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Latest Articles: War, War, War
The Lion of Babylon
Post Date: 2010-05-21 11:05:03 by randge
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The Lion of Babylon & american dogs. Layla Anwar May 20, 2010 I received this just now. It was posted on Abutamam blog. Watch the video well, and watch it several times...watch it several times as this video captures two things that are a truth, THE TRUTH : - the coward rabid animals, dogs - believing they are human beings and who go by the name of americans - and the true fearless and brave noble Iraqi spirit as embodied in this elderly unarmed man This elderly man is in his own country - IRAQ - he is unarmed and he does not fear you...you the occupiers, who have crossed oceans to kill us and deprive us of our most basic rights and liberties ....he does not fear your guns, ...
Creeping Terror: The New American Way of War
Post Date: 2010-05-20 05:43:53 by Ada
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The American way of war is a marvelously ingenious thing. And thoroughly modern too. No more of that "don't shoot until you see the whites of their eyes" jazz; your modern "warfighter" (they aren't called "soldiers" anymore, you know) prefers to view his targets through, say, a computer screen safely ensconced back in the Homeland or thousands of feet in the sky, or else through the unearthly greenish glow of night-vision scopes. And open combat? Forget it. The new American way is the sneak attack on civilian homes in the dead of night. You creep up, you break in, you cap a few ragheads, then you run away. What glory! What magnificent valor! The ...
Just Watched Rambo again!
Post Date: 2010-05-19 02:34:56 by echo5sierra
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Just watched the last Rambo movie. Gotta love it. A reminder of real evil in this world. Anyone who thinks there isn't is dead wrong. It is real.
Study: US missile defense plans based on ‘technical myths’
Post Date: 2010-05-18 15:26:44 by Ada
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Scientists fear 'flawed and dangerous' plan will result in 'foreign policy disaster' US missile defense plans are based on "technical myths" and interceptors have mostly failed to knock out incoming warheads in military tests, a new study argues. Two American scientists reviewed 10 tests of the SM-3 "kill vehicle," designed to take out ballistic missiles, and concluded that the interceptor succeeded in directly hitting mock warheads in only one or two cases. "This means that, in real combat, the warhead would have not been destroyed but would have continued toward the target and detonated in eight or nine of the 10 SM-3 experimental tests," ...
AFGHANISTAN: US DRUG POLICY, TOTAL CORRUPTION OR UTTER INSANITY?
Post Date: 2010-05-15 19:45:48 by Horse
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The new American drug policy is easy to understand. America is telling the world it can no longer eradicate opium/heroin production because “poor farmers” are going to suffer. In truth, the poppy fields America now protects are run by drug lords with ties to the Karzai regime. America is building a narco-mafia behind the government of Afghanistan tied to an unsound and corrupt policy being peddled by the Special Envoy, Richard Holbrooke. The US has no plans to eradicate drug production in Afghanistan, production they and everyone else claims is funding the Taliban and is certainly pumping 65 billion dollars into somebody’s hands. This is what NATO commander, Gen. Stanley ...
Cronkite 'aided' protests
Post Date: 2010-05-15 10:18:15 by Jethro Tull
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Walter Cronkite secretly helped antiwar protesters in the 1960s and even offered to have CBS foot the bill for a helicopter to bring Sen. Edmund Muskie to a peace rally, according to new FBI documents. The news anchor offered advice to the leader of a Florida antiwar group, according to the FBI documents obtained by Yahoo News. The claim was filtered up to the FBI from a confidential informant, who said he was told about Cronkite's collusion at a November 1969 meeting of a Rollins College protest group called Youth for New America. At that meeting, the leader, whose name is redacted from the file, tells the group that he talked on the phone to the CBS newsman for 45 minutes, ...
Trilateral Commission Wants War With Iran
Post Date: 2010-05-14 12:45:05 by Horse
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Trilateral Commission member Mikhail Slobodovsici, a chief adviser to the Russian leadership, unwittingly provided a revealing insight into the plans of the global elite during the group’s recent meeting in Dublin Ireland, when he mistakenly told a We Are Change Ireland activist he thought was a fellow TC member that the globalists are planning a war with Iran. According to Jim Tucker’s fascinating report on the story, Slobodovsici also let slip to We Are Change Ireland’s Alan Keenan that the Trilateralists and their BIlderberg counterparts are intent on exploiting the economic crisis to finalize plans for a world government, but that this agenda is being severely hampered ...
Hersh: US troops executing prisoners in Afghanistan
Post Date: 2010-05-12 13:11:51 by christine
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The journalist who helped break the story that detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were being tortured by their US jailers told an audience at a journalism conference last month that American soldiers are now executing prisoners in Afghanistan. New Yorker journalist Seymour Hersh also revealed that the Bush Administration had developed advanced plans for a military strike on Iran. At the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Geneva, Hersh criticized President Barack Obama, and alleged that US forces are engaged in "battlefield executions." "I'll tell you right now, one of the great tragedies of my country is that Mr. Obama is looking the other way, ...
U.S. Special Forces Slaughter Family In Afghanistan, Attempt Cover-Up
Post Date: 2010-05-11 12:02:21 by christine
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On Feb. 12, a family in Khataba, Afghanistan, held a party to celebrate the birth of a baby boy. Just hours after they went to sleep, U.S. Army Special Forces assaulted the house. They kicked down the door, rushed to the roof and began shooting at everybody below. The site that had so recently been a scene of dancing and celebration was now a pile of bodies and a river of blood. Two of the dead were women who were both seven-months pregnant, and already mothers with several children. Another was a teenage girl. Two of the men who were killed were highly respected members of the community. Two young grandchildren also lay critically wounded in the slaughter. Two of the casualties survived ...
Is the War Coming Home?
Post Date: 2010-05-11 07:58:26 by Eric Stratton
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Is the War Coming Home? by Patrick J. Buchanan May 11th, 2010 Faisal Shahzad sought to massacre scores of fellow Americans in Times Square with a bomb made of M-88 firecrackers, non-explosive fertilizer, gasoline and alarm clocks. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to blow up a U.S. airliner over Detroit with a firebomb concealed in his underpants. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan shot dead 13 fellow soldiers at Fort Hood and wounded 29. Why did these men attempt the mass murder of Americans who did no harm to them? What impelled them to seek martyrdom amid a pile of American corpses? Though all were Muslims, none seems to have been a longtime America-hater or natural-born killer. Hasan was proud to ...
War is Still a Racket
Post Date: 2010-05-09 10:39:08 by christine
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For this Mother's Day, I am not going to write about Juliet Ward Howe's Mother's Day proclamation and how Mother's Day is a "Day for Peace." By now, most of us are well aware of Ward's proclamation (if not, click here) that we Mother's should not send our sons (sic) to kill the sons of other mothers. We have strayed so far away from the original meaning of Mother's Day, that we might as well call it "Hallmark Hooray Day," and just let it be what it is. What I am going to write about, however, is the treatise of a military man that I think is profoundly and unfortunately still relevant. Seventy-seven years ago, Major General Smedley ...
The Marines Are Looking for a Few Good High School Students
Post Date: 2010-05-08 22:32:59 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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The theme this time is defense. And this time, along with the About the Corps "opportunity book," it is a choice between folding speakers, a T-shirt, or a wristband instead of dog tags, a duffle bag, or a skullcap. The Marine Corps recruiting literature that came in the mail to my son this time, thanks once again to the No Child Left Behind Act, contained no poster to show Marine Corps pride and no note from the Sergeant Major at the Marine Corps Recruiting Command, just a simple fold-out brochure. I wrote about the packet with the poster and the note in "The Few, the Proud, the High School Students." On the cover of the brochure is a picture of a child with the ...
What I learned in Afghanistan – About the United States
Post Date: 2010-05-06 06:41:29 by Ada
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I was surprised on my recent trip to Afghanistan that I learned so much…about the United States. I was in Afghanistan for two weeks in March of this year, meeting with a large number of Afghans working in humanitarian endeavors – the principal of a girls’ school, the director of a school for street children, the Afghan Human Rights Commission, a group working on environmental issues. The one thing that all of these groups that we met with had in common was, they were penniless. They all survived on rather tenuous donations made by philanthropic foundations in Europe. I had read that the United States had spent $300 billion dollars in Afghanistan since the invasion and ...
Terrorism and America's Way of Life
Post Date: 2010-05-06 06:23:10 by Ada
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In a press conference yesterday about Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani-American who allegedly tried to blow up the car bomb in Times Square, Attorney General Eric Holder stated, “The reality that there is a constant threat from those who wish to do us harm simply because of our way of life.” We haven’t yet heard any public statements from Shahzad himself. But my hunch is that the “way of life” that allegedly motivated him has to do with what the U.S. government has been doing to people in the Middle East. Consider Iraq, a country that never attacked the United States or even threatened to do so. How many Iraqi citizens have been killed and maimed in the U.S. ...
New War Macines
Post Date: 2010-05-06 05:45:16 by Tatarewicz
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On April 23 I posted regarding the activity and noise surrounding the possibility of SCUD missiles coming into Lebanon from Syria: Scud missile tubes are about 30 feet long, give or take, depending on the type. It is said they are not easily shipped in pieces. But the bulk of the scud components and launch equipment apparently is easily broken down into their constituent assemblies. And containers for tractor trailers can exceed 50 feet in length. Unless we have technology to look into those containers from space or an UAV, it seems to me that saying we don’t see them does not mean they certainly are not there. The same week, unbeknownst to me at the time, the Russian arms ...
Faisal Shahzad: An Ordinary Man
Post Date: 2010-05-05 05:47:24 by Ada
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From Wall Street to Waziristan: a story that doesn’t quite add up The day after President Obama made his Predator joke at the White House Correspondents dinner, Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistani-American, was in the middle of Times Square trying to blow the place up. I’m not saying there was any connection, although you never know: yet there is indeed a link between the casual arrogance that allowed an intelligent man like our chief executive to joke about a deadly weapon that has killed more innocent civilians in Pakistan than actual terrorists. It’s why they hate us. There are several issues being raised by this case, first and foremost the question of there being some ...
No One Cares
Post Date: 2010-05-04 06:37:28 by Ada
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We are approaching a decade of war in Afghanistan, and the war in Iraq is in its eighth year. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and thousands more Afghans and Pakistani civilians have been killed. Millions have been driven into squalid displacement and refugee camps. Thousands of our own soldiers and Marines have died or been crippled physically and psychologically. We sustain these wars, which have no real popular support, by borrowing trillions of dollars that can never be repaid, even as we close schools, states go into bankruptcy, social services are cut, our infrastructure crumbles, tens of millions of Americans are reduced to poverty, and real unemployment approaches 17 percent. ...
Is The Gulf Oil Spill The False Flag We've Been Expecting? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-05-03 13:38:42 by Original_Intent
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The question I want to present for discussion and thought is: Is the gulf oil spill an intentional event? My thought process runs something like this: Another 911 fake terror event would not, at this time, work. Such an event might actually spark an open revolution, and it would have to be on a scale large enough to eclipse 911 in order to have enough impact to shock people into numbness again. As well it would have to be flawless this time as the 911 event has been so thoroughly shown to have been an inside job that they, the Banksters and their flunkies, dare leave no fingerprints this time. I note that "Halliburton" (as well as BP - British Petroleum), a known operation of ...
Revisiting Freedom in Iraq
Post Date: 2010-05-01 16:19:42 by Ada
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How often have we heard proponents of the unlawful war of aggression against Iraq say that the real purpose of their invasion (after U.S. troops and the CIA failed to find those infamous and scary WMDs that were about to fired at the United States) was to bring freedom and democracy to Iraq? How many times have they attempted to justify the deaths of more than a thousand U.S. soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis on that basis? How often have they reminded us that Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator who tortured, killed, and jailed his own people? Let’s examine those justifications for attacking a country that never attacked or even threatened to attack the United States. ...
The Military Occupation of Our Minds [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-05-01 11:14:11 by abraxas
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The Military Occupation of Our Minds By Tom Hayden April 29, 2010 "Huffington Post" -- As Congress weighs Afghanistan funding, the military is escalating what it calls the "war of perceptions" at home and abroad. The question is whether the American media and Congress will collaborate in the Pentagon's press strategy or retain a critical edge. It is no accident that the Pentagon is shaping the "information battlespace" by welcoming friendly reporters and think tank hacks to beam back commentaries about the Kandahar offensive to the American people. Nor is it accidental that the US is soft-pedaling any public criticism of its crooked crony in Kabul, ...
Iraq Today: Afflicted by Violence, Devastation, Corruption, and Desperation
Post Date: 2010-04-27 05:52:55 by Stephen Lendman
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Iraq Today: Afflicted by Violence, Devastation, Corruption, and Desperation - by Stephen Lendman Seven years under occupation, Iraqis still cope with what Refugees International calls "a dire humanitarian crisis that sees huge numbers of displaced (and other Iraqis) struggl(ing) to survive," a situation "for which the US bears special responsibility" but does nothing to correct. Recent UNHCR figures estimate around 4.5 million refugees, nearly 2.8 million internal ones (IDPs), a third of these in squatter slums in Baghdad, Diyala and Salah al-Din. Many fear returning home. Most are impoverished. Settlements lack basic services, including water, sanitation, electricity, ...
18 veterans kill themselves every day: report
Post Date: 2010-04-24 10:58:58 by Horse
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The suicide rate among war veterans is extraordinary, new data reveals. Thirty try to commit suicide each day, on average, reports the Army Times. Eighteen succeed, roughly five of whom receive medical care from Veterans Affairs, rated one of the best health programs in the country. "Of the more than 30,000 suicides in this country each year, fully 20 percent of them are acts by veterans,'' said VA Secretary Eric Shinseki at a VA-sponsored suicide prevention conference in January, Inter Press Service reported. The Times noted that "In general, VA officials said, women attempt suicide more often, but men are more likely to succeed in the attempt." The report cites ...
Fabricating Terrorism: Victims of UK Injustice
Post Date: 2010-04-24 05:53:04 by Stephen Lendman
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"Fabricating Terrorism:" Victims of UK Injustice - by Stephen Lendman Launched in October 2003, Cageprisoners is a human rights organization dedicated to raising the "awareness of the plight of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay" and other War on Terror victims. As a "comprehensive resource," six words explain its mission: "education, campaign, support, motivation, co-operation (and) prevention" for its efforts to educate the public, campaign for Guantanamo and other detainee repatriations or their asylum, and have prisoner rights guaranteed under international law, including humane treatment not to be: -- tortured; -- indefinitely detained; -- ...
WE ARE WINNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bombs kill 69 in Iraq's deadliest day this year
Post Date: 2010-04-23 20:34:44 by buckeroo
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BAGHDAD — The bloodiest day of the year in Iraq left at least 69 people dead in a series of bombings in mainly Shiite areas Friday — concerted attacks seen as demonstrating the resilience of the Sunni-led insurgency after the slaying of two al-Qaida leaders last weekend. No one has taken responsibility for the blasts, but officials were quick to blame Sunni-led insurgent groups for attacking at a particularly fragile time as Iraq awaits formation of a new government and prepares for U.S. troops to go home by the end of next year. The protracted political wrangling since contentious March 7 elections has raised fears of sectarian violence akin to that seen at the height of the ...
Murphy, Pamela Opal Lee (Audie Murphy's widow) died 4/15
Post Date: 2010-04-23 15:45:55 by Jethro Tull
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Pamela Opal Lee Murphy Murphy, Pamela Opal Lee October 7, 1923 - April 8, 2010 Pamela Murphy, widow of WWII hero and actor, Audie Murphy, died peacefully at her home on April 8, 2010. She is survived by sons, Terry and James. Pam established her own distinctive 30 year career working as a patient liaison at the Sepulveda VA Hospital, where she was much beloved. Services will be held at Forest Lawn (Hollywood Hills) on Friday April 16 at 2:30PM Published in the Los Angeles Times on April 15, 2010 www.dailynew http://s.com/news/ci_14885262 Pam Murphy, widow of actor Audie Murphy, was veterans' friend and advocate By Dennis McCarthy, Columnist Updated: 04/14/2010 Pam Murphy, ...
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