don’t have ‘kill lists’
Post Date: 2012-06-08 05:53:59 by Ada
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Washington routinely criticizes despotic regimes where officials exercise the power of life and death without restraint. President Barack Obama is such an official. The U.S. has been fighting the “war on terrorism” for more than a decade. Washington has turned targeted killing — or assassination — into routine practice. The military deploys SEALs when the job needs to be close and personal, like killing Osama bin Laden. But drones are the preferred tool of choice. The administration claims to have recently used one to kill al-Qaida’s number two man, Abu Yahya al-Libi, in Pakistan. This new form of warfare raises fundamental questions for a constitutional ...
More Syrian Blood on Obama's Hands
Post Date: 2012-06-08 03:54:47 by Stephen Lendman
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More Syrian Blood on Obama's Hands by Stephen Lendman Morning headlines again falsely accused Assad of mass killings in Qubeir village in central Hama province. Houla-style slaughter was repeated. Reports said as many as 78 civilians were killed. Half were women and children. Around 35 members of one family were murdered in cold blood. Victims were shot at close range and/or stabbed. Some bodies were burned. Independent reports haven't explained what eventually will come out. Pro-Assad loyalists were targeted for assassination. At issue also is creating pretexts for Libyan-style intervention. Western-recruited death squads bear full responsibility. Syrian state TV said an ...
NATO air strike kills 18 civilians at Afghanistan wedding (They Hate Us Because were Free Alert)
Post Date: 2012-06-07 08:13:51 by tom007
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NATO air strike kills 18 civilians at Afghanistan wedding By The Guardian Wednesday, June 6, 2012 22:36 EDT Print Soldier in Afghanistan via AFP Topics: afghanistan ♦ taliban On a day of deadly violence that underlined the vulnerability of Afghans, , more than 30 civilians were killed by Taliban suicide attackers and a Nato air strike on Wednesday. Civilians are regular victims of the fighting that now affects most of Afghanistan, and last year a record number of innocent people were killed, according to UN data, but it is unusual for both parties in the conflict to exact such a toll within the span of a few hours. In the southern city of Kandahar, a bomber struck in a market ...
The myth of Mullah Omar
Post Date: 2012-06-07 07:06:55 by Ada
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Decade of war and a $10m bounty have only deepened the legend of the Taliban's secretive, one-eyed spiritual leader. Believed to be 52 years old now, Mullah Omar remains at large, and credible information about him is scarce [AFP] Kabul, Afghanistan - A decade of the US-led NATO war against the Afghan Taliban has done little to erode the influence of one of the movement's most powerful symbols: the one-eyed, deeply secretive spiritual leader, Mullah Omar. The killing of Osama bin Laden in May 2011 greatly undermined the global reach and reputation of al-Qaeda. Despite battlefield victories and a $10m reward, the same success has eluded allied forces in their hunt for the ...
Heated Anti-Assad Rhetoric Promotes War
Post Date: 2012-06-06 04:02:53 by Stephen Lendman
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Heated Anti-Assad Rhetoric Promotes War by Stephen Lendman Increasingly war looks likely. Earlier Obama said "the Assad regime must come to an end." In early June, White House press secretary Jay Carney said "bloody sectarian war will be diminished if Assad removes himself from power or is no longer in power." "It is essential that the world community come together and unify to pressure Assad and isolate Assad and help precipitate a situation where that political transition can take place." Hillary Clinton accused Russia of keeping Assad in power. Putin faces heavy pressure to bow to Western demands. Will he yield or hold firm? Moscow signed a Security ...
"Worst single day loss" by Americans - Taliban
Post Date: 2012-06-04 01:46:24 by Tatarewicz
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Full report on Khost operation: more than 100 American invading terrorists killed KHOST, Jun. 02 – More than 100 US invading terrorists and tens of their puppets were killed and wounded in the martyrdom operation hit Sahrah Bagh airbase in Khost province. According to the details, about 11 martyrdom-seeking heroes of Islamic Emirate, Shamsullah and Azimullah Khan coming from Paktia province, Muhammad Naeem, Atiqullah, Muhammad Yaqoob Ibrahimi, Karimullah and Sabeer residents of Ghazni province, Hafiz saifullah from Paktika province, Abdullah from Nangarhar and Abdurrahman from Logar province, stormed Sahra Bagh airfield in capital of Khost province, homes to hundreds of American ...
Iconic 'napalm girl' photo from the Vietnam War turns 40
Post Date: 2012-06-03 15:32:14 by Ferret
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TRANG BANG, Vietnam – In the picture, the girl will always be 9 years old and wailing "Too hot! Too hot!" as she runs down the road away from her burning Vietnamese village. She will always be naked after blobs of sticky napalm melted through her clothes and layers of skin like jellied lava. She will always be a victim without a name. It only took a second for Associated Press photographer Huynh Cong "Nick" Ut to snap the iconic black-and-white image 40 years ago. It communicated the horrors of the Vietnam War in a way words could never describe, helping to end one of the most divisive wars in American history. But beneath the photo lies a lesser-known story. ...
Opposing Doctrines: Putin v. Obama
Post Date: 2012-06-03 04:04:46 by Stephen Lendman
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Opposing Doctrines: Putin v. Obama One leader supports peace and stability. The other thrives on violence and wages imperial wars. One believes nation-state sovereignty is inviolable. The other endorses the divine right of intervention. One affirms UN Charter and other rule of law principles. The other discards them as quaint, old fashioned, and obstacles to achieving global dominance. Expect these doctrines to clash. Under Putin, Russia is back proud and reassertive. He's not about to roll over for America, Eurasian issues especially concern him. He wants Moscow's influenced increased, national sovereignty respected, and rule of law principles observed. The 1648 Treaty of ...
Russian Journalist Exposes Propaganda Lies about Houla Massacre
Post Date: 2012-06-03 03:34:58 by Stephen Lendman
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Russian Journalist Exposes Propaganda Lies about Houla Massacre by Stephen Lendman Going to war depends first on selling it. Gaining public support is vital. Previous articles discussed it. Walter Lippmann coined the phrase "manufacture of consent." Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky discussed the "propaganda model" in their book titled "Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media." Media scoundrels use it to manipulate and control public thinking and perceptions. News and information are filtered. Acceptable "residue" only is reported. Dissent is marginalized. Government and dominant private interests are prioritized. Michael ...
Romney Adviser Bolton Falsely Claims IAEA Is ‘Unambiguous’ That Iran Has A Nuke Weapons Program
Post Date: 2012-06-02 09:36:29 by Jethro Tull
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Romney Adviser Bolton Falsely Claims IAEA Is ‘Unambiguous’ That Iran Has A Nuke Weapons Program Mitt Romney adviser and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton is no stranger to hawkish rhetoric when it comes to Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program. In January he called for an outright war, telling Fox news “the better way to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons is to attack its nuclear weapons program directly” and, in February, he fanned the flames of war even further, saying, “I don’t think it’s in our interest to stay out” of a war between Israel and Iran.But while Bolton and his fellow hawks are welcome to assert ...
Risking Global War
Post Date: 2012-06-02 03:56:43 by Stephen Lendman
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Risking Global War by Stephen Lendman Tyranny and permanent wars define Obama's agenda. Since taking office, he exceeded the worst of George Bush. Much more ahead is coming. Ravaging humanity is policy. Foreign nations and America's homeland are targeted. Rule of law principles are ignored. Unchallenged dominance alone matters. Plans are to crush dissent and replace independent regimes with puppet ones. Subservience to Washington is demanded. Obama enforces these policies ruthlessly. Outliers aren't tolerated. Removing internal opposition and destroying one country after another are planned. Occupy Wall Street is targeted for elimination. Syria tops the queue abroad. Blame ...
Panetta: Pentagon to shift warships to Pacific
Post Date: 2012-06-01 23:23:46 by Phant2000
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SINGAPORE (AP) — The Pentagon will shift more Navy warships to the Asia-Pacific region over the next several years, and by 2020, about 60 percent of the fleet will be assigned there as part of a new strategy to increase U.S. presence in Asia, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Saturday. While noting it may take years to complete the transition, Panetta assured his audience at a security conference in Singapore that U.S. budget problems and cutbacks would not get in the way of changes. He said the Defense Department has money in the five-year budget plan to meet those goals. Speaking at the annual Shangri-La Dialogue conference, Panetta provided some of the first real details of the ...
A reminder about WikiLeaks As the risk intensifies that Assange may be prosecuted for his journalism, it is vital to remember what's at stake
Post Date: 2012-06-01 11:12:52 by tom007
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A reminder about WikiLeaks As the risk intensifies that Assange may be prosecuted for his journalism, it is vital to remember what's at stake By Glenn Greenwald more A reminder about WikiLeaksJulian Assange (Credit: AP/Lefteris Pitarakis) “Just in time to spoil the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the publication of the Pentagon Papers, the Obama Justice Department is trying to do what Richard Nixon couldn’t: indict a media organization. . . . Charging Julian Assange with ‘conspiracy to commit espionage’ would effectively be setting a precedent with a charge that more accurately could be characterized as ‘conspiracy to commit journalism‘” ...
Is America Addicted to War?
Post Date: 2012-06-01 10:25:36 by christine
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The United States started out as 13 small and vulnerable colonies clinging to the east coast of North America. Over the next century, those original 13 states expanded all the way across the continent, subjugating or exterminating the native population and wresting Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California from Mexico. It fought a bitter civil war, acquired a modest set of overseas colonies, and came late to both world wars. But since becoming a great power around 1900, it has fought nearly a dozen genuine wars and engaged in countless military interventions. COMMENTS (84) SHARE: Share on twitter Twitter Share on reddit Reddit Bookmark and Share More... Yet Americans think of themselves ...
The Oil Factor - Why are we in Afghanistan? O-I-L
Post Date: 2012-06-01 09:43:54 by christine
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