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Latest Articles: War, War, War
New York Times Bashes Outspoken World Leaders
Post Date: 2011-10-07 04:29:27 by Stephen Lendman
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New York Times Bashes Outspoken World Leaders - by Stephen Lendman Few world leaders challenge US and Israeli crimes. Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan often assails Israel, including at a Pretoria, South Africa Turkish foreign policy conference. On October 5, Haaretz headlined, "Turkey PM: Israel a nuclear threat to Middle East," saying: On Wednesday, Erdogan called Israel "a threat to the Middle East region for having....nuclear weapon(s)." Israel's open secret has it one of eight known nuclear powers. In his 1997 book, "Open Secrets: Israeli Nuclear and Foreign Policies," Israel Shahak said that "Israel (is) clearly prepar(ing) itself to seek ...
Libyans Resist NATO's Killing Machine
Post Date: 2011-10-06 04:19:16 by Stephen Lendman
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Libyans Resist NATO's Killing Machine - by Stephen Lendman For over six and a half months, Libyans tied down the world's mightiest military force despite overwhelming odds against them and enormous loss of life and human suffering. Established in 1949, NATO was never a "military alliance for peace and security." It was for offense, not defense. Cold War hysteria was contrived to incite fear and assure an arms race for corporate dominance and enrichment. Twenty years after Soviet Russia dissolved, NATO interventions under US control threaten world peace and humanity, lurching from one war to another. Interdicting for corporate predators, it's a rogue killing ...
Poll: 1 in 3 vets sees Iraq, Afghan wars as wastes
Post Date: 2011-10-05 04:06:17 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON (AP) — One in three U.S. veterans of the post-Sept. 11 military believes the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were not worth fighting, and a majority think that after 10 years of combat America should be focusing less on foreign affairs and more on its own problems, according to an opinion survey released Wednesday. The findings highlight a dilemma for the Obama administration and Congress as they struggle to shrink the government's huge budget deficits and reconsider defense priorities while trying to keep public support for remaining involved in Iraq and Afghanistan for the longer term. Nearly 4,500 U.S. troops have died in Iraq and nearly 1,700 in Afghanistan. ...
Haqqani network denies killing Afghan peace envoy Rabbani
Post Date: 2011-10-03 03:51:02 by Tatarewicz
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A key leader of the Afghan militant group, the Haqqani network, has told the BBC it was not responsible for killing Burhanuddin Rabbani, the man overseeing Taliban peace talks. Afghan officials have blamed the Taliban-affiliated network for the suicide attack on Rabbani. Siraj Haqqani also told BBC Pashto his network was not linked to Pakistan's spy agency, the ISI. Mr Haqqani was giving an audio response to written questions from the BBC. Security considerations ruled out a face-to-face interview in which the answers could be challenged, but the BBC understands that the audio response is genuine. The questions were delivered through an intermediary, who returned with the audio ...
Assassination of Al Qaeda Leaders Designed to Keep Americans in the Dark
Post Date: 2011-10-02 12:07:18 by Southern Style
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Assassination of Al Qaeda Leaders Designed to Keep Americans in the Dark By Sherwood Ross Global Research, October 2, 2011 It is hardly surprising that President Obama ordered the assassinations of Osama bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki since the last thing he wants is to bring any leader of al-Qaeda to trial. If the U.S. wanted bin Laden to have his day in court it might have had the Navy Seals go against his lightly defended hideout with stun grenades or tear gas instead of launching a shoot-to-kill attack. As The New Yorker article "Getting bin Laden" of August 8 by reporter Nicholas Schmidle makes clear, the bin Laden slaying was a shoot-and-kill operation from the get-go and ...
Is the War on Terror a Hoax?
Post Date: 2011-10-01 17:49:32 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 ...
A trillion dollar war and even Saudi oil moves to increasingly to China rather than US
Post Date: 2011-10-01 07:49:12 by Tatarewicz
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On Tuesday, the United States demanded that Pakistan stop sending terrorists to attack U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, or we would think about not paying the $4.5 billion in military funding we give them every year. The Pakistan-based Haqqani network recently attacked the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan. This fighting force has links to the Pakistani intelligence agency. Admiral Mike Mullen called the Haqqani group a “veritable arm” of Pakistan's spy service. Of course, the United States has been bombing the Haqqani in Pakistan for five years using drones... Mullen simply stated what everyone in the theater of war has known for years: Pakistan's military is supporting the ...
The FBI again thwarts its own terror plot
Post Date: 2011-09-30 06:13:21 by Ada
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The FBI has received substantial criticism over the past decade -- much of it valid -- but nobody can deny its record of excellence in thwarting its own Terrorist plots. Time and again, the FBI concocts a Terrorist attack, infiltrates Muslim communities in order to find recruits, persuades them to perpetrate the attack, supplies them with the money, weapons and know-how they need to carry it out -- only to heroically jump in at the last moment, arrest the would-be perpetrators whom the FBI converted, and save a grateful nation from the plot manufactured by the FBI. Last year, the FBI subjected 19-year-old Somali-American Mohamed Osman Mohamud to months of encouragement, support and money ...
Plot to bomb Capitol with explosive-laden model planes foiled, FBI says
Post Date: 2011-09-29 00:52:50 by Ferret
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Rezwan Ferdaus was arrested in Massachusetts Wednesday, charged with plotting to kill US soldiers overseas as well as to attack the Pentagon and the US Capitol with explosives carried by remote control aircraft. This photo released by the US Attorney's Office shows a remote controlled model of the Navy's 1950s Sabre jet fighter that allegedly belonged to Rezwan Ferdaus, who was arrested Wednesday on charges of planning to fly explosive-packed, remote controlled airplanes into the Pentagon and the Capitol. Ferdaus also was charged with plotting to kill US soldiers overseas. Newscom An American Muslim acting as a lone-wolf jihadi, who thought he was working with Al Qaeda ...
Will China Inherit Afghanistan’s War?
Post Date: 2011-09-27 08:22:21 by Tatarewicz
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Sept. 26 – As the United States continues its preparations to exit Afghanistan, comments made by ex-U.S. forces suggest that an alternative power may have to step into their shoes. Stating recent attacks made by the mafia-styled Haqqani family, Marc Sageman, an ex-CIA officer who served in Pakistan has been quoted in the press as saying “Whoever is in power in Afghanistan will have to make a deal with the Haqqani’s. It won’t be us, we’re leaving and they know it.” That China and Pakistan enjoy strong diplomatic and economic relations is well known, as are the certainties of a U.S. pullout. But Pakistan, facing a choice between being overrun by Taliban, giving ...
Why al-Qaeda Won
Post Date: 2011-09-27 06:12:33 by Ada
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With the 10th anniversary of the crime that was 9/11, the question inevitably crops up: Who won, the United States or al-Qaeda? According to the politically correct answer, although al-Qaeda has been decimated, it has been a Pyrrhic victory for Washington. In defeating al-Qaeda, the U.S. government engaged in many unnecessary violations of human rights and due process that diminished America in the eyes of both its citizens and the world. Hardly anybody, whether on the left, the middle, or the right, dares to claim that al-Qaeda actually won. The reason is, most likely, the fear that such an assertion could be taken as legitimizing al-Qaeda’s reprehensible act. Yet, viewed with a ...
Afghan Guard kills US citizen at Kabul CIA base
Post Date: 2011-09-27 04:51:31 by Tatarewicz
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KABUL - An Afghan security guard employed by the U.S. Embassy opened fire inside a CIA office in Kabul on Sunday evening, killing an American contractor and injuring a second person, U.S. and Afghan officials said, in the second major breach of embassy security in two weeks. The killing adds to a sense of insecurity already heightened by a 20-hour siege of the diplomatic district in mid-September, and the assassination a week later of the top government peace envoy, former President Burhanuddin Rabbani. The CIA compound inside the Ariana hotel is one of the most heavily guarded in Kabul, and has been off-limits to the public -- along with the road that runs beside it -- for almost a ...
War on terror or war on freedom?
Post Date: 2011-09-26 17:14:01 by James Deffenbach
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A recent major investigative report by the Los Angeles Times sheds light on what all this "war on terror" is actually costing — and actually accomplishing. According to the report, "A decade after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, federal and state governments are spending about $75 billion a year on domestic security, setting up sophisticated radio networks, upgrading emergency medical response equipment, installing surveillance cameras and bombproof walls, and outfitting airport screeners to detect an ever-evolving list of mobile explosives. "But how effective has that 10-year spending spree been? "'The number of ...
Appalling Propaganda from Amy Goodman About Libya
Post Date: 2011-09-25 14:16:27 by Original_Intent
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Appalling Propaganda from Amy Goodman About LibyaWillyLoman Scott CreightonAmy Goodman of Democracy NOW! has become one of the most disingenuous news figures this country has to offer and that’s saying a lot because there are numbers of them. She is not worthy of your trust, she is not worth of your time, she is not worthy of your respect… anymore. Such a sad legacy she now leaves behind after a long and storied career as a dedicated teller of the truth in spite of the power aligned against her. For whatever reason, she has become just another presstitute in service of the globalists who are at this minute still attacking the people of Libya, still bombing them and their ...
Netanyahu and Obama Spurn Peace
Post Date: 2011-09-25 04:22:30 by Stephen Lendman
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Netanyahu and Obama Spurn Peace - by Stephen Lendman As a belligerent modern-day Sparta, Israel is a pariah state. Netanyahu exceeds the worst of Ariel Sharon. His government is Israel's worst ever. His majority Knesset allies are rogue, racist criminals, operating outside international law. His weak-kneed opposition goes along to get along. As a result, Palestinians suffer grievously. No relief whatever is in sight for them. Netanyahu's peace overtures hide his duplicitous intent to continue status quo injustice. America is a lawless global bully. The business of America is war. America wages permanent wars on humanity. Together, Obama and Netanyahu contemptuously intend to ...
Marines Hit the Ground Running in Seeking Recruits at Gay Center
Post Date: 2011-09-21 09:44:57 by Jethro Tull
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Marines Hit the Ground Running in Seeking Recruits at Gay CenterMichael Stravato for The New York TimesMaster Sgt. Anthony Henry, center, and Staff Sgt. Chris Cano told one prospective applicant she needed to lose weight. Published: September 20, 2011 TULSA, Okla. — Master Sgt. Anthony Henry, a top Marine recruiting trainer for the southwestern United States, pulled up to Tulsa’s biggest gay community center on Tuesday morning and left his Chevy where he could make a fast getaway. “I have an exit strategy,” he said. “I know where my choke points are, I’ve strategically parked my car right on the curbside, I have an out.” Related Out and Proud to ...
Missing from 9/11 anniversary coverage: crucial context and history
Post Date: 2011-09-21 06:39:43 by Ada
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By neglecting to mention the key U.S. role in supporting militant jihadists in their war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s, the press missed an opportunity to raise questions about blowback -- and about whether our actions in Afghanistan today will once again produce negative future consequences. The New York Times and The Washington Post, as well as other mainstream print and broadcast media, devoted lots of ink and airtime to stories commemorating the September 11, 2001, attacks on America. We looked over the Times’ and Post’s accounts carefully with the thought that they probably were as good as any the press had to offer. What we found was that they were ...
Obama Team Split Over Use of Lethal Force
Post Date: 2011-09-21 06:28:47 by Ada
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>i> The expansive targeting standards used in Afghanistan and Pakistan are being debated for use in Yemen, Somalia, and beyond The Obama administration’s legal team is split over whether it is permissible to assassinate the thousands of al-Qaeda-affiliated individuals in Yemen or Somalia, or whether lethal force must be reserved for self-defense against individuals known to be plotting against the United States. The legal basis of targeting groups or individuals with drone strikes, cruise missiles, or commando raids outside official war zones is the crux of the disagreement between the State Department and the Pentagon. The use of these lethal methods is without objection in ...
Former Afghan president killed by Taliban "peace" envoy with turban bomb
Post Date: 2011-09-21 02:18:44 by Tatarewicz
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KABUL - A suicide attacker with a bomb in his turban posed as a Taliban peace envoy and assassinated a former Afghan president who for the past year headed a government council seeking a political settlement with the insurgents. Tuesday's attack, carried out in former President Burhanuddin Rabbani's Kabul home, dealt a harsh blow to attempts at ending a decade of war. The killing of Rabbani, an ethnic Tajik and one of the wise old men of Afghan politics, will blunt efforts to keep in check the regional and ethnic rivalries that help feed the insurgency. President Hamid Karzai cut short a visit to the United Nations and called on Afghans to remain unified in the face of ...
Gaddafi forces claim to have captured 17 French, British and other "mercenaries."
Post Date: 2011-09-19 02:10:08 by Tatarewicz
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CAIRO - A spokesman for Muammar Gadhafi said on Sunday that 17 "mercenaries", including what he called French and British "technical experts" had been captured in the Gadhafi bastion of Bani Walid in Libya. "A group was captured in Bani Walid consisting of 17 mercenaries. They are technical experts and they include consultative officers," Moussa Ibrahim told Syrian-based Arrai TV. "Most of them are French, one of them is from an Asian country that has not been identified, two English people and one Qatari," he added. He said the 17 would be shown on television at a later time, but did not give more details. It was not immediately possible to ...
What's 9/11? [Over 90% of] Afghans never heard of NYC terror
Post Date: 2011-09-17 09:04:11 by TooConservative
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Poster Comment:These are the Pashtun tribesmen who are the primary recruits of the Taliban in fighting our troops. After 10 years, they still have no idea why our troops came to Af-Pak. Even the translators and police who work with us know almost nothing of 9/11 and what Bin Laden did. Holding elections and telling them to go back to their mud huts and caves and things will be wonderful is ridiculous. Can someone explain this whole nation building thing to me again? [I posted this over at LP, thought I'd share it here as well.]
Planned Peacekeeper Occupation of Libya
Post Date: 2011-09-17 04:33:40 by Stephen Lendman
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Planned Peacekeeper Occupation of Libya - by Stephen Lendman The peacekeepers are coming! The peacekeepers are coming! War, mass killing and destruction continue, but they're coming! In fact, paramilitaries are coming to kill and terrorize Libyans wanting liberation, not occupation. A blind eye won't notice mass rapes and sex trafficking, as well as other atrocities and crimes. They're commonplace, in fact, when Blue Helmets show up, operating as they please with impunity. More on that below. Moreover, when they come they don't leave as long as imperial powers want them there. Citizens of occupied countries have no say nor any rights. Their choice is obey or else. ...
America's Sham War on Terrorism
Post Date: 2011-09-16 11:49:30 by Ada
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Almost a decade after the 9/11 attacks, the war on terrorism continues chugging along. Despite the trillions of dollars that the U.S. government has spent supposedly in response to 9/11, few people have raised questions about the fundamental definition of what the United States is fighting. The U.S. government’s definition of terrorism almost guarantees that the so-called war on terrorism will be a failure — and will last forever. Federal agencies have an array of definitions for “terrorism”: The Defense Department defined terrorism as “the unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a revolutionary organization against individuals or property, with the ...
Stuck Pigs (and Presstitutes) Squeal
Post Date: 2011-09-16 06:39:39 by Ada
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As an economist I have never had much patience with Paul Krugman’s economics, stuck as he is in 1940s-era Keynesian demand-side economics. I have sometimes concluded that Krugman had rather denounce Ronald Reagan that to acknowledge that supply-side economists have established that fiscal policy has supply-side, not just demand-side, effects. However, Krugman does display at times a moral conscience. He did so on September 11 in his New York Times column, "The Years of Shame." Krugman wrote that 9/11 was hijacked by "fake heros" who used the event "to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight" and that "our professional pundits" lent ...
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