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Latest Articles: War, War, War
Clueless Candidates Make Osama's Day
Post Date: 2008-02-27 20:16:48 by richard9151
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12/27/08 "Antiwar" -- - While McCain, Obama, and Clinton attend services of their choice on Sunday, all worship at the shrine of intervention-that-spurs jihad the rest of the week. Just in the past month, all three have pushed an interventionist agenda in Pakistan and Kosovo, and, notwithstanding claims by Obama and Clinton, to a great extent in Iraq. At day's end, each is ready to intervene abroad to champion abstractions such as democracy rather than U.S. interests; each is ready to spend the lives of soldiers and Marines to do so; and each advances the Islamist cause by failing to see that Muslim hatred is motivated by U.S. interventionism more than any other factor. In ...
Noam Chomsky, Terrorists Wanted the World Over
Post Date: 2008-02-27 20:10:53 by richard9151
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287/02/08 "Tomgram" -- - One of Noam Chomsky's latest books -- a conversation with David Barsamian -- is entitled What We Say Goes. It catches a powerful theme of Chomsky's: that we have long been living on a one-way planet and that the language we regularly wield to describe the realities of our world is tailored to Washington's interests. Juan Cole, at his Informed Comment website, had a good example of the strangeness of this targeted language recently. When Serbs stormed the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade, he offered the following comment (with so many years of the term "Islamofascism" in mind): "…given that the Serbs are Eastern Orthodox Christians, ...
Afghanistan: The Brutal and Unnecessary War the Media Aren't Telling You About
Post Date: 2008-02-27 19:53:35 by richard9151
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27/02/08 "AlterNet" -- - They say journalists provide the first draft of history. With the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, that draft led to an almost universal consensus, at least among Americans, that the attack was a justifiable act of self-defense. The Afghanistan action is commonly viewed as a "clean" conflict as well -- a war prosecuted with minimal loss of life, and one that didn't bring the kind of international opprobrium onto the United States that the invasion of Iraq would lead to a year later. Those views are also held by many Americans who are critical of the excesses of the Bush administration's "War on Terror." But there's a ...
Soldier admits having himself shot to avoid Iraq return
Post Date: 2008-02-27 16:56:22 by robin
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Soldier admits having himself shot to avoid Iraq return02/27/2008 @ 7:01 am Filed by David Edwards and Muriel Kane A soldier who claimed to have been shot during a robbery while home from Iraq on emergency family leave has been revealed to have arranged the shooting with a friend. According to the Los Angeles Times, Army Pfc. Matthew Myers staggered into a mini-mart in Apple Valley, 75 miles northwest of Los Angeles, last Sunday. He called 911 and told the sheriff's office he had been attacked and robbed by an unknown man while walking alongside the Apple Valley Country Club golf course. Myers was taken to a hospital, but police became suspicious when he claimed it had been too ...
Berkeley businesses feel pinch of weekly anti-war protests
Post Date: 2008-02-27 15:36:46 by mirage
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BERKELEY - People who are angry at city leaders for their anti-military stance are taking it out on businesses - canceling hotel rooms, restaurant reservations and theater tickets. They are writing letters to the Berkeley Chamber of Commerce outlining their plans to boycott the city. And they are steering clear of downtown shops because of the weekly anti-war protests that in recent weeks have become increasingly volatile. Two weeks after the Berkeley City Council refused to apologize to the U.S. Marine Corps for calling them "uninvited and unwelcome intruders," Berkeley businesses are feeling the backlash from people who don't want to spend their money in the city. ...
Most Muslims 'desire democracy'
Post Date: 2008-02-27 12:34:56 by catcher
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Most Muslims 'desire democracy' The largest survey to date of Muslims worldwide suggests the vast majority want Western democracy and freedoms, but do not want them to be imposed. The poll by Gallup of more than 50,000 Muslims in 35 nations found most wanted the West to instead focus on changing its negative view of Muslims and Islam. The huge survey began following the 11 September 2001 attacks in the US. The overwhelming majority of those asked condemned them and subsequent attacks, citing religious reasons. The poll, which claims to represent the views of 90% the world's 1.3 billion Muslims, is to be published next month as part of a book entitled Who Speaks For Islam? ...
Automated killer robots 'threat to humanity': expert
Post Date: 2008-02-27 11:15:53 by robin
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Automated killer robots 'threat to humanity': expert02/27/2008 @ 9:59 am Filed by Agence France-Presse Increasingly autonomous, gun-toting robots developed for warfare could easily fall into the hands of terrorists and may one day unleash a robot arms race, a top expert on artificial intelligence told AFP. "They pose a threat to humanity," said University of Sheffield professor Noel Sharkey ahead of a keynote address Wednesday before Britain's Royal United Services Institute. Intelligent machines deployed on battlefields around the world -- from mobile grenade launchers to rocket-firing drones -- can already identify and lock onto targets without human help. ...
Iraqi council rejects elections law
Post Date: 2008-02-27 11:08:26 by richard9151
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52 minutes ago BAGHDAD - Iraq's presidential council rejected a measure Wednesday setting up provincial elections, sending it back to parliament in the latest setback to U.S.-backed national reconciliation efforts. The three-member panel, however, approved the 2008 budget and another law that provides limited amnesty to detainees in Iraqi custody. Those laws will take effect once they are published in the Justice Ministry gazette. The three laws were approved as a package by the Iraqi parliament on Feb. 13. The step drew praise from the Bush administration, which had sought passage of a provincial powers law as one of 18 benchmarks to promote reconciliation among Iraq's Sunni and ...
Guantánamo guards suffer psychological trauma
Post Date: 2008-02-27 10:43:32 by Ferret Mike
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The guards at the Guantánamo Bay prison camp are the "overlooked victims" of America's controversial detention facility in Cuba, according to a psychiatrist who has treated some of them. In some cases, a tour of duty at the camp has made guards suicidal and prompted a variety of psychiatric symptoms, from depression and insomnia to flashbacks. The guards' testimony also provides a harrowing insight into the treatment of prisoners. Professor John Smith, a retired US Air Force captain, treated a patient who was a guard at the camp. "I think the guards of Guantánamo are an overlooked group of victims," Smith told the American Academy of Forensic ...
The state of the Jihad, as he might see it
Post Date: 2008-02-26 21:03:16 by richard9151
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Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell warned the Senate intelligence committee earlier this month that al-Qaida is regrouping, not retreating - and boosting its capacities for launching another attack inside the United States. So how does the war on terrorism look these days through our enemies' eyes? Here's an informed - albeit fictional - guess. 26/02/08 "Washington Post" -- - In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate - Brothers, I write to give my view of how far we have, with God's help, traveled since declaring war on the United States in 1996. Al-Qaida has today become all that we hoped for when we formed it in 1988: a vanguard ...
Anything Goes: "Taxi to the Dark Side" -- How Did America Become a Country That Tortures?
Post Date: 2008-02-26 20:46:49 by richard9151
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They’re a very frail people and I was surprised it had taken that long for one of ‘em to die in our custody. —Pfc. Damien Corsetti, Military Intelligence, Bagram If the FBI had felt that there was a case to answer for, they wouldn’t have taken me into Bagram where I was held, heard the sounds of a woman screaming next door, had me hogtied and threatened to send me to Egypt in order to get me to sign this. —Moazzam Begg, Now 2006 July 28 25/02/08 " PopMatters" -- -- In December 2002, a 22-year-old Afghan taxi driver named Dilawar was picked up and delivered to the Bagram Air Force Base prison. Five days later, he was dead. Sgt. Thomas Curtis, one of the ...
Confessions of a Gitmo Guard -- A Nightmare World of Torture and Prison Guard Suicides
Post Date: 2008-02-26 20:30:57 by richard9151
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26/02/08 "Counterpunch" -- - A psychiatrist who has treated former military personnel at Guantánamo prison camp is telling a story of prisoner torture and guard suicide there, recounted to him by a National Guardsman who worked at Guantánamo just after it opened. Dr. John R. Smith, 75, is a Oklahoma City psychiatrist who has done worked at military posts during the past few years. He is also a consultant for the University of Oklahoma's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Services, and is affiliated with the Veteran's Affairs Administration Hospital in Oklahoma City. The court-appointed psychiatric examination of Timothy McVeigh, who bombed the Murrah ...
A Senator, a Captain, a General... and the "experts" (OBAMA AND AFGHANISTAN)
Post Date: 2008-02-26 19:04:33 by aristeides
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A Senator, a Captain, a General... and the "experts" by Devilstower Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 03:50:56 PM PST As we get ready for tonight's debate, there's one story left over from the last debate that's still slogging through the lonely sludge of conservative blogs. During the last face to face with Clinton, Obama told of how an army captain had talked to him about severe shortages faced by American forces in Afghanistan. This captain told how his platoon was short of both men and supplies, and was forced to use captured materials to get by. Since the Right Wing sites are capable of producing more instant experts than you can get from a bag of educated sea monkeys, they ...
Army Says Force Out Of Balance, Must Reduce Soldiers' Time In Combat
Post Date: 2008-02-26 13:30:38 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Army officials have told a Senate panel that the Army is under serious strain and must reduce the length of combat tours as soon as possible. Gen. George Casey, the Army chief of staff, said "the cumulative effects of the last six-plus years at war have left our Army out of balance." Casey told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday that cutting the time soldiers spend in combat is an integral part of reducing the stress on the force. He said he anticipates the service can cut combat tours from 15 months to 12 months this year, so long as the president reduces the number of Army brigades in Iraq to 15 units by July as planned.
MEINE KLEINE FABRIK: THE WIZARD OF WAR (WWII)
Post Date: 2008-02-26 09:45:37 by Jethro Tull
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Jasper Maskelyn wanted to help. 60;You want to do WHAT?61; said the British Army 51; or as their oh-so-polite upper crust officers probably put it: 60;Sorry, ol57; chap, but we don57;t seem to have an urgent need for magicians right at this very moment 51;61; But this was the Second World War and the British were loosing, badly, to Rommel57;s Africa corps and rather than just send him packing back to the floodlights of London they, instead, sent him into the desert to duel a local fakir.See the British were loosing so badly that they needed escape routes 51; and one of them was right through this certain tribe57;s territory, and they were not about to grant these foreign devils ...
Imperial Power -- Becoming That Which We Have Rejected
Post Date: 2008-02-25 17:16:14 by richard9151
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This is an excerpt of a talk given by Scott Ritter before the US invasion of Iraq. VIDEO HERE; http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19420.htm
The Calm Before the Conflagration
Post Date: 2008-02-25 16:39:33 by richard9151
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25/02/08 "Truthdig" -- - The United States is funding and in many cases arming the three ethnic factions in Iraq-the Kurds, the Shiites and the Sunni Arabs. These factions rule over partitioned patches of Iraqi territory and brutally purge rival ethnic groups from their midst. Iraq no longer exists as a unified state. It is a series of heavily armed fiefdoms run by thugs, gangs, militias, radical Islamists and warlords who are often paid wages of $300 a month by the U.S. military. Iraq is Yugoslavia before the storm. It is a caldron of weapons, lawlessness, hate and criminality that is destined to implode. And the current U.S. policy, born of desperation and defeat, means that ...
Late Israeli war hero Moshe Dayan illicitly plundered antiquities
Post Date: 2008-02-25 13:48:10 by Jethro Tull
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Late Israeli war hero Moshe Dayan illicitly plundered antiquities From:AP WorldstreamDate:June 16, 2006Author:AMY TEIBEL, Associated Press WriterMore results for:Moshe Dayan AMY TEIBEL, Associated Press Writer AP Worldstream 06-16-2006 Dateline: JERUSALEM Stunning military victories made Israeli general Moshe Dayan an iconic figure on the international stage, but his reputation for looting antiquities is little known outside the country where his myth was born. Across three decades until his death in 1981, Dayan, of the trademark eye patch, established a vast collection of antiquities acquired through illicit excavations. He also traded in archaeological finds in Israel and abroad, ...
Operation Iraqi Liberation (O.I.L.)
Post Date: 2008-02-25 02:06:30 by noone222
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Poster Comment:This is just one of 29 parts / Secret Rulers of the World Every segment is about 10 minutes long and the entire video is excellent.
Springsteen, Young join anti-war soundtrack
Post Date: 2008-02-24 02:27:18 by noone222
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young and Peal Jam have contributed tunes to the anti-war soundtrack for a documentary about a U.S. soldier paralyzed in Iraq. The 30-song, two-disc album "Body of War: Songs That Inspired an Iraq War Veteran" will be released March 18 via Warner Music's Sire Records label. All proceeds from the sale of the album will benefit Iraq Veterans Against the War. "Body of War" focuses on Tomas Young, an Army soldier paralyzed upon arriving in Iraq. It will open on March 13 in Austin, Texas, and expand nationally in subsequent months. Talk show veteran Phil Donahue directed the film with Elaine Spiro. The album was put ...
Beyond the Green Zone
Post Date: 2008-02-23 21:57:53 by richard9151
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Dahr Jamail - Unembedded Journalist talks about his amazing experiences reporting the Iraqi side of the war. Torture, white phosphorus and deadly attacks unfold in graphic stories of the American occupation. Chicago, June 16, 2007 Socialism 2007 VIDEO HERE; www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19406.htm Click for Full Text!
In Tatters Beneath a Surge of Claims
Post Date: 2008-02-23 21:56:26 by richard9151
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23/02/08 - -- - BAGHDAD, Feb 22 (IPS) - What the U.S. has been calling the success of a "surge", many Iraqis see as evidence of catastrophe. Where U.S. forces point to peace and calm, local Iraqis find an eerie silence. And when U.S. forces speak of a reduction in violence, many Iraqis simply do not know what they are talking about. Hundreds died in a series of explosions in Baghdad last month. This was despite the strongest ever security measures taken by the U.S. military, riding the "surge" in security forces and their activities. The death toll is high, according to the website icasualties.org, which provides reliable numbers of Iraqi civilian and security deaths. ...
Mortars or rockets hit Iraq Green Zone
Post Date: 2008-02-23 12:18:03 by richard9151
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1 hour, 3 minutes ago BAGHDAD - Rockets or mortars hit the U.S.-protected Green Zone early Saturday, just a day after powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his Mahdi Army militia to extend its cease-fire by another six months. Nearly 10 blasts could be heard in the sprawling area along the Tigris River that houses the U.S. and British embassies, the Iraqi government headquarters and thousands of American troops. It was not immediately clear whether there were casualties. Maj. Brad Leighton, a U.S. military spokesman, confirmed the Green Zone was hit by indirect fire — the military's term for a rocket or mortar attack — but could not provide more details. It was ...
IAEA: Iran disputes atomic arms evidence
Post Date: 2008-02-22 15:15:44 by richard9151
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And we move closer and closer to WWIII, and the sheeple and their children will line up to be cannon fodder. 2 hours, 38 minutes ago VIENNA, Austria - Iran has rejected documents that link it to missile and explosives experiments and other work connected to a possible nuclear weapons program, calling the information false and irrelevant, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Friday. As expected, an IAEA report also confirmed that Iran continued to enrich uranium despite two sets of U.N. Security Council sanctions to punish it for defying council demands that it suspend such work, which can generate fuel for nuclear reactors and the fissile core of warheads. An 11-page report ...
UK troops accused of executions and torture in Iraq
Post Date: 2008-02-22 13:01:00 by robin
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LONDON, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Lawyers for five Iraqis have accused British soldiers of mass executions and torture and called for a police investigation into an "atrocious episode" in British army history. Phil Shiner and Martyn Day, who have brought several cases against the British military for its actions in Iraq, produced statements on Friday from five men who say they were detained by British forces after a battle in southern Iraq in May 2004. The men, who were blindfolded and bound, said their captors repeatedly beat and abused them, including forcing them to strip naked. While detained, they said they heard the systematic torture and execution of up to 20 other detainees. ...
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