War Tribunal Finds Bush, Cheney Guilty of War Crimes Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal orders reparations be given to torture victims – Common Dreams staff Former US President George W Bush, his Vice-President Dick Cheney and six other members of his administration have been found guilty of war crimes by a tribunal in Malaysia. [...]
Pentagon Propaganda ‘Fiasco’ Gets Scrutiny in House Wasteful war propaganda and the dirty deeds of the Pentagon‘s corporate contractors are exposed by John Glaser, May 10, 2012 Print This | Share This A member of the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday threatened an amendment to block funding for Pentagon propaganda efforts, citing reports critical of their management and [...]
Gen Martin E Dempsey speaks during a briefing at the Pentagon. The course was suspended when a student objected to the material. Photograph: Susan Walsh/AP A course for US military officers has been teaching that America’s enemy is Islam in general and suggesting that the country might ultimately have to obliterate the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina [...]
LAUREN BOOTH REPORTS FROM KUALA LUMPUR WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 2012 AT 8:29AM GILAD ATZMON http://www.deliberation.info/ Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal Day 1 When authority entrusted to further truth and justice betrays that trust, two options remain: one is to throw up your hands in despair and [...]
Naomi Wolf guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 9 May 2012 16.18 BST Comments (85) New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly holds pieces of a pipe bomb confiscated from alleged ‘lone wolf’ terrorist Jose Pimentel. Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty Images The news stories, which quickly surface, long enough to cause scary headlines, then vanish before people can learn how often the [...]
US Admits Killing Innocent Afghan Family in Airstrike The incident did not come to light until the governor in Helmand Province made a public accusation by John Glaser, May 07, 2012 Print This | Share This The U.S. military has claimed responsibility for an airstrike that killed six innocent members of a family in southwestern Afghanistan and pledged a [...]
Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern says the US will not stop its assassination drone strikes due to its profits for arms makers, Press TV reports. link to voice recording. Very good listening http://presstv.com/detail/240022.html “These drone strikes create more terrorists. So, the war will keep going on and the question is who profits? [...]
Confessions of a Drone By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/confessions-drone They told me I was the best, better than any human. I didn’t hesitate. I didn’t flinch. I didn’t think. It wouldn’t have occurred to me to think. I’d been taught to value obedience above all else, and I did so, and they loved me for it. [...]
Text of AP Story on Afghanistan Agreement Translated into Human By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/text-ap-story-afghanistan-agreement-translated-human Here’s an Associated Press story on an agreement for another decade of U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, an agreement between two governments that do not represent their peoples, a story that was clearly translated from the [...]
Unplugging Americans From The Matrix By Paul Craig Roberts April 20, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — Americans, the British, and Western Europeans are accustomed to thinking of themselves as the representatives of freedom, democracy, and morality in the world. The West passes judgment on the rest of the world as if the [...]
A mural in Tehran, Iran, depicts Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, and his predecessor, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the father of the revolution. (Photo: Shawn Baldwin / The New York Times) The US and Iran Are Talking. Why Is the New York Times Peddling Iran Islamophobia? Friday, 20 April 2012 11:00By Robert Naiman, Truthout | News Analysis Support Truthout’s [...]
How Obama Became a Civil Libertarian‘s Nightmare Obama has expanded and fortified many of the Bush administration’s worst policies. April 18, 2012 | LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via email. When Barack Obama took office, he was the civil liberties communities’ [...]
AfPak: Mutiny on the Bounty By Eric Walberg – CairoKabul was cast into chaos Sunday as the Taliban began their spring offensive with attacks on US, British, German and Russian embassies, NATO headquarters, Camp Eggers, a hotel, President Karzai’s palace compound and parliament. “These are coordinated attacks that went just [...]
. Stop Obama’s Drone War in Pakistan by Matthew Rothschild The Pakistani government and its opposition parties have just come together in a rare show of unity to demand that the United States cease all drone attacks inside their country.As well they should The United States hasn’t declared war on Pakistan. The U.S. has no [...]
Render to Caesar, Extraordinarily by Ray McGovern Some of us pause on Good Friday to mark the torture and death of a high-value detainee rendered, extraordinarily, to Roman occupiers. Although the charges against Jesus of Nazareth were trumped up, the Romans decided to err on the safe side by going to the “dark [...]
By Rob Kall (about the author) Those are phrases used to describe politics. Things are getting uglier. I’m finally coming to face the reality that voting only feeds into the illusion the system creates that different candidates really make a difference. The truth is, voting for the lesser of two evils only moves us towards the next [...]
US soldiers from Comanche Troop, 3rd Squadron 4th Cavalry wait for a helicopter to ferry them to another base at Forward Operating Base Connolly in Nangarhar province, eastern Afghanistan March 10, 2012. (Reuters/Erik De Castro) Afghan killing spree suspected to occur in two stages Published today (updated) 25/03/2012 09:35 WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The US [...]
War Crimes Must Be Stopped No Matter Who Does Them This article applies as much to Australian military and politicians as it does to the US George Ikners ikners.com By War Criminals Watch War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity March 22, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — The brutality with which the US government exercises its [...]
Iran Leader: Israel, US Attacks Will Bring ‘Same Level’ Retaliation US Wargame Reveals Perils of Israeli Attack on Iran – Common Dreams staff Iran rang in the Persian new year Tuesday with a speech broadcast on live television by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Thousands jammed the Imam Reza mosque complex in the [...]
Obama Declares War on Iraq an Honorable Success 2 Weeks Early for April Fool’s Day By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/obama-declares-war-iraq-honorable-success-2-weeks-early-april-fools-day President Proclaims ‘National Day of Honor’ American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, March 19, 2012 – On the ninth anniversary of U.S. forces moving into Iraq, President Barack Obama has proclaimed today [...]
By Keith JohnsonIn early March, Attorney General Eric Holder declared open season on American dissidents by claiming that the president has the ultimate authority to murder any citizen he considers a threat. Speaking before Northwest University of Law in March, Holder stated that although the Constitution’s guarantee of due process is ironclad, “it does [...]
Washington’s dirty little secret is out! The Kandahar Massacre By M A Niazi March 18, 2012 “The Nation” - Pakistanis were not very surprised when an American soldier ran amuck in Kandahar and shot up 16 Afghan civilians, which came hot on the heels of another incident of American callousness [...]
By Ray McGovern (about the author) Become a Fan (85 fans) — Page 1 of 4 page(s) opednews.com Editor’s Note: Three years ago, President Obama ignored warnings about an Afghan quagmire and followed the advice of Bush administration holdovers into a series of troop “surges” that have cost many lives but not turned around the [...]
ASSOCIATED PRESS This page has been saying for some time that the use of drones will be a complete scourge and murderous monstrosity perpetuated by military murderers and elite arms manufacturers. Nothing has happened to put the slightest dent in this view. Drones enable a push button war to be conducted with minimal losses to [...]
U.S. Army Photo Staff Sgt. Robert Bales is shown during an exercise at the National Training Center in Fort Irwin, Calif., in August. MORE PHOTOS THE NEWS TRIBUNE Published: 03/16/12 5:14 pm | Updated: 03/16/12 6:47 pm 20 Comments Afghan killing suspect Staff Sgt. Robert Bales is Lake Tapps resident After five days cloaked in military secrecy, the soldier suspected in [...]
A Tale of Two Tales What Real World?By Fred Reed March 16, 2012 “Information Clearing House” —As I listen to American fury against uncoöperative Afghans, to Congress furiously denouncing Pakistan for anemic aid in conducting the current wars, I sometimes wonder whether the US is playing with a full deck. The [...]
. Afghans burn an effigy depicting U.S. President Barack Obama after the killing of civilians in Panjwai. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) ‘Sick-Minded American Savages’ at War by John LaForge The U.S. Army Staff Sgt. who walked through two villages in Afghanistan around 3 a.m. March 11 is reported to have methodically killed, using single shots to the [...]
Targeted Killings: US and Israeli Specialties By Stephen Lendman March 15, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — International law permits justifiable self-defense. Targeted killings are prohibited, especially premeditated ones like America and Israel repeatedly commit for reasons other than claimed. These incidents constitute cold-blooded murder. US drone killings and rampaging death squads, [...]
U.S. Navy / MC1 Chad J. McNeeley Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet at Blair House in Washington, D.C. By William Pfaff The two most recent American wars, in Iraq and Afghanistan, have failed or are disastrously failing. The United States is being pressed to launch two new wars. [...]
American Massacres Have Been Common for Centuries By Jack D. Douglas March 14, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — For hundreds of years Americans have been committing massacres of women and children, old men and sometimes even young men, mostly unarmed or armed only with primitive weapons. The early massacres [...]
President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron also discussed Iran’s alleged nuclear plan [Reuters] President Barack Obama has said the prospect of international military intervention in Syria is premature and could lead to a civil war. Speaking at a White House news conference on Wednesday, Obama said military intervention could lead to more deaths in Syria. [...]
The situation in Afghanistan is a nightmare. The surge has not worked. As we escalated the war, the insurgency fought harder and grew in numbers. Western troops are seen as foreign occupiers in the Afghan homeland, and now have murdered 16 civilians, including little children, in the middle of the night in Kandahar [...]
We’ve Worn Out Our Welcome By Leah Bolger - Posted on 13 March 2012 “We’ve worn out our welcome.” I actually heard some television political pundit make this absurd comment about the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan. Well, duh. The latest outrageous act that has everyone in a tizzy and wondering if [...]
‘It is long past time for the United States’ and NATO to withdraw from Afghanistan, writes Falk [Reuters] While it may sound good just when do you decide that a war has become pathological? War is a crime from start to finish there is no cross over point to distinguish what a war means at [...]
Afghan Massacre: Just a PR Problem for U.S. Occupation? – Common Dreams staff The massacre of 16 Afghan civilians, including nine children, by a US soldier near Kandahar has not led to questions over the U.S. war on Afghanistan. Rather, corporate media have framed it as a “public relations disaster” for the continued occupation of [...]
This is What Liberation Looks Like: U.S. Massacre in Afghanistan By War Criminals Watch - Posted on 12 March 2012 11 March 2012 - Reporting on its website tonight, The New York Times stated: “Stalking from home to home, a United States Army sergeant methodically killed at least 16 civilians, 9 of them children, in [...]
Burning Babies Afghanistan‘s Haditha: An Atrocity to End the War By Robert Dreyfuss Anar Gul gestures to the body of her grandchild, who was allegedly killed by a US service member in Panjwai, a Kandahar province south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, March 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan) March 122, 2012 “ The Nation” – Iraq had its Haditha. Now, [...]
I Don’t Want To See Their Faces; I Don’t Want To Hear Them Scream by Christopher Cooper An interesting article. This page has long been saying that so called collateral damage is not collateral at all, it is an integral part of war to kill civilians and the unarmed. Even if only to teach them a [...]
Fox News Commenters React to Afghan Killings: ‘A Dead Muslim Is a Good Muslim’ Vile comments appear again on every right wing site Charles Johnson WINGNUTS • Sun Mar 11, 2012 at 12:31 pm PDT • Views: 13,047 It’s no longer surprising, but the right wing blogs are full of comments today [...]
Who Are the ‘Terrorists’? The pattern of American atrocities in wartime by Justin Raimondo, March 12, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum In the early morning hours of March 11, a US soldier assigned to “special ops” in Afghanistan, stationed near Kandahar, went into a local village and gunned down 16 people – including [...]
Poll: Overwhelming US Opposition to Afghan War War ‘Not Worth the Cost’ by Jason Ditz, March 11, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The regular Washington Post-ABC News poll on the war in Afghanistan is showing anoverwhelming popular opposition to the war, with some 60% of Americans now believing the [...]
Engelhardt, War as the President’s Private Preserve Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 5:19pm, March 11, 2012. The 0% Doctrine Obama Breaks New Ground When It Comes to War With Iran By Tom Engelhardt When I was young, the Philadelphia Bulletin ran cartoon ads that usually featured a man in trouble — dangling by his fingers, [...]
US Weapons Claiming Palestinian Lives, Group Says By David Elkins March 10, 2012 “IPS” – A new policy paper published earlier this week by the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation documents a number of cases occurring over the past decade in which weapons and ammunition produced and [...]
The US continues to conduct joint military exercises with the Philippines Continue reading the main story Related Stories Philippines seeks US muscle on South China Sea Philippines seeks US defence ties Manila complains over China ships The Philippines has confirmed that it is holding military drills with the United States [...]
Like you and other Americans, I love my country, its wonderful people, its boundless energy, its creativity in so many fields, its natural beauty, its many gifts to the world, and the freedom it has given us to express ourselves. So we should all be angry, profoundly angry, when we consider what has happened to [...]
U.S. at War in Over 100 Nations, But Very Specially, Using Special Operations Forces SECRECY NEWS from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/ SPECIAL OPS FORCES CREATE “VISIBLE AND DRAMATIC EFFECTS” U.S. special operations forces are engaged in “more than 100 countries worldwide,” said Adm. William H. McRaven, commander of [...]
It seems that the present situation regarding Iran and the US and Israel is a question of two differing views about an armed Iran. Iran has been armed for some time. Israel is armed to the eyeballs with nuclear capacity hat they refuse to acknowledge. But there seems little doubt that thIsrael can deliver a nuclear [...]
Iran recently unveiled what it described as ‘very big new achievements’ in nuclear science [Reuters] Iran has tripled its monthly production of higher-grade enriched uranium and the UN nuclear watchdog has “serious concerns” about possible military dimensions to the country’s atomic activities, the agency’s chief says. Yukiya Amano, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency [...]
Declassified: Massive Israeli Manipulation of US Media Exposed By Russia Today Files declassified in America have revealed covert public relations and lobbying activities of Israel in the U.S. The National Archive made the documents public following a Senate investigation. They suggest Israel has been trying to shape media coverage of issues it regards [...]
Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, says Iran could try to evade pressure by entering new talks [Reuters] President Barack Obama has issued his most direct threat yet of US military action against Iran if it builds a nuclear weapon, but in a message to Israel’s leader ahead of White House talks he also cautioned against a pre-emptive [...]
