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Latest Articles: War, War, War
Tensions With Pakistan A New Excuse for Keeping Afghan War Going
Post Date: 2012-04-04 08:21:54 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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The Obama Administration’s strategy for the war in Afghanistan centers on a policy of securing an agreement with President Hamid Karzai to keep ground troops in the nation through 2024. At the same time, officials have to keep up the public pretense of an imminent drawdown. The excuses for the drawdown’s delay have usually been that the war is going too well or too poorly to change troop levels. The excuse now, it seems, is “anti-American” sentiment of Pakistan is making the withdrawal inconvenient. Pakistan has been keeping the border to Afghanistan closed since November in retaliation for a random (and still inexplicable) US attack on a pair of their military bases. ...
The Broken Window Fallacy
Post Date: 2012-04-03 19:45:12 by Esso
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America’s Communist System in Cuba
Post Date: 2012-04-03 16:27:27 by Ada
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A recent crime crackdown in China reminds us of why our American ancestors demanded the inclusion of the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eight Amendments to the Constitution. To enforce their crackdown, Chinese officials did the types of things that those four amendments to the U.S. Constitution prohibit. According to the New York Times, it was a “security apparatus run amok: framing victims, extracting confessions through torture, extorting business empires and visiting retribution on the political rivals…. In 10 months, 4,781 people were arrested….” People rounded up and accused of crimes were taken to military facilities, where military officials brutally tortured them ...
Every Empire Leaves Afghanistan
Post Date: 2012-04-03 08:07:09 by Tatarewicz
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Every Empire Leaves Afghanistan The only question is when. We say now. The U.S. occupation of Afghanistan will not last forever. All empires end up leaving. The question is: How long? The Obama Administration and NATO are seeking a treaty that would keep U.S. troops in Afghanistan indefinitely as "support." But a recent CBS/N.Y. Times poll found that 80% of the U.S. public wants all troops home by the end of 2014 or sooner (47% want all troops home sooner). There's a bill in the House of Representatives that would speed it up to RIGHT NOW. The bill has 70 cosponsors. Let's add 30 more. Afghanistan is the longest U.S. war ever. Even President George W. Bush ...
Friends of Syria Declare War on Assad
Post Date: 2012-04-03 04:09:56 by Stephen Lendman
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Friends of Syria Declare War on Assad by Stephen Lendman On April 1 in Istanbul, Washington-led rogue leaders discussed ways to destabilize and topple Assad. They recognized the violent Syrian National Council (SNC) as the "sole representative of the Syrian people." Doing so assures continued conflict, not peaceful resolution. Killer gangs were promised generous funding. They've already gotten plenty, as well as weapons, munitions, and training. Now they'll get more. Washington and rogue NATO partners plan conflict, not peace. They want Assad replaced by someone they control. Violence rages to achieve it. Expect lots more followed by war if current efforts fail. In ...
Army’s ‘chilling trend’ puts women at risk
Post Date: 2012-04-02 17:07:38 by christine
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The Army is pushing more women closer to the front lines and in closer contact with men even as the number of sexual attacks on female soldiers has surged during the past six years. Army figures show that reports of violent sex crimes have nearly doubled, from 665 in 2006 to 1,313 last year. Nearly all the victims were women. Most were young soldiers moving from one post to another, a time when they were most vulnerable, according to “Generating Health and Discipline in the Force,” a comprehensive study into the Army’s mind and body. “This chilling trend suggests that the increase in offenses going forward will likely continue unless directly mitigated by other ...
The View from Istanbul
Post Date: 2012-04-02 04:13:44 by Stephen Lendman
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The View from Istanbul by Stephen Lendman So-called "Friends of Syria" aren't at all friendly to most Syrians. Syrian National Council/Free Syrian Army hostility is visible in daily violence they commit. Backed by Washington, Britain, France, and other rogue NATO partners, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and perhaps other regional states supply powerful weapons and munitions to reign terror on ordinary civilians. They've also killed thousands of security forces. At issue isn't democracy or other high-sounding values. Anti-Assad nations don't tolerate them at home. They're never exported through subversion or barrel of a gun violence. Establishing another pro- Western ...
Obama's War on Iran
Post Date: 2012-04-02 03:38:51 by Stephen Lendman
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Obama's War on Iran by Stephen Lendman Washington's war on Iran includes cyber attacks, other sabotage, targeted assassinations, deadly explosions, sophisticated satellite, drone, and other type spying, bogus accusations, a virtual blockade, hostile saber rattling, multiple rounds of sanctions, and attempts to cripple its central bank and oil industry. Targeting its nuclear industry is a red herring. At issue is replacing an independent regime with a pro- Western one. All options are considered, including war. If others fail, expect it, perhaps with nuclear weapons targeting its underground facilities. The potential consequences are unthinkable. On March 17, the Belgium-based ...
Mossad Cutting Back on Covert Operations Inside Iran, Officials Say
Post Date: 2012-04-01 18:07:31 by tom007
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Mossad Cutting Back on Covert Operations Inside Iran, Officials Say Rate This Atta Kenare / AFP / Getty Images ed note–the day that Israel ‘cuts back’ on spying is the day that sharks become vegans. Although exactly what Israel is trying to achieve with a piece of prop like this is difficult to say, but at the very least it is designed to make Iran drop her guard. time.com Israel’s intelligence services have scaled back covert operations inside Iran, ratcheting down by “dozens of percent” in recent months secret efforts to disable or delay the enemy state’s nuclear program, senior Israeli security officials tell TIME. The reduction runs across a ...
Obama Plans Regime Change in Syria
Post Date: 2012-04-01 04:06:13 by Stephen Lendman
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Obama Plans Regime Change in Syria by Stephen Lendman International law prohibits interfering in the internal affairs of other states. For Washington, it's official policy. Post-9/11, multiples countries were targeted, including Iran and Syria. Regime change plans remain on track by any means, including war. If other methods fail against either or both countries, expect it. Actions against Iran so far stop short of generating violence. It's coming once Syria's resolved. The road to Tehran runs through Damascus. Since last March, Washington-orchestrated Western-led insurgency wracked the country. Libya's model was replicated. So far it's short of bombs away. Expect ...
Trayvon Martin shooting: It's not George Zimmerman crying for help on 911 recording, 2 experts say [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2012-04-01 01:00:01 by farmfriend
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Trayvon Martin shooting: It's not George Zimmerman crying for help on 911 recording, 2 experts say 5:38 p.m. EST, March 31, 2012| By Jeff Weiner, Orlando Sentinel As the Trayvon Martin controversy splinters into a debate about self-defense, a central question remains: Who was heard crying for help on a 911 call in the moments before the teen was shot? A leading expert in the field of forensic voice identification sought to answer that question by analyzing the recordings for the Orlando Sentinel. His result: It was not George Zimmerman who called for help. Tom Owen, forensic consultant for Owen Forensic Services LLC and chair emeritus for the American Board of Recorded Evidence, ...
Lawyer For Soldier Who Shot 17 Afghans Says The US Government Is Blocking His Investigation
Post Date: 2012-03-31 10:28:49 by tom007
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Lawyer For Soldier Who Shot 17 Afghans Says The US Government Is Blocking His Investigation Michael Kelley | Mar. 31, 2012, 9:15 AM | 74 | 5 inShare10 A A A Bales AP See Also Robert Bales Afghan Shooting Suspect Officially Charged With Premeditated Murder afghan elders Days Before The Massacre, Afghans Say US Troops Told Them They 'Would Pay' Robert Bales Sgt. Robert Bales' Wife Said She Doesn't Believe He Killed 17 People The lawyer of Robert Bales claims that U.S. authorities are blocking his ability to investigate the incident, as reported by Bill Rigby of Reuters. U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales has been officially charged with the premeditated murder of 17 ...
Imagining the Unthinkable
Post Date: 2012-03-31 03:58:20 by Stephen Lendman
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Imagining the Unthinkable by Stephen Lendman The combination of America's rage for war, its nuclear arsenal, and global delivery systems makes the unthinkable possible - nuclear war. On March 27, David Krieger and Daniel Ellsberg raised the possibility in their Christian Science Monitor article headlined, "For nuclear security beyond Seoul, eradicate land-based 'doomsday' missiles," saying: "America's 450 launch-ready land-based nuclear-armed ballistic missiles are the opposite of a deterrent to attack. In fact, their very deployment has the potential to launch World War III and precipitate human extinction – as a result of a false alarm. We’re ...
Afghan Victims Speak
Post Date: 2012-03-30 16:36:54 by randge
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'US alerted over Bales behaviour' By Yalda Hakim Dateline VJ & Presenter 28 March 2012 | 09:24:06 AM Afghan officials investigating the shooting of 17 civilians by US solder Robert Bales have told SBS Afghan guards alerted US forces about the unusual behaviour of a US soldier that night. SBS’s Dateline has uncovered more detail about what happened the night an American soldier allegedly went on a shooting rampage in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province earlier this month. Staff Sergeant Robert Bales is facing 17 counts of pre-meditated murder, along with a string of other charges, for the massacre of Afghan civilians in two villages in Panjwai District in the early hours ...
What's Next in Syria?
Post Date: 2012-03-30 04:06:14 by Stephen Lendman
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What's Next in Syria? by Stephen Lendman On March 27, Syria formally accepted Kofi Annan's six-point peace plan. His spokesman, Ahmad Fawzi said: "The Syrian government has written to the Joint Special Envoy Kofi Annan accepting his six-point plan, endorsed by the United Nations Security Council." "Mr Annan views this as an important initial step that could bring an end to the violence and the bloodshed, provide aid to the suffering, and create an environment conducive to a political dialogue that would fulfil the legitimate aspirations of the Syrian people." At the same time, the Western-backed Syrian National Council (SNC) rejected the plan. SNC member ...
Fragging in Afghanistan?
Post Date: 2012-03-29 03:40:14 by Stephen Lendman
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Fragging in Afghanistan? by Stephen Lendman If it's happening, it's not reported. Washington wants no mention or suggestion of what plagued Vietnam. More on that below. Writing about the Russian Revolution, Leon Trotsky said: "The moral condition of the army was hopeless. You might describe it by saying the army as an army no longer existed. Defeats, retreats, and the rottenness of the ruling class had utterly undermined the troops." War in Vietnam affected US soldiers that way. Until 1967, order was well maintained. After Tet in late January/February 1968, things changed. Mutinies forced the Pentagon to disguise them with language like "combat refusal." ...
War and Peace - one picture says it all
Post Date: 2012-03-28 21:08:06 by Jethro Tull
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Obama’s Foreign Policy Guru is a Neocon (Obama taking foreign policy advice from Republican neocon proving once again there is no difference between the two parties
Post Date: 2012-03-28 07:53:27 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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On the eve of the President’s last State of the Union speech the White House let it be known that a recent essay by Robert Kagan in The New Republic, which excerpted his book, The World America Made, had been sent to his national security staff for their perusal. As the President told reporters beforehand, Kagan’s thesis – that America is not in decline and must maintain its hegemonic stature in the world, or all is lost – was a major theme of his peroration: “The renewal of American leadership can be felt across the globe. From the coalitions we’ve built to secure nuclear materials, to the missions we’ve led against hunger and disease; from the blows ...
Washington Admits Aiding Syrian Opposition
Post Date: 2012-03-28 03:41:58 by Stephen Lendman
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Washington Admits Aiding Syrian Opposition On March 25, The New York Times headlined, "US and Turkey to Step Up 'Nonlethal' Aid to Rebels in Turkey," saying: Other US allies were urged to do the same. Insisting no weapons will be sent belies heavy Western and Israeli ones delivered through porous borders for months. They include powerful explosives, small arms, submachine guns, machine guns, sniper rifles, rocket and anti-tank grenade launchers, among others. They've been used to kill civilians and security forces, as well as destroy government facilities. Russia repeatedly denounces Washington's one-sided support while claiming peaceful resolution intentions. ...
Amazing Speech by a War Veteran
Post Date: 2012-03-27 01:28:21 by christine
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What Is Really Going On in Syria
Post Date: 2012-03-26 21:30:58 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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Syria's murky, multi-level conflict continues to grow worse. So does public confusion here in the west as the US, British and some European media keep depicting Syria's civil war as a simple passion play pitting the evil Asad regime in Damascus against mostly unarmed democratic protestors. We saw this same one-dimensional, deceptive reporting recently in Libya that was designed to support foreign intervention. It's as incomplete today about Syria as it was in Libya which, by the way, is turning into a dangerous mess. My assessment based on reliable primary sources in Washington, Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon: Support for the Asad family's Ba'ath regime, now in power for ...
Obama: Not Much Time Left for ‘Diplomatic Solution’ to Iran
Post Date: 2012-03-26 12:01:21 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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Speaking today in South Korea, President Obama warned that there was little time left to resolve the ongoing dispute with Iran through diplomacy, insisting that the “window is closing” for the Iranians. While the US and Israeli intelligence community have both agreed repeatedly that there is no Iranian nuclear weapons program, both President Obama and Israeli leaders have repeatedly threatened to attack Iran to “stop” that program, and Obama reiterated again that a military strike remains an “option.” “Time is short. Iran must act with the seriousness and sense of urgency that this moment demands,” Obama insisted. Though the exact timetable for an ...
Blowback from Libya
Post Date: 2012-03-26 07:12:09 by Tatarewicz
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“Soldiers Declare Coup in Mali,” declared a headline in the New York Times. Mali appeared to be done for. The foreign mercenaries who fought a nasty fight with Gaddafi against the rebels in Libya packed up and left when their paymaster took a bullet to the head. This is one of those unintended consequences caused by bombing other countries. The CIA refers to it as “blowback.” And they should know. The mercenaries were from the Tuareg tribe. Along with being a poor-selling Volkswagen, the Tuaregs are warlike nomads from the Sahara. They were a key component of Gaddafi’s army. After they lost the Libyan war to the U.S. Navy, they returned to Mali heavily ...
Israelis and Iranians Against War
Post Date: 2012-03-26 03:32:18 by Stephen Lendman
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Israelis and Iranians Against War by Stephen Lendman Israelis aren't all like Netanyahu and Knesset extremists like him. Most want peace, not war. On March 24, Haaretz headlined, "Hundreds of Israelis march in Tel Aviv to protest war with Iran," saying: A Ronny Edry/Michal Tamir "Israelis against a war with Iran" Facebook campaign linked anti-war Israeli and Iranian citizens. It inspired protesters after it went viral, saying: "The newspaper headlines tell the tale: The prime minister is trying to legitimize an Israeli attack on Iran, which is expected soon." Another post read: "Most of the Israeli public is opposed to an adventure of this sort ...
Robert Bales – Lone Nut or Scapegoat? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2012-03-26 02:18:31 by Original_Intent
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The murder of 17 Afghan civilians – most of them children – by staff sergeant Robert Bales may be far worse than we think at present. The semi-official story, as related by our compliant news media, is that a formerly model soldier went bananas under the pressure of war-related injuries, financial problems at home, and the all-purpose PTSD explanation for military misbehavior, whereupon he decided – at 3 am in the morning, after drinking with his army buddies – to walk the couple of miles to an Afghan village, shoot 16 people sleeping in their beds, pile the bodies atop a funeral pyre and set the whole thing alight. How did he get out of the base at 3 am unchallenged ...
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