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Latest Articles: War, War, War
USA Senator Suggests Major Attack On Iran - Lindsey Graham
Post Date: 2010-11-07 22:22:07 by randge
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Poster Comment:Gentlemen: Perhaps it's time to dig out your asbestos drawers.
Sen.-elect Paul: GOP must consider military cuts [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-11-07 10:45:33 by Jethro Tull
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican Sen.-elect Rand Paul says GOP lawmakers must be open to cutting military spending as Congress tries to reduce government spending. The tea party favorite from Kentucky says compromise with Democrats over where to cut spending must include the military as well as social programs. Paul says all government spending must be "on the table." Paul tells ABC's "This Week" that he supports a constitutional amendment calling for a balanced budget. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below. WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican Sen.-elect Rand Paul says GOP lawmakers must be open to cutting ...
U.S. deploys drones in Yemen
Post Date: 2010-11-07 10:41:39 by Red Jones
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U.S. deploys drones in Yemen Nov. 7, 2010 12:00 AM Washington Post The United States has deployed Predator drones to hunt for al-Qaida operatives in Yemen for the first time in years but has not fired missiles from the unmanned aircraft because it lacks solid intelligence on the insurgents' whereabouts, senior U.S. officials said. The use of the drones is part of a campaign against an al-Qaida branch that has claimed responsibility for near-miss attacks on U.S. targets that could have had catastrophic results, including the recent plot to place parcels packed with explosives on cargo planes. U.S. officials said the Predators have been patrolling the skies over Yemen for several ...
After the Republicans gained control of the House, GOP Senator Lindsey Graham has urged Washington to "destroy" the Islamic Republic through military action.
Post Date: 2010-11-07 04:15:22 by PSUSA
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“Not to just neutralize their nuclear program, but to sink their navy, destroy their air force and deliver a decisive blow to the Revolutionary Guard, in other words neuter that regime," Graham said on Saturday Amid a standoff over Iran's nuclear program, both Tel Aviv and Washington have repeatedly threatened Tehran with the "option" of a military strike, based on the allegation that Iran's nuclear work may consist of a covert military agenda. The latest threat of a military action was invoked by US Admiral Mike Mullen, who claimed he was ready to start a war if he was convinced it would keep Iran from making a "bomb." Graham repeated Mullen's ...
Afghan soldier kills 3 US troops
Post Date: 2010-11-06 06:51:38 by Tatarewicz
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NATO said on Saturday that the Afghan soldier opened fire on the troopers and killed them in the city of Sangin in Helmand province on Friday evening. “The coalition and the Afghan government” launched a joint investigation into the incident, NATO added. “An Afghan soldier shot and killed the American service members on their base” Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef said in a statement on Saturday. He added that the Afghan solider defected to the militants after killing the Americans. Taliban militants “took him to a safe place,” the Taliban spokesperson further explained. Tatarewicz: Doesn't seem to be much about this in the West's Zionist media. ...
Wikileaks Is Zionist Poison
Post Date: 2010-11-06 01:22:18 by Tatarewicz
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Disinformation is defined as ‘misinformation that is deliberately disseminated in order to influence or confuse rivals.’ It is used by governments to mislead and brainwash their citizen populations, instigate wars, and blackmail foreign regimes. It is the ultimate instrument of the media. The most effective disinformation is that which is comprised of falsehood as well as facts. Wikileaks, founded by Julian Assange, fits this description perfectly, right down to the letter. Seemingly overnight, it has become one of the biggest ‘whistle-blowing’ agencies in modern history. In reality though, it is one of the biggest disinformation projects in modern history, and it may ...
Video: Anwar Al Awlaki Terrorist? Or Pentagon / CIA Asset? YOU MAKE THE CALL!
Post Date: 2010-11-04 19:45:37 by Horse
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Poster Comment:Anwar Al Awlaki was number 3 in Al Qaeda after 911. He ran the Fort Hood shooter and the Christmas Day Detroit bomber. He is the reason why we are subjected to naked body scanners and TSA perverts groping our genitals.
Military Keynesians Are the Worst Keynesians of All
Post Date: 2010-11-04 19:00:54 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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From the National Journal this week: America’s economic outlook is so grim, and political solutions are so utterly absent, that only another large-scale war might be enough to lift the nation out of chronic high unemployment and slow growth, two prominent economists, a conservative and a liberal, said today. Nobelist Paul Krugman, a New York Times columnist, and Harvard’s Martin Feldstein, the former chairman of President Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers, achieved an unnerving degree of consensus about the future during an economic forum in Washington. Their views were shared by a third economist, Jan Hatzius of Goldman Sachs, who said the only economic scenarios he ...
Guess I Should've Voted
Post Date: 2010-11-04 07:59:16 by Enderby
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Flush with optimism after major victories in yesterday’s Congressional elections, House Republicans have promised one of their first orders of business is to attack President Obama’s July 2011 drawdown date in Afghanistan, despite the comparative handicap that the president already disavowed that date months ago. Rep. Buck McKeon (R – CA), seen as a virtual lock to head the House Armed Services Committee, says that the committee’s top priority will be to continue the war in Afghanistan. McKeon pledged to work directly with commander Gen. David Petraeus to commit more equipment and resources to the war effort. Upon taking office in 2009, President Obama quickly ...
U.S. awards $500 mln contract to expand Afghan embassy (Let's See If The Repubs Cut This Spending)
Post Date: 2010-11-03 19:13:43 by tom007
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U.S. awards $500 mln contract to expand Afghan embassy KABUL (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department has awarded a contract worth more than half a billion dollars to expand its embassy in Afghan capital Kabul, a project it says will create hundreds of jobs and reflect its dedication to Afghanistan. The $511 million contract was awarded to U.S. construction firm Caddell Construction, Inc. by the U.S. Department of State Overseas Building Operations to build an addition to the chancery and expand permanent housing, the U.S. embassy in Kabul said. The contract will create more than 1,500 local jobs and inject around $200 million dollars into the Afghan economy through employment, purchase ...
The Military-Industrial Complex, Plus Congress
Post Date: 2010-11-03 19:06:00 by tom007
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The Military-Industrial Complex, Plus Congress by Thomas Gale Moore, November 03, 2010 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum In his farewell address to the nation, Jan. 17, 1961, President Eisenhower warned of the military-industrial complex. At the time, the U.S. defense budget accounted for 47 percent of the world’s arms expenditures; today it is over 50 percent. Eisenhower advised: “This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence – economic, political, and even spiritual – is felt in every city, every statehouse, and every office of the federal government. We ...
Bush claims he was a ‘dissenting voice’ on Iraq war
Post Date: 2010-11-03 15:00:25 by tom007
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Bush claims he was a ‘dissenting voice’ on Iraq war By Sahil Kapur Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010 -- 1:41 pm submit to reddit Stumble This! 11Share 1diggdigg georgewbush Bush claims he was a dissenting voice on Iraq warFormer President George W. Bush says he was a "dissenting voice" on the decision to invade Iraq because he "didn't want to use force" but ran out of options. "I was a dissenting voice. I didn't want to use force," Bush told NBC's Matt Lauer in his first interview promoting his new memoir, "Decision Points." "I mean force is the last option for a President," he continued, according to an NBC News ...
Imperial Gangbangers
Post Date: 2010-11-03 06:26:33 by Ada
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Florida Republican congressional candidate Allen West has been accused of consorting with bad company, in the form of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club. Whatever else can be said about the Outlaws, they are a far more reputable outfit than the gang Lt. Col. West used to hang with -- the armed forces of Washington's empire. For the most part, the Outlaws MC consists of hard-living but essentially decent people. Some of the club's members have used and dealt drugs -- which is foolish and self-destructive, but shouldn't be a crime. Others have been sent to prison for actual crimes of violence; those who have been incarcerated are numbered among the highly esteemed "One ...
David Broder: Symbol of Major Media Depravity
Post Date: 2010-11-01 13:00:27 by Stephen Lendman
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David Broder: Symbol of Major Media Depravity - by Stephen Lendman Currently writing a twice-weekly Washington Post column, Broder is called America's "dean" of political journalists, having covered every presidential campaign since Kennedy-Nixon. At age 81 (ironically born September 11, 1929), his bio lists an array of awards as well as accolades like: -- "Washington's most highly regarded columnist; -- Best Reporter; -- Hardest Working; -- the high priest of political journalism; -- the most respected and influential political journalist in the country; and -- Least Ideological," among others. Phew, for a man distinguished more for supporting power and ...
David Broder Wants a Disastrous War with Iran to Boost the U.S. Economy
Post Date: 2010-11-01 10:55:05 by tom007
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David Broder Wants a Disastrous War with Iran to Boost the U.S. Economy Posted by Joshua Holland on @ 10:42 am Article printed from speakeasy: blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy URL to article: blogs.alternet.org/speake...to-boost-the-u-s-economy/ Even by the perverse standards set by the opinion-shapers in the editorial pages of the Washington Post, David Broder’s offering today stands out as a unique blend of moral depravity and intellectual laziness. Broder: I know that Democrats have fallen into a peck of trouble and may lose control of Congress. But even if they do, Obama can still storm back to win a second term in 2012. He is that much better than the competition. [...] But if ...
Dan Bull - WikiLeaks and the Need for Free Speech
Post Date: 2010-11-01 09:43:35 by Horse
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Poster Comment:I listened to this musical video twice before deciding to post it. It is for the young.
US troops beheaded Iraqi detainee
Post Date: 2010-11-01 09:21:47 by PSUSA
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American forces decapitated an Iraqi last year on the order of their higher-up, show recently-exposed US military documents. The troops operated under the command of an unnamed US major, who had been involved in the rape of an Iraqi female, showed one such document posted on the whistleblower website WikiLeaks. The incident took place after the victim, the brother of the raped female, reportedly killed a military official in reprisal for the indecent assault. To enable the May incident in the city of Haditha of the western Iraq province of Al Anbar, the major said he was undertaking the transfer of two prisoners, including the victim. WikiLeaks has released around 400,000 documents on the ...
US Iraq war vets call for complete, immediate pullout
Post Date: 2010-11-01 00:48:14 by Tatarewicz
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IVAW Statement on the Iraq War Logs - A Call for Accountability by Iraq Veterans Against the War The recent Wikileaks release--The Iraq War Logs--has shed important light on the high rate of civilian death and widespread atrocities, including torture, that are endemic to the war in Iraq. As veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, we are outraged that the U.S. government sought to hide this information from the U.S. public, instead presenting a sanitized and deceptive version of war, and we think it is vital for this and further information to get out. Members of IVAW have experienced firsthand the realities of war on the ground, and since our inception we have spoken out about ...
WashPost: War with Iran would rescue economy
Post Date: 2010-11-01 00:29:37 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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Washington Post political correspondent David Broder has kind words for President Barack Obama in in his opinion column Sunday, arguing that it isn't the president's fault the economy is stuck in reverse. But the four-decade-plus veteran of Washington politics offers a startling solution to the president's political and economic woes: March off to war with Iran. The president, who is "much smarter" and "more inspirational" than any of his opponents, could benefit from a confrontation with Iran because it would strike up a war machine that would pull the US out of economic stagnation, Broder argues. He writes that there are "essentially" two ways ...
Robert Fisk: Exodus. The changing map of the Middle East
Post Date: 2010-10-31 19:02:57 by tom007
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Exodus: Robert Fisk: Exodus. The changing map of the Middle East From Israel to Iraq, a Christian flight of Biblical proportions has begun. Tuesday, 26 October 2010 * Share The Independent Close o DiggDigg o del.icio.usdel.icio.us o FacebookFacebook o RedditReddit o GoogleGoogle o Stumble UponStumble Upon o FarkFark o NewsvineNewsvine o zYahooBuzz o BeboBebo o TwitterTwitter o Independent MindsIndependent Minds * Print * Email * Text Size o Normal o Large o Extra Large A cross is decorated with lights as an Orthodox Christians in the northern Iraqi city of Arbil commemorate the Elevation of the Holy Cross on September 13, 2010, GETTY IMAGES A cross is decorated with lights as an ...
US: myth of the two party system Would America look much different if Republican John McCain had beaten Democrat Barack Obama to become president?
Post Date: 2010-10-31 14:17:49 by tom007
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US: myth of the two party system Would America look much different if Republican John McCain had beaten Democrat Barack Obama to become president? Cindy Sheehan Last Modified: 31 Oct 2010 17:53 GMT Throughout his political career, Seantor Joe Lieberman of Connecticut has constantly hurdled the "partisan divide" which is a true symbol of the narrow nature of America's institutional political spectrum [EPA] "The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people ...
Child soldiers 'no bar' for US aid Obama administration decides to continue funding to Chad, Yemen, Sudan and DRC though they use children in armed forces.
Post Date: 2010-10-30 18:12:17 by tom007
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Child soldiers 'no bar' for US aid Obama administration decides to continue funding to Chad, Yemen, Sudan and DRC though they use children in armed forces. Last Modified: 30 Oct 2010 03:44 GMT Rebel groups like Sudan's Justice and Equality Movement, shown in this video frame, use child soldiers. The United States will exempt four governments from penalties for doing so. [Al Jazeera] >english.aljazeera.net/mritems/Images/2010/8/29/2010829135757612797_20.jpg"> In a decision critics say has undermined a powerful new law, the United States has decided to turn a blind eye to four countries that use child soldiers in their armed forces. In a brief and little-noticed ...
Recent revelations by WikiLeaks show how top American leaders lied, knowingly, to the American public, to American troops, and to the world.
Post Date: 2010-10-30 09:35:00 by tom007
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Recent revelations by WikiLeaks show how top American leaders lied, knowingly, to the American public, to American troops, and to the world. Ellen Knickmeyer on the carnage she saw as Baghdad bureau chief. In the dark morning hours of Feb. 22, 2006, a group of unknown attackers detonated bombs in the northern Iraqi city of Samarra, bringing down the golden dome of a revered Shia Muslim shrine. A few hours later, I drove through Baghdad and watched the country descend into civil war. Then the Baghdad bureau chief for The Washington Post, I drove with Iraqi and American colleagues to Sadr City, the sprawling slum on the outskirts of the city. We watched hundreds of black-clad religious ...
Heroic soldiers fighting for a government of war criminals
Post Date: 2010-10-30 07:16:25 by Tatarewicz
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HEROIC SOLDIERS FIGHTING FOR A GOVERNMENT OF WAR CRIMINALS Despite the press releases, TV dramas and news reports, there is no terrorist organization called Al Qaeda. There never has been. None of the “intelligence” about Al Qaeda and Iraq proved correct, quite the contrary, it proved to be purposefully false, created to justify an illegal invasion, created at the request of the President of the United States. Our government was controlled by war criminals and the invasion of Iraq and even Afghanistan are considered by every responsible expert in international law as criminal acts. The idea of invading Afghanistan looking for Osama bin Laden, the man someone said was responsible ...
Koreas exchange gunfire at land border, cause unclear
Post Date: 2010-10-29 08:35:45 by Jethro Tull
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SEOUL, Oct 29 (Reuters) - North and South Korea exchanged gunfire across their heavily armed land border on Friday, the South's military said, despite an apparent thaw in tensions on the divided peninsula in the past few months. The rare exchange of fire took place a fortnight before the leaders of the world's 20 top economies meet for a G20 summit in the South Korean capital Seoul, about 100 km (60 miles) south of the demilitarised zone. The South's defence ministry said in a statement none of its troops were hurt, and there had been "no more unusual activity by the North". A South Korean military official said the army had put on heightened alert. It was not ...
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