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Latest Articles: War, War, War
GORDON DUFF: SURROGATE WARFARE, KILLING AMERICANS FOR FUN AND PROFIT
Post Date: 2010-07-05 08:01:17 by Kamala
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GORDON DUFF: SURROGATE WARFARE, KILLING AMERICANS FOR FUN AND PROFIT July 3, 2010 posted by Gordon Duff · 23 Comments ShareTHE MYTH OF DEMOCRACY, GOVERNMENT BY ORGANIZED CRIME By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor July 4th, Independence Day to Americans is coming up, our 234th. This is one of a series of patriotic holidays that, though we don’t admit it, are slowly slipping away, Veterans Day also called Remembrance Day or Armistice Day and Memorial Day among them. We have others but they have long since faded into long weekends for government employees. The story is the same, parades to remember the dead, the disabled and the veterans, now almost all seen as damaged ...
GORDON DUFF: CIA HINTS, BIN LADEN DEAD SINCE “EARLY 2000's”
Post Date: 2010-07-04 07:17:16 by Ada
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CIA TRIES TO PREPARE AMERICAN PUBLIC FOR TRUTH ABOUT BUSH/BIN LADEN DECEPTION This week, CIA director Leon Panetta, admitted there has been no information on Osama bin Laden’s whereabouts since “the early 200082;s.” During briefings with the directors of Paksitan’s information and intelligence agencies it was confirmed that Osama bin Laden had been killed, as stated by Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, in 2001. “Informed sources,” senior Pakistani commanders who worked with the CIA and bin Laden against the Soviets back in the 1980s, had confirmed Osama bin Laden’s death, as reported in the mainstream Islamic news, as having occurred on December 15, 2001. ...
War in Afghanistan: Illegal, Untenable and Unwinnable
Post Date: 2010-07-02 05:49:10 by Stephen Lendman
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War in Afghanistan: Illegal, Untenable and Unwinnable - by Stephen Lendman A May 30 Delaware County Times editorial headlined, "Is US fighting unwinnable war in Afghanistan" asking: "Why should America (believe) it can (accomplish what the) Soviet Union (and) Britain couldn't....? Public sentiment against it is growing, and "Many pundits say the war....can never be won militarily...." How many more "US service member" deaths are tolerable? On January 21, 2010, Britain's New Stateman sounded the same theme calling the Afghan war "unwinnable," recent events showing intensified fighting, rising casualties, and a popular resistance ...
Cyber Command Chief Warns of 'Remote Sabotage'
Post Date: 2010-07-01 20:59:19 by Eric Stratton
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Cyber Command Chief Warns of 'Remote Sabotage' by Chris Lefkow June 3rd, 2010 General Keith Alexander, head of the newly created US Cyber Command, pictured in 2004, said Thursday that Pentagon networks are probed over six million times a day and expressed concern about a rise in "remote sabotage" attacks on computer systems. The top US cyberwarrior said Thursday that Pentagon networks are probed over six million times a day and expressed concern about a rise in "remote sabotage" attacks on computer systems. General Keith Alexander, head of the newly created US Cyber Command, also said developing a real-time picture of threats to US military networks and the ...
Half million US casualties from Iraq and Afghan wars
Post Date: 2010-07-01 04:36:56 by Tatarewicz
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e: LA Times: U.S. Iraq and Afghanistan War Casualties Top 500,000 Source: Veterans for Common Sense from Los Angeles Times URL Source: www.veteransforcommonsense.o ... ecurity/1788-alexandra-sandels Published: Jun 24, 2010 Author: Alexandra Sandels American Casualties 500,000 When Injuries and Illnesses are Included June 24, 2010, Los Angeles, CA (Los Angeles Times) - Here's an eye-popping number: A blogger and writer claims American military casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan now exceed 500,000. That's if you count certain injuries and diseases including mental illness that he alleges the Department of Defense doesn't include in its official combat-related casualty toll in ...
The Lying Military Lied to the Wrong Family (Check out this movie trailer)
Post Date: 2010-06-30 13:28:28 by christine
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UNFORGOTTEN WAR: 60 years on, ex-GIs remember Korean War
Post Date: 2010-06-30 10:38:56 by christine
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WAEGWAN, South Korea — The old soldier stood erect on the riverbank, his cane at his side, a baseball cap emblazoned “2nd Infantry Division” square above his brow. He looked out, then turned away from the slow, silty Naktong. “I’ve seen this river before,” Carroll Garland said. “I don’t want to remember. Too many memories.” The war that began in Korea 60 years ago today, a ghastly conflict that killed millions and left the peninsula in ruins, became “The Forgotten War” in many American minds. To a shrinking corps of aging men, however, the soldiers of Korea 1950-53, it can never be forgotten. It damaged many physically, scarred many ...
House GOP leader John Boehner proposes raising age to collect Social Security (in order to pay for WOT)
Post Date: 2010-06-30 10:10:27 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review today that he would support raising the Social Security retirement age to 70 to help pay for the war in Afghanistan. "If you have substantial non-Social Security income while you're retired, why are we paying you at a time when we're broke?" he said to the paper in an interview. Democrats are pouncing on Boehner's remarks, arguing that they foreshadow the approach to government Republicans would take if they win control of Congress in the 2010 midterm elections. Boehner's comments come as lawmakers in both parties, but especially Republicans, have expressed concern with the growing ...
Dangerous Afghan highway threatens NATO supply flow
Post Date: 2010-06-30 08:15:18 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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MAIDAN SHAHR, Afghanistan — Under relentless siege by Taliban insurgents, the crucial road that links the country’s most important cities, Kabul and Kandahar, has become one of the most dangerous highways in Afghanistan — if not on the planet — over the past year. Insurgents have blown up a dozen bridges, six causeways and 85 culverts, according to U.S. officials. There were nearly 300 attacks on the road in a recent five-week period, mostly on armed convoys that were carrying goods for NATO forces. The Taliban have set up checkpoints to demonstrate their control of the highway. Allah Dad, a 52-year-old native of Herat, was driving a truck last week that hauled a huge ...
Death Squad Terror in Honduras
Post Date: 2010-06-30 05:54:10 by Stephen Lendman
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Death Squad Terror in Honduras - by Stephen Lendman On June 28, 2009, while he slept, dozens of Honduran soldiers stormed President Manuel Zelaya's residence, arrested him at gunpoint, and exiled him to Costa Rica, in violation of the 1982 Constitution, stating: "No Honduran may be expatriated nor delivered by the authorities to a foreign state," nor may a democratically elected leader be deposed, evidence showing Washington's involvement and support, coordination handled by US Ambassador Hugo Llorens and Thomas Shannon, Jr., current US Ambassador to Brazil, then Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs. In advance and thereafter, Washington ...
What, Me McWorry?
Post Date: 2010-06-29 06:37:41 by Ada
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Now we know why “King David” Petraeus fainted like a girl at his Senate testimony [.pdf] two weeks ago. Armed Services Committee chairman Carl Levin put Petraeus on the ropes by asking if his allegiance to President Obama’s withdrawal timeline for Afghanistan reflected his “best personal professional judgment.” Petraeus rope-a-doped his way out of that one with his “qualified yes” answer, but he hit the canvas when John McCain dared him to deny an open-source report that he’d promised Obama his 18-month timeline would work. Petraeus sputtered something about how he didn’t see anything productive in discussing an Oval Office conversation, McCain ...
Sacking McChrystal: Testimony to a Lost War
Post Date: 2010-06-29 05:49:06 by Stephen Lendman
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Sacking McChrystal: Testimony to a Lost War - by Stephen Lendman On August 10, 1997, in The New York Times Magazine, David K. Shipler headlined, "Robert McNamara and the Ghosts of Vietnam" saying: Looking back, one of the key war architects admitted "how dangerous it is for political leaders to behave the way we did" about a war that shouldn't have been fought and couldn't be won. In his 1995 book, "In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam," former Defense Secretary McNamara wrote: "....we were wrong, terribly wrong. We owe it to future generations to explain why." In 1965, he knew the war was lost and said so, telling Lyndon ...
What, Me McWorry
Post Date: 2010-06-29 04:59:46 by AGAviator
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Now we know why “King David” Petraeus fainted like a girl at his Senate testimony [.pdf] two weeks ago. Armed Services Committee chairman Carl Levin put Petraeus on the ropes by asking if his allegiance to President Obama’s withdrawal timeline for Afghanistan reflected his “best personal professional judgment.” Petraeus rope-a-doped his way out of that one with his “qualified yes” answer, but he hit the canvas when John McCain dared him to deny an open-source report that he’d promised Obama his 18-month timeline would work. Petraeus sputtered something about how he didn’t see anything productive in discussing an Oval Office conversation, McCain ...
The Western Way of War
Post Date: 2010-06-28 07:58:20 by Eric Stratton
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The Western Way of War Caroline Glick General Stanley McChrystal has paid a huge price for his decision to give Rolling Stone reporter Michael Hastings free access to himself and his staff. But he performed a great service for the rest of us. US President Barack Obama fired McChrystal -- his hand-picked choice to command NATO forces in Afghanistan -- for the things that he and his aides told Hastings about the problematic nature of the US-led war effort in Afghanistan. But by acting as he did, McChrystal forced the rest of us to contend with the unpleasant truth not only about the US-led campaign against the Taliban in Afghanistan. He told us the unpleasant truth about the problematic ...
Collateral Murder - Wikileaks - Iraq
Post Date: 2010-06-28 04:00:47 by wudidiz
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Collateral Murder Collateral Murder - Wikileaks - Iraq From: sunshinepress | April 03, 2010 | 6,996,495 views Wikileaks has obtained and decrypted this previously unreleased video footage from a US Apache helicopter in 2007. It shows Reuters journalist Namir Noor-Eldeen, driver Saeed Chmagh, and several others as the Apache shoots and kills them in a public square in Eastern Baghdad. They are apparently assumed to be insurgents. After the initial shooting, an unarmed group of adults and children in a minivan arrives on the scene and attempts to transport the wounded. They are fired upon as well. The official statement on this incident initially listed all adults as insurgents and claimed ...
US Air Force engaging in chemical warfare on a local population
Post Date: 2010-06-27 08:48:07 by bluegrass
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Cindy's view of McChrystal's departure
Post Date: 2010-06-26 09:07:59 by Tatarewicz
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Offically FUBAR By Cindy Sheehan "If Americans pulled back and started paying attention to this war, it would become even less popular," a senior adviser to head of NATO ops in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal (via Rolling Stone) June 24, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- FUBAR: Military slang for: Fu#ked Up Beyond All/Any Repair/Recognition. FUBAR also has a close military acronym: SNAFU: Situation Normal All Fu#ked Up. FUBAR and SNAFU can be traced back to WWII—you know that war. That’s the war (the last constitutionally declared by Congress) that, along with the US Civil War, is the war that is held up as the shining example of the goodness, ...
The drone war
Post Date: 2010-06-26 08:04:45 by Tatarewicz
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Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Perfect American Weapon Posted by alexthurston on June 24th, 2010 This article originally appeared at http://TomDispatch.com. Note for TomDispatch Readers: Check out Inter Press Service reporter Daniel Luban’s review of my new book, The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s, which can be ordered by clicking here. And while you’re at it, don’t miss Timothy MacBain’s first TomCast video interview with me about the book by clicking here. I was also on Laura Flanders GRITtv show yesterday, while the McChrystal resignation was happening and you can check that out here. As you may remember, about a week ago I offered a signed ...
Korean War anniversary: Vets remember conflict, 60 years later
Post Date: 2010-06-25 14:20:11 by Jethro Tull
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Korean War anniversary: Vets remember conflict, 60 years later Published: Friday, June 25, 2010, 12:00 AM Updated: Friday, June 25, 2010, 9:43 AM MATT MILLER, The Patriot-News Follow Share this story Story tools View full sizeCornelius Beaden, 78, of Steelton, served two tours in the Army in the Korean War. Beaden is second from left in the front row of five soldiers in a photo taken during basic training at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. / DAN GLEITER, The Patriot-NewsWillis 60;Doc61; Halliday, Cornelius Beaden and Henry Gole all asked the same question when the Korean War erupted 60 years ago today. 60;Where is ...
Patrick Cockburn: Petraeus is a master tactician, but his greatest strength is on the political battlefield
Post Date: 2010-06-25 06:40:30 by Ada
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It is like pre-Vietnam days, when Americans accepted that what the military said was true General David Petraeus has a deservedly high reputation but his real abilities are not the ones usually attributed to him. He is, above all, a general with an acute sense of US politics combined with a realisation of the importance of understanding the politics of Iraq and Afghanistan. His great achievement in Iraq was to persuade Americans that they had won the war when, in fact, they were withdrawing with little achieved. He was able to sell the "surge" as a triumph of military tactics when in reality its most important feature was that Sunni insurgents allied themselves with American ...
Let McChrystal Bring the Troops Home
Post Date: 2010-06-25 06:01:51 by Ada
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We really shouldn’t let the furor over President Obama’s firing of Gen. Stanley McChrystal cause us to lose focus on three important points regarding Afghanistan: The U.S. government should never have invaded and occupied the country in the first place, it should have exited the country years ago, and continuing the occupation for any period of time whatsoever is the height of immorality and folly. Let’s keep in mind that the invader and occupier has had 9 years to accomplish whatever it wanted to accomplish. There have been no restraints whatsoever on the number of people who could be killed, maimed, jailed, tortured, or incarcerated to achieve such goals. And, in fact, ...
Videos - Shock Doctrine: Rise Of Disaster Capitalism
Post Date: 2010-06-24 23:10:54 by GreyLmist
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Poster Comment:Longer talk on the subject of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, posted by talkingsticktv @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNzcJImX4Ew&feature=related:
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Post Date: 2010-06-24 17:35:59 by Itistoolate
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US Illegally Removes Pages from Iraq UN ReportA:link { COLOR: navy; TEXT-DECORATION: none } A:visited { COLOR: fuchsia; TEXT-DECORATION: none } A:active { COLOR: #000000; TEXT-DECORATION: none } A:hover { COLOR: #006699; TEXT-DECORATION: blink } TD { FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial } P { FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Swiss, SunSans-Regular, Verdana; TEXT-DECORATION: none } Bullet { FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; TEXT-DECORATION: none } H1 { FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: navy; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Swiss, ...
The Great Iraq Swindle [Rolling Stone Flashback]
Post Date: 2010-06-24 10:28:26 by GreyLmist
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How is it done? How do you screw the taxpayer for millions, get away with it and then ride off into the sunset with one middle finger extended, the other wrapped around a chilled martini? Ask Earnest O. Robbins -- he knows all about being a successful contractor in Iraq. You start off as a well-connected bureaucrat: in this case, as an Air Force civil engineer, a post from which Robbins was responsible for overseeing 70,000 servicemen and contractors, with an annual budget of $8 billion. You serve with distinction for thirty-four years, becoming such a military all-star that the Air Force frequently sends you to the Hill to testify before Congress -- until one day in the summer of 2003, ...
Gassed In The Gulf - Benzene, New Gulf War Syndrome
Post Date: 2010-06-23 23:36:27 by Coral Snake
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Gassed In The Gulf - Benzene, New Gulf War Syndrome Dr. Joseph Chiappalone MD By Deborah Dupré SilverBearCafe.com 6-22-10 The Government is not letting you know everything about the Gulf Oil Spill. Benzene in incredible amounts is being released into the air. People are getting sick. UN Vans by the thousands are parked in secluded areas out of site from the public on AF Base in Florida just below Jacksonville. They are also in many other areas. Enter this grid into Google maps and you can see for yourself. 29.97213,-81.660047 (you will have to enter the coordinates) The petro-chemical-military-industrial complex is gassing Gulf Coast residents with poisonous Benzene and Corexit ...
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