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Latest Articles: War, War, War
Killers, drinkers & traumatized for life: What it means to be a US drone operator in ‘war on terror’
Post Date: 2018-11-22 10:59:47 by Ada
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They sit in rooms resembling hi-tech shipping containers. Joysticks in hand, they spend hours watching grainy screens, displaying people in faraway lands going about their daily lives — and they hold life and death in their hands. They are the men and women who operate the United States’ controversial drone warfare program — and they frequently get it disastrously wrong. A newly-released report by the Associated Press claims that one third of people killed by US drones in Yemen this year were civilians with no association to terror groups like Al-Qaeda, the intended targets. But intention and reality often diverge sharply when it comes to death by US drones — and ...
It's a war zone and Americans were murdered
Post Date: 2018-11-19 17:12:05 by AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt
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Monday, November 19, 2018 It's a war zone and Americans were murdered Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2018 11:10:12 AM EST Subject: Directed energy weapon attack that killed 1000,s in the paradise Calif fires demands a Grand jury investigation see link FFT mike wrote attached is the photographic video evidence a crime scene the vehicles torched as people were trying to flee a supposed firestorm does not match a forest fire specifically when the trees near the torched vehicles remained intact and un-burned. Since I am able to speak as a former expert in R&D on Directed energy weapons ...
It’s Time for America to Reckon With the Staggering Death Toll of the Post-9/11 Wars
Post Date: 2018-11-19 08:45:39 by Ada
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How many people have been killed in the post-9/11 war on terror? The question is a contentious one, as there has been no formal accounting for the deadly cost of the initial U.S. interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, not to mention the secondary conflicts that continue to wreak havoc across the Middle East and the opaque, covert war still expanding across Asia and Africa. But even as the U.S. government evades responsibility for the human cost of its overseas endeavors, some researchers are determined to keep count. Brown University’s Costs of War Project this month released a new estimate of the total death toll from the U.S. wars in three countries: Iraq, Afghanistan, and ...
AmericaÂ’s Permanent-War Complex
Post Date: 2018-11-15 09:23:41 by Ada
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Eisenhower's worst nightmare has come true, as defense mega-contractors climb into the cockpit to ensure we stay overextended. What President Dwight D. Eisenhower dubbed the “military-industrial complex” has been constantly evolving over the decades, adjusting to shifts in the economic and political system as well as international events. The result today is a “permanent-war complex,” which is now engaged in conflicts in at least eight countries across the globe, none of which are intended to be temporary. This new complex has justified its enhanced power and control over the country’s resources primarily by citing threats to U.S. security posed by Islamic ...
How the Bush Administration Used the 2001 Anthrax Attacks to Manufacture Consent for the Iraq War
Post Date: 2018-11-13 09:15:38 by Ada
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Schrödinger’s Super Patriot In a deep investigative piece, Abby and Robbie Martin explore the 2001 Anthrax Attacks––what led to them, why they happened, and how the Bush administration used them to manufacture consent for the illegal invasion of Iraq. by Abby Martin and Robbie Martin ABBY MARTIN : 17 years ago, less than one month after the horrific attacks on September 11, 2001, weaponized anthrax was sent through the mail in a biological attack that stunned an already traumatized nation. The first American died from anthrax infection on October 5th. During the weeks that followed, letters sent through the US postal system containing anthrax were targeted at US ...
Some real “politically incorrect” talk on Veterans Day
Post Date: 2018-11-13 08:36:45 by Ada
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I’m told the former Armistice Day, co-opted by the warfare state to celebrate war rather than its absence, is not the time to remind my fellow taxpayers that no war in the past seventy years has benefited them in any way whatsoever, much less preserved what freedom they have left. I disagree. What better time than when the myth Americans are freer because of these wars is echoing from every media outlet, statehouse and social media channel to point out the harm this propaganda continues to do? No American would be less free if Washington, D.C. had abstained from invading Afghanistan, Iraq, or Africa (the invasion nobody talks about). On the contrary, they’d be freer, richer, and ...
Taliban Slaughter Elite Afghan Troops, as ‘Safe’ District Is Falling
Post Date: 2018-11-13 08:10:51 by Ada
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Even reinforcements aren't keeping Ghazni district safe With the Taliban carrying out offensives against several provinces around the country at any given time, the Afghan government has been forced to prioritize who gets reinforcements. This weekend, that meant sending special forces to the Jaghori District of Ghazni. The Shi’ite dominated district was long seen as “safe.” That’s not panning out, however, as the Taliban are not only routing Shi’ite militias, but defeating the reinforcements as well, killing at least 25 commandos and continuing to advance deeper into the district. On the surface, the district is only important in that it gives the Taliban a ...
Will the War Stories Ever End?
Post Date: 2018-11-12 09:23:20 by Ada
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Death-by-ally: now that, by definition, is a fate from hell. You might at least imagine that such “insider attacks” – in which a member of the Afghan security forces turns his weapon on his American or NATO trainers or advisers and tries to gun them down – would be the rarest of events. After all, if you’re an armed Afghan who decides to try to kill such an ally, you have to be aware that you’re almost assuredly committing suicide. You have a moment to fire and then, in that armed environment, you’re likely to be dead. And yet those attacks, which started in 2007-2008 with four American deaths, peaked in 2012 with dozens of them, and by 2017 had resulted ...
US Wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan Killed 500,000 People
Post Date: 2018-11-11 09:15:17 by Ada
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Over 60,000 US troops either killed or wounded in conflicts Brown University has released a new study on the cost in lives of America’s Post-9/11 Wars, in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. The study estimates between 480,000 and 507,000 people were killed in the course of the three conflicts. This includes combatant deaths and civilian deaths in fighting and war violence. Civilians make up over half of the roughly 500,000 killed, with both opposition fighters and US-backed foreign military forces each sustaining in excess of 100,000 deaths as well. This is admittedly a dramatic under-report of people killed in the wars, as it only attempts to calculate those killed directly in war ...
North Korea Warns They’ll Return to Nuke Development If Sanctions Aren’t Lifted
Post Date: 2018-11-05 17:39:23 by hondo68
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Pompeo: No sanctions lifted until US achieves 'ultimate goals' Over the weekend, North Korea issued a statement warning that they will “seriously consider” returning to the development on nuclear weapons if the US continues to refuse to ease economic sanctions against them. Since North Korea halted nuclear testing and has made substantial diplomatic progress, many nations have advocated for some early sanctions relief, but so far every such effort has been blocked by the US. North Korea is growing increasingly impatient with that, and with the Trump Administration refusing to reach a peace treaty with them. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo dismissed the threats, and ...
Syrian War Report – November 5, 2018: Former US-backed Militants Switch Sides In Conflict
Post Date: 2018-11-05 11:35:17 by Ada
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Former members of US-backed militant groups are joining forces with the Lebanese Hezbollah movement, operating in Syria, the WSJ reported on November 1. According to the report, approximately 2,000 fighters had joined the forces and have even started receiving salaries. The WSJ claimed that it was due to losing funding from the US. However, the reason pointed out by local experts is that the US strategy in Syria had lost credit even in the eyes of some of its own proxies. In the period from 2016 to 2018, thousands of former members of militant groups had reconciled with the Damascus government. A notable part of them is now serving in the newly formed units of the Syrian military, for ...
After 17 years of war, top US commander in Afghanistan admits Taliban cannot be defeated
Post Date: 2018-11-02 10:36:03 by Ada
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The Afghanistan war cannot be won militarily and peace will only be achieved through a political resolution with the Taliban, the newly-appointed American general in charge of US and NATO operations has conceded. In his first interview since taking command of NATO’s Resolute Support mission in September, Gen. Austin Scott Miller provided NBC News with a surprisingly candid assessment of the seemingly never-ending conflict, which began with the US invasion of Afghanistan in October, 2001. “This is not going to be won militarily. This is going to a political solution," Miller said. He mused that the Taliban is also tired of fighting and may be interested in starting to ...
The Forever Prisoners of the US’s Forever War
Post Date: 2018-10-29 09:12:10 by Ada
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November 2018 marks the centenary of the end of World War I, “the war to end all wars.” Meanwhile, this month, the 17th anniversary of the US-led war in Afghanistan came and went quietly, yet it far exceeds the combined length of the 20th century’s two World Wars, and the US government still uses the invasion of the country in its launch of the “global war on terror” to justify detaining hundreds of people without charge or trial. In the Beginning In the early years of the war in Afghanistan, thousands of men, women and children were taken prisoner. Afghan militias allied to the US or in joint US-militia efforts killed many. Thousands of others simply ...
Quagmire: What the Attack on General Miller in Afghanistan Tells Us
Post Date: 2018-10-22 07:27:27 by Ada
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This week, the Taliban ambushed the latest senior U.S. commander in Afghanistan – General Miller. Though he was unhurt, senior Afghan officials were killed. I knew one of them – General Raziq – and he might just have been a war criminal…that’s instructive. This week, the Taliban demonstrated – once again – that they can strike where and when they choose. The target was General Miller, the top US commander in Afghanistan, as well as some senior Afghan security officials. It was a close call, but General Miller was unhurt. The same can not be said for three top Afghan security leaders who were killed or the two American soldiers wounded in the crossfire. ...
Evil Mutant Death Walrus
Post Date: 2018-10-21 23:26:02 by hondo68
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The time has come the Walrus said for us to bomb Iran Come on Mister Billionaire you are a bigly man Sign the order load the nukes and drop ‘em on Tehran Don’t let ‘em say that you are weak Show the world who’s got the biggest hands Come on dance with me you sexy thing Feel the rush that Armageddon brings So hit that button and let freedom ring ring ring ring yeah The Walrus and the Billionaire set out to start a war They brought along a Mad Dog and a press room fulla whores Holdin’ hands Clickin’ heels Skippin’ down that red brick road They laughed like kids on Christmas and got hard-ons as they filled the sky with drones We’ll kill the world and ...
Iranian Missiles Destroy ISIS Headquarters Next to American Base in Syria
Post Date: 2018-10-21 00:22:37 by Tatarewicz
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PMF... Earlier this week, Iran launched seven drones and six precision-strike ballistic missiles on several terrorist targets in Syria’s Abu Kamal region in retaliation for a September 22 attack in Ahvaz that left 25 people dead. Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani stated that Iranian rocket strikes on militants in Syria hit a target several kilometers away from the position of US troops, Tasnim news agency reported on Wednesday. “Our aerospace forces sent you [the Americans] an important signal when they fired rockets at facilities three miles [about 5 km] from you,” said Shamkhani. He also suggested that the United States ...
The first officially recognized by USA. US Lt. Col. Nehring killed in Su-27 crash in Ukraine Vinnytsia region
Post Date: 2018-10-20 05:37:16 by Tatarewicz
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The first officially recognized by USA. US Lt. Col. Nehring killed in Su-27 crash in Ukraine Vinnytsia region Started by USC, Oct 18 2018 03:10 AM Reply to this topic 4 replies to this topic PMF... An Ukrainian SU-27 fighter lands during an air force exercise at Starokostyantyniv military airbase on Oct. 12, 2018. Photo by AFP U.S. Lieutenant Colonel Seth “Jethro” Nehring has been killed in the crash of a Su-27 fighter aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force during the Clear Sky 2018 exercise in Vinnytsia region, according to the Facebook page of the 144th Fighter Wing, a unit of the California Air National Guard. “It’s with a heavy heart we share the news that we lost ...
Mass Immigration as a Form of Warfare
Post Date: 2018-10-19 13:51:20 by GreyLmist
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23.25 minute video viewable at YouTube - Expletives warning. Sources available in the YouTube Description section. + this source for the 2010 doc referenced @ 1:06 Calhoun: The NPS Institutional Archive - Naval Postgraduate School DSpace Repository Faculty and Researchers Collection [Dudley Knox Library] Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement as an Instrument of Coercion; Strategic Insights, v. 9, issue 1 (Spring-Summer 2010) Greenhill, Kelly M. (Monterey, California. [NPS] Naval Postgraduate School, 2010); pp. 116-159. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/11515 [YouTube video source to be posted here separately for dimensional editing purposes, if necessary.] Poster ...
Trident Juncture 2018 Is About to Kick Off: NATO’s Big War Games Near Russia’s Borders Never End
Post Date: 2018-10-13 19:56:27 by hondo68
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The NATO-led Trident Juncture 2018 (TRJE18) exercise that is to be held in October and November is the largest massive and coordinated show of force since the Cold War. It will primarily be hosted by Norway. The training event will largely take place in the central and eastern parts of this Nordic country that neighbors Russia, as well as over the skies and in the seas of Sweden and Finland. The maritime component will be conducted in the surrounding areas of the North Atlantic and in the Baltic Sea. TRJE18-related activities will take place as far away as Iceland. Russia has been invited to send observers to watch the exercise. Actually, TRJE18 consists of three parts. The deployment phase ...
Forgotten FBI Anti-Terrorism Entrapment Debacles
Post Date: 2018-10-12 08:32:48 by Ada
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The owner of the limousine company that killed 20 people in New York last weekend was an FBI informant who helped carry out two big entrapment operations against Muslims after 9/11. Prior to being recruited by the FBI, he was caught helping people cheat on DMV tests. Before that, he was arrested for murder in Pakistan but escaped after someone bribed police. FBI officially permits its informants to commit 5000+ crimes a year. But running an illegal limousine service that kills 20 people was probably not pre-approved. Actually, the FBI provided luxury cars to help get this business started in 2008. Here’s a piece I did 14 years ago on FBI and Justice Department entrapment and other ...
Citizens’ report shines light on NC role in CIA torture program
Post Date: 2018-10-12 07:49:00 by Ada
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When the U.S government betrays American values, what is the best response? It’s Americans standing up for those values. When that stops happening, the nation – or at least the moral, honest, humane nation we know – stops existing. Fortunately for America, a persistent and uncompromising group in North Carolina has insisted that the government acknowledge its violation of American values and make amends regarding the use of rendition and torture after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. That group refuses to forget what the Bush and Obama administrations hoped would disappear under claims of self-defense or a desire to move on. When the government wouldn’t take ...
Israeli strikes in Syria to continue despite S-300 delivery, Netanyahu says
Post Date: 2018-10-09 23:29:26 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has informed Russian officials that the Tel Aviv will continue to hit targets inside Syria, irrespective of Moscow’s decision to deliver advanced S-300 surface-to-air missile systems to the Damascus government. Speaking at a press conference in Jerusalem al-Quds on Tuesday, Netanyahu said he had told Russian Deputy Prime Minister Maxim Akimov that Israel would continue to fight what he charged as Iran’s attempts to deepen its military presence in Syria and transfer weapons to the fighters of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement. The Israeli prime minister added that he believed that the current dispute between ...
The War in Afghanistan is Enabling Pedophilia
Post Date: 2018-10-05 07:48:26 by Ada
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A new State Department report makes the grim reality clear. Yet interventionists don't want to change a thing.) While Saddam Hussein’s alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction was the main selling point for the 2003 Iraq war, ending the dictator’s many human rights abuses was another key rationale. And chief among those abuses was Saddam’s “rape rooms.” “Every woman in Iraq is better off because the rape rooms and torture chambers of Saddam Hussein are forever closed,” said President George W. Bush in 2004, one year after the U.S. intervention. The president and his administration went on to make this proclamation many times. Realists and ...
11 confirmed dead in US transport plane crash in Afghanistan
Post Date: 2018-10-03 19:14:25 by hondo68
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C-130 Hercules airplane. © U.S. Air Force / Reuters An American C-130 transport plane has crashed in Afghanistan, killing at least 11 people, a US defense official has said. Among the dead are several US troop members and contracted civilians whose nationalities have not been disclosed. The Taliban has claimed responsibility for shooting down the C-130, according to AFP. However, this information has not yet been confirmed, and US authorities previously denied any hostile engagement.“Our mujahideen have shot down a four-engine US aircraft in Jalalabad,” AFP cited Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid as saying. “Based on credible information, 15 invading forces and a ...
US Would Preemptively Destroy Russian Warheads, Envoy Warns
Post Date: 2018-10-03 07:38:15 by Ada
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Russian officials warn such threats are irresponsible US Ambassador to NATO Kay Bailey Hutchison appeared to threaten war against Russia in comments Tuesday, saying the US was prepared to preemptively “take out” certain Russian missiles that the US objects to Russia having. Hutchison added that Russia was “on notice” that the US was prepared to launch preemptive military strikes against them, and would not allow Russia to keep any missiles that the US believes are in violation of the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty. Attacking Russia would be a serious isue, whether or not US officials believe they have a treaty pretext to justify it. Russian officials were ...
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