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Color Revolutions, Old and New
Post Date: 2009-06-29 05:57:57 by Stephen Lendman
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Color Revolutions, Old and New - by Stephen Lendman In his new book, "Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order," F. William Engdahl explained a new form of US covert warfare - first played out in Belgrade, Serbia in 2000. What appeared to be "a spontaneous and genuine political 'movement,' (in fact) was the product of techniques" developed in America over decades. In the 1990s, RAND Corporation strategists developed the concept of "swarming" to explain "communication patterns and movement of" bees and other insects which they applied to military conflict by other means. More on this below. In Belgrade, key ...
Outline of Scapegoating Dynamics
Post Date: 2009-06-27 10:48:42 by Turtle
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In scapegoating, feelings of guilt, aggression, blame and suffering are transferred away from a person or group so as to fulfill an unconscious drive to resolve or avoid such bad feelings. This is done by the displacement of responsibility and blame to another who serves as a target for blame both for the scapegoater and his supporters. The scapegoating process can be understood as an example of the Drama Triangle concept [Karpman, 1968]. The perpetrator's drive to displace and transfer responsibility away from himself may not be experienced with full consciousness - self-deception is often a feature. The target's knowledge that he is being scapegoated builds slowly and follows ...
Rising Death Toll at U.S. Military Hospital in Afghanistan
Post Date: 2009-06-26 18:14:03 by christine
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BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan — The urgent call came in: Roadside bombs had ripped through two Humvees and wounded eight or nine U.S. soldiers. Medevac helicopters immediately hit the air to ferry the soldiers to the main U.S. military hospital. But when they arrived, they carried only five patients. The other four were dead. With 2009 expected to be the bloodiest year since the U.S. invaded Afghanistan, medical personnel at Bagram's SSG Heath N. Craig Joint Theater Hospital say they've already seen an increase in casualties and expect more. The flow of dead and wounded puts enormous strain on the soldiers and the medical staff who must face it head on. "Everything ...
Senate Panel Votes for More Stealth Jets, Defying Gates ( I Guess We Have Plenty Of Money Then)
Post Date: 2009-06-25 17:51:47 by tom007
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Senate Panel Votes for More Stealth Jets, Defying Gates * By Noah Shachtman Email Author * June 25, 2009 | * 3:36 pm | * Categories: Air Force, Paper Pushers, Beltway Bandits, Politicians 090115-F-0623L-885.jpg The White House and the Pentagon leadership couldn’t be clearer: they don’t want any more of the controversial F-22 stealth fighters. But Congress now seems ready to pour billions into extra jets, anyway. The Senate Armed Services Committee just “voted to fully fund seven F-22 Raptors for $1.75 billion,” Air Force Times is reporting. Last Week, the House Armed Services Committee voted to add 12 of the planes to the upcoming Pentagon budget. Defense Secretary ...
America's "Bases of Empire"
Post Date: 2009-06-25 05:56:58 by Stephen Lendman
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America's "Bases of Empire" - by Stephen Lendman Besides waging perpetual wars, nothing better reveals America's imperial agenda than its hundreds of global bases - for offense, not defense at a time the US hasn't had an enemy since the Japanese surrendered in August 1945. So when they don't exist, they're invented as former US ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Charles W. Freeman, Jr., suggested in a May 24, 2007 speech to the Washington Institute of Foreign Affairs: "When our descendants look back on the end of the 20th century and the beginning of this one, they will be puzzled. The end of the Cold War relieved Americans of almost all international ...
Rumsfeld initially declared Iraq ‘off limits’ for new biography.
Post Date: 2009-06-24 10:32:41 by tom007
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Rumsfeld initially declared Iraq ‘off limits’ for new biography. ap030430025951 Washington Post reporter Bradley Graham has a new biography out on Donald Rumsfeld called “By His Own Rules.” According to a review in the New York Times, Graham “goes out of his way to give Mr. Rumsfeld the benefit of the doubt,” but ultimately concludes that the former Defense Secretary was “neglectful” in planning for post-war Iraq. However, Rumsfeld originally refused to talk about Iraq at all: Mr. Graham writes that Mr. Rumsfeld initially “put talk about Iraq off limits” when he agreed to be interviewed for this book, and while he “relented and ...
Documents Back Saudi Link to Extremists
Post Date: 2009-06-24 06:06:38 by Ada
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Documents Back Saudi Link to Extremists By ERIC LICHTBLAU Published: June 23, 2009 WASHINGTON — Documents gathered by lawyers for the families of Sept. 11 victims provide new evidence of extensive financial support for Al Qaeda and other extremist groups by members of the Saudi royal family, but the material may never find its way into court because of legal and diplomatic obstacles. Skip to next paragraph Enlarge This Image Jeremy Bales/Bloomberg News Prince Turki al-Faisal is one of the gigures in a dispute over a possible Saudi role in 9/11. A German intelligence report described bank transfers made in the early 1990s by Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz and other members of the ...
BBC is backing election riots, claims Iran
Post Date: 2009-06-23 07:46:21 by PSUSA
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BBC is backing election riots, claims IranPublished on 06-22-2009 Email To Friend Print Version Source: Guardian The Iranian foreign ministry has accused the BBC and Voice of America of being mouthpieces of their respective governments and seeking to engineer the ongoing riots that followed the presidential election. Another Iranian ministry also threatened to take "more stern action" against British radio and television networks if they "continued to interfere" in the country's domestic affairs. The tough talking from the Iranian authorities comes after Jon Leyne, the BBC's permanent correspondent in Iran, was ...
The New Praetorians
Post Date: 2009-06-23 06:01:00 by Ada
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"The Art of War for Dummies" discussed how poorly America’s uniformed and civilian leadership understands foreign policy and war’s place in it. "The New Praetorians" explores how we’re about to turn yet another corner on the road to Palookaville. The MOOSEMUSS principles of war taught in our command and staff colleges might be adequate to steer us away from the misadventures we’ve fallen into lately if anyone could remember what MOOSEMUSS stands for. One of the Os stands for objective, a principle that we have lost sight of. They say that in war, amateurs talk tactics and professionals talk logistics. But a true student of the art of war asks what a ...
Reviewing F. William Engdahl's "Full Spectrum Dominance"
Post Date: 2009-06-22 05:58:44 by Stephen Lendman
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Reviewing F. William Engdahl's "Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order:" Part I - by Stephen Lendman For over 30 years, F. William Engdahl has been a leading researcher, economist, and analyst of the New World Order with extensive writing to his credit on energy, politics, and economics. He contributes regularly to business and other publications, is a frequent speaker on geopolitical, economic and energy issues, and is a distinguished Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization. Engdahl's two previous books include "A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order" explaining that ...
Defense Secretary Gates: Killing Civilians is a "strategic problem"
Post Date: 2009-06-21 22:01:12 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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One of the nation's highest officials reached a stunning conclusion yesterday that merited it's own AP news wire release. It seems our Defense Secretary believes that the killing of civilians in places like Afghanistan is a serious "strategic problem" in the War on Terror. Robert Gates is one of these life long Washington DC apparatchiks whose resume is richly padded with degrees and numerous government appointments, not to mention the usual litany of "service" on corporate boards in between government gigs. We are constantly being told, usually by government lovers on the right, that people like Gates know things, secret things, that we the citizenry don't ...
Fraudulent Compassion for the Iranian People
Post Date: 2009-06-21 11:04:08 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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There isn't a lot of traffic on f4um, so I tend to browse other political websites in addition to f4um, such as Libertypost and Free Republic. I have been completely disgusted with what I have been reading on both sites concerning Iran. Just one week ago, most the Bushbotic Republicrats were calling for the invasion and/or the nuclear attack of Iran. They wanted every Iranian in the country dead in order to protect Israel. Now all of a sudden they "care" and are shedding crocadile tears for those who have died over there. They are now showing their "compassionate conservatism" and acting as if they are "protectors of the weak." Who the fuck are they ...
An American 'Yezhovschina'?
Post Date: 2009-06-20 18:16:52 by Ada
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Maxwell Smart: Are you a psychologist, Dr. Stueben? Dr. Stueben: I'm the president of the psychologist society for mental health and adjustment through fulfillment. Smart: What kind of an organization is that? Stueben: We're a hate group. Smart (following a double-take): A hate group? Stueben: Oh, in the sense that we cure hate and fear. We hate hate. Hate it. From "All in the Mind," a 1965 episode offering redundant proof that Get Smart was the work of perceptive and prescient satirists. A September 1996 American Bar Association conference on terrorism and the law in Washington, D.C. presented me with an opportunity I had long coveted. Among the presenters at that ...
Afghanistan's Operation Phoenix
Post Date: 2009-06-17 05:59:16 by Stephen Lendman
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Afghanistan's Operation Phoenix - by Stephen Lendman On June 15, AP reported that "Gen. Stanley McChrystal, a four-star American general with a long history in special operations, took charge of US and NATO troops in Afghanistan (today), a change in command the Pentagon hopes will turn the tide in an increasingly violent eight-year war." McChrystal is a hired gun, an assassin, a man known for committing war crime atrocities as head of the Pentagon's infamous Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) - established in 1980 and comprised of the Army's Delta Force and Navy Seals, de facto death squads writer Seymour Hersh described post- 9/11 as an "executive ...
Cheney tied to cash theft and possible murder in Iraq
Post Date: 2009-06-16 22:07:44 by Horse
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According to an informed source, Dick Cheney, while vice president, amassed a fortune in cash stolen by U.S. occupation forces in Iraq from Saddam Hussein and some of his leading officials and advisers. Sources report to WMR that U.S. troops confiscated “billions” in currency found stored in aluminum containers in various secret caches in Baghdad and elsewhere. Our sources report that the seized cash was transferred to accounts run by Cheney and the money is now being partly used to fund Cheney’s growing political opposition movement to the Obama administration, including secretive payments to a “stay behind” group of Cheney loyalists who burrowed into senior civil ...
Robert Fisk: Fear has gone in a land that has tasted freedom
Post Date: 2009-06-16 22:04:50 by tom007
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Robert Fisk: Fear has gone in a land that has tasted freedom In defiance of the ban on foreign reporters, The Independent's Middle East correspondent ventures out to witness an extraordinary stand-off on the streets of Tehran Wednesday, 17 June 2009 * Share The Independent Close o DiggDigg o del.icio.usdel.icio.us o FacebookFacebook o RedditReddit o GoogleGoogle o Stumble UponStumble Upon o FarkFark o NewsvineNewsvine o YahooBuzzYahooBuzz o BeboBebo o MixxMixx o Independent MindsIndependent Minds * Print * Email * Text Size o Normal o Large o Extra Large Supporters of Mirhossein Mousavi protest on the streets of Tehran yesterday AP Supporters of Mirhossein Mousavi protest on the ...
Pentagon ‘Reconsidering’ Promise to Make Afghanistan Civilian Killings Probe Public
Post Date: 2009-06-16 06:26:41 by Ada
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Alleged Video Vindicating Troops May Never See Light of Day In early May, a series of US air strikes in multiple villages in the Farah Province of Afghanistan killed 140 civilians, by far the single deadliest incident since the 2001 invasion. The official story of the US military changed several times. Initially, they went with the claim that the entire incident was made up by the Taliban, who had kidnapped hundreds of civilians, killed them with hand grenade, then left them in empty houses which they tricked the US into bombing. After acknowledging that was “thinly sourced,” they claimed the toll was “extremely over-exaggerated” by Afghan civilians looking to make ...
The ARt of War for Dummies
Post Date: 2009-06-16 06:17:50 by Ada
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Military precision is to precision what Kenny G is to jazz. So it is that the art of war – known in our command and staff colleges as operational art – has a language so vague that it’s useless. Take the term center of gravity. Everyone concurs that it is a vital concept, but nobody agrees on what it means. A Marine will tell you there can only be one center of gravity, but that’s because Marines can only think about one thing at a time (loving apologies to Staff Sgt. Joe Cleveland). An Air Force pilot will tell you a center of gravity is anything he can bomb, so you need to buy him a lot of expensive bombers so he can bomb everything. A naval aviator will tell you the ...
New UN Report Denounces America's Human Rights Record
Post Date: 2009-06-15 05:58:34 by Stephen Lendman
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New UN Report Denounces America's Human Rights Record - by Stephen Lendman On May 26, the UN Human Rights Council issued a report titled "Promotion and Protection of All Human Rights, Civil, Political, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Including the Right to Development - Report of the Special Rapporteur (Philip Alston) on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions." Alston was damning in his criticism regarding "three areas in which significant improvement is necessary if the US Government is to match its actions to its stated commitment to human rights and the rule of law:" (1) Its imposition of the death penalty under which innocent people are executed. ...
Talking to Iran will make it “easier to sell” war on Iran, says man responsible for talking to Iran
Post Date: 2009-06-14 10:34:42 by christine
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As Iranians go to the polls to repudiate (it seems) some of the most pernicious aspects of Ahmadinejad’s rule, America’s Iran point man continues to make Ahmadinejad look like a reasonable peacenik. The newly released book by Dennis Ross, President Obama’s special adviser on Iran, reads like a how-to manual for launching a war on Iran, marketing the war successfully, and making sure the Iranians cop all the blame for it. Ross will have none of Bush’s incompetent warmongering on flimsy pretenses of democracy and WMD’s; when Ross launches his illegal war on Iran, it will be stage-managed to within an inch of its life. “Tougher policies – either militarily ...
Author: Fitzgerald libel threat aimed at censoring key 9/11 tale
Post Date: 2009-06-14 09:56:36 by Ada
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Powerful prosecutor’s efforts to suppress book virtually guarantees elevated sales Peter Lance should be thanking Patrick Fitzgerald right now, even as the attorney’s checks are being signed. If it were not for the U.S. Attorney who famously prosecuted I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the former Vice President’s Chief of Staff, the re-release of Lance’s stunning tale of mishandled espionage leading up to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, might be overlooked. The former ABC News investigative reporter’s book Triple Cross hit relatively few shelves in 2006 as a hardcover and left retail quietly, almost completely ignored. Now, with its paperback release looming, ...
Weapons Makers Look Overseas As Pentagon Cuts Back
Post Date: 2009-06-13 19:27:17 by Brian S
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By STEPHEN MANNING – 4 hours ago WASHINGTON (AP) — Foreign governments looking to kick the tires of fighter jets and cargo planes at this week's air show in Paris will likely hear a clear message from U.S. defense contractors: We need your business now more than ever. With the United States looking to cut defense costs and rethinking the way it fights wars, many defense companies are looking for international buyers to take the big, pricey weapons that the Pentagon no longer wants or needs fewer of. U.S. contractors are chasing some lucrative deals, but could also face some legal and political hurdles as they hawk weapons overseas. Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp. are ...
CBC: Anthrax War: part 1/7
Post Date: 2009-06-13 16:06:17 by Kamala
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Poster Comment:An investigation into the deadly world of germ weapons, Anthrax War begins in New York in the days following 9/11. Anthrax-laced letters, mailed to media and U.S. senators, killed five people and spread fear and panic throughout the nation. For filmmaker Bob Coen, who was raised in Zimbabwe where the former white regime has been accused of unleashing anthrax against the black population, biological weapons have a deep personal meaning. He embarks on a journey that raises troubling questions about the FBI's investigation of the 21st century's first act of biological terrorism. Coen's investigation takes him from the U.S. to the U.K. and from the edge of Siberia to ...
'If We Now Kill Schoolgirls, You Shouldn't Be Surprised'
Post Date: 2009-06-13 09:30:07 by tom007
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'If We Now Kill Schoolgirls, You Shouldn't Be Surprised' By Matthias Gebauer and Shoib Najafizada in Kunduz, Afghanistan Responding to threats from the Taliban, at least 10 girls' schools have shut down near Kunduz in northern Afghanistan. Visiting the schools is a dangerous proposition -- a trip leading directly into the heart of Islamist territory. When the deputy director of Aqtash High School talks of the government, he isn't referring to Hamid Karzai's central government in Kabul. Nor does he refer to the provincial administration in Kunduz. "The Taliban are our government," Bashir says. "They have taken over our region, their commanders give ...
The ever changing story: Anatomy of a typical US military propaganda campaign.
Post Date: 2009-06-12 20:51:05 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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One month later, after the bombings of a village in western Afghanistan that killed up wards of 150 civilians, we now get this half assed admission of culpability on the part of the US military. The US military is now saying that "errors" were made in the air strikes last May 4th that resulted in over a hundred civilian deaths. Oh, they are still claiming that most killed were "Taliban" (what the Pentagon and their pocket poodle American media call anyone who take up arms against the holy selfless Paladins of the US military in Afghanistan). And they are still hinting that this "Taliban" is responsible but this new story, a month later, is in stark contrast ...
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