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Latest Articles: War, War, War
Israel's Wanton Aggression On Gaza
Post Date: 2008-12-29 06:04:29 by Stephen Lendman
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Israel's Wanton Aggression On Gaza - by Stephen Lendman It's not the first time and won't be the last. On December 27, AP reported that: "Israeli aircraft struck Hamas security compounds across Gaza on Saturday in unprecedented waves of simultaneous attacks, and Hamas and medics reported dozens of people were killed." Haaretz headlined: "Israel launched (Operation Case Lead) Saturday morning (at around 11:30AM with no warning) the start of a massive offensive against Qassam rocket and mortar fire on its southern communities, targeting dozens of buildings belonging to the ruling Hamas militant group." AlJazeera.net reported that "Israeli missiles ...
Ugandan army says rebels kill 45 people in Congo church
Post Date: 2008-12-28 17:02:15 by Rotara
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KAMPALA (AFP) – The Ugandan army on Sunday accused Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels of hacking to death 45 people in a church in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo. An aid official speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity confirmed Friday's massacre, saying the killings took place in a Catholic church in the Doruma area, around 40 kilometres (25 miles) from the Sudanese border. "There are body parts everywhere. Inside the church, the entrance and in the church compound," the aid official said. "We got information the rebels cut 45 people into pieces," added army spokesman Captain Chris Magezi. "They were cut with pangas (machetes) and ...
Two Dangerous Bush-Cheney Myths
Post Date: 2008-12-28 10:19:39 by Ada
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As George W. Bush and Dick Cheney make their case for some positive legacy from the past eight years, two arguments are playing key roles: the notion that torturing terror suspects saved American lives and the belief that Bush’s Iraq troop “surge” transformed a disaster into something close to “victory.” Not only will these twin arguments be important in defining the public’s future impression of where Bush should rank on the presidential list, but they could constrain how far President Barack Obama can go in reversing these policies. In other words, the perception of the past can affect the future. Though most current thinking holds that George W. Bush might ...
Report: U.S. Faces Biological Attack Within 5 Years
Post Date: 2008-12-25 22:31:26 by Horse
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WASHINGTON – The terrorism threat to the United States over the next five years will be driven by instability in the Middle East and Africa, persistent challenges to border security and increasing Internet savvy, says a new intelligence assessment obtained by The Associated Press. Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear attacks are considered the most dangerous threats that could be carried out against the U.S. But those threats are also the most unlikely because it is so difficult for al-Qaida and similar groups to acquire the materials needed to carry out such plots, according to the internal Homeland Security Threat Assessment for the years 2008-2013. The al-Qaida ...
'Lethal Warriors' in Iraq, linked to string of crimes back home
Post Date: 2008-12-24 09:39:11 by PSUSA
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By Paloma Esquivel, Christine Hanley and Christopher Goffard Men from the Army's 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry regiment have been accused or convicted in a string of alleged robberies and domestic violence and random murder. Official denies any war link. December 21, 2008 Reporting from Colorado Springs — They nicknamed themselves the Lethal Warriors, and during two tours in Iraq, the soldiers of the Army's 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry regiment confronted some of the war's cruelest fighting, hunting insurgents through the warrens of Baghdad and Tikrit amid roadside bombs, mortar fire and close-quarters firefights. By June 2007, in what one field commander called the ...
Kids Learn that Killing Is Fun at the Army's Lethal New Theme Park
Post Date: 2008-12-22 08:05:25 by PSUSA
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The Army Experience Center , located in the Franklin Mills Mall just north of Philadelphia , bills itself as a "state-of-the-art educational facility that uses interactive simulations and online learning programs to educate visitors about the many careers, training and educational opportunities available in the Army." Nonsense. The only thing they're teaching here is how to blow shit up. If it's state-of-the-art anything, it's state-of-the-art adolescent boys’ wet dreams. "Too slow! Do it again!" yells the voice in my earphones as a new sequence of armed figures in camouflage pop up in front of me. I -- the player -- am attached to the foreshortened ...
Obama v. Richard Falk on Israel and Occupied Palestine
Post Date: 2008-12-22 06:04:35 by Stephen Lendman
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Obama v. Richard Falk on Israel and Occupied Palestine - by Stephen Lendman Obama leaves no ambiguity where he stands. From public statements, campaign pledges, policy advisors, and war cabinet selections, his positions affirm: -- one-sided pro-Israeli zealotry; -- continued Palestinian oppression; -- no end to the Iraq war and occupation; -- possibly attacking Iran and/or allying with Israel to do it; -- pursuing an imperial agenda; targeting Pakistan, Russia and other countries; -- expanding the size of the military; increasing expenditures for it; and -- providing Israel annually with billions of dollars; the latest weapons and technology; the same zero interest rate loans Wall ...
Afghanistan could see 30,000 new US troops
Post Date: 2008-12-20 13:33:52 by Jethro Tull
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The top U.S. military officer says that up to 30,000 new American troops could be sent to Afghanistan next year. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen said on a visit to Kabul that between 20,000 and 30,000 additional U.S. troops could be sent to Afghanistan by summer. U.S. commanders have long requested an additional 20,000 troops to bolster the 31,000 U.S. forces already in the country. But the high end of Mullen's range - 30,000 additional forces - is the largest number any top U.S. military official has said publicly. Mullen says that after those troops are added, only improvements in Afghanistan's governance and economic situation ...
Obama's War
Post Date: 2008-12-19 09:17:03 by Rotara
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Just two months after the twin towers fell, the armies of the Northern Alliance marched into Kabul. The Taliban fled. The triumph was total in the "splendid little war" that had cost one U.S. casualty. Or so it seemed. Yet, last month, the war against the Taliban entered its eighth year, the second longest war in our history, and America and NATO have never been nearer to strategic defeat. So critical is the situation that Defense Secretary Robert Gates, in Kandahar last week, promised rapid deployment, before any Taliban spring offensive, of two and perhaps three combat brigades of the 20,000 troops requested by Gen. David McKiernan. The first 4,000, from the 10th Mountain, are ...
Why not treat the shoe-thrower as an enemy combatant?
Post Date: 2008-12-19 06:02:19 by Ada
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After being severely beaten by government officials in the free nation of Iraq, Iraqi journalist Muntader al-Zaidi, the Iraqi man who threw his shoes at President Bush, is being charged with the crime of attacking a head of state, a crime that entails a possible prison sentence of 7 to 15 years. Some people might consider the beating, which allegedly left al-Zaidi with a broken arm and ribs and injuries to an eye and leg, and the possibility of 15 years in jail, to be too light a punishment for someone who assaults the president of the United States. But, hey, there’s another option: convert al-Zaidi from a criminal defendant to an enemy combatant in the war on terrorism, thereby ...
PFC LAVENA JOHNSON RAPED AND BEATEN TO DEATH IN IRAQ BOTH EYES BLACKENED - NOSE BROKEN FRONT TEETH SMASHED IN - GUNSHOT TO HEAD LYE POURED ON GENITALS - BODY SET ON FIRE YET PENTAGON WOULD HAVE YOU BELIEVE YOUNG WOMAN COMMITTED "SUICIDE"
Post Date: 2008-12-17 18:02:37 by PSUSA
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...BECAUSE SHE WAS "DEPRESSED" - ARMY INVESTIGATORS HID EVIDENCE OF VICIOUS ASSAULT FROM PARENTS DR. JOHN JOHNSON USED F.O.I.A. TO OBTAIN CD-ROM PIX OF DAUGHTER'S BATTERED BODY We've seen some blatant examples before of how the military covers-up murder by calling it "suicide" (see related stories box below), but this case - the brutal death of PFC Lavena Johnson at Balud, Iraq in 2005 - is the most disturbing of all. Only a complete idiot or sycophantic career-centered officer would believe, or at least pretend to, that the 20 year-old enlisted woman from the suburbs of St. Louis, Mo. took her own life. All of the physical and photographic evidence indicate ...
Assessing the Bush Legacy: The Measure of the Man and His Administration
Post Date: 2008-12-17 06:05:49 by Stephen Lendman
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Assessing the Bush Legacy: The Measure of the Man and His Administration - by Stephen Lendman George W. Bush. US president: January 20, 2001 - January 19, 2009. Born of privilege. Unimpressive by every measure. A history of underachievement. Chosen by big money. Arranged through electoral fraud. Installed by the Supreme Court. Empowered by a dubious "terrorist" act, and ending with a record unmatched by the worst of his predecessors. Assessing the Bush legacy - from its illegitimate birth; through its lawless, belligerent years; to the world potentially on the brink at its end. Exploring it fully as a change of command approaches, and an unenviable task awaits the new incumbent. ...
Cheney admits authorizing detainee's torture
Post Date: 2008-12-16 14:16:32 by bush_is_a_moonie
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Monday, outgoing Vice President Dick Cheney made a startling statement on a nation-wide, televised broadcast. When asked by ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl whether he approved of interrogation tactics used against a so-called "high value prisoner" at the controversial Guantanamo Bay prison, Mr. Cheney, in a break from his history of being press-shy, admitted to giving official sanctioning of torture. "I supported it," he said regarding the practice known as "water-boarding," a form of simulated drowning. After World War II, Japanese soldiers were tried and convicted of war crimes in US courts for water-boarding, a practice which the outgoing Bush ...
Let's All Say No to War
Post Date: 2008-12-16 08:27:14 by bush_is_a_moonie
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Day by day it becomes more obvious that the ascension of Barack Obama to the Presidency will bring no fundamental change to the nature of American foreign policy. His war-mongering against Iran and his promise to expand the ongoing war in Afghanistan, along with the appointments of left-neocon Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State and life-long servants of the American Empire, Robert Gates and General James Jones, as Defense Secretary and National Security Advisor respectively, show us that Obama will continue the "bi-partisan" foreign policy that Washington has been imposing on us and much of the world for so long. As depressing as this situation may seem, those of us who are ...
10 false flags operations that shaped our world
Post Date: 2008-12-15 12:00:07 by PSUSA
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From Nero to 9/11, via Pearl Harbour and the Gulf of Tonkin incident... Joe Crubaugh provides an "all time greatest hits" of false flag operations, whereby one scenario is repeated... as the world keeps falling for the same lie. The most commonly known false flag operations consist of a government agency staging a terror attack, whereby an uninvolved entity gets blamed for the carnage. As at least two millennia have proven, false flag operations, with healthy doses of propaganda and ignorance, provided a great recipe for endless war. In "War is a Racket", Two-time Medal of Honor recipient Major General Smedley Butler wrote: "I spent 33 years and four months in ...
The Crisis-Mongers
Post Date: 2008-12-15 06:44:34 by Ada
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It's an "emergency" – do as I say. Or else… Did you, too, get that frisson of déjà vu when you first heard about the bank bailout and its rationale? If you don't hand over untold trillions of dollars in the next five minutes, the economy is going to explode. This was how the PATRIOT Act got rammed through Congress in record time, before anyone had a chance to even read the voluminous bill, surrendering what's left of our liberties and giving the president dictatorial powers: give us your freedom, or else the terrorists are going to blow the country up. This was also how the Bush administration and its neoconservative amen chorus whipped up war ...
Taliban Raids on NATO Convoys Crippling, Say Analysts
Post Date: 2008-12-15 06:36:43 by Ada
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KARACHI - While NATO and United States forces have downplayed raids in Peshawar by pro-Taliban militants, destroying hundreds of their military vehicles and supply containers destined for Afghanistan, analysts here believe that the damage is significant. On Saturday the militants destroyed 11 trucks and 13 containers in the latest of a series of attacks over the past week designed to disrupt supply lines to NATO and U.S. troops fighting the "war on terror" in Afghanistan Saturday's raid defied increased security for some 13 supply terminals around Peshawar, ordered after a major raid last weekend in which hundreds of trucks and containers were torched. After that raid, the ...
That Was No Small War in Georgia -- It Was the Beginning of the End of the American Empire
Post Date: 2008-12-15 06:13:16 by Ada
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Click for Full Text! By Mark Ames, Radar. Posted December 13, 2008. The war in Georgia will be remembered as the place where the American Empire fell on its face. (This article was published in the final issue of Radar magazine, which was bought out and shuttered just as this issue went to print. This is the first online publication of this article. It has been updated by the author.)
US Senator serves military duty in Afghanistan
Post Date: 2008-12-15 00:55:57 by freepatriot32
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KABUL, Afghanistan – The men around Lindsey Graham ignored his powerful political title — U.S. senator — and instead addressed him by rank — colonel. Graham, a Republican from South Carolina and the only U.S. senator in the military's Guard or Reserves, donned the Air Force's camouflaged uniform for five days last week to serve in Kabul. The senator enrolled in the ROTC in 1973 and has been in the Air Force Guard or Reserves as a military lawyer ever since. In Kabul, he worked with the staff of military lawyers at the U.S. base Camp Eggers. The office is helping to train military judges and defense lawyers, and to write Afghanistan's uniform code of ...
Empire
Post Date: 2008-12-14 23:13:32 by Rube Goldberg
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Draw your own conclusions. Hip-hop? Whatever. These guys are good. Click for Full Text!
Multiple Kill Vehicles (Turtle's Group Blog)
Post Date: 2008-12-13 13:29:30 by Turtle
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Poster Comment:Space is going to be militarized and there is nothing anyone can do about it. This is from a group blog I post at.
Gates Warns Against ‘Testing’ Obama
Post Date: 2008-12-13 03:46:25 by Disgusted
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MANAMA, Bahrain — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates warned Saturday that foreign powers should not try to “test” President-elect Barack Obama with a crisis in his first months in office and that Mr. Obama remained committed to the security of the Persian Gulf and American interests in the region. Mr. Gates, speaking at a conference on regional security here, said that Mr. Obama and his advisers had done more extensive planning across the government for the transition than at any time he could remember and asserted that they would therefore be prepared from day one. Mr. Gates, who is staying on as Defense secretary, has worked for seven presidents. Mr. Obama will be his ...
Darfur groups pin high hopes on Obama team
Post Date: 2008-12-12 18:24:03 by Jethro Tull
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Human rights activists waging a high-profile campaign to end the violence in Sudan's western Darfur region are pushing President-elect Barack Obama and his team to re-energize efforts to end the nearly six-year conflict. Even before Obama takes office next month, advocates want members of the incoming administration _ some of whom have intense and personal interests in the issue _ to make Darfur a top foreign policy and national security priority and begin identifying top officials to concentrate on the crisis starting on Jan. 20. The activists believe Obama, America's first black president, is well positioned to ride the wave of popularity and goodwill his election has sparked to ...
Confiscating toy guns part of US mission in Iraq
Post Date: 2008-12-12 16:26:04 by Rotara
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MAHMOUDIYA, Iraq – Two boys approached a U.S. soldier, pulled out a pistol and handed it over. They got a smile and some candy in return. The gun was plastic, and the boys were following a local Iraqi military order to surrender all toy weapons — an effort to prevent children from being mistaken for insurgents. With more children on the streets now that violence is down, American soldiers have a new mission in this former "triangle of death" city south of Baghdad: clearing all toy guns from the bustling shopping area as they search for suspected insurgents and weapons caches. The toy gun ban shows how jittery the U.S. and Iraqi forces still are in a country where ...
10 Silver Stars for soldiers n still sent them pin Afghan cliff clash
Post Date: 2008-12-12 11:57:49 by PSUSA
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FORT BRAGG, N.C. – Capt. Kyle Walton remembers pressing himself into the jagged stones that covered the cliff in northeast Afghanistan. Machine gun rounds and sniper fire ricocheted off the rocks. Two rounds slammed into his helmet, smashing his head into the ground. Nearby, three of his U.S. Army Special Forces comrades were gravely wounded. One grenade or a well-aimed bullet, Walton thought, could etch April 6, 2008 on his gravestone. Walton and his team from the 3rd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group had been sent to kill or capture terrorists from a rugged valley that had never been penetrated by U.S. forces — or, they had been told, the Soviets before them. He peered ...
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