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Afghanistan War – the Crime of the Century
Post Date: 2019-12-18 09:46:16 by Ada
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“We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan. We didn’t know what we were doing.” So said Gen. Douglas Lute, who oversaw the US war on Afghanistan under Presidents Bush and Obama. Eighteen years into the longest war in US history, we are finally finding out, thanks to thousands of pages of classified interviews on the war published by the Washington Post last week, that General Lute’s cluelessness was shared by virtually everyone involved in the war. What we learned in what is rightly being called the “Pentagon Papers” of our time, is that hundreds of US Administration officials – including three US Presidents – knowingly lied to ...
The Afghanistan War’s #MeToo Moment
Post Date: 2019-12-18 08:40:30 by Ada
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The 'I knew all along' takes are flooding in now that the Blob has embraced the narrative of failure. Is the Afghanistan War state going through its own #MeetToo moment? Anyone who has been in Washington long enough knows that the first to speak against the accepted orthodoxy of “the body” is most certainly punished—a sacrificial lamb of truth—but once there’s safety in numbers, shifting positions and indulging in alternative thinking becomes not only acceptable, but a fashionable totem of reinforcing one’s place in the establishment. For example, when Rep. Ron Paul said the Iraq War was a failure he was flayed by his own party as a conspiratorial ...
Washington PostÂ’s Afghanistan Story Reveals Core Folly of American Defense Strategy
Post Date: 2019-12-17 08:38:50 by Ada
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Why are we still in Afghanistan? Because our policies make failure inescapable, ZHARI DISTRICT, AFGHANISTAN - OCTOBER 16: (FRANCE OUT) Weary Afghan and American soldiers with the 101st Airborne Division return from a long patrol to Combat Outpost Asheque October 16, 2010 in Zhari district west of Kandahar, Afghanistan. The 1st Battalion, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne, the storied "Black Hearts" that won fame on D-Day and in other battles, are currently spread out in the Taliban-infused badlands west of Kandahar, attempting to sway the hearts and minds of the local populace even as Taliban militants continue their attacks in the restive area. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty ...
“Undeniable Evidence”: Explosive Classified Docs Reveal Afghan War Mass Deception
Post Date: 2019-12-14 20:23:30 by BTP Holdings
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“Undeniable Evidence”: Explosive Classified Docs Reveal Afghan War Mass Deception December 11, 2019 Featured, Foreign Policy In what’s already being hailed as a defining and explosive “Pentagon papers” moment, a cache of previously classified documents obtained by The Washington Post show top Pentagon leaders continuously lied to the public about the “progress” of the now eighteen-year long Afghan war. The some 2,000 pages of notes from interviews of senior officials who have shaped US strategy in Afghanistan confirm that “senior US officials failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan throughout the 18-year campaign, making rosy ...
The Afghan War was a Complete Scam
Post Date: 2019-12-11 08:42:49 by Ada
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We absolutely needed to invade and occupy these people. For their precious resources… erm, rather, for their industrial capacity… for their opium? Whatever. It was important. The Afghan war is one of the most absurd conflicts that America has ever engaged in. We’ve been occupying this country for almost 20 years now, with no tangible benefits and no meaningful explanation as to why. The initial excuse was that Osama Bin Laden was hiding there, so we had to invade the entire country – to find that one guy. Yet with Bin Laden long dead, the occupation still goes on, and the cost and death toll is still climbing. What’s going on? To make matters worse, it turns ...
A Pentagon Paradise Built on Lies
Post Date: 2019-12-10 08:01:39 by Ada
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The Pentagon cannot be pleased with the Washington Post today. That’s because the Post has just disclosed a mountain of previously secret documentary evidence within the military showing that the Pentagon has been intentionally lying for years about the “progress” that it was making with its forever war in Afghanistan. While the Pentagon has been publicly assuring the American people that its war has been going swimmingly well, the truth is that it’s been the exact opposite. The documents consist of brutally candid interviews with military insiders, who believed that their statements would forever remain secret. After three years of refusing to comply with the Freedom ...
Tulsi Gabbard: Wake Up and Smell Our $6.4 Trillion Wars
Post Date: 2019-11-30 08:42:55 by Ada
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Meanwhile, her fellow Democrats appear abysmally unconcerned about the human and financial toll. The Democratic establishment is increasingly irritated. Representative Tulsi Gabbard, long-shot candidate for president, is attacking her own party for promoting the “deeply destructive” policy of “regime change wars.” Gabbard has even called Hillary Clinton “the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party.” Senator Chris Murphy complained: “It’s a little hard to figure out what itch she’s trying to scratch in the Democratic Party right now.” Some conservatives seem ...
Sinking of the Lusitania (Movie 2007)
Post Date: 2019-11-23 02:16:34 by Pinguinite
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I watched this this evening. It seems to be a historically accurate account of the sinking, complete with German embassy warnings to the American public, the munitions transported on the ship and the English coverup. German politics of the day also included. About 90 mins. www.youtube.com/watch? v=OcBEMjmOy2Y
The So-Called War on Terror Has Killed Over 801,000 People and Cost $6.4 Trillion: New Analysis
Post Date: 2019-11-16 08:24:08 by Ada
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"The numbers continue to accelerate, not only because many wars continue to be waged, but also because wars don't end when soldiers come home." A U.S. Army soldier fires an M4 carbine rifle during partnered live fire range training at Tactical Base Gamberi, Afghanistan on May 29, 2015. (Photo: Capt. Charlie Emmons/U.S. Army/Flickr/cc) The so-called War on Terror launched by the United States government in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks has cost at least 801,000 lives and $6.4 trillion according to a pair of reports published Wednesday by the Costs of War Project at Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. "The numbers ...
The Strange Death of White Helmets Founder Leaves Many Questions to Be Answered Was Le Mesurier murdered after being exposed for knowing too much?
Post Date: 2019-11-14 08:59:40 by Ada
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James Le Mesurier, the founder of the Al-Qaeda affiliated White Helmets, known as an “aid organization” in the West but known everywhere else for fabricating chemical weapon provocations in Syria, was found dead in Istanbul on Monday under dubious and confusing circumstances, and many question marks are being raised about his own death. Journalist Ramazan Bursa claims that the suspicious death clearly demonstrates the White Helmet’s connection with intelligence organizations, particularly the British MI6. The connection between the M16 and the White Helmets is often overlooked by the Western media, but on Friday, the Russian Foreign Ministry made a startling revelation. ...
Loyal-to-Israel Neocons Used 9/11 and Faked Bin Laden's Death to Justify Two Decades of War
Post Date: 2019-11-05 09:40:13 by Ada
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In the 1990s with the Soviet Union collapsed as a result of the communist hardliners’ arrest of Soviet President Gorbachev and Yeltsin serving as Washington’s puppet while Americans and Israelis looted Russia, the neoconservatives called for Washington to overthrow Middle Eastern governments. The neocon scenario for remaking the Middle East was set out prior to the events of September 11, 2001. The neoconservatives said that they needed “a new Pearl Harbor” in order to launch wars in the Middle East. The cover story was to bring democracy to the Middle East, but the real purpose was to remove governments in the way of Israeli expansion. Israel’s principal target ...
Assad Doesn’t Believe in Fake Baghdadi Killing Hoax!
Post Date: 2019-11-02 10:12:05 by Ada
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I don’t know about you, but I think Mr. Assad raises some good points here. This is one suspicious killing to be sure. RT: Take any words from US politicians with a grain of salt, Syria’s Bashar Assad has urged, as he cast doubt on the story of the Islamic State leader being killed in US a raid, and compared it to the shady killing of Osama Bin Laden. The widely publicized US special forces raid that allegedly killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorist group, left more questions than answers and it should not be taken at the face value, the Syrian President cautioned, during a lengthy interview with state media on ...
Baghdadi Story Reveals Divided — and Broken — News Media
Post Date: 2019-10-30 09:43:06 by Ada
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If you have two sets of news media, you have none By Matt Taibbi Two sets of headlines over the weekend described the suicide of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. From the Washington Post Sunday morning: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, austere religious scholar at helm of Islamic State, dies at 48 The Post has since rewritten that, though the description of an “austere religious scholar with wire-rimmed glasses” remains in the lead paragraph. Meanwhile, the headline on Foxnews.com: Al-Baghdadi kill: how the daring military operation went down The Post headline would fit a quiet academic who died in his sleep, not a genocidal jihadist leader. The Fox headline is less nuts, but still ...
Gabbard Lambasted for Pointing Out the Obvious: US Backs Al-Qaeda in Syria
Post Date: 2019-10-29 10:01:22 by Ada
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The low-ball mudslinging and pantomime palaver among America’s political class is like a theater of absurd. Any form of vilification is now acceptable. President Trump and his Twitter rants may have helped set the bar of indecency to an all-time low, but Democrats and Republicans have quickly joined the descent into madness. The sanity test was spectacularly failed recently when former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton lashed out at her party member Tulsi Gabbard, inferring she was a “Russian asset”. The Hawaii congresswoman, who is vying for a run at the presidency in next year’s elections, was defended by some fellow Democratic politicians. But many ...
“We Want To Keep The Oil”
Post Date: 2019-10-27 08:21:26 by Ada
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There was once a time when claiming a war was really about oil got you branded a conspiracy theorist. Now the US president just says it. The Grayzone has an excellent new article out titled “US troops are staying in Syria to ‘keep the oil’ — and have already killed hundreds over it” detailing the many ways the Trump administration has openly admitted that it is keeping US troops in Syria to control the nation’s oil fields so that the Syrian government can’t use it to fund reconstruction efforts. “We’ve secured the oil, and therefore a small number of US troops will remain in the area where they have the oil,” Trump said in a recent press ...
With Little Fanfare, William Barr Formally Announces Orwellian Pre-Crime Program
Post Date: 2019-10-26 12:27:57 by Ada
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A recent memorandum authored by Attorney General William Barr announced a new “pre-crime” program inspired by “War on Terror” tactics and is set to be implemented next year. Last Wednesday, U.S. Attorney General William Barr issued a memorandum to all U.S. attorneys, law enforcement agencies and top ranking Justice Department officials announcing the imminent implementation of a new “national disruption and early engagement program” aimed at detecting potential mass shooters before they commit any crime. Per the memorandum, Barr has “directed the Department [of Justice] and the FBI to lead an effort to refine our ability to identify, assess and engage ...
'I can't think': Mumbling Wikileaks founder Julian Assange fights back tears as he loses bid to delay extradition hearing:
Post Date: 2019-10-22 06:39:24 by noone222
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Julian Assange fought back tears as he lost the first bout of his extradition battle when a judge rejected his pleas for a full court hearing to be delayed. The Wikileaks founder appeared in person in court for the first time since May this morning after illness prevented him from being at previous hearings in his battle against extradition to the United States to face spying charges. Assange, dressed in a navy suit and light blue jumper, raised his fist to supporters in the public gallery. He was cleanly shaven in contrast to the long beard he had grown while holed up in Ecuador's embassy. But he struggled to say his own name, mumbling, pausing and stuttering as he gave his name and ...
Syrian Kurds, Damascus Reach Deal in Russia-Backed Talks
Post Date: 2019-10-14 09:05:47 by Ada
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Kurds will hand key cities to Syrian Army to defend Syrian ground troops are moving north to confront invading Turkish forces per a deal that was reached by the Kurdish SDF and the Assad government, in talks brokered by Russia and held on a Russian air base. The deal sees the Kurds unilaterally handing over two important cities, Kobane and Manbij, both in the Aleppo Province, to the central government to rule. This means Turkey’s invasion of those cities would be a direct invasion of Syrian cities under government control. Those two cities are also where Syria’s Army is heading first. This would make Turkey attacking those cities more controversial, and also raises the ...
More ‘Stupid War’ in Syria
Post Date: 2019-10-12 10:24:16 by Ada
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More war in wretched Syria. Half the population are now refugees; entire cities lie shattered by bombing; bands of crazed gunmen run rampant; US, French, Israeli and Russian warplanes bomb widely. Now, adding to the chaos, President Donald Trump has finally given Turkey, NATO’s second military power, the green light to invade parts of northeastern Syria after he apparently ordered a token force of US troops there to withdraw. This, of course, puts the Turks in a growing confrontation with the region’s Kurds, who have occupied large swaths of the area during Syria’s civil war. The Kurdish militia, known as YPG (confusingly part of the so-called Free Syrian Army), is armed, ...
"The destruction of a society": First the U.S. invaded Iraq — then we left it poisoned
Post Date: 2019-10-11 08:00:28 by Ada
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The political and moral culture of the United States allows for bipartisan cooperation to destroy an entire country, killing hundreds of thousands of people in the process, without even the flimsiest of justification. Then, only a few years later, everyone can act as if it never happened. In 2011, the U.S. withdrew most of its military personnel from Iraq, leaving the country in ruins. Estimates of the number of civilians who died during the war in Iraq range from 151,000 to 655,000. An additional 4,491 American military personnel perished in the war. Because the bombs have stopped falling from the sky and the invasion and occupation of Iraq no longer makes headlines, Americans likely ...
America’s Banality of Evil
Post Date: 2019-09-28 07:22:48 by Ada
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Everyone wonders whether President Trump is going to end up embroiling the United States in a war with Iran. He himself has said that he is “locked and loaded” for such a war, meaning that he is ready at a moment’s notice to order his army to begin bombing the country. The reality is that Trump has been waging war against Iran throughout his presidency. His war consists of economic sanctions, whose aim is to impoverish and inflict death on the Iranian populace, including children and seniors, as a way to bend Iran’s regime to his will or to have it ousted from power and replaced by a pro-U.S. regime. Many Americans don’t think of sanctions as weaponry of war. ...
The Use of Low-IQ Troops in War Zone
Post Date: 2019-09-25 08:11:48 by Ada
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A presentation and reading by Hamilton Gregory, author of “McNamara’s Folly: The Use of Low-IQ Troops in the Vietnam.” Because so many college students were avoiding military service during the Vietnam War, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara lowered mental standards to induct 354,000 low-IQ men. they were known as McNamara’s “Moron Corps.” Their death toll in combat was appalling. Gregory indicates at the end of his talk that the situation didn’t really change. The same practice is taking place nowadays. Click for Full Text!
Sen. Graham Wants to Bomb Iran in Response to Houthi Attack on Saudi Oil
Post Date: 2019-09-15 11:08:24 by Ada
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Following the early morning attack on Saudi Arabia’s Abqaiq oil processing facility—the largest oil processing plant in the world—and a similar drone attack at the Khurais oil field on Saturday, the neocon senator from South Carolina, Lindsey Graham, has called for attacking Iran. Click for Full Text!
“USA Pretend” Unmasked
Post Date: 2019-09-15 11:03:31 by Ada
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Viet Nam – Epiphany for the USA There was a moment in Viet Nam when I questioned whether everything I had been taught about “America” was one big fabricated lie – a huge pretend. It was April 1969, and I had just experienced witnessing the aftermath of a series of bombings of supposed military targets. They were in fact inhabited, undefended villages where virtually everyone in those villages perished from low flying bombings, that included napalming. The majority of dead – murdered – were young burned children. On several occasions I observed those bodies up close, sickened by the sight, now burdened by the criminal nature of the US war. The policy of ...
On 18th Anniversary of 9/11, Media Worry About ‘Premature’ End to Afghan War
Post Date: 2019-09-14 09:03:47 by Ada
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On the 18th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the illegal US occupation of Afghanistan continues as the longest overseas war in American history. Although President Donald Trump recently declared that peace negotiations over the withdrawal of US troops with the Taliban are “dead,” reportedly because of the death of a US soldier from a suicide bomb attack in Kabul last week, the status of future negotiations is still unclear. The Costs of War Project has found that about 147,000 people have been killed in the Afghanistan War since 2001, more than 38,000 of them civilians. However, corporate media continued to defend the “forever war” in Afghanistan by ...
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