September 6, 2011
Rebels surround a building in Tripoli, Libya. Documents alleging UK links to renditions to Libya have been unearthed by rebels as they take control of the country. (AP Photo/Francois Mori) A Libyan rebel leader who was rendered to Tripoli with the assistance ofMI6 said on Monday that he had told British intelligence officers he was [...]
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Kuala Lumpur, Libya, Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, List of diplomatic missions of the United Kingdom, List of intelligence agencies, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Tripoli
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May 26, 2011
Welcome to the violent world of Mr. Hopey Changey 26 May 2011 When Britain lost control of Egypt in 1956, Prime Minister Anthony Eden said he wanted the nationalist president Gamal Abdel Nasser “destroyed… murdered… I don’t give a damn if there’s anarchy and chaos in Egypt”. Those insolent Arabs, Winston Churchill had urged in [...]
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May 19, 2011
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Headlines from the Dustbin of History (Afghan Dept.) Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 10:03am, May 19, 2011. Bored to Death in Afghanistan (and Washington) Mating Déjà Vu with a Mobius Strip in the Graveyard of Empire By Tom Engelhardt One day in October 2001, a pilot for Northwest Airlines refused to let Arshad Chowdhury, a 25-year-old [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Northwest Airlines, Osama BinLaden, Pentagon, United States, War in Afghanistan (2001–present), World Trade Center
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May 13, 2011
Defense Intelligence Staff chief blows British cover for Iraq War Submitted by NicolasDavies on Fri, 2011-05-13 01:13 Iraq Paul Pillar, a senior CIA analyst who worked on the 25-page “summary of intelligence” presented to Congress in 2002, later told PBS, “The purpose was to strengthen the case for going to war…I regret having had a [...]
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May 12, 2011
Tomgram: William Astore, A New Age of “Enlightened” War Posted by William Astore at 10:00am, May 12, 2011. In case you hadn’t noticed, they are — no kidding around — absolutely the niftiest non-humans on Earth. I’m speaking about the special operations force of Navy SEALs that took out Osama bin Laden. They and their special ops [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Central Intelligence Agency, New York Times, Osama BinLaden, Project for Excellence in Journalism, Special forces, United States, United States Navy SEALs, Washington Post
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May 10, 2011
The answer to the opening question would have to be No. But for reasons different from what the US and Oxfam see as appropriate. The entire population is being held as live hostages of the imperial project and the local system run for their own benefit by Karzai and others. The hallmark of this situation [...]
Tags: Afghan National Army, Afghan National Police, Hamid Karzai, NATO, Osama bin Laden, Oxfam, Politics of Afghanistan, United States
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May 9, 2011
The Predators: Where is Your Democracy? By Kathy Kelly http://warisacrime.org/node/57779 On May 4, 2011, CNN World News asked whether killing Osama bin Laden was legal under international law. Other news commentary has questioned whether it would have been both possible and advantageous to bring Osama bin Laden to trial rather than kill him. World attention [...]
Tags: Federally Administered Tribal Areas, General Atomics MQ-1 Predator, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, Kathy Kelly, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, United States, Unmanned aerial vehicle
Posted in Al Qaeda, Arab Jews, Arab Spring, Assange, Atomics Corporation, Australia, Australia Politics, Australian complicity in US warmongering policies and war crimes, Australian Politics, BBC, Bin Laden, Bradley Manning, Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, CIA, Commentators, Consent, Counterpunch, D Room, Democracy, Democracy Now!, disaster, Dissent, economic measures, Economics, Economy, Education, Elites, Englehardt, European, European Foreign Policy, Fascism, Fisk, Foreign Policy, Galeano, Gaza, Gitmo, Guardian, Hillary, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Jason Ditz, Leon Panetta, MI 6, Middle East, Military, Military madmen, Mission Creep, NATO, Obama, Obama warmonger, oil, Palestine, Pentagon, people's protests, Predator Drone, Propaganda, Protest, Protests, Refugees, Special Ops, Swanson, UK, UK Foreign Policy, UN, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US war crimes, USA, War, War Crimes, War is a crime, Waterboarding, Wikileaks, Womens' views and action | No Comments »
May 9, 2011
The predatory capital project and its partner the imperial project are fast running out of the fresh kill zones they require in the killing fields they so euphemistically called the “new world” or the “third world” Marx clearly predicted that there would have to be a massive expansion of the predatory beast into the rest of the world, [...]
Tags: Anarcho-Syndicalism, Asia, Bakunin, Elite, Karl Marx, Latin America, London, Marx, Marxism, Mikhail Bakunin, United States
Posted in Anarchism, Bakunin, Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Chomsky, Consent, Counterpunch, D Room, Democracy, Democracy Now!, Dirty Energy, disaster, Dissent, economic measures, Economics, Economy, Education, Elites, Emma Goldmann, Englehardt, Escobar, European Foreign Policy, Fascism, Fisk, Foreign Policy, Galeano, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Indigenous, Indigenous Australians, Jason Ditz, Labor, Leon Panetta, MI 6, Military, Military madmen, Miscarriage of Justice, Mission Creep, NATO, nuclear, Obama, Obama warmonger, oil, people's protests, Pilger, Predator Drone, Propaganda, Protest, Protests, Ray McGovern, Rudolf Rocker, Rupert Murdoch, Sabrosky, Stateless socialism, Swanson, Tom Dispatch, torture, Unemployment, University education, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US war crimes, War, War Crimes, War is a crime | No Comments »
May 9, 2011
After bin Laden Hit, U.S. Aides Raise Dubious Hopes for Peace by Gareth Porter, May 09, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Barack Obama and top administration officials have taken advantage of the killing of Osama bin Laden to establish a new narrative suggesting the event will pave the way for negotiations [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Gareth Porter, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Taliban, The Real News, Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil, White House
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May 8, 2011
Tomgram: Andy Kroll, Welcome to the McJobs Recovery Posted by Andy Kroll at 5:50pm, May 8, 2011. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: For those of you who created a wavelet of contributions in response to our offer on Tuesday of a personalized, signed copy of Adam Hochschild’s remarkable new history of World War I, To End All Wars: [...]
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May 8, 2011
In a recent video interview at the Real News site there is some very interesting information. The whole interview should be watched. You can do that at http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=6731. It starts with the news that S & P has said a few things about the US economy. The witch doctors of financial boogie fever have spoken But they seem to [...]
Tags: Australia, Ben Bernanke, Bernanke, Economy of the United States, Federal Reserve System, God, International Monetary Fund, Julia Gillard, MarketWatch, Singapore Exchange, Standard & Poor's, United States, Wayne Swan
Posted in Al Jazeera, Al Qaeda, Anarchism, Assange, Atomics Corporation, Atzmon, Austerity, Australia, Australia Politics, Australian complicity in US warmongering policies and war crimes, Australian economy, Australian Foreign Policy, Australian Politics, Bakunin, BBC, BP, Bradley Manning, Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Chomsky, CIA, Climate change, Commentators, D Room, Democracy, Democracy Now!, economic measures, Economics, Economy, Education, Emma Goldmann, Erdogan, Escobar, European, European Foreign Policy, Fascism, Fisk, Foreign Policy, Fox News, Galeano, Gillard, Goldstone, Hillary, IMF, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Indigenous Australians, Israel, Japan, Jason Ditz, Labor, Leon Panetta, Libya, MI 6, Military, Military madmen, Monbiot, oil, Parliament, Pentagon, people's protests, Pilger, police, Predator Drone, Propaganda, Protest, Protests, Racism, Ray McGovern, Rudd, Rudolf Rocker, Rupert Murdoch, Sabrosky, Stateless socialism, Sustainable fishing is an oxymoron, Swanson, The Fourth Reich, Timor, Tom Dispatch, torture, UN, Uri Avnery, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US war crimes, USA, Video, War, War Crimes, War is a crime, Waterboarding, Wikileaks, Womens' views and action | No Comments »
May 8, 2011
While the establishment media was busy parroting President Obama’s announcement of Osama bin Laden’s supposed assassination, reporting the unsubstantiated claims as if they were unquestionable facts, much of the so-called “alternative” press was far morecautious — and accurate, it turns out. But more importantly, with the new official storyline indicating that bin Laden was in fact unarmed, bigger and [...]
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May 5, 2011
This not a cheap ticket. It costs an enormous amount. Death and destruction on a wide scale mixed with a specific target does not come cheap. Particularly if you are in the rifle sights or too close to the bomb crater. George Ikners ikners.com a WordPress site Opening photo is of Paul Pillar Bin Ladin‘s [...]
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Posted in Afghan Youth, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Anarchism, antiwar.com, Arab Jews, Atomics Corporation, Australian Foreign Policy, Australian Politics, Bin Laden, Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, CIA, Dissent, Elites, Fascism, Fatah, Foreign Policy, Gillard, Gitmo, Guantanamo Bay a human disaster, Guantanamo crimes, Hamas, Hillary, Imperial Project, Imperialism, MI 6, Middle East, Military, Military madmen, Mission Creep, NATO, Obama, Obama warmonger, Propaganda, Racism, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US war crimes, USA, War, War Crimes, War is a crime | No Comments »
April 26, 2011
Guantánamo Bay files: Al-Qaida assassin ‘worked for MI6′ • Leaked Guantánamo papers link UK to Algerian militant • At least 123 prisoners incriminated by one informer Share Declan Walsh in Islamabad, David [...]
Tags: Adil Hadi bin Hamlili, al-Qaeda, Guantánamo Bay, Joint Task Force Guantanamo, Osama bin Laden, Secret Intelligence Service, United States, WikiLeaks
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Predators and Democracy. Where to now?
The Predators: Where is Your Democracy? By Kathy Kelly http://warisacrime.org/node/57779 On May 4, 2011, CNN World News asked whether killing Osama bin Laden was legal under international law. Other news commentary has questioned whether it would have been both possible and advantageous to bring Osama bin Laden to trial rather than kill him. World attention [...]
Tags: Federally Administered Tribal Areas, General Atomics MQ-1 Predator, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, Kathy Kelly, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, United States, Unmanned aerial vehicle
Posted in Al Qaeda, Arab Jews, Arab Spring, Assange, Atomics Corporation, Australia, Australia Politics, Australian complicity in US warmongering policies and war crimes, Australian Politics, BBC, Bin Laden, Bradley Manning, Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, CIA, Commentators, Consent, Counterpunch, D Room, Democracy, Democracy Now!, disaster, Dissent, economic measures, Economics, Economy, Education, Elites, Englehardt, European, European Foreign Policy, Fascism, Fisk, Foreign Policy, Galeano, Gaza, Gitmo, Guardian, Hillary, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Jason Ditz, Leon Panetta, MI 6, Middle East, Military, Military madmen, Mission Creep, NATO, Obama, Obama warmonger, oil, Palestine, Pentagon, people's protests, Predator Drone, Propaganda, Protest, Protests, Refugees, Special Ops, Swanson, UK, UK Foreign Policy, UN, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US war crimes, USA, War, War Crimes, War is a crime, Waterboarding, Wikileaks, Womens' views and action | No Comments »