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Latest Articles: War, War, War
Those Salem Witchs - I mean American Terrorists
Post Date: 2010-03-07 09:37:04 by Ada
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Those Salem Witchs - I mean, American Terrorists When Najibullah Zazi pled “guilty” to “plotting a suicide bomb attack on New York City subways with al Qaeda training” last week, the Feds assured us yet again they’d thwarted "one of the most serious terrorist threats to our nation since September 11, 2001, “as Attorney General Eric Holder put it. No wonder anyone with even a shred of decency cries for an end to the War-on-Liberty-Disguised-as-a-War-on-Terror: the case against Mr. Zazi is about as substantive as a politician’s promise. Which explains why the man has steadfastly asserted his innocence since his arrest last September – until the ...
This War’s Heroes, Military and Journalistic?
Post Date: 2010-03-05 06:34:41 by Ada
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When Charlie Company’s Lt. William Calley ordered and encouraged his men to rape, maim and slaughter over 400 women and children and old people in My Lai in Vietnam back in 1968, there were at least four heroes who tried to stop him or bring him and higher officers to justice. One was helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson Jr., who evacuated some of the wounded victims, and who set his chopper down between a group of Vietnamese and Calley’s men, ordering his door gunner to open fire on the US soldiers if they shot any more people. One was Ron Ridenhour, a soldier who learned of the massacre, and began a private investigation, ultimately reporting the crime to the Pentagon and Congress. ...
Kucinich calling on Congress to end Afghan war
Post Date: 2010-03-04 01:03:42 by Tatarewicz
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On Thursday, March 4, Congressman Dennis Kucinich plans to introduce a privileged resolution to end the Afghan war. The resolution requires that the House debate, within the next week, the ending of the war, now the second longest in American history. The resolution contains 30-day and end-of-the-year deadlines. Click for Full Text!
Oops, our bad!
Post Date: 2010-03-02 06:30:41 by Ada
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Among the worst Orwellian deceptions being exposed by the Pentagon’s Marjah offensive is the ludicrous notion that we’re fighting a war in Afghanistan in order to protect Afghan civilians. The recent U.S. Special Forces air strike in the Marjah area that killed 27 or more civilians, including four women and a child, is a prime example of a cognitive disconnect that has been endemic in U.S. military operations throughout our misnamed war on terrorism. The Feb. 21 air strike occurred in an area under Dutch control. The Dutch are durn-burnit het up about that, because the day before, the Dutch government collapsed over an initiative to extend the deployment of the country’s 2,00 ...
Funding Israeli Militarism, Belligerence and Occupation
Post Date: 2010-03-02 05:58:49 by Stephen Lendman
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Funding Israeli Militarism, Belligerence and Occupation - by Stephen Lendman From birth, Israel was a regional menace until America became its benefactor in the late 1960s. Now it's a global one, powerful with a large standing army and the latest weapons and technology, nuclear armed and ready to use them. It's belligerent on the slightest pretext or none at all, and a threat to world peace and security because US administrations since Lyndon Johnson supported a nation of 5.6 million Jews in an area the size of New Jersey, partnering in its worst crimes and abuses. It's due largely to the Israeli Lobby's influence, or as John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt wrote in their ...
America's Permanent War Agenda
Post Date: 2010-03-01 05:52:07 by Stephen Lendman
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America's Permanent War Agenda - by Stephen Lendman Post-9/11, Dick Cheney warned of wars that won't end in our lifetime. Former CIA Director James Woolsey said America "is engaged in World War IV, and it could continue for years....This fourth world war, I think, will last considerably longer than either World Wars I or II did for us." GHW Bush called it a "New World Order" in his September 11, 1990 address to a joint session of Congress as he prepared the public for Operation Desert Storm. The Pentagon called it the "long war" in its 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), what past administrations waged every year without exception since the ...
Psalm 83 Why Do They Make Such a Tumult?
Post Date: 2010-02-26 13:36:28 by Stick To Disinformation
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February 20, 2010 Psalm 83 Why Do They Make Such a Tumult? In our previous article, we looked at the question of the “who” of Psalm 83. Who are these nations who make a tumult against the people of God, taking counsel together to “cut them off from being a nation, that the nation of Israel be remembered no more”? The modern day names for this confederacy are those nations which surround the present day state of Israel - Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the Gaza Strip, Palestinians, and some from Iraq also “have helped the children of Lot”. This is the situation we find ourselves in geopolitically today. Israel’s conflict with her immediate Arab, and largely ...
Officials puzzle over more than a billion dollars leaving Afghanistan by plane for Dubai
Post Date: 2010-02-25 15:10:16 by abraxas
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Officials puzzle over millions of dollars leaving Afghanistan by plane for Dubai By Andrew Higgins Washington Post Foreign Service Thursday, February 25, 2010 KABUL -- A blizzard of bank notes is flying out of Afghanistan -- often in full view of customs officers at the Kabul airport -- as part of a cash exodus that is confounding U.S. officials and raising concerns about the money's origin. The cash, estimated to total well over $1 billion a year, flows mostly to the Persian Gulf emirate of Dubai, where many wealthy Afghans now park their families and funds, according to U.S. and Afghan officials. So long as departing cash is declared at the airport here, its transfer is legal. But ...
Army must recruit more than 100,000 soldiers to continue Afghan fighting
Post Date: 2010-02-25 13:49:50 by abraxas
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Army must recruit more than 100,000 soldiers to continue Afghan fighting By Terri Judd Wednesday, 24 February 2010 AP British soldiers take defensive positions during a patrol in Qari Sahib, Nad Ali district in Helmand province Army chiefs insist that thousands more soldiers need to be recruited if Britain is to continue fighting in operations such as Afghanistan. The force, a senior army source said yesterday, should be increased by 7 per cent to around 108,000 troops. It has been acknowledged for some time that the British Army's commitment in Helmand province, as well as previous operations in Iraq, has left it overstretched. The army currently has 101,330 recruits, ...
Gates calls Europe Anti-war Mood Danger to Peace
Post Date: 2010-02-25 08:20:27 by Tatarewicz
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US Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who has long called European contributions to NATO inadequate, said Tues. that public and political opposition to the military had grown so great in Europe that it was directly affecting operations in Afghanistan and impeding the alliance's broader security goals...A perception of European weakness, he warned, could provide a temptation to miscalculation and aggression by hostile powers. Mr. Gates blunt comments came just three days after the coalition government of the Netherlands collapsed...making it almost certain that most of the 2000 Dutch troops will be withdrawn this year. And polls show that the Afghan war has grown increasingly unpopular in ...
Inside the mind of Newsweek on "terrorism"
Post Date: 2010-02-25 06:31:07 by Ada
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On so many levels, this is one of the most stunningly revealing things I've read in quite some time. As I documented last week, the media's reluctance to describe IRS attacker Joe Stack as a "terrorist" reveals that this term has little to do with the act itself and everything to do with the demographic attributes of the actor: namely, in the American political lexicon, "Terrorists" are Muslims who dislike the U.S., while Americans -- especially ones who are white and non-Muslim -- cannot, by definition, qualify. Anyone who has doubts about that or who thought my argument was hyperbole should click on that link, which will direct you to an internal discussion ...
Jack Blood's Going After Alex Jones Right Now on (American Freedom Radio) [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-02-24 16:32:14 by noone222
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Jack's speaking out about Alex Jones.
Conquest and Censorship
Post Date: 2010-02-24 06:35:41 by Ada
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After the Battle of Hastings in 1066, William the Conqueror’s army buried its fallen comrades, but left the corpses of the English defenders to rot in the fields where they lay. Such is the brutal nature of war: the victor inflicts all manner of suffering and humiliation on the vanquished. What the United States is doing in Iraq and Afghanistan is only marginally different. William the Conqueror made no pretense about his brutal subjugation of the English. They hated him and resisted his occupation for twenty years, during which time he took all their property and gave it to the Norman upper class. Over 300,000 English people were murdered and starved (one fifth of the population) ...
Patrick Cockburn: These rapid apologies only emphasise waning support
Post Date: 2010-02-24 06:07:30 by Ada
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No Nato power contributing forces can keep itself on the margins of the escalating conflict The attention given to the killing of at least 27 Afghan civilians in a Nato airstrike shows a significant political and military change in the Afghan war. Political support for the war is so fragile in the US and other states contributing troops that every misdirected bombing has to be apologised for. The Dutch government has already fallen because of disagreement over the Dutch military contribution of 2,000 troops to the Nato force. This limitation on airstrikes removes one of the Nato powers' main advantages against Taliban guerrillas: the ability to call in air power whenever fighters were ...
NATO in 'crisis,' allies must invest in defense: Gates
Post Date: 2010-02-23 11:42:17 by abraxas
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NATO in 'crisis,' allies must invest in defense: Gates Published: Tuesday February 23, 2010 The NATO alliance faces a "crisis" as European countries have failed to invest in defense for years and grown averse to military force, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Tuesday. A shortage of helicopters and cargo aircraft in the alliance was an example of chronically low levels of defense spending that had damaged the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan, Gates said. "Right now, the alliance faces very serious, long-term, systemic problems," Gates said in a speech to alliance officers and officials. In a blunt message to allies as NATO-led forces face a tough ...
U.S. Military Afghan War Casualties in 2010 Almost Double Those from Same Period in 2009
Post Date: 2010-02-23 10:46:28 by Jethro Tull
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(CNSNews.com) - The 38 combat-related U.S. military casualties from the war in Afghanistan that have been reported so far this year as America sets in motion its largest anti-Taliban operation have almost doubled the 21 fatalities from the same period in 2009, the bloodiest year for U.S. armed forces. As of the time this report was submitted, the Department of Defense (DOD) had reported 41 U.S. soldier fatalities, with 38 killed during combat operations. During the same time last year, there were an overall 22 casualties including 21 that took place while supporting combat activity. This year, more U.S. soldiers have died from battles in Helmand province, known as a heavy poppy producing ...
American Military Policy and the War on Terrorism
Post Date: 2010-02-23 06:46:27 by Ada
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This speech was part of a panel sponsored by the Future of Freedom Foundation, Campaign for Liberty and the Ladies of Liberty Alliance (LOLA) held on February 20th at the 2010 CPAC. The panel presentation was titled "Why Real Conservatives Are Against the War on Terror." The phrase "war on terror" has been used to justify trillions of dollars in spending, hundreds of thousands of new government positions, and thousands of new government contracts. At the same time, the "war on terror" has produced very little in terms of new technology or enhanced security, has vastly increased the degree of national centralization, and has created many new permanent trees ...
Marjah Madness
Post Date: 2010-02-23 06:34:24 by Ada
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As journalist Gareth Porter said in a recent interview with Real News, Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s offensive in Marjah, Afghanistan, is "more of an effort to shape public opinion in the United States than to shape the politics of the future of Afghanistan." Like so much of what we’ve seen in our woeful war on terrorism, the Marjah effort is short on substance and long on Newspeak, Doublethink, and other Orwellian deceptions. The Washington Post, the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, and an unhealthy chunk of the rest of the news outlets are calling the Marjah madness a "test" of "Obama’s strategy" in Afghanistan. Amazingly, nobody is ...
The Chemist's War
Post Date: 2010-02-22 20:28:30 by Dakmar
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It was Christmas Eve 1926, the streets aglitter with snow and lights, when the man afraid of Santa Claus stumbled into the emergency room at New York City's Bellevue Hospital. He was flushed, gasping with fear: Santa Claus, he kept telling the nurses, was just behind him, wielding a baseball bat. Before hospital staff realized how sick he was—the alcohol-induced hallucination was just a symptom—the man died. So did another holiday partygoer. And another. As dusk fell on Christmas, the hospital staff tallied up more than 60 people made desperately ill by alcohol and eight dead from it. Within the next two days, yet another 23 people died in the city from celebrating the ...
Pentagon Junta To Start WWIII?
Post Date: 2010-02-21 10:53:44 by christine
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When other side reports "enemy" killed
Post Date: 2010-02-21 05:58:36 by Tatarewicz
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While NATO is reporting a dozen of its troops killed in its attack on the Taliban stronghold of Marjah and two more elsewhere, the Taliban says it has killed close to 60 "invading terrorists." "A brave elderly woman..." Bedu Ahmah, picked up a Kalashnikov when she saw some US "invading terrorists leaning against the wall of her compound" in Marjah and immediately opened fire, emptying the entire magazine...killing three and injuring another. Click for Full Text!
[John] Yoo Said Bush Could Order Civilians 'Massacred'
Post Date: 2010-02-20 17:26:17 by Ferret Mike
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he chief author of the Bush administration's "torture memo" told Justice Department investigators that the president's war-making authority was so broad that he had the constitutional power to order a village to be "massacred," according to a report by released Friday night by the Office of Professional Responsibility. The views of former Justice lawyer John Yoo were deemed to be so extreme and out of step with legal precedents that they prompted the Justice Department's internal watchdog office to conclude last year that he committed "intentional professional misconduct" when he advised the CIA it could proceed with waterboarding and other ...
Dubai hit worthy of CIA Milan debacle
Post Date: 2010-02-20 10:19:50 by tom007
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Home » Blogs » Middle East Dubai hit worthy of CIA Milan debacle By Clayton Swisher in * Middle East on February 20th, 2010 . Share Photo from AFP The 18 operatives believed to be involved in the murder of Hamas commander al-Mabhouh in Dubai seems a conservative number when one considers the operation. At least 18 operatives are now believed to be involved in Mahmoud al-Mabhouh's murder in Dubai on January 19. I will be very surprised if that figure does not go up even higher. Those who believe in lone assassins need to put down their Carlos the Jackal books and instead consider the real world case of a 2003 CIA rendition operation in Milan that went awry. Last ...
Taliban wipe out dozen NATO soldiers, lose 7
Post Date: 2010-02-20 06:36:19 by Tatarewicz
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A dozen NATO soldiers have been killed in the Marja offensive, more than half of whom were Americans. Taleban say they lost 7. One, possibly three allied Afghan killed. Tatarewicz: Alternative URL engforum.pravda.ru/showthread.php?t=277771 where you'll also see the cartoon of the day/week, maybe year. Click for Full Text!
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