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Latest Articles: War, War, War
41 U.S. Counter-Terrorism and Intelligence Agency Veterans Challenge the Official Account of 9/11
Post Date: 2009-06-12 08:49:35 by Horse
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Following in the footsteps of well over 1,000 scientists and other professional groups who have already gone on record questioning the official theory, more than 40 U.S. Counter-Terrorism and Intelligence Agency veterans have come forward to challenge the Government’s rendition of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Their behind-the-scenes knowledge and experience of sensitive and classified issues places them in a uniquely authoritative position. In this sense, their critical stance is all the more damning for the government. Conspicuously absent from the landscape are the mainstream media professionals, as they continue to provide cover for the government’s totally bankrupt theory ...
Who Are They Protecting?
Post Date: 2009-06-12 06:40:40 by Ada
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Who Are They Protecting? by Jacob G. Hornberger The Pentagon and the CIA are opposing the release of photographs that depict the torture and sex abuse of prisoners and detainees while in their custody. The basis for their objection is “national security.” Their argument goes like this: “Our personnel have done some horrendous things to people in our custody, so horrendous that we can’t even release the photographs that we took of them committing these horrendous acts. If the insurgents and the terrorists learn about the horrendous things we have done to people in our custody, they’ll not only be able to recruit more people to their side, they also will be more ...
Israeli War Crimes Against Children During Operation Cast Lead
Post Date: 2009-06-12 05:58:25 by Stephen Lendman
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Israeli War Crimes Against Children During Operation Cast Lead - by Stephen Lendman Following Israel's Operation Cast Lead, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) documented the toll on Gaza's children and published it in May. It did so "in response to the unprecedented number of children who were killed (and injured) by (the Israeli Defense Forces) during the offensive on Gaza." According to international standards, the Convention on the Rights of the Child's (CRC) definition was used to apply to anyone under age 18. PCHR reviewed IDF killing of Gaza's children since the beginning of the Second Intifada in September 2000, then focused on the 313 youth ...
Why We NEED Torture To Keep Us Safe
Post Date: 2009-06-10 20:07:50 by Horse
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You've heard people say that we should end all torture. But do you want to hear why all of those naive and pampered idiots are wrong when they say we don't need torture? And why - in the real world in which we live - Dick Cheney is right? Do you want to know the cold, hard facts about why we need torture? There are none. None of the top military or defense experts think we need to torture. See for yourself ... All of the Experts Say that Torture Doesn't Work. The top interrogation experts all say torture that doesn't work: The military agency which actually provided advice on harsh interrogation techniques for use against terrorism suspects warned the Pentagon in 2002 ...
Deaths in Peshawar hotel attack
Post Date: 2009-06-09 15:50:18 by tom007
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Deaths in Peshawar hotel attack Dozens of people have been hurt in the massive explosion at the luxury hotel in Peshawar [AFP] At least 11 people are reported to have been killed and 46 wounded after a gun and suicide truck bomb attack on a five-star hotel in the Pakistani city of Peshawar. Armed men entered the Pearl Continental hotel in the northwestern city on Tuesday and explosives were then detonated, government and security officials said. "There are two foreigners among the dead ... It would be too early to say anything about the identities of the foreigners," Mian Iftikhar Hussain, provincial information minister, told the AFP news agency. Medical and rescue efforts ...
"non-Jew nations are shoved into wars in order to destroy themselves." (Ezra Pound, 1942)
Post Date: 2009-06-09 09:59:12 by bluegrass
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#32 (April 30, 1942) U.S.(B37) NON-JEW I naturally mistrust newspaper news from America. I grope in the mass of lies, knowing most of the sources are wholly untrustworthy. It nevertheless seems to transpire, or expire that there is a difference of opinion between quite a fair sized number of Americans, and an equally large number of Jews, Jews-playfellows, and the bedfellows of Jews and of Jewesses, from Eve Curie to Lehman, and Lippmann. The terms “interventionist” and “isolationist” do not seem to define the fronts clearly. Senator Johnson, I s’pose that is Hiram of Californy, became warlike when Japan started in. Naturally, considering what state he ...
Right-wing military writer: We may have to kill war journalists
Post Date: 2009-06-09 04:29:40 by Amandil
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Former soldier Ralph Peters has carved out quite a niche for himself in the world of publishing. His work regularly lands on the pages of The New York Post and has cropped up in USA Today. He's even a special contributor to Fox News. But after today's showing, in his latest column for the Journal of International Security Affairs, Mr. Peters seemingly treads very close to finding himself at odds with his journalistic colleagues. After all, reporters don't really like it when the editorial page calls for consideration of grinding them into bloody chunks as a matter of war policy. In his latest essay, in a segment titled "The killers without guns," Peters suggests ...
Obama's Outreach to Muslims - Empty Rhetoric, Same Old Policies
Post Date: 2009-06-08 05:49:32 by Stephen Lendman
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Obama's Outreach to Muslims: Empty Rhetoric, Same Old Policies - by Stephen Lendman As well as anyone, Edward Said understood the West's long-standing antipathy to Islam - reflected in Samuel Huntington's "The Clash of Civilizations" article in the summer 1993 issue of Foreign Affairs and later a 1996 book. He wrote that future conflicts won't be "primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural....the principal conflicts of global politics will occur between nations and groups of different civilizations. The clash of civilizations will dominate global politics. The fault ...
DEFCON 3
Post Date: 2009-06-07 09:39:24 by Horse
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Poster Comment:This woman is a former Republican DOD official who actually thinks Stanley McChrystal is a good choice to lead NATO Afghan forces. I posted this because she has just returned from Afghanistan and sees no good outcome for us. In a separate radio interview I heard her say that British veterans said that of all the countries they tried to tame Afghanistan was the the wildest and most unruly.
If Steve Jobs was George Bush (or Barack Obama) (Video)
Post Date: 2009-06-06 10:47:26 by TwentyTwelve
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The official unemployment rate in the US is approaching 10%. Eight states including California, Ohio and North Carolina are already in the double digits. This video is about another Jobs, Steve Jobs. What would happen if Steve Jobs ran Apple (one of the shining lights of American innovation) the same way Bush and now Obama run the Iraq War? Here's what it would look like: (Humor) If Steve Jobs was George Bush (or Barack Obama)
My Damn Stupid Scots-Irish Cannon Fodder Ancestors
Post Date: 2009-06-04 08:07:01 by Turtle
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"Some folks are born made to wave the flag, Ooh, they're red, white and blue. And when the band plays hail to the chief, Ooh, they point the cannon at you, lord." "Fortunate Son," Creedence Clearwater Revival I'm three-quarters Scots-Irish, out of Tennessee and Kentucky and the Missouri Ozarks. The other quarter is German and some Cherokee. I am very familiar with low-class Scots-Irish culture, having been raised in it. I was hanging out in bars by the time I was 15. I knew girls who were having sex at 15, 14, 13. I know about the sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll. I know about the anti-intellectualism, the obsession with sports, the misguided ...
Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009
Post Date: 2009-06-03 14:16:20 by Itistoolate
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Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009 * #1. Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation * # 2 Security and Prosperity Partnership: Militarized NAFTA * # 3 InfraGard: The FBI Deputizes Business * # 4 ILEA: Is the US Restarting Dirty Wars in Latin America? * # 5 Seizing War Protesters’ Assets * # 6 The Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act * # 7 Guest Workers Inc.: Fraud and Human Trafficking * # 8 Executive Orders Can Be Changed Secretly * #9 Iraq and Afghanistan Vets Testify * # 10 APA Complicit in CIA Torture * # 11 El Salvador’s Water Privatization and the Global War on Terror * # 12 Bush Profiteers Collect Billions From No Child Left Behind * # 13 Tracking ...
Again, May God Forgive Us
Post Date: 2009-06-03 11:39:56 by Disgusted
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The kid was hurting very bad and they covered all the doors with sheets. Then when I heard screaming I climbed the door because on top it wasn't covered and I saw [name withheld] who was wearing a military uniform, putting his [male appendage] into the little kid's [anus] ... and the female soldier was taking pictures."
The eyewitness account provided by Abu Ghraib inmate Kasim Mehaddi Hilas, describing one of numerous episodes of sexual abuse by U.S. interrogators, including rape, homosexual rape, sexual assaults with objects including a truncheon and a phosphorescent tube, and other forms of sexual abuse and humiliation of detainees.
We need to dispense immediately with the idea ...
Bush told Houston journalist in 1999 if elected president, “I’m going to invade Iraq.”
Post Date: 2009-06-03 08:47:55 by tom007
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Bush told Houston journalist in 1999 if elected president, “I’m going to invade Iraq.” Two years before the 9/11 attacks on America, George W. Bush told a Houston journalist if elected president, “I’m going to invade Iraq.” Bush made the comments about starting an aggressive war to veteran Houston Chronicle reporter Mickey Herskowitz, then working with Bush on his book “A Charge To Keep,” later brought out by publisher William Morrow. This disclosure was uncovered by Russ Baker, an award-winning investigative reporter when he interviewed Herskowitz for his own book, “Family of Secrets” (Bloomsbury Press) about the Bush dynasty. However, ...
Loving Freedom While Destroying It
Post Date: 2009-06-03 06:16:20 by Ada
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Loving Freedom While Destroying It by Jacob G. Hornberger A few days after 9/11, a friend of mine at the conservative Heritage Foundation proudly exclaimed to me that Heritage had immediately jumped out in favor of the Bush administration’s war on terrorism, with positions papers and articles. At the same time, Heritage continued to carry the same mission statement on its website: “to formulate public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional values, and a strong national defense.” What my friend failed to recognize is that by jumping out in favor of the war on terrorism, the Heritage Foundation was, at the same ...
Unsatisfactory Answers From Gen. McChrystal
Post Date: 2009-06-03 06:00:30 by Ada
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Those who expected to hear Stanley McChrystal come clean on what he knows about mistreatment of prisoners in the custody of JSOC units that reported to him in the Iraq war were disappointed. General Petraeus has recently developed a reputation for telling it straight. But his new subordinate for Afghanistan seems to have a penchant for Pentagon circumlocutions. The concerns have focused on abuse of prisoners in Iraq, where the Pentagon agreed that the Geneva Conventions were fully applicable. Major Matthew Alexander, the Air Force interrogator who led the successful effort to nail the head of Al Qaeda in Iraq, put it this way: “Gen. McChrystal, he was there in Iraq often, and he may ...
Wars’ Death Toll Passes 5,000
Post Date: 2009-06-02 22:27:18 by randge
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As Wars’ Death Toll Passes 5,000, Military Families Urge President Obama to Bring All Our Troops Home Now For Immediate Release – June 2, 2009 Contact: Military Families Speak Out, 617-983-0710, press@mfso.org As Wars’ Death Toll Passes 5,000, Military Families Urge President Obama to Bring All Our Troops Home Now Nationwide – As the nation awaits confirmation from the Pentagon of the 5,000th death of a U.S. service member in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, members of Military Families Speak Out are mourning the dead and calling on President Obama to honor the sacrifices of these service members and their families and honor all of those who serve by acting ...
Former CIA station chief challenges claims that torture thwarted terror attacks
Post Date: 2009-06-02 13:21:29 by christine
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Two current CIA officers agree Milton Bearden, a former Central Intelligence Agency Pakistan station chief who served at the agency for three decades, says claims that the Bush administration’s so-called enhanced interrogation techniques saved American lives are likely false. The retired senior CIA officer also says that the former administration’s repeated assertions that attacks were foiled through torture are hurting US credibility abroad, endangering alliances and aiding the cause of would-be terrorists. Bearden, who formerly headed the CIA’s Soviet/East European Division and served as station chief in Pakistan, Nigeria and Sudan, was a key figure in the funding and ...
Whence the Terror Hysteria?
Post Date: 2009-06-02 06:25:26 by Ada
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Follow the Money One of the unique pleasures of living near our nation’s capital is to sit down with the first morning cup of coffee, open the Washington Post, and flip through the full-page ads placed by defense contractors. The ads almost always feature dedicated young soldiers, fierce bald eagles, and American flags. They extol our heroic warriors and note how they, the contractors, are on the front line defending freedom and the American way. They do not mention that the ads are paid for by the taxpayers, courtesy of the huge profits generated by unneeded defense spending. Their CEOs and shareholders must smile when they see the ads. The rest of us shouldn’t. This is not to ...
Cheney on gay marriage: 'Freedom for everyone'
Post Date: 2009-06-02 03:35:07 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Cheney on gay marriage: 'Freedom for everyone' WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday he supports gays being able to marry but believes states, not the federal government, should make the decision. "I think, you know, freedom means freedom for everyone," Cheney said in a speech at the National Press Club. "I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish, any kind of arrangement they wish." Cheney, who has a gay daughter, said marriage has always been a state issue. "And I think that's the way it ought to be handled today, that is, on a state-by-state basis. Different states will make different ...
Obama administration sides with Saudis on 9/11 suit
Post Date: 2009-06-01 06:40:04 by Ada
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Members of 9/11 victims’ families, who filed a lawsuit seeking to pin blame on the Saudi royal family for financing attacks against the United States, just acquired a significant new opponent: the Obama administration. A Department of Justice brief (PDF link) filed with the Supreme Court on Friday argues that the Saudi royal family is party to a sovereign state and cannot be sued in American courts. Fifteen of the 19 alleged 9/11 terrorists were from Saudi Arabia, according to the FBI. Former President George W. Bush waited six years to acknowledge this in public. “Several lower courts have dismissed the lawsuit,” noted the Associated Press. “Lawyers for the Saudi ...
US Troops in Iraq talk about Halliburton & KBR
Post Date: 2009-05-30 22:26:50 by rack42
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Yup, it's 2 years old, and most likely still carrying-on.
Poster Comment:Has Congress addressed this? If so, I'd appreciate some links. This needs a catagory like "corruption."
The Swiss Haven't Fought a War for 500 Years
Post Date: 2009-05-30 17:45:38 by Turtle
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The Swiss have not fought a war for nearly five hundred years, and are determined to know how so as not to. …Switzerland is two times the size of New Jersey. New Jersey, by far, has the larger population. Nonetheless, there are six hundred and fifty thousand people in the Swiss Army. At any given time, most of them are walking around in street clothes or in blue from the collar down. They are a civilian army, a trained and practiced militia, ever ready to mobilize. They serve for thirty years. All six hundred and fifty thousand are prepared to be present at mobilization points and battle stations in considerably less than forty-eight hours. …In the First World War, General ...
North Korea poses no real threat to the world
Post Date: 2009-05-30 10:11:07 by tom007
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Opinion & analysis North Korea poses no real threat to the world More on this theme North Korea poses no real threat to the world * North Korea poses no real threat to the world * North Korea poses no real threat to the world 1/2 21:4925/05/2009 As the North Korean nuclear issue took a new, dangerous turn on Monday, RIA Novosti sought out the opinion of Douglas H. Paal, vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Paal also served on the National Security Council staffs of presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush between 1986 and 1993 as director of Asian Affairs. He was also a senior CIA analyst. What has allowed North Korea to act in the way it does? ...
Colin Powell No Good Samaritan
Post Date: 2009-05-30 08:56:30 by Ada
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Colin Powell: No Good Samaritan by Ray McGovern, May 30, 2009 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment Watching retired Gen. Colin Powell cite Jesus’ parable of the Good Samaritan during Sunday’s Memorial Day ceremonies on the Mall in Washington, it struck me that Powell was giving hypocrisy a bad name. Those familiar with the parable of the Good Samaritan and the underreported behavior of Gen. Powell, resurgent star of the Fawning Corporate Media (FCM), know that the two do not mesh. Powell’s well-documented disregard for those who have borne the brunt of the battle places him in the company of the priest and the Levite – in the Good Samaritan parable – ...
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