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Latest Articles: War, War, War
Red Cross says Afghan conditions worst in 30 years
Post Date: 2010-12-16 08:13:56 by Kamala
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Red Cross says Afghan conditions worst in 30 years 15 Dec 2010 Source: reuters // Reuters Dec 15 (Reuters) - By Jonathon Burch KABUL, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Spreading violence in Afghanistan is preventing aid organisations from providing help, with access to those in need at its worst level in three decades, the Red Cross said on Wednesday. "The proliferation of armed groups threatens the ability of humanitarian organisations to access those in need. Access for the ICRC has over the last 30 years never been as poor," said Reto Stocker, Afghanistan head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which rarely makes public comments. "The sheer fact the ICRC has ...
America's Dirty Secret: ApPak War Not Winnable
Post Date: 2010-12-16 05:22:53 by Stephen Lendman
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America's Dirty Secret: AfPak War Not Winnable - by Stephen Lendman Before dying, Richard Holbrooke admitted it, saying "You've got to stop this war in Afghanistan." The Washington Post reinterpreted it, saying: "Holbrooke's death is the latest complication in an effort plagued by unreliable partners, reluctant allies and an increasingly skeptical American public." They're not alone. Include noted analysts, administration officials, the influential Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and Pentagon top brass. An earlier article discussed it, accessed through the following link: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010 ...
Afghanistan Corrupted by U.S. and 30 Years of Foreign Meddling
Post Date: 2010-12-15 17:28:28 by ghostdogtxn
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NATO Air Strike Destroys Afghan School, Kills 30 ‘Suspects’ Governor Terms Bombing of School 'Accident (Long Live The EMPIRE)'
Post Date: 2010-12-15 07:50:47 by tom007
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NATO Air Strike Destroys Afghan School, Kills 30 ‘Suspects’ Governor Terms Bombing of School 'Accident' by Jason Ditz, December 14, 2010 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum In a series of air strikes launched yesterday in the Baghlan Province in northern Afghanistan, the NATO forces destroyed a public school as well as killing 30 “suspected Taliban militants,” according to the provincial governor. The governor termed the attack on the school an “accident,” and so far there have been no reports of civilian casualties from that particular attack. The identies of the 30 slain in the other strikes have yet to be announced, beyond their ...
The True Richard Holbrooke Legacy
Post Date: 2010-12-15 05:18:47 by Stephen Lendman
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The True Richard Holbrooke Legacy - by Stephen Lendman Dead on December 13 at age 69 after two aorta tear surgeries failed to save him, Western media headlines hailed the man London Guardian writers Ed Pilkington and Adam Gabbat called a "giant of US foreign policy," saying his loss leaves "a substantial hole to fill." On December 13, New York Times writer Robert McFadden headlined, "Strong American Voice in Diplomacy and Crisis," saying: "Mr. Holbrooke was hospitalized on (December 10) after becoming ill. (After two major surgeries, he) remained in very critical condition until his death....A brilliant, sometimes abrasive infighter, he used a ...
Chinese Envoy Rejects Call to Rein in N.Korea
Post Date: 2010-12-11 18:13:05 by X-15
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A Chinese envoy on Thursday rejected calls for Beijing to curb North Korea made by the foreign ministers of South Korea, the U.S. and Japan earlier this week after the North's artillery attack on Yeongpyeong Island. Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua said, "It's unreasonable for South Korea, the U.S. and Japan to ask China to use its influence over the North." Cheng was speaking with the Asahi Shimbun on Thursday. If the three countries "have anything to demand of the North, they should hold direct dialogue with the country," instead of China, he said. "Dialogue is the only way unless they want to aggravate the situation." "China does not ...
Losing the war on terror
Post Date: 2010-12-11 03:30:48 by Tatarewicz
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Everyone knows that only Muslim-lovers and left-wing peaceniks want to stop the wars in Afghanistan and other Muslim countries, that terrorism is caused by Muslim ideology, and that we're fighting them "over there" so we don't have to fight them here. Right? In fact, as University of Chicago professor Robert A. Pape - who specializes in international security affairs - points out: Extensive research into the causes of suicide terrorism proves Islam isn't to blame -- the root of the problem is foreign military occupations. Wait, what? That can't be right! But as Pape explains: Each month, there are more suicide terrorists trying to kill Americans and their ...
'tube - David Duke: Who taught America to torture?
Post Date: 2010-12-10 13:24:04 by Jethro Tull
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Will the US and Interpol be as Aggressive in Arresting Dick Cheney as They Have Been with Julian Assange? (OK Quit Laughing)
Post Date: 2010-12-10 07:58:47 by tom007
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Will the US and Interpol be as Aggressive in Arresting Dick Cheney as They Have Been with Julian Assange? Submitted by BuzzFlash on Thu, 12/09/2010 - 5:23pm. * Guest Commentary STEPHEN PIZZO FOR BUZZFLASH Not since bin Laden became numero uno on the FBI's Most Wanted list have we seen Western intelligence and law enforcement so jacked up. The world's judicial machinery has kicked into the highest of high gears in the effort to nail Wikileaks leader, Julian Assange. The key piece of paper that triggered get this kind of hyper-attention seems to have been a Swedish arrest warrant filed with Interpol. After that happened it was only a matter of days before Assange was behind bars ...
‘All-out cyber war’ erupts over WikiLeaks: ‘Anonymous’ hackers take MasterCard, Visa offline
Post Date: 2010-12-08 16:48:46 by tom007
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‘All-out cyber war’ erupts over WikiLeaks: ‘Anonymous’ hackers take MasterCard, Visa offline By Stephen C. Webster Wednesday, December 8th, 2010 -- 10:47 am submit to reddit Stumble This! 1772Share 14diggsdigg mastercardworldwide All out cyber war erupts over WikiLeaks: Anonymous hackers take MasterCard, Visa offlineThird update: 'Operation Payback' targets Visa.com, site goes down in minutes 'Anonymous' hackers flexed their muscle again Wednesday, orchestrating a successful denial of service attack against Visa, the largest credit card provider in the world. A Twitter account connected to the hackers declared the start of the attacks and the site was ...
Ex-Intelligence Officers, Others See Plusses in WikiLeaks Disclosures
Post Date: 2010-12-08 14:52:02 by tom007
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Ex-Intelligence Officers, Others See Plusses in WikiLeaks Disclosures WASHINGTON – December 7 – The following statement was released today, signed by Daniel Ellsberg, Frank Grevil, Katharine Gun, David MacMichael, Ray McGovern, Craig Murray, Coleen Rowley and Larry Wilkerson; all are associated with Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence. WikiLeaks has teased the genie of transparency out of a very opaque bottle, and powerful forces in America, who thrive on secrecy, are trying desperately to stuff the genie back in. The people listed below this release would be pleased to shed light on these exciting new developments. How far down the U.S. has slid can be seen, ...
US Soldiers Turn To Diet Pills, Liposuction To Meet Weight Standards
Post Date: 2010-12-08 08:51:12 by Jethro Tull
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US Soldiers Turn To Diet Pills, Liposuction To Meet Weight Standards Updated: Wednesday, 08 Dec 2010, 8:10 AM EST By NewsCore US soldiers are going to extremes -- taking diet pills and laxatives, even starving themselves and getting liposuction -- in order to meet the military’s weight standards, the Army Times reported Monday. “Liposuction saved my career -- laxatives and starvation before an [Army Physical Fitness Test] sustains my career,” an anonymous soldier told the weekly paper. “I for one can attest that soldiers are using liposuction, laxatives and starvation to meet height and weight standards. I did, do and still do.” More than a third of uniformed ...
'tube - Remember Pearl Harbor - and other government lies
Post Date: 2010-12-07 11:21:38 by Jethro Tull
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Poster Comment:FDR - War criminal
Tora Tora Tora
Post Date: 2010-12-07 09:41:05 by Lod
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WikiLeaks Says That Ambassador Glaspie Didn't Mean To Provoke Hussein Into War
Post Date: 2010-12-06 19:30:20 by Red Jones
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Diplomats Were Misled by Saddam's 'Cordial' Manner By Bernhard Zand Did one clumsy statement by the US ambassador in Iraq trigger the first Gulf War? The leaked US cables show diplomats failed to pick up signs that Saddam Hussein was preparing to invade Kuwait, and that they painted his regime in a consistently favorable light in the years leading up to the conflict. On the morning of July 25, 1990, Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein called in the US Ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie. It was her first meeting with Saddam and it lasted two hours. And will likely go down in history as one of the most controversial incidents in American diplomacy. That very evening, Glaspie cabled ...
FBI Plants Informant in Mosque to Incite Violence; Muslims Report Him to FBI
Post Date: 2010-12-06 16:55:53 by ghostdogtxn
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US Diplomats Bewildered and Bamboozled in Baghdad
Post Date: 2010-12-06 14:15:11 by tom007
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US Diplomats Bewildered and Bamboozled in Baghdad By Dieter Bednarz and Bernhard Zand Photo Gallery: 7 Photos AFP Roughly 5,500 classified cables from the US Embassy in Baghdad paint a grim picture of why America's stunning military victory over Iraq devolved into disaster: The Americans allowed themselves to get entangled in the Sunni-Shiite conflict while being systematically outmaneuvered by the Iranians. There hadn't been a US Embassy in Baghdad for 14 years when the United States and Iraq resumed diplomatic relations on June 30, 2004. On that day, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari wrote to his American counterpart, Secretary of State Colin Powell, that it was ...
Iran unvails long-range, unmanned bomber
Post Date: 2010-12-06 03:49:58 by Tatarewicz
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, has inaugurated what his government calls the country's first domestically built, long-range, unmanned bomber aircraft. Speaking to a group of officials on Sunday, he described it an "ambassador of death" to Iran's enemies. The four-metre-long unmanned aircraft, dubbed the Karrar [striker in Farsi], was inaugurated on the national day for the country's defence industry in a ceremony aired live on state TV. No details were provided on the craft's capabilities. "The jet, as well as being an ambassador of death for the enemies of humanity, has a main message of peace and friendship," Ahmadinejad said. The goal ...
US space plane touches down
Post Date: 2010-12-05 10:43:24 by Red Jones
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US space plane touches down Published Date: 05 December 2010 By Angus Howarth The US military's secretive X-37B unmanned spaceplane slipped out of orbit and landed in early morning darkness at a California airbase after a successful maiden flight that lasted more than seven months. The stubby-winged, robotic craft fired its engine to begin re-entry into Earth's atmosphere and autonomously landed at coastal Vandenberg Air Force Base, 130 miles north-west of Los Angeles. Range safety officers were on hand to track its descent over the Pacific and activate a destruct mechanism if the landing needed to be aborted. Vandenberg released infrared camera Vandenberg released infrared ...
'Operation Scorched Earth' - A US Hand in Yemen's Civil War
Post Date: 2010-12-04 11:21:41 by Red Jones
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'Operation Scorched Earth' - A US Hand in Yemen's Civil War By Juliane von Mittelstaedt Yemen is becoming an important refuge for al-Qaida terrorists, but authorities in the country are more interested in pursuing its war against Shiite rebels in the north. American weapons are used in the fight -- and the US secretly pursues terrorists on their own. His Excellency Ali Abdullah Saleh, the first and so far only president of the Republic of Yemen, ruler over 23 million inhabitants and 50 million firearms, is not a good man to have as an enemy -- but having him as a friend is even worse. In Yemen he is called "The Boss." Since 2004, the boss has been fighting a ...
Stormy Weather Greets President Obama in Surprise Visit to Afghanistan
Post Date: 2010-12-03 11:48:02 by Jethro Tull
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President Obama appeared before an audience at West Point and told the nation he was sending 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan, he has come to meet with troops in the war-torn country for his second visit as commander-in-chief -- where he is being greeted by bad weather and storms of an altogether different kind. The rough winds and dark clouds could symbolize the challenges the president and his team face here, as the war -- now in its 10th year -- risks being undermined by a corrupt government, a strong insurgency, leaks of classified cables, waning public support and shifting political winds. The president was originally scheduled to have a "working dinner" with Afghan ...
Cable reveals US behind airstrike that killed 21 children in Yemen (But Wikileaks has "Blood on their hands" )
Post Date: 2010-12-03 10:42:40 by tom007
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Cable reveals US behind airstrike that killed 21 children in Yemen By Eric W. Dolan Thursday, December 2nd, 2010 -- 12:46 pm submit to reddit Stumble This! 4227Share 25diggsdigg Yemen cluster bombA diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks shows that the US military covered up the killing of dozens of civilians during a cruise missile strike in south Yemen in December 2009. The secret cable from January 2010 corroborated images released earlier this year by Amnesty International, implicating the US in the use of cluster bombs. The cable was sent by Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh to US General David Petraeus, saying his government would "continue saying the bombs are ours, not ...
Pakistan stares into a valley of death
Post Date: 2010-12-01 13:50:06 by Red Jones
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Pakistan stares into a valley of death By Syed Saleem Shahzad ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's military headquarters has decided in principle to mount a military operation in the North Waziristan tribal area before the start of the Taliban's summer offensive in Afghanistan next year. The decision has been taken at a point that Washington has dropped any idea of dialogue with the Taliban, preferring to rely solely on brute force - a sudden shift in policy that Pakistan refers to as changing horses in midstream. At the same time, Pakistan's political leadership refuses to take ownership of the North Waziristan operation, leaving the armed forces alone to decide on its strategy. The ...
Allies conduct WMD-interception drills (US & S Korea Practice Naval Embargo Of N Korea)
Post Date: 2010-12-01 12:29:41 by Red Jones
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Allies conduct WMD-interception drills 2010-11-30 19:07 South Korea and the U.S. staged a naval exercise to enhance their abilities to stop the trafficking of weapons of mass destruction on Tuesday, the third day of their four-day exercise in the West Sea. “Under the scenario in which a ship suspected of carrying WMDs is caught passing at high seas, the allied militaries will practice sharing intelligence on the ship and sending warships to interdict the vessel,” said an official at the Joint Chiefs of Staff in a press briefing. “It is a high-level tactical drill. We are to mobilize Lynx helicopters to check the maritime situation and keep vigilance while deploying ...
Rep. Cantor puts defense spending ‘on the table’
Post Date: 2010-12-01 12:23:34 by Jethro Tull
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Rep. Cantor puts defense spending 56;on the table57; By Nathan DiebenowTuesday, November 30th, 2010 -- 3:22 pm Stumble This! Tweet Share digg_url = "http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/house-majority-leaderelect-defense-spending-cuts-on-table/"; digg_title = "Rep. Cantor puts defense spending 56;on the table57;"; The next House Majority Leader is so serious about cutting the federal budget that he is open to cutting defense spending, he said. "I think, you know, we've got to have everything on the table right now, Matt," Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) told Matt Lauer of NBC's Today Show on Tuesday. Cantor's answer came after ...
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