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Latest Articles: War, War, War
Remember Gaza - One of History's Terror Bombing Victims
Post Date: 2009-01-12 06:09:34 by Stephen Lendman
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Remember Gaza: One of History's Terror Bombing Victims - by Stephen Lendman History's terror bombings. This article reviews some of the most infamous: -- Guernica - 1937; -- the London Blitz - 1940 - 41; -- Dresden - 1945; -- Tokyo - 1945; -- Hiroshima and Nagasaki - 1945; -- North Korea - 1950 - 53; -- Southeast Asia - 1964 - 73; -- Iraq - 1991 to the present; -- Serbia/Kosovo - 1999; -- Afghanistan - 2001 to the present; -- Lebanon - 1982 and 2006; and -- Gaza - 2008 - 09. Strategic bombing involves destroying an adversary's economic and military ability to wage war. It targets its war making capacity and related infrastructure. Terror bombing is another matter. ...
Video: Doctor tells of Unconventional Weapons used in Gaza
Post Date: 2009-01-11 05:14:11 by noone222
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Poster Comment:Coming to a town near you !
Military Force Feeding 10% of Guantamo Detainees
Post Date: 2009-01-09 06:43:34 by Ada
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Ten percent of captives at the US Guantanamo Bay prison -- many of whom have never been charged of a crime -- are having their heads velcroed to chairs and forced to take in nutritional supplements by a tube forcibly inserted through their noses by US guards. Twenty-five captives who've starved themselves for weeks are being fed through tubes in their noses, the US military admitted Thursday. Thirty detainees are currently on a hunger strike. A lawyer for 17 Yemeni men told a Miami Herald reporter Thursday that the hunger strike was partly in response to the US decision to release Osama Bin Laden's driver Salim Hamdan in November. Hamdan was charged with supporting terrorism and ...
Buchanan: Israel’s staging a “blitzkrieg” on its Gaza “concentration camp”
Post Date: 2009-01-08 22:47:41 by Jethro Tull
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Buchanan: Israel's staging a blitzkrieg on its Gaza concentration campposted at 9:55 pm on January 8, 2009 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | Share on Facebook | printer-friendly Not the first time a Nazi analogy has tripped lightly from his lips in this area, although like Cardinal Martino, he doesn't quite have the stones to own up to what he means. He's not comparing Gaza to a German death camp, you see, just to your average, run-of-the-mill concentration camp. The fact that he coughed up the word blitzkrieg literally in the same breath is but an unhappy coincidence. A passage from Hitchenss review of Buchanan's World War II revisionism is worth quoting: As the book ...
Chinese Sub Pops Up Undetected Near U.S.S. Kitty Hawk During Exercise
Post Date: 2009-01-08 15:55:16 by noone222
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An unexpected visit by a Chinese Submarine that went undetected in the middle of a Pacific Ocean Naval exercise and came extremely close to the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk, has American military chiefs looking for answers. The sub was apparently able to slip past at least a dozen U.S. warships, two U.S. submarines and a vast array of advanced technology, which failed to detect it. When the Navy deploys a battle fleet on exercises, they take the security of the aircraft carriers very seriously. At least a dozen warships are used to provide a physical guard, and using advanced technology they are able to detect and deter any potential intruders. By the time the Chinese sub surfaced, the 160ft Song ...
Air Force Releases 'Counter-Blog' Marching Orders
Post Date: 2009-01-08 14:25:43 by PSUSA
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By Noah Shachtman EmailJanuary 06, 2009 | 4:00:00 PMCategories: Info War Air_force_blog_char Bloggers: If you suddenly find Air Force officers leaving barbed comments after one of your posts, don't be surprised. They're just following the service's new "counter-blogging" flow chart. In a twelve-point plan, put together by the emerging technology division of the Air Force's public affairs arm, airmen are given guidance on how to handle "trolls," "ragers" -- and even well-informed online writers, too. It's all part of an Air Force push to "counter the people out there in the blogosphere who have negative opinions about the U.S. ...
1,800 Germans dug up from 1945 mass grave in Poland
Post Date: 2009-01-08 14:08:06 by Jethro Tull
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1,800 Germans dug up from 1945 mass grave in Poland January 7, 2009 AFP WARSAW - The remains of 1,800 German civilians who perished in 1945, towards the end of the World War II, have been exhumed from a mass grave in Malbork, northern Poland, officials said Wednesday. "Since it was discovered in October, we have exhumed the remains of 1,800 people who we are almost certain were Malbork residents," municipal official Piotr Szwedowski told AFP. Malbork was once part of the German region of East Prussia and was known as Marienburg, but was in the territory handed over to Poland after World War II. Men, women and children of all ages were found in the grave, Szwedowski said. ...
One very brave Palestinian woman! (video) [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2009-01-07 18:28:20 by Disgusted
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Vets sue CIA, Defense over military experiments
Post Date: 2009-01-07 15:27:32 by PSUSA
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By PAUL ELIAS, Associated Press Writer Paul Elias, Associated Press Writer 1 hr 53 mins ago SAN FRANCISCO – Six veterans who claim they were unwittingly exposed to dangerous chemicals and germs during government-sponsored Cold War experiments have sued the CIA, Department of Defense and other agencies. The vets volunteered for military experiments they say were part of a program started in the 1950s to test nerve agents, biological weapons and mind-control techniques. They allege in their federal lawsuit filed Wednesday in San Francisco that they are in poor health today because of the experiments. They are demanding health care and a court ruling that the program was illegal. The ...
Toronto: Anti-war protestors enter consulate [ Jewish & Israeli women]
Post Date: 2009-01-07 15:04:50 by scrapper2
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Several women entered the Israeli consulate in Toronto and are refusing to leave in protest of the Gaza operation, Ynet learned. The women are apparently Jewish and Israeli. Due to concerns for the safety of consulate staff, security officers at the site ordered diplomatic officials to enter their rooms and refrain from contact with the women. Around 6 pm Israel time, a group of eight women, including some Israelis, entered the consulate's office in protest of the war. Security officers at the mission avoided any kind of physical confrontation with the demonstrators. Meanwhile, anti-war protestors carrying signs slamming Israel's Gaza operation have been demonstrating outside the ...
The Quartet's Hypocrisy and Failure in Occupied Palestine
Post Date: 2009-01-07 06:03:36 by Stephen Lendman
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The Quartet's Hypocrisy and Failure in Occupied Palestine - by Stephen Lendman The Middle East Quartet includes the US, EU, Russia and the UN. It was formed in 2002 to seek "comprehensive security reform," mediate the Israeli-Palestinian "peace process," address Occupied Palestine's deepening humanitarian crisis, among other stated objectives. On September 25, 21 aid and human rights organizations (called The Group below) issued a damning report on the Quartet's performance. Well before the current Gaza slaughter but with the Territory under siege, it cited: -- a continuing humanitarian crisis among people struggling to meet their basic needs; -- ...
Bush’s Last War Crime
Post Date: 2009-01-06 23:46:14 by TwentyTwelve
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First Published 2009-01-06 Bush’s Last War Crime George Bush's rubber stamp alliance with Israeli military savagery against Gaza adds to the list of criminal-level disasters he has involved the United States during his eight-year regime. Will Barack Obama be a peacemaker? Asks Robert Dreyfuss. The Israeli invasion of Gaza, launched Saturday, might very well be George W. Bush's last and final war crime. For eight years, Bush has coupled unparalled ignorance of the Middle East with supreme arrogance. It is precisely that deadly combination of ignorance and arrogance that is on display now, as a politically motivated Israeli invasion of Gaza unfolds with the full support of ...
Anyone know what this weapon is?
Post Date: 2009-01-06 11:31:46 by PSUSA
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The Ponzi Scheme Presidency
Post Date: 2009-01-06 06:15:54 by Ada
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It may finally be 2009, but in some ways, given these last years, it might as well be 800 BCE. From the ninth to the seventh centuries BCE, the palace walls of the kings who ruled the Assyrian Empire were decorated with vast stone friezes, filled with enough dead bodies to sate any video-game maker and often depicting – in almost comic strip-style – various bloody royal victories and conquests. At least one of them shows Assyrian soldiers lopping off the heads of defeated enemies and piling them into pyramids for an early version of what, in the VCE (Vietnam Common Era) of the 1960s, Americans came to know as the "body count." So I learned recently by wandering ...
"Treacherous" US breaks pacts, Iran tells Iraq
Post Date: 2009-01-05 06:13:41 by Ada
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TEHRAN, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Iran warned Iraq on Sunday an "intensely treacherous" United States habitually broke pacts like one it recently concluded on American troops quitting Iraq by 2011. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued the warning to Iraq's visiting Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, whose country last year reached the agreement on the pullout of U.S. troops now numbering more than 140,000. Maliki met Khamenei in Tehran a few days after U.S. forces in Iraq came under an Iraqi mandate, a move Maliki says restored sovereignty nearly six years after U.S.-led forces toppled Saddam Hussein. Khamenei "pointed at the American government's mischief ...
Global Human Rights Groups Protest Slaughter in Gaza
Post Date: 2009-01-05 05:58:40 by Stephen Lendman
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Global Human Rights Groups Protest Slaughter in Gaza - by Stephen Lendman On June 16, 2008, noted Israeli historian Ilan Pappe explained "The Israeli Recipe for 2008: Genocide in Gaza, Ethnic Cleaning in the West Bank." He wrote: "Not long ago, I claimed that Israel is employing genocidal policies in the Gaza Strip." After re-thinking this highly-charged term, he "concluded with even stronger conviction: it is the only appropriate way to describe what the Israeli army is doing in Gaza" because of its repeated atrocities now greater than ever. In his January 3 "Israel's Righteous Fury and Its Victims in Gaza" article, Pappe updates his outrage: ...
Obama is losing a battle he doesn't know he's in
Post Date: 2009-01-04 22:21:19 by Jethro Tull
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Sunday 4 January 2009 15.55 GMT Barack Obama's chances of making a fresh start in US relations with the Muslim world, and the Middle East in particular, appear to diminish with each new wave of Israeli attacks on Palestinian targets in Gaza. That seems hardly fair, given the president-elect does not take office until January 20. But foreign wars don't wait for Washington inaugurations. Obama has remained wholly silent during the Gaza crisis. His aides say he is following established protocol that the US has only one president at a time. Hillary Clinton, his designated secretary of state, and Joe Biden, the vice-president-elect and foreign policy expert, have also been ...
Who Gets U.S. Foreign Aid
Post Date: 2009-01-04 15:29:59 by Jethro Tull
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December 14, 2008 Who Gets U.S. Foreign Aid The U.S. will give an estimated $26 billion in foreign aid in 2008—70% more than when President George W. Bush took office (the figure doesn’t include funds related to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan). More than 150 countries get financial assistance from the U.S. Here are the six that received the most this year. COUNTRY AID PURPOSE 1. Israel$2.4 billionVirtually all of this money is used to buy weapons (up to 75% made in the U.S.). Beginning in 2009, the U.S. plans to give $30 billion over 10 years.2. Egypt$1.7 billion$1.3 billion to buy weapons; $103 million for education; $74 ...
Iraqi Station Rebuts U.S. Account of Employee's Shooting
Post Date: 2009-01-04 07:11:55 by Ada
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BAGHDAD, Jan. 3 -- The employer of an Iraqi television producer shot and wounded by U.S. troops on New Year's Day disputed the military's assertion Saturday that she had acted suspiciously and had failed to heed warnings before the troops opened fire. Hadil Imad, who works for the satellite station Beladi TV, was shot on a bridge in central Baghdad as she approached a group of U.S. troops working with Iraqi police. She suffered serious injuries and underwent surgery, her employer said. The incident occurred on the day a security agreement between Iraq and the United States was implemented. Negotiations leading to the agreement, which replaced a U.N. Security Council mandate that ...
Gaza 2009
Post Date: 2009-01-04 05:00:32 by wudidiz
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Gaza 2009
Blaming the Victims - The Dominant Media Vilify Hamas
Post Date: 2009-01-02 05:58:46 by Stephen Lendman
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Blaming the Victims - The Dominant Media Vilify Hamas - by Stephen Lendman The blame game - no one plays it better than the dominant media, and they're at it again over Gaza. Expect no comments below in their spaces, yet honest journalism would headline them. After Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Franklin Roosevelt addressed Congress - with an appropriating updating for Gaza: December 27 "will live in infamy." The people of Gaza were "suddenly and deliberately attacked by....air forces of the" State of Israel. The "attack was deliberately planned many (months) ago. During the intervening time (Israel) deliberately sought to deceive (Palestinians) by false ...
U.S. Prepares to Pour Troops Into South Afghan Surge Against Taliban
Post Date: 2009-01-01 22:21:18 by christine
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Afghanistan's southern rim, the Taliban's spiritual birthplace and the country's most violent region, has for the last two years been the domain of British, Canadian and Dutch soldiers. That's about to change. In what amounts to an Afghan version of the surge in Iraq, the U.S. is preparing to pour at least 20,000 extra troops into the south, augmenting 12,500 NATO soldiers who have proved too few to cope with a Taliban insurgency that is fiercer than NATO leaders expected. New construction at Kandahar Air Field foreshadows the upcoming infusion of American power. Runways and housing are being built, along with two new U.S. outposts in ...
US troops under Iraq's authority for first time [we lose]
Post Date: 2009-01-01 09:52:25 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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US troops under Iraq's authority for first time By Tim Cocks BAGHDAD, Jan 1 (Reuters) - U.S. forces came under an Iraqi mandate on Thursday for the first time since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and handed control of the Green Zone in central Baghdad to Iraqi troops in a symbol of the dramatic change. The U.S. force in Iraq, now more than 140,000 strong, had operated since 2003 under a U.N. Security Council resolution. But at midnight on New Year's Eve, the U.N. mandate expired and the troops were placed under a new mandate granted by the Iraqi government in a bilateral deal reached with Washington. The pact gives U.S. troops three years to leave Iraq, revokes their power to ...
Record 151 US Troops Die In Aghanistan in 2008
Post Date: 2008-12-31 10:59:07 by christine
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A record 151 U.S. forces died in Afghanistan in 2008, the deadliest year yet in a seven-year war that military officials say is likely to get even bloodier in 2009, as thousands more American troops pour into the country. The number of roadside bombs doubled from the year before to roughly 2,000, with many of the devices more powerful than in previous years. Unlike in 2007, when militants carried out ambushes only in small numbers, insurgents over the last year massed in groups of hundreds on multiple occasions. Some 200 militants nearly overran a small U.S. outpost in eastern Afghanistan in July, launching an early morning attack that killed nine U.S. troops. ...
The Building Race acts to Pattern - The Covenant Nations Act to Pattern In the Siege of Civilization [British-Israel and the 9/11 Attack on America....the coming attack on Iran]
Post Date: 2008-12-29 13:18:56 by AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt
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The Building Race acts to Pattern The Covenant Nations Act to Pattern In the Siege of Civilization Michael A. Clark [actual date of publication not known] A Change of Times is now Evident During the past few weeks the world has witnessed a military action lead by the United States and Great Britain to liberate Iraq from a savage and brutal dictatorship. Students of the Kingdom Identity, understanding that the Servant People were to be the defender rather that the aggressor, may have wondered about the wisdom of the Coalition forces initiating the action. This article sets out a pattern of events as being evidence of a Divine overruling in this conflict, which may have begun the final ...
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