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Latest Articles: War, War, War
In Bush's Footsteps
Post Date: 2009-08-25 06:46:03 by Ada
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Those of you still hoping for "change" can forget it. Young Mr. Obama is working the same number that young Mr. Bush pulled on us. In Obama’s address to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Phoenix, Ariz., on Aug. 17, he made his commitment to war in the Bananastans irrevocable. It would be wonderful if public servants seeking to associate themselves with the military would cater to the agenda of the Veterans for Peace. For a president of the United States to pander to the VFW is a disgrace. While the VFW is not a pack of latter-day Brownshirts like the American Legion, the two groups possess a common value: they never saw an armed conflict they didn’t like. If they had to ...
U.S. military says force in Afghanistan isn't big enough
Post Date: 2009-08-24 10:02:16 by christine
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BAGRAM, Afghanistan — Military commanders with the NATO mission in Afghanistan told President Barack Obama's chief envoy to the region this weekend that they did not have enough troops to do their job, pushed past their limit by Taliban rebels who operated across borders. The commanders emphasized problems in southern Afghanistan, where Taliban insurgents continue to bombard towns and villages with rockets despite a new influx of U.S. troops, and in eastern Afghanistan, where the father-and-son-led Haqqani network of militants has become the main source of attacks against U.S. soldiers and their Afghan allies. The possibility that more troops will be needed in Afghanistan ...
War Coverage and the Obama Cult
Post Date: 2009-08-24 09:56:00 by tom007
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War Coverage and the Obama Cult Why we aren't getting the real story by Justin Raimondo, August 24, 2009 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum There was a time when Cindy Sheehan couldn’t go anywhere without having a microphone and a TV camera stuck in front of her. As she camped out in front of George W. Bush’s Crawford ranch, mourning the death of her son Casey in Iraq and calling attention to an unjust, unnecessary, and unwinnable war, the media created in her a symbolic figure whose public agony epitomized a growing backlash against the militarism and unmitigated arrogance of the Bush administration. It was a powerful image: a lone woman ...
Memo Reveals Details of Blackwater Targeted Killings Program
Post Date: 2009-08-24 08:56:00 by DeaconBenjamin
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A US district court will decide this week whether one of the darkest chapters of the Bush era, the relationship between the administration and the private security company Blackwater, should be reexamined. Former Blackwater employees want to shine light on the company's shadowy activities. Susan Burke supported the Democratic candidate, Barack Obama, during the 2008 US presidential campaign. But now that Obama is in office, she finds her views diverging widely from his. Obama is opposed to investigating the excesses of the administration of his predecessor, former President George W. Bush. Burke, an attorney, favors an investigation. Obama has thus far avoided answering the ...
Why We Are in Afghanistan
Post Date: 2009-08-24 08:01:00 by Disgusted
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Why We Are in Afghanistan by Michael Wolff At some point that I missed, the New York Times shifted its daily count of the American dead in Iraq to a count of our dead in Afghanistan, now heading toward 800. In keeping with the grim statistics of the growing war, the Times is also reporting that candidates in the coming election are staking their ground on how to negotiate with the Taliban—which logically portends eventual capitulation (wasn’t the whole point of our being there to obliterate the Taliban?). Meanwhile, by apparently universal consensus, everybody in Afghanistan hates President Hamid Karzai—a figure of grand corruption—but is resigned to him getting ...
Dead Soldier's Family Reacts To Iraq Cruelty Probe
Post Date: 2009-08-23 18:26:50 by Brian S
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(08-23) 13:55 PDT Columbus, Ohio (AP) -- When Adrian Wilhelm learned that his son committed suicide just four days into his deployment in Iraq, he knew right away that the facts didn't add up. His son, 19-year-old Pvt. Keiffer Wilhelm, had been excited and upbeat just weeks earlier as he prepared to ship overseas. He was planning to buy a new car. He was exercising diligently, shedding at least 20 pounds in time for boot camp. Then, suddenly, he was dead. Now his family is struggling to process the stunning news that four of Wilhelm's fellow soldiers stand accused of abusing him and other soldiers in his platoon with excessive physical fitness and cruelty before his death. ...
Robert Fisk: For the truth, look to Tehran and Damascus – not Tripoli
Post Date: 2009-08-23 17:26:35 by tom007
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Robert Fisk: For the truth, look to Tehran and Damascus – not Tripoli Forget all the nonsense spouted by our beloved Foreign Secretary. He's all too happy to express his outrage. The welcome given to Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi in Tripoli was a perfect deviation from what the British Government is trying to avoid. It's called the truth, not that Mr Miliband would know much about it. It was Megrahi's decision – not that of his lawyers – to abandon the appeal that might have told us the truth about Lockerbie. The British would far rather he return to the land of the man who wrote The Green Book on the future of the world (the author, a certain Col Muammar Gaddafi, ...
US Military Chief: Afghanistan Situation is 'Serious and Deteriorating'
Post Date: 2009-08-23 13:30:41 by Brian S
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23 August 2009 The U.S. military's top officer says he believes the situation in Afghanistan is "serious and deteriorating." The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, said in an interview on U.S. television CNN's State of the Union Sunday that the Taliban insurgency has "gotten better [and] more sophisticated" in its tactics over the past couple of years. In a separate interview on NBC's Meet the Press, Mullen said the U.S. military is focused on preventing another terrorist attack on U.S. soil and that its current strategy in Afghanistan is intended to disrupt and defeat al-Qaida, the Taliban and its extremist allies. The Obama ...
The Family
Post Date: 2009-08-23 10:32:15 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family_%28Christian_political_organization%29 Last night on Coast to Coast they were discussing this organization. The members of this organization sound like evil incarnate and appear to have as much or more power than the Jewish lobby. Unfortunately, they are extreme Zionists, so they work hand-in-hand with one another.
Mullen worried over public support for Afghan war
Post Date: 2009-08-23 09:54:54 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. military's top uniformed officer expressed concern Sunday about eroding public support for the war in Afghanistan and said the country remains vulnerable to being taken over again by extremist forces. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said President Barack Obama's new strategy for defeating the Taliban and al-Qaida was a work in progress as more U.S. troops are put in place. In broadcast interviews, Mullen wouldn't say whether more American forces troops would be needed. A large number of civilian experts is also required to help bring stability to Afghanistan's government and develop the economy. The Obama administration is awaiting an ...
Rape and the Civil War
Post Date: 2009-08-21 13:52:49 by Lysander_Spooner
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Rape and the Civil War Today’s idea: Were rape and the threat of sexual violence used as weapons in the Civil War? A historian explores evidence from the Union occupation of New Orleans. Scarlett with Rhett: She wasn’t the only belle who felt threatened. History | When the topic is sexual violence in wartime, the horrors of the Balkans and Rwanda typically come to mind — not the American Civil War. But in the academic journal Daedalus, Crystal N. Feimster begs to differ with historians who “have accepted without question the idea that Union soldiers rarely raped southern women, black or white, and have argued that sexual violence was rare during the Civil War.” In ...
Arms expert warns new mind drugs eyed by military
Post Date: 2009-08-21 11:36:59 by X-15
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GENEVA (Reuters) - A leading expert on chemical and biological arms control called Wednesday for urgent efforts to stop new mind-altering drugs developed for medical purposes from being adopted by the military for use in warfare. In an article in the U.S. journal Nature, British academic Malcolm Dando said civilian researchers in many countries seemed largely unaware of the danger and urged quick action to adapt a key arms pact to head it off. "In the past 20 years, modern warfare has changed from predominantly large-scale clashes of armies to messy civil strife," wrote Dando, citing the Bosnian conflict of the mid-1990s and current fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Chemical ...
Robert Fisk: Democracy will not bring freedom
Post Date: 2009-08-21 08:36:06 by tom007
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Robert Fisk: Democracy will not bring freedom Friday, 21 August 2009 It's always the same. In Iraq, the Shia voted in a Shia government. And in Lebanon, Sunni Muslims and a large section of the Christian community voted to keep the Shia out of power. This is not confined to the Muslim world. How many Northern Ireland Protestants vote for Sinn Fein? But our problem in Afghanistan goes further than this. We still think we can offer Afghans the fruits of our all-so-perfect Western society. We still believe in the Age of Enlightenment and that all we have to do is fiddle with Afghan laws and leave behind us a democratic, gender-equal, human rights-filled society. True, there are brave ...
Blackwater: CIA Assassins?
Post Date: 2009-08-21 06:08:39 by Ada
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In April 2002, the CIA paid Blackwater more than $5 million to deploy a small team of men inside Afghanistan during the early stages of US operations in the country. A month later, Erik Prince, the company's owner and a former Navy SEAL, flew to Afghanistan as part of the original twenty-man Blackwater contingent. Blackwater worked for the CIA at its station in Kabul as well as in Shkin, along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, where they operated out of a mud fortress known as the Alamo. It was the beginning of a long relationship between Blackwater, Prince and the CIA. The private security company doesn't have a license to operate in Iraq, but the State Department continues to ...
Geneva Conventions at 60: Still Valid?
Post Date: 2009-08-20 20:52:06 by X-15
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GENEVA -- Around the end of the 16th century, the phrase "All's fair in love and war" began to be used in various forms. While love still does not have a universally accepted rule book, war has been given laws, particularly the Geneva Conventions, which are turning 60-years-old. "The Geneva conventions are the bedrock of international humanitarian law," said Knut Dormann, the head of the legal division at the International Committee of the Red Cross. While rules of war had come into existence before August 12, 1949, the events of World War II, leaving around 70 million people dead in its wake, most of them civilians, caused a fundamental change in world ...
Russia reconsidering Iran missile sale?
Post Date: 2009-08-20 08:55:32 by Tatarewicz
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Israeli president Shimon Peres says Russia's Dmitry Medvedev has pledged to reconsider the sale of S-300 air defense missiles to Iran to avoid upsetting a delicate balance in the Middle East. Peres told the Russian president Israel has no military plans against Iran and is not planning any strikes on its territory. A Russian official said Peres raised the missile issue "but no specific contracts...concerning supplies to Iran of military equipment came under discussion." Tatarewicz: Something fishy here. If Israel has no plans for an air strike against Iran's nuclear facilities then why is Peres worried. I don't think I'd trust this guy. Click for Full Text!
How to get inside a Fortress.
Post Date: 2009-08-20 02:11:27 by Horse
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Green zone. Sounds like a nice word. Green lush, cool shades, paved streets, no garbage dumps, no pools of sewage, running water and 24/7 electricity...all complemented with bars serving alcohol, a couple of dancing nightclubs, Olympic size swimming pools with WATER, and good looking women and hookers alike, throwing away their dreary black robes for hot pants... To get inside that fortress of corruption, theft, criminality, prostitution (political and otherwise)...to get inside the pimping circle of the puppets of the dual occupation, is no easy task. Several checkpoints and stringent security measures are in place well before you reach the main gate. Today's explosions inside the ...
Baghdad blasts kill 95, Iraqi security criticised
Post Date: 2009-08-19 12:45:54 by noone222
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BAGHDAD, Aug 19 (Reuters) - A series of blasts in Baghdad killed 95 people and wounded 536 in Iraq's bloodiest day this year, prompting a rare admission of culpability from Iraqi security forces left to cope without U.S. help. At least six blasts struck near government ministries and other targets at the heart of Iraq's Shi'ite-led administration, weeks after U.S. combat troops withdrew from urban centres in June, thrusting Iraq's security forces into the lead role. "This operation shows negligence, and is considered a security breach for which Iraqi forces must take most of the blame," Major General Qassim al-Moussawi, Baghdad's security spokesman, told ...
Global Depression and Regional Wars - Part II
Post Date: 2009-08-19 06:02:11 by Stephen Lendman
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Global Depression and Regional Wars - Reviewing James Petras' New Book: Part II - by Stephen Lendman Part II continues Petras' analysis of the global depression, regional wars, and the decline of America's empire. Obama's Latin American Policy At all times under all administrations, policy, not rhetoric, defines priorities, and it's no different for Obama. With regards to Latin America and its people, he's been hostile and dismissive by: -- allocating half a billion dollars "in military and related aid" to aid the right wing Calderon regime and militarizing the US - Mexican border; -- on the pretext of fighting drugs trafficking and regional security, ...
Death toll of troops in Afghanistan reaches 204
Post Date: 2009-08-18 21:40:38 by rack42
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67 NATO soldiers killed in Afghanistan this year A total of 67 soldiers of the NATO- led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), a number much higher than last year, have been killed this year in volatile Afghanistan, an ISAF spokesman said Wednesday. Among the deaths 56 were killed in action and 11 others died of non-combat action like traffic accidents, Maj. Luke Knittig told a press conference. Due to rising Taliban-linked insurgency, Afghanistan has plunged into the worst spate of bloodshed this year since the collapse of the Taliban regime in late 2001. About 150 foreign troops including those from the U.S.-led coalition forces have been killed in Afghanistan this year, up from ...
Afghans tell media not to broadcast violence before vote
Post Date: 2009-08-18 18:40:10 by Jethro Tull
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KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan — If a car bomb explodes in Kabul, and no one reports it, does it make a noise? Faced with escalating violence, and incessant allegations of fraud, the Afghanistan government made an unusual request Tuesday of local and international journalists: Refrain from reporting violent incidents Thursday when the war-torn country holds its national election. If people see dead and wounded people on television, one government spokesman reasoned, it could "weaken their confidence" and keep them from voting. "All domestic and international media agencies are requested to refrain from broadcasting any incidence of violence during the election ...
Look Who's Not Talking
Post Date: 2009-08-18 06:30:45 by Ada
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Iraq is back in the commode mode. Violence there is on the rise again. According to Col. Timothy Reese, chief of the Baghdad Operations Command Advisory Team, the political goals of the surge have not been met and never will be. Iraq’s government and security forces are choked with ineffectiveness, corruption, cronyism, nepotism, laziness, and lack of initiative. Gen. Ray Odierno, commander in Iraq, says these are mere "tactical issues." Things look even worse in the Bananastans. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, sold to Congress and the country as the second coming of David Petraeus, is getting his garrison cap handed to him and doesn’t seem to know which way to point his ...
The Oil Factor - Why are we in Afghanistan? O-I-L
Post Date: 2009-08-17 21:33:03 by Jethro Tull
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Why Are We In Afghanistan?
Post Date: 2009-08-15 20:20:55 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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Why Are We In Afghanistan? Don't ask Stephen Biddle – or, on second thought, please do ask him. Why are we fighting in Afghanistan? Well, it’s hard to say, because the rationale for our intervention keeps shifting: first it was to banish al-Qaeda from the region – although, of course, Osama bin Laden & Co. haven’t been seen in those parts since 2001, when we fumbled an attempt to corner them in the mountains of the Hindu Kush. Now, however, our war aims seem to have changed: according to Stephen Biddle, a civilian advisor to the commander of US troops at the Afghan front, Gen. Stanley McChyrstal, it’s to keep Pakistan in line, prevent Islamabad from ...
CNN Opinion Poll
Post Date: 2009-08-15 14:33:27 by Itistoolate
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