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Western Wars are Hell for women
Post Date: 2010-10-22 23:48:03 by Max
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Western Wars are Hell for women It was ten years ago that UN Security Council passed Resolution 1325, on the protection of women in war zones. However, a new study released by UN Population Fund (UNFPA) note that the greatest victims as result of western wars and sanctions (Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Palestine, Bosnia, Kosova, Kashmir, etc.) have been women. “Women rarely wage war, but they too often suffer the worst of its consequences,” says Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, executive director of the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA), which released Wednesday its 108-page annual ‘State of World Population’ on the impact of conflicts on women worldwide. The UNFPA says its study is ...
In the twentieth century, every war has been led by a democrat in the white house with the exception of the Persian Gulf Conflict [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-10-21 14:09:27 by christine
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Have there really been more wars under democratic presidents than republican presidents? If so then isn't it ironic that the democratic party are labeled as the "peace-mongers"? How about the draft system under the democratic presidents? Wheres the connection between the draft system and the democratic and republican presidents? In the twentieth century, every war has been led by a democrat in the white house with the exception of the Persian Gulf Conflict. WWI, Wilson, WWII, Roosevelt, Korea, Truman, Vietnam, Johnson. People will say its the republicans in congress, but since 1931, the republicans have been inpower a total of 16 years, many times the democrats held a ...
EXCLUSIVE: Al Qaeda Leader Dined at the Pentagon Just Months After 9/11
Post Date: 2010-10-20 19:45:52 by Dakmar
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Anwar Al-Awlaki may be the first American on the CIA's kill or capture list, but he was also a lunch guest of military brass at the Pentagon within months of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, Fox News has learned. Documents exclusively obtained by Fox News, including an FBI interview conducted after the Fort Hood shooting in November 2009, state that Awlaki was taken to the Pentagon as part of the military’s outreach to the Muslim community in the immediate aftermath of the attacks. Click here to read a portion of the documents. (edited by Dakmar - link locked up my 'puter) The incident was flagged by a current Defense Department employee who came forward and told ...
Continued Foibles in Iraq and Afghanistan
Post Date: 2010-10-20 16:11:19 by ghostdogtxn
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Doctor Chaplain and the Army of God
Post Date: 2010-10-20 11:15:08 by Red Jones
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Doctor Chaplain and the Army of God Posted By Kelley B. Vlahos On October 18, 2010 @ 11:00 pm Is the military feeding traumatized soldiers in need of counseling to proselytizing evangelical chaplains, instead of mental health professionals? You bet, says Mikey Weinstein of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), which has been tracking what Weinstein likes to call the “Fundamentalist-Christian-Para-Church-Military-Corporate-Proselytizing-Complex” for five years. More recently, there’s been “increasingly frequent and alarming” charges that religion is being pushed on soldiers with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in lieu of traditional treatment on the ...
Afghan detainee 'found dead'
Post Date: 2010-10-20 10:26:29 by Red Jones
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Afghan detainee 'found dead' By Reuters Last Updated: October 18, 2010 4:26am KABUL - A detainee being held by troops from the NATO-led force in Afghanistan was found dead in his holding cell, and an investigation is underway, the force said in a statement on Monday. The man was captured during a military operation by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) on Saturday and was "found dead" the following day in his cell in Kandahar province, ISAF said in a statement. It did not give any further details. Prisoner abuse and deaths of detainees while in the custody of foreign troops is a sensitive subject for many Afghans after U.S. troops beat to death two ...
The Truth About Terrorism, and the U.S. Government
Post Date: 2010-10-20 06:32:31 by Ada
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My writing this was inspired by Paul Craig Roberts’s great article The War on Terror, in which he tells the truth about what’s really going on, and I wanted to expand more on this terrorism subject. There are many reasons why the U.S. government needs to place itself on the Terrorist Watch List, but since there isn’t enough space to include all that here, I’ll just touch on the most important points. To begin, millions of Americans report their income and employment status to the U.S. government out of fear, and for no other reason. It certainly isn’t out of the goodness of their hearts (except for the most naïve amongst us). Most Americans who are required ...
Rebels ban cash transfer by phone in Somali
Post Date: 2010-10-19 10:06:09 by Red Jones
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Rebels ban cash transfer by phone in Somali Published Date: 19 October 2010 By Ibrahim Mohamed A SOMALI rebel group has banned the transfer and receipt of cash by mobile phone, a move the government said would stifle the economy and hurt entrepreneurs in a country where few hold bank accounts. The al Shabaab group, which professes loyalty to al-Qaeda, said mobile money transfers (MMT) helped feed Western capitalism and were turning Somalia's Muslims against Islamic banking practices. "The use of the MMT service will be discontinued in all parts of Somalia - and the companies that offer these services, specifically Hormuud, Telesom and Golis, must stop dealing with this ...
US Slams Iran for ‘Meddling’ in Iraqi Politics Outrage Comes in Wake of US Demands on Iraqi PM (Ya Can't Make It Up File)
Post Date: 2010-10-19 09:06:50 by tom007
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US Slams Iran for ‘Meddling’ in Iraqi Politics Outrage Comes in Wake of US Demands on Iraqi PM by Jason Ditz, October 18, 2010 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The US State Department today expressed outrage over what it called the Iranian government’s “meddling” in the domestic politics of Iraq. The comments come as Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, both the American and Iranian choice for a second term in office, was in Iran visiting top officials as well as potential coalition partners. Iranian officials, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made it quite clear that it was their preference that Maliki form a Shi’ite ...
New War Rumors: U.S. Plans To Seize Pakistan’s Nuclear Arsenal
Post Date: 2010-10-19 05:23:43 by Red Jones
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New War Rumors: U.S. Plans To Seize Pakistan’s Nuclear Arsenal By Rick Rozoff Global Research, October 16, 2010 Stop NATO - 2010-10-15 Two recent news items emanating from the United States have begun to reverberate in Pakistan and give rise to speculation that growing American drone strikes and NATO helicopter attacks in that country may be the harbingers of far broader actions: Nothing less than the expansion of the West’s war in Afghanistan into Pakistan with the ultimate goal of seizing the nation’s nuclear weapons. The News International, Pakistan’s largest English-language newspaper, published a report on October 13 based on excerpts from American journalist ...
Study Proves Aspartame Lung And Liver Cancer
Post Date: 2010-10-18 23:32:15 by Coral Snake
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Study Proves Aspartame Lung And Liver Cancer By Dr Betty Martini, D.Hum 10-19-10 A new study by Dr. Morando Soffritti at the Ramazzini Institute, demonstrated that aspartame administered in feed to Swiss mice induces significant dose-related increases of hepatocellular carcinomas and of alveolar/bronchiolar carcinoma in males. Dosages were 32,000, 8,000, 2000 or zero ppm, beginning on day 12 of gestation and lasting until death. See this new study at http://www.mpwhi.com/soffritti_2010_20896_fta.pdf While the new study is breaking, the history of aspartame being a carcinogen has always been known. Aspartame was known to cause cancer from the beginning. On August 1, 1985 FDA toxicologist, ...
Combat Stress Driving Up Army Crime, Drug Abuse, Suicides
Post Date: 2010-10-18 10:46:31 by christine
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The U.S. Army, under the accumulating stress of nine years at war, is suffering an alarming spurt of drug abuse, crime and suicide that is going unchecked, according to an internal study that depicts an Army in crisis. A small but growing number of soldiers who perform credibly in combat turn to high-risk behavior, including drug abuse, drunken driving, motorcycle street-racing, petty crime and domestic violence, once they return home. As a result, more soldiers are dying by drug overdose, accident, murder and suicide than in combat. Suicide is now the third-leading cause of death for soldiers. "Simply stated, we are often more dangerous to ourselves than the enemy,'' ...
The Odyssey of David Coleman Headley
Post Date: 2010-10-18 10:11:38 by ghostdogtxn
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Time to Admit It: It Was Wrong to Invade Afghanistan
Post Date: 2010-10-17 18:46:32 by Ada
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As the killing and destruction in Afghanistan have mounted over the past 10 years, and as they have expanded into Pakistan during the Obama administration, interventionists have tried to justify the massive death and destruction by claiming that the reason the U.S. government went to war against the Taliban was because the Taliban had supposedly been complicit in the 9/11 attacks. Unfortunately for the interventionists, however, nothing could be further from the truth. The U.S. government went to war against Afghanistan for one reason and one reason alone: The Afghan government (i.e., the Taliban regime) refused to comply with President Bush’s unconditional demand for bin ...
Injustice in the age of Obama
Post Date: 2010-10-17 16:21:46 by tom007
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Injustice in the age of Obama Barack Obama, a former law professor, should have a healthy respect for civil liberties, but his actions suggest not. Cindy Sheehan Last Modified: 16 Oct 2010 18:47 GMT E The treatment of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui is symbolic in the minds of many Muslims. Her treatment has caused more damage to US-Muslim relations (particularly in Pakistan) than any 'soft power' state department program could undo [EPA] Since being the defendant in about six trials after I was arrested for protesting the Iraq and Afghanistan occupations, it’s my experience that the police lie. Period. However the lies don’t stop at street law enforcement level. From lies about WMD ...
How propaganda is disseminated: WikiLeaks Edition
Post Date: 2010-10-17 14:32:47 by tom007
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How propaganda is disseminated: WikiLeaks Edition By Glenn Greenwald * How propaganda is disseminated: WikiLeaks Edition AP WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. This is how the U.S. government and American media jointly disseminate propaganda: in the immediate wake of some newsworthy War on Terror event, U.S. Government officials (usually anonymous) make wild and reckless -- though unverifiable -- claims. The U.S. media mindlessly trumpets them around the world without question or challenge. Those claims become consecrated as widely accepted fact. And then weeks, months or years later, those claims get quietly exposed as being utter falsehoods, by which point it does not matter, because the ...
What’s it all about? The War on Terror
Post Date: 2010-10-17 12:54:43 by Max
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What’s it all about? The War on Terror Paul Craig Roberts – Counterpunch October 15, 2010 Does anyone remember the “cakewalk war” that would last six weeks, cost $50-$60 billion, and be paid for out of Iraqi oil revenues? Does anyone remember that White House economist Lawrence Lindsey was fired by Dubya because Lindsey estimated that the Iraq war could cost as much as $200 billion? Lindsey was fired for over-estimating the cost of a war that, according to Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes, has cost 15 times more than Lindsey estimated. And the US still has 50,000 troops in Iraq. Does anyone remember that just prior to the US invasion of Iraq, the US government ...
No death penalty for US soldier charged with Afghan killings
Post Date: 2010-10-17 11:29:19 by Red Jones
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No death penalty for US soldier charged with Afghan killings By Laura Myers in Seattle AN AMERICAN soldier accused of murdering three Afghan civilians will not face the death penalty if convicted. The US army has ruled that Corporal Jeremy Morlock will face a full military court martial. Although a premeditated murder charge carries the possibility of a death sentence, the army has decided not to press for this. The 22-year-old soldier is oADVERTISEMENTne of five defendants charged with murder and conspiracy over the deaths between January and May this year. Another seven soldiers from the same unit have been charged with conspiracy to cover up the alleged murders, said to have taken ...
Earthquake Stricken Haitians Victimized by World Indifference
Post Date: 2010-10-17 05:34:48 by Stephen Lendman
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Earthquake Stricken Haitians Victimized by World Indifference - by Stephen Lendman Over 10 months post-quake, Haitian suffering continues, victimized by world indifference, contempt, and paralysis, a new Refugees International (RI) report saying they're "Still Trapped in the Emergency Phase." Under appalling conditions, camp inhabitants face evictions, violence, arbitrarily appointed absentee camp managers, and lack of concern for their needs, including by UN personnel. They're trained to know better and act responsibly, or they should be under all emergency circumstances they face. Committed personnel, more resources, and direct action are needed, what hasn't been ...
The War On Terror
Post Date: 2010-10-16 18:31:00 by Ada
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Does anyone remember the "cakewalk war" that would last six weeks, cost $50-$60 billion, and be paid for out of Iraqi oil revenues? Does anyone remember that White House economist Lawrence Lindsey was fired by Dubya because Lindsey estimated that the Iraq war could cost as much as $200 billion? Lindsey was fired for over-estimating the cost of a war that, according to Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes, has cost 15 times more than Lindsey estimated. And the US still has 50,000 troops in Iraq. Does anyone remember that just prior to the US invasion of Iraq, the US government declared victory over the Taliban in Afghanistan? Does anyone remember that the reason Dubya gave for ...
Afghanistan: Victims' Families Denounce U.S. 'Kill Team'
Post Date: 2010-10-16 12:26:39 by Red Jones
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Afghanistan: Victims' Families Denounce U.S. 'Kill Team' By JASON MOTLAGH / KANDAHAR AND MUHIB HABIBI / MAIWAND Jason Motlagh / Kandahar Fri Oct 15, 6:00 pm ET Details of the gruesome crimes in Afghanistan that have resulted in 12 U.S. Army soldiers facing trial at a base near Seattle have been slowly making their way into the public domain. Dozens of photos to be introduced as evidence in the case allegedly show men from a self-styled "kill team" accused of murdering Afghan civilians for sport posing beside charred and mutilated bodies, from which fingers and a head were allegedly severed as trophies. One soldier, who was said to have boasted of similar killings in ...
Witness testifies he took, deleted video of the Fort Hood shooting
Post Date: 2010-10-16 01:36:30 by Original_Intent
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Fort Hood, Texas (CNN) -- The shooting at Fort Hood was captured on video by a soldier using his cell phone camera as he hid from the shooter, but he was ordered to erase it, the soldier said Friday. Pfc. Lance Aviles spoke of the video as he testified on the third day of the Article 32 military hearing for Maj. Nidal Hasan, who is accused of killing 13 people and wounding 32 in the November 2009 shooting. Aviles said he was told by a non-commissioned officer, who Aviles said was acting on the orders of an officer, to delete the video on the same day of the shooting. He did not describe to the court what the video contained. It was not immediately clear whether the military would look ...
The Expansion of Presidential Power
Post Date: 2010-10-15 15:18:56 by ghostdogtxn
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Doc who ‘inspired’ torture program gets $31 million Army contract
Post Date: 2010-10-15 15:06:53 by Red Jones
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Doc who ‘inspired’ torture program gets $31 million Army contract By Daniel Tencer Thursday, October 14th, 2010 -- 7:23 pm Doc who inspired torture program gets $31 million Army contract A psychologist whose research was used in constructing the US's program to torture terrorism suspects has been granted a $31-million no-bid Army contract to provide "resilience training" to US soldiers. Mark Benjamin at Salon.com reports that University of Pennsylvania psychologist Martin Seligman's research "formed the psychological underpinnings of the Bush administration's torture program." The Army awarded the "sole source" contract in February ...
Soldier says ordered to delete Fort Hood videos
Post Date: 2010-10-15 14:33:58 by freepatriot32
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FORT HOOD, Texas – A soldier who recorded the terror of last year's deadly shooting rampage in Fort Hood using his cell phone was ordered by an officer to delete both videos, a military court heard Friday. Under cross examination, Pfc. Lance Aviles told an Article 32 hearing that his noncommissioned officer ordered him to destroy the two videos on Nov. 5, the same day that a gunman unleashed a volley of bullets inside a processing center at the Texas Army post. The footage could have been vital evidence at the military hearing to decide if Maj. Nidal Hasan should stand trial in the shootings. The 40-year-old American-born Muslim has been charged with 13 counts of premeditated ...
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