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14 Potential Justifications For An Invasion Of Libya By The U.S. Military That Are Currently Being Floated In The Mainstream Media
Post Date: 2011-03-02 10:35:02 by christine
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Over the past couple of days, top government officials from both the United States and the EU have been openly discussing the possibility of military intervention in Libya. In fact, it has seemed like there has been a full court press in the mainstream media to sway public opinion toward supporting a potential invasion. We are being told that we simply cannot stand by as Libyan civilians die. We are being told that this would be a "humanitarian" mission. We are being told that this would not be like Iraq or Afghanistan. Even now, the U.S. military is moving the USS Enterprise and other warships closer to Libya in case they are "needed". Other nations are also sending ...
Major Media Promote War on Libya
Post Date: 2011-03-02 05:16:58 by Stephen Lendman
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Major Media Promote War on Libya - by Stephen Lendman When imperial America wants war, peace advocates are shut out by official rhetoric and hawkish media reports supporting militarism, not diplomatic efforts to achieve peace. Those for it aren't heard. Hugo Chavez's government is one. On February 28, Venezuela's Foreign Minister, Nicolas Maduro, warned against belligerence saying: "We would be against any military intervention against the Arabic people of Libya, and I'm sure that all peoples of the world would support a struggle against any interventionism that some powerful countries would commit against it....Arabic people who are in a process of rebellion, seeking ...
Davis Arrest Throws US Undercover Campaign in Pakistan into Disarray
Post Date: 2011-03-01 21:19:02 by Original_Intent
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Davis Arrest Throws US Undercover Campaign in Pakistan into DisarrayBy Anonymous Created 03/01/2011 - 13:46by: Dave Lindorff The ongoing case of Raymond Davis, the CIA contractor facing murder charges in Lahore for the execution-style slaying of two apparent agents of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, is apparently leading to a roll-back of America’s espionage and Special Operations activities in Pakistan. A few days ago, Pakistan’s Interior Department, which is reportedly conducting a careful review of the hundreds of private contractors who flooded into Pakistan over the last two years, many with “diplomatic passports,” and ...
Saudi Arabia sends tanks to riot-hit Bahrain – paper
Post Date: 2011-03-01 17:57:15 by Phant2000
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Saudi Arabia has sent dozens of tanks to Bahrain, where anti-government protests continue for about two weeks, Egypt's Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper said on Tuesday. Eyewitnesses reported seeing "15 tank carriers carrying two tanks each heading towards Bahrain" along the 25-km King Fahd causeway, which links the small island nation of Bahrain to Saudi Arabia. Protestors are mainly Shiites account for about 70% of the Bahraini population, but have long complained of discrimination and other abuses by the Sunni Khalifa dynasty that has ruled the tiny Gulf nation for more than two centuries. In the worst unrest in the kingdom since the 1990s, a wave of protests swept across ...
Unverified Misreporting on Libya
Post Date: 2011-03-01 05:04:04 by Stephen Lendman
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Unverified Misreporting on Libya - by Stephen Lendman America's media, Britain's state-controlled BBC, other Western sources, and Al Jazeera are spreading unverified or false reports on Libya's uprising. On February 25, writer Madhi Darius Nazemroaya, a Middle East/Central Asian specialist, based on reliable in-country contacts, headlined an important article, "Libya: Is Washington Pushing for Civil War to Justify a US-NATO Military Intervention?" Access it through the following link: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23375 For greater readership, this article covers key information in it. Its entirety explains much about what's ongoing ...
West moves military assets around Libya
Post Date: 2011-02-28 21:54:35 by Phant2000
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The Pentagon is deploying naval and air forces around Libya as the US and UK governments consider tougher measures to force Muammer Gaddafi from power, including the possible establishment of a no-fly zone. “We must not tolerate this regime using military force against its own people,” David Cameron, UK prime minister, said. “In that context I have asked the Ministry of Defence and the Chief of the Defence Staff to work with our allies on plans for a military no-fly zone.” Please respect FT.com's ts&cs and copyright policy which allow you to: share links; copy content for personal use; & redistribute limited extracts. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy ...
U.S. Military Repositions Forces in Preparation for Libya Response
Post Date: 2011-02-28 16:21:30 by Phant2000
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The U.S. military is repositioning its forces near North Africa as the United States and its allies impose sanctions on Libya and consider whether to establish a no-fly zone over the country, where a resistance army is building against dictator Muammar al-Qaddafi. Fox News has learned that the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise -- which was previously positioned off the coast of Somalia, where it was stationed to respond to a pirate hijacking -- has turned around and moved to the mouth of the Suez Canal in the Red Sea, heading in the direction of Libya -- with 15 detained pirates on board. Pentagon spokesman Col. Dave Lapan said the military is "repositioning" forces to be ready to ...
Padilla and Mubarak
Post Date: 2011-02-28 06:06:56 by Ada
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A federal judge in South Carolina has dismissed a civil suit brought by convicted terrorist Jose Padilla against Defense Secretary Robert Gates, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and other U.S. officials. The judge held that Padilla had no right to recover for constitutional violations arising out of three years of military detention and torture. Why should this matter to the American people? Because the ruling applies not only to Padilla, who is an American citizen, it applies to all Americans. That’s why the government has been resisting Padilla’s suit so vehemently. If Padilla won, the government would be precluded from exercising such powers against Americans ...
Probe: US killed 65 Afghan civilians(No Worries As They Were ALL Terrorists - Again)
Post Date: 2011-02-27 17:39:12 by tom007
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Probe: US killed 65 Afghan civilians Sun Feb 27, 2011 7:4PM Share | Email | Print [Increase] [Increase] [Increase] [Facebook] [Delicious] [Digg] [Twitter] [Reddit] [Newsvine] [Mixx] [StumbleUpon] US-led soldiers in Afghanistan The Afghan government confirms that the US-led military alliance has killed scores of civilians during recent operations in the northeastern part of the country. The Afghan government said its probe had found the US-led foreign forces killed 65 civilians, many of them children in Kunar Province. The report was also presented at the meeting of National Security Council on Sunday. "Those killed during the operations including 10 women, 15 men and 40 ...
More Civilians Killed Last Year in One Mexican Border Town Than All Afghanistan
Post Date: 2011-02-26 23:33:56 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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More Civilians Killed Last Year in One Mexican Border Town Than All Afghanistan A federal police helicopter flies over Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias) CNSNews.com) - More civilians were killed last year in Ciudad Juarez, the Mexican city across the border from El Paso, Texas, than were killed in all of Afghanistan. There were 3,111 civilians murdered in the city of Juarez in 2010 and 2,421 in the entire country of Afghanistan. On a per capita basis, a civilian was 30 times more likely to be murdered last year in Juarez, where there are 1,328,017 inhabitants according to Mexico’s 2010 census, than in Afghanistan, where there are 29,121,286 people according to the ...
Army Wants Rapid-Fire Rubber Bullets for Crowd Control
Post Date: 2011-02-26 22:43:49 by Eric Stratton
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Army Wants Rapid-Fire Rubber Bullets for Crowd Control THE US army is planning to field "rubber bullets" for machine guns. Military officials claim the ammunition will allow them to more effectively quell violent protests without loss of life, but human rights campaigners are alarmed by the new weapon. The final design for the XM1044 round has not been selected, according to an order placed on the Federal Business Opportunities website last month, but the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate has been working on a ring aerofoil projectile for some years. The round is a hollow plastic cylinder 40 millimetres across, looking something like a short toilet-paper roll. In flight its ...
False Flag False Flag False Flag
Post Date: 2011-02-25 16:38:53 by Itistoolate
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"CIA spy" Davis was giving nuclear bomb material to Al-Qaeda, says report Double murder-accused US official Raymond Davis has been found in possession of top-secret CIA documents, which point to him or the feared American Task Force 373 (TF373) operating in the region, providing Al-Qaeda terrorists with "nuclear fissile material" and "biological agents," according to a report. http://in.news.yahoo.com/cia-spy-davis-giving-nuclear-bomb-material-al-20110219-224833-452.html Remember how only a few days ago the FBI was quoted as saying there was a 100% chance a nuclear bomb would be set off inside the United States by "Al Qaeda?" theintelhub.com/2011/0 ...
ATF Enabling Weapons Sales to Mexico
Post Date: 2011-02-25 10:32:47 by Lod
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Afghan troops stoned, infiltrated by Taliban and likely to turn on their trainers, rebellious German soldiers say
Post Date: 2011-02-24 02:47:41 by Tatarewicz
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You'd never know it from Canadian mainstream media coverage of the war in Afghanistan, of course, but Spiegel Online International reported yesterday that German troops in that country are in a state of near revolt against their commanders. The reason? The danger they face training Afghan soldiers who, in the words of one German trooper quoted by the magazine, "consider us to be infidels who don't belong in their country." Said another Bundeswehr soldier quoted by the English-language online edition of the German newsmagazine: "One doesn't know anymore if they will suddenly turn their weapons on you." The reason for this angst is the attack last Friday ...
US Commanders Insist Afghan Parents Burn Kids All the Time
Post Date: 2011-02-23 16:34:31 by tom007
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US Commanders Insist Afghan Parents Burn Kids All the Time Afghan Officials Rail Against 'Insulting and Racist' Claims by Jason Ditz, February 22, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Reports that Gen. David Petraeus, the top US Commander in Afghanistan, accused parents in rural Kunar Province of burning their children simply to make the US “look bad” sparked considerable consternation, and what passes these days for an “explanation” from the military. “Petraeus never said that children’s hands and feet were purposely burned by their families in order to create a civilian casualty event,” insisted spokesman Rear Admiral ...
Military chaplain: Soldier’s rape ‘must have been God’s will’
Post Date: 2011-02-20 18:28:29 by tom007
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Military chaplain: Soldier’s rape ‘must have been God’s will’ By Sahil Kapur Friday, February 18th, 2011 -- 12:35 pm Share68 Share3193 405 Share182 Share4557 Share14 Tags: anecdote, colleague, Constitutional, donald rumsfeld, experience, geoff morrell, lawsuit, military, military chaplain, PDF, pentagon, pentagon spokesman, post traumatic stress, post traumatic stress disorder, problem, robert gates, Secretaries, secretaries of state, Sergeant, soldier, state, traumatic stress disorder, violence WASHINGTON – A lawsuit targeting the Pentagon contains an astonishing anecdote about a retired Sergeant's experience after being sexually assaulted by a colleague ...
Rumsfeld: WMD issue was ‘the big one’ in deciding to invade Iraq (Why Isn't This Man iHanging?)
Post Date: 2011-02-20 17:45:51 by tom007
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Rumsfeld: WMD issue was ‘the big one’ in deciding to invade Iraq * Posted on 02.20.11 * Categories: Featured, Nation Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said Sunday that the Bush’s administration’s erroneous belief that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was not the only reason for invasion, but it was “the big one.” “I think the concern I had was that the information we had was imperfect,” Rumsfeld told CNN’s Candy Crowley. “It was more than imperfect,” Crowley interrupted. “Some of it was just flat wrong.” An Iraqi defector, codenamed Curveball, who allegedly helped convince the Bush administration ...
NASCAR and the military
Post Date: 2011-02-16 15:52:43 by paddlefeet
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Sen.Betty McCollum D Minn. is sponsering a bill to stop the military from advertising with NASCAR.Most of us have seen Dale Jr. and the National Guard car,being the most prominent,but the Army,Navy are in the game as well.According to the Senator the Pentagon has spent 100 million of our tax dollars over the last ten years.I wonder how much the Pentagon spends in Mexico,Central America,South America for advertising at soccor games.Hispanics seem to have filled the military. hmmmmm
Iraqi: I'm proud my WMD lies led to war in Iraq
Post Date: 2011-02-16 13:22:19 by freepatriot32
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LONDON – An Iraqi man whose testimony the United States used as a key evidence to build a case for war in Iraq says he is proud that he lied about his country developing mobile biological warfare labs. The Guardian newspaper published an interview Wednesday with Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, who has been identified as the informer called "Curveball," whose claims about weapon labs formed part of then-U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell's speech to the U.N. Security Council in 2003, shortly before the war began. The Guardian quoted al-Janabi as saying: "I had the chance to fabricate something to topple the regime. I and my sons are proud of that." Although ...
Rand Paul pleads for conservatives to oppose the PATRIOT Act [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-02-16 00:11:09 by abraxas
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Rand Paul pleads for conservatives to oppose the PATRIOT Act By Sahil Kapur Tuesday, February 15th, 2011 -- 12:02 pm WASHINGTON – Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) wrote to colleagues Tuesday voicing objections to the PATRIOT Act as it heads to the Senate for reauthorization, warning that it could turn America into a "police state." Paul, a tea party favorite who was first elected last November, expressed opposition to warrantless searches and surveillance, questioning their constitutionality and their necessity to protect the United States from terrorist acts. "I object to these warrantless searches being performed on United States citizens," he wrote. "I object to ...
US soldiers doped up to bring out killer instinct?
Post Date: 2011-02-11 21:22:02 by Tatarewicz
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Family Massacre In US Linked To American Military ‘Murder Drugs" A chilling report prepared for President Medvedev by the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (RAMS) says that a massacre in the United States committed during the past fortnight has as its “most likely cause” what are described as “murder drugs” being given by the millions to American Soldiers by their Military Leaders for the fighting of their Nations wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. According to this report, Julie Schenecker [photo top left], the wife of US Army Colonel Parker Schenecker, shockingly murdered her two children, Carlyx, age 16, and Beau, age 13, [photos 2nd left], in a sudden bloody ...
US Thanks and Encourages Spain to Prosecute Bush Officials
Post Date: 2011-02-11 02:39:26 by Tatarewicz
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WarIsACrime.org If you've wanted to be part of a powerful effort to bring Bush-era officials to justice for their crimes, now is your chance. We've joined a national effort to reach out to the people of Spain, whose courts are considering prosecuting six of Bush's lawyers under international law. Our campaign includes an open letter and ads in prominent Spanish newspapers and billboards. Even though the Obama administra tion has been working hard behind the scenes to stop this, our friends at the Center for Constitutional Rights have already submitted proof to the Spanish courts that our government is not taking action under international law and treaties. Now is our chance - ...
Patriot Act fails on House floor — but it will be back
Post Date: 2011-02-09 06:35:37 by Ada
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A plan that would have seen the House of Representatives extend controversial provisions of the Patriot Act with little debate failed Tuesday night, as a group of Republicans joined a majority of Democrats in voting no. The House voted 277 to 148 for the Patriot Act extension -- 23 votes short of the two-thirds majority needed to pass it under a procedure that allows bills that aren't controversial to pass quickly. But it appears the bill was controversial enough to convince some two dozen tea party-backed Republican freshmen to join a majority of Democrats in voting against it, The Hill reported. The measure is now expected to return to the House floor for a regular vote that would ...
Army Chief Ashkenazi: Prepare for all-out war
Post Date: 2011-02-09 05:53:30 by noone222
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In his final days on the job, Chief of Staff Ashkenazi warns about growing radicalization in region; given recent changes across Middle East, Israel must prepare for a battle in several theaters, he says Boaz Fyler Published: 02.07.11, 19:51 / Israel News share Given recent changes in the Middle East, Israel must prepare for a battle in several theaters, outgoing IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi said Monday at the Herzliya Conference. "The connection between the different players requires us to contend with more than one theater," he said. The radical camp in the Middle East is gaining strength, Ashkenazi warned, adding that "the moderate camp among the ...
Field Notes on American-Style Democracy
Post Date: 2011-02-07 05:26:40 by Stephen Lendman
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Field Notes on American-Style Democracy - by Stephen Lendman Perhaps George Bernard Shaw was thinking of Obama's administration when he said, "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment of the corrupt few." Obama upholds the tradition and then some, doing more harm globally in two years than most of history's tinpot despots in decades, yet most of it gets little attention. Imagine what's planned ahead. Already, his legacy includes: -- breaking every key promise he made across the board; -- looting the nation's wealth, wrecking the economy, and consigning growing millions to impoverishment without ...
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