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Latest Articles: War, War, War
Al-Qaida No. 2 insults Obama with racial epithet
Post Date: 2008-11-19 09:54:29 by Beendigen Sie die Kommunisten
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CAIRO, Egypt – Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message posted Wednesday, using a demeaning racial term implying that the president-elect is a black American who does the bidding of whites. The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs that Obama does not represent a change in U.S. policies. Ayman al-Zawahri said in the message, which appeared on militant Web sites, that Obama is "the direct opposite of honorable black Americans" like Malcolm X, the 1960s African-American rights leader. In al-Qaida's first response to Obama's victory, al-Zawahri also called the president-elect — along with ...
Obama’s “seamless transition” to endless war
Post Date: 2008-11-18 14:46:19 by christine
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President-elect Barack Obama appeared Sunday on the CBS program “60 Minutes” for his first televised interview since his November 4 election victory. He covered a wide range of subjects with a lack of specificity and a placid tone that suggested someone who had read through stacks of briefing books, but had few defined positions of his own and was above all anxious to offend no one. When asked what he had been “concentrating on” in the past week, however, his answer was unhesitating: “Number one, I think it’s important to get a national security team in place because transition periods are potentially times of vulnerability to a terrorist attack. We want to ...
Hillary Clinton is a Neoconservative
Post Date: 2008-11-17 20:07:39 by Jethro Tull
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Osama bin Laden is Dead
Post Date: 2008-11-17 06:33:58 by Ada
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I'm pleased to see Barak Obama hit the ground running after his election on the 4th. The US needs change. I'd like to see him announce the death of Osama bin Laden as one of his first official duties. Bin Laden often better known as bin Forgotten died in December of 2001. There is nothing I am saying that is news to anyone who has actually spent any time thinking. Osama bin Laden had serous kidney disease that required him to have dialysis treatment twice a week. There aren't any dialysis machines floating around in the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan. A few months back a reporter finally asked the question that should have been asked years ago at a White House press ...
Gitmo Disappointment Coming
Post Date: 2008-11-17 06:08:20 by Ada
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Of course, the default position for any citizen with a modicum of experience and common sense should be to prepare to be disappointed by a politician, especially one in whom one was rash enough to invest much hope. We are already seeing a certain amount of backing and filling from the Obama camp on withdrawal from Iraq, and he has verbally committed us to a more extensive war in Afghanistan with incursions into Pakistan, a campaign promise that, in part because of its capacity to increase anti-Americanism in Pakistan, we may hope is honored with a typical politican's fealty to promises. From the standpoint of sheer political calculation, Barack Obama was shrewd to keep his campaign ...
2009 Terror Attack Being Peddled By Establishment Media, Intelligence Sources
Post Date: 2008-11-16 23:13:18 by TwentyTwelve
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2009 Terror Attack Being Peddled By Establishment Media, Intelligence Sources London Times report conveniently links alleged terror cells to Obama’s number one target - Pakistan Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Saturday, November 15, 2008 The notion that terrorists will attack America shortly after Barack Obama takes office is again being vigorously pushed by the corporate media as well as shadowy intelligence sources, and has reached the same crescendo that preceded 9/11, a disturbing sign that the public is being prepared for a newly manufactured mass casualty event. The London Times today reports, “Barack Obama is being given ominous advice from leaders on both sides ...
How Clinton-forced Lending to Poor Blacks Brought Down the World Economy
Post Date: 2008-11-16 08:57:57 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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We keep hearing from the cretinoid talk shows, their bottom-feeding pseudo- economist impersonator friends and assorted propagandist ghouls that it was Clinton's and the Democrats' leftist-socialist policies of lending to undeserving Blacks that's responsible for where we are now. So... let's do the math. Over-generous Assumptions: - As many as 5 million poor black families, representing HALF of the entire US Black population received affirmative action loans. - HALF of them defaulted in the past 2 years (not during Clinton's time and not during the first 6 years of Bushism but ALL of them defaulted recently) - The mortgage values for their subprime, ghetto purchases ...
Pentagon Readies New War Supplemental ($82 Billion)
Post Date: 2008-11-14 12:59:13 by Horse
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The Pentagon has sent to the administration a supplemental spending package for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan worth more than $82 billion, according to defense lobbyists. The administration is expected to forward it to Congress before the end of the month, but lobbyists said they did not expect any action to be taken before the end of the year. The war is already funded through the first months of the new year – giving the new Congress some time before it tackles another in a long line of big-ticket spending measures. In the past, war spending bills were difficult to pass, in part because they became a forum for Democrats to protest the Bush administration’s handling of the ...
U.S. Interventions: 1945 - 2000
Post Date: 2008-11-14 10:23:59 by richard9151
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6 minute video here; www.youtube.com/watch?v=La0H79mz_oA Well worth watching, for those of you who believe that something will change. Click for Full Text!
Targeting Hugo Chavez
Post Date: 2008-11-14 06:02:22 by Stephen Lendman
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Targeting Hugo Chavez - by Stephen Lendman Since taking office in February 1999, America's dominant media have relentlessly attacked Chavez because of the good example he represents and threat it might spread in spite of scant chance it will in today's climate. Yet some of his fiercest critics maintain pressure and show up often on the Wall Street Journal's op-ed page. Most recently on November 10 by its America's columnist, Mary O'Grady. Her style is agitprop. Her space a truth-free zone. Her latest in an article headlined "Hugo Chavez Spreads the Loot" referring to what The New York Times calls "Suitcasegate." It played out in a Miami show trial ...
Obama, Medvedev on Collision Course Over Missile Shield?
Post Date: 2008-11-12 10:10:20 by Jethro Tull
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Obama, Medvedev on Collision Course Over Missile Shield? Date: Nov 12, 2008 8:40:08 AM Barack Obama had been president-elect for all of one day last week when Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called him out, reminding many of vice president-to-be Joe Biden's warning that America's enemies would test the new president with an international crisis within six months. In his first state-of-the-nation address, Medvedev threatened to move short-range missiles to Russia's borders with NATO countries to counter America's plan to build a missile defense shield in Poland. Medvedev didn't congratulate Obama or mention him by name in his nationally televised 85-minute address, ...
Afghan INsurgency Stronger Than Ever
Post Date: 2008-11-12 06:24:44 by Ada
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CBS Evening News: Exclusive Video Shows Taliban Indoctrinating Extremely Young Men, Turning Them Into Suicide Bombers In exclusive video obtained by CBS News, a young Afghan student is sent on a suicide mission to find American targets. (CBS) President-elect Obama will inherit a war in Afghanistan with an insurgency that's stronger than ever, with attacks and U.S. casualties at its highest since the war began. Lara Logan reports. (CBS) The war President-elect Barack Obama is inheriting in Afghanistan includes an insurgency that's stronger than ever. And it's creeping ever closer to the Afghan capital. In a video obtained by CBS News, a U.S. convoy is attacked less than 20 ...
Ex-KGB general cautions US against Iran war
Post Date: 2008-11-11 20:16:03 by richard9151
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Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:12:07 GMT A former KGB general and Russian prime minister says a war on Iran would produce a question mark over the Republican Party's sanity. In a televised interview on Monday, Yevgeny Primakov downplayed the prospects of a US- or Israeli-waged war on Iran over its nuclear program. "I doubt Republicans would commit themselves to such an imprudent measure," said Primakov. His remarks come shortly after Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak claimed on Friday that 'Iran continues to try to build a nuclear weapon'. "We don't rule out any option. We recommend others don't rule out any option either," added Barak referring to US ...
Army chiefs urge caution for Obama's planned troop cuts
Post Date: 2008-11-11 15:16:46 by Jethro Tull
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President-elect Barack Obama is not backing away from his campaign promise to bring all U.S. combat troops home from Iraq by late spring 2010. Barack Obama meets with U.S. Army personnel in Basra, Iraq, on July 21. But the question among sober-mined Pentagon planners is: Once he is in office, will the reality of war force him to reassess and put the brakes on a withdrawal? Smart politicians always leave themselves an out, essentially reserving the right to right to renege on a campaign promise if conditions change. For now, though, the transition team for the president-elect is signaling that Obama plans to fulfill his pledge to put U.S. troops on a fast track for ...
Obama's Afghan War Plans May Run Into Weary Public, Deficits
Post Date: 2008-11-11 14:24:01 by Jethro Tull
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Obama's Afghan War Plans May Run Into Weary Public, Deficits Buzz Up Send Email IM Share Digg Facebook Newsvine del.icio.us Reddit StumbleUpon Technorati Yahoo! Bookmarks Print Indira A.R. Lakshmanan Indira A.r. Lakshmanan – Mon Nov 10, 6:01 pm ET Featured Topics: Barack Obama Presidential Transition Play Video ABC News – Jake Tapper on the Transition of Power Slideshow: President-elect Barack Obama Play Video Video: Obama to reverse stem cell policy? AP Play Video Video: U.S Troops Blamed for Afghan Civilian Deaths AP AP – President-elect Obama talks on his cell phone after boarding his plane at Washington's Reagan National … Nov. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Staff ...
The Russian Question, What's Obama's Answer
Post Date: 2008-11-11 11:37:46 by christine
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The Obama-oids aren't talking too much about foreign policy these days, although that was their candidate's ticket to the White House. Iraq was the winning issue that gave Obama's primary campaign the oomph it needed to oust the putative front-runner from her perch as the anointed one, but it fails to evoke the interest it once did on account of the rapid deterioration of the economy. It doesn't matter that the costs of the Iraq and Afghan wars amount to at least three more bank bailouts – and you can throw in what's left of the American auto industry for good measure. For all the focus on domestic politics and economics, the rest of the world has a way of ...
Armistice Day – We Stand and Remember (British perspective)
Post Date: 2008-11-11 11:15:51 by X-15
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Today is the 90th Armistice Day anniversary, marking the symbolic end to the First World War on 11 November 1918. On that day, the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the guns on the Western Front, which had rained death for four long years, fell silent. The number of World War I casualties, both military and civilian, was over 40 million - 20 million deaths and 21 million wounded. This included 9.7 million military deaths and about 10 million civilian deaths. The Entente Powers (also known as the Allies) lost more than 5 million soldiers and the Central Powers about 4 million. Britain lost 885,138 military dead, 109,000 civilian dead, and 1,663,435 military wounded. ...
Emanuel's War Plan for Democrats - The Book of Rahm
Post Date: 2008-11-10 15:21:51 by Jethro Tull
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October 24, 2006
Emanuel's War Plan for Democrats
The Book of Rahm
By JOHN WALSH
Last week in CounterPunch (1), I wrote that the chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), Congressman Rahm Emanuel, had worked hard to guarantee that Democratic candidates in key toss-up House races were pro-war. In this he was largely successful, because of the money he commands and the celebrity politicians who reliably respond to his call, ensuring that 20 of the 22 Democratic candidates in these districts are pro-war. So the fix is in for the coming elections.
In 2006, no matter which party controls the House, a majority will be committed to pursuing the war on ...
At Odds Over Iraqi 'Sovereignty'
Post Date: 2008-11-07 08:52:46 by richard9151
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By Mark Kukis/Baghdad Friday, Jun. 06, 2008 U.S. and Iraqi officials are currently locked in tense negotiations on a pact to ratify a long-term American presence in Iraq. But it's becoming increasingly clear that differences between the two sides make agreement unlikely before the July 31 deadline set by the Bush Administration. The proposed deal is controversial both in Washington — where Democrats see it as a move to tie the hands of the next U.S. President, and are pressing for it to be subject to congressional approval — and also in Baghdad, where many Iraqi leaders fear that they're being asked to sign away their sovereignty. Negotiators for both sides emphasize ...
General who probed Abu Ghraib says Bush officials committed war crimes
Post Date: 2008-11-05 19:44:52 by richard9151
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By Warren P. Strobel | McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — The Army general who led the investigation into prisoner abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison accused the Bush administration Wednesday of committing "war crimes" and called for those responsible to be held to account. The remarks by Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba, who's now retired, came in a new report that found that U.S. personnel tortured and abused detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, using beatings, electrical shocks, sexual humiliation and other cruel practices. "After years of disclosures by government investigations, media accounts and reports from human rights organizations, there ...
Airstrike kills 90 in Afghan wedding party
Post Date: 2008-11-05 19:40:25 by richard9151
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How to win friends.... and influence people world wide. Nov 05, 2008 09:10 AM Bill Graveland THE CANADIAN PRESS KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – There are accusations that U.S. airstrikes struck a wedding party in southern Afghanistan Monday - killing scores of women and children and sending the bride and groom to hospital. "When the fighting started the jets came and bombed," said Juma Khan, who helped bring his mother and nine other women and children to Kandahar's Mirwais Hospital. Mohammad Nabi Khan lost two of his sons, ages 4 and 11, and his wife's brother was also listed among the dead. "There's a lot of casualties," he said. "Most of them ...
US Kills Dozens of Wedding Guests
Post Date: 2008-11-05 19:38:11 by richard9151
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US Kills Dozens of Wedding Guests By JESSICA LEEDER AND ALEX STRICK VAN LINSCHOTEN November 04, 2008 - "Globe and Mail" --- KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN — Dozens of Afghan civilians are dead and dozens more are wounded after a series of air strikes aimed at Taliban fighters fell short of their target and exploded in the middle of a wedding party in a mountainous region north of Kandahar city, tribal elders and wedding guests told The Globe and Mail on Tuesday. Survivors of the attacks, which occurred in the village of Wech Baghtu in the district of Shah Wali Kowt on Monday evening, said the majority of the dead and injured were women – the bombs struck while male and female ...
Silence on War Crimes
Post Date: 2008-11-04 20:02:14 by richard9151
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Silence on War Crimes By Andy Worthington November 04, 2008 "fff" --- November 3, 2008 -- - Last week, Bill Kovach, former Washington Bureau Chief of the New York Times and the founding chairman of the Committee of Concerned Journalists, blasted the U.S. media for its failure to ask tough questions of both presidential candidates regarding their opinions of the Bush administration’s unprecedented adherence to the controversial “unitary executive theory” of government. The theory, which became prominent in the Reagan administration, but has peppered U.S. history, contends that, when he wishes, the president is entitled to act unilaterally, without interference ...
Great program on CSPAN2 on interrogation
Post Date: 2008-11-04 18:58:56 by PSUSA
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Col Steve Kleinman is talking about professional interrogations. I am not a cspan fan, but this is interesting.
America's Secret War On Iran
Post Date: 2008-11-04 18:29:45 by bluegrass
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Is the US already at war with Iran? In "America's Secret War", Vanguard correspondent Mariana van Zeller travels to the Iraq-Iran border to investigate claims that the United States is supporting militant groups that are attacking Iran. In the rugged Qandil mountains, she meets with up with anti-Iranian guerillas who have been launching deadly raids against the Islamic Republic. A good percentage of the fighters are women, and Mariana accompanies a small group of them through what many believe has become the frontline of the US's secret war with Iran.
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