November 10, 2011
Insanity, not logic, guides Israel‘s leadership The mens’ men who are threatening Iran now are the real cowards’ cowards. The brave ones are in fact those who are trying to thwart the insanity, from former Mossad chief Meir Dagan to Interior Minister Eli Yishai. By Gideon LevyTags: Iran Iran nuclear Tehran Eli Yishai Palestinian Authority Muammar [...]
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October 20, 2011
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 [...]
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October 15, 2011
The grim reality of life under Alabama‘s brutal immigration law Alabama immigration law: anyone failing to carry immigraton papers is now deemed to be committing a criminal act. Photograph: Gary Tramontina/Polaris Fear of detention, families torn apart – Hispanics in Alabama are trapped in a unique half-life under punishing new immigrant laws • Latest: police can [...]
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August 17, 2011
The Obama administration decided that it was not concerned about drone strikes upsetting Pakistanis EPA] Pakistani civilian and military leaders are insisting on an effective veto over which targets US drone strikes hit, according to well-informed Pakistani military sources here. The sources, who met on condition that they not be identified, said that such veto [...]
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August 14, 2011
Pakistani police officials declined to speculate on the motive for the abduction of Warren Weinstein in Lahore [AFP] An American aid expert has been kidnapped at gunpoint in the Pakistani city of Lahore after gunmen stormed his residence and overpowered security guards. The US embassy on Saturday identified the victim as Warren Weinstein, a consultant for [...]
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August 9, 2011
Obama Vows to Continue Afghan War Panetta also backs continuing war, seeking to ‘honor troops’ by Jason Ditz, August 08, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum In separate comments related to the deaths of 30 US troops in a helicopter downing over the weekend, President Obama and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta both [...]
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August 8, 2011
European markets stabilised after the ECB began buying Italian and Spanish debt on Monday [AFP] The stock market ‘woes’ are symptomatic of the immorality of allowing people to deal in a created commodity like a company or corporation while they make no contribution to the company. The company or corporation only exists [...]
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August 4, 2011
Rumsfeld Iraq ‘torture‘ suit given go-ahead Former Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has been represented by the justice department Continue reading the main story Related Stories Bush ‘should face torture probe’ Rumsfeld defends US war in Iraq Profile: Donald Rumsfeld A US judge has ruled that a former American military contractor who claims he was tortured [...]
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July 31, 2011
US congressman Peter King has been holding hearings on the ‘radicalisation’ of the American Muslim community, and has refused to widen the hearings’ scope to include other, non-Muslim terrorism threats [GALLO/GETTY] The frightful mass murder in Norway on July 22, 2011 and the instant, knee-jerk reaction of a number of leading European and American news organisations – including the BBC, The [...]
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July 31, 2011
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 [...]
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July 30, 2011
ASPEN, Colorado — Ground the U.S. drone war in Pakistan. Rethink the idea of spending billions of dollars to pursue al-Qaida. Forget chasing terrorists in Yemen and Somalia, unless the local governments are willing to join in the hunt. Those aren’t the words of some human rights activist, or some far-left Congressman. They’re from retired [...]
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July 29, 2011
WASHINGTON — Though the withdrawal of American military forces from Iraq and Afghanistan will save the nation billions of dollars a year, another cost of war is projected to continue rising for decades to come: caring for the veterans. Philip Scott Andrews/The New York Times When you embark on an immoral, illegal and criminal act like a war [...]
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July 29, 2011
Lord Justice Leveson, appointed by David Cameron to look into the fallout from the phone-hacking scandal, warned yesterday that he may not be able to complete the first part of the inquiry within the planned timescale of a year because its goals had been widened “quite substantially”. Senior parliamentarians said it was possible the full inquiry, [...]
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July 26, 2011
PALESTINE, ISRAEL, GERMANY- THE BOUNDARIES OF OPEN DISCUSSION MONDAY, JULY 25, 2011 AT 1:46PM GILAD ATZMON This is a very important conference!!! http://paltagefreiburg2011.blogspot.com/ September 10-11, 2011 Freiburg, Germany Freedom of speech and expression are recognised by many as primary human rights. However, when it comes to discussion on topics concerning Palestine, Israel and Germany we often face rigid [...]
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July 26, 2011
Mike Davis, The Coming Economic Disaster Posted by Mike Davis at 8:15am, July 26, 2011. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: A heartfelt thanks to all of you who, in these dog days of summer, contributed $100 or more for a personalized, signed copy of Christian Parenti’s cutting-edge new book, Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography [...]
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July 26, 2011
For those interested in the cancer of the voodoo economic rhythm this editorial should be illuminating. But consider this. The US elite that wishes to rule the planet has been putting what it feels is necessary to achieve this goal for at least a century. What has always driven this march to hegemony is that the people [...]
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July 26, 2011
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 [...]
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July 26, 2011
The war in Iraq created another ‘puppet’ regime. (Zoriah.net) By James Petras Empires are built through the promotion and backing of local collaborators who act at the behest of imperial rulers. They are rewarded with the outward symbols of authority and financial handouts, even as it is understood that they hold their position only at the tolerance [...]
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July 26, 2011
Robbie Williams: Scotland Yard told his solicitor that a number of his clients were referred to in Glenn Mulcaire‘s documents. Photograph: Luke Macgregor/Reuters Now it’s the turn of lawyers and the legal process to be sucked into the phone-hacking vortex. The Law Society has even suggested justice itself is under threat, implying messages could have been [...]
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July 24, 2011
The imperial project as we have seen it unfold on the part of the US and other countries around the world has always come hand in hand with the destruction of any and all existing free, democratic or libertarian institutions that exist in the target countries. In order to strip these countries of the resources [...]
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July 23, 2011
Rupert Murdoch’s NewsCorp scandal is sending shock waves across the UK, as protesters reject the mogul’s denial of reponsibility for criminal behaviour within his empire [GALLO/GETTY] Embroiled in a scandal that has global implications, Rupert Murdoch’s media empire is under fire due to the ongoing fallout resulting from the News of the World scandal. But while News Corp [...]
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July 23, 2011
Study Rebuts US Claims of ‘No Civilian Deaths’ in Pakistan Drone Strikes by Naseema Noor, July 23, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum ( ikners.com has consistently warned about the use of these weapons of mass murder, they are lovingly described by by perverted officers as Guardian Angels. George Ikners ikners,com) As the Pakistani [...]
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July 23, 2011
US military weighs more Predator drones for Libya 22 Jul 2011 21:10 Source: Reuters // Reuters * NATO wants more aircraft in 4-month-old bombing campaign * U.S. again debating whether to arm rebels, official says By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON, July 22 (Reuters) – As the war in Libya drags on, the U.S. military is [...]
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July 20, 2011
Lying About Civilian Casualties in Drone War John Glaser, July 19, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Apparently John Brennan, President Obama’s counter-terrorism advisor, told the public last month that zero (that’s right, zero) civilian casualties have occurred as a result of U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan. For anyone reading Antiwar.com on [...]
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July 19, 2011
Photos from the Ground Show Civilian Casualties By Hasnain Kazim Noor Behram In the US, remote-controlled drones are considered great tools in the war on terror. For years Washington has sent these high-tech weapons into western Pakistan, lauding their precision. But a local journalist says he has photographic evidence that civilians are often the victims. Noor [...]
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July 15, 2011
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 [...]
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July 15, 2011
Mourners carry the coffin of a killed Libyan rebel fighter in Zintan. Photograph: Ammar Awad/Reuters The six barefooted men trooped into the school library, their faces uneasy and downcast. Not so long ago this room, with its Arabic texts and Webster’s dictionary, was for studious children. Now it is home to prisoners of war. [...]
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July 13, 2011
US politicians continue to press for detainees captured overseas to be tried in military courts [EPA] When Ahmed Warsame was captured by US forces in April, he didn’t know that he would be interrogated on a ship at sea, then rendered to trial in New York City nearly three months later. It also probably didn’t occur [...]
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July 13, 2011
The Pentagon wants the White House to “hold off on ending the Afghanistan troop surge until the fall of 2012″ [GALLO/GETTY] Among multiple layers of deception and newspeak, the official Washington spin on the strategic quagmire in Afghanistan simply does not hold. No more than “50-75 ‘al-Qaeda types’ in Afghanistan”, according to the CIA, have [...]
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July 13, 2011
Phyllis Bennis is director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies. She is also a fellow of the Transnational What follows is in the form of a letter by Phyllis Bennis the author of the article beside this one on this page. It summarises thoughts, actions, initiatives and the continuing [...]
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July 13, 2011
Turkish Democracy Gives Rise to Turkish Power By Phyllis Bennis, AlterNet Posted on July 11, 2011 (Selçuk, Turkey) It was election day, June 12, in this small town in Turkey’s heavily secular far west region. Opposition to the governing Justice and Development Party, the Islamic-oriented AKP, runs strong. The manager of the small hotel shook his [...]
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July 13, 2011
US Drone Salvo Attacks Pakistani Border Regions, Killing 48 Pakistan Threatens to Withdraw Troops From Border as Tensions Rise by Jason Ditz, July 12, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Over the past 24 hours US drones have launched multiple drone strikes against tribal areas inside of Pakistan, killing at least 48 people [...]
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July 12, 2011
Syria has denounced a statement by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in which she said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had lost legitimacy and was “not indispensable”. “Syria strongly condemns the statements of the American foreign minister … these remarks are provocative and aim at continuing the internal tension,” Syria’s state news agency, SANA, said [...]
Tags: Al Jazeera, Bashar-al Assad, Demographics of Syria, Flag of Syria, Hillary Rodham Clinton, List of diplomatic missions of France, Politics of Syria, Syria, United States, Washington DC
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July 12, 2011
Obama’s Bush-League World Is the Obama National Security Team a Pilotless Drone? By Tom Engelhardt George W. who? I mean, the guy is so over. He turned the big six-five the other day and it was barely a footnote in the news. And Dick Cheney, tick-tick-tick. Condoleezza Rice? She’s already onto her next memoir, and yet it’s as [...]
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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 11, 2011
Exclusive to The Gulf Today Reports about an alleged CIA drone base targeting militants of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) based in Yemen appear contradictory. Some say that the US spy agency was trying to build a drone facility for surveillance and attack in Yemen itself similar to another on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, [...]
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July 6, 2011
This article exposes the true US attitude to the use of drones and the nature of the lies needed to justify their use anywhere. These awful killing machines masquerade as surveillance vehicles, soldiers guardian angels, tactical defence weapons and a never ending stream of lies and deceit to cover up what is happening. What they [...]
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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
The damaged units of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Photograph: AIR PHOTO SERVICE / HO/EPA How did the thinking go? Well he does seems to have been anti-nuclear, with good reason BUT why the change in opinion and then this? The answer is quite simple, at least for me, but trust me that [...]
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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 4, 2011
Years of violence in Iraq has left a severe shortage of doctors, nurses and the most basic medicines. Areas outside Baghdad particularly suffer from the frail state of the country’s healthcare system. And, as Al Jazeera’s Jane Arraf reports, children are often the most vulnerable There is a video available at the [...]
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July 3, 2011
Graveyard of Empires by Eric Margolis Recently by Eric Margolis: Turkey: The Mother of Revolutions In his majestic poem “Recessional,” Rudyard Kipling was writing of the fading British Empire, but his words are as vivid and pertinent today as a century ago: Far-called our navies melt away – On dune and headland sinks the fire – Lo, [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, British Empire, ERIC MARGOLIS, Osama bin Laden, Recessional, Rudyard Kipling, United State, War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
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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 2, 2011
Gadhafi Threatens Retaliation Against Europe if NATO Attacks Continue Comments Come During Pro-Regime Rally in Tripoli by Jason Ditz, July 01, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum In an audio message delivered today in Tripoli, Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi warned Europe that it faced retaliation if NATO did not immediately halt its bombing [...]
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July 2, 2011
Turning imagination into reality is not impossible. (Via Aljazeera) By Aurangzeb Qureshi Having had the luxury of being brought up in the West, I consider myself fortunate to not have lived under brutal dictators, self-serving monarchs, repressive laws and bloody conflicts. I always had the freedom to partake in protests, express dissent through writing and [...]
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July 2, 2011
U.S. military sees Iran behind rising troop deaths in Iraq Text Size Print E-mail Reprints By Tim Craig and Ed O’Keefe, Published: June 30 BAGHDAD — Three U.S. soldiers were killed this week in a rocket attack at a U.S. base near the Iranian border, the military said Thursday, bringing June’s death toll to 15 and marking the bloodiest [...]
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July 2, 2011
More U.S. troop deaths raise questions about strategy BY NANCY A. YOUSSEF MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS WASHINGTON – June was the deadliest month in nearly a year for U.S. service members in Afghanistan and Iraq even as the United States said that improved security in both countries allows it to reduce troops in those war zones. Sixty U.S. [...]
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June 30, 2011
Petraeus is expected to start his new job in September [Reuters] The US Senate has voted unanimously to confirm General David Petraeus to be the new director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Petraeus, commander of US forces in Afghanistan, was nominated by President Barack Obama to replace Leon Panetta, who is leaving the CIA to become [...]
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June 30, 2011
Bio Jeff Madrick is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, and a former economics columnist for The New York Times. He is editor of Challenge Magazine, visiting professor of humanities at The Cooper Union, and senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, The New [...]
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June 30, 2011
King George III Won: Happy Fourth of July! By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/58333 Preface: It has always been a matter of concern that the US has for so long lived in an deluded state that it had gained its independence from the harsh and odious British rule to replace that with a Grand Dream of Republicanism. In this way the future [...]
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Been waiting a long time for this. But not surprised. Are you? Think first a Monbiot point of view
The damaged units of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Photograph: AIR PHOTO SERVICE / HO/EPA How did the thinking go? Well he does seems to have been anti-nuclear, with good reason BUT why the change in opinion and then this? The answer is quite simple, at least for me, but trust me that [...]
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