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Latest Articles: War, War, War
Army charges single mom who refused deployment
Post Date: 2010-01-15 15:30:19 by freepatriot32
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The Army said Wednesday it has filed criminal charges against a single-mom soldier who refused to deploy to Afghanistan last year, arguing she had no family able to care for her infant son. Spc. Alexis Hutchinson, a 21-year-old Army cook, could face a prison sentence and a dishonorable discharge if she is convicted by a court-martial. But first, an officer will be appointed to decide if there's enough evidence to try a case against her. Hutchinson's attorney, Rai Sue Sussman, said she still hopes the case can be settled without a military trial. She said the Army should consider Hutchinson's reason for not deploying overseas — that she was afraid of what would happen to ...
I Repeat, You Cannot Win Afghan Hearts
Post Date: 2010-01-15 09:11:46 by Eric Stratton
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I Repeat, You Cannot Win Afghan Hearts Diana West Thursday, January 14, 2010 This wasn't supposed to happen there. According to a "counterinsurgency" plan (COIN), anti-US, anti-infidel violence just wasn't supposed to erupt in Garmsir, Afghanistan, of all places. But it did. And at least eight Afghans died in this Helmand Province district in rioting this week inspired by rumors that U.S. troops had roughed up a Koran. Somewhere between "one thousand" (UPI) and "several thousand" (The New York Times) Afghans converged on the central bazaar in response to these rumors. "The Taliban were provoking the people," an Afghan police official told ...
Dutch panel finds Iraq war had no legal mandate [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-01-15 03:03:16 by Tatarewicz
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A Netherlands legal panel has concluded the West's military action against Iraq had no sound mandate in international law and that Dutch political support for the war was to a considerable extent led by public and other information from the US and UK. The inquiry, which included a former Supreme Court judge, found the war was not justified by a UN resolution. Tatarewicz: Would be interesting to know if the 550-page report identified the Israel agents in the US administration who were primarily responsible for instigating the Iraq war. Click for Full Text!
Is Obama a Republican?
Post Date: 2010-01-14 07:50:36 by Eric Stratton
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Is Obama a Republican? Steve Chapman Thursday, January 14, 2010 Anyone who was hoping the current administration would bring a modest downsizing of the nation’s defense establishment and global military role has to be feeling like Bernard Madoff’s investors. Escalation is underway in Afghanistan, the Army is expanding, and the Pentagon is on the all-you-can-eat diet. The American political system is set up to persuade citizens that they must choose between starkly different policies. In reality, campaigns are mostly a showy exercise in what Sigmund Freud called the “narcissism of small differences.” When it comes to defense, history suggests that the two major parties ...
Obama and the global elite
Post Date: 2010-01-13 19:55:22 by Itistoolate
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The COIN Myth, Part II
Post Date: 2010-01-13 05:59:47 by Ada
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The search for human intelligence Part I noted that two key requirements of our counterinsurgency doctrine – a legitimate host-nation government and a competent, trustworthy host-nation security force – will never be accomplished in Iraq or Afghanistan. Part II will illustrate the lack of reliable intelligence in our woebegone wars. The counterintelligence field manual that Gen. David Petraeus supposedly wrote but really didn’t says, "Counterinsurgency (COIN) is an intelligence-driven endeavor." That’s bad news for us, because our intelligence systems in both Iraq and Afghanistan can best be described as The Man from U.N.C.L.E. meets Inspector Clouseau. The ...
Bomb hits Russian gas pipeline: agencies
Post Date: 2010-01-12 13:16:39 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Bomb hits Russian gas pipeline: agencies MOSCOW (Reuters) - A bomb destroyed part of a main gas pipeline in Russia's Muslim region of Dagestan, agencies reported on Tuesday. "Unknown people blew up the Mozdok-Kazimagomed pipeline at its 496th kilometer, causing a fire," an official from Gazprom's Dagestani subsidiary told Itar-Tass news agency. The pipeline takes gas from Caspian fields in Azerbaijan to the Russian heartland through the turbulent North Caucasus. (Reporting by Amie Ferris-Rotman)
Iranian media: Iran suspects Israel, U.S. behind scientist's killing
Post Date: 2010-01-12 12:14:55 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Iranian media: Iran suspects Israel, U.S. behind scientist's killing Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- The Iranian Foreign Ministry said the nuclear scientist killed in a bombing Tuesday was assassinated and the act "revealed signs of the involvement of the Zionist regime, the U.S. and their allies in Iran," state media reported. Strongly condemning the killing of Massoud Ali-Mohammadi, ministry spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast said the participation of Israeli and American agents "runs counter to international regulations," Press TV reported. However, a senior U.S. administration official said charges that the United States was behind the killing are "absurd." ...
Potential war criminals circling the wagons
Post Date: 2010-01-12 04:49:04 by Tatarewicz
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Britain, Canada and the US are avoiding condemnation of Israel for Gaza war crimes mainly to avoid the possibility of their own politicians being held accountable for similar crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq. Britain's Labor government is moving to protect alleged Israeli (visiting) war criminals from arrest under universal jurisdiction laws because of its long support for Israel, the strength of the Zionist lobbies, and in particular their ability to impact the outcome of electoral politics, and to avoid being branded anti-Semitic. But like the US and Canadian governments the British are attempting to immunize themselves from accountability by precedent for their actions in the War on ...
The COIN Myth
Post Date: 2010-01-11 06:48:47 by Ada
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Part I The U.S. military’s fabled counterinsurgency field manual (FM 3-24) is an authoritative-sounding 281-page volume of balderdash. Even the legend of its origin is a fabrication. Gen. David Petraeus, former commander of forces in Iraq and now in charge of Central Command, supposedly "wrote the book," but the book was actually hammered together from plagiarized material in 2004 by Dr. Conrad Crane and others at the Army War College. This was during the time frame that "King David" Petraeus was in charge of training Iraqi security forces, a tour during which he lost track of about 190,000 AK-47 rifles and pistols and other combat equipment that without question ...
Israel tests "Iron Dome" against Hamas rockets
Post Date: 2010-01-10 06:23:43 by Tatarewicz
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Israel has successfully tested its "Iron Dome" defense system for shooting down mortar shells and short-range rockets from Gaza. Cost of intercepting each shell or rocket is $40,000. Close to 800 were fired into Israel last year according to the IDF. Click for Full Text!
More US military die from suicide than in battle
Post Date: 2010-01-10 05:38:48 by Tatarewicz
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American military personnel are continuing to take their own lives in unprecedented numbers, as wars in Afghanistan and Iraq drag on. By late November, at least 334 had committed suicide in 2009, more than the 319 killed in Afghanistan or the 150 who died in Iraq. Click for Full Text!
Blackwater Fever: High Crimes and Hired Guns
Post Date: 2010-01-09 09:28:19 by Eric Stratton
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Blackwater Fever: High Crimes and Hired Guns By Chris Floyd Friday, 08 January 2010 14:54 Scott Horton of Harper's gives us chapter and verse of the Justice Department's very deliberate -- and insultingly brazen -- sabotaging of its own case against the Blackwater mercenaries who murdered 17 Iraqis in Nisoor Square back in September 2007. As any sentient observer could have told you then, these hired killers -- gorging on taxpayer dollars as they assisted the mass-murdering invasion and occupation of Iraq -- were never going to do time. Why should they? They were just doing what they were paid, by us, to do: kill ragheads. The case was dismissed by a federal judge last week due ...
The Meaning of Ists
Post Date: 2010-01-08 06:40:18 by Ada
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What’s the difference between Obama’s anti-terrorism policies and Bush’s? One of the Bush administration’s most pernicious legacies is the never-ending War on Terrorism, a perpetual state of emergency that supposedly authorizes the president to break the law, abridge civil liberties, and ignore due process, all under a cloak of secrecy. Last week former Vice President Dick Cheney accused the Obama administration of forsaking Bush’s War on Terrorism. If only it were true. After watching the official reaction to the failed Christmas Day bombing of Northwest Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit, Cheney complained that “President Obama is trying to pretend we are ...
Yeman - A Failed State?
Post Date: 2010-01-07 17:54:05 by tom007
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US 'sends special forces to Yemen' amid crisis
Post Date: 2010-01-07 13:31:30 by Jethro Tull
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US 'sends special forces to Yemen' amid crisis Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:22:51 GMT US special forces have reportedly been sent to Yemen to train its army, as the Yemeni military backed by the Saudi Arabian army has been fighting local Houthi fighters in the north of the country. The development comes amid fears that foreign military intervention in the country has put Yemeni civilians in dire condition. American officials told The Daily Telegraph on Sunday that US forces have been sent to Yemen to prevent the country from turning into a "reserve base" for al-Qaeda. The move to strengthen Yemen's army comes at a time that the country's army is not fighting with ...
A Dual System of Justice Violates the Rule of Law
Post Date: 2010-01-07 06:27:18 by Ada
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Conservatives are once again on the rampage, this time with respect to the alleged Detroit bomber. They’re saying that he should be treated as an enemy combatant rather than prosecuted as a criminal defendant. Ironically, as they criticize President Obama’s decision to treat the alleged bomber as a criminal defendant, they block out their minds that conservative icons George W. Bush and Dick Cheney treated Zacharias Moussaoui, Jose Padilla, John Walker Lindh, and many other accused terrorists as criminal defendants. More ironic, however, is the fact that conservatives purport to be ardent and enthusiastic defenders of the concept known as the “rule of law.” Go to any ...
Who was the CIA bomber?
Post Date: 2010-01-07 05:31:29 by Tatarewicz
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Al Jazeera English is publishing a watered-down version of its Arabic edition in order to apparently be "allowed" by Organized Jewry to have its broadcasts carried in the West. Arab Al Jazeera reported that the bomber who wiped out a half dozen CIA was Jordanian doctor Kahalil Abu Hamman Mellal Al-Balawi. Kawther concludes the bombing event confirms the involvement of Jordan in the wars of the USA and Israel against Muslims. full story at link Click for Full Text!
Doug Valentine: CIA Killings Spell Defeat In Afghanistan
Post Date: 2010-01-06 15:37:08 by Ada
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Disrupting the Accommodation: Why? “Why?” The grieving family members ask. “Why did the terrorists kill our loved ones?” The hardnosed colleagues of the four fallen CIA officers comfort the wives and children (and one husband). They shake off their sorrow, huddle together by the graves, and vow vengeance. They bathe themselves in their seething anger like it was the blood of the lamb. “Why? The American public and its officials ask. Why? The media repeats, adding in shock and awe, “Don’t the terrorists know that you can’t kill CIA officers?” Why, everyone wonders, did a Jordanian suicide bomber target the CIA, knowing that the wrath of the ...
“The Crotch Bomber” Crushing Freedom With Phony Arab Terrorism ...f-cking nice
Post Date: 2010-01-06 06:52:45 by Ada
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http://www.globalresearch.ca/coverStoryPictures/16768.jpg Strange as it may seem, a couple of weeks ago as I ruminated on Obama's broken promise to bring the troops home, his attempt to out-warmonger the Bush administration and his plummeting popularity, I thought to myself: "ya know, what that guy (or rather the disgruntled US public) needs is a good old fashioned 'Muslim terror attack'. Preferably one that includes a ranting 'terrorist' message about Afghanistan and 'slaughtering infidels'. That'll soon silence the rabble and get them behind Obama's Afghan surge!" And so it was that, as I sipped my eggnog on Christmas day, I was shockingly ...
First Circle: Liberty Has Been Lost
Post Date: 2010-01-06 06:48:29 by Ada
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I had just finished reading the uncensored edition of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s book, In The First Circle (Harper Perennial, 2009), when I came across Chris Hedges article, “One Day We’ll All Be Terrorists” (Truthdig, Dec. 28, 2009). In Hedges’ description of the U.S. government’s treatment of American citizen Syed Fahad Hashmi, I recognized the Stalinist legal system as portrayed by Solzhenitsyn. Hashmi has been held in solitary confinement going on three years. Guantanamo’s practices have migrated to the Metropolitan Correction Center in Manhattan where Hashmi is held in the Special Housing Unit. His access to attorneys, family, and other prisoners is ...
Shooting Handcuffed Children
Post Date: 2010-01-06 01:55:20 by Horse
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The occupied government of Afghanistan and the United Nations have both concluded that U.S.-led troops recently dragged eight sleeping children out of their beds, handcuffed some of them, and shot them all dead. While this apparently constitutes an everyday act of kindness, far less intriguing than the vicious singeing of his pubic hairs by Captain Underpants, it is at least a variation on the ordinary American technique of murdering men, women, and children by the dozens with unmanned drones. Also this week in Afghanistan, eight CIA assassins (see if you can find a more appropriate name for them) were murdered by a suicide bombing that one of them apparently executed against the other ...
CIA Blast Blamed On Double Agent
Post Date: 2010-01-05 18:00:27 by TwentyTwelve
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Wall Street Journal Article * JANUARY 6, 2010 CIA Blast Blamed On Double Agent By SIOBHAN GORMAN, ANAND GOPAL and YOCHI J. DREAZEN [A man crosses the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) logo in the lobby of CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia, on August 14, 2008. AFP PHOTO/SAUL LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)] Getty Images WASHINGTON -- The suicide bomber who killed seven Central Intelligence Agency employees and contractors and a Jordanian intelligence officer was a double agent the CIA had recruited to provide intelligence on senior al Qaeda leadership, according to current and former U.S. officials and an Afghan security official. The officials said ...
A War By Any Other Name
Post Date: 2010-01-05 07:10:02 by Eric Stratton
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A War By Any Other Name Cal Thomas Tuesday, January 05, 2010 Suppose Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, the Christmas Day underwear bomber, had succeeded and blown up Northwest Airlines flight 253, killing nearly 300 people on board and perhaps others on the ground? Would the response of the Obama administration have been different? The president probably would have attended memorial services for the dead, expressed "strong condemnation," persuaded the United Nations to issue more worthless resolutions, but little more. That's because the president isn't fighting -- or speaking -- as if we are at war. He first called the attempted bombing an "incident." In his ...
When Terrorism Hits You Are On Your Own
Post Date: 2010-01-05 06:58:37 by Eric Stratton
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When Terrorism Hits You Are On Your Own Douglas MacKinnon Tuesday, January 05, 2010 As the farcical and almost-tragic facts about the Nigerian-Muslim terror suspect play out, one thing has become crystal clear: Your government can't protect you from a terrorist attack. Worse, when the next one hits - and only delusional elected officials would deny this certainty - you are on your own. Although a clearly incompetent Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano saying "One thing I'd like to point out is that the system worked" (after the suspect paid cash for his ticket, had no check-in luggage, smuggled a bomb onto Northwest Airlines Flight 253 and then proceeded to try ...
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