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Pack Journalism Anti-Gaddafi Propaganda
Post Date: 2011-07-02 05:03:42 by Stephen Lendman
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Pack Journalism Anti-Gaddafi Propaganda - by Stephen Lendman Western media, especially America's, mostly ignore multiple Obama wars (including against Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia), focusing mainly on promoting terror bombing Libya, slaughtering civilians to save them. Ongoing since March 19, killing and destruction continue daily. NATO's second in command, US Admiral Samuel Locklear, told Congress that Washington wants Gaddafi assassinated. Earlier, one of his sons and three grandchildren were murdered, as well as around 40 Libyan imans, attending a peace conference to end the carnage. Ruthlessly, Obama, the peace candidate, wants it continued, claiming lawless executive privilege ...
US Still Flying ‘Hundreds’ of Strike Missions Against Libya
Post Date: 2011-07-02 01:26:38 by Tatarewicz
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President Obama’s claims that the United States is not engaged in hostilities against Libya are centered around the premise that they are purely providing “support” for the British and French attacks, and that as such they are not a direct combatant. This claim is entirely untrue, however, as a spokeswoman for US African Command (AFRICOM) confirmed today. Rather, the US has flown 801 attack sorties, and actually dropped bombs on Libya in 132 cases after the president claimed the support role began. Of course it was widely known that the US was still launching some strikes against Libya, particularly as war enthusiasts railed at an authorization bill that failed to provide ...
Pakistan orders US drones out of base
Post Date: 2011-06-30 05:44:03 by Tatarewicz
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The latest blow against America’s overseas drone operations comes out of Pakistan today, where the country’s defence minister told reporters that he has ordered US forces to vacate the Shamsi air base. "We have told them to leave,” Defence Minister Ahmed Mukhtar was quoted as saying by the Associated Press out of Pakistan. Tensions have been high since the US carried out a clandestine raid on the Abbottabad compound belonging to Osama bin Laden in May and drone strikes on alleged insurgents operating in Pakistan continue to take the lives of civilians. The CIA has reportedly been using the Shamsi station as a base for its robotic drone aircrafts, but this week US ...
Graveyard of Empires
Post Date: 2011-06-29 06:47:33 by Ada
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In his majestic poem "Recessional," Rudyard Kipling was writing of the fading British Empire, but his words are as vivid and pertinent today as a century ago: Far-called our navies melt away – On dune and headland sinks the fire – Lo, all our pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh and Tyre! The objective of war is to achieve political objectives, not to kill enemies. Politically, the US has achieved nothing in Afghanistan after ten years of desultory, destruction, and titanic expenditure. So in this sense, the United States has already lost the Afghan conflict, its longest war. Militarily its forces have been stalemated, meaning that it has lost the all-important ...
The Business of America Is War
Post Date: 2011-06-29 04:38:43 by Stephen Lendman
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The Business of America is War - by Stephen Lendman Noted trends analyst Gerald Celente said it, and it's true. In fact, America's business is war, more war, multiple wars, permanent wars, pillaging one nation after another for wealth, power, and dominance, while homeland needs go begging. America never was and isn't now the "land of the free and home of the brave." In fact, it's become a "Let 'em eat cake" society. Whether or not Marie Antoinette actually said it, France's 1789-99 revolution was very real, delivering guillotine justice, not promised "Liberte, Egalite, and Fraternite," a status now destroying what's left of ...
Blackwater guard jailed over Afghan shooting
Post Date: 2011-06-28 10:52:52 by christine
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - A US federal judge sentenced a former Blackwater security guard on Monday to 30 months in prison for shooting and killing an Afghan citizen in 2009. The judge also ordered 29-year-old Justin Cannon to serve two years of supervised release after his prison term ends. Cannon and a second Blackwater guard, Christopher Drotleff, 31, were convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the May 5, 2009 shooting of Romal Mohammad Naiem, an unarmed Afghan civilian. Drotleff was sentenced to three years and one month in prison on June 14. "Justin Cannon opened fire with an AK-47 at the rear of a retreating vehicle and took the life of an innocent Afghan," said US Attorney ...
Chinese Navy Mission Reveals Secret Drone
Post Date: 2011-06-28 08:31:29 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Chinese Navy Mission Reveals Secret Drone It was another big reveal in a long history of them. Six months after the Chinese air force let the first photos of its new stealth fighter leak online, Beijing’s military has “accidentally” showed off another secretive weapon system: a small drone, apparently used to scout ahead of China’s fast-growing fleet of warships. Details of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle — gleaned entirely from a snapshot (.pdf) taken by a Japanese navy patrol plane last week — are sketchy, at best. But the new UAV certainly represents a step forward in China’s development of American-style spy drones. The drone (pictured above) appears to ...
China Warns Washington: "US Should Stay Away From S.China Sea" (WW3 Watch)
Post Date: 2011-06-28 06:59:43 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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China Warns Washington: "US Should Stay Away From S.China Sea" (WW3 Watch) Uploaded by cctvnewschannel on Jun 22, 2011 China has voiced its strongest warning in weeks to the United States on the South China Sea issue. It's urged the US to stay away from the issue, which is the spotlight of rising tensions between China and Southeastern countries in recent weeks. It comes after the United States and Japan agreed to deal with the issue together with Southeastern nations in their just-concluded cabinet-level talks, and escalating tensions over the disputed waters. Celebrating their 50 years of alliance, the United States and Japan are seeking greater influence in regional ...
Too Many Wars
Post Date: 2011-06-28 05:29:30 by Tatarewicz
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Who can keep count anymore? Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, and all of our smaller wars. Come election time, will we shout "four more years!" or "four more wars!"? Let's do something about it. 1. Call congress members and senators now at (202) 224-3121 to tell them to vote No on any authorizatio n of war in Libya (as if the President cares what they authorize!). Also tell the House to vote Yes for the Kucinich-Amash amendment to the FY 2012 Department of Defense Appropriations bill to end all involvement in the war by October 1, 2011. Also tell the Senate to join Senator Webb in demanding that no treaty or "Status of Forces Agreement" be ...
Taliban shoot down US drone
Post Date: 2011-06-28 04:45:13 by Tatarewicz
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The US-led military alliance said in a statement that the unmanned plane was shot down by Taliban militants over Kapisa Province, a Press TV correspondent reported on Monday. Taliban says it has the wreckage of the NATO drone. The militants have proven resilient faced with NATO's 150,000 strong-contingent. They have stepped up their attacks on US-led forces, inflicting an increasing number of casualties. The Taliban claim they have shot down several aircraft and NATO choppers in different parts of Afghanistan over the past few months. The war in Afghanistan has become the longest war in US history. With civilian and military casualties at record highs, many question the motives in ...
$20.2 Billion - Cost of air conditioning for U.S. troops in MidEast more than NASA budget
Post Date: 2011-06-26 23:43:44 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Cost of air conditioning for U.S. troops in MidEast more than NASA budget The United States spends $20.2 billion annually on air conditioning for troops stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan — more than NASA's entire budget, NPR reported. In fact, the same amount of money that keeps soldiers cool is the amount the G-8 has committed to helping the fledgling democracies in Tunisia and Egypt. The necessary cooling costs so much because of the remote locations and danger involved in delivery equipment and fuel, Steven Anderson, a retired logistician who served under Gen. David Petraeus in Iraq. "When you consider the cost to deliver the fuel to some of the most isolated places in ...
House Spurns Obama on Libya, but Does Not Cut Funds
Post Date: 2011-06-25 01:46:17 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON — The House dealt a symbolic blow to President Obama on Friday by resoundingly rejecting a bill to authorize United States military operations in Libya. But the chamber also defeated a measure that would have limited financing to support those efforts. The result, coming after weeks of tension between Congress and the White House over authorization of American military aid for the NATO mission in Libya, was a mixed message to the Obama administration, with Republicans and Democrats forming alliances that splintered customary party lines. The resolution to support the mission failed 295 to 123, with 70 Democrats joining Republicans in a rebuff to Mr. Obama. The resolution ...
David Dees slideshow: Support the Troops?
Post Date: 2011-06-24 17:49:38 by wakeup
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DEA head: A thousand dead children means we're winning war on drugs
Post Date: 2011-06-24 15:10:18 by abraxas
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DEA head: A thousand dead children means we're winning war on drugs Michele Leonhart, our top drug cop, has a funny definition of victory By Alex Pareene Producing and distributing illegal drugs is a profitable business, because there will always be a lot of demand and because illegality allows you to charge a great deal of money. That illegality also means that the people who produce and distribute the drugs are generally not responsible corporate citizens. So thanks to our expensive, terribly ineffective and endless war on drugs, lots of people are dying. The Washington Post recently reported that the victims of Mexican drug cartel violence increasingly include children, who are ...
Permanent Iraq and Afghanistan Occupations Planned
Post Date: 2011-06-24 04:28:07 by Stephen Lendman
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Permanent US Iraq and Afghanistan Occupations Planned - by Stephen Lendman Nothing reveals Washington's imperial agenda better than its global empire of bases. Sixty-six years post-WW II, America maintains dozens in Germany, Japan, Italy, and South Korea alone. In total, known Pentagon bases way exceed 1,000, as well as perhaps hundreds of other shared and secret ones in about 150 countries on every continent despite no enemies anywhere justifying them. In his 2006 book, "Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic," Chalmers Johnson discussed the known numbers at the time by size and branch of service. He also highlighted the fallout, including oppressive noise, ...
Obama Afghan troop draw down may fool Americans, not Taliban
Post Date: 2011-06-23 04:57:03 by Tatarewicz
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KABUL, June 23 (Xinhua)-- Taliban militants fighting Afghan and NATO-led troops in Afghanistan on Thursday downplayed U.S. President Barack Obama's troops withdraw announcement as a trick to deceive public opinion and called for the complete pull out of foreign forces, a Taliban statement said. "Obama and his war mongers want to deceive their nation and with this announcement, while in reality, they have no respect for their nation's demands of waiting to bring this war and occupation to an end nor do they want to fulfill their promise," the statement sent to media added. In the statement written in Pashtu language, spoken largely among the Taliban fighters, and English, ...
McCain/Kerry Support Imperial War on Libya
Post Date: 2011-06-23 04:56:17 by Stephen Lendman
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McCain/Kerry Support Imperial War on Libya - by Stephen Lendman On November 6, 1971, a remorseful John Kerry told Washington, DC's WRC-TV that "I gave back, I can't remember, six, seven, eight, nine medals," protesting against America's Vietnam War involvement. On April 22, 1971, Kerry testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as a member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), saying in part: He came to discuss an investigation involving "over 150 honorably discharged and many very highly decorated veterans," who admitted committing Southeast Asian war crimes, explaining: "stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, ...
US-Led Terror Bombings Target Civilians
Post Date: 2011-06-23 04:36:20 by Stephen Lendman
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US-Led Terror Bombings Target Civilians - by Stephen Lendman US air and ground operations strategically target civilians, Pentagon (and NATO) denials notwithstanding. They lie despite clear evidence refuting them. Their latest crime claimed 19 Libyans, all civilians, including women and eight children, apologies not forthcoming and deceitful when they do. NATO (code for the Pentagon) duplicitously called it a "precision strike on a legitimate military target - a command-and-control node which was directly involved in coordinating systematic attacks on the Libyan people." False! It targeted Gaddafi ally Khweildy al-Hamidy's private estate, murdering civilians inside beneath ...
U.S. and Pakistan: Afghan Strategies
Post Date: 2011-06-21 08:17:37 by Ada
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U.S. President Barack Obama will give a speech on Afghanistan on June 22. Whatever he says, it is becoming apparent that the United States is exploring ways to accelerate the drawdown of its forces in the country. It is also clear that U.S. relations with Pakistan are deteriorating to a point where cooperation — whatever level there was — is breaking down. These are two intimately related issues. Any withdrawal from Afghanistan, particularly an accelerated one, will leave a power vacuum in Afghanistan that the Kabul government will not be able to fill. Afghanistan is Pakistan’s back door, and its evolution is a matter of fundamental interest to Pakistan. A U.S. withdrawal ...
Remembering Brian Haw
Post Date: 2011-06-21 04:30:56 by Stephen Lendman
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Remembering Brian Haw - by Stephen Lendman Early morning June 18, lung cancer claimed 62 year old UK anti-war activist Haw after a long battle, a man London Independent contributor Mark Wallinger called "the conscience of the nation grown quiescent." His family left a message, saying: "He left us in his sleep and in no pain, after a long, hard fight," ending three months of treatment in Germany. His long vigil, in fact, contributed to his poor heath. It also led to a divorce and largely separated him from his seven children. After others stopped protesting America's Afghan and Iraq wars, Brian was steadfast against his own government's complicity. In fact, ...
Nine US-led soldiers die in Afghan war
Post Date: 2011-06-20 06:27:01 by Tatarewicz
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NATO said on Sunday that four of the soldiers died of injuries sustained in non-battle related incidents. Four others were killed in fighting in southern Afghanistan. On soldier, identified as a Frenchman, was killed by small arms fire in Afghanistan's central Kapisa Province. All the deaths occurred on Saturday. The US-led military alliance did not reveal the nationalities of the soldiers. At least 2,531international troops -- most of them American, have been killed in Afghanistan since the invasion of the country in 2001. The developments come as the security situation continues to deteriorate in Afghanistan with US-led troops and government forces killed by Taliban militants on ...
Lies, Damn Lies, and Imperial Wars
Post Date: 2011-06-20 04:36:57 by Stephen Lendman
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Lies, Damn Lies, and Liberating Wars - by Stephen Lendman America's imperial wars are for wealth, power, and unchallenged dominance, never for humanitarian concerns or liberation, notions Washington contemptuously spurns. Yet rhetorical posturing claims otherwise. In April 1986, Ronald Reagan arrogantly said US air and naval forces "launched a series of strikes against (Gaddafi's) headquarters, terrorist facilities, and military assets, (carefully) targeted to minimize casualties among the Libyan people with whom we have no quarrel. From initial reports, our forces have succeeded in their mission." Wrong! The BBC reported "at least 100 people died after USA planes ...
US's Most Grotesque Official Secrets Gangsters
Post Date: 2011-06-19 22:47:34 by buckeroo
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US's Most Grotesque Official Secrets Gangsters BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> Donate $100 for the Cryptome archive of 65.000 files from June 1996 to the present 19 June 2011. Also: http://cryptome.org/osa-gangs/osa-gangs.htm US's Most Grotesque Official Secrets Gangsters Four page advertisement by the Aspen Security Forum in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, 19 June 2011, with a dreadfully mercenary description, emulating Bilderberg and Bohemian Grove: "Just one year old, the Aspen Security Forum has already become the nation's premier gathering of homeland security/counterterrorism experts and devotees [emphasis added]. Attendees will listen to, and then ...
Obama Sued on War
Post Date: 2011-06-19 15:46:10 by randge
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Analysis: Obama Sued for Unconstitutional War Bookmark and Share by Jeff Matthews Part 1 of this article addressed the Constitutional issues raised in Kucinich, et al.’s lawsuit against President Obama. The case was filed June 15, 2011 in the federal district court in Washington, D.C. under Case No. 1:11-CV-01096-RBW, Reggie B. Walton, presiding. This part explains why there might be a fair likelihood that no court will decide the merits of the claims presented in the suit. Kucinich, et al.’s suit is, in most, if not all, respects, a repeat of the prior case of Campbell vs. Clinton, 203 F.3d 19 (C.A. D.C., 2000, cert. denied). In Campbell, a group of congressmen brought suit ...
U.S. mayors: End wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
Post Date: 2011-06-19 03:05:41 by Tatarewicz
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(CNN) -- A group of U.S. mayors urged Congress on Friday to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and redirect money spent to support those conflicts to domestic interests. The call to bring a speedy end to the wars came in a resolution presented at the opening of the Annual Conference of U.S. Mayors in Baltimore. The resolution, signed by such leaders as Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak and Santa Fe, New Mexico, Mayor David Coss, cited the high cost of supporting the wars, both in financial and human terms, in calling for their end. "The United States Conference of Mayors calls on the U.S. Congress to bring these war dollars home to meet vital human needs, promote job creation, rebuild ...
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