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Anti-Imperial Voices
Post Date: 2011-10-29 03:57:47 by Stephen Lendman
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Anti-Imperial Voices - by Stephen Lendman Last August, over 140 prominent Africans expressed opposition to NATO's imperial war against Libya. South African signatories to an open letter included former President Thabo Mbeki, former Intelligence Minister Ronnie Kasrils, former Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Aziz Pahad, and ANC National Executive Committee member Jesse Duarte. Their letter, in part, said: Africans have long "been subjected to the fury of war by foreign powers which have clearly repudiated the" UN Charter. Security Council Resolution 1973 resolved "to take all necessary measures....to protect civilians and civilian populated areas under threat of attack ...
Israeli prisoner swap may be prelude to attack on Iran
Post Date: 2011-10-28 19:16:30 by Jethro Tull
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JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to execute a 1,000-for-1 prisoner exchange last week despite his frequently voiced opposition to such lopsided deals is seen by several Israeli military commentators as an effort to “clear the deck” before possibly undertaking an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Amir Oren, the veteran military analyst for Ha'aretz newspaper, took note of Israel’s exchanging 1,027 Palestinian convicts for army Staff Sgt. Gilad Schalit, who had been captured by Hamas in 2006. Mr. Oren wrote that the price paid by Mr. Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak “can be interpreted only in a context that goes ...
Killing Gaddafi: Longstanding US Policy
Post Date: 2011-10-28 04:22:39 by Stephen Lendman
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Killing Gaddafi: Longstanding US Policy - by Stephen Lendman Absent reliable independent proof, some sources believe a double was killed, not Gaddafi. More on that below. Nonetheless, clear evidence shows Washington wanted him dead for years. On October 27, Algeria ISP headlined, "Libya - On what Sarkozy and Obama killed Gaddafi?" saying: "It's confirmed, Barack Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy have indeed ordered (Gaddafi's) assassination...." "According to Le Canard Enchaine (on October 26), the Americans had located (him) on October 19." Claude Angeli's article "is unambiguous." Titled "Gaddafi condemned to death by Washington and ...
U.N. Votes to End Foreign Intervention in Libya
Post Date: 2011-10-27 23:02:30 by Tatarewicz
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The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously on Thursday to end its authorization next Monday of the foreign military intervention in Libya, the legal basis for the NATO attacks on Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s forces during the eight-month civil war that toppled him from power. The council’s action, a week after Colonel Qaddafi was killed as he sought to escape his final refuge in Surt, his hometown, was not unexpected. But it came despite new worries in Libya that Colonel Qaddafi’s remaining loyalists might not be vanquished, and that they might regroup outside Libya to cause new trouble in the months ahead. Mustafa Abdel-Jalil, the leader of the interim Libyan ...
The US departure from Iraq is an illusion
Post Date: 2011-10-27 16:40:05 by christine
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Barack Obama has made good on one of his election promises, announcing: "After nearly nine years, America's war in Iraq will be over." The Iraqis' assertion of their sovereignty – meaning no legal immunity for US troops – was the deal-breaker, and 39,000 US soldiers will leave Iraq by the end of the year. Jonathan Steele wrote that the Iraq war was over and the US had learned "that putting western boots on the ground in a foreign war, particularly in a Muslim country, is madness". Yet this madness may continue in a different guise, as there is a huge gap between rhetoric and reality surrounding the US departure from Iraq. In fact, there are a number of ...
Why Libya Was Attacked
Post Date: 2011-10-27 04:35:04 by Stephen Lendman
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Why Libya Was Attacked - by Stephen Lendman Obama's March 28, 2011 address at the National Defense University was true to form. It reeked of duplicity, hypocrisy, and ball-faced lies, saying: "For generations, the United States of America has played a unique role as an anchor of global security and as an advocate for human freedom." "....(W)e are reluctant to use force to solve the world's many challenges." "But when our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act. That's what happened in Libya...." For decades, Libya was "ruled by a tyrant....He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered ...
US's most powerful nuclear bomb being dismantled
Post Date: 2011-10-26 08:20:33 by Tatarewicz
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AMARILLO, Texas (AP) — The last of the nation's most powerful nuclear bombs — a weapon hundreds of times stronger than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima — is being disassembled nearly half a century after it was put into service at the height of the Cold War. The final components of the B53 bomb will be broken down Tuesday at the Pantex Plant near Amarillo, the nation's only nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly facility. The completion of the dismantling program is a year ahead of schedule, according to the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration, and aligns with President Barack Obama's goal of reducing the number of nuclear ...
The War on Terror is a Fraud A decade of war started, and both fueled & fought by the same corporate-financier interests.
Post Date: 2011-10-25 13:10:24 by christine
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From the beginning, even for those wanting to believe the fairy tale that 9/11 was carried out by cave dwellers carrying box cutters directed by Osama Bin Laden, who by all accounts was dying or already dead from kidney failure in 2001 - "unfortunate blunders" in US foreign policy can still be blamed for the creation and perpetuation of the ubiquitous, unceasing terror organization known as Al Qaeda. However, in light of recent events in Libya, Syria, Iran, and Algeria, there is exposed a truth, many have known for over 10 years, and many more are catching onto now - that the "War on Terror" is an absolute fraud, started, fueled and simultaneously fought against by the ...
What Next for Libya?
Post Date: 2011-10-25 04:30:35 by Stephen Lendman
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What Next for Libya? - by Stephen Lendman Jamahiriya loyalists hope he's alive, not dead. Either way, his bigger than life spirit inspires Libyans and others wanting freedom - not terror bombing, occupation, colonization, pillaging, exploitation, and misery. NATO's war on Libya is one of history's great crimes. Democratic values and truth never had a chance. Responsibility to protect duplicity terrorized and massacred civilians like crazed assassins. Terror bombing continues daily. So do unspeakable rebel rat atrocities and ravaging Libya's landscape. NATO is a rogue killing machine. Coalition partners are complicit in mass murder. Obama, Clinton and those around them ...
Gaddafi's son: Libia like McDonalds for NATO
Post Date: 2011-10-24 16:43:19 by Itistoolate
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Gaddafi's son: NATO's goal is to control Libya's wealth [1] Many thanks to Andie531 for posting these two videos. What an excellent combination! It isn’t just Libya’s black gold (oil) that the West wants, but Libya’s “blue gold” – that Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System, the only fresh water source of its kind that remains in North Africa and the Middle East, a region now experiencing a permanent drought. As famine sets in (famine has already begun in East Africa) that Libyan aquifer will become as valuable as gold. Two French water firms, the largest in the world (Veolia and Suez S.A.) want to own that aquifer, since they will make countless ...
Is the War on Terror a Hoax?
Post Date: 2011-10-23 09:44:44 by Ada
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In the past decade, Washington has killed, maimed, dislocated, and made widows and orphans millions of Muslims in six countries, all in the name of the "war on terror." Washington's attacks on the countries constitute naked aggression and impact primarily civilian populations and infrastructure and, thereby, constitute war crimes under law. Nazis were executed precisely for what Washington is doing today. Moreover the wars and military attacks have cost American taxpayers in out-of-pocket and already-incurred future costs at least $4,000 billion dollars – one third of the accumulated public debt – resulting in a US deficit crisis that threatens the social safety ...
Doubts About Gaddafi's Reported Assassination
Post Date: 2011-10-22 04:30:38 by Stephen Lendman
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Doubts About Gaddafi's Reported Assassination - by Stephen Lendman NATO, Washington, Western media, Qatar-controlled Al Jazeera, Saudi-controlled Al Arabia, UK- controlled BBC, and other mainstream sources reported his death. More on that below. On October 20, Mathaba.net disputed official accounts, saying: "Green Committees have confirmed that the leader is alive, and that the enemy is seeking to take advantage of his being currently out of communications." On October 21, Mathaba headlined, "Mainstream Media: 'Gaddafi Captured' - 'Gaddafi Dead;' But Yet Again No Proof Provided," saying: After its fake Tripoli liberation report was exposed, it ...
$1 billion, one dictator
Post Date: 2011-10-22 02:52:37 by Tatarewicz
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Call him the billion-dollar man. One billion for one dictator. According to the Pentagon, that was the cost to U.S. taxpayers for Muammar el-Qaddafi's head: $1.1 billion through September, the latest figure just out of the Defense Department. And that's just for the Americans. The final totals will take some time to add up, and still do not include the State Department, CIA, and other agencies involved or other NATO and participating countries. Vice President Joe Biden said that the U.S. "spent $2 billion total and didn't lose a single life." NATO does not track the operational costs to each member country, but the funds directly taken from a common NATO account for ...
Barry Sotoro pulls out troops from Iraq and gears up for war with Iran
Post Date: 2011-10-21 21:30:20 by Itistoolate
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Defense Department Announces latest Contract Awards Mon Oct 10, 2011 08:14 Cardinal Scientific, Inc., Waldorf, Md., was awarded a $26,021,599 firm-fixed-price contract. The award will provide for the procurement of a maximum of 3,200 dismounted improvised explosive device grappling hooks. Work will be performed in Waldorf, Md., with an estimated completion date of Sept. 21, 2013. The bid was solicited through the Internet, with two bids received. The U.S. Army Contracting Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., is the contracting activity (W91CRB-11-D-0020). BAE Systems, York, Pa., was awarded a $25,503,762 firm-fixed-price contract. The award will provide for the reset of 79 M1064A3s; ...
Gaddafi: Dead or Alive?
Post Date: 2011-10-21 04:29:12 by Stephen Lendman
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Gaddafi: Dead or Alive? - by Stephen Lendman Either way he became a legend in his own time. Thursday on the Progressive Radio News Hour, James Petras reported information he received from a reliable Argentina source saying he's dead. If so, he explained, he'll be Africa's greatest martyr since Congo's Patrice Lumumba. After leading its independence struggle successfully in June 1960, a CIA coup ousted him 10 weeks later. Joseph Mobutu replaced him, renaming the country Zaire. Looting billions until his 1997 removal, he ran it like a kleptocracy. January 17, 2011 marked the 50th anniversary of Lumumba's late night firing squad assassination. Belgium and Washington ...
An Army of Ignorance
Post Date: 2011-10-20 16:28:09 by Lysander_Spooner
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Hillary Clinton in Tripoli
Post Date: 2011-10-20 03:18:46 by Stephen Lendman
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Hillary Clinton in Tripoli - by Stephen Lendman Obama is an unindicted war criminal. So is Clinton. More on her staged photo-op theater below. On October 18, NATO deputy spokesperson Carmen Romero said: "We are very close to (ending the Libya operation), but there are still threats to the civilian population and as long as these threats persist we will continue" the campaign. Fact check Libya's only threat is NATO's presence with its army of paid mercenaries. The country was mostly calm and peaceful until terror bombing began on March 19. It's been ongoing daily for seven months. Widespread areas have been ravaged. Tens of thousands have been killed, many more ...
Iraq's Sadr calls for full US withdrawal
Post Date: 2011-10-19 23:24:35 by Tatarewicz
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Head of Iraq's Sadr movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, has called for the complete withdrawal of all American troops from the country by the end of the year. Speaking in the holy city of Najaf on Wednesday, the cleric rejected any form of US presence in the country, as Washington and Baghdad are discussing keeping a limited number of US troops as military trainers in Iraq. Sadr said the presence of US military trainers in Iraq beyond the Dec. 31 deadline is an ''organized occupation''. He also dismissed any negotiation with the US before the full withdrawal of all foreign soldiers and the payment of compensation to the families of Iraqis killed by US troops. Washington has ...
US 'to announce full withdrawal of troops from Iraq'
Post Date: 2011-10-19 23:02:31 by Tatarewicz
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Washington is all but certain to abandon plans to keep several thousand US troops in Iraq beyond the end of the year, terminating its deployment nearly nine years after the invasion to topple Saddam Hussein. US soldiers and Iraqi police carry out their last patrol along the streets of Khan Bani Saad: Iraqis to celebrate withdrawal of US troops Senior administration and Pentagon officials are now reportedly resigned to the fact that all remaining American troops will leave Iraq except for about 160 soldiers attached to the US embassy Despite ongoing concerns about the ability of Iraq's security forces to prevent renewed instability and violence, the Obama administration has according ...
Obama's Imperial Arrogance
Post Date: 2011-10-19 04:28:05 by Stephen Lendman
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Obama's Imperial Arrogance - by Stephen Lendman Candidate Obama promised peace. As president, he double downed Bush and then some, waging multiple direct and proxy wars. The business of America is war. Washington has a permanent war policy. Republicans and Democrats perpetuate it. Obama's latest mission adds another to dozens of similar ones ongoing globally. On October 14, New York Times writers Thom Shanker and Rick Gladstone headlined, "Armed US Advisors to Help Fight African Renegade Group," saying: Obama ordered "100 armed military advisers to central Africa to help regional forces combat the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a notorious renegade group that ...
Major Media Liars Never Quit
Post Date: 2011-10-19 04:09:58 by Stephen Lendman
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Major Media Liars Never Quit - by Stephen Lendman Whenever major media Libya reports appear, truth is distorted, manipulated and falsified. For seven months, despite daily terror bombing and ground attacks, courageous loyalists bested the ferocity of NATO and its rebel army. As a result, they control most of Tripoli, Benghazi and other cities across the country. Fighting, however, still rages. Loyalists are holding their own. They're determined to liberate Libya, live free and rebuild. NATO ravaged widespread areas, willfully targeting civilians and sites unrelated to military necessity. They include hospitals, schools, residential neighborhoods, and at times anything that moves. ...
Ever consider this?
Post Date: 2011-10-18 20:54:53 by Itistoolate
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Obama starts a war with Iran, no one wants to change horses in the middle of a race.
Get Ready For Another Big Zionist Jew War
Post Date: 2011-10-18 19:45:17 by X-15
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LAST WEEK’S PHONY “terrorist assassination” plot “uncovered” by the FBI (more like instigated) — where a greedy and foolish Iranian expat was lured into talking big to an undercover Fed in a Mexican drug cartel — is now coming apart at the seams, as everybody and his brother are expressing serious doubt about this latest bit of ZOG bull. Note how the Zio media whores are still spewing over the airways that it was an act of war by the Iranian leadership — also secretly building nuclear weapons so they can go nutso and terror bomb the Big Satan (US) and the little Satan (Israel) simply because they hate our democratic freedoms and sexed-up lifestyles ...
War Widow Blames VA Neglect for her Husband's Suicide ["Collateral Damage" ALERT]
Post Date: 2011-10-18 10:59:22 by Eric Stratton
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War Widow Blames VA Neglect for her Husband's Suicide By IULIA FILIPGREENEVILLE, Tenn. (CN) - Neglect and unreasonable demands from the Veterans Administration caused another Iraq war veteran to kill himself, his widow claims in Federal Court. She says that despite a doctor's "clear diagnosis" of post-traumatic stress disorder, from roadside bombs, including one that killed 93 people, the VA refused to admit he suffered from PTSD, with excuses such as "the diagnosis 'does not specify which Diagnostic and Statistical Manual was used'"; and that he "'failed to provide dates of the incidents or names of any ...
Why U.S. military in Uganda? Soros fingerprints all over it! Obama’s billionaire friend has interests in African country’s oil
Post Date: 2011-10-17 21:25:50 by Jethro Tull
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Why U.S. military in Uganda? Soros fingerprints all over it! Obama57;s billionaire friend has interests in African country57;s oilPosted on October 15, 2011 at 1:50 PM EST By Aaron Klein TEL AVIV 52; An influential 60;crisis management organization61; that boasts billionaire George Soros as a member of its executive board recently recommended the U.S. deploy a special advisory military team to Uganda to help with operations and run an intelligence platform. The president-emeritus of that organization, the International Crisis Group, is the principal author of Responsibility to Protect, the military doctrine used by Obama to justify the U.S.-led NATO campaign in Libya. Soros’ own ...
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