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Latest Articles: War, War, War
'Nuke From Iran Within This Year' [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2009-01-27 09:28:14 by Disgusted
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'Nuke From Iran Within This Year' Breaking News2:14pm UK, Tuesday January 27, 2009 Geoff Meade, defence correspondent Iran will have enough enriched uranium to make a single nuclear weapon later this year, the prestigious International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) predicts. The think tank's Mark Fitzpatrick made the announcement at today's launch of its annual global review of military powers. "During 2009, Iran will probably reach the point at which it has produced the amount of low-enriched uranium needed to make a nuclear bomb," he said. "But being able to enrich uranium is not the same as having a nuclear weapon." However, the ...
Close Gitmo and Get Out of Cuba
Post Date: 2009-01-27 06:42:56 by Ada
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LONDON – Two cheers to President Barack Obama for ordering the closure of the US prison at Guantanamo, Cuba. But why is it to be done over a year? Justice delayed is justice denied. Obama also ordered CIA’s network of secret, or "black," prisons closed – we hope for good – and the use of torture to cease, ending one of the worst stains on America’s honor as well as a grave violation of international and US law. Guantanamo is a double embarrassment. The US conquered Cuba in the 1898 Spanish American War. Washington then installed a US citizen as puppet president who granted Washington base rights to Guantanamo in perpetuity. Guantanamo was then considered ...
The Taliban have Obama a way proposed in the peace, but were rejected
Post Date: 2009-01-26 20:54:04 by Horse
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Interview mit Christoph R. Hörstel The remarkable points of the interviews are: - The Obama team has the peace plan is rejected by the Taliban, although practically included Kabul and the Taliban 70% of the country's control. - The cash for the Afghanistan mission does not come from the States, but the U.S. military has plates and machinery to the required suburb dollar notes in any quantity to print. - The aim of the war in Afghanistan is total Destablisierung of the country, so it is weak and controllable, as part of the plan for the encirclement of Russia. At the same time also to double the pipeline for gas and oil from Turkmenistan to Pakistan to be able to lead. - As a ...
Is Obama a Terrorist?
Post Date: 2009-01-26 06:03:46 by Ada
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If so, it’s not because he has associated with Bill Ayers. He did, however, order a terrorist attack on Pakistan that resulted in the deaths of civilians. That is a hard statement because we have been conditioned to believe that governments don’t commit acts of terrorism, terrorists do. Well, we probably all learned in school that during the French Revolution, the government’s Committee of Public Safety carried out what was called the Reign of Terror. I know I did, but never thought about it until I was recently reading The War on Terror: How Should Christians Respond?, by Nick Megoran (IVP, 2008). Says Megoran: “Richard Falk, a professor of law at Princeton University, ...
A conversation with expert witness Leuren Moret on depleted uranium
Post Date: 2009-01-25 18:40:42 by Horse
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A conversation with expert witness Leuren Moret on depleted uranium (DU) weapons, and the impacts they have had on the 1,000,000 disabled U.S. veterans (new Veteran's Administration statistics) from Iraq and Afghanistan, caused largely by Canadian uranium illegally used in U.S. depleted uranium (DU) weapons. This interview addresses the 50,000 new casualties in U.S. military personnel in Iraq/Afghanistan October-December (3 months) of 2008. As of the end of 2008, there are over 400,000 officially medically disabled soldiers, with one expert estimate as high as 1,000,000 medically disabled U.S. soldiers. Host: Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD, MEd Listen to Audio Archive (MP3) now: ...
Obama administration warns public to expect rise in US casualties
Post Date: 2009-01-25 16:19:18 by christine
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Vice-president Biden reveals US forces will step up operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan The Obama administration warned the US public yesterday to brace itself for an increase in American casualties as it prepares to step up the fight against al-Qaida and the Taliban in Afghanistan and the border regions of Pakistan. Against a background of widespread protests in Pakistan and Afghanistan over US operations since Obama became president, the vice-president, Joe Biden, said yesterday that US forces would be engaged in many more operations as it takes the fight to its enemies in the region. The Obama administration is to double the number of US troops in Afghanistan to 60,000 and when ...
Israel Killed Everything but the Will to Resist
Post Date: 2009-01-25 15:12:21 by Stephen Lendman
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Israel Killed Everything but the Will to Resist - by Stephen Lendman " 'Freedom or death', is the popular Palestinian mantra," wrote Palestine Chronicle Editor-in-Chief Ramzy Baroud in his January 22 article titled "Breaking Gaza's Will: Israel's Enduring Fantasy." Three weeks of Israeli terror caused about 1400 deaths, over 5500 injured (many seriously), vast destruction throughout Gaza, and Physicians for Human Rights warning that large numbers of wounded may die because hospitals are overloaded and lack basic supplies. Yet Palestinians endure. Their spirit is unbowed and unbroken. Hamas is more popular than ever, and world outrage sustains them. ...
Turtle Finally Teaches Mickey the Pug to Sit
Post Date: 2009-01-24 16:07:21 by Turtle
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Mickey the Rescue Pug has been blind in his damaged right eye since he was a puppy. He had food aggressive issues, so I finally taught him to sit quietly while he eats out of my hand. He ain't pretty, but he's learning to be a good dog.
* News * World news * President orders air strikes on villages in tribal area (Pakistan) [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2009-01-24 10:47:40 by bush_is_a_moonie
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* News * World news * Pakistan
President orders air strikes on villages in tribal area
* Ewen MacAskill in Washington * The Guardian, Saturday 24 January 2009 * Article history
Barack Obama gave the go-ahead for his first military action yesterday, missile strikes against suspected militants in Pakistan which killed at least 18 people.
Four days after assuming the presidency, he was consulted by US commanders before they launched the two attacks. Although Obama has abandoned many of the "war on terror" policies of George Bush while he was president, he is not retreating from the hunt for Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaida leaders.
The US believes they are hiding in the ...
MIssiles kill 7 in NW Pakistan
Post Date: 2009-01-23 13:49:16 by christine
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Missiles fired from a suspected U.S. spy plane killed seven people Friday on the Pakistan side of the Afghan border, a lawless region where al-Qaida militants are known to hide out, officials said. The strike was the first on Pakistani territory since the inauguration of President Barrack Obama. Pakistani leaders had expressed hope Obama would halt the attacks, more than 30 of which have been launched since the middle of last year, reportedly killing several senior militants. The pro-U.S. government routinely protests them as a violation of the country's sovereignty, but most observers speculate it has an unwritten agreement allowing them to take place. One ...
US appoints Holbrooke as special envoy for Afghan-Pak region (yet another Jewish, neocon, Clintard)
Post Date: 2009-01-23 13:11:51 by Jethro Tull
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US appoints Holbrooke as special envoy for Afghan-Pak region Fri, Jan 23 01:46 PM The Obama administration has appointed diplomatic trouble shooter Richard Holbrooke as its special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan and the new envoy immediately said that he would soon head towards the troubled region in South Asia.-Snip
Poster Comment: Obama & The Neocon Middle East War Agenda By Stephen Sniegoski 12-7-8 Many Americans, in fact, many people in the world are under the impression that Obama's policies will be the antithesis of those of the Bush administration. But his recent appointees would tend to bring forth the opposite question: To what extent is Obama a ...
Obama is Wrong on Afghanistan
Post Date: 2009-01-23 06:54:37 by Ada
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As you settle into the Oval Office, Mr. President, may I offer a suggestion? Please do not try to put Afghanistan aright with the U.S. military. To send our troops out of Iraq and into Afghanistan would be a near-perfect example of going from the frying pan into the fire. There is reason to believe some of our top military commanders privately share this view. And so does a broad and growing swath of your party and your supporters. True, the United States is the world's greatest power – but so was the British Empire a century ago when it tried to pacify the warlords and tribes of Afghanistan, only to be forced out after excruciating losses. For that matter, the Soviet Union was ...
Obama Ready to cut Karzai Adrift
Post Date: 2009-01-23 06:43:45 by Ada
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As support for Afghan leader wanes, rivals go to Washington for meeting with new President Afghan leader Hamid Karzai may find himself on the receiving end of President Obama's axe-wielding Barack Obama's arrival in the White House and the wind of change sweeping through Washington could lead to the ousting from power of Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan, The Independent has learnt. International support for Mr Karzai, who was once the darling of the West, has waned spectacularly, amid worsening violence, endemic corruption and weak leadership. But until very recently, diplomats insisted there were no viable alternatives even as fighting has intensified and the Taliban ...
Al Nakba Redux
Post Date: 2009-01-21 05:55:54 by Stephen Lendman
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Al Nakba Redux - by Stephen Lendman For Palestinians, the Nakba "Catastrophe" is their "Holocaust" six-month slaughter and displacement before and after the May 1948 establishment of Israel. In December 1947, Jews in Palestine numbered 600,000 compared to 1.3 million Palestinians. David Ben-Gurion ordered them removed and for "Every attack....to end with occupation, destruction and expulsion." He meant depopulation, destruction, mass slaughter, displacement, and erasing a proud people's history. Palestine was to become Israel. Most of the job was completed, more in 1967, and thereafter incrementally until total dispossession is achieved. Gaza is the ...
Is Bush a Sith Lord? (By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS)
Post Date: 2009-01-19 11:46:54 by tom007
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Is Bush a Sith Lord? By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS The current episode of Star Wars is dynamite for the duplicitous Bush administration. Palpatine, a Sith Lord masquerading as a galactic Republican, becomes Chancellor of the Galatic Republic through deception. Palpatine uses wars that he instigates to elevate security over the power of the Senate and to become dictator. In a moment of triumph, Palpatine tells the Senate: "In order to ensure our security and continuing stability, the Republic will be reorganized into the first Galactic Empire, for a safe and secure society." The senators respond with sustained cheering and applause. Padme says, "So this is how liberty dies, with ...
Today in Solidarity We're All Palestinians
Post Date: 2009-01-19 05:46:15 by Stephen Lendman
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Today in Solidarity We're All Palestinians - by Stephen Lendman World outrage continues over Israeli war crimes and Washington's complicity. Gazans are now immortalized. Hamas is more popular than ever and remains resolute despite everything the IDF threw against it. Democrats and Republicans share equal guilt. They fund Israeli state terror, are partnered in its aggression, and have collaboratively planned, supported, and/or agreed to it for the past 41 years. Continuity under Obama is assured. The current Gaza carnage is the worst since 1967. In spite of its "unilateral" ceasefire, sporadic Israeli attacks continue. The IDF merely redeployed. Gaza remains under siege, ...
Obama faces decision on how to deploy troops in Afghanistan
Post Date: 2009-01-18 20:11:46 by Disgusted
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Obama faces decision on how to deploy troops in Afghanistan With 20,000 more to be sent this year, officials differ over how best to use them: to secure the population, as was done in Iraq, or to focus on sealing the border to curb flow of militants and drugs. By Julian E. Barnes January 13, 2009 Reporting from Washington -- Soon after Barack Obama is sworn in as president, he will face a crucial decision about the future of the war in Afghanistan: what to do with thousands of new U.S. troops that will flow into the country over the course of the year. Within the Pentagon, a vigorous debate has emerged about what the top priority should be for those forces. Some Defense officials ...
Rangel To Reintroduce Military Draft Measure
Post Date: 2009-01-15 12:20:55 by Brian S
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Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) likely will introduce his controversial legislation to reinstate the draft again this year, but he will wait until after the economic stimulus package is passed. Asked if he plans to introduce the legislation again in 2009, Rangel last week said, “Probably … yes. I don’t want to do anything this early to distract from the issue of the economic stimulus.” Rangel’s military draft bill did create a distraction for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) soon after Democrats won control of Congress after the 2006 election. In the wake of that historic victory, Pelosi said publicly that she did not support the draft and that the Democratic ...
Conservative Columnist Tony Blankley: Draft Is Needed Because We May Have To Invade Pakistan [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2009-01-14 13:56:03 by Brian S
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Conservative columnist Tony Blankley foresees a dangerous future, in which the United States will be able to ensure its own survival only through a universal military draft and may routinely have to commit hundreds of thousands of troops to overseas excursions, including a potential invasion of Pakistan. Blankley, a former Reagan speechwriter and Newt Gingrich press secretary, is the author of The West's Last Chance: Will We Win the Clash of Civilizations? (2005) which raised the specter of a Europe dominated by radical Islam. His new book is called American Grit. "If we don't do a lot of things smart and tough, we could get overwhelmed," Blankley told the hosts of Fox ...
Pentagon official says 9/11 suspect was tortured
Post Date: 2009-01-14 11:05:36 by richard9151
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Wed Jan 14, 6:29 am ET WASHINGTON – A Pentagon official acknowledged in an interview published Wednesday that the United States tortured Mohammed al-Qahtani, a Saudi man who allegedly had hoped to become the "20th hijacker" in the Sept. 11 attacks. "We tortured Qahtani," said Susan J. Crawford, a retired judge who was appointed convening authority of military commissions in February 2007. Crawford was interviewed by The Washington Post's Bob Woodward. Al-Qahtani was one of six men charged by the military in February 2008 with murder and war crimes for their alleged roles in the 2001 attacks. But in May, Crawford decided to dismiss the charges against ...
The Middle Eastern Powder Keg Can Explode at Anytime
Post Date: 2009-01-13 10:06:07 by PSUSA
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by José Miguel Alonso Trabanco Global Research, January 13, 2009 Historically, some great powers have originated in the Middle East: The Persian Empire, the Islamic Caliphate and the Ottoman Empire. Following the collapse of the latter as a result of World War One, no great power indigenous to the Middle East has emerged, The aforementioned meant that, from that point onwards, outside powers became the most important players in Middle Eastern geopolitics. That was not necessarily a new reality because both the Romans and the Mongols had invaded a considerable portion of the Middle East. Indeed, after World War One, France and Britain forged the secret Sykes-Picot agreement in ...
Vice President-elect Biden arrives in Iraq
Post Date: 2009-01-12 10:03:56 by christine
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Vice President-elect Joe Biden arrived in Baghdad Monday for talks with leaders of Iraq, where the withdrawal of some 140,000 American troops is seen as a key challenge facing the incoming U.S. administration. The Delaware senator, who takes office with President-elect Barack Obama later this month, met President Jalal Talabani at his Baghdad residence. The visit by the long-time chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee came at the tail end of a tour of southwest Asia that included stops in Pakistan and Afghanistan, where Obama wants to send more troops as he withdraws from Iraq. Biden voted for the 2003 invasion of Iraq but later become a critic of the war ...
Joe the Plumber: ‘I think media should be abolished’ from reporting on war.»
Post Date: 2009-01-12 08:30:26 by angle
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Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, aka “Joe the Plumber,” is currently in Israel covering the war for the conservative site PJTV.com. When asked what he has learned from his new experiences as a journalist, Wurzelbacher said that he believes the media shouldn’t be allowed to do “reporting” on wars: I’ll be honest with you. I don’t think journalists should be anywhere allowed war. I mean, you guys report where our troops are at. You report what’s happening day to day. You make a big deal out of it. I think it’s asinine. You know, I liked back in World War I and World War II when you’d go to the theater and you’d see your troops on, you know, ...
Seeking Clemency from a War Criminal: The Case of Evan Vela Carnahan
Post Date: 2009-01-12 06:34:16 by Ada
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George W. BUSH: One of the major theaters against al Qaeda turns out to have been Iraq. This is where al Qaeda said they were going to take their stand. This is where al Qaeda was hoping to take – Martha RADDATZ: But not until after the U.S. invaded. BUSH: Yeah, that’s right. So what? President Bush's interview on ABC News in Baghdad, December 15. Sgt. Evan Vela Carnahan, 25, has served roughly one year of a ten-year sentence at the Ft. Leavenworth Military Prison. In November 2007, he was convicted of murdering an Iraqi civilian named Genei Nasir Khudair al-Janabi, whom he killed with a single shot to the head from a 9mm sidearm. The killing took place just a few ...
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