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Latest Articles: War, War, War
U.S. Foreign Policy Caused the Taliban Problem
Post Date: 2009-05-12 06:36:02 by Ada
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U.S. officials are now concerned not only with a Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan but also a Taliban takeover in Pakistan. These problems, however, were caused by the U.S. Empire itself. While most Americans now view President Bush’s Iraq War as a “bad war,” the common perception is that Bush’s invasion of Afghanistan was a “good war” (despite the fact that he went to war without the constitutionally required congressional declaration of war). The notion is that the U.S. government was justified in invading Afghanistan and ousting the Taliban regime from power because the Taliban and al-Qaeda conspired to commit the 9/11 attacks. There’s just one big ...
Unfriendly Fire: Why Did a U.S. Soldier Kill His Fellow Troops in Iraq?
Post Date: 2009-05-11 23:06:46 by freepatriot32
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The initial U.S. military statement on the killings Monday at Camp Liberty in Baghdad was predictably terse. "Five Coalition forces members were killed in a shooting at Camp Liberty in Baghdad today at approximately 2 p.m.," the statement read. "The names of the deceased are being withheld pending next-of-kin notification and release by the Department of Defense. The incident is under investigation and more information will be released when it becomes available." At first, the Associated Press, citing unnamed Pentagon officials, reported that the shooter was a U.S. soldier who may have been his own final victim in a murder-suicide rampage. But a late report said that the ...
US Soldier Shoots And Kills Five Fellow Troops At Baghdad Base
Post Date: 2009-05-11 11:43:01 by Brian S
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• Camp Liberty shooting occurred at 2pm local time • Toll highest for US personnel in a single attack since April 10 Monday 11 May 2009 16.09 BST An American soldier killed five of his fellow troops at a base in Baghdad, the Pentagon said today. The five were killed in a shooting 2pm local time, at Camp Liberty near Baghdad international airport. An investigation into the circumstances surrounding the deaths is underway. The toll was the highest for US personnel in a single attack since April 10, when a suicide truck driver killed five American soldiers with a blast near a police headquarters in the northern city of Mosul. In a separate incident, a US soldier was killed ...
Science Fiction, Wars, and a Meaning to Life
Post Date: 2009-05-11 08:05:49 by Turtle
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When I was 12 to 14 years old the most important thing in my life was science fiction, including the original Star Trek. I got high off of it -- I felt what is called "the sense of wonder." I don't have to explain it to those who understand; those who have never experienced it, I can't explain it to them. In my imagination I ranged across all of time and space -- and before them, and after them. I traveled through parallel dimensions and alternative universes. I encountered a vast array of aliens -- talking cats, winged beings, and those that lived under the sea, or in space. It was heady stuff. Because it was the most important thing in my life at that time, it was in ...
A Full Court Press for Pakistan War
Post Date: 2009-05-11 05:57:41 by Ada
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Rolling Out the Product Again I. We are now in the midst of a full-blown campaign to "roll out the product" for a new war: this time, in Pakistan. Anyone who lived through the run-up to the invasion of Iraq should be able to read the signs -- anyone, that is, who is not blinded by partisan labels, or by the laid-back cool of a media-savvy leader far more presentable than his predecessor. This week brings yet another bumper crop of panic buttons and alarm bells from the powers-that-be, with ever-increasing emphasis on the "Taliban kooks with Muslim nukes" theme: one more variation on the old "mushroom clouds rising in American cities" ploy that has worked ...
Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi Has Died In A Libyan Prison
Post Date: 2009-05-11 05:52:05 by Ada
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The Arabic media is ablaze with the news that Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, the emir of an Afghan training camp — whose claim that Saddam Hussein had been involved in training al-Qaeda operatives in the use of chemical and biological weapons was used to justify the invasion of Iraq — has died in a Libyan jail. So far, however, the only English language report is on the Algerian website Ennahar Online, which reported that the Libyan newspaper Oea stated that al-Libi (aka Ali Abdul Hamid al-Fakheri) “was found dead of suicide in his cell,” and noted that the newspaper had reported the story “without specifying the date or method of suicide.” This news resolves, in the ...
War's Culture
Post Date: 2009-05-10 21:15:19 by Turtle
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Paul Krugman, an Op-Ed Columnist for the NYTimes wrote today about Mythic Reality and war. Quoting a book by Chris Hedges, War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, Krugman comments: War, Mr. Hedges says, plays to some fundamental urges. 'Lurking beneath the surface of every society, including ours,' he says, 'is the passionate yearning for a nationalist cause that exalts us, the kind that war alone is able to deliver.' When war psychology takes hold, the public believes, temporarily, in a 'mythic reality' in which our nation is purely good, our enemies are purely evil, and anyone who isn't our ally is our enemy. This state of mind works greatly to the benefit of ...
It's official. "Bin Ladin is Dead'
Post Date: 2009-05-10 13:24:44 by randge
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Pakistani president: Osama bin Laden is dead Share on Facebook By David Edwards and Jeremy Gantz Published: May 10, 2009 Updated 2 hours ago Two weeks ago, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zadari suggested that Osama bin Laden might be dead, saying that U.S. and Pakistani intelligence agencies had been unable to detect any sign of the world’s most wanted man since an audio recording of his voice was released in March. Sunday morning, Zadari went further: “I don’t think he’s alive,” the president told NBC’s David Gregory. “I have a strong feeling and reason to believe that.” Zadari continued: “I have asked my counterparts in the American ...
US, allies 'don't dare' drop Afghanistan: Gates
Post Date: 2009-05-09 10:57:20 by christine
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The United States and other countries helping to fight Islamist extremists "don't dare" turn their backs on Afghanistan, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said Friday, wrapping up a short visit. The September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States were a consequence of the neglect of Afghanistan after Washington and others helped Afghan fighters end the Soviet occupation, Gates told US troops. "We helped these people throw the Soviets out 20 years ago," he said in the strategic province of Wardak, near Kabul, in a final meeting with US troops before heading back to Washington. "Then we neglected Afghanistan and we paid the consequences for it in 2001. We ...
Afghanistan: DOD Makes Excuses, CNN Rushes to Repeat the Spin
Post Date: 2009-05-09 08:44:48 by tom007
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Afghanistan: DOD Makes Excuses, CNN Rushes to Repeat the Spin By: Siun Thursday May 7, 2009 8:20 am 0 diggs digg it Yesterday, while Sec. of State Clinton was expressing “deep regret” over Monday's civilian deaths in Bala Baluk, US military spokespeople were telling a different story. After similar incidents, one of the usual claims made is that the civilian casualties are inevitable since villagers are “used as human shields by the Taliban” but this time, DOD is spinning at a whole new level, claiming that the Taliban rounded up civilians and killed them with grenades – then loaded the bodies into trucks to use are an anti-American photo op. CNN quickly had ...
Jon Stewart, War Criminals & The True Story of the Atomic Bombs
Post Date: 2009-05-08 21:48:53 by Jethro Tull
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17 min VIDEO
Afghans riot over air-strike atrocity
Post Date: 2009-05-08 06:15:11 by Ada
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Witnesses say deaths of 147 people in three villages came after a sustained bombardment by American aircraft. P A girl injured in the Farah air strike * Photos enlarge Shouting "Death to America" and "Death to the Government", thousands of Afghan villagers hurled stones at police yesterday as they vented their fury at American air strikes that local officials claim killed 147 civilians. The riot started when people from three villages struck by US bombers in the early hours of Tuesday, brought 15 newly-discovered bodies in a truck to the house of the provincial governor. As the crowd pressed forward in Farah, police opened fire, wounding four protesters. Traders in ...
WHY WE FIGHT U.S. Troops Die For Rapists
Post Date: 2009-05-07 20:05:04 by bush_is_a_moonie
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American soldiers serving in Vietnam wondered what they were fighting for. U.S. troops in Afghanistan don't have that problem. They know exactly what they're fighting for: rapists. After President Obama's coming "Afghan surge" there will be 72,000 soldiers in Afghanistan. Their primary mission is to prevent Afghans from overthrowing the unpopular regime of Hamid Karzai, the former oil consultant installed by George W. Bush when the U.S. occupation began nearly eight years ago. America's media repeatedly claimed that Afghan women would be better off under the U.S.-supported Northern Alliance puppet government headed by Karzai than under the Taliban. But when I ...
Huge U.S. camp arises in Afghan Desert of Death
Post Date: 2009-05-07 15:02:37 by Ferret Mike
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CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A huge U.S. military camp is taking shape in the baking heat of southern Afghanistan for thousands of extra U.S. troops charged with defeating a resurgent Taliban. Defense Secretary Robert Gates visited Camp Leatherneck, with concrete blast walls and semi-cylinder sand-colored tents, on Thursday as he surveyed preparations for what will be the biggest wave yet in a year that is seeing U.S. troop numbers doubled. The camp is being constructed in Helmand province next to a British base, Camp Bastion, as Marines and other forces dramatically expand their presence in the most violent area of Afghanistan and heartland of the Taliban movement. ...
What is the Unites States preparing in Pakistan?
Post Date: 2009-05-07 08:53:51 by tom007
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What is the Unites States preparing in Pakistan? Keith Jones 5 May 2009 Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari will undoubtedly come under renewed pressure to allow US military forces to wage war within Pakistan when he visits Washington this week for a trilateral summit meeting with President Obama and Afghanistan33;s Hamid Karzai. For weeks, the US political and military establishment and the American media have been mounting an increasingly shrill campaign to bully Islamabad into fully complying with US diktats in what Washington has redefined as the AfPak (Afghanistan-Pakistan) war theater. At the US33;s behest, the Pakistani military has for the past 10 days been ...
Killer Ants from Space
Post Date: 2009-05-07 08:24:44 by Turtle
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The Greeks had a myth about what the State considered the perfect soldier – an ant. These ant soldiers were called Myrmidons. They didn't question orders, they didn't think, they just fought and died. Every portrayal of soldiers I have read in all those dystopian science-fiction novels I read all the time are just updated versions of that old myth. Portrayals of the military didn't used to be this way. We can use as an example Robert Heinlein's novel, Starship Troopers, which was made into a movie that, although it has the same name, has little in common with the novel. In fact, it is a degenerated version of the book. The late Heinlein was strongly libertarian in ...
Clinton: US Regrets Loss Of Life In Afghanistan
Post Date: 2009-05-06 11:28:55 by Brian S
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(05-06) 08:20 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the Obama administration "deeply, deeply" regrets the loss of innocent life apparently as the result of a U.S. bombing in Afghanistan and will undertake a full review of the incident. Opening a meeting with the presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan at the State Department, Clinton said Wednesday that any loss of innocent life is "particularly painful." Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai thanked Clinton for "showing concern and regret" and added that "we hope we can work together to completely reduce civilian casualties in the struggle against terrorism." The ...
Russia expels diplomats as Nato begins military exercises in Georgia (Unbelievable Change)
Post Date: 2009-05-06 05:52:26 by Deasy
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Russia expels diplomats as Nato begins military exercises in Georgia Controversial exercises follow failed uprising by Georgian army yesterday Nato today began a series of controversial military exercises in Georgia following a failed uprising by the Georgian army yesterday and Moscow's expulsion of two Nato diplomats this morning. Russia said it was expelling Isabelle Francois, the Canadian head of Nato's Moscow information office, and a worker at her office. The move was in retaliation for last week's expulsion of two Russian diplomats, who had been accused of spying, from Nato's Brussels HQ, Russia's foreign ministry said. The ministry said it was summoning ...
SIBEL EDMONDS: In Congress We Trust...Not
Post Date: 2009-05-05 18:53:11 by tom007
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The former FBI translator and whistleblower suggests blackmail may be at the heart of Congressional refusal to bring accountability and oversight to its own members - such as both Hastert and Harman - in matters of espionage and national security Exclusive to The BRAD BLOG... Guest Editorial by Sibel Edmonds I have been known to quote long-dead men in my past writings. Whether eloquently expressed thoughts by our founding fathers, or those artfully expressed by ancient Greek thinkers, these quotes have always done a better job starting or ending my thoughts - that tend to be expressed in long winding sentences. For this piece I am going to break with tradition and start with an ...
Teen homeschooler jailed under Patriot Act FBI holds 10th-grader for months with little contact from family
Post Date: 2009-05-05 15:55:56 by Itistoolate
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Teen homeschooler jailed under Patriot Act FBI holds 10th-grader for months with little contact from family Posted: May 04, 2009 8:31 pm Eastern © 2009 WorldNetDaily Ashton Lundeby A 16-year-old homeschooled boy from North Carolina was taken away from his home in handcuffs two months ago and has been held by the FBI in Indiana ever since, a victim, his mother claims, of the Patriot Act spun out of control. According to Annette Lundeby of Oxford, N.C., armed FBI agents and local police stormed her home around 10 p.m. on March 5, looking for her son, Ashton. The officers presented a federal search warrant and seized the tenth-grader's computer, cell phone and bank statements. ...
Porous Border With Pakistan Could Hinder U.S. Troops
Post Date: 2009-05-05 06:07:34 by Disgusted
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — President Obama is pouring more than 20,000 new troops into Afghanistan this year for a fighting season that the United States military has called a make-or-break test of the allied campaign in Afghanistan. But if Taliban strategists have their way, those forces will face a stiff challenge, not least because of one distinct Taliban advantage: the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan barely exists for the Taliban, who are counting on the fact that American forces cannot reach them in their sanctuaries in Pakistan. One Pakistani logistics tactician for the Taliban, a 28-year-old from the country’s tribal areas, in interviews with The New York Times, ...
Gunmen kill at least 44 at wedding in Turkey
Post Date: 2009-05-04 20:43:13 by Deasy
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Forty-four people were reported to have been killed tonight when unidentified gunmen opened fire at a wedding reception in south-eastern Turkey. Ahmet Ferhat Ozen, the acting governor of Mardin province, told Reuters that the assailants had stormed a hall in the village of Sultankoy and attacked guests with automatic rifles and hand grenades. Local media said the families of both the bride and the groom included members of the state-sponsored militia, the Village Guard, which was set up to combat Kurdish separatist guerrillas in the area. Turkish soldiers and pro-government village guards have been fighting Kurdish guerrillas in the region for years. One Turkish television news channel, ...
Forget? Hell No! (Louis Beam on Vietnam)
Post Date: 2009-05-03 13:49:11 by Deasy
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Even after all this time there seems to be no way we can forget or let Vietnam descend into the past. I for one can not, nor would I---even if it were possible. Why should we? When we came home they threw blood in our faces, and feces on our caskets. No excuses now will change that. It could have been prevented. But there was no desire to prevent it. It was allowed, encouraged, and even promoted by the very people who sent us over there. Now they think they can bury some poor soul in Arlington National Cemetery, and at the same time bury the guilt along with their conscience. Never! They can erect all the black marble slabs they want, have all of the fifteen year late parades they care ...
Teens and War: Your FAQS About the Draft
Post Date: 2009-05-03 12:44:11 by Deasy
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Teens and War: Your FAQS About the Draft Answers to your most frequently asked questions about conscription ("the draft"). Does [country name here] have the draft?Some countries have conscription, also known as "the draft", and some do not. For a list of countries that DO NOT have the draft, please see: • Countries Without the Draft For a list of countries that currently have the draft, please see: • Countries With a Universal Draft For a list of countries that currently have the draft but allow for exceptions to, or exemptions from, forced military service, please see: • Countries With a Limited Draft What is ...
I am a survivor of the holocaust... (Letter to Louis Beam)
Post Date: 2009-05-03 11:43:15 by Deasy
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2002 Dear Louis. A friend gave me your website address. I am grateful he did. Yours is a wonderful voice in the human miserable wilderness where a former great nation is committing crimes against humanity on a scale which boggles the mind. I am a survivor of the holocaust by saturation bombing of the second world war and your essay I CRIED TEARS FOR DRESDEN brought back memories [See link for pictures.] of that time when our days and nights were filled with horror which battle hardened German soldiers feared more than facing the enemy in combat. Where is America now ? A guarantor of peace ? A guarantor of honour. The spirit of a new proud republic died in the American Civil War. The evil ...
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