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Latest Articles: War, War, War
U.S. Globally Expands Clandestine 'Shadow War' Against Al Qaeda
Post Date: 2010-08-18 22:03:16 by christine
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US combat forces leaving Iraq now
Post Date: 2010-08-18 19:04:50 by PSUSA
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Heard it on msnbc. Iran is next, I bet.
The "REAL" Muslim Threat to The US Government.
Post Date: 2010-08-18 13:53:30 by Lysander_Spooner
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Gold and Silver Money: AKA Sound Money.
Racketeers for Capitalism by Cindy Sheehan
Post Date: 2010-08-17 10:28:55 by christine
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I remember when the US war dead in Iraq reached 1000 sometime in the summer of 2005. My youngest child and her boyfriend accompanied me to a vigil in Davis, Ca. where we held candles, pictures of Casey, each other, and sobbed—not just for Casey, but for all the rest, also. And not just for the Americans, but for the Iraqis, too. Then I remember when the needless toll reached 2000 in the fall of 2005—I got arrested with about 25 others in front of the White House—such organizations at MoveOn.org preferred candlelight vigils to direct action. I warned them if we didn’t do something, then we would be mourning 3000—that total came in the early spring of 2007. Now the ...
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Israel has "eight days" to launch a military strike against Iran's Bushehr nuclear facility and stop Tehran from acquiring a functioning atomic plant, a former US envoy to the UN has said.
Post Date: 2010-08-17 09:28:29 by Jethro Tull
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WASHINGTON (AFP) – Israel has "eight days" to launch a military strike against Iran's Bushehr nuclear facility and stop Tehran from acquiring a functioning atomic plant, a former US envoy to the UN has said. Iran is to bring online its first nuclear power reactor, built with Russia's help, on August 21, when a shipment of nuclear fuel will be loaded into the plant's core. At that point, John Bolton warned Monday, it will be too late for Israel to launch a military strike against the facility because any attack would spread radiation and affect Iranian civilians. "Once that uranium, once those fuel rods are very close to the reactor, certainly once ...
Late Night: Pat Tillman’s Dad Speaks for Me
Post Date: 2010-08-17 08:50:16 by tom007
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user Late Night: Pat Tillman’s Dad Speaks for Me By: masaccio Friday August 13, 2010 8:00 pm TweetTweet1 Share26 digg stumbleupon General Gary M. Jones, center (Special Operations Command photo) The Huffington Post has a copy of a letter Patrick K. Tillman, father of Pat Tillman and a lawyer, sent to General Gary M. Jones in response to a report issued by General Jones on the killing of his son. Mr. Tillman calls it dishonest and deliberately misleading, and in good lawyerly fashion, supports that conclusion by citing multiple untrue statements. Here is his conclusion: There is no way a man like you, with your intelligence, education, military experience, responsibilities ...
On Facebook: Israeli soldier posed with bound Arab
Post Date: 2010-08-17 08:21:58 by tom007
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On Facebook: Israeli soldier posed with bound Arab By DIAA HADID August 17, 2010, 9:44am This photo was originally posted on Eden Aberjil's Facebook page, and taken from the Israeli blog site sachim.tumblr.com. Israeli news media and bloggers have identified the soldier in the photo as Aberjil. (AP Photo/sachim.tumblr.com)>www.mb.com.ph/sites/default/files/fb_3.jpg"> This photo was originally posted on Eden Aberjil's Facebook page, and taken from the Israeli blog site sachim.tumblr.com. Israeli news media and bloggers have identified the soldier in the photo as Aberjil. (AP Photo/sachim.tumblr.com) JERUSALEM (AP) – A former Israeli soldier posted photos on Facebook ...
In for a Penny
Post Date: 2010-08-17 06:15:23 by Ada
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The good news is that Defense Secretary Bob Gates is going to save money by shutting down Joint Forces Command (JFCOM) in Virginia. The bad news, as the New York Times reports, is that the White House says the money Gates saves will free money that can be “better spent on war fighting.” Egad. That’s like selling off your garage full of vintage sports cars so you can blow the money on booze and hookers. Actually, it’s more like selling the cars plus taking out a loan to finance your booze and hooker habit, because Gates’s thrift measures will result in a net defense spending increase; the 2011 budget will top $700 billion, and that just counts the defense dollars ...
Bradley Manning's guilt — and ours
Post Date: 2010-08-16 06:12:07 by Ada
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The accused leaker to WikiLeaks appears to have acted out of idealism. Now that we've seen the results of our wars, can we say the same? Government officials and apologists for America's wars are furious at Bradley Manning. The ruddy-cheeked Army private, now in solitary confinement in Quantico, Virigina, allegedly released classified army documents to WikiLeaks, the controversial whistleblower protection website. Manning appears to be the source of the video WikiLeaks released under the name “Collateral Murder,” which shows a U.S. Army helicopter crew killing more than a dozen civilians with a mounted machine gun. Manning is also suspected to be a source of ...
Secret Assault on Terrorism Widens on Two Continents
Post Date: 2010-08-15 14:18:42 by Ada
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WASHINGTON — At first, the news from Yemen on May 25 sounded like a modest victory in the campaign against terrorists: an airstrike had hit a group suspected of being operatives for Al Qaeda in the remote desert of Marib Province, birthplace of the legendary queen of Sheba. But the strike, it turned out, had also killed the province’s deputy governor, a respected local leader who Yemeni officials said had been trying to talk Qaeda members into giving up their fight. Yemen’s president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, accepted responsibility for the death and paid blood money to the offended tribes. Click for Full Text!
Army Report: AWOLs Up 234%
Post Date: 2010-08-14 14:22:19 by Red Jones
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Army Report: AWOLs Up 234% Tucked into this massive Army report on suicide is an interesting fact: Since 2004, the number of soldiers going AWOL, deserting, and "missing movement" -- that is failing to deploy when they're supposed to -- has gone up a shocking 234 percent. The Army includes this fact on page 92 of the 350 page document, in a section on misdemeanor crimes -- alongside motor vehicle violations, substance abuse, and other crimes -- which collectively have been rising at the rate of more than 5,000 a year for the last five years. "Good order and discipline are on the decline," the report says. Alternatively, one could say that after seven years of war ...
America’s Biggest Jobs Program - the US Military
Post Date: 2010-08-14 09:37:54 by tom007
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America’s Biggest Jobs Program - the US Military Saturday 14 August 2010 by: Robert Reich | Robert Reich's Blog | News Analysis America’s biggest — and only major — jobs program is the U.S. military. Over 1,400,000 Americans are now on active duty; another 833,000 are in the reserves, many full time. Another 1,600,000 Americans work in companies that supply the military with everything from weapons to utensils. (I’m not even including all the foreign contractors employing non-US citizens.) If we didn’t have this giant military jobs program, the U.S. unemployment rate would be over 11.5 percent today instead of 9.5 percent. And without our military ...
Iraq army 'not ready' until 2020
Post Date: 2010-08-14 09:00:00 by tom007
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Iraq army 'not ready' until 2020 Iraq's most senior military officer has said that his security forces will not be able to secure the country until 2020 and that the US should delay its planned withdrawal. The US government plans to withdraw its combat troops by the end of August, and to remove all troops by the end of 2011. But Lieutenant General Babaker Zerbari said that his forces - particularly the air force - were not ready to take over. He said the planned withdrawal will create a "problem" and increase instability in Iraq. "At this point, the withdrawal is going well, because they are still here," Zerbari told the AFP news agency on Wednesday. ...
"Routine" Massacre of Civilians in Iraq: Former GIs Describe US Policy of Firing on Civilians
Post Date: 2010-08-13 18:37:25 by Red Jones
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"Routine" Massacre of Civilians in Iraq: Former GIs Describe US Policy of Firing on Civilians By Sherwood Ross Global Research, August 13, 2010 Three former U.S. soldiers involved in the infamous “Collateral Murder” helicopter gunship attack on Baghdad civilians in July 2007, say that attack was nothing out of the ordinary. The massacre---that killed more than a dozen Iraqis, two of them employed by Reuters---ignited a wave of international revulsion against the U.S. military in Iraq when a video of the massacre was released by WikiLeaks last April. “What the world did not see is the months of training that led up to the incident, in which soldiers were ...
Blowback, Somali Style
Post Date: 2010-08-13 06:10:46 by Ada
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For the past year or so, Somalia has been in the headlines largely because of piracy. Probably the most well known incident (in America, at least) was the April 2009 seizure of the Maersk Alabama when U.S. Navy SEALs (SEa, Air and Land) killed three pirates who were holding Captain Richard Phillips hostage (a fourth pirate was captured). Now Somalia is in the news because fourteen people (at least half of whom are U.S. citizens) have been charged as part of a "deadly terror pipeline" to Somalia "providing money, personnel, and services to the foreign terrorist organization al-Shabaab." One concern raised by the four indictments in federal courts in Minnesota, Alabama, ...
It's a Killing Machine Economic Boom
Post Date: 2010-08-11 17:47:27 by Red Jones
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Monday, August 9, 2010 It's a Killing Machine Economic Boom Do you wonder how the government slips in those supposedly bullish data points about the economy, when everywhere you go you hear average people talking about how bad things are? Answer: The American military is in a major growth mode. According to the Commerce Department, on average, personal income dropped 1.8% in the U.S. in 2009. BUT, not all cities faced a downturn in personal income. Here are the cities that were the top gainers in personal income in 2009: Jacksonville NC up 11.9% [Home of U.S. Marine Corps Base: Fort Lejeune] Fayetville, NC up 4.8% [Home of U.S. Army Base: Ft Bragg] Manhattan, KS up 4.8% [ Home of ...
Aid group plays down Taliban link to doctors deaths
Post Date: 2010-08-11 14:33:26 by Red Jones
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Aid group plays down Taliban link to doctors deaths By Channel 4 News Updated on 09 August 2010 A Christian aid group has cast doubt on Taliban claims it had shot dead ten members of a medical team in northeastern Afghanistan and insisted he did not try to convert Muslims to Christianity. The 10 team members — six Americans, two Afghans, one Briton and a German — were shot on Thursday by gunmen after finishing a two-week mission providing medical care to impoverished villagers in remote Nuristan province. Among those to die was British surgeon Dr Karen Woo. Americans Tom Little; Dan Terry; Cheryl Beckett; Brian Carderelli; Dr Tom Grams, and Glen Lapp also died along with ...
What They Do In Our Name
Post Date: 2010-08-11 06:20:26 by Ada
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Thanks to Wikileaks and heroic leakers inside the military, we now know the U.S. government has killed many more innocent Afghan civilians than we were aware of heretofore. We also know that American military and intelligence personnel roam Afghanistan assassinating suspected bad guys. Sometimes they kill people they later acknowledge weren’t bad guys at all. “Bad guys,” like “Taliban,” is implicitly defined as anyone who resists the U.S. occupation force and the corrupt puppet government it keeps in power. What other atrocities are our misleaders and misrepresentatives committing in our name? Let’s get something straight: to be an enemy of American ...
Aid Group Doubts Taliban Role in Medical Team's Killing
Post Date: 2010-08-10 11:35:38 by Ada
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Team's Driver Being Held by Afghan Govt The International Assistance Mission (IAM), a humanitarian aid group which has been operating in Afghanistan for decades, downplayed claims of responsibility by the Taliban for the killing of 10 members of a medical team. Dirk Frans, the group’s executive director, said he doubts the claims because they came so long after the killings, and said that police had originally suspected bandits of being responsible, as the team’s valuables had all been stolen. The driver for the team, the only apparent survivor, has also been arrested by the Afghan government and is being held by the Interior Ministry. Spokesmen for the ministry declined to ...
War Always Was, Still Is, and Always Will Be a Racket by Cindy Sheehan
Post Date: 2010-08-10 11:35:36 by christine
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Seventy-seven years ago, Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, Marine Corps, gave a speech entitled, War is a Racket. What made this speech so credible, if not surprising, is the fact that Smedley Butler was the highest decorated Marine of all time. Marines all over still learn about him, but they aren’t taught that he came from Quaker roots and began to castigate the U.S. and its wars of aggression after his retirement from the Marines. General Butler is not too well known outside of military/peace circles. Indeed, even though I was a U.S. History major at University and most of what we learned about was war, I don’t think I had ever heard of him until about a year after ...
US warship visits former foe Vietnam, China warns US to stay out of Yellow Sea
Post Date: 2010-08-10 10:34:30 by christine
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HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — An American warship docked Tuesday in central Vietnam where the former foes planned to conduct naval training in a sign of growing military ties amid new warnings from China for the U.S. to stay out of its backyard. The USS John S. McCain's port call comes as the U.S. and Vietnam celebrate 15 years of normalized diplomatic relations following a bloody war that remains an open wound for many veterans. The two governments, while ideologically different, have embraced on a number of issues, including a recent stance against China's territorial claims over the South China Sea. China on Tuesday told the U.S. and South Korean navies to keep out of the Yellow ...
Press Censorship: How the Truth Was Hidden About Nagasaki 65 Years Ago
Post Date: 2010-08-09 10:36:53 by tom007
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Press Censorship: How the Truth Was Hidden About Nagasaki 65 Years Ago by Greg Mitchell Nagasaki, which lost over 70,000 civilians (and a few military personnel) to a new weapon 65 years ago today, has always been The Forgotten A-Bomb City. No one ever wrote a bestselling book called Nagasaki, or made a film titled Nagasaki, Mon Amour. Yet in some ways, Nagasaki is the modern A-bomb city. For one thing, when the plutonium bomb exploded above Nagasaki it made the uranium-type bomb dropped on Hiroshima obsolete. In fact, if it had not exploded off-target the death toll in the city would have easily topped the Hiroshima total. Hiroshima has always drawn the vast majority of press, public ...
U.S. Supersizes Afghan Mega-Base as Withdrawal Date Looms
Post Date: 2010-08-09 10:01:45 by tom007
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U.S. Supersizes Afghan Mega-Base as Withdrawal Date Looms * By Spencer Ackerman Email Author * August 9, 2010 | * 12:00 am | * Categories: Af/Pak * BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan — Anyone who thinks the United States is really going to withdraw from Afghanistan in July 2011 needs to come to this giant air base an hour away from Kabul. There’s construction everywhere. It’s exactly what you wouldn’t expect from a transient presence. Step off a C-17 cargo plane, as I did very early Friday morning, and you see a flight line packed with planes. When I was last here two years ago, helicopters crowded the runways and fixed-wing aircraft were –- well, if not rare, still a ...
The Ministry of Oil Defense
Post Date: 2010-08-09 09:52:48 by tom007
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The Ministry of Oil Defense It's not polite to say so, but if Americans understood just how many trillions their military was really spending on protecting oil, they wouldn't stand for it. BY PETER MAASS | AUGUST 5, 2010 Shortly after the Marines rolled into Baghdad and tore down a statue of Saddam Hussein, I visited the Ministry of Oil. American troops surrounded the sand-colored building, protecting it like a strategic jewel. But not far away, looters were relieving the National Museum of its actual jewels. Baghdad had become a carnival of looting. A few dozen Iraqis who worked at the Oil Ministry were gathered outside the American cordon, and one of them, noting the protection ...
Heritage: Iran Announces Acquisition of S-300 Air Defense Systems
Post Date: 2010-08-07 20:33:03 by randge
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Iran Announces Acquisition of S-300 Air Defense Systems According to Iran’s Fars news agency, Iran has obtained four S-300PT air-defense missile systems. Fars claimed that this report was first revealed last year by another news agency—one linked to Hezbollah—and that Iran never disputed the story. The report claimed that two of the four systems came from Belarus; details about the source of the other two systems were not provided and have not been reported elsewhere since the Fars claim. Belarus has denied any involvement in such a deal. In fact, the story begins well before last year. According to a report by Mark Harrington from February 2008 in Jane’s International ...
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