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Latest Articles: War, War, War
U.S. In Peace Talks With Taliban, Karzai Confirms
Post Date: 2011-06-18 10:11:24 by Ada
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KABUL - The United States is in contact with the Taliban about a possible settlement to the near decade-long war in Afghanistan, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Saturday, the first official confirmation of U.S. involvement in negotiations. Karzai said that an Afghan push toward peace talks had not yet reached a stage where the government and insurgents were meeting, but their representatives had been in touch. "Peace talks are going on with the Taliban. The foreign military and especially the United States itself is going ahead with these negotiations," Karzai said in a speech in Kabul. "The peace negotiations between (the) Afghan government and the Taliban movement ...
Duplicitous Congressional Posturing on Libya
Post Date: 2011-06-18 04:34:36 by Stephen Lendman
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Duplicitous Congressional Posturing on Libya - by Stephen Lendman In Washington, hypocrisy and duplicity substitute for resolute action to obey international and constitutional law. In fact, they're mere artifacts long ago discarded to advance America's imperium. All Washington's wars are illegal. International law permits them only in self-defense. Constitutional law only lets Congress, not the president, declare or wage them overtly, covertly or any other way for any reason unless America was attacked. Moreover, the principle of non-intervention (a cornerstone of international law pertaining to national sovereignty) prohibits meddling in the internal affairs of other ...
Obama's weaseling around Congress - Libya war
Post Date: 2011-06-17 01:57:36 by Tatarewicz
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— The White House, pushing hard against criticism in Congress over the deepening air war in Libya, asserted Wednesday that President Obama had the authority to continue the military campaign without Congressional approval because American involvement fell short of full-blown hostilities. In a 38-page report sent to lawmakers describing and defending the NATO-led operation, the White House said the mission was prying loose Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s grip on power. In contending that the limited American role did not oblige the administration to ask for authorization under the War Powers Resolution, the report asserted that “U.S. operations do not involve sustained fighting ...
Remote Control Killing Like Sport
Post Date: 2011-06-14 04:31:50 by Stephen Lendman
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Remote Control Killing Like Sport - by Stephen Lendman Defense contractor giants like Boeing, Lockeed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and others, as well as smaller rivals compete for growing demand for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). They include remote control operated killer drones, also called unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs). It's America's newest sport. From distant command centers, far from target sights, sounds, and smells, operators dismissively ignore human carnage showing up as computer screen blips little different from video game images. The difference, of course, is people die, mostly noncombatants. More on that below. On March 10, 2010, Der Spiegel writer Marc ...
Libyan Rebels Weld Tank Turret to Truck
Post Date: 2011-06-14 01:03:36 by Tatarewicz
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Sam Biddle — The Libyan rebels are the world's heavily-modified-fuck-you-jury-rigged champions. Although the improvised missile pickup didn't quite pan out, this tank turret welded to the roof of a truck sure does. Desperate times call for pretty amazing measures. It's hard to discern the make of the truck, but it seems stripped down to the bare essentials. Probably to make room for the enormous BMP-1 APC turret. But is that an office chair I spy in there? Yes it is—an improvised gunner's seat. DefenseTech also points out perhaps the boldest part of this cobbled-together war machine: the dude just reaches up inside the turret to fire it. These guys really hate ...
War Crimes and Misdemeanors
Post Date: 2011-06-12 20:50:28 by tom007
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War Crimes and Misdemeanors By Stephen M. Walt June 120, 2011 "FP" --- Yesterday I received an email from the Council on Foreign Relations, announcing the release of a Special Report on "Justice Beyond the Hague: Supporting the Prosecution of International Crimes in National Courts." The author is David A. Kaye of UCLA Law School, and the report is a well-crafted document arguing that the United States, other like-minded countries, and the philanthropic community ought to do more to national courts in other countries, so that they can investigate and prosecute war crimes and other atrocities. To enhance human rights, in short, we ought to help countries like the ...
Currency War III—the Libyan Intervention
Post Date: 2011-06-12 10:41:49 by noone222
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Adask's law adask.wordpress.com/2011/...n-intervention/#more-6950 Currency War III—the Libyan Intervention 05 Jun 8 Votes “Legal reform” is a catch-all for dissidents who’re fed up with governmental abuse—especially in our courts. I’ve been a political activist in the “legal reform” movement for 28 years. I published a magazine (the AntiShyster) for 12 years that dealt with “legal reform” issues and strategies. The issues were almost always valid. The strategies devised to combat governmental abuse sometimes worked, but were often half-baked, ineffective or even unlawful. Those strategies weren’t “wrong,” per ...
Taleban victory claims
Post Date: 2011-06-12 01:35:00 by Tatarewicz
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US invaders helicopter brought downed in northern Parwan June 11 – Mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate in Parwan’s Kohi Safi district struck one of the US invaders’ large helicopters holding 20 to 30 passengers with rockets and downed it in Kharoti village of this district at about 9;00 pm local time last night, killing all the invaders including the crew members, Mujahideen officials said on Saturday. Witnesses say the dead and wounded have been airlifted by the enemy helicopters today. 5 American invaders killed, dozens hurt in martyrdom operation June 11 – More than five US invaders were killed and many others wounded in martyr attack carried out by a lone Mujahid, ...
US military bases attacked in Iraq
Post Date: 2011-06-12 00:58:18 by Tatarewicz
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Iraqi security officials say the US military bases have come under rocket attacks, in the deadliest raid on the American forces since May 2009. According to the Iraqi officials, six rockets have hit a US military base in the southern city of Nassiriya. There is no immediate report on possible damage to the base. On Friday, another US military base was attacked in the northeastern city of Baqouba, the capital of Diyala province. Earlier, the US military said in a brief statement that "five US service members were killed Monday in central Iraq," but gave no additional details on the attack. Iraq's interior ministry said the troops were killed when a barrage of rockets hit ...
A likely war scenario
Post Date: 2011-06-11 05:04:05 by Tatarewicz
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War is the worst thing that can happen to an economy, but it's also the most likely thing at this point. When the going gets tough, the people in charge like to blame somebody else for the problem. That's compounded by the foolish -- but widely accepted -- notion that war is good for the economy and that, for instance, it pulled the U.S. out of the last depression. Like all wars, this one results in a complete stifling of civil and economic freedoms. If my second scenario is unpleasant, this alternative is grim. The big conflict has already been teed up -- the continuation of the Forever War between Islam and the West. I'll hazard the major situs will be Europe -- which has ...
The Obama Doctrine: Lawless Imperial Aggression (Part II)
Post Date: 2011-06-11 04:38:40 by Stephen Lendman
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The Obama Doctrine: Lawless Imperial Aggression (Part II) - by Stephen Lendman Previous articles discussed America's permanent war agenda, culture of violence, imperial lawlessness, daily atrocities, blood-drenched history, glorification of killing in the name of peace, and support for the world's worst despots, as well as contempt for democratic values, rule of law principles, and human and civil rights abroad and at home. Obama continues the odious tradition, governing repressively while waging global imperial wars, brazenly claiming humanitarian intentions he doesn't give a damn about, never did, and won't tolerate. Americans foot the bill and pay the price. Global ...
Janet Napolitano Visits NYU Law School to Discuss Need For Citizen Spies (Video)
Post Date: 2011-06-10 06:33:11 by Ada
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"We have to get to a place where every part of our society is cognizant of the kinds of threats that are out there, and empowered to take some common sense steps to counter that." -- Janet Napolitano Homeland Security head, Janet Napolitano, continued her campus tour in a recent stop at NYU Law School where she gave a speech about the state of security as we approach the 10-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, and following the announced death of Osama bin Laden. In the video below Napolitano lays out a sweeping surveillance agenda that includes citizen spies who have a mission of "shared responsibility" to thwart "Core" al-Qaeda, foreign groups ...
Panetta: Iraq Will ‘Request’ US Troops Stay Past 2011
Post Date: 2011-06-10 06:20:44 by Ada
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Claims 1,000 al-Qaeda Remain in Iraq Speaking today at the US Senate, incoming Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta insisted that Iraq was already preparing to request the continuation of the US occupation beyond the end of 2011. He insisted the Iraqi government would submit a request soon. Such a “request” would be the culmination of months of US demands for such a request, which would allow them to continue the military presence beyond the 2011 deadline of the Status of Forces Agreement. Though the exact size of the continued force remains to be determined, most officials have suggested it would be at least somewhat smaller than the current number, just shy of 50,000. Secretary ...
Breaking: GOING ROGUE: DOCUMENTED NATO War Crimes in Libya
Post Date: 2011-06-09 19:58:34 by Horse
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It’s a story CNN won’t report. Late at night there’s a pounding on the door in Misurata. Armed soldiers force young Libyan women out of their beds at gun-point. Hustling the women and teenagers into trucks, the soldiers rush the women to gang bang parties for NATO rebels—or else rape them in front of their husbands or fathers. When NATO rebels finish their rape sport, the soldiers cut the women’s throats. Rapes are now ongoing acts of war in rebel-held cities, like an organized military strategy, according to refugees. Joanna Moriarty, who’s part of a global fact-finding delegation visiting Tripoli this week, also reports that NATO rebels have gone house to ...
U.S. intensifying covert war in Yemen: report
Post Date: 2011-06-09 10:13:47 by freepatriot32
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration has intensified air strikes on suspected militants in Yemen in a bid to keep them from consolidating power as the government in Sanaa teeters, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. A U.S. official confirmed to Reuters that a U.S. strike last Friday killed Abu Ali al-Harithi, a midlevel al Qaeda operative, which followed last month's attempted strike against Anwar al-Awlaki, the leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Citing U.S. officials, the Times said a U.S. campaign using armed drones and fighter jets had accelerated in recent weeks as U.S. officials see the strikes as one of the few options to contain al Qaeda in the ...
Libya mission extension could cost Canada $60-million
Post Date: 2011-06-09 07:14:17 by Tatarewicz
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Libya mission has cost Canada $26M: MacKay Canada's military mission in Libya has cost $26 million and could more than double if it's extended until the fall, Defence Minister Peter MacKay said Wednesday during a NATO summit in Brussels. The cost covers fuel for Canada's fighter planes and patrol aircraft taking part in the NATO operation. It also includes the more than 300 laser-guided bombs Canadian pilots have dropped on targets in Libya. MacKay says Parliament will be asked to vote June 15 on whether to extend the mission until the end of September. He says that would push the total cost of the deployment to roughly $60 million. Harper Tories are cutting back on ...
US launches fourth war
Post Date: 2011-06-09 05:47:25 by Tatarewicz
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The Obama administration has intensified the American covert war in Yemen, exploiting a growing power vacuum in the country to strike at militant suspects with armed drones and fighter jets, according to American officials. The acceleration of the American campaign in recent weeks comes amid a violent conflict in Yemen that has left the government in Sana, a United States ally, struggling to cling to power. Yemeni troops that had been battling militants linked to Al Qaeda in the south have been pulled back to the capital, and American officials see the strikes as one of the few options to keep the militants from consolidating power. On Friday, American jets killed Abu Ali al-Harithi, a ...
The Iron Triangle - The Carlyle Group Exposed
Post Date: 2011-06-09 05:21:26 by Eric Stratton
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Poster Comment:Follow the links for parts 2 - 5.
Geneva Conventions Redefined: The New U.S. Department of War
Post Date: 2011-06-08 11:04:46 by christine
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By Lt. Eric N. Shine USNR - USMMRR/USMMA KP/ and by Gary Corseri "What's in a name?" --William Shakespeare Most people are unaware of the larger picture developing over the past seven or eight decades, or have been willing to ignore it. This still-developing image portrays matters requiring knowledge of world history, a degree of self-education and a global perspective to recognize and decipher. The remarkable change still underway is a complete militarization of the United States, if not also the rest of the world. Today, the most disturbing sign of this take-over of all of the civilian commons by the military, at least in the U.S., comes in the form of a new, or ...
Six More Years: U.S. General Wants to Train Afghans Until 2017
Post Date: 2011-06-08 10:55:31 by christine
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There once was a time when President Obama implied that the Afghanistan war would at least start to end in July 2011. Then that date got pushed back to 2014. Now, the general in charge of training Afghan forces to take over for departing Americans pegs that date closer to 2016 or 2017 — that is, if the U.S. doesn’t want the entire Afghan security apparatus to implode.
What will ensure Afghan soldiers don’t collapse? “Strategic patience and an enduring commitment,” Lt. Gen. William Caldwell told a crowd at the Brookings Institution in Washington. Translated from the mil-speak: many more years and billions of dollars. Asked by Danger Room how much longer the training mission ...
The 9/11 Trial Time Warp
Post Date: 2011-06-08 06:20:57 by Ada
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On Tuesday, the Pentagon issued a press release announcing that prosecutors in the Office of Military Commissions at Guantánamo had sworn charges against five prisoners: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Ramzi Bin al-Shibh, Walid Bin Attash, Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, and Mustafa al-Hawsawi. Accusing the five men of being “responsible for the planning and execution” of the 9/11 attacks, the Pentagon added that the eight charges are “conspiracy, murder in violation of the law of war, attacking civilians, attacking civilian objects, intentionally causing serious bodily injury, destruction of property in violation of the law of war, hijacking aircraft, and terrorism.” As the ...
America's Imperial War on Libya
Post Date: 2011-06-07 04:31:28 by Stephen Lendman
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America's Imperial War on Libya - by Stephen Lendman Obama's claimed humanitarian intervention, if fact, is lawless imperialism by any standard, America's latest target to be conquered, colonized, controlled and pillaged for greater power and profit. As a result, daily NATO atrocities continue, a shocking display of imperial arrogance against another nonbelligerent state, targeted for other than declared reasons. Begun on March 19, NATO announced June 1 that Operation Unified Protector (the renamed Operation Odyssey Dawn) will continue unabated through September to inflict mass casualties and turn Libya to rubble like Serbia/Kosovo in 1999, Iraq in 1991 and 2003, Afghanistan ...
U.S. Plans $3 Billion Mercenary Force for Iraq
Post Date: 2011-06-06 22:06:33 by abraxas
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U.S. Plans $3 Billion Mercenary Force for Iraq June 6, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis U.S. Plans $3 Billion Mercenary Force for Iraq --State Department Prepares to Hire 5,100-Strong Security Detail and Take Over Military Hardware for After Army Leaves --State Dept. will rely on mercenaries to carry out range of military-style missions 'not inherently governmental' 07 Jun 2011 The State Department is preparing to spend close to $3 billion to hire a security force to protect diplomats in Iraq after the U.S. pulls its last troops out of the country by year's end. In testimony Monday before the Commission on Wartime Contracting, Patrick Kennedy, undersecretary of state for management, ...
America's Addiction: Waging Illegal Wars
Post Date: 2011-06-04 04:35:38 by Stephen Lendman
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America's Addiction: Waging Illegal Wars - by Stephen Lendman With regard to war, international and constitutional laws are clear. Under the Constitution's Article I, Section 8, only Congress may declare war, not the president. That, in fact, last happened on December 8, 1941 after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. As a result, all subsequent US wars have been illegal, including Obama's against Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Libya. Moreover, the UN Charter explains under what conditions violence and coercion (by one state against another) are justified. Article 2(3) and Article 33(1) require peaceful settlement of international disputes. Article 2(4) prohibits force or its ...
We will never accept unconstitutional war
Post Date: 2011-06-03 03:53:08 by Tatarewicz
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The U.S. Constitution placed the power to make war in the hands of our elected representatives in Congress. Their decision leaves us, the people, to compel our Senators and Representatives to accept their responsibility. On May 26, the U.S. House amended the Defense Authorization Act of 2012 to state that its passage in no way authorizes the current war in Libya, and to prohibit the introduction of U.S. ground troops in Libya. At the same time, the House rejected amendments that would have limited or ended U.S. warfare in Afghanistan, and rejected an amendment that would have stripped Section 1034 from the bill. That section is perhaps the most fundamental change to the structure of our ...
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