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Deadliest Month of Afghan War
Post Date: 2010-07-30 11:42:49 by christine
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KABUL, Afghanistan – Three more U.S. troops have been killed in Afghanistan, bringing the U.S. death toll for July to at least 66 and making it the deadliest month for American forces in the nearly 9-year-war. A NATO statement Friday said one service member died following an insurgent attack and two others were killed in a roadside bombing the same day in southern Afghanistan. A U.S military official confirmed all three were American troops. Earlier in the day, a U.S. military official confirmed three other American service members died in two separate blasts in southern Afghanistan on Thursday. The six deaths raised the U.S. death toll for the month to at least 66, according to an ...
National Insecurity: A Government Afraid of the Truth
Post Date: 2010-07-30 09:36:37 by tom007
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National Insecurity: A Government Afraid of the Truth Thu, 07/29/2010 - 08:40 — Anonymous by: Dave Lindorff The White House’s initial response to the release of 92,000 pages of raw reports from the field by US forces in Afghanistan for a period from 2004-2009--that it was a threat to national security and to the lives of American troops--was as predictable as it was farcical. These documents didn’t reveal anything new to America’s enemies in Afghanistan or Pakistan. The Taliban fighters knew full well that their heat-seeking missiles had successfully downed American helicopters. They didn’t reveal anything new to Pakistan’s intelligence service, the ISI. The ...
Damage Control: Downplaying WikiLeaks Revelations
Post Date: 2010-07-30 05:50:02 by Stephen Lendman
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Damage Control: Downplaying WikiLeaks Revelations - by Stephen Lendman When truths are too disturbing to conceal, downplay them, change the subject, and blame others, not responsible Washington officials and key allies, culpable politicians and media misinformation masters suppressing and misreporting the facts, their well-oiled spin machine counterattacking WikiLeaks - revelations too sensitive to explain, a potential game-changer otherwise, so pundits and reporters duck them. Above all, WikiLeaks "Afghan War Diaries" are a powerful indictment of wars, their true face, the mindless daily slaughter and destruction too disturbing to reveal, for Julian Assange: "the vast ...
The Flower
Post Date: 2010-07-30 05:33:04 by bluegrass
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Congress clears war funding
Post Date: 2010-07-29 14:26:12 by christine
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Tens of billions of dollars in new Afghanistan war funding cleared Congress late Tuesday, even as the House easily upended a liberal challenge to the increased U.S. military presence — and drone attacks — across the border in Pakistan. The back-to-back votes buy precious time for President Barack Obama to show progress on his strategy for the region. But even as the anti-war movement remains weak in Congress, Obama can’t ignore a growing split among House Democrats over the cost of his military commitments at a time of tighter budgets and economic troubles at home. House Appropriations Committee Chairman Dave Obey (D-Wis.), who had managed the $59 billion war funding ...
Blowing the whistle
Post Date: 2010-07-29 11:12:27 by tom007
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Blowing the whistle By Andrew Fowler The leak of more than 90,000 US military files by whistle-blower website, WikiLeaks is one of the biggest in US military history. The London press conference by Julian Assange was also a rare public appearance for the WikiLeaks founder who has been dubbed "one of the most dangerous men in the world" by critics. To supporters he is a hero, the godfather of whistleblowers. But what of Assange and his organisation? The US authorities have made it plain they would like to talk to him about the leaks. But as Australian reporter Andrew Fowler explains so far he has proved elusive. This report was made before the latest Wikileak. It used to be ...
Lost Korean War battalion awaits US MIA decision
Post Date: 2010-07-29 10:22:24 by PSUSA
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By CHARLES J. HANLEY (AP) – Jul 18, 2010 SEOUL, South Korea — Trapped by two Chinese divisions, troops of the 8th U.S. Cavalry Regiment were left to die in far northern Korea, abandoned by the U.S. command in a Korean War episode viewed as one of the most troubling in American military history. Sixty years later those fallen soldiers, the lost battalion of Unsan, are stranded anew. North Korea is offering fresh clues to their remains. American teams are ready to re-enter the north to dig for them. But for five years the U.S. government has refused to work with North Korea to recover the men of Unsan and others among more than 8,000 U.S. missing in action from the 1950-53 war. ...
Hold U.S. Leaders Accountable for War Crimes
Post Date: 2010-07-29 09:46:32 by tom007
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Hold U.S. Leaders Accountable for War Crimes July 27, 2010 posted by Sherwood Ross · 15 Comments Share War Criminals - LEGAL AUTHORITY By Sherwood Ross Unless Americans hold their leaders accountable for their criminal conduct, even if it means the death penalty, future leaders will commit crimes as well, a prominent law school dean warns. “Unless and until this starts being done, and I stress the need for the gallows when the crime warrants it, we will never be without major crooks, without causers of major disasters, in big business, in government, in economics and in war,” writes Lawrence Velvel, dean of the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover and an ...
2nd US Sailor Body Recovered in Afghanistan
Post Date: 2010-07-29 09:35:22 by AGAviator
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U.S. Navy sailor who went missing in a dangerous part of eastern Afghanistan was found dead and his body recovered, a senior U.S. military official and Afghan officials said Thursday. The family of Petty Officer 3rd Class Jarod Newlove, a 25-year-old from the Seattle area, had been notified of his death, the U.S. military official said on condition of anonymity, because he was not authorized to disclose the information. Newlove and Petty Officer 2nd Class Justin McNeley went missing last Friday in Logar province. NATO recovered the body of McNeley — a 30-year-old father of two from Wheatridge, Colorado — in the area Sunday. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid told The ...
If God Is Pro-War – He Lied
Post Date: 2010-07-29 02:22:04 by Eric Stratton
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If God Is Pro-War – He Lied By Paul Green I have a question to ask you. I would then like you to ask it of others, particularly of Christians: How many innocent people would you be willing to kill – purely to defend yourself? For example, let’s say you are well armed and an armed robber is shooting at you – but the robber is holding a hostage directly in front of him. Or, suppose someone is shooting at you from within a crowd. Maybe some in the crowd don’t like you. Let’s push it even further and say that most of them hate you, and sympathize with the attacker. To shoot back, you would be aiming at the attacker, but you know you would also hit others. I ...
Graham: Prosecute WikiLeaks
Post Date: 2010-07-28 18:57:56 by tom007
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Graham: Prosecute WikiLeaks By Michael O'Brien - 07/28/10 12:47 PM ET Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Wednesday called for the criminal prosecution of Wikileaks, the website that published classified military documents this week. Graham, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and a reserve military lawyer, seemed to go further than other GOP colleagues by calling for the prosecution of Wikileaks itself, and not just the source of the leaks. “I’m willing to prosecute anybody who led to undermining the war effort,” Graham said during an appearance on Fox News. “As far as I know, there’s no immunity for a website to be able to pass on documents,” ...
WikiLeaks "Afghan War Diaries"
Post Date: 2010-07-28 05:57:51 by Stephen Lendman
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WikiLeaks "Afghan War Diaries" - by Stephen Lendman Calling itself "the intelligence agency of the people," WikiLeaks is "a multi-juristidictional public service designed to protect whistleblowers, journalists and activists who have sensitive material to communicate to the public" that has a right and need to know - to then use responsibly for better government in a free and open society, absent in today's America run by warlords, criminal politicians, and corporate bosses, spurning the rule of law for their own gain. On July 26, WikiLeaks published "The Afghan War Diaries," its modern day Pentagon Papers, top-secret documents eroding support ...
Winter Soldier Mike Prysner Testimony (Video)
Post Date: 2010-07-27 12:35:23 by christine
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Part 1 is introductory, deals with the military teaching and using racism, and the bulk of the experience on the ground which involved him. Part 2 of his testimony is primarily his insight into the greed and power behind the press to war.
Ahmadinejad says expects U.S. to attack MidEast soon
Post Date: 2010-07-27 08:56:22 by Jethro Tull
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TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran expects the United States to launch a military strike on "at least two countries" in the Middle East in the next three months, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told state-run Press TV. In an interview recorded on Monday, Ahmadinejad did not specify whether he thought Iran itself would be attacked nor did he say what intelligence led him to expect such a move. The United States and Israel have refused to rule out military action against Iran's nuclear program which they fear could lead to it making a bomb, something Iran denies. "They have decided to attack at least two countries in the region in the next three months," Ahmadinejad ...
The Ugly Truth About Afghanistan and Iraq Begins to Emerge From the Shadows
Post Date: 2010-07-27 08:30:56 by Eric Stratton
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The Ugly Truth About Afghanistan and Iraq Begins to Emerge From the Shadows by Eric Margolis First, kudos to Britain’s new leadership team of Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg. They have embarked on a second Battle of Britain. Britain’s two youthful leaders have launched the biggest political revolution since 1832, one that aims to revive Britain’s battered economy, and restore the nation’s debauched finances. The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats aim to slash government spending 25% over five years, shrink Britain’s bloated government, which consumes half of national income and employs half of the nation’s work force. Large ...
Mexican Drug Mafia Invades Texas
Post Date: 2010-07-26 11:45:44 by hondo68
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The United States is under attack by narco terrorists invading from the failed state of Mexico and Obama and the federal government are doing nothing about it. Los Zetas crossed the border near Laredo, Texas, and reportedly seized two ranches in the area indicated by the orange square above. In June, the Mexican drug mafia forced the closure of the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge in Arizona. Authorities in Arizona admit that criminals now control a drug and human smuggling corridor that stretches from the border into metro Phoenix. Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu explained in June that the Mexican Mafia controls three counties in his state. Now drug smugglers are repeating the ...
Wikileaks releases classified Afghanistan war logs: "largest intelligence leak in history"
Post Date: 2010-07-26 06:32:43 by Ada
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An archive of classified U.S. military logs spanning six years, more than 91,000 documents, and 200,000 pages, was today made available by WikiLeaks. The papers show a picture of the war in Afghanistan that is far more grim, and far less hopeful, than previously portrayed. The New York Times, London's Guardian newspaper and Der Spiegel in Germany were offered early access to the archive, the contents of which show "why, after the United Sates has spent almost $300 billion on the war in Afghanistan, the Taliban are stronger than at any time since 2001," according to the NYT. This classified military information release by WikiLeaks is its first since publishing a video in ...
Prospects and Consequences of Attacking Iran
Post Date: 2010-07-26 05:51:37 by Stephen Lendman
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Prospects and Consequences of Attacking Iran - by Stephen Lendman Hopefully its folly will prevent it. Otherwise, expect severe repercussions, including a considerable counterattack and disruption of regional oil supplies, further impacting a troubled global economy. So why consider it, given the December 2007 US National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) saying: "We judge with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program; (perhaps it never had one); we also assess with moderate-to-high confidence that Tehran at a minimum is keeping open the option to develop nuclear weapons..." True or not, dozens of nations may consider one, for defense, not offense ...
US on PR offensive against Wikileaks as 92,000 Afghan war docs spill out
Post Date: 2010-07-25 23:06:10 by abraxas
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US on PR offensive against Wikileaks as 92,000 Afghan war docs spill out By Agence France-Presse Sunday, July 25th, 2010 -- 8:31 pm The White House denounced a massive leak of secret military files Sunday that allegedly describe how Pakistan's spy service aids the Afghan insurgency, but said the information was no surprise. In all, some 92,000 documents were released by the web whistleblower Wikileaks, containing previously untold details of the Afghan war through Pentagon files and field reports spanning from 2004 to 2010. According to the New York Times, one of the first three media outlets to publish reports on the leaks, they "suggest that Pakistan, an ostensible ally of the ...
Strike on Iran Becoming More Likely, Former CIA Chief Says
Post Date: 2010-07-25 20:13:28 by christine
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WASHINGTON -- A former CIA director says military action against Iran now seems more likely because no matter what the U.S. does diplomatically, Tehran keeps pushing ahead with its suspected nuclear program. Michael Hayden, a CIA chief under President George W. Bush, says that during his tenure a strike was "way down the list" of options. But he tells CNN's "State of the Union" that such action now "seems inexorable." He predicts Iran will build its program to the point where it's just below having an actual weapon. Hayden says that would be as destabilizing to the region as the real thing. U.S. officials have said military action remains an option ...
Study: Fallujah’s health fallout ‘worse’ than Hiroshima, Nagasaki
Post Date: 2010-07-25 07:56:39 by tom007
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Study: Fallujah’s health fallout ‘worse’ than Hiroshima, Nagasaki By Stephen C. Webster Saturday, July 24th, 2010 -- 2:27 pm submit to reddit Stumble This! 181Share 29diggsdigg 'Mutagenic and carcinogenic agents' blamed for soaring infant mortality, cancers fallujahbirthdefects Study: Fallujahs health fallout worse than Hiroshima, NagasakiIn Fallujah, a city just 50 miles from Baghdad, life has never been the same since April 2004, when U.S. Marines declared the entire area a free-fire zone and proceeded to do what Marines do best. Packing the most destructive weaponry in the world, American soldiers laid siege to the city, deploying depleted uranium munitions, ...
Osama Dead or Alive?
Post Date: 2010-07-24 14:28:38 by Original_Intent
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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on her recent visit to Pakistan that she believed Osama bin Laden was still in Pakistan, in a television interview between high-level talks in Islamabad. “I believe (bin Laden) is here in Pakistan and it would be very helpful if we could take them (al-Qaeda leaders),” Clinton said. The US secretary of state sought tougher action from Islamabad to combat militants ahead of a key conference in Afghanistan. The information that Osama Bin Laden is dead, first came from sources in Afghanistan and Pakistan many years ago,the fugitive died in December [2001] and was buried in the mountains of southeast Afghanistan. With an ego the size of ...
The Feminist Marine General
Post Date: 2010-07-23 09:30:10 by Lysander_Spooner
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Psychopathy Legitimized by Fred Reed On Antiwar.com, I find a loutish American general, James Mattis, martial feminist, talking about the fun he has killing Afghans. Yes, fun, wheeee-oooo! and ooo-rah! too. He says, “You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn’t wear a veil,” adding “guys like that ain’t got no manhood left anyways. So it’s a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them.” What must he do with prisoners? A joyous killer, possibly orgasmic. Note mandatory flagly background, pickle suit, and stupid colorful gewgaws so he looks like a goddam stamp collection. Stern gaze is necessary to ...
Who Killed The Gulf?
Post Date: 2010-07-23 04:29:05 by Coral Snake
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Who Killed The Gulf? By J. Speer Williams 7-22-10 If there's ever to be an honest final analysis of what killed the Gulf of Mexico, it will not be Mother Earth's crude oil and gases. What did kill the Gulf? The man-made chemical dispersant, Corexit. Well then, WHO killed the Gulf? British Petroleum, of course; but, they were only the paid killers. The important parts of the article below tell us - WHO paid the killers to do the killing, and paid the cops to look the other way, and paid the courts to declare the murder to have been an unavoidable homicide. There's a two tiered system of justice in the United States: one for us and another for the "legalized" ...
State Dept. planning to field a small army in Iraq
Post Date: 2010-07-22 15:36:06 by Jethro Tull
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State Dept. planning to field a small army in Iraq The State Department is laying plans to do precisely that in Iraq, in an unprecedented experiment that U.S. officials and some nervous lawmakers say could be risky. In little more than a year, State Department contractors in Iraq could be driving armored vehicles, flying aircraft, operating surveillance systems, even retrieving casualties if there are violent incidents and disposing of unexploded ordnance. Under the terms of a 2008 status of forces agreement, all U.S. troops must be out of Iraq by the end of 2011, but they'll leave behind a sizable American civilian presence, including the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, the largest in the ...
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