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Latest Articles: War, War, War
"North Korea" shells South's island
Post Date: 2010-11-23 06:50:50 by Tatarewicz
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North Korea shells South Korea: Twitter users react November 23, 2010 Koreas As news of North Korea’s shelling of a populated South Korean island broke late Monday, Twitter users shared their reactions on the social network. The Twitter conversation tags #prayforkorea, #koreapeace and #koreas all trended on Twitter. A selection of Tweets are below. A statement released by the White House said: "Earlier today North Korea conducted an artillery attack against the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong. We are in close and continuing contact with our Korean allies. The United States strongly condemns this attack and calls on North Korea to halt its belligerent action and to fully ...
The Specter of Defeat Haunts Lisbon
Post Date: 2010-11-23 06:47:53 by Ada
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According to the US government, 41.8 million Americans now receive food stamps. Meanwhile, Washington is spending $7 billion monthly on its nine-year old occupation of Afghanistan, not to mention billions more on trying to build an obedient Afghan army and to pay of Pakistani politicians and general. Last weekend, the US and its NATO allies met in Lisbon to try to hammer out a contradictory strategy that will keep western troops in Afghanistan indefinitely while assuaging public opinion in North America and Europe that wants the war to end. Most observers failed to note the historical irony that in the 1960’s and 70’s, Portugal had waged a long, debilitating colonial war to ...
Remembering Chalmers Ashby Johnson (8/6/31 - 11/20/10)
Post Date: 2010-11-23 05:29:38 by Stephen Lendman
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Remembering Chalmers Ashby Johnson (8/6/31 - 11/20/10) - by Stephen Lendman A personal note. It's no way to begin a Sunday or any day. An email explained. My first thought was: damn, we lost another good one when we urgently need him and many others, given the state of today's America - out-of-control militarism, imperial arrogance, and homeland repression at a time of economic crisis for millions. Johnson knew the threat, challenging it brilliantly in his important writings and outspokenness. Now he's gone. A former cold warrior, Chal, as friends called him, turned activist critic of US foreign policy, an imperial agenda doomed to fail. When the Cold War ended, he saw no ...
Negotiator for Taliban was an impostor, Afghan officials say
Post Date: 2010-11-23 01:18:14 by scrapper2
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KABUL - A man purporting to be one of the Taliban's most senior commanders convinced both Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the NATO officials who flew him to Afghanistan's capital for meetings, but two senior Afghan officials now believe the man was a lowly shopkeeper from the Pakistani city of Quetta. His daring ruse has flummoxed those attempting to start a peace process with a determined Taliban adversary. "He was a very clever man," one of the officials said. The man claimed to be Akthar Mohammad Mansour, the second-ranking Taliban commander after Mohammad Omar, and he met with Karzai and Afghan officials at least twice in recent months to discuss possible peace ...
Think tank: 92% of Afghans never heard of 9/11
Post Date: 2010-11-22 15:41:34 by Red Jones
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Think tank: 92% of Afghans never heard of 9/11 By Daniel Tencer Global Research, November 21, 2010 rawstory.com - 2010-11-19 Fewer than one in 10 Afghans are aware of the 9/11 attacks and their precipitation of the war in Afghanistan, says a study from an international think tank. A report (PDF) from the International Council on Security and Development (ICOS) shows that 92 percent of those surveyed had never heard of the coordinated multiple attacks on US soil on September 11, 2001. It also shows that four in 10 Afghans believe the US is on their soil in order to "destroy Islam or occupy Afghanistan." To be sure, the survey can't claim to be definitive: It only ...
War is a Lie
Post Date: 2010-11-22 02:07:37 by Tatarewicz
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War Is A Lie, just published by David Swanson, exposes virtually all lies about all wars in history. "Not a single thing that we commonly believe about wars that helps keep them around is true. Wars cannot be good or glorious. Nor can they be justified as a means of achieving peace or anything else of value. The reasons given for wars, before, during, and after them (often three very different sets of reasons for the s ame war) are all false." Let's make War Is A Lie #1 on Amazon. The reviews of War Is A Lie already are phenomenal. Rob Kall of OpEdNews calls it "an important, destined to be classic book." He adds, "If there are awards for brilliant books that ...
Lieberman to Push for Iran War Resolution?
Post Date: 2010-11-19 15:36:10 by Red Jones
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Lieberman to Push for Iran War Resolution? Wednesday, November 17, 2010 By: Jamal Abdi - Opinion Senator Joe Lieberman on Tuesday signaled that the incoming Congress may consider endorsing war with Iran. Senator Joe Lieberman on Tuesday signaled that the incoming Congress may consider endorsing war with Iran. Speaking before the Foreign Policy Initiative, a neoconservative think tank formed by many of the chief architects of the Iraq war, Lieberman was questioned by accomplished war advocate Bill Kristol about how the new Congress will factor into Iran policy. Lieberman said that Congress would focus on pressing the Administration on sanctions, but also suggested Congress may decide ...
Nato leaders to agree far-reaching cuts of 30% in military command structure
Post Date: 2010-11-19 03:55:09 by GreyLmist
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Proposals that will involve return of 4,000 officers to their home countries strongly endorsed by David Cameron guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 17 November 2010 20.39 GMT Leaders of the Nato alliance are to endorse cuts of 30% in its military command structure that will see about 4,000 officers return to their home countries. Under plans to be agreed at the Nato summit, which opens in Lisbon on Friday, the alliance's 28 leaders will agree to what is being described by officials as a "pruning" of the Nato Christmas tree. The alliance will cut the number of: • Military officers based at a series of Nato headquarters, mainly in Brussels, from 13,000 to 9,000. • Nato ...
Disabled Vets Memorial Has DC Groundbreaking
Post Date: 2010-11-19 03:44:45 by GreyLmist
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AssociatedPress | November 10, 2010 Dozens of veterans and their gathered just a few miles from the US Capitol Wednesday for the groundbreaking of a new memorial honoring the nation's 3 million living disabled vets, including 53,000 who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. (Nov. 10)
'It's not our fault': George Bush blames allied forces for prolonged war in Afghanistan
Post Date: 2010-11-16 23:05:32 by bush_is_a_moonie
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George Bush has laid the blame for the prolonged war in Afghanistan on NATO allies who didn't pull their weight on the battlefield.
The ex-president blasted critics who claim his administration took its 'eye off the ball' and allowed the conflict to escalate during the invasion of Iraq.
In an interview with CNN, Mr Bush said he assumed allied forces would take up the slack while US troops were busy toppling Saddam Hussein and coping with the ensuing insurgency.
'What happened in Afghanistan was that our NATO allies, some of them, turned out not to be willing to fight,' he said.
'Therefore, our assumption that we had ample troops - US and NATO troops - turned out to be not a true ...
Afghanistan: military quagmire and government money pit
Post Date: 2010-11-16 11:57:49 by ghostdogtxn
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Noted sociologist's perspective on Afghan war
Post Date: 2010-11-16 03:16:09 by Tatarewicz
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Rainmaking in Afghanistan The reports from our generals in Afghanistan -- trying to convince the public to support extension of the war, to be shortly reviewed by the president-- remind me of a study by anthropologist E. E. Evans-Pritchard. He wondered how rainmakers could stay in business, given that they hardly produce rain on demand. The shamans, he found, had well-honed explanations that kept them in business. Our generals are using the same rationales to keep going. When no raindrops followed the rainmakers' dance, they would claim that the dance was not properly performed. Our generals argue that we did not fight right in the first six years of our engagement in Afghanistan -- ...
Taki’s Plan for Uncle Sam
Post Date: 2010-11-15 14:12:43 by Ada
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NEW YORK—This is a good time to be in the Bagel. Walking briskly under changing autumn skies amid colors that still carry their summer clothes is inspiring. Heaven knows I need it. Early morning means judo training—hangover or not—and in foggy days I walk as if in a trance through the park, longing to reach the dojo before the yellow mist envelops me. After training it’s as if a heavy load was lifted from my shoulders. Literally. The heavy-duty training I’m putting in now will pay its dividends next year. That’s how it goes, judo-wise, karate-wise, tennis-wise, sport-wise. It’s like nature: One has to plant in order to reap, unlike fellow Greeks, who ...
German Government Plans to Extend Afghanistan Troop Mandate
Post Date: 2010-11-15 09:37:48 by Red Jones
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German Government Plans to Extend Afghanistan Troop Mandate The German government is on a collision course with the opposition Social Democrats over its decision not to start reducing troop numbers in Afghanistan until 2012. Chancellor Angela Merkel wants to renew the parliamentary mandate next year for up to 5,000 troops plus a flexible reserve of 350. The German government does not plan to start reducing German troop levels in Afghanistan until 2012, a decision which could result in a dispute with the center-left Social Democrats, the largest opposition party in Germany's parliament. Chancellor Angela Merkel, Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg and the interior and ...
USAF Lieutenant General: “That is a missile.”
Post Date: 2010-11-15 09:30:13 by randge
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This is not an airplane because of the plume and the way you see that plume. Airplanes do not con at sea level or 5,000 feet like that. I spent 35 years flying fighters and I never saw an airplane con like that. That is a missile, it’s launched from a submarine and you can see it goes through a correction course and then it gives a very smooth trajectory, meaning that the guidance system is now kicked in. It’s going at about a 45 degrees away from you. That’s why you’re not seeing a lot of vertical velocity… I am absolutely certain that that is not an aircraft . . . I do not think it’s a foreign threat . . . If it’s a black program, a classified ...
Reinventing a War Criminal: Defending the Bush Legacy
Post Date: 2010-11-13 05:29:26 by Stephen Lendman
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Reinventing a War Criminal: Defending the Bush Legacy - by Stephen Lendman The Bush legacy is based on lies, deceit, crimes of war and against humanity, and complicity in criminal fraud, a disgusting record deserving denunciation and prison, not shameless feting. Yet his new book, "Decision Points," attempts the impossible, a brazen scheme to reinvent a war criminal, one of history's greatest, his legacy marked by: -- neocon hellishness; -- duplicity and public betrayal; -- a disdain for human rights and civil liberties; -- lawlessness; -- racist hatemongering; -- usurping unconstitutional "Unitary Executive" authority, what Chalmers Johnson called "a ...
Wayne Madsen: China Fired Missile Seen In Southern California [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-11-12 15:00:35 by randge
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Wayne Madsen: China Fired Missile Seen In Southern California Prison Planet TV Wayne Madsen Report November 10, 2010 Pentagon and its embedded media covering up Chinese show of force off LA China flexed its military muscle Monday evening in the skies west of Los Angeles when a Chinese Navy Jin class ballistic missile nuclear submarine, deployed secretly from its underground home base on the south coast of Hainan island, launched an intercontinental ballistic missile from international waters off the southern California coast. WMR’s intelligence sources in Asia, including Japan, say the belief by the military commands in Asia and the intelligence services is that the Chinese decided ...
US wars serve Israel's interests - US journalist
Post Date: 2010-11-12 08:25:38 by Tatarewicz
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A journalist says the United States is engaged in wars that solely serve the interests of the Israeli regime. His comment comes as the suicide rates are increasing among US veterans because of the economic downturn and the US-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. According to the US Department of Veterans Affairs, 20 percent of some 30,000 suicides in the United States every year are committed by veterans. Eric Shineski Shineski, head of the US Department for Veterans, says the backlog of disability claims has risen to over 700 thousand this year, 200 thousands more than last year. Former US President George W Bush requested 38.7 billion dollars for veteran medical care alone in his budget ...
Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld wanted Iraq war
Post Date: 2010-11-12 07:56:38 by Tatarewicz
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At some point Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz started pushing hard to attack Iraq. In their minds, this disaster could be turned around into an ideal opportunity to end the problems we were having with Saddam Hussein — just blame the 911 attacks on him. I did not agree with that because there was absolutely zero intelligence that would indicate that Iraq was involved in the 911 attack. Nor was there intell linking either Saddam or anyone else in Iraq to Usama bin Laden. Both Mueller and Tenet had just made it clear that Usama bin Laden and his organization were responsible for these terrorist acts. I wondered how Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz planned to blame this on Saddam since neither the FBI nor ...
Iraq car bombing POLL
Post Date: 2010-11-11 05:51:39 by Tatarewicz
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With 9 votes, 55% blame Israel; 33% say it's a civil war. Good discussion.
End war, eliminate nukes - Ted Turner
Post Date: 2010-11-10 04:36:28 by Tatarewicz
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Turner Calls For End Of War And Elimination Of Nuclear Weapons (RTTNews) - Ted Turner, the founder of CNN and numerous other cable networks, said Tuesday that his goal is to end war and rid the nation of nuclear weapons. Turner, speaking at a conference broadly centered on improving mobile heath technology, said that the increasing interconnectedness of the world makes war increasingly undesirable. "War is so destructive and so ugly," he said. "The world is so interconnected [today]. … We can't afford war." Turner said that increases in mobile technology and the broadcasting of new information and images through mobile technology is making it increasingly ...
Fortunate Son
Post Date: 2010-11-09 21:41:33 by Lod
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U.S. Commander: U.S. Will Be Fighting in Afghanistan in 2014
Post Date: 2010-11-09 21:41:28 by christine
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(CNSNews.com) – U.S. Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, the commander of the NATO training mission in Afghanistan, indicated today that U.S. forces will still be fighting in Afghanistan in 2014, with current plans aiming to have "Afghan security forces in the lead" and U.S. forces in supporting roles by Dec. 31, 2014--more than four years from now. President Obama has said that U.S. forces will begin withdrawing from Afghanistan in July 2011. Given Lt. Gen. Caldwell's statement today, that drawdown will still be in progress three-and-a-half years after it begins. In July, Afghan President Hamid Karzai declared: “I am determined that our Afghan security forces will be ...
Obama's Fake Muslim Outreach
Post Date: 2010-11-09 14:17:15 by Stephen Lendman
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Obama's Fake Muslim Outreach - by Stephen Lendman While slaughtering Muslims abroad, supporting Israeli's illegal occupation and genocidal Gaza siege, as well as waging domestic war on Islam, Reuters, on November 9, headlined, "Obama says US earnest, reaching out to Muslim world," saying: From Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim country, "President Barack Obama said Tuesday that Washington's effort to reach out to the Muslim world was earnest and would help improve security, although he acknowledged that there was still more work to do." At a news conference with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhovono, he said, "With respect to outreach ...
'We're the Government – We'll Catch You'
Post Date: 2010-11-09 06:29:24 by Ada
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There is ...no human right, natural or Constitutional, that we have not seen nullified by the United States Government. Of all the crimes that are committed for gain or revenge, there is not one that we have not seen it commit – murder, mayhem, arson, robbery, fraud, criminal collusion and connivance. ~ Albert Jay Nock, Our Enemy, the State "If you ever f**k with me, you know who we are," arms dealer Nicholas Bickle told an associate during a drive in the Nevada desert. "We're the government, we'll catch you." Prior to his arrest in October, Bickle was a Navy SEAL who allegedly ran a small arms smuggling ring, importing at least 80 AK-47s from Iraq and ...
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