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 [...]
Tags: Chalmers Johnson, Max Boot, middle east, Noam Chomsky, Oxford University Press, Robert Kagan, Thomas Dunne Books, United State, Warfare and Conflict, World Trade Center
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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 [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, George W. Bush, Osama bin Laden, Pentagon, Taliban, United States, White House
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July 13, 2011
In the coming weeks, Barack Obama, the US president, is set to decide on the size, scale and timing of an American withdrawal from Afghanistan. Last week the president’s military advisors reportedly argued against the prospect of a substantial withdrawal, saying that leaving too early would threaten hard-won gains. The president’s final decision will depend on judgements [...]
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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 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 [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Associated Press, Barack Obama, Hamid Karzai, Helmand Province, Taliban, United State, United States Armed Forces
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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 [...]
Tags: Afghan National Army, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Politics of Afghanistan, Stanley McChrystal, Taliban, United State, United States Armed Forces
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June 30, 2011
The Politics of Militarization and Corporatization in Higher Education War Colleges By HENRY GIROUX While there is an ongoing discussion about the increasing corporatization of higher education—extending from the attempted buying of faculty positions by right-wing billionaires such as the Koch brothers to the increasing casualization of faculty labor and the commodification of knowledge, what [...]
Tags: Higher education, History, NBC Nightly News, Northeastern Pennsylvania, Pentagon, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, United State, USA, War in Afghanistan (2001–present), World War II
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June 26, 2011
NAJAF, Iraq (AFP) – Supporters of Shiite radical leader Moqtada al-Sadr have offered to carry out suicide attacks against US troops in Iraq, his office said Saturday, as a year-end deadline for a US pullout looms. “Thank you, my dear friends, and God bless you,” Sadr wrote in reply to the offer from loyalists of [...]
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June 22, 2011
Poll: Americans Who Favor Withdrawing Troops Quickly at All-Time High CHRIS HONDROS/GETTY IMAGES Lt. John Paszterko, with the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division, talks with a local farmer while on patrol last year near Kandahar, Afghanistan. By Sara Sorcher Updated: June 21, 2011 | 6:30 p.m. June 21, 2011 | 1:51 p.m. Americans in record [...]
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June 18, 2011
Egypt and Tunisia are now officially on the international donor community’s radar. The World Bank and the G8 are already planning different ways to sponsor the so-called Arab Spring. Many Arabs are speaking out against a possible Euro-US “hijacking” or “containment” of the regional movement through this type of ”cheque book diplomacy”. I will argue here that this position is not [...]
Tags: Arab people, egypt, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, European Union, Robert Zoellick, Tunisia, United States, Western world, WikiLeaks, World Bank
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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 [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, David Petraeus, Libya, Obama administration, Pentagon, Republican Party (United States), United States
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June 18, 2011
Whatever attitude you adopt it is hard to go past the fact that the US was with Iraq and our co-criminal involvement was all about oil as a resource as well as about controlling oil reserves in the Middle East. Of course that spreads to and includes other countries with estimated massive reserves of gas [...]
Tags: 2003 invasion of Iraq, Amoco, Arab world, ExxonMobil, Iraq, Iraq War, Lukoil, middle east, Oil reserves, United States, Weatherford International
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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 [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, David Petraeus, Iraq War troop surge of 2007, The Wall Street Journal, United States, United States Armed Forces, United States Secretary of Defense
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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 [...]
Tags: Afghan National Army, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Karen DeYoung, Robert Gates, Ryan Crocker, United State, United States Agency for International Development, United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
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June 5, 2011
Taliban Move Into Kandahar City Insurgents Stage Urban Strikes as the U.S. Fights for Territory Around Afghanistan‘s No. 2 Metropolis June 4, 2011 KANDAHAR, Afghanistan—The Taliban insurgency in southern Afghanistan is turning urban, as the American military surge in their rural heartland drives militants into the maze of Kandahar, the nation’s second-largest city. The U.S. [...]
Tags: 10th Mountain Division, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, James L. Terry, Kandahar, Taliban, Tooryalai Wesa, United States Armed Forces
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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 [...]
Tags: Andrew Bacevich, Barack Obama, Iraq, Libya, Memorial Day, Osama bin Laden, Oval Office, Terrorism, United States, War on Terror
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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 [...]
Tags: Arab people, Baghdad, Iraq, Maliki, middle east, Nouri al-Maliki, Politics of Iraq, Saddam Hussein
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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 [...]
Tags: Abdul Ghani Baradar, Hamid Karzai, Mohammed Omar, Osama bin Laden, Pakistani Armed Forces, Taliban, United States, Washington Post
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May 29, 2011
U.S. Tells Its Afghan Workers: No Torture, Corpse Mutilation By Spencer Ackerman It’s never a good sign when you have to tell the men guarding your base not to murder civilians, torture detainees or desecrate corpses. But U.S. special-operations forces in Afghanistan are leaving nothing to chance. The Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force-Afghanistan put 10 contracts [...]
Tags: Afghan National Army, Afghanistan, Kabul, Pul-e-Charkhi prison, Security guard, Special Operations Task Force, Spencer Ackerman, Taliban, United States special operations forces
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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 [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Benghazi, David Cameron, G8, Libya, middle east, NATO, Nicolas Sarkozy, On the Origin of Species, Patrick Wintour, President of France, United States
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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 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
Obama, Cameron Vow Escalation of Libya War House Amendment Reiterates Illegality of Conflict by Jason Ditz, May 25, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Meeting today in London, President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron once again insisted that the NATO war in Libya will continue until Moammar Gadhafi is [...]
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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 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 [...]
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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 [...]
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May 5, 2011
Shooting of Unarmed Bin Laden Draws Increasing Scrutiny Holder Insists Killing Was ‘Self Defense’ on a National Level by Jason Ditz, May 04, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The Sunday narrative of the killing of Osama bin Laden in an intense firefight played quite well, but as officials have allowed the [...]
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May 5, 2011
In Wake of bin Laden Kill, Congress Smooches Spec Ops Posted: Wed, 04 May 2011 17:20:55 +0000 There’s no doubt that Congress loves commandos. But after Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden, a key panel overseeing them is showing the special operations community some extra special appreciation. Over in the House, the Emerging Threats and Capabilities [...]
Tags: James Langevin, Joint Special Operations Command, Mac Thornberry, Osama bin Laden, United States House Committee on Armed Services, United States Navy SEALs, United States Special Operations Command, William H. McRaven
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Much More To Say. A post Bin Laden Death article by Noam Chomsky
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 [...]
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Geoffrey Robertson, Helmut Schmidt, Noam Chomsky, Osama bin Laden, Terrorism, Terrorist Organizations, United State, United States Navy SEALs, Wall Street Journal, White House, Z Communications
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