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Latest Articles: War, War, War
Officially FUBAR
Post Date: 2010-06-23 15:32:51 by christine
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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, nay GREATNESS of the United States of America. The war where we freed the entire planet of fascism, Nazi-ism, imperialism and made the world safe for FREEDOM (and freedom’s Siamese Twin: DEMOCRACY)! So, if the people who were actually in the trenches were recognizing the war, even the GREAT ONE was ...
WAR - Who Benefits?
Post Date: 2010-06-22 13:41:40 by Original_Intent
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Who benefits? Corporations, according to the Supreme Court, are legally equivalent to "natural persons." These patriotic corporate citizens are normally satisfied with the day-to-day political influence which brings them little (or no) taxes, subsidies ($1.5 billion to Big Oil) and immunity from criminal prosecution for damaging us. But when it's wartime for the troops it's showtime for the elite. A War For Freedom has to be financed, so the banks' profits jump. We neeed equipment, so armaments makes a bundle. And Big Oil pumps up its profits with high octane. United They Stand, The Sky's The Limit. Let all the casualties be on the battlefield, not on Wall Street, ...
The U.S. War Addiction: Funding Enemies to Maintain Trillion Dollar Racket
Post Date: 2010-06-22 11:46:28 by christine
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Editor's Note: With so many problems in the USA, it's no easy job to single out a handful of the most important, priority issues. But the enormous pile of wasted money spent on wars and the military-industrial complex has to be right at the top. Not only is the money spent an enormous destructive waste, but there's also the question of opportunity cost; just a fraction of war money could make major improvements to health care, schools and universities, and our decaying public infrastructure. The release of the Pentagon's Quadrennal Defense Review indicates that Obama intends to spend even more on war. David DeGraw's article below sheds some light on the madness of war ...
Probe: US Tax Dollars May Be Funding Taliban
Post Date: 2010-06-22 06:50:27 by AGAviator
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Contractors Said to Pay 'Protection' Money to Taliban, Warlords by Jason Ditz, June 21, 2010 The US Army Criminal Investigation Command has announced that it is conducting an inquiry into allegations that portions of a $2.1 billion Pentagon contract may be going to pay “protection” money to Taliban and warlord groups in Afghanistan. The allegations say that a US contractor, the Afghan Host Nation Trucking company, is paying between $2 million and $4 million a week to insurgent groups to allow NATO supplies to pass through their territory without being attacked. If true it would mean US war funds are being funneled into the pockets of the insurgents the war is meant to ...
Heard Any Good War Jokes Lately?
Post Date: 2010-06-22 06:15:39 by Ada
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The pratfall Dave Petraeus took face-first into his microphone during his farcical testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee last Tuesday channeled the Twix candy bar commercial that asks: “Need a moment?” As the New York Times put it, the Teflon General was facing some intense questioning on the president’s order to begin reducing American forces in Afghanistan next year when he “slumped toward the microphone on his table.” Maybe Dave just needed some time think things over. Maybe he needed to stall while his driver ran out to see if he left his crib sheet in his government sedan. The general returned to the floor a half hour after later claiming he ...
Video: If Army Ads Had Health Warnings
Post Date: 2010-06-21 14:19:14 by Horse
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Signs that Zionist warmongers may be losing
Post Date: 2010-06-21 06:50:40 by Tatarewicz
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http://WarIsACrime.org Looking Up: War Is Over (if you want it) The tide is turning against war. We've permanently shut down the Army Experience Center! We've kept student information from recruiters in Maryland! The war escalation supplemental funding has stalled! The attack on Kandahar has been stalled! The majority of the public is on our side! Even our puppet president doesn't want the war! Dozens of reports and experts are on our side! The economic and political crises are on our side! Torture protesters have been acquitted! Australians are with us! The Israeli blockade of Gaza is breaking! Petraeus has fainted in the face of congressional skepticism! A congresswoman, ...
Afganistan's trillion dollars in resources - Zionist propganda ruse?
Post Date: 2010-06-20 07:25:48 by Tatarewicz
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NYT's trillion dollar Afghan story runs into trouble news 18 June 2010 A New York Times story on Afghanistan's apparently vast mineral resources has come under fire for regurgitating old material and passing it off as new. On its appearance the story immediately grabbed eyeballs as it had all the necessary ingredients –a war-torn nation, a virulent insurgency, rising deaths amongst the foreign expeditionary forces, the Taliban, a corrupt government at Kabul and, of course, the magical words – a trillion dollars. It also had the name of a celebrated journalist adorning the byline. The author of the story, which claims that Afghanistan's vast mineral resources are ...
Wikileaks Soldier Reveals Orders for "360 Rotational Fire" Against Civilians in Iraq
Post Date: 2010-06-18 14:08:02 by Horse
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Ethan McCord, one of the soldiers seen in the now-famous Wikileaks video in which two American Apache helicopters fire upon a relaxed, unhurried gaggle of men in Baghdad, has stated in an interview with World Socialist Website that he witnessed numerous times the indiscriminate slaughter of civilians in Iraq after IED attacks. McCord is on of the soldiers seen helping two wounded children after the attack. He has stepped forward with open opposition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and written a letter of apology for his part in the incident to the mother of the children, who has accepted his apology. The mother's husband was killed in the attack and found with his body shielding ...
Drones in America
Post Date: 2010-06-18 05:59:29 by Ada
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Yesterday, I appeared on the Glenn Beck show, which was being guest-hosted by Judge Andrew Napolitano, to discuss the possible use of drones here in the United States. The idea is being proposed as just another way to keep Americans safe. Is safety so important that people must accept whatever controls that government is able to place on them? Shouldn’t there be a limit, one in which people say: “I don’t care if I’m unsafe as long as I’m free, and I’m not willing surrender my freedom or my privacy for any amount of safety?” The use of the drones is being justified under three different wars that the U.S. government is waging: the war on drugs, the war ...
WikiLeaks to release video of deadly US Afghan attack
Post Date: 2010-06-17 10:21:05 by Lysander_Spooner
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WikiLeaks to release video of deadly US Afghan attack Whistleblowing website says it is still working to prepare the film of the bombing of the Afghan village of Garani in May 2009 (156)Tweet this (225)Chris McGreal in Washington guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 16 June 2010 20.15 BST Article history Wikileaks has said it plans to release a video of a US air strike in Afghanistan which allegedly killed many children. Photograph: public domain The whistleblowing website WikiLeaks says it plans to release a secret military video of one of the deadliest US air strikes in Afghanistan in which scores of children are believed to have been killed. WikiLeaks announced the move in an email to ...
War is no game, so why is it marketed to children as one?
Post Date: 2010-06-17 06:10:11 by Ada
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In the post-conscription era, parents have subtler enemies to fight. IT'S been nearly 40 years since five Melbourne women - Jean McLean, Joan Coxsedge, Irene Miller, Chris Cathie and Jo McLaine Ross - were sent to Fairlea prison for 14 days for their activities in the Save Our Sons (SOS) movement. In the 1960s and early '70s, SOS successfully campaigned against conscription and Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War. Times are different now; we no longer have such barbaric laws, our boys simply ''volunteer''. Advertisement: Story continues below Last week, the front pages of most Australian newspapers displayed heartbreaking images of two young men - Jacob ...
VIDEO: "MASTERS OF WAR"
Post Date: 2010-06-16 19:19:38 by wakeup
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Poster Comment:Masters Of War Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks You that never done nothin’ But build to destroy You play with my world Like it’s your little toy You put a gun in my hand And you hide from my eyes And you turn and run farther When the fast bullets fly Like Judas of old You lie and deceive A world war can be won You want me to believe But I see through your eyes And I see through your brain Like I see through the water That runs down my drain You fasten the triggers For the others ...
WikiLeaks Founder Has (new) Massacre Video
Post Date: 2010-06-16 11:06:32 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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Julian Assange, who the Feds fear may release State Dept. secrets, denies having them—but he’s readying video of a deadly U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan. After several days underground, the founder of the secretive website WikiLeaks has gone public to disclose that he is preparing to release a classified Pentagon video of a U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan last year that left as many as 140 civilians dead, most of them children and teenagers. In an email obtained by The Daily Beast that was sent to WikiLeaks supporters in the United States Tuesday, Julian Assange, the website’s Australian-born founder, also defends a 22-year-old Army intelligence specialist who is now under ...
Afghanistan Mineral Riches: Beware the Hype
Post Date: 2010-06-14 22:30:17 by your_neighbor
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June 14, 2010 "Atlantic Council" -- News that "United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself" should be taken with several doses of salt. James Risen of the NYT broke the story, which has the security blogosphere buzzing. It gushes, The previously unknown deposits — including huge veins of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and critical industrial metals like lithium — are so big and include so many minerals that are essential to modern industry that Afghanistan could eventually be transformed ...
The Courage to Leave
Post Date: 2010-06-14 11:48:27 by christine
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There is no good news coming out of the depressing and endless war in Afghanistan. There once was merit to our incursion there, but that was long ago. Now we’re just going through the tragic motions, flailing at this and that, with no real strategy or decent end in sight. The U.S. doesn’t win wars anymore. We just funnel the stressed and underpaid troops in and out of the combat zones, while all the while showering taxpayer billions on the contractors and giant corporations that view the horrors of war as a heaven-sent bonanza. BP, as we’ve been told repeatedly recently, is one of the largest suppliers of fuel to the wartime U.S. military. Seven American soldiers were ...
U.S. Identifies Vast Riches of Minerals in Afghanistan
Post Date: 2010-06-14 01:22:52 by AGAviator
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WASHINGTON — The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, according to senior American government officials. The previously unknown deposits — including huge veins of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and critical industrial metals like lithium — are so big and include so many minerals that are essential to modern industry that Afghanistan could eventually be transformed into one of the most important mining centers in the world, the United States officials believe. An internal Pentagon memo, for ...
A Wasteland Called Peace
Post Date: 2010-06-10 11:16:48 by Ada
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In the first century A.D. the Roman historian Tacitus wrote "Solitudinem fecerunt, pacem appelunt," translated as "they have created a wasteland and call it peace." He was describing the devastating Roman campaigns against the German tribes under the first emperor Augustus in which all the men capable of carrying weapons were slaughtered and the remainder of the population was sold into slavery. It was the Roman way of waging war, complete destruction of a foreign enemy to serve as a warning against challenging the might of the Caesars. We Americans have inherited the imperial mantle and are the new Romans. For the policymakers in Washington, nearly all of whom have ...
US Out of Options on Iran
Post Date: 2010-06-10 01:30:42 by AGAviator
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was reelected as the president of Iran last June against a background of an unusually open, divisive and acrimonious election campaign. The vote was followed by unprecedented levels of street protests and growing international pressure and isolation led by the US, despite the stated intentions of Barack Obama, the US president. But now, several months on, Ahmadinejad's government appears to have emerged stronger and more self-confident than it was before the contentious elections. Withering opposition Not only did he maintain his position on some of the most controversial foreign policy issues, he also made a direct challenge to the power of Ali Akbar Hashemi ...
Jewish Revenge Fantasies
Post Date: 2010-06-09 11:13:28 by Turtle
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Kevin MacDonald: A recent panel discussion of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds had some interesting tidbits about Jewish revenge fantasies: But [Dr. Amy] Kalmanofsky quickly put that argument [that Jews should feel guilty about revenge] to bed, noting that Jewish texts have always embraced revenge fantasies, from the destruction of the Egyptians in Exodus and Haman & Co. in Megillat Esther. And [Rabbi Jack] Moline — echoing the message of one of his Yom Kippur sermons from earlier this year — also praised the film, describing it as a way of helping American Jews shed some of their Holocaust baggage and getting more comfortable with their Zionist sides. Moline ...
Echoes of Mengele: Medical Experiments, Torture and Continuity in the American Gulag
Post Date: 2010-06-09 05:57:54 by Ada
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This is the language of power – unfiltered, unadorned, dispassionate, professional – discussing how best to inflict tortures on helpless captives without causing "long-term" damage that might be visible later: But as we understand the experience involving the combination of various techniques, the OMS medical and psychological personnel have not observed any such increase in susceptibility. Other than the waterboard, the specific techniques under consideration in this memorandum— including sleep deprivation—have been applied to more than 25 detainees.… No apparent increase in susceptibility to severe pain has been observed either when techniques are used ...
Obama's National Security Strategy: A New Direction or Continuity?
Post Date: 2010-06-09 05:52:05 by Stephen Lendman
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Obama's National Security Strategy (NSS): A New Direction or Continuity - by Stephen Lendman Periodically, US administrations prepare NNS documents for Congress, outlining their major national security concerns and plans for addressing. On May 27, the White House Office of the Press Secretary announced Obama's saying it's to "Advanc(e) Our Interests: Actions in Support of the President's National Security Strategy." UN ambassador Susan Rice called it a "dramatic departure" from the Bush administration. The White House claims it's "to keep the American people safe" and advance the nation's "values and ideals." In fact, ...
Soldier arrested in WikiLeaks classified Iraq video case
Post Date: 2010-06-08 11:25:07 by freepatriot32
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Army Spc. Bradley Manning has been arrested in connection with the April release of classified footage of a US helicopter mistakenly shooting Iraqi civilians to website WikiLeaks. The US Army has arrested Specialist Bradley Manning, a soldier deployed in Iraq with the 10th Mountain Division, on charges that he allegedly released classified information. The military is looking at a possible connection between Spc. Manning and WikiLeaks, an online whistleblower organization which in April published a graphic video of an Apache gunship mistakenly shooting civilians, according to Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman. “The Department of Defense takes the management of classified information ...
Did the Bush Administration Experiment on Detainees?
Post Date: 2010-06-07 15:46:27 by bush_is_a_moonie
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n the course of trying to prove that its "enhanced" interrogation program was legal, the Bush administration may have broken the law, according to a new report (PDF) by Physicians for Human Rights. The watchdog group claims that in an attempt to establish that brutal interrogation tactics did not constitute torture, the administration ended up effectively experimenting on terrorism detainees. This research, PHR alleges, violated an array of regulations and treaties, including international guidelines on human testing put in place after the Holocaust. According to the report, which draws on numerous declassified government documents, "medical professionals working for and on ...
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