October 19, 2011
A secret US memo authorised the killing of radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki for his alleged role in an al-Qaeda affiliate [EPA] The United States’ recent killing of Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen has prompted renewed debate over the CIA’s predator drone programme. That the US government asserts the right to eliminate a terrorism suspect far from [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Anwar al-Awlaki, Awlaki, New York Times, Obama administration, OLC, United States, Yemen
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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 26, 2011
You may wonder why in a world beset with massive environmental problems as well as endless wars it all seems to come down to a dollar value before the penny drops. But is it the right penny? Saying that the war in Afghanistan is a costly mess or any words to that effect only further legitimises the [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, David Randall, Elite, Jonathan Owen, middle east, United State, War, War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
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June 26, 2011
“A Moment in the Sun”: An Extended Interview with Independent Filmmaker, Author John Sayles Share1172 We spend the hour with legendary independent filmmaker and author, John Sayles. Over the past three decades, he has directed 17 feature films, including Return of the Secaucus Seven, Matewan, Lone Star, and Eight Men Out. He has often used [...]
Tags: Bruce Springsteen, Dale Maharidge, Independent film, John Sayles, O. Henry Award, Philippines, Return of the Secaucus 7, United States
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June 26, 2011
US Vows to Arm Philippines to Fight China Clinton Calls for Restraint, Announces More Weapons Transfers by Jason Ditz, June 24, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum With the disputes over the unpopulated Spratly Islands continuing to grow, the Obama Administration has announced that it is preparing a major increase in arms [...]
Tags: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Philippine, President, South China Sea, Spratly Islands, United States, United States Department of State, White House
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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 [...]
Tags: Admiral Michael Mullen, Afghanistan, Central Intelligence Agency, David Petraeus, Michael Mullen, Robert Gates, United State, United States, War in Afghanistan (2001–present), White House
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June 23, 2011
All this may look good but think about the fact that they should not be there at all and that a mercenary army will have ti be there to protect their precious assets and it all comes to nought. Now how long ago was it that the great crawler Julia said we were there regardless? [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Chalmers Johnson, John McCain, Khost, Larry Sabato, Location of Osama bin Laden, Malalai Joya, Noam Chomsky, Osama BinLaden, Pepe Escobar, Republican, Republicans, United States, United States Armed Forces, University of Virginia, War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
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June 21, 2011
Afghan Withdrawal: Obama Lied, Soon Many Will Have Died By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/58232 The United States has about 200,000 military personnel in Afghanistan, half of them troops, half of them contractors. President Barack Obama put over two-thirds of that number there, first with a big escalation in 2009 that everyone refuses to pay the slightest [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, David Swanson, Joe Biden, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, United States, Wall Street Journal
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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
Posted in Afghan Youth, Afghanistan, Arab democracy, Arab movements, Arab Spring, Bahrain, Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Democracy, Democracy in the Arab World, Dictators, economic measures, Economics, Economy, Education, Egypt, elections, Elites, Fascism, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Libya, Middle East, Militants, Military, Military madmen, Military Murders, Mission Creep, Negotiate. It's now or never, Obama, Obama warmonger, oil, oil and gas resources, Oil in the USA, Peace Movement, Peak oil, President of the World, Propaganda, Psycopaths, Special Ops, Syria, Syria sanctions, Taliban, UK, UK fascism, UK Foreign Policy, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US war crimes, USA, voodoo rhythm economics, War, War and economics, War creates misery and despair, War Crimes, War is a crime, War means war, War no reason needed, War on drugs, War on terror | No Comments »
June 13, 2011
Washington Post Wants Endless War By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/58137 The Pentagon Washington Post has yet to mention Section 1034 of the Defense Authorization Act of 2012, but you can expect it — if it passes the Senate — to show up in many a future editorial, as it will give presidents the “legal” (although unconstitutional) [...]
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June 9, 2011
Neocons Spin Two ‘Lost’ Wars Exclusive: The looming U.S. defeats in Iraq and Afghanistan represent a threat to the political fortunes of America’s neocons — if they get blamed for the disasters. However, if they can hang the failures around President Obama’s neck, the two lost wars might help bring the neocons back to power as early as 2013, writes [...]
Tags: 2003 invasion of Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, al-Qaeda, Barack Obama, David Petraeus, David Stockman, George W. Bush, Iraq War, New York Times, Osama bin Laden, September 11 attacks, United States Armed Forces
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June 7, 2011
Inside al-Qaeda and the Taliban Beyond Bin Laden and 9/11 Gareth Porter on the new book by recently murdered Pakistani journalist Saleem Shahzad This is a RealNews video interview at http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=6893 Related articles A video interview about Bush and no plans to kill Bin Laden (ikners.com) The story that killed Saleem Shahzad – The [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, al-Qaida, Gareth Porter, Ilyas Kashmiri, Inter-Services Intelligence, Osama bin Laden, Syed Saleem Shahzad, Taliban, Terrorism, Terrorist Organizations
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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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