October 17, 2011
Dispatch From Activist Arrested for “Assaulting” Leon Panetta During Supposedly Public Hearing LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest Civil Liberties headlines via email. A CODEPINK activist shares the story of how she and seven others were arrested last week while trying to bring [...]
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August 2, 2011
World Beat by JOHN FEFFER | Tuesday, August 2, 2011 Vol. 6, No. 31 O U R L A T E S T AUG 2 | Afghanistan: U.S. and Pakistan Seek to Reinforce a Border That Was Arbitrary to Begin With Conn Hallinan AUG 1 | Islamophobes Insinuate Their Way Into U.S. Intelligence Paul [...]
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July 12, 2011
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta sits with Commanding General of US Forces in Iraq, Lt. Gen. Lloyd Austin as they fly in a Blackhawk helicopter over Baghdad, on Monday, July 11. Paul J. Richards/AP Enlarge By Anna Mulrine, Staff writer / July 11, 2011 WashingtonAfter being sworn in as the nation’s new secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta’s first [...]
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July 6, 2011
Israel‘s illegal blockade of the Gaza Strip has led to an almost complete collapse of Gaza’s economy, making the people dependent on international aid [GALLO/GETTY] Earlier this year we watched with amazement as hundreds of thousands of Arabs charged into the streets of their cities demanding reform. The uprisings led to the departure of several [...]
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July 5, 2011
Editor’s Note: Australian participant on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza Michael Coleman has been arrested by Greek Police for attempting to block their pursuit of the Canadian boat the “Tahrir” as it left port. Michael and Soha, another Canadian Flotilla team member, were in two kayaks beside the “Tahrir”. As soon as the boat’s [...]
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July 3, 2011
U.S. turns to other routes to supply Afghan war as relations with Pakistan fray By Craig Whitlock, Sunday, July 3, 9:54 AM The U.S. military is rapidly expanding its aerial and Central Asian supply routes to the war in Afghanistan, fearing that Pakistan could cut off the main means of providing American and NATO forces with fuel, food and equipment. Although Pakistan [...]
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July 3, 2011
KABUL, Afghanistan – Despite U.S. reports of progress on the battlefield, American troops were killed in the first half of this year at the same pace as in 2010 — an indication that the war’s toll on U.S. forces has not eased as the Obama administration moves to shift the burden to the Afghans. While [...]
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July 3, 2011
Obama intends to withdraw 10,000 US troops by the end of this year, and to complete the withdrawal of some 30,000 troops by September 2012 [GALLO/GETTY] US President Barack Obama’s speech from the White House on June 22 concerning the “way forward” in Afghanistan struck many as highly unusual. Though billed in advance as a [...]
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June 27, 2011
With the ever growing presence of fascist thought starting to dominate the mainstream of the media it is useful to look around at what people who are not psychopaths think about the directions being taken at present around the planet. Here in australia we are firmly in the grip of an unelected Prime Minister who [...]
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June 26, 2011
Pakistan expels British trainers of anti-Taliban soldiers Pakistan has expelled a team of at least 18 military advisers. Photograph: Warrick Page/Getty Images Pakistan has expelled a team of British military trainers sent to help with the fight against the Taliban and al-Qaida, as the fallout from the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden continues to rock relations between [...]
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June 26, 2011
Hezbollah Leader Nasrallah Says CIA Spies Uncovered in Organization US Embassy Denies Claims by Jason Ditz, June 24, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum In an unusual move, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah today claimed that his organization had been infiltrated successfully by the CIA, and that they had uncovered two members who confessed [...]
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June 25, 2011
Perhaps all the talk after the so called drawdown in Afghanistan, may well amount to concealed laughter by the military. The numbers being removed, if any real decease is actually going to happen are extremely small. Then the replacement mercenaries become yet another US army. If you have been just shot and killed by a [...]
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June 25, 2011
White House Claims Vindication as House Refuses to Authorize Libya War Officials Say Refusal to Authorize ‘Limited’ War Proves War Worth Fighting by Jason Ditz, June 24, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The attempts by some in the House of Representatives to spin the second of two votes on the Libya [...]
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June 22, 2011
The Isolationist Charge: The Last Refuge Of The Scoundrel Jun. 20 2011 – 1:07 pm | 522 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments Samuel Johnson said patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. Today the epithet “isolationist” is the last refuge of the warmonger. Sen. John McCain may be Washington’s most enthusiastic hawk — supporter of war in the Balkans, Afghanistan, [...]
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June 22, 2011
NATO Abandons Denial, Admits to Libya Attack That Killed 15 NATO Warplanes Attacked Sorman After All by Jason Ditz, June 21, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum On Sunday, NATO copped to killing at least nine civilians in a strike in Central Tripoli, blaming a “weapons system failure,” but when a second incident [...]
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June 21, 2011
Adel: A decade of injustice Adel al-Gazzar has undergone a decade-long ordeal involving detention without trial, torture and medical malpractice. In January 2009, President Obama signed an order to suspend the Guantanamo military commission for 120 days and that the detention facility would be shut down within the year [GALLO/GETTY] For someone to be held [...]
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June 18, 2011
Pentagon Urges Obama to Keep Afghan Surge Going Until Fall 2012 Plan Would Keep Vast Majority of Surge Troops in Nation for Another Year and a Half by Jason Ditz, June 17, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum With the decision on the long-promised July 2011 dradown likely just weeks away, the [...]
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June 18, 2011
Pulling Obama at Both Ends on Afghanistan Pullout John Glaser, June 17, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Obama will make a public decision on an initial draw-down of troops in Afghanistan in the next few weeks. On one end, we have Defense Secretary Gates, General Petraeus, and – officially now – the [...]
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June 9, 2011
Is Leon Panetta a Saint—or a War Criminal? by David R. Henderson, May 17, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum David R. Henderson’s Introduction: The first part of this article’s title is absurd, right? How could the head of the CIA, a man who sends drones to kill alleged terrorists and ends up [...]
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June 9, 2011
Please note there is not the slightest reference to asking the Afghans what they want or need or feel is necessary. George Ikners ikners.com U.S. wants ‘joint bases’ in Afghanistan, Gates says By Karen DeYoung, Published: June 9 The United States should maintain a long-term military presence in Afghanistan as a “tenant” on bases jointly occupied with Afghan [...]
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June 7, 2011
Six More Years: U.S. General Wants to Train Afghans Until ‘2017′ By Spencer Ackerman June 6, 2011 | 5:27 pm | Categories: Af/Pak There once was a time when President Obama implied that the Afghanistan war would at least start to end in July 2011. Then that date got pushed back to 2014. Now, the general in charge [...]
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June 5, 2011
Perpetual War Is a Bigger Threat Than Terrorism MAY 31 2011, 11:45 AM ET14 Neither Barack Obama nor his Republican challengers have a strategy for victory and peace In a scathing Memorial Day jeremiad against American foreign policy, Andrew Bacevich argues that elected officials are exploiting the troops by sending them to war [...]
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June 5, 2011
The position that the US and Pakistan finds itself in is becoming intolerable to Pakistan. It would only be a fool who would not recognise that a renewed push to kill anyone that remotely looks like a terrorist by the US is being done to continue the nehancement of the election prospects of Obama. No thought is [...]
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June 4, 2011
The whole drive behind both the Capital and Imperial Projects is the need for profit and for that profit to keep growing. It is the most vicious of circles as it demands more and more space on the planet and more and more money to give the appearance that it works. The US response to [...]
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June 4, 2011
War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity The brutality with which the US government exercises its “war on terror” is condemned both by the court of international public opinion and by the principles of international law governing human rights. The wars of aggression in Iraq and Afghanistan and the torture of [...]
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June 4, 2011
John Glaser, June 02, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Iraq has been perhaps the least covered country in the Middle East throughout the Arab Spring. Popular protests and demonstrations there have been discreet, but only relative to Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Syria, etc. This comparative quiet is no excuse for the [...]
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June 2, 2011
This is another first rate article from Gareth Porter. Whenever you get the opportunity you should take the time to listen to and watch him speak. George Ikners ikners.com Splitting the Taliban By GARETH PORTER The leaked reports over the past two weeks of a series of meetings between U.S. officials and a Taliban figure [...]
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June 2, 2011
The West’s Hypocrisy Towards Arab Uprisings 30 May 2011 The stand of the West, particularly Britain, towards the uprisings and revolutions in the Arab world is remarkably inconsistent and should be condemned. Yesterday, British newspapers disclosed that British military personnel have been regularly training Saudi National Guard forces in the most up-to-date ways [...]
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June 1, 2011
As we here in Australia listen to the madness of our elected representatives talk about security, war and a stupid notion of a presence in the Middle East, it should be remembered that insanity comes with a price tag. As the rush to security continues so does the amount we need to spend on the war [...]
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June 1, 2011
Misdiagnosing the Middle East |More F. Gregory Gause III | May 26, 2011 There is a dangerous consensus about the Middle East based on the assumption that authoritarian politics are the root of instability, violence and anti-Americanism. Thus the United States is obliged, for both its own security and the furtherance of its values, to [...]
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May 27, 2011
These are pretty high stakes when you look at the continued existence of the capital project and the continued concentration of wealth is so few hands. It really seems to be the case that despite what may be being said there really is enough room on the planet for the population today. What we are running out of space for is [...]
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May 27, 2011
If a vote were held in Canberra do you think it would be anything other than extremely close to unanimous. That’s what you get for lovin’ the US. House Call to End Afghan War Suffers Narrow Defeat Massive Swing From 2010 Vote Shows Growing Antiwar Sentiment by Jason Ditz, May 26, 2011 Email This | Print [...]
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May 26, 2011
US supplies bombs to allies for Libya war:Pentagon Email Print AFP – A Libyan family walks past a charred car near Revolution Square in the Libyan rebel stronghold of Benghazi. … Play VideoPresidential Transition Video:Netanyahu vows no going back to 1967 bordersAFP – Wed May 25, 6:27 pm ET WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US military is supplying bombs and spare parts to [...]
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May 26, 2011
There is Much More to Say Noam Chomsky ZNet, May 2011 After the assassination of bin Laden I received such a deluge of requests for comment that I was unable to respond individually, and on May 4 and later I sent an unedited form response instead, not intending for it to be posted, and expecting [...]
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May 25, 2011
Gates: Keep Troops in Iraq to Make Iran Uncomfortable Insists Sadr’s Opposition to US Occupation Because of Iranians by Jason Ditz, May 24, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Most of the attention this week has been at the AIPAC conference, but speaking today at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), Secretary of [...]
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May 23, 2011
Obama’s Middle East: Rhetoric and Reality David Bromwich Charles Dharapak/AP Photo President Barack Obama meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in the Oval Office at the White House, Friday, May 20, 2011. Being president of the world has sometimes seemed a job more agreeable to Barack Obama than being president of the United [...]
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May 23, 2011
US troops jointly operating with Pak forces since 2009: Leak Updated yesterday KARACHI: US special operation forces had been deployed along with Pakistan forces for joint operations within Pakistani territory in September 2009, said a US embassy cable released by WikiLeaks on Saturday. Earlier in the summer of 2009, the US special operation forces had [...]
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May 22, 2011
Barack Obama says he would repeat Pakistan raid Barack Obama says he respects Pakistani sovereignty but would go after another ‘very high-value target’ if found to be there Share98 Press Association guardian.co.uk, Sunday 22 May 2011 10.03 BST Article history Andrew Marr interviewed Barack Obama in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House. Photograph: [...]
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May 21, 2011
Is Leon Panetta a Saint—or a War Criminal? by David R. Henderson, May 17, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum David R. Henderson’s Introduction: The first part of this article’s title is absurd, right? How could the head of the CIA, a man who sends drones to kill alleged terrorists and ends up [...]
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May 21, 2011
The View From Afghanistan http://warisacrime.org/content/view-afghanistan Editor’s Note: Asking Afghans what they think of U.S. Taliban “peace talks” produces answers one doesn’t encounter in the United States. Here’s a response to that question from Hakim, a.k.a. Teck Young Wee, of Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers.-DCNS By Hakim BAMYAN PROVINCE, AFGHANISTAN — The Obama administration (and NATO) [...]
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May 17, 2011
Subscribe to FFF Email Update Subscribe to Freedom Daily DONATE TO FFF Hornberger’s Blog Monday, May 16, 2010 Hornberger’s Blog Index Information about RSS REMINDER: The Jacob Hornberger Show every Saturday at 7-8 pm EST. Listen and watch live on the Internet: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-future-of-freedom-foundation America’s Post-9/11 Turn toward Dictatorship by Jacob G. Hornberger Among the most potent [...]
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May 16, 2011
60 More Days in Libya: Obama Does Bush Lawyers Proud By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/57853 Now we know why Obama has gone to such outrageous lengths to keep Bush’s lawyers out of prison, claiming powers of secrecy and immunity beyond Cheney’s wildest dreams and pressuring foreign nations to clamp down on any outbreaks of law [...]
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May 15, 2011
This is part one of a story about the US and war. It forms part of Volume 1 of the autobiography of Mark Twain It makes interesting reading, George Ikners ikners.com Click to Print This Page [page 403]Monday, March 12, 1906 Mr. Clemens comments on the killing of six hundred Moros—Men, women and children—In a [...]
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May 15, 2011
Opposition to Gadhafi grows in Libya’s capital DIAA HADID AND MAGGIE MICHAEL TRIPOLI— The Associated Press Published Thursday, May. 12, 2011 8:53PM EDT Last updated Friday, May. 13, 2011 6:09AM EDT 24 comments Email Print Decrease text sizeIncrease text size Pressure is mounting on Moammar Gadhafi from within his stronghold in the Libyan capital, with increasing NATO air [...]
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May 15, 2011
Bin Laden’ Wives and the Continuing Mystery 12 May 2011 We are still waiting for the details of the assassination of shaykh Osama Bin Laden in early May by a US commando unit that stormed the house where he had been residing with some of his wives and children in Abbottabad near the Pakistani capital [...]
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May 14, 2011
Taliban Not Exactly Heeding NATO’s Call to Give Up By Spencer Ackerman May 12, 2011 | 11:54 am | Categories: Af/Pak NATO’s plan to get Afghan insurgents to lay down their arms hasn’t exactly been a blockbuster. 900 guerrillas have agreed to stop fighting in the the last five months — just a tiny sliver of the [...]
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May 14, 2011
Adam Gadahn: America’s next assassination target Al-Qaeda propaganda man faces the wrath of US security forces By Philip Jacobson LAST UPDATED 12:35 PM, MAY 13, 2011 Share With Osama bin Laden’s mugshot on the FBI’s Most Wanted website now bearing the stark label “deceased”, US counter-terrorism specialists are turning their attention to an American citizen who [...]
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May 14, 2011
In a memorable sentence you can read that..”The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.” George Orwell With that in mind it is easy to come to a solid conclusion that the major mover and shaker in [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Geneva Conventions, Howard McKeon, Location of Osama bin Laden, Osama BinLaden, United States, United States House Committee on Armed Services, War in Afghanistan (2001–present), War on Terror
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May 14, 2011
We really must have an anti drone campaign. If you feel strongly about peace and care about where your children may be forced to fight for the rotten and cancerous imperial project and the capital project try sending an email to your local member State and Federal. You could well think that a prime target [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Australia, Drone attacks in Pakistan, NATO, North Waziristan, Osama bin Laden, Osama BinLaden, Pakistan, Pakistani Armed Forces, Shamsi Airfield, United Arab Emirates, United States
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May 14, 2011
Experts Warn of Balkanization of Libya by Simba Russeau, May 14, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum CAIRO—As the battle for Libya rages on—with the country’s economic heartland, Misrata, being the scene of some of the uprising’s fiercest fighting—experts are warning that a “Balkanization” of Libya is possible if the U.S. and NATO [...]
Tags: Africa, African Union, Campaign Against Arms Trade, Libya, Misrata, Misurata, Muammar al-Gaddafi, NATO, Soviet Union, Tripoli, United States
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A Gaza message to others
Editor’s Note: Australian participant on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza Michael Coleman has been arrested by Greek Police for attempting to block their pursuit of the Canadian boat the “Tahrir” as it left port. Michael and Soha, another Canadian Flotilla team member, were in two kayaks beside the “Tahrir”. As soon as the boat’s [...]
Tags: Australia, Brisbane, Gaza flotilla raid, Greek Police, Hizb ut-Tahrir, Kevin Rudd, Melbourne, Politics of Greece
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