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Imperial Troubles in Iraq and Afghanistan
Post Date: 2010-04-07 06:39:53 by Ada
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Things are not working out as well as the U.S. Empire intended in either Iraq or Afghanistan. The original plan called for the installation of U.S. puppet regimes in both countries, regimes that would do the bidding of the Empire while maintaining the false semblance of sovereignty and independence. For a model of what was intended for both countries, think Iran from 1953 to 1979. In 1953, the CIA instituted a coup in Iran that ousted Iran’s democratically elected prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh, and replaced him with a U.S.-approved, compliant ruler, the Shah of Iran. From 1953 to 1979, Iran was a dream-come-true for the CIA and the U.S. Empire. The country was ruled by the ...
Military can’t find Iraq video
Post Date: 2010-04-07 01:00:38 by Pinguinite
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Military can’t find Iraq video Clip was withheld from Reuters after 2007 request updated 8:21 p.m. CT, Tues., April 6, 2010 WASHINGTON - The U.S. military said Tuesday it can't find its copy of a video that shows two employees of the Reuters news agency being killed by Army helicopters in 2007, after a leaked version circulated the Internet and renewed questions about the attack. Capt. Jack Hanzlik, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command, said that the military has not been able to locate the video within its files after being asked to authenticate the version available online. "We had no reason to hold the video at (Central Command), nor did the higher headquarters in ...
CIA wants Afghan women to convince Europeans to continue fight
Post Date: 2010-04-07 00:47:46 by Tatarewicz
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The CIA has called for recruiting Afghan women in a public relations bid to persuade Europeans to support war in Afghanistan, a document leaked to the media has revealed. "Afghan women could serve as ideal messengers in humanizing" the mission for European audiences, particularly in France, according to the CIA analysis, posted on WikiLeaks, a whistleblower website, AFP reported. Afghan women's views would carry special weight as they could express "their aspirations for the future, and their fears of a Taliban victory," it said. The proposed PR strategies focus on pressure points that have been identified within these countries. For France, it is the sympathy of ...
Slain photographer's brother denounces 'criminal' US military (Video)
Post Date: 2010-04-06 22:39:57 by Disgusted
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Detour in Obama's pledged trip home for Iraq troops
Post Date: 2010-04-06 06:04:04 by Tatarewicz
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The military is scrambling to finish what it calls the largest movement of troops and equipment since the buildup of World War II as it draws down in Iraq and ramps up in Afghanistan. Third Army commander Lt. Gen. William G. Webster told Pentagon reporters Friday the top priority is to keep moving the planned 30,000 troops and their supplies that President Barack Obama has ordered into Afghanistan to bolster the fight against the insurgency. Speaking from Kuwait, Webster said the military is moving as fast as it can on the massive and complex job. There are roughly 3 million pieces of equipment in Iraq, including 41,000 vehicles and trailers. Some of the equipment will remain in Iraq; ...
US-Committed Atrocities in Afghanistan
Post Date: 2010-04-06 06:01:43 by Stephen Lendman
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US-Committed Atrocities in Afghanistan - by Stephen Lendman After General Stanley McChrystal took charge of US/NATO Afghan forces last June, systematic atrocities escalated sharply after promises of kinder, gentler killing (an oxymoron), winning hearts and minds, and fewer civilian casualties as a "paramount" objective - now much higher the result of more than a fourfold increase in night raids, targeting civilians, including children, while they sleep. McChrystal's resume exposed his history - death squad terror, mostly against civilians, the same counterinsurgency he waged throughout Iraq as Commanding General, Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), especially in ...
U.S. pilot seen firing on people in Iraq (MSNBC picks up report)
Post Date: 2010-04-06 01:13:42 by Pinguinite
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WASHINGTON - A senior U.S. military official on Monday confirmed as authentic a gritty war video that shows U.S. forces firing repeatedly on people along a Baghdad street. The incident on July 12, 2007, happened the same day and in the same area that a Reuters photographer, Namir Noor-Eldeen, and his driver were killed. Two children also were wounded. The senior military official confirmed that the video posted Monday at Wikileaks.org was of a 2007 incident in the New Baghdad District of eastern Baghdad. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the video and a Pentagon investigation have never been released. Story continues below [5;advertisement | your ad here The official ...
Collateral Murder
Post Date: 2010-04-05 13:23:04 by freepatriot32
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Overview 5th April 2010 10:44 EST WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad -- including two Reuters news staff. Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter gun-site, clearly shows the unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers. Two young children involved in the rescue were also seriously wounded. The military did not reveal how the Reuters staff were killed, and stated that they did not know how the children were injured. After ...
Terrorism -- Always Suspect a "FALSE FLAG" First
Post Date: 2010-04-04 02:16:14 by Tatarewicz
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Gordon Duff -- TERRORISM, ALWAYS SUSPECT A “FALSE FLAG” FIRST March 29, 2010 by Gordon Duff · 43 Comments Share ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER COSSIGA REAL TERRORISTS ARE RARE AND USUALLY EASILY CAUGHT ALWAYS ASK: “WHO GAINS FROM THIS? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Every time there is a terrorist attack, the nations blamed say that it was a “false flag” operation. This is what America did to cover up My Lai. We were lying. Germans claimed Poland invaded Germany in 1939. An educated guess is that 75% of terrorist attacks we hear of were staged, never happened or were done by “radical groups” that were first infiltrated, then controlled and ...
Pacified Populations
Post Date: 2010-03-31 06:29:35 by Ada
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If the U.S. public looked long and hard into a mirror reflecting the civilian atrocities that have occurred in Afghanistan over the past 10 months, we would see ourselves as people who have collaborated with and paid for war crimes committed against innocent civilians who meant us no harm. Two reporters, Jerome Starkey of the Times UK and David Lindorff of Counterpunch.org, have persistently drawn attention to U.S. war crimes committed in Afghanistan. Makers of the film Rethink Afghanistan have steadily provided updates about the suffering endured by Afghan civilians. Here is a short list of atrocities that have occurred in the months since Gen. McChrystal assumed his post in Afghanistan: ...
Militia Probe Included Undercover FBI Agent [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-03-30 19:35:32 by Phant2000
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An undercover agent was part of the federal investigation of a Michigan-based Christian militia group that allegedly planned to spark an uprising against the government by killing police officers, court documents show. Evidence presented to the grand jury in federal court in Detroit included photographs of Thomas William Piatek, one of nine people indicted Monday in connection with alleged criminal activities by the militia group, known as Hutaree, in southeastern Michigan. The grand-jury exhibit included sworn testimony of a law-enforcement officer that Mr. Piatek "is the person known by a Cooperating Witness and an undercover FBI agent to be the person who participated in the ...
The Desert Ox
Post Date: 2010-03-30 06:04:42 by Ada
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As the New York Times reports, former Iraqi prime minister and U.S. sock puppet Iyad Allawi’s apparent victory in his country’s recent election sets up a "period of uncertainty" that may "threaten plans to withdraw American troops." Gen. Ray Odierno, the U.S. commander in Iraq who reminds one of John Candy’s character in the film Stripes, is likely creating seismic events as he jumps for joy. Odierno, Gen. David Petraeus’ pet lummox, has been publicly pushing for an extended stay in Iraq since February 2009, when Petraeus canonizer and former journalist Thomas E. Ricks quoted him in the Washington Post as wanting to see a U.S. presence of "30,000 ...
Expect Obama Administration Backing for Indonesian State Terror
Post Date: 2010-03-30 05:53:30 by Stephen Lendman
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Expected Obama Administration Backing for Indonesian State Terror - by Stephen Lendman Indonesia's National Armed Forces (TNI), especially its thuggish Kopassus Special Forces Command, has a long, sordid human rights record, including political killings and massacres of hundreds of thousands of civilians in East Timor, Aceh, Papua, and elsewhere in the country. In response to the November 12, 1991 Santa Cruz cemetery massacre of over 270 demonstrators in Dili, East Timor's capital, Congress restricted Indonesia's TNI from receiving International Military Education and Training (IMET). It brings foreign military officers to America for what's taught at the infamous School ...
An Unaccustomed Truth: American Commander Admits Afghan Atrocities
Post Date: 2010-03-29 05:53:11 by Ada
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Well, John the Baptist after torturing a thief Looks up at his hero the Commander-in-Chief Saying, “Tell me great hero, but please make it brief Is there a hole for me to get sick in? -- Bob Dylan, "Tombstone Blues" One can only assume that the regular editors of the New York Times were all out at a party, or left early for a weekend in the Hamptons, or something -- but somehow, the paper published a front webpage story that stated -- without the usual thousand excuses and extenuations -- that American troops are routinely slaughtering Afghan civilians at checkpoints. What's more, the story unequivocally ties the civilian killings to the "surge" ordered by the ...
Haiti Post-Quake: Devastation, Depravation, Exploitation, and Oppression
Post Date: 2010-03-29 05:47:50 by Stephen Lendman
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Haiti Post-Quake: Devastation, Depravation, Exploitation, and Oppression - by Stephen Lendman Two and half months post-quake, the major media mostly ignore Haiti, the calamitous conditions on the ground, and the growing desperation of millions forced to largely endure on their own - out of sight, mind, the concern of world leaders, and UN, USAID and other aid organizations diverting most of the $700 million + donated to contractors and profiteering NGOs. A March 11 New York Times editorial titled, "Haiti, Two Months Later," tried to have it both ways, citing relief effort failures, yet praising the US, UN, foreign countries, and aid organizations for: "dispatch(ing) tents, ...
Orchestrating a phony war in Afghanistan
Post Date: 2010-03-29 04:50:12 by Tatarewicz
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Is the enemy our own stupidity? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER, Senior Editor America’s recent attack, augmented by top line Afghan army troops, against the massive Taliban enclave in the city of Marjah, population 80,000, a city that has been an enemy stronghold for years may not have happened at all. Can anyone prove it? Nobody had ever heard of Marjah before or even knew a city was there. Nobody knew it was a Taliban stronghold either. One thing we can easily figure out from the total lack of reporting, other than our “screw ups,” killing the usual civilians, using our over reliance on technology, is that the sham of the operation was simply to give the mercenary army of ...
US troop deaths double in Afghanistan
Post Date: 2010-03-27 18:23:55 by Horse
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KABUL (AP) - The number of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan has roughly doubled in the first three months of 2010 compared to the same period last year as Washington has added tens of thousands of additional soldiers to reverse the Taliban's momentum. Those deaths have been accompanied by a dramatic spike in the number of wounded, with injuries more than tripling in the first two months of the year and trending in the same direction based on the latest available data for March. U.S. officials have warned that casualties are likely to rise even further as the Pentagon completes its deployment of 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan and sets its sights on the Taliban's home ...
Official: '24' ends on Fox
Post Date: 2010-03-27 05:15:04 by noone222
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Tick, tick, tick … and done. After eight seasons, Fox’s “24” is coming to an end. The groundbreaking action drama will air its final real-time episode in May, the victim of a confluence of circumstances: a swelling budget, declining ratings and creative fatigue. Yet for fans of Jack Bauer, there remains hope. Studio 20th TV is developing a theatrical film that takes Bauer to Europe, and showrunner and executive producer Howard Gordon says other possibilities are being explored as well. “There are other possible iterations of Jack Bauer and his world,” Gordon said (full Q&A with Gordon about series ending here). The writing has been on the wall for the ...
Leaked CIA Report: "Public Apathy Enables Leaders To Ignore Voters" In Waging Endless Wars
Post Date: 2010-03-26 23:44:11 by Horse
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2010 Leaked CIA Report: "Public Apathy Enables Leaders To Ignore Voters" In Waging Endless Wars A leaked CIA report says: Public apathy enables leaders to ignore voters. The report is discussing apathy among the French and German people to their countries' involvement in the war in Afghanistan, but the same is true to the apathy of Americans towards the Iraq and other wars as well. For a little background on the manipulation of public opinion, see this and this. CIA Afghanistan (Report) is here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/29003742/CIA-Afghanistan
Many American Soldiers Turn to Prescription Drugs to Treat Psychological Distress
Post Date: 2010-03-25 07:31:56 by Jethro Tull
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Many American Soldiers Turn to Prescription Drugs to Treat Psychological Distress Over 20 percent of service members report psychological distress. From the isolated outposts of Afghanistan to the bloody streets of Fallujah in Iraq, U.S. troops have been fighting, dying and suffering unbearable emotional scars. A 2008 Rand Corporation study found under 20 percent of soldiers reported psychological distress in some form. Some have unfortunately committed suicide, but ABC News has been told that an increasing number -- at least 8 percent of the force -- are now using pills to treat themselves. Some are turning to antidepressants, such as Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil, which are prescribed right ...
Ranks of amputees have risen steadily in 8 years of war
Post Date: 2010-03-25 07:28:35 by Tatarewicz
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As of March 1, 967 American service members have lost at least one limb, 229 have lost more than one in the eight years of Afghan and Iraq wars. Tatarewicz: in comments paulinfodi noted that one out of 10 Iran-Afghan war vets are in prison, one out of four are sick. Maybe half suffer from PTSD or traumatic brain injury. 175,000 (at least) Gulf War I vets are disabled, 70,000 Gulf War I vets have died. War? What is it good for. Comment by tjohn: The only way to take away the incentive (for Taleban and Al Queda) to target America is by taking away the U.S. support for Israeli Jews. Is that going to happen? Not a chance with so many American Jews supporting Israel. ...
Crimes of (American) Empire
Post Date: 2010-03-24 06:16:59 by Tatarewicz
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The central thesis of Carl Boggs latest book is that the United Sates stands today as the most fearsome outlaw nation in the world, its leaders having contributed to a steady descent into global lawlessness. Without support of the film industry, corporate media and a military-industrial complex the American public could not be so easily manipulated into supporting the illegal wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Of Israel, Professor Boggs says the state was historically founded on brute force and terrorism leading to an occupation regime in clear violation of international legality. The territory expropriated by Israel is stolen land, justified by Zionist ideology with its phony biblical claims. ...
Indian military to weaponize world's hottest chili
Post Date: 2010-03-23 14:22:15 by freepatriot32
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In this July 4, 2007 file photo, farmer Digonta Saikia shows a 'Bhut jolokia' or 'ghost chili' pepper plucked from his field in the northeastern Indian state of Assam. After conducting tests, the Indian military has decided to use the thumb-sized world's hottest chili to make tear gas-like hand grenades to immobilize suspects, defense officials said Tuesday, March 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File) GAUHATI, India – The Indian military has a new weapon against terrorism: the world's hottest chili. After conducting tests, the military has decided to use the thumb-sized "bhut jolokia," or "ghost chili," to make tear gas-like hand ...
Unwarranted Influence
Post Date: 2010-03-23 06:10:04 by Ada
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"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex." – President Dwight David Eisenhower, 1961 Michael D. "Mike" Furlong has, to all appearances, established himself as the premier military-industrial scumbag of the New American Century, an eye-watering accomplishment considering the competition in this category. Furlong is the prototypical American war mongrel. During his 25-year military career he ingratiated himself into the circles of power through tours in Washington, and he managed to transition upon retirement from active duty into the upper levels ...
Venezuela in Washington's Crosshairs
Post Date: 2010-03-23 05:55:02 by Stephen Lendman
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Venezuela in Washington's Crosshairs - by Stephen Lendman Washington fears Hugo Chavez for good reason. His "good example" threat raises concerns that other regional leaders may follow. As a result, throughout his tenure, he's been targeted and vilified - to discredit, weaken and undermine his government to destroy Bolivarian benefits millions of Venezuelans now enjoy, won't easily give up, nor should they. Several failed coup attempts included: -- April 2002 for two days, an effort aborted by mass street protests and support from many in Venezuela's military, especially from the middle-ranking officer corp; -- the 2002 - 2003 general strike and oil management ...
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