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Latest Articles: War, War, War
Pakistan Turns Scary For Bush's War On Terror
Post Date: 2008-02-21 20:25:23 by richard9151
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21/02/08 "Salon" -- - The party that slavishly supported Pakistani dictator Pervez Musharraf went down to a humiliating defeat in Monday's election, and took the failing fortunes of the Bush administration to a new nadir. Musharraf's main political rivals, the Pakistan People's Party and the Pakistan Muslim League 1-N, together gained a solid majority of seats. Amid a chorus of calls for Musharraf to step down, the two major victors are scheduled to begin talks Thursday on forming a new government. Although George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have built their war on terrorism on a close alliance with Musharraf, that entire hollow pillar of Bush administration policy has ...
US fears backlash over terror flights
Post Date: 2008-02-21 19:53:08 by richard9151
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1 hour, 20 minutes ago WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is bracing for a diplomatic backlash after conceding it used British territory to transport suspected terrorists on secret rendition flights despite repeated earlier assurances the U.S. had not. U.S. officials have sought to quell the fallout by apologizing to Britain for what they said was an "administrative error." The admission, however, may reopen a bitter debate between the United States and its allies over how the fight against terrorism should be conducted and compromise future cooperation. "Mistakes were made in the reporting of the information," said Gordon Johndroe, National Security Council ...
Breaking - Serbs attack US embassay
Post Date: 2008-02-21 14:29:23 by Jethro Tull
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150,000 Serbs set fire to the US embassy in Belgrade in protest at Kosovo's declaration of independence. Mother Russia will make sure this street army becomes well armed. Just one more example of the lasting power of American nation building.
Investigators In Blackwater Shooting Return To Baghdad
Post Date: 2008-02-21 12:05:56 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON — Federal authorities investigating Blackwater Worldwide contractors are returning to Baghdad this week to revisit the scene of a deadly September shooting that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead. The two-week trip, by eight prosecutors and FBI agents, marks the latest phase in an inquiry that was limited from the start by the government's promise of immunity for Blackwater bodyguards who provided sworn statements about the shootings. The gunplay in a crowded Baghdad intersection has strained diplomatic relations and raised questions over whether some contractors can operate without legal consequences. The Justice Department team left Tuesday night for Iraq, where they ...
Navy missile hits failing spy satellite
Post Date: 2008-02-21 09:21:52 by HOUNDDAWG
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The first shot strikes its target. But officials say they don't know whether the fuel tank was destroyed. By Peter Spiegel, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer February 21, 2008 HONOLULU -- The Navy hit a failed intelligence satellite speeding 133 miles above the Earth with a three-stage missile on the first try Wednesday, a shot the Pentagon hopes destroyed the spacecraft's fuel tank filled with 1,000 pounds of potentially toxic gas. The missile, shot from the cruiser Lake Erie as it sat in the Pacific Ocean west of Hawaii, came just as the window for the operation opened at 7:26 p.m. Pacific time. While the Pentagon said in a statement that it would take 24 hours to be certain the ...
Permanent U.S. Army command taking shape in Kuwait
Post Date: 2008-02-20 19:27:29 by richard9151
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Mideast edition, Tuesday, February 19, 2008 CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait — U.S. Army Central is establishing a permanent platform for “full spectrum operations” in 27 countries around southwest Asia and the Middle East, its commander says. Lt. Gen. James J. Lovelace said the Army has diverse capabilities here now but plans to reach a complete level of operational effectiveness by July. The restructuring, which offers more flexibility for offensive, defensive and stability operations, is a major piece of transformation worldwide, said Lovelace. “It’s the first Army command to do this,” said Lovelace, who also heads the Coalition Forces Land Component. “Now, ...
Pentagon report investigated lasers that put voices in your head
Post Date: 2008-02-19 22:51:19 by Horse
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A US citizen requested access to the document, entitled "Bioeffects of Selected Non-Lethal Weapons," under the Freedom of Information Act a little over a year ago. There is no evidence that any of the technologies mentioned in the 10-year-old report have been developed since the time it was written. The report explained several types of non-lethal laser applications, including microwave hearing, disrupted neural control, and microwave heating. For the first type, short pulses of RF energy (2450 MHz) can generate a pressure wave in solids and liquids. When exposed to pulsed RF energy, humans experience the immediate sensation of "microwave hearing" - sounds that may ...
Fort Hood soliders breaking the silence in war in Iraq
Post Date: 2008-02-19 21:01:11 by richard9151
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A growing number of active duty soldiers or recent Iraq war veterans are speaking up about the war in Iraq. And with the number of soldiers speaking up about their experiences in Iraq via online forums, blogs and pamphlets, some vets feel it's their duty to let the American public know the truth. "The honest truth is that if the American people knew what was going on over there everyday, they would be raising their voices too. They would be saying, 'Hey, bring those guys home," Sgt. Selena Coppa said. Coppa blames lawmakers in Washington for filtering the facts on the war in Iraq. She said there's no real end in sight. "There is a cost to this war. This war is ...
Why Obama Wears A Fallen Soldier's Bracelet
Post Date: 2008-02-19 14:26:03 by Brian S
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama wears a wristband in memory of a soldier killed in Iraq, according to a report in the New York Times. The wristband was given to him by the soldier's mother, who wants Obama to keep other American soldiers from dying in Iraq, the paper said. Obama, the Times said, was given the bracelet by Tracy Jopek of Wisconsin, at a rally on Friday night. He was still wearing it on Saturday as he campaigned across the state before Tuesday's primary. The bracelet belonged to Sergeant Ryan David Jopek, and the date of the 20-year-old's death in Iraq -- August 2, 2006 -- is engraved on it. ''All gave some -- He gave all,'' the ...
The Trials of Henry Kissinger -- The Making Of A War Criminal
Post Date: 2008-02-18 20:34:54 by richard9151
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"A fascinating, bombshell documentary that should shame Americans, regardless of whether or not ultimate blame finally lies with Kissinger. Should be required viewing for civics classes and would-be public servants alike." -- Brent Simon, Entertainment Today. HERE: www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6623.htm Note; It would be difficult to read the interview with Kissenger that I just posted and understand it without watching this video. Enjoy. Click for Full Text!
What Do We Stand For?
Post Date: 2008-02-18 05:21:25 by Zoroaster
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February 18, 2008 What Do We Stand For? by Paul Craig Roberts Americans traditionally thought of their country as a "city upon a hill," a "light unto the world." Today only the deluded think that. Polls show that the rest of the world regards the U.S. and Israel as the two greatest threats to peace. This is not surprising. In the words of Arthur Silber: "The Bush administration has announced to the world, and to all Americans, that this is what the United States now stands for: a vicious determination to dominate the world, criminal, genocidal wars of aggression, torture, and an increasingly brutal and brutalizing authoritarian state at home. That is what we ...
Canada’s secret war in Iraq
Post Date: 2008-02-17 22:21:01 by robin
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Canada’s secret war in IraqBy Richard SandersGlobal Research, February 17, 2008 Common GroundHow easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again! – Mark TwainOn March 25, 2003, during the “shock and awe” bombardment of Iraq, then US Ambassador to Canada Paul Cellucci admitted that “… ironically, Canadian naval vessels, aircraft and personnel... will supply more support to this war in Iraq indirectly... than most of those 46 countries that are fully supporting our efforts there.”Cellucci merely scratched the surface of Canada’s initial “support” for the Iraq War, but he had let the cat out of the bag. As ...
Iraqis Still Left in the Dark
Post Date: 2008-02-17 20:27:22 by robin
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BAQUBA - Lack of electricity in Baquba has shattered businesses, and the lives of families. Months of power failures has darkened morale everywhere. In Diyala province, just north of Baghdad, a generation has grown up in dark. The province, and its capital Baquba 40 km north of Baghdad has lived with intermittent electricity supply since the times of the sanctions under Saddam Hussein in the 1990s. Came the US in 2003, and everyone thought it would get better. "I felt happy when the US invaded Iraq because I thought the electricity problem will be solved, and we would have it all the time like other countries," Abdul-Kareem Hasan, a trader in Baquba told IPS. But promises of ...
War Made Easy
Post Date: 2008-02-17 19:45:57 by richard9151
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War Made Easy exposes a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumes remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, revealing in stunning detail how the American news media have uncritically disseminated the pro-war messages of successive presidential administrations. HERE; www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19362.htm Click for Full Text!
Illinois Shooter was Treated with Psych Meds Prior to Shooting Rampage (How Big Pharma recruits mindless soldiers for the Pentagon)
Post Date: 2008-02-17 14:35:07 by christine
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It comes as no surprise to anyone who's been following school shootings all the way back to the Colombine High massacre in Colorado: Every young, male shooter that has gone on a killing spree in the United States also has a history of treatment with psychotropic drugs -- typically SSRI antidepressants. These shootings have three things in common: 1) The shooters are young males. 2) The shooters exhibit a mind-numbed disconnect with reality. 3) The shooters have a history of taking psychiatric medications. This latest shooting by 27-year-old Stephen Kazmierczak shares the same three factors. Stephen was considered a "normal, undistressed person," according to press reports. He ...
War Without End: Bush Calls on France for Help
Post Date: 2008-02-17 10:32:09 by wbales
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"We support the troops!" That’s the excuse the Democrats have given for continuing to fund Bush’s aggression against Iraq and Afghanistan. But, of course, war funding doesn’t support the troops. War funding supports an evil machine that chews up and spits out the lives and well being of the troops, along with that of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi and Afghan, men, women, and children. War funding supports Bush’s aggression in Iraq and Afghanistan and his continuing efforts to occupy both countries in order to turn them into puppet states. Polls show that a majority of the troops and their families do not support Bush’s aggression. The fact that Ron ...
The Lost Kristol Tapes -- What the New York Times Bought
Post Date: 2008-02-16 15:35:38 by richard9151
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15/02/08 "ICH" -- - Imagine that there were a Beatles record only a few people knew existed. And imagine you got the chance to listen to it, and as you did, your excitement grew, note by note. You realized it wasn’t merely as good as Rubber Soul, or Revolver, or Sgt. Pepper’s. It was much, much better. And now, imagine how badly you’d want to tell other Beatles fans all about it. That’s how I feel for my fellow William Kristol fans. You loved it when Bill said invading Iraq was going to have “terrifically good effects throughout the Middle East”? You have the original recording of him explaining the war would make us “respected around the ...
Iraq: Children Starved of Childhood
Post Date: 2008-02-16 13:20:58 by robin
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Iraq: Children Starved of ChildhoodBy Ahmed Ali and Dahr JamailGlobal Research, February 15, 2008 IPS - 2008-02-11BAQUBA, Feb 11 (IPS) - The violence around the continuing U.S. military operations in this city has robbed children of their childhood. Only two provincial schools and one private kindergarten school are functioning in this city of 280,000, located 50 km north of Baghdad. Most children know neither school nor play. Or even the food they want. "We parents can hardly meet the basic requirements of food," Mahdi Hassan, a father of four, told IPS. "Nobody even mentions chocolate or pastries or anything else because Iraqis know they are not important," Baquba ...
Russian state TV suggests USA involved in drug-trafficing from Afghanistan
Post Date: 2008-02-16 04:44:36 by Zoroaster
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Russian state TV suggests USA involved in drug-trafficking from Afghanistan Via Sott – February 15, 2008 Russian state-controlled Channel One TV has broadcast a report containing allegations that US forces are involved in drug-trafficking from Afghanistan to Europe. It also highlighted the problem of drug abuse in the British army. The channel's weekly news roundup "Voskresnoye Vremya" on 10 February noted that, according to the UN, the amount of opium being produced in Afghanistan has more than doubled since the coalition troops entered the country. The report went on to show former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair visiting the country at an unspecified time. It said ...
Torture and Kangaroo Justice are Unamerican
Post Date: 2008-02-15 06:15:00 by Ada
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Justice Scalia’s remarks about torture reflect a fundamental problem with conservative judges. While oftentimes sound on economic liberty, they are absolutely atrocious with respect to civil liberties. Scalia’s approval of torture in certain circumstances ignores an important point that every first-year law student learns in his constitutional law course: that people are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law — and, equally important, are sometimes adjudged innocent when the trial is ultimately held. In other words, when the government takes someone into custody and begins torturing him, how do we know that that person is deserving of torture or has ...
Rotten at the Core: Day Two of the Military Commission Hearings at Guantánamo Bay
Post Date: 2008-02-14 19:19:53 by kiki
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By Hina Shamsi, staff attorney with the ACLU"s National Security Project Shamsi travelled over the weekend to Cuba where she will spend the week observing hearings in cases the U.S. government has brought against two detainees being held at the U.S. Prison at Guantánamo Bay. She will post her comments and observations in a series of blog posts that begins today and which will run throughout the week. ACLU's diary :: :: Just when you think it's no longer possible to be shocked by the extremity of the Bush administration's positions in its "war on terror," along comes a day like yesterday. During the military commission hearing of Omar Khadr, who was 15 ...
Rice heatedly defends her integrity on Iraq claims
Post Date: 2008-02-14 18:10:05 by angle
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice vehemently defended her integrity Wednesday when asked about an independent report that found she made 56 false statements on the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq. At a congressional hearing, Rep. Robert Wexler, a Florida Democrat, questioned Rice about a report from the non-partisan Center for Public Integrity that accuses Bush administration officials of making 935 false statements about Iraq, which the United States invaded in March 2003. "This study has found that you, Madame Secretary, made 56 false statements to the American people where you repeatedly pump up the case that Iraq had weapons of mass ...
Swan Song for NATO -- The Real Cost Of Defeat In Forgettistan
Post Date: 2008-02-14 10:56:55 by richard9151
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"It is our right to defend our country. We are not a threat to other countries. But we have to use our rights when our country is occupied by foreign forces." - Mullah Omar, Taliban leader 13/02/08 "ICH" -- - It was supposed to be "the good war"; a war against terror; a war of liberation. It was intended to fix the eyes of the world on America's state of the art weaponry, its crack troops and its overwhelming firepower. It was supposed to demonstrate—once and for all-- that the world's only superpower could no longer be beaten or resisted; that Washington could deploy its troops anywhere in the world and crush its adversaries at will. Then ...
F. William Engdahl's "A Century of War" - Part II
Post Date: 2008-02-14 06:18:56 by Stephen Lendman
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F. William Engdahl's "A Century of War" (Part II) - by Stephen Lendman Part II continues the story of "A Century in War" in Part I. It's breathtaking in scope and content, and a shocking and essential history of geopolitics and the strategic importance of oil. Part I covered events from the late 19th century through the end of the 1960s. Part II completes the story to the present era under George Bush. Running the World Economy in Reverse: Who Made the 1970s Oil Shocks? In 1969, the US was in recession, interest rates were cut, dollars flowed abroad, and the money supply expanded. In addition, in May 1971, America recorded its first monthly trade deficit that ...
We'll nuke Iran - Bush promises Israel
Post Date: 2008-02-13 14:12:55 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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We'll nuke Iran - Bush promises Israel Thu, 01/10/2008 - 16:08 - Wire Services US President George W. Bush promised Israel's opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu that the United States will join the Jewish state in a nuclear strike against Iran, Israel Radio reported today. Former Prime Minister Netanyahu, opposition Likud party's hardline chairman who opposes the US-backed Annapolis peace process, reiterated to President Bush his stance, that a pre-emptive nuclear strike against Iran's nuclear installations was the only way to stop the Islamic nation's nuclear weapons ambitions. "I told him my position and Bush agreed," Netanyahu told Israel Radio. During ...
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