NATO Summit A Show Of Force By Paul Heise May 24, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — The NATO summit held in Chicago last weekend reflects everything that is wrong with our society. The NATO summit put on display how we can and do conjure up foreign and domestic threats to [...]
Photo by Reuters I’ve just returned home from the NATO summit and I can’t stop focusing on all that we don’t know after dozens of world leaders met for two days. I have to wonder if the Obama Administration is disappointed in the results. At the end of all of those hours of talking, the [...]
Supporters of the Catholic Workers social justice and peace movement march on Randolph Street after a protest Monday outside President Barack Obama’s national campaign headquarters at Prudential Plaza, where eight demonstrators were arrested. (José M. Osorio, Chicago Tribune / May 14, 2012) From Afghanistan to Chicago, NATO‘s Hard Sell by Roxane Assaf & Michael Lynn [...]
NATO: The New Holy Alliance The Chicago conclave and history’s little ironies by Justin Raimondo, May 09, 2012 Print This | Share This They’re cowering in Chicago, where the NATO summit is scheduled to open on May 20: the security arrangements go well beyond paranoia. They’re telling office workersin buildings adjacent to the site to “dress [...]
The Libyan Model and the Oxymoron: Class of 2012 Queen and King By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/libyan-model-and-oxymoron-class-2012-queen-and-king There’s a new Atrocity Prevention Board in town, and its chief tool for preventing atrocities will be . . . wait for it . . . atrocities! What a breakthrough! And this clown is forming a tentative life partnership with an [...]
NATO vs. Rogues? By John Feffer Institutions rarely vote themselves out of existence. Not if they still have money in their budgets. Large institutions in particular have an almost genetic propensity to cling to life even after their reasons for being have vanished. That’s why I don’t expect NATO, which will [...]
Turkey says Israel must apologize for killing 9 Turkish nationals in May 2010. ISTANBUL (Reuters) — Turkey has refused to allow Israel to take part in a NATO summit next month because the country has not apologized for the 2010 killing of Turkish activists in a raid on a ship taking aid to Palestinians, a [...]
Still killed and killing in the lost Afghanistan War By Lindsey German Stop the War Coalition Afghans for Peace say end the war now April 20, 2012 – Has anyone told the media that the NATO forces are losing the war in Afghanistan? The capital city, Kabul, supposedly the safest place in the country was faced [...]
Taliban warn lawmakers over restoration of NATO supplies * Say will target every MP who supports restoration * Advise drivers of supply trucks to quit job to avoid consequences PESHAWAR: The Pakistani Taliban on Sunday threatened to attack lawmakers if they voted in support of resuming supplies for NATO troops in [...]
Serbian President Calls 1999 NATO Bombing a Crime on Anniversary A glass and iron monument in Belgrade honoring to those killed in the 1990s conflicts in the Balkans was met with controvsery by John Glaser, March 24, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Serbian President Boris Tadic said Saturday the 1999 NATO bombing campaign that stopped [...]
Why Do We Protest the NATO Summit? Saturday, 24 March 2012 12:59By Buddy Bell, Voices for Creative Nonviolence | Op-Ed After the end of World War II, a group of nations in the north Atlantic established NATO to impede Russian influence over the reconstruction of Europe and to facilitate their own. The economic blueprint [...]
A Nato air strike in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, last June. Photograph: KeystoneUSA-ZUMA/Rex Features Nato must investigate civilian deaths in Libya, says Amnesty Campaigners say scores of Libyans were killed or injured in air strikes but Nato has not provided compensation Nato has failed to properly investigate or provide compensation for civilian deaths caused by its [...]
Afghan farmers work on a poppy field in the Grishk district of Helmand province (Reuters / Abdul Qodus / Files) Heroin harvest: NATO losing Afghan war on drugs Get short URL email story to a friend print version Published: 13 March, 2012, 13:23 TRENDS:Russia-NATO relations TAGS: Military, NATO, Russia, Politics, Terrorism,Drugs, Afghanistan, USA, Robert Bridge, Egypt The western military bloc couldn’t persuade Afghan farmers to [...]
1. During the Cold War, NATO defended Western Europe from Soviet attack. Although military spending during this era was comparably extravagant on both sides, we should remember that, because the Soviet Union controlled a substantially smaller share of the global economy, its annual military budget eventually reached almost 25% of its [...]
As Libya’s eastern region of Cyrenaica declares its semi-autonomy from the central government, political analyst Pepe Escobar says no one will be intervening this time to stop a war among Libyan tribes should it kick off. The Cyrenaica region, with its center in Benghazi, the cradle of last year’s uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, [...]
NATO: Caught in the headlights Read the second part of chapter five of Marwan Bishara‘s latest book, The Invisible Arab. Many of the reasons given to justify NATO intervention in Libya have turned out to be false [GALLO/GETTY] Editor’s note: This article is part two of chapter five, and the fifth of a [...]
In the wake of the cross-border strike, Pakistan shut down a US air base in Balochistan and halted NATO supplies [AFP] Pakistan’s army has rejected a US military report that claimed that NATO cross-border air strikes that killed 24 Pakistani troops in November were regrettable but justified. In a detailed report released on Monday, Pakistan’s [...]
Afghan Governor: NATO Kills Five Civilians in Northeast NATO ‘Aware’ of Operation by Jason Ditz, January 18, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Kunar Province Governor Sayed Fazelullah Wahidi is reporting that an overnight raid by NATO forces on Monday has killed at least five [...]
NATO: Afghanistan Will Need ‘Decades’ of Additional Support Afghans Expected to Need $7 Billion Annually Just for Military by Jason Ditz, January 16, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Top NATO official Sir Simon Gass indicated today the alliance plans a more or less open-ended commitment [...]
The US military plans to triple the number of Afghan police by the end of 2013. Photograph: Stringer/EPA US reliance on Afghan paramilitaries in rural areas worries European allies Britain wonders if local police force can keep stability, while Germans argue the units are not easy to control A split between the US and its [...]
In the aftermath of the Cold War, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), has become increasingly powerful. It was created in 1949 as an alliance of Western military forces to protect against the perceived military threat posed by the Soviet Union and the Eastern bloc [...]
US Report on Pakistan Attack Blames NATO for Failures Pakistan Formally Rejects US Report on Killings by Jason Ditz, December 26, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Less than a week after insisting that the attack on a Pakistani military base was “appropriate” [...]
NATO has admitted for the first time Libyan civilians were killed and injured during its seven-month bombing campaign that led to the ouster and death of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. The acknowledgment came after a New York Times investigation revealed at least 40 civilians, and perhaps more than 70, were killed by NATO air strikes, [...]
Return to Sorman – Anatomy of a NATO war crime by Franklin Lamb Posted on December 18, 2011 by dandelionsalad by Franklin Lamb Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Sorman, Libya December 29, 2011 It was a warm early Monday morning along the Libyan coast on June 20, 2011. At approximately 0200 GMT the next day in [...]
German General: NATO to Leave 15,000 Troops in Afghanistan After ‘Withdrawal’ Troops Will Provide ‘Training and Technical Support‘ by Jason Ditz, December 13, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Speaking today at a NATO conference in Mons, Belgium, top German General Manfred Lange said [...]
Stranded Pakistani Truckers Back NATO Supply Blockade Companies Keep Truckers With Their Vehicles by Jason Ditz, December 09, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Reports out of one of the many terminals filled with NATO supply trucks stuck in Pakistan since the government [...]
CIA, NATO Lied to Press About Lost Drone Move Couched as ‘Head Fake’ to Trick Iran by Jason Ditz, December 06, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum This weekend’s story of Iran shooting down a drone came with [...]
US/Pakistan‘s Toxic Alliance By Stephen Lendman - Posted on 02 December 2011 US/Pakistan’s Toxic Alliance – by Stephen Lendman Partnering with America has a price. Pakistan’s paid dearly. Post-9/11, it’s been harmed economically, politically, and strategically. Has its military now had enough and want out? More on that below. At issue is the latest November 26 incident involving [...]
Much of the materiel transported by NATO passes the Torkham border crossing [Mujib Mashal/Al Jazeera] Torkham Border, Afghanistan – Pakistan’s decision to close down its two border crossings to NATO supplies in reaction to the foreign coalition’s deadly raid into its territory has made the route, already marked by frequent attacks from Taliban fighters and [...]
Should We Allow NATO Free Rein to Attack and Kill People? The airstrike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers is just the latest in a series of mistakes that raise doubts about NATO’s credibility by Pratap Chatterjee Why did NATO forces kill two dozen Pakistani soldiers at a border post in the Mohmand region, some 300 yards [...]
Pakistani flags cover the coffins of soldiers killed in the Nato border attack on Saturday. Photograph: Reuters Pakistan orders US to leave airbase in row over deadly Nato assault Islamabad says US must leave Shamsi base in 15 days after deaths of at least 24 Pakistani soldiers in mistaken attack reddit this Saeed Shah in [...]
Nato trucks at the Pakistani border town of Torkham bound for Afghanistan: a senior western official claims an attack by Nato aircraft on Pakistani troops that allegedly killed as many as 28 soldiers was an act of self-defence. Photograph: Qazi Rauf/AP Nato air attack on Pakistani troops was self-defence, says senior western official US-Pakistan relations [...]
The Pakistani government responded to the incident by asking the US to vacate Shamsi air base within 15 days [EPA] The Pakistani government has given the US fifteen days to vacate an airfield in Balochistan province after an alleged cross-border attack which killed at least 24 Pakistani soldiers. The attack on a military checkpoint in [...]
The alleged helicopter attack targeted an area where Pakistani soldiers patrol near the Afghan border [EPA] A spokesman for the NATO-led alliance in Afghanistan has confirmed that it was “highly likely” the alliance’s aircraft killed Pakistani soldiers in an incident near the Afghan border on Saturday. The attack on a military checkpoint in northwest Pakistan [...]
The European right is not to be trusted NATO Chief: No Intention of Attacking Syria Says Libya-Style Intervention ‘Out of the Question’ by Jason Ditz, October 31, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Speaking to reporters today during a visit to Tripoli, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen insisted that the military alliance has “no intention [...]
Anti-Gaddafi fighters gesture to the crowds in front of a Kingdom of Libya flag during celebrations in Benghazi on 23 October. Photograph: Esam Omran Al-Fetori/Reuters reddit this Comments (529) Seumas Milne guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 26 October 2011 22.20 BST Article history As the most hopeful offshoot of the “Arab spring” so far flowered this week in [...]
Was Gadaffi executed with NATO consent? 22 October 2011 There is increasing evidence and proof that there has been a prior agreement between the supporters of the Libyan National Transitional Council [NTC] and the leaders of the NATO countries on the physical liquidation of Col Mu’ammar al-Qadhafi, his sons, and those close to him, and [...]
I, along with many others was warning readers about the awful killing machines, the Drones. They are a weapon with nothing more than a continually updated capacity to kill and destroy while using highly suspect forms of surveillance. What they really do is to simply be employed against a site where there is some suspicion or advantage attaching [...]
Nato success against Taliban in Afghanistan ‘may be exaggerated’ Isaf has given the impression top Afghan Taliban commanders are being killed or captured, says the report. Photograph: EPA Report says kill-or-capture raids are not a surgical tactic as claimed and use of the word ‘leader’ is suspect reddit this Julian Borger, diplomatic editor [...]
THE ROVING EYE It’s a TOTAL war, monsieur By Pepe Escobar The winners of that “kinetic” thing in northern Africa (the Barack Obama administration swears it’s not a war) – collectively described as Friends of Libya (FOL) – were all in a jolly mood as they gathered in Paris on Thursday, with no air-conditioning but [...]
August: Deadliest Month for US in Afghanistan Civilian Deaths Go Uncounted as Ever by Jeremy Sapienza, August 30, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum We thought July was deadly in Afghanistan. But August was already showing its deadly side by mid-month, after the Taliban shot down a US helicopter and bombings, shootings, and [...]
Envoy: China to support Palestinian UN bid Published yesterday (updated) 24/08/2011 23:22 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Chinese Middle East envoy Wu Sike announced his country’s full support on Wednesday for the Palestinian UN bid for recognition in September. Secretary-General of the Presidency At-Tayeb Abdul Rahim met with the Chinese envoy in the presidential headquarters in [...]
New Libyan leaders must not fall in love with NATO. (Aljazeera) By Ali Younes In their stealthy and coordinated advance on the Libyan capital Tripoli last Sunday, the Libyan rebels transformed their 8 months uprising from indecisive low-intensity war into the possibility of an imminent victory over the Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi. [...]
What does the rebel advance in Libya have to do with us? In obvious ways, a great deal: our sympathy, our common aspirations, our sense of what makes for a saner and safer world all involve us. It is good to see dictators fall, and people dancing about freedom. (Read Andrew Solomon on what comes [...]
A Wall Street sign in front of the New York stock exchange. Recent events have changed the US as an unassailable economic superpower. Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters When India joined China in criticising America’s chaotic handling of its hefty debts this weekend, describing the challenges facing the White House as “grave”, it was the clearest indicator yet [...]
Barack Obama has not slept for a week because of worries over the US budget. Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images ( Seems life for a warmonger gets tougher by the minute, perhaps he should play with the dog. Even war criminals feel the heat and need a rest, forget about the countless numbers that have suffered [...]
Progressives don’t need more reasons to be disappointed with President Barack Obama’s handling of the deficit talks, but here’s another failing that has not gotten much play: The administration has been so timid on defense cuts that some leading Republicans are now well to the president’s left on this issue. (Flickr/gregwest98) SHARE THIS STORY. [...]
Rupert Murdoch: Intellectual terrorism by PAUL J. BALLES on JULY 25, 2011 The past week’s news has been dominated by reports of scandals in Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. As journalist Ted Newcomen points out, there’s more to the story: The latest revelations in the UK about phone hacking, bribing the police, and frightening political leaders are just [...]
In Shadow of Death, Iraq and U.S. Tiptoe Around a Deadline Spencer Platt/Getty Images American soldiers stopped to talk with an Iraqi during a patrol this week in Babil Province. Lately, American combat deaths have been increasing in Iraq. By TIM ARANGO Published: July 14, 2011 RECOMMEND TWITTER COMMENTS SIGN IN TO E-MAIL PRINT REPRINTS SHARE [...]
Libya: Nato dismisses claims of civilian casualties By Mike Corder in The Hague Nato’s secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen has dismissed Libyan claims that the alliance’s airstrikes have killed more than 1,100 people. Nato has “no confirmed information” about possible civilian casualties as a result of its bombing, Mr Fogh Rasmussen told [...]
