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Latest Articles: War, War, War
US Congressmen: Libya attack illegal
Post Date: 2011-04-01 02:54:22 by GreyLmist
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Two US Republican congressmen have submitted a draft bill that seeks to put an end to the US military intervention in Libya before the operations receive authorization by the Congress. On Tuesday, Representatives Timothy Johnson of Illinois and Justin Amash of Michigan introduced the draft legislation that aims to suspend all fundings to measures involving US President Barack Obama's decision to intervene in Libya, Xinhua reported. "Constitutionally, it is indisputable that Congress must be consulted prior to an act of war unless there is an imminent threat against this country. The President has not done so," said Rep. Johnson. "The President cannot constitutionally ...
The Phony Case for Presidential War Powers [Tom Woods article and video]
Post Date: 2011-03-31 20:58:01 by GreyLmist
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkZT96zJrUQ The Phony Arguments for Presidential War Powers by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. A U.S. president has attacked another country, so it’s time for the scam artists to pull out their fake constitutional arguments in support of our dear leader. Not all of them are doing so, to be sure – in fact, it’s been rather a hoot to hear supporters of the Iraq war suddenly caterwauling about the Constitution’s restraints on the power of the president to initiate hostilities abroad. But I’m told that radio host Mark Levin criticized Ron Paul on his program the other day on the precise grounds that the congressman didn’t know ...
Japan's Earthquake: Natural or Engineered?
Post Date: 2011-03-31 04:42:11 by Stephen Lendman
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Japan's Earthquake: Natural or Engineered? - by Stephen Lendman An earlier article considered whether Haiti's January 2010 quake was engineered. Despite no corroborating proof, technologies exist to do it. More information below. On March 11 at 14.46 JST, the earth shook around 81 miles east of Japan's Oshika Peninsula of Tohoku near Sendai, its hypocenter about a 20 mile depth. Measured at 9.0, it triggered a 33-foot high tsunami in minutes, compounding the destructive damage over a wide area. Of greatest concern is damage to four or more nuclear reactors at Tokyo Electric's (TEPCO) Fukushima Daiichi plant. So far (besides many thousands injured and homeless), those dead ...
U.S. survey says majority oppose Libya involvement
Post Date: 2011-03-31 01:26:34 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, March 30 (Xinhua) -- A survey released Wednesday indicated majority of U.S. voters oppose the U.S. military campaign in Libya, while President Barack Obama's approval rating hit an all-time low at 42 percent. According to poll results released by Quinnipiac University, 47 percent surveyed oppose Washington's involvement in Libya, while 41 percent support the mission. The survey also gave Obama negative ratings how he handled the conflict, with 58 percent saying he has not clearly articulated the goal of U.S. involvement. Sixty-one percent of respondents in the poll said removing Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi from power is not worth having American troops "fight ...
Obama on Libya: Defending the Indefensible
Post Date: 2011-03-30 05:03:36 by Stephen Lendman
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Obama on Libya: Defending the Indefensible - by Stephen Lendman Obama's March 28 television address wreaked of hypocrisy, lies and disdain for basic democratic values, making an indefensible case for naked aggression against a non-belligerent country. America's media approved. On March 28, New Times writer Helene Cooper headlined, "Obama Cites Limits of US Role in Libya," saying: Obama "defended the American-led military assault in Libya on Monday, saying it was in the national interest of the United States to stop a potential massacre that would have 'stained the conscience of the world,' " even though no threat existed until: -- Washington showed up ...
Libyan Rebels Meet With Western Allies
Post Date: 2011-03-30 02:39:53 by angK
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The Western allies who pushed for intervention against Muammar GaddafiMuammar Gaddafi are meeting this week with representatives of Libyan rebels. The military units enforcing a no fly zone has added low-flying aircraft that can take out tanks, armored cars and troop columns, including the tank-killing Warthog and gunships. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the airstrikes would continue and hinted that the allies may begin arming the rebels. Each attack by Gaddafi has been met by a stretching of the U.N. resolution that sent the warplanes into Libya. The addition of the "flying gun" gives the soon-to-be NATO-led forces the ability to take out Gaddafi's forces from ...
Britons fear Libya becoming another Iraq -poll - 70% fear another Iraq
Post Date: 2011-03-29 12:18:17 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Britons fear Libya becoming another Iraq -poll * Seven of 10 Britons fear Iraq-style conflict * Almost half disapprove of the intervention LONDON, March 29 (Reuters) - Seven out of 10 Britons think coalition forces enforcing a no-fly zone in Libya could get sucked into another Iraq-style conflict, a poll showed on Tuesday. The ComRes poll carried out for the Independent newspaper found 47 percent think the government was wrong to launch air strikes against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, while 43 percent approve of the decision. Tuesday's poll found that 71 percent of those questioned feared the intervention could drag on, despite Prime Minister David Cameron insisting that Libya is ...
BBC: US and UK Imperial Tool
Post Date: 2011-03-28 05:18:53 by Stephen Lendman
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BBC: Imperial US and UK Tool - by Stephen Lendman One blogger put it this way: "Let me get this straight. The US is broke, borrowing money from China, and we will be funding the BBC to broadcast in China?" On March 20, the London Guardian's Ben Dowell broke the news, headlining, "BBC World Service to sign funding deal with US State Department," saying: Britain's government funded BBC will "receive a 'significant" sum of money from the US government to help (circumvent) the blocking of TV and internet services in countries including Iran and China," as well as develop early warning software to more easily detect jamming. According to Jim ...
Planned Regime Change in Libya
Post Date: 2011-03-28 04:47:44 by Stephen Lendman
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Planned Regime Change in Libya - by Stephen Lendman A March 25 White House press release announced Obama's planned March 28 national TV speech: "to update the American people on the situation in Libya, including the actions we've taken with allies and partners to protect the Libyan people from the brutality of Moammar Qaddafi, the transition to NATO command and control, and our policy going forward." Imagine the hypocrisy. US-style "humanitarian intervention" reigns death and destruction "to protect the Libyan people." Recall how "shock and awe" protected Iraqis, how war on Afghanistan helps Afghans and neighboring Pakistanis from predatory ...
American Interventionism: Protecting the Profit Machine
Post Date: 2011-03-27 12:29:19 by christine
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Why America is really so concerned about the push for democracy in the Middle East. Richard William Posner Illustration Richard William Posner Activist Post A Brief Refresher Course America is the spawn of empire building and from the start has itself engaged heavily in that activity. In nearly all cases it has shown a preference for bribery, coercion, intimidation and force over diplomacy and cooperation. As a nation founded on invasion, occupation and genocide, America has maintained its empire by those means to this day. Although Spain began the slaughter with the voyages of Columbus, the British colonies that became the United States continued it with a vengeance. On October 26, ...
US-Led Libyan Ground Assault Planned
Post Date: 2011-03-27 04:38:16 by Stephen Lendman
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US-Led Libyan Ground Assault Planned - by Stephen Lendman In his weekly March 26 address, Obama said: "As I pledged at the outset, the role of American forces has been limited. We are not putting any ground forces into Libya....And as agreed this week, responsibility for this operation is being transferred from the United States to our NATO allies and partners." Earlier he said: "United States forces are conducting a limited and well-defined mission in support of international efforts to protect civilians and prevent a humanitarian disaster." As an earlier article explained, American aggression caused a humanitarian crisis. Moreover, the alleged NATO handover is a ...
Soldier pleads guilty in Iraq rape, murder case [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-03-26 11:19:22 by christine
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FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) — One of four U.S. soldiers accused of raping a 14-year-old Iraqi girl last spring and killing her and her family pleaded guilty Wednesday, and agreed to testify against the others. Spc. James P. Barker agreed to the plea deal to avoid the death penalty, said his civilian attorney, David Sheldon. The military judge presiding over the case, Lt. Col. Richard Anderson, asked Barker why he participated in the attack in Mahmoudiya, a village about 20 miles south of Baghdad. It was among the worst in a series of alleged attacks on civilians and other abuses by military personnel in Iraq. "I hated Iraqis, your honor," Barker answered. "They can ...
NATO: America's Imperial Tool
Post Date: 2011-03-26 05:14:39 by Stephen Lendman
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NATO: America's Imperial Tool - by Stephen Lendman In 1999, Nobel laureate Harold Pinter called America's bombing and dismemberment of Yugoslavia "barbaric (and despicable), another blatant and brutal assertion of US power using NATO as its missile (to consolidate) American domination of Europe." Against Iraq and Afghanistan it's to dominate Eurasia, and against Libya for greater regional hegemony, including resource control, privatization of state industries, new Pentagon bases for future imperial wars, and deterring any democratic spark from emerging. Obama lied saying: "United States forces are conducting a limited and well-defined mission in support of ...
My Title: Lybia Next.
Post Date: 2011-03-25 08:12:26 by TommyTheMadArtist
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Syria should follow Egypt’s lead and the Syrian army should “empower a revolution”, Robert Gates, US secretary of defence, argued as thousands marched in a southern city. Mr Gates made his comments – some of the toughest remarks to date by a US official about the rule of Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s president – on a day of further upheaval in the Middle East and beyond. The White House signalled it was preparing for a change in power in Yemen, where it has been allied with the government of Ali Abdullah Saleh, president. Nato allies reached a deal in which the alliance will take over command of the Libyan no-fly zone, although responsibility for strikes on ...
CIA Rambo Escapes Pakistan
Post Date: 2011-03-24 06:22:13 by Ada
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The US government just decided Islamic shariah law is not so bad after all – at least not in the case of jailed CIA agent Raymond Davis. The burly Davis, an ex-US Special Forces soldier, former Blackwater gunman, and now CIA “contractor” (jargon for mercenary) was jailed in Pakistan after shooting dead two Pakistanis, who were either robbers or government security agents. A third Pakistani was killed by a car driven by a CIA rescuer racing up a one-way street the wrong way. Pakistanis were outraged, but their weak government, which subsists on $3 billion of annual US aid, caved in to its American patrons. After weeks of intense negotiations over US claims that Davis had ...
Cheerleading for War
Post Date: 2011-03-24 04:39:43 by Stephen Lendman
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Cheerleading for War - by Stephen Lendman When America goes to war, managed news goes with it spreading rumors, half-truths, misinformation, and willful deception about targeted nations, regimes and leaders, whether despots or democrats. Whoever first said it, the first casualty of war is truth, and then some as John Pilger once observed saying: "Journalism is the first casualty. Not only that: it has become a weapon of war, a virulent censorship (and willful misreporting) that goes unrecognised in the United States, Britain and other democracies; censorship by omission, whose power is such that, in war, it can mean the difference between life and death for people in faraway ...
Western Aggression on Libya
Post Date: 2011-03-23 04:45:03 by Stephen Lendman
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Western Aggression on Libya - by Stephen Lendman Make no mistake. Another Washington-led resource war targets Libya's riches, besides wanting new US base locations for greater regional dominance. America doesn't covet regional sun, sand and sea. "Humanitarian intervention" is a lie. So are notions about peace, not war, liberation, equity, justice, and other democratic values. Washington tolerates none of them abroad or at home, plundering the world roguishly. All US presidents are war criminals. Obama is one of the worst, doubling Bush's lawlessness, adding Pakistan and Libya aggression to Iraq and Afghanistan, spending $1.5 trillion annually for militarism plus ...
An Impeachable, Offense, and Impeccable Timing.
Post Date: 2011-03-22 15:27:58 by TommyTheMadArtist
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So I'm reading a few things about how our nation is supposed to go to war. If a Sitting President attacks another country, bombs or sends troops to it, without congressional approval, or ANY other body's approval, he has only 48 hours to prove his case. If he fails to do so, this is grounds for impeachment. At least from what I gather, because immediate censure is supposed to take place, and the VP is supposed to take over while the case against the president, vs, the case for pre-emptive war is made. Obama has NOT stated his case, or reasoning to go to war with Libya, nor has he gotten any authorization to do so. The man must be removed from office. NOW.
Lies, Damn Lies and Humanitarian Intervention
Post Date: 2011-03-22 05:03:35 by Stephen Lendman
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Lies, Damn Lies, and Humanitarian Intervention - by Stephen Lendman Masquerading as "humanitarian intervention," Washington launched full-force barbarism on six million Libyans, all endangered by America's latest intervention. More on how below. Beginning March 19, it was visible. However, months of planning preceded it, including US and UK special forces and intelligence operatives on the ground enlisting, inciting, funding, arming and supporting violent insurrection to oust Gaddafi and replace him with a Washington-controlled puppet like in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. The scrip is familiar, playing out now in Libya - full-scale "imperial barbarism," a term ...
The 1st Great War of 21st Century Has Begun! (Gerald Celente)
Post Date: 2011-03-21 12:00:12 by christine
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KINGSTON, NY 21 March 2011 — It is a bad science fiction movie written by mad political scientists. Exactly eight years to the day that President George W. Bush took America and his “Coalition of the Willing” to war with Iraq, President Barack Obama has taken America and his “Broad Coalition” to war with Libya. And just as the world was sold a “coalition of the willing” that was predominantly a fleeting alliance of the cajoled and the arm-twisted, the putatively “broad” Obama coalition consists primarily of America’s two cronies-in-war, the UK and France. Only in a mad political science fiction movie could a President engaged in ...
Libya: Eyewitness Describes The Attack On Gaddafi's Compound
Post Date: 2011-03-21 10:06:12 by Horse
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Poster Comment:Max Keiser is reporting that each missile the US fired at Gaddafi had 15.5 kilograms of silver or 33 pounds. No truth to the rumor that JP Morgan hired Libyan junk dealers to collect the missile salvage.
Imperial War on Libya
Post Date: 2011-03-21 04:46:03 by Stephen Lendman
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Imperial War on Libya - by Stephen Lendman On March 19, ironically on the eighth anniversary of "Operation Iraqi Freedom," a White House Office of the Press Secretary quoted Obama saying: "Today I authorized the Armed Forces of the United States to (attack) Libya in support of an international effort to protect Libyan civilians," he, in fact, doesn't give a damn about. "That action has now begun," he added, claiming military action was a last resort. In fact, it was long-planned. All military interventions require months of preparation, including target selections, strategy, enlisting political and public support, troop deployments, and post-conflict ...
Pentigon-Hollywood collusion to promote US militarism
Post Date: 2011-03-21 04:11:02 by Tatarewicz
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All the buzz in the entertainment/tech world about the blockbuster new video game Homefront brings back memories of the 1984 film Red Dawn -- and rightly so. The creator of Homefront is none other than John Milius, the writer/director of the 1984 film that later became the deliberate namesake of the most famous operation in today's Iraq War. But it should also bring back memories of the larger militarist themes that continue to define our entertainment culture -- themes that ultimately bring up the direct but little-examined connections between the Pentagon and the entertainment industry. It is the legacy of those connections, first intensified in the 1980s, that continue to embed ...
Rothschild Globalist Killers Pour DU On Libyans In Nuclear War
Post Date: 2011-03-21 01:03:19 by Tatarewicz
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Many of the weapons used (against Libya), especially those used against tanks (armour piercing) and those used against hard targets (Cruise Missiles & Bunker Busters) all contain uranium components such as Penetrators, Shaped Charged Liners and as a counterweightmost of which is made up of Depleted Uranium. All weapons that contain Depleted Uranium weapons are recognized as radioactive poison gas weapons and thus violate the Geneva Convention under the 1925 Geneva Poison Gas Protocol. These weapons are described as a "highly mobile indiscriminate killer and permanent terrain contaminant," which has a half life of 4.5 billion years and thus remain in the environment for ...
Rangel Reintroduces Measure to Impose a Draft
Post Date: 2011-03-20 17:37:54 by GreyLmist
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Fox News has obtained a copy of a "Dear Colleague" letter from Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y. in which he reintroduces a bill to require "national service" or a draft. The letter comes on a day the House is debating a bill from Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, that would require the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan. Rangel introduced a similar draft bill in 2004 but it failed in the House by a vote of 402-2. The text of the Rangel letter is below. SUPPORT THE UNIVERSAL NATIONAL SERVICE ACT Dear Colleague: The test for Congress, particularly for those members who support the war, is to require all who enjoy the benefits of our democracy to contribute to the ...
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