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Latest Articles: War, War, War
Media Ignores Real Controversy Behind Torture Photos; They Show Prison Guards Raping Children
Post Date: 2009-05-21 20:07:01 by tom007
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Media Ignores Real Controversy Behind Torture Photos; They Show Prison Guards Raping Children Former Governor Jesse Ventura: Let Me Judge Torture Photos On Behalf Of The American People Media Ignores Real Controversy Behind Torture Photos; They Show Prison Guards Raping Children 210509top3 Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Thursday, May 21, 2009 The real reason behind Obama’s reversal of a decision to release the torture photos has been almost completely ignored by the corporate media - the fact that the photos show both US and Iraqi soldiers raping teenage boys in front of their mothers. The Obama administration originally intended to release photos depicting torture and ...
Taliban Fighting With US Ammo
Post Date: 2009-05-21 15:02:35 by Jethro Tull
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Taliban Fighting With US Ammo May 21, 2009 International Herald Tribune Insurgents in Afghanistan, fighting from some of the poorest and most remote regions on earth, have managed for years to maintain an intensive guerrilla war against materially superior U.S. and Afghan forces. Arms and ordnance collected from dead insurgents hint at one possible reason: Of 30 rifle magazines recently taken from insurgents' corpses, at least 17 contained cartridges identical to ammunition the United States had provided to Afghan government forces, according to an examination of ammunition markings by The New York Times and interviews with U.S. officers and arms dealers. The presence of this ...
Obama: From anti-war law professor to warmonger in 100 days
Post Date: 2009-05-21 06:21:25 by Ada
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Alexander Cockburn on war-hawk Obama It didn't take long for President Barack Obama to swing behind targeted assassinations and bombing raids, says Alexander Cockburn How long does it take a mild-mannered, anti-war, black professor of constitutional law, trained as a community organiser on the South Side of Chicago, to become an enthusiastic sponsor of targeted assassinations, 'decapitation' strategies and remote-control bombing of mud houses at the far end of the globe? There's nothing surprising here. As far back as President Woodrow Wilson, in the early 20th century, American liberalism has been swift to flex its imperial muscle and whistle up the Marines. ...
Fratricide at Camp Liberty [The zionification of the U.S. Military]
Post Date: 2009-05-20 19:41:00 by SCPO Blackshoe Retired
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Wednesday 20 May 2009 by: Camillo "Mac" Bica, t r u t h o u t | Perspective Sgt. John Michael Russell, 44, was a career soldier with over twenty years of honorable military service in places like Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was on his third tour of duty in Iraq, however, when it all went terribly wrong. On Monday, May 11, 2009, Sergeant Russell walked into a stress-counseling center at Camp Liberty in Baghdad and shot five American soldiers to death. Everyone seemed shocked by the murders. What could possibly have caused a soldier to commit such a heinous act, to murder five of his own? Some said, "fratricide was a phenomenon of the Vietnam War, of draftees and ...
Dick Cheney Is Becoming Obama's Enabler
Post Date: 2009-05-20 06:24:44 by Ada
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Dick Cheney's "Shut Up and Listen" tour continued last week on CBS's Face the Nation. There, the former veep reiterated his favorite theme: Obama is putting America at risk by "taking down a lot of those policies we put in place that kept the nation safe." What in the world is Cheney talking about? Granted, Obama's anti-terror policies are clouded by rhetorical "Hope" and euphemism, and the new administration is less given to chest-thumping than its predecessor. Otherwise, Obama's approach to terrorism is virtually identical to Bush/Cheney's. Whatever you think the right policy is regarding enemy combatants, warrantless wiretapping, and ...
Are Afghan Taliban’s Arms Coming From US?
Post Date: 2009-05-20 06:17:32 by Ada
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Arms, Ammo Sent to Afghan Forces Appear to Be Falling Into Taliban Hands Over seven years after the US invasion of Afghanistan, the Taliban insurgency that was the former government remains well armed, and fighting fiercely across the nation. The New York Times is tonight reporting on one possible source for the endless supply of arms. According to officials, much of the ammunition taken off of the corpses of slain insurgents was “identical” to ammunition which the United States government has been providing to the Afghan government forces to use against the Taliban. Exactly how the Taliban came by such weaponry was unclear, but it is speculated that corrupt Afghan forces may be ...
PEARL HARBOR - MOTHER OF ALL CONSPIRACIES
Post Date: 2009-05-19 08:50:18 by Disgusted
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CONCLUSION - ROOSEVELT WAS A TRAITORThe US was warned by, at least, the governments of Britain, Netherlands, Australia, Peru, Korea and the Soviet Union that a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor was coming. All important Japanese codes were broken. FDR and Marshall and others knew the attack was coming, allowed it and covered up their knowledge. It's significant that both the the chief of OP-20-G Safford and Friedman of Army SIS, the two people in the world that knew what we decoded, said that FDR knew Pearl Harbor was going to be attacked. Pearl Harbor was not about war with Japan -It was about war with GERMANY Most important was the promise FDR had made to the American people - solemnly ...
Big Cig Benefits Because Smoke Bans Are Frauds
Post Date: 2009-05-19 04:50:05 by Coral Snake
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Big Cig Benefits Because Smoke Bans Are Frauds by theava.com Though advertised as aimed at "protecting workers," the planned Massachusetts (etc.) ban on smoking in public establishments is quite something else. It is about protecting the cigarette industry from maximum penalties and liabilities for, among other things, many decades of harming workers with secretly-added toxic, cancer-causing, addiction-enhancing, and fire-causing non-tobacco cigarette ingredients. In any case, where else do we see any official concern for workers' health and safety? Or workers' benefits? Or workers' jobs? For that matter, where else do we see concern for public health in general, ...
The Beast of War (Soviet Tankers in Afghanistan)
Post Date: 2009-05-18 23:11:19 by Deasy
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The Beast - 1988The Beast of WarLa bestia de la guerraDIRECTOR Kevin ReynoldsWilliam Mastrosimone (play)&(screenplay)George DzundzaJason PatricSteven Bauer-(War of Afganistan 1981)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beast_(1988_film)Afghan Breakdownhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_B...- is a 1990 war film about the Soviet war in Afghanistan directed by Vladimir Bortko and co-produced by Italy and the Soviet Union- William Mastrosimonehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_...- Bang Bang You're Dead- Nanawatai / Pashtunwalihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pashtunwali
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Two Historic Lindbergh Speeches October 13, 1939 & August 4, 1940
Post Date: 2009-05-18 22:14:20 by Deasy
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Two Historic Speeches October 13, 1939 & August 4, 1940 In May 1927, a shy, handsome young man from Michigan named Charles Lindbergh suddenly became the idol of millions when he landed his small airplane in Paris after a grueling 33-hour flight from New York - the first person to fly alone,nonstop, across the Atlantic ocean.Twelve years leater, this politically astute son of a United States Congressman resolved to speak out against President Franklin Roosevelt's illegal campaign to push the United States into the European war that had broken out in September 1939.The Most important national peace organization of this period was the America First Committee. Founded in July 1940, ...
Emotional Goodbye For Afghanistan-Bound Marines (listen if you dare) [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2009-05-18 19:10:22 by Deasy
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Emotional Goodbye For Afghanistan-Bound Marinesby Catherine WelchListen Now [5 min 33 sec] add to playlist See Photos Of Marines Saying Goodbye To Family MembersJohn Poole/NPR EnlargeJohn Poole/NPRMarines prepare for deployment as part of the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, the first major deployment of U.S. Marines into southern Afghanistan. EnlargeJohn Poole/NPRLance Cpl. Josh Apsey, 18, waves and blows kisses to his family after boarding a bus for the first leg of his trip to Afghanistan on Saturday. Terrorist Attacks In Afghanistan All Things Considered, May 18, 2009 · The Marines known ...
Obama: Early to mull more troops in Afghanistan
Post Date: 2009-05-17 06:15:02 by Disgusted
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Obama: Early to mull more troops in Afghanistan The Associated Press Sun, May 17, 2009 (1:15 a.m.) President Barack Obama says he needs to see how fast Afghanistan can be stabilized and led toward a more democratic government before deciding whether more troops are needed. In an interview with Newsweek magazine, Obama said the hardest thing he has had to do so far in his administration was to order 17,000 troops to Afghanistan on top of an estimated 38,000 that were already in Afghanistan. The interview was released on the Web Saturday. He did not rule out the possibility of sending even more troops, while stressing such a decision was premature at this point and that U.S. military ...
The Impotent President
Post Date: 2009-05-16 10:06:14 by tom007
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The Impotent President By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS What do you suppose it is like to be elected president of the United States only to find that your power is restricted to the service of powerful interest groups? A president who does a good job for the ruling interest groups is paid off with remunerative corporate directorships, outrageous speaking fees, and a lucrative book contract. If he is young when he assumes office, like Bill Clinton and Obama, it means a long life of luxurious leisure. Fighting the special interests doesn’t pay and doesn’t succeed. On April 30 the primacy of special over public interests was demonstrated yet again. The Democrats’ bill to prevent 1.7 ...
Robert Fisk: Civilians pay price of war from above
Post Date: 2009-05-16 09:54:57 by tom007
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Robert Fisk: Civilians pay price of war from above T Of course there will be an inquiry. And in the meantime, we shall be told that all the dead Afghan civilians were being used as "human shields" by the Taliban and we shall say that we "deeply regret" innocent lives that were lost. But we shall say that it's all the fault of the terrorists, not our heroic pilots and the US Marine special forces who were target spotting around Bala Baluk and Ganjabad. Related articles * When the Americans destroy Iraqi homes, there is an inquiry. And oh how the Israelis love inquiries (though they rarely reveal anything). It's the history of the modern Middle East. We are ...
Cheney said Gitmo detainees revealed Iraq-al Qaida link (Cheney Tortured to Fabricate "evidence" to Link Iraq to 9-11)
Post Date: 2009-05-16 09:49:34 by tom007
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Cheney said Gitmo detainees revealed Iraq-al Qaida link S By Jonathan S. Landay | McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — Then-Vice President Dick Cheney, defending the invasion of Iraq, asserted in 2004 that detainees interrogated at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp had revealed that Iraq had trained al Qaida operatives in chemical and biological warfare, an assertion that wasn't true. Cheney's 2004 comments to the now-defunct Rocky Mountain News were largely overlooked at the time. However, they appear to substantiate recent reports that interrogators at Guantanamo and other prison camps were ordered to find evidence of alleged cooperation between al Qaida and the late Iraqi ...
Rumsfeld's Renegade Unit Blamed For Afghan Deaths
Post Date: 2009-05-16 09:47:23 by Ada
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Special Forces group implicated in three incidents that claimed the lives of hundreds of innocent civilians / MarSOC was set up by former defence secretary despite opposition from within the Marine Corps A single American Special Forces group was behind at least three of Afghanistan's worst civilian casualty incidents, The Independent has learnt, raising fundamental questions about their ongoing role in the conflict. Troops from the US Marines Corps' Special Operations Command, or MarSOC, were responsible for calling in air strikes in Bala Boluk, in Farah, last week – believed to have killed more than 140 men, women and children – as well as two other incidents in 2007 ...
Lust and Blood Lust
Post Date: 2009-05-16 09:03:39 by Turtle
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If we have learned one thing from Girard, it should have been how the human race is capable of hiding things from ourselves, and we do it like Poe’s purloined letter—we hide things in plain sight, and then obstinately refuse to look at it, not matter what. When we are occasionally given a seer who does what his title implies—that is, he sees—we honor and praise him into the middle of next week, but we stare stupidly at what he is trying to articulate. According to Girard, one of the great seers of the last several centuries was Nietzsche. This does not make him a good man—he was quite the opposite, but he saw what he was doing. This does not make him a great man ...
Obama Picks Up Where Bush Left Off: From My Lai to Bala Baluk
Post Date: 2009-05-15 18:00:44 by Kamala
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Obama Picks Up Where Bush Left Off: From My Lai to Bala Baluk By MIKE WHITNEY Barack Obama is aggressively stepping up the war in Afghanistan. He's intensified the cross-border bombing of Pakistan and he is doubling the number of U.S. troops to 68,000 by 2010. He's also a strong proponent of pilotless drones even though hundreds of civilians have been killed in bombing raid blunders. On May 4, 2009, 143 civilians were killed in a bombing raid in Bala Baluk, a remote area south of Herat. Obama brushed off the incident with terse apology never intimating that the US policy for aerial bombardment would be reviewed to avoid future mishaps. Patrick Cockburn gave a summary of the ...
Mullen: US must aid soldiers' mental health
Post Date: 2009-05-14 10:52:26 by christine
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation's highest-ranking military officer says the United States has to do a better job of taking care of soldiers' mental health. Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says the killing of five people at a Baghdad mental health clinic appears to back him up. The alleged shooter was a U.S. Army sergeant said to have mental health problems. Mullen told Congress on Thursday there's still a stigma attached to mental health treatment within the military. He told of an exchange with a sergeant last month in which the woman told him bluntly that soldiers and families are hiding their problems. The sergeant told him that probably leads to ...
US detainee abuse 'unprecedented'
Post Date: 2009-05-14 09:00:35 by tom007
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US detainee abuse 'unprecedented' Al-Qaeda suspects' faces were waterboarded hundreds of times [AP - simulation] A former US official has accused the administration of George Bush, the former president, of authorising "unprecedented" acts of abuse during the interrogation of terror suspects. Phillip Zelikow told a US senate hearing on torture practices that the Bush administration was guilty of a "collective failure" over the interrogation of "war on terror" detainees. "The US government over the past seven years adopted an unprecedented programme in American history of cruelly calculated dehumanising abuse and physical torment to extract ...
Man is a Cruel Animal
Post Date: 2009-05-13 17:41:33 by Turtle
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It was Joseph Conrad I thought of when I read an article in The Nation magazine this month about white vigilante groups that rose up out of the chaos of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans to terrorize and murder blacks. It was Conrad I thought of when I saw the ominous statements by authorities, such as International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, warning of potential civil unrest in the United States as we funnel staggering sums of public funds upward to our bankrupt elites and leave our poor and working class destitute, hungry, without health care and locked out of their foreclosed homes. We fool ourselves into believing we are immune to the savagery and chaos of ...
Time for Jury Nullification on ALL Gun Law Cases
Post Date: 2009-05-12 22:56:51 by Coral Snake
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It seems tath the Lying and cover up Joseph Goebbels methodology of the gun control crowd in the Obama Administration and the DemocRAT/RepublicRAT Congress has finally come to an end. A bill has been introduced to finally effectively attempt to BAN forearms using "potential terrorism" as an excuse. The methodology of this bill has been leaked out of the Obama "homeland security" department in the forms of several memmos that have tagged virtually ANY opposition to Obama and his rubber stamp congress as "potential terrorists". The proposed new gun bill we are discussing here (H.R. 2159 by Rep. Peter King of New York) would appearantly do a good thing by ...
A Sherman Can Give You a Nice Edge
Post Date: 2009-05-12 21:33:45 by Deasy
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The Price of Victory and the Price of the Defeat
Post Date: 2009-05-12 20:23:40 by tom007
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The Price of Victory and the Price of the Defeat By Dmitry Babich Russia Profile Print this Print this Print this E-mail this Print this Send us your feedback Most Popular Stories The Price of Victory and the Price of the Defeat, By Dmitry Babich A New Start or an Old Song? By Dmitry Babich A Year Without A Great Breakthrough, Comment by Alexander Arkhangelsky Other stories: Outlawed Disagreement A Year Without A Great Breakthrough A Dreadful Future Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing Lessons From Sochi Free, but not Really Portrait of a Nationalist Medvedev’s Mixed Messages The Deputies Revolt A New Start or an Old Song? Historians Try to Put a Final Number on Russia’s War ...
1-2-3 What Are We Fighting For?
Post Date: 2009-05-12 09:05:22 by tom007
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1-2-3 What Are We Fighting For? Blaming the Dead Victims By DAVE LINDORFF May 11, 2009 We’re been here before, many times. The US causes massive civilian deaths through its indiscriminate use of heavy air power, and then tries to claim it’s the enemy’s fault for "hiding" among the civilians and "using them as shields." In Vietnam, where the US was fighting against a local revolutionary movement that was seeking to overthrow the puppet regime backed by America, American planes routinely bombed and napalmed villages, claiming that the Viet Cong were hiding amongst the peasants. Women, old men and children would die in droves—several million of them ...
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