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Latest Articles: War, War, War
An Unlikely Ally
Post Date: 2012-03-25 17:22:42 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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It’s unlikely that anyone would confuse Pat Robertson with Walter Cronkite. While both are known as broadcasters, Robertson — an evangelical Christian and host of The 700 Club on the Christian Broadcasting Network — is a controversial commentator in the conservative religious right. Cronkite, during his stint as anchor for the CBS Evening News, had such a reputation for political impartiality that he was called “the most trusted man in America.” The story goes that Cronkite was so well trusted by his audience, the largest network news audience at the time, that when he did a commentary against the Vietnam War, then-president Lyndon Johnson reportedly turned to an ...
Afghanistan Crimes: Absolving Higher-Ups
Post Date: 2012-03-25 04:12:12 by Stephen Lendman
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Afghanistan Crimes: Absolving Higher-Ups by Stephen Lendman Murder anywhere is bad enough. Nuremberg chief prosecutor Robert Jackson called preemptive aggressive war killing "the supreme international crime against peace." Convicted Nazi war criminals were hanged. American ones keep killing with impunity. On March 11, up to 20 US Special Forces (trained killers) murdered 16 Afghan civilians, including nine children aged 2 - 12 while they slept. Two women were also raped before soldiers killed them. Bodies of all victims were then burned to conceal evidence. It wasn't an isolated incident. It happens regularly in all US wars. Rarely is anyone held accountable, especially ...
No Letup in Western-Backed Syrian Violence
Post Date: 2012-03-25 03:43:52 by Stephen Lendman
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No Letup in Western-Backed Syrian Violence by Stephen Lendman Washington's dirty hands control anti-Assad violence. At issue is longstanding policy to install a pro- Western regime. All means are used to do it, including war if others fail. As a result, the Syrian pot keeps boiling. Assad's obligated to confront it. Syrians rely on him, yet he's blamed for doing his job. Besides heavily armed killer gangs, US, UK, French, and perhaps other NATO Special Forces operate in Syria covertly. They've done so for months the same way as last year in Libya. Nonetheless, NATO secretary-general Anders Fog Rasmussen audaciously claimed intervention in Syrian affairs isn't ...
Heading for Inevitable Disaster
Post Date: 2012-03-24 03:58:23 by Stephen Lendman
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Heading for Inevitable Disaster by Stephen Lendman In 1959, Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz liberated Cuba from imperial America, police state rule, and mafia bosses who turned the nation into a casino and brothel. Cubans may want change, but won't tolerate recolonization under puppets serving Washington's interests. On August 13, Fidel turns 86. After leading Cuba for decades, surviving hundreds of US attempts to kill him, a punishing embargo, and numerous other hostile acts, illness forced him to step down in December 2008. It didn't slow his determination to speak and write vital truths, especially on issues of war and peace. Like others, including this writer, he ...
Keeping the Syrian Pot Boiling
Post Date: 2012-03-24 03:31:56 by Stephen Lendman
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Keeping the Syrian Pot Boiling by Stephen Lendman The ink's barely dry on the March 21 Security Council Presidential Statement. It called on both sides "to bring an immediate end to all violence" and engage in conflict resolution diplomacy. Nonetheless, Western-backed killer gangs keep attacking civilians and Syrian forces. According to Reuters: Clashes continue. At least 40 died. The Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (SOHR) isn't sure who's responsible but implies Assad. A pro-Western front group, its spurious accounts lack credibility. Independent observers called past reports propaganda, not truth and full disclosure. Critics denounce its pro-Western ...
Tortured Justice Part Two
Post Date: 2012-03-23 18:20:04 by tom007
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Tortured Justice Bahrain’s leaders talk a good game about reform, but protesters in the streets still face unremitting brutality. BY BRIAN DOOLEY | MARCH 22, 2012 For many in Bahrain, talk of reform and a commitment to changing the government from within sounds absurd. For them, police behavior appears not to have changed at all, except that officers have sometimes taken the torture out of the police stations and into other buildings -- although even that is not a hard and fast rule. One 16 year-old boy told me how he and his friends were arrested in mid-February and beaten for several days in the Naim Police Station, north of Manama. Meanwhile, the government is still vigorously ...
Tortured Justice Bahrain’s leaders talk a good game about reform, but protesters in the streets still face unremitting brutality. (Our Ally)
Post Date: 2012-03-23 18:18:41 by tom007
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Tortured Justice Bahrain’s leaders talk a good game about reform, but protesters in the streets still face unremitting brutality. BY BRIAN DOOLEY | MARCH 22, 2012 MANAMA, Bahrain – In a house at the end of a maze of narrow streets, I sat listening to a dozen young men as they described their close encounters with the full force of Bahrain's government crackdown. We were in one of the poor, Shiite villages scattered across the country, which have remained hotbeds for revolt despite the government's persistent attempts to suppress the uprising that began last year. COMMENTS (10) SHARE: Twitter Reddit Buzz Bookmark and Share More... The boys wore an assortment of soccer ...
No Coincidence: Republicans Pushing For War With Iran Are Big Oil’s Best Friends
Post Date: 2012-03-23 15:39:44 by tom007
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No Coincidence: Republicans Pushing For War With Iran Are Big Oil’s Best Friends By: RmuseMarch 22, 2012see more posts by Rmuse 5 24digg 737Share 116tweetsTOP1Kretweet This country has always been a loyal supporter of its allies and throughout our history, for better or worse, American military might has been necessary to protect is friends and it is one way this country is exceptional. Americans are generally a peace-loving people who only engaged in military conflict as a last resort to defend the country’s national interests or to defend our allies from an aggressor. After over ten years of war in the Middle East, the population is weary of the loss of life and expense wasted ...
Worrisome Security Council Presidential Statement on Syria
Post Date: 2012-03-23 03:57:11 by Stephen Lendman
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Worrisome Security Council Presidential Statement on Syria by Stephen Lendman After months of internal wrangling, Security Council members unanimously endorsed efforts to end Syrian violence. Or did they? More on that below. Presidential statements are non-binding. However, with vague language, they risk potential slippery slope trouble. More on that below as well. Media reports called unanimity a setback for Assad. The statement's also characterized as "Western." Hillary Clinton called it "a positive step. The council has now spoken with one voice." She also said Washington is working with Syria's opposition "to strengthen its preparation to ...
Why Are We Still in Afghanistan?
Post Date: 2012-03-22 20:01:30 by ndcorup
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> Why Are We Still in Afghanistan?By Ed Koch March 20, 2012 There is no rational reason for us to be in Afghanistan. Our original goals were to end the government of the Taliban which had given Osama bin Laden a base from which he could launch worldwide terrorist attacks and commit his greatest horror and catastrophe: the blowing up of the World Trade Center towers in New York City and the killing of near 3,000 innocent civilians. As a result of the valor of our troops and the ability of the U.S. military leadership, we have driven the Taliban from its former role in the government of Afghanistan and not long ago, our special forces in a heroic and masterful raid into ...
Bales to be charged with murder in Afghan killings
Post Date: 2012-03-22 19:48:56 by Phant2000
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales will be charged with 17 counts of murder, assault and a string of other offenses in the massacre of Afghan villagers as they slept, a U.S. official said. The charges signed against Bales include 17 counts of murder, six counts of attempted murder and six counts of aggravated assault as well as dereliction of duty and other violations of military law, the official said on condition of anonymity because the charges had not been announced. The 38-year-old soldier and father of two who lives in Lake Tapps, Wash., will be charged with going on a shooting rampage in two villages near his Southern Afghanistan military post in the early hours of ...
Perils of Attacking Iran
Post Date: 2012-03-22 03:59:00 by Stephen Lendman
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Perils of Attacking Iran by Stephen Lendman In mid-April, Istanbul or Geneva will host nuclear talks with Iran. America, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany will attend. Russian Foreign Secretary Sergei Lavrov calls them a "last chance" to avoid war. Russian diplomats and independent observers expect it after talks designed to fail. Some believe launching it prevents or delays attacking Syria. Al Quds al Arabi editor Abdel Bari Atwan told Russia Today he expects a package war against Iran, Syria and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Perhaps also against Hamas. At issue is when. Washington wants it after November's elections. Israel wants it sooner. On March 21, former Mossad ...
New York Times Promotes War on Syria and Iran
Post Date: 2012-03-22 03:35:57 by Stephen Lendman
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New York Times Promotes War on Syria and Iran by Stephen Lendman As America's leading broadsheet, what it reports matters, especially on war and peace. Instead of accuracy, full disclosure, and supporting right over wrong, The Times consistently cheerleads US wars and prospective ones. Enemies are vilified. Rule of law principles don't matter, nor do decades of crimes of war and against humanity, as well as millions of lost lives in the last decade alone. In June 1950, The Times called Truman's war on North Korea the right decision, even though Pyongyang responded defensively to repeated South Korean cross-border incursions. IF Stone's "Hidden History of the ...
CFR President Admits Wars of Agenda To Serve "...Global Order"
Post Date: 2012-03-21 19:45:14 by christine
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Drugs, Guns and Nukes: Iran as the New 'Dope, Incorporated'
Post Date: 2012-03-21 15:24:39 by Jethro Tull
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How many memes does it take to stitch-up a war? As Israel, the United States and their NATO allies set their sights on the "prize," Iran's vast petrochemical wealth, multiple themes have been floated by corporate media to make the case for war. Since the 1980s, nuclear proliferation, terrorism and now, according to the Treasury Department, Iran's alleged links to global narcotrafficking networks have all been evoked as clarion calls for "regime change." It would serve us well however, to explore the recent history of the secret state's reliance upon the illicit trade and how such dalliances advance America's wider geopolitical goals. Contras and ...
This Is How The President Will Sell A War With Iran To The American People
Post Date: 2012-03-21 10:44:17 by tom007
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This Is How The President Will Sell A War With Iran To The American People Micah Zenko, Council on Foreign Relations | Mar. 20, 2012, 6:21 PM | 5,735 | 47 A A A inShare3 obama desk oval office Official White House Photo by Pete Souza Micah Zenko URL Micah Zenko is a Fellow for Conflict Prevention. Recent Posts The Line Between The Pentagon And The CIA Is Getting Pretty Blurry See Also india-us-america-obama-manmohan-singh The US Could Impose Sanctions On India If It Doesn't Cut Iranian Oil Imports CARTOONS: America Is Losing Control In The Middle East CARTOONS: America Is Losing Control In The Middle East So Far Obama's Big-Money Donations Are Less Than Half Of What They ...
You Call This a War? I’ll Show You a War
Post Date: 2012-03-21 08:43:59 by Ada
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In light of Obama’s “National Defense Resources Preparedness” Order, I’d like to comment on a troubling trend I’ve seen in American discourse about war since 9/11. From left to right, it was often said that the U.S. government’s interventions abroad as well as its activities at home did not rise to the level of drama and seriousness that typified previous U.S. wars. In particular, World War II has been brought up time and again as a model of which the current militarism has fallen far short. This observation has generally been given with the observer demonstrating palpable lament if not nostalgia. The conservative hawks took up the call most loudly, at times ...
Obama’s Afghanistan Massacre Deniers
Post Date: 2012-03-21 08:11:00 by Ada
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Why do liberals ignore millions of non-American war deaths? Army Staff Sgt. Robert BalesU.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales’ suspected early March murder of 16 Afghan civilians is cast by the military-industrial-congressional-media complex as the isolated madness of a single American soldier. In fact, victims in the village of Kandahar are just the latest among six million who have perished in America's wars-of-choice in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and now the Central Asian graveyard of empires, Afghanistan. That sobering estimate of death comes from John Tirman, executive director of the MIT Center for International Studies, and author of The Deaths of Others: The Fate of Civilians in ...
'Massacre could force US out from Afghanistan in weeks'
Post Date: 2012-03-21 04:17:07 by Tatarewicz
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Speaking to CNN recently, retired Major General James A. Marks, the senior intelligence officer during the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, said that the fallout from last weekend's massacre could force a withdrawal from Afghanistan in a matter of weeks. "It's not inconceivable that that could happen," Marks said, noting that Afghan President Hamid Karzai's demand for occupation troops to remain confined to bases could dramatically change the mission. Karzai demanded NATO confine its troops on Thursday, during a meeting with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. Panetta has been among the officials who insist that there will be no policy changes because of the massacre. ...
Stepped-Up Pressure on Assad
Post Date: 2012-03-21 04:00:40 by Stephen Lendman
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Stepped-Up Pressure on Assad by Stephen Lendman Last weekend's anti-Assad Damascus and Aleppo terrorist violence reflects Washington's violent pursuit of regime change. Peaceful resolution efforts are subverted. Obama's waging undeclared war. On March 19, Iran's Russian ambassador, Mahmoud Reza Sajjadi, explained US-style democracy, saying: "There were the first signs that American democracy had come to Damascus (and Aleppo). We saw American puppets’ attempt to establish democracy in Syria by exploding (bombs) in Damascus (and Aleppo)." Dozens died. Many others were injured. Calling Washington's regional allies "reactionary Arab regimes," he ...
US Afghan Detainees Sent to Torture Prisons
Post Date: 2012-03-20 13:15:34 by Stephen Lendman
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US Afghan Detainees Sent to Torture Prisons by Stephen Lendman Post-9/11, torture became official US policy. Bush officials mandated it. Obama continues it in US overseas prisons and foreign ones, including in Afghanistan. Even the Army Times noticed. On March 18, it headlined "US sent detainees to banned prisons," saying: A report by two human rights groups revealed the practice continues "despite an announced moratorium on such moves." More on their report below. The New York Times also covered the story in an article headlined, "Groups Report on the Continued Transfer of Detainees to Afghan Prisons," saying: Following months of investigations, evidence ...
Afghan shooting suspect "doesn't remember" incident: lawyer
Post Date: 2012-03-20 09:05:17 by Phant2000
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LANSING, Kansas (Reuters) - The U.S. soldier implicated in the massacre of 16 villagers in Afghanistan "doesn't remember" the incident, his lawyer said on Monday after their first face-to-face meeting in a military detention center in Kansas. "He doesn't remember everything about the evening in question," attorney John Henry Browne told reporters outside his hotel in Lansing, Kansas, on Monday evening, after meeting with U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales. "That doesn't mean he has amnesia. There are a lot of other options." Browne met Bales at the center at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where Bales has been in solitary confinement since arriving ...
America and Israel: Modern Day Spartas
Post Date: 2012-03-20 04:07:00 by Stephen Lendman
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America and Israel: Modern Day Spartas by Stephen Lendman America and Israel live by the sword. One day they'll perish by it. The more belligerence they pursue, the more enemies they make. They also lose influence. Eventually homeland support will erode, decay, and fade. What can't go on forever, won't. Neither nation understands in their rage to fight enemies they invent because real ones don't exist. The strategy's doomed, but how much more death, destruction, and human misery will occur first. The thought's chilling and appalling. Both nations are sham democracies. They tolerate none at home or abroad. How can they when wars define their existence. ...
Asking the Wrong Questions About War
Post Date: 2012-03-20 03:44:41 by Stephen Lendman
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Asking the Wrong Questions About War by Stephen Lendman Former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller now writes Times op-eds on alternate Mondays, as well as articles for The New York Times Magazine. Too bad his columns get failing grades. Scoundrel journalism is featured. Truth and full disclosure are excluded. His March 18 article is typical. Headlined, "Falling In and Out of War," it began well. He admitted he's been wrong on war and wants "to avoid repeating the mistake." To his credit, he also said "it's immeasurably more true for those in a position to actually start a war." He stopped short of explaining the vital role media scoundrels ...
Kandahar massacre revenge for attack on US troops: Afghan report
Post Date: 2012-03-19 05:58:24 by Tatarewicz
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Staff Sgt. Robert Bales (L), one of the soldiers accused of involvement in the recent massacre of Afghan civilians, at the National Training Center in Fort Irwin, California, August 23, 2011 Sun Mar 18, 2012 6:11AM GMT An Afghan parliamentary investigation team says the massacre of at least 16 civilians by American soldiers in Kandahar province was planned in retaliation for an earlier attack on US forces. The head of the Afghan parliamentary investigation, Sayed Ishaq Gillani, said the locals suspect that the slaughter of the Afghan civilians was carried out in revenge for an attack which destroyed an American tank last week. Earlier on Monday, the Afghan tribal leaders of Kandahar ...
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