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Latest Articles: War, War, War
Army ‘Kill Team’ Member: ‘We All Said Yes’ to Slaying Afghan Civilian
Post Date: 2010-10-06 12:55:52 by Red Jones
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Army ‘Kill Team’ Member: ‘We All Said Yes’ to Slaying Afghan Civilian * By Spencer Ackerman * October 5, 2010 * 12:01 am In the latest video to emerge from the Army’s investigation into a rogue “Kill Team” in Afghanistan, Specialist Adam Winfield, one of the five soldiers from the 5th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division charged with murdering Afghan civilians, tells an investigator how he took part in an execution in a Kandahar village. Army Times obtained a video from Winfield in which the young soldier says that Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs, the alleged ringleader of the rogue soldiers, himself used the term “Kill Team” to describe the ...
Belafonte: Afghan & Iraq wars unconscionable
Post Date: 2010-10-06 06:50:41 by Tatarewicz
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Harry Belafonte: Iraq and Afghanistan Wars Are “Immoral, Unconscionable and Unwinnable”
October 4, 2010 posted by Debbie Menon ·
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AMY GOODMAN: Legendary singer, actor, activist, Harry Belafonte, addressing the rally in Washington, DC.
“The President’s decision to escalate the war in that region alone costs the nation $33 billion,” the legendary musician, actor and activist Harry Belafonte said at Saturday’s “One Nation Working Together” in Washington. “That sum of money could not only create 600,000 jobs here in America, but would even leave us a few billion to start rebuilding our schools, our roads, our hospitals and affordable housing. It ...
Taliban in high-level talks with Karzai government, sources say [WP's intro caption is: Obama's War)
Post Date: 2010-10-06 02:17:09 by scrapper2
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Taliban representatives and the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai have begun secret, high-level talks over a negotiated end to the war, according to Afghan and Arab sources. The talks follow inconclusive meetings, hosted by Saudi Arabia, that ended more than a year ago. While emphasizing the preliminary nature of the current discussions, the sources said that for the first time they believe that Taliban representatives are fully authorized to speak for the Quetta Shura, the Afghan Taliban organization based in Pakistan, and its leader, Mohammad Omar. "They are very, very serious about finding a way out," one source close to the talks said of the Taliban. Although ...
Amputations increase with surge in Afghanistan
Post Date: 2010-10-05 19:11:31 by scrapper2
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The number of U.S. soldiers who have suffered amputations in Afghanistan has increased sharply over last year as more troops move into Taliban territory, according to Army data. Amputations rose from 47 in 2009 to 77 through Sept. 23 of this year, or an increase of more than 60%, the Army reports. The chief cause of the injuries are improvised explosive devices — or IEDs — that are planted in the ground or along roads, according to the International Security Assistance Force, which oversees military operations in Afghanistan. Coalition forces have been hit by more IEDs in recent weeks as the surge in U.S. troops allows for expanded operations into traditional Taliban ...
Files Missing in Action: War data wiped to cover up abuse?
Post Date: 2010-10-05 15:08:13 by Horse
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John Lennon 1969 Interview I Met the Walrus
Post Date: 2010-10-05 13:41:09 by Lysander_Spooner
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The US Edges Closer to Invading Pakistan
Post Date: 2010-10-05 06:48:12 by Ada
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This writer has been warning for years that US and NATO efforts to defeat resistance to Western occupation by Afghanistan’s fierce Pashtun tribes would eventually lead to spreading the conflict into neighboring Pakistan, a nation of 175 million. We’ve seen it all before in Vietnam. It was then called, "mission creep." The focus of the Afghan War is clearly shifting south into Pakistan, drawing that nation and the United States forces ever closer to a direct confrontation. This grim development was as predictable as it was inevitable. This week’s fevered warnings from Washington of supposedly imminent terrorist attacks in Europe may be aimed at justifying ...
Uncle Bob Wants You
Post Date: 2010-10-05 06:13:23 by Ada
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Uncle Bob Gates wants more young people to join the military. In a Sept. 29 speech at Duke University, Defense Secretary Gates asked students, “If America’s best and brightest will not step forward, who will?” The likes of you, Uncle Bob, that’s who. By way of seducing another generation into the generational war his generation created, Gates told Duke students that talented young people who served in the military are “given extraordinary responsibility at a young age” and get to lead troops “at an age when their peers are reading spreadsheets and making photocopies.” Gates failed to mention that with the exception of the very few who lead troops in ...
Easy Oil - Iraq now has the 2nd largest oil reserve next to Saudi Arabia
Post Date: 2010-10-04 14:29:33 by Jethro Tull
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The Energy Report for Monday, October 4, 2010 Easy Oil. Who has the second largest amount of proven conventional oil reserves or easy to get to oil? Well if you asked me yesterday the answer officially was Iran but today that all may change. Iraq has announced that they will increase the amount of their proven oil reserves from mere 115 million barrels of oil to a whopping 143.1 billion barrels of oil putting them in second place in the world of cheap, easy to get to oil. Dow Jones reports that the figure, the first update since 2001, would mean Iraq has the world's second largest reserves according to statistics on the OPEC website. Iraq would take second place from Iran, which has ...
"Everyone Just Wants to Kill People at Any Cost"
Post Date: 2010-10-04 14:27:42 by ghostdogtxn
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At Least Six Killed in Pakistan NATO Tanker Attacks
Post Date: 2010-10-04 14:18:36 by ghostdogtxn
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US Test Drives Scary New War in Pakistan
Post Date: 2010-10-04 12:57:29 by ghostdogtxn
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A Big Fool Says to Push On
Post Date: 2010-10-04 12:34:34 by ghostdogtxn
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Surveillance: Amerika's Pastime
Post Date: 2010-10-04 11:44:00 by ghostdogtxn
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Lawless Arrests, Detentions and Torture in Iraq
Post Date: 2010-10-04 05:30:23 by Stephen Lendman
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Lawless Arrests, Detentions and Torture in Iraq - by Stephen Lendman An earlier article discussed Iraq's dire conditions after seven years of occupation, and over a decade of sanctions, accessed through the following link: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/04/iraq-today-afflicted-by-violence.html It presents a grim overall picture, besides Gideon Polya's September 13, 2010 estimated eight million "War on Terror" deaths, mostly in Iraq, what he calls "avoidable mortality and under-5 infant mortality" ones, accessed through the following link: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya130910.htm Conditions now include: -- 4.5 million refugees; -- 2.8 million ...
Interview - Dennis Kyne - Depleted Uranium (DU)
Post Date: 2010-10-04 00:42:30 by Horse
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Poster Comment:This video is about a lot more than DU.
Iraq War Deaths Exceed Vietnam War Numbers
Post Date: 2010-10-04 00:16:51 by Horse
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Department of Veterans Affairs Reports 73 Thousand U.S. Gulf War Deaths More Gulf War Veterans have died than Vietnam Veterans. This probably is news to you. But the truth has been hidden by a technicality. So here is the truth. The casualties in the Vietnam War were pretty simple to understand. If a soldier was dead from his combat tour, he was a war casualty. There are 58,195 names recorded on the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, DC. Some of these brave men died in the jungles of Vietnam while others died in Medivac units or hospitals in Japan and America. A dead soldier can surrender his life anywhere in his service to his country. It really doesn't matter where this ...
The 5 PLASTIC ARMY MEN Least Useful In Combat
Post Date: 2010-10-03 07:18:40 by wudidiz
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Some plastic army men were the very essence of heroism and fury, injection-molded into an easy, pocket-size form. Others, not so much. Just The FactsIf you didn't have Plastic Army Men growing up, you turned out to be a sociopath. If you're saying "well, that's not true!" or "but we were poor!" right now, you should know denial and justification are both sociopathic traits. Authorities have been notified. Cracked on Plastic Army Men Back in the days where youngsters had legs and a shape, one of the best ways to entertain yourself was with little plastic army men: Even today, roughly half of all grown men cannot help but see trenches in the garden ...
Pakistani officials: Suspected US missiles kill 16
Post Date: 2010-10-02 12:59:04 by Jethro Tull
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan – Two suspected American missile strikes killed 16 alleged militants in a northwestern Pakistani tribal region Saturday, intelligence officials said, a sign the U.S. is unwilling to stop using the tactic despite heightened tensions between the two countries over NATO's recent border incursions. A surge in drone-fired missile strikes in Pakistan along with coalition operations along the frontier suggest Western forces are cracking down on insurgents who easily move across the porous border between Afghanistan and Pakistan — something Islamabad has been slow to do despite pleas from Washington. Western officials say some of the recent CIA-controlled, unmanned ...
New Poll: Pakistanis Hate the Drones, Back Suicide Attacks on U.S. Troops (Our "Allies" in the Terror War)
Post Date: 2010-10-02 10:35:57 by tom007
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New Poll: Pakistanis Hate the Drones, Back Suicide Attacks on U.S. Troops * By Spencer Ackerman Email Author * September 30, 2010 | * 10:54 am | * Categories: Drones * The CIA can kill militants all day long. If the drone war in Pakistan drives the local people into al Qaeda’s arms, it’ll be failure. A new poll of the Pakistani tribal areas, released this morning, suggests that could easily wind up happening. Chalk one up for drone skeptics like counterinsurgent emeritus David Kilcullen and ex-CIA Director Michael Hayden. Only 16 percent of respondents to a new poll sponsored by the drone-watchers at the New America Foundation say that the drone strikes “accurately target ...
US War Crimes in Fallujah
Post Date: 2010-10-02 05:48:21 by Stephen Lendman
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US War Crimes in Fallujah - by Stephen Lendman Numerous previous articles documented two decades of US war crimes in Iraq, the latest titled, "One of History's Greatest Crimes," accessed through the following link: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/09/one-of-historys-greatest-crimes_7099.html On August 31, declaring an "end to the combat mission in Iraq," Obama disgracefully said: "Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United Stated and Iraq, we have met our responsibility," infamously displaying his culpability as a war criminal, matching the worst America ever produced. Daily he proves it in Iraq, Afghanistan, and by reckless global ...
Obama pressed to weigh Iran strike
Post Date: 2010-10-01 13:37:09 by X-15
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Senator Joe Lieberman, Congressman Howard Berman say US must put time limit on sanctions WASHINGTON – US President Barack Obama is under pressure to consider a military strike on Iran, according to the Financial Times. Both Senator Joe Lieberman and Howard Berman, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, have urged the president to consider setting a time limit of just a few months on the effectiveness of the most recent sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic for its nuclear advances. “Our goal here is to convince Iran to stop its nuclear weapons development program by economic and diplomatic means if we can but (to make clear) that we are prepared to use ...
Tyranny, Violence and the State
Post Date: 2010-10-01 11:16:00 by Turtle
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Zen fascists will control you Hundred percent natural You will jog for the master race And always wear the happy face Close your eyes, can’t happen here Big Bro’ on white horse is near The hippies won’t come back you say Mellow out or you will pay - Jello Biafra, California Uber Alles Collectivist ideologies combined with the technology of motorized transportation and electronic communication made possible the greatest mass-slaughters in human history. The reason collectivist ideologies inherenty imply mass-murder is because they hand all power over to the state, i.e., man is made naked before the state. Whereas liberty is predicated upon decentralization of power, ...
Obama's War Against Pakistanis
Post Date: 2010-10-01 06:32:02 by Ada
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I watched an interview with Bob Woodward about his new book, Obama's War. It was mostly inside-dopsterish Woodward at his worst. But at the end a young anchor asked him what the U.S. attacks in Pakistan were going to produce in the near future. He smiled in his all-knowing and impish way, said he could not really say [of course], but "I think you should strap yourself in!" Translation: you ain't seen nothing yet, so hang on Sloopy and fasten your seatbelt for a wild ride ahead. This time he was right. In the last few days since then the U.S. has openly attacked Pakistan twice and today the enraged and humiliated Pakistani military shut the vital U.S. supply lines from the ...
Invading Pakistan
Post Date: 2010-10-01 06:07:15 by Ada
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Phase two of Obama's war "We will have to see whether we are allies or enemies," said Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik after a US/NATO manned air strike took out three Pakistani soldiers and wounded three others. If it isn’t clear to the Pakistani minister, it is crystal clear to the people of Pakistan, who live in fear of constant US drone attacks – and, now, open violations of their country’s sovereignty. Anti-American sentiment is at an all-time high, and the increasingly fragile government – which hangs by a very thin thread – is being rapidly undermined by US actions. The attack was launched "in self-defense," according to the ...
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