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Latest Articles: War, War, War
Tariq Aziz: 'Britain and the US killed Iraq. I wish I was martyred'
Post Date: 2010-08-07 13:04:58 by Red Jones
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Tariq Aziz: 'Britain and the US killed Iraq. I wish I was martyred'• WMD an illusion was to deter Iran, says former minister Tariq Aziz with Saddam Hussein. ‘I will not speak against Saddam until I am a free man,’ said Aziz. ‘When I can write the truth I can even speak against my best friend’ Photograph: ISF Tariq Aziz is slumped on a tattered brown sofa seat cradling his walking stick and cigarettes, his gaunt face topped, incongruously for a practising Christian, by a Muslim prayer cap. It is perhaps only the familiar black-ringed spectacles that signal to the visitor that this was Iraq's former face to the world – Saddam Hussein's ...
Bradley Manning: An American Hero
Post Date: 2010-08-07 05:53:10 by Stephen Lendman
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Bradley Manning: An American Hero - by Stephen Lendman Manning, of course, is the courageous Army intelligence analyst turned whistleblower, who admitted leaking: -- "260,000 classified United States diplomatic cables and video of a (US) airstrike in Afghanistan that killed 97 civilians last year," and -- an "explosive (39 minute) video of an American helicopter attack in Baghdad that left 12 people dead, including two employees of the Reuters news agency" - "collateral murder" he felt obligated to expose. It got him in trouble. On June 7, the military in Iraq arrested him, saying: "The Department of Defense takes the management of classified ...
De Stipjes featuring Andy Fox - It's only a war
Post Date: 2010-08-06 13:36:19 by GreyLmist
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Doug Casey: War Is Coming
Post Date: 2010-08-06 12:49:31 by christine
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L: Doug, last time we conversed, you said: "Let's talk about what Clausewitz called ‘the extension of politics' next time – I think the odds are increasing that we may see war rear its ugly head again soon." There's been a lot in the news lately about Israel blockading the Gaza strip and about the potential for the Middle East to boil over. Is that what you had in mind? Doug: I just got back from a trip to the Middle East – Iraq, actually. There's a feature article on what I found there in this month's Casey Report. Doing country studies has long been a specialty of mine, and I've got to say that most of what most people think they know ...
The US isn't leaving Iraq, it's rebranding the occupation
Post Date: 2010-08-06 12:42:34 by christine
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For most people in Britain and the US, Iraq is already history. Afghanistan has long since taken the lion's share of media attention, as the death toll of Nato troops rises inexorably. Controversy about Iraq is now almost entirely focused on the original decision to invade: what's happening there in 2010 barely registers. That will have been reinforced by Barack Obama's declaration this week that US combat troops are to be withdrawn from Iraq at the end of the month "as promised and on schedule". For much of the British and American press, this was the real thing: headlines hailed the "end" of the war and reported "US troops to leave Iraq". ...
Obama is zero for four and Republicans are sitting pretty
Post Date: 2010-08-06 10:57:43 by tom007
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Obama is zero for four and Republicans are sitting pretty Posted By Stephen M. Walt Friday, July 30, 2010 - 12:48 PM Share If I were a Republican Party leader, and I didn't care a whit about the welfare of the United States (and no, those two descriptors are not synonymous), I'd be feeling pretty good right now. My party will almost certainly pick up a lot of seats in Congress come November, which is the normal mid-term pattern after a big swing the other way, and this shift will make it even easier for the GOP to obstruct future Obama initiatives. More importantly, I'd be increasingly confident about regaining the White House in 2012 too. One big reason is the economy, of ...
Obama Warned Israel May Bomb Iran
Post Date: 2010-08-06 10:35:08 by tom007
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Obama Warned Israel May Bomb Iran Tuesday 03 August 2010 by: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity | Consortium News | Op-Ed MEMORANDUM FOR: The President FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) SUBJECT: War With Iran We write to alert you to the likelihood that Israel will attack Iran as early as this month. This would likely lead to a wider war. Israel’s leaders would calculate that once the battle is joined, it will be politically untenable for you to give anything less than unstinting support to Israel, no matter how the war started, and that U.S. troops and weaponry would flow freely. Wider war could eventually result in destruction of the state ...
Whose Hands? Whose Blood? Killing Civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq
Post Date: 2010-08-06 08:38:51 by tom007
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Whose Hands? Whose Blood? Killing Civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq Thursday 05 August 2010 by: Tom Engelhardt | TomDispatch | News Analysis photo (Image: Lance Page / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Jo Naylor) Consider the following statement offered by Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at a news conference last week. He was discussing Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks as well as the person who has taken responsibility for the vast, still ongoing Afghan War document dump at that site. "Mr. Assange,” Mullen commented, “can say whatever he likes about the greater good he thinks he and his source are doing, ...
Western wars vs. Muslim women
Post Date: 2010-08-06 08:09:49 by tom007
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Home » Blogs » Imperium Western wars vs. Muslim women By Marwan Bishara in * Imperium on August 5th, 2010 . Share If Western wars are meant to 'liberate' Muslim women, why do centuries of Western military intervention have so little to show, asks Marwan Bishara. Western media is awash with reports about Taliban mistreatment of women in Afghanistan and Pakistan that feature countless voices in support of the war to secure a 'brighter future for women's rights'. This week's Time magazine cover story is a case in point. If Western wars 'liberate' Eastern women, Muslim women would be - after centuries of Western military interventions - the most ...
Aziz: US is leaving Iraq to wolves
Post Date: 2010-08-06 08:08:03 by tom007
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Aziz: US is leaving Iraq to wolves Aziz said the West's view of late president Saddam Hussein was wrong [File: AFP] Tareq Aziz, Saddam Hussein's former deputy prime minister, has accused the US president of "leaving Iraq to the wolves" by pressing ahead with a withdrawal of combat troops despite a recent upsurge in violence. In an interview with Britain's Guardian newspaper on Friday, Aziz said the United States should stay in the country to correct the mistakes it had made since the 2003 invasion. "We are all victims of America and Britain," he told the daily newspaper from his prison cell in Baghdad, in his first interview since he was captured shortly ...
The Industrial Wars of the Last Century Have Created an Extraordinary Blowback Problem for the Global War Profiteers
Post Date: 2010-08-06 07:53:55 by tom007
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The Industrial Wars of the Last Century Have Created an Extraordinary Blowback Problem for the Global War Profiteers 6Share Submitted by BuzzFlash on Thu, 08/05/2010 - 8:50am. * Guest Commentary BOB KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH “I’m going to be killing people. I’m actually joining the Marines and will be doing this in real life.” War springs eternal. Compare the words of the 18-year-old boy quoted above by Philadelphia radio station WRTI, as he was wielding a pretend machinegun at a video-game parlor/Army recruiting center at a Philly shopping mall, with those of two neocons, Charles Robb and Charles Wald (retired senator and general, respectively), writing last month in ...
Obama Boasts ‘End of Iraq War’ as Iran War Kicks into High Gear
Post Date: 2010-08-05 12:01:46 by christine
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In attempt to posture as a man of peace and of kept-promises in the lead-up to the midterm elections, President Obama has declared the “End of the War in Iraq,” claiming that withdrawal of troops from Iraq will be completed by August 31, 2010 and is ‘on schedule, as promised.’ “As a candidate for president, I pledged to bring the war in Iraq to a responsible end. I made it clear that by August 31, 2010, America’s combat mission in Iraq would end. And that is exactly what we are doing — as promised and on schedule,” President Obama stated. Believing this fiction involves ignoring the fact that 50,000 troops or more, as well as countless contractors, ...
Hawks for Peace
Post Date: 2010-08-05 06:04:51 by Ada
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The grassroots Right has turned against the neoconservative project of perpetual war and nation-building — without becoming non-interventionist. Can antiwar conservatives now find common cause with the “to hell with them hawks”? As President Barack Obama assures the country that the war in Iraq is winding down, a sigh of relief is emanating from the unlikeliest corner: the conservatives who have for more than seven years been the war’s staunchest supporters. It’s not exactly that conservatives have had second thoughts about Saddam Hussein, weapons of mass destruction, the “cut and run” Democrats, or the need to project military power after the 9/11 ...
Is the GOP Stupid or Evil?: GOP Blank Check for War?
Post Date: 2010-08-04 11:00:28 by Eric Stratton
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GOP Blank Check for War? by Patrick J. Buchanan August 4, 2010 High among the blunders of history was the "blank cheque" Kaiser Wilhelm gave Vienna, after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, to deal with the Serbs as they saw fit. Five weeks later, Vienna cashed the check and declared war, after Belgrade refused to submit to all 10 demands of an ultimatum. Russia mobilized; Germany and France followed. And war came, the bloodiest in all of European history with 9 million soldiers in their graves. Since June 1914, a "blank check" given by one nation to another for war has been regarded as strategic folly. Thus it is startling to learn 47 House Republicans ...
Wars, lies and lyrics
Post Date: 2010-08-04 10:07:33 by tom007
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Home » Blogs » Imperium Wars, lies and lyrics By Marwan Bishara in * Imperium on August 4th, 2010 . Share Marwan Bishara explains why a week after their publication, the WikiLeaks Afghanistan war documents are neither shocking nor surprising. File 3286 Photo by EPA Surprise, surprise ... the US government did not tell the whole truth, yet again, about its war conduct, and indeed misled the public about the true record of the war. I personally have not met anyone who has been shocked by the revelations in the documents published by WikiLeaks, but many are surprised - not so much by the novelty of it all, but rather by the mundane repetition of more of the same deception. ...
‘Low-level Bush propagandist’ calls for Wikileaks founder to be kidnapped
Post Date: 2010-08-04 10:04:29 by tom007
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‘Low-level Bush propagandist’ calls for Wikileaks founder to be kidnapped By Stephen C. Webster Monday, August 2nd, 2010 -- 8:03 pm submit to reddit Stumble This! 120Share 37diggsdigg julianassange032610 Low level Bush propagandist calls for Wikileaks founder to be kidnappedShould the founder of one of the world's most important Web sites be spirited away from his home country by the U.S. military? That's what one so-called "low-level Bush propagandist" advocated on behalf of in Monday's Washington Post. Marc Thiessen, a former Bush speechwriter, claimed in a Post op-ed that because Wikileaks has published classified information, they should be considered ...
American public's opposition to Afghan war increasing
Post Date: 2010-08-04 02:58:39 by Tatarewicz
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Poll Shows Notable Deterioration In Support For War In Afghanistan 8/3/2010 11:28 AM ET (RTTNews) - A record number of Americans now think it was a mistake to send U.S. troops to Afghanistan, according to the results of a USA Today/Gallup poll released on Tuesday, with the poll also showing a substantial deterioration in President Barack Obama's approval rating on his handling of the war. The poll showed that 43 percent of Americans now say that the U.S. made a mistake in sending troops to Afghanistan compared to 52 percent that say it was not a mistake. Support for the war in Afghanistan seems to have been negatively impacted by the publication of tens of thousands of leaked ...
WikiGate
Post Date: 2010-08-03 11:31:08 by Ada
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The release over the Internet of 92,000 US military field reports from Afghanistan by WikiLeaks has sent official Washington into an uproar. The leak story dominates the talk of this town and has pushed chatter about the steady weakening of the Obama presidency into the background. The reports reveal the ugly underbelly of a war merchandised to the public as a noble mission to liberate oppressed women and clean up a nest of terrorists. They have embarrassed and outraged the hell out of Washington and its NATO allies. Comparisons to the famed Pentagon Papers of the Vietnam War era that undermined public support for that misbegotten conflict are inevitable. The Obama administration and the ...
Code of Military Justice
Post Date: 2010-08-03 06:12:27 by Ada
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Gen. Stan McChrystal, United States Army, will leave active service with four stars instead of three because of a special waiver bestowed on him by President Barack Obama. One is supposed to hold four-star rank for three years before one can retire at that pay grade, something McChrystal obviously didn’t do, but Obama made nice and let him walk away with a full set of collar candy anyway. The extra star makes a staunch bit of difference in McChrystal’s retirement pay. He’ll start at $181,416 per year versus the measly $160,068 he would have received otherwise. But both of those amounts are chump change compared to what Mr. McChrystal is likely to knock down in his Beltway ...
Wikileaks Confirm US Funds Taliban
Post Date: 2010-08-02 21:38:51 by Itistoolate
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Oh! The horror! The betrayal! Wikileak documents reveal that Pakistan has been funding the Taliban. "The Taliban are stronger than ever and a crucial component of their success is the support they receive from Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). The military spy agency nurtured the Taliban in the 1990s and has maintained ties to the group ever since." And guess who has been funding Pakistan and the ISI to the tune of billions of dollars? Billions of which "go missing?" Just two weeks ago, Hillary Clinton announced millions more. Obama officials say the US-Pakistani relationship will not be harmed by these revelations. Of course not. The goyim must ...
Greece will be a war zone, Sect of Revolutionaries warns tourists
Post Date: 2010-08-02 13:16:04 by abraxas
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Greece will be a war zone, Sect of Revolutionaries warns tourists Security forces fear wave of terror as austerity programme provokes strikes, protests, violence – and assassination Helena Smith Athens Greek security forces have warned of a wave of violence reminiscent of the terror that stalked Italy in the seventies after urban guerillas threatened last week to turn the country into a "war zone". "Greece has entered a new phase of political violence by anarchist-oriented organisations that are more murderous, dangerous, capable and nihilistic than ever before," said Athanasios Drougos, a defence and counter-terrorism analyst in Athens. "For the first ...
Ahmadinejad: US Expansion Of War In Middle East Imminent
Post Date: 2010-08-02 12:06:40 by christine
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Tensions rise with saber rattling rhetoric Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has stated that he believes the US, backed by Israel, is preparing to attack two countries in the middle East within months as part of an expansion of the ‘war on terror’. Ahmadinejad also stated that the attacks would function as a psychological war on Iran, without specifying whether he believed Iran would be physically attacked or how he had reached his conclusions. “We have precise information that the Americans have devised a plot, according to which they seek to launch a psychological war on Iran,” Ahmadinejad told Iranian state media Press TV. “They plan to attack at least ...
Afghans riot after deadly accident
Post Date: 2010-08-02 09:38:41 by tom007
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Afghans riot after deadly accident Security forces fear the Kabul incident may trigger more violence [AFP] Rioters in the Afghan capital have set fire to two US embassy vehicles shouting "death to America" after one of the SUVs collided with a civilian car killing a number of passengers, officials and witnesses have said. Police fired into the air to disperse the crowd of angry Afghans who threw stones and chanted "death to Karzai" in reference to Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president. Al Jazeera's correspondent in Afghanistan James Bays said the exact details of the incident are still unclear, but security officials are concerned. "Some in the crowds said ...
They Want Us to Know: On Conspiracies and Cover-ups
Post Date: 2010-08-02 06:37:57 by Ada
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Article printed from speakeasy: http://blogs.alternet.org/refugee URL to article: http://blogs.alternet.org/refuge...nspiracies-and-cover-ups/ The Transparent Conspiracy by Michael D. Morrissey: A Review The Mass Psychology of Partial Disclosure The Transparent Conspiracy is a collection of essays written between 2006 and 2010, mainly about the 911 and JFK conspiracies and cover up, with a short collection of poems on the same topic. Morrisey’s latest book is a definite departure from other conspiracy literature. Morrissey has no interest in proving or disproving either the 911 or the JFK conspiracy – he feels this territory is well-covered by other authors. The topic of ...
Liz Cheney calls on Obama to shut down WikiLeaks ( Says Wiki has "blood on their hands" - Ya can't make it up)
Post Date: 2010-08-01 12:58:39 by tom007
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Liz Cheney calls on Obama to shut down WikiLeaks By David Edwards and Daniel Tencer Sunday, August 1st, 2010 -- 12:23 pm submit to reddit Stumble This! Share 0diggsdigg lizcheney Liz Cheney calls on Obama to shut down WikiLeaks Following the release of 92,000 war log files, Liz Cheney is calling for WikiLeaks to be shut down and says that the founder has "blood on his hands." "I would point out that although you've got the news about the WikiLeaks documents that that came out this week and clearly Julian Assange's effort was to change course for the US policy in Afghanistan," Cheney told Fox News' Chris Wallace Sunday. "He was unsuccessful in that. ...
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