March 14, 2012
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 [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Commission on Narcotic Drugs, Ivanov, NATO, Opium production in Afghanistan, Russia, United State, Viktor Ivanov
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March 5, 2012
It’s time we recognised the Blair government’s criminality 16 February 2012 In the kabuki theatre of British parliamentary politics, great crimes do not happen and criminals go free. It is theatre after all; the pirouettes matter, not actions taken at remove in distance and culture from their consequences. It is a secure arrangement [...]
Tags: Alastair Crooke, Blair, Clive Stafford Smith, David Blunkett, Gareth Peirce, George W. Bush, Paul Kagame, Tony Blair, United States, World Food Programme
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March 5, 2012
Perhaps the luckiest people on the planet are those in the US and those who follow their lead in creating imperial hegemony. The level of war crimes committed by people like Clinton, Obama, Blair. Howard and more recently Gillard here in Australia would see any person not so close to the elites struggling to defend [...]
Tags: Bashar-al Assad, Bill Van Auken, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Homs, International Criminal Court, Iraq, middle east, Syria, United State, War crime
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February 25, 2012
Activists protest against Monstanto, which has settled with US victims of ‘Agent Orange‘. Photograph: Nigel Treblin/AFP/Getty Images Monsanto settles ‘Agent Orange’ case with US victims Long-running suit claimed residents of Nitro, West Virginia were exposed to the carcinogenic Vietnam-era chemical weapon Chemicals giant Monsanto has reached a settlement with US residents who claimed they were [...]
Tags: Agent Orange, Monsanto, Nitro, nitro west virginia, Scott Partridge, United States, Vietnam, Vietnam War
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January 11, 2012
Afghan government accuses US of torture and false imprisonment By James Cogan 10 January 2012 The crisis besetting the US/NATO occupation of Afghanistan has been deepened over recent days. Its own puppet government, headed by President Hamid Karzai, has publicly accused the American military of torture and arbitrary detention at the [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Bagram Airfield, Hamid Karzai, Kabul, Karzai, National Directorate of Security, NATO, Politics of Afghanistan, United States
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January 9, 2012
During the Republican presidential debates this weekend, candidates took aim at the military strategy President Obama unveiled late last week, which vows cuts in military spending and a stepped-up focus on the Asia-Pacific region, as well as increased use of drone strikes that have targeted militants in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen and throughout Horn of [...]
Tags: Asia-Pacific, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, New Hampshire, Obama, United States, William Hartung
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January 8, 2012
Tides of Darkness by Nebojsa Malic, January 07, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum January 6, 2012More War in 2012 Last year was supposed to be the one of shattered illusions. From “victories” in Iraq and Afghanistan to the springtime for jihad – not democracy – in the Arab world, the Empire consistently failed to [...]
Tags: iPhone, Iraq War, Libya, McDonald, McDonnell Douglas, Osama bin Laden, Thomas Friedman, United States
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January 5, 2012
Scott Horton Interviews Anthony Gregory Scott Horton, January 01, 2012 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum This interview between Scott Horton and Anthony Gregory can be hear at the MP3 referred to, if you can not access that here is the link http://antiwar.com/radio/2012/01/01/anthony-gregory-24/ Anthony Gregory, Research Editor at the Independent Institute, [...]
Tags: American Conservative, Anarcho-capitalism, Christian Science Monitor, Future of Freedom Foundation, Independent Institute, Journal of Libertarian Studies, Michael Badnarik, San Diego Union Tribune
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December 27, 2011
The evidence mounts up to the effect that all war is a crime. It is no stretch of the imagination or torture of what we know and perceive to reach that firm conclusion. The damage done is enormous which is why to an extent talking of money costs not only [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Cost of War, George Ikners, Iraq, Iraqi people, United State, United States, United States Armed Forces, US War And Occupation Of Iraq, Warfare and Conflict, Wikipedia
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December 17, 2011
New Photos Released of Iraq Atrocity, With Documents and Video By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/60240 Every American should read this letter: December 18, 2007 To: Mr. Randy Waddle, Assistant Inspector General, Ft Carson, Colorado CC: LTC John Shawkins, Inspector General, Ft Carson, Colorado Major General Mark Graham, Commanding Officer, Ft Carson, [...]
Tags: Fort Carson, Iraq, Iraqi, John Needham, October 2006, Sgt Rogers, Staff Sergeant, United States
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December 13, 2011
Where is Iran’s nuclear program going? I do not know. By Deepak TripathiA few days ago, I revisited a lecture given by Fred Halliday, FBA, an intellectual giant among scholars of Middle East and Cold War history, at the London School of Economics in 2009. His topic was “The Islamic [...]
Tags: BBC World Service, Central Intelligence Agency, Fred Halliday, Iran, Iranian Revolution, London School of Economics, middle east, Tudeh, United States
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December 7, 2011
Meet the 0.01 Percent: War Profiteers By: Robert Greenwald Thursday October 27, 2011 1:08 pm There’s the top 1% of wealthy Americans (bankers, oil tycoons, hedge fund managers) and there’s the top 0.01% of wealthy Americans: the military contractor CEOs. If you’ve been following the War Costs campaign, you already know that [...]
Tags: Brian Moynihan, Defense contractor, James McNerney, John Stumpf, JPMorgan Chase, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Wells Fargo
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December 7, 2011
Once again, war is prime time and journalism’s role is taboo 1 December 2011 On 22 May 2007, the Guardian’s front page announced: “Iran’s secret plan for summer offensive to force US out of Iraq.” The writer, Simon Tisdall, claimed that Iran had secret plans to defeat American troops in Iraq, which [...]
Tags: David Petraeus, David Richards, International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran, Iraq, Ministry of Defence, United States, WikiLeaks
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December 5, 2011
Since 9/11, Senator Lindsey Graham has said repeatedly that we must fight the terrorists “over there” so we don’t have to fight them “over here.” But this week, Graham threw that all out the window. Apparently, we are now at war everywhere. Forever. Commenting on the controversial Section 1031 of the National Defense Authorization [...]
Tags: Jim Gilmore, Justin Amash, Lindsey Graham, Magna Carta, National Defense Authorization Act, Rand Paul, United State, United States nationality law
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December 2, 2011
A series of prosecutions have been mounted against British military personnel accused of causing civilian casualties in Afghanistan. Photograph: Ahmad Jamshid/AP British soldier fired for stabbing Afghan boy Grenadier Guardsman Daniel Crook jailed and dismissed from the army after bayoneting boy, 10, in kidneys for no reason reddit this Nooruddin Bakhshi, Rob Evans, Richard Norton-Taylor and Jon [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, British Army, Ghulam Nabi, Guardian, Lashkar Gah, NATO, Royal Welsh Regiment, Taliban
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November 28, 2011
A tribunal in Malaysia’s capital found George W Bush and Tony Blair guilty of war crimes in Iraq [GALLO/GETTY]War Crimes never receive the attention of what may be called the usual criminal activity. Even the attempted proceedings at Nuremberg ended up a whitewash of the Allied crimes during what was termed the Second World War. Far from [...]
Tags: Blair, George W. Bush, Iraq, Iraq War, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Tony Blair, War crime
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November 24, 2011
U.S. Army soldiers race toward the border from Iraq into Kuwait on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010. (Credit: AP/Maya Alleruzzo, File) Anonymous U.S. officials this morning are announcing in The Washington Post that they have effectively defeated what they call “the organization that brought us 9/11″ — Al Qaeda — by rendering it “operationally ineffective.” Specifically, “the leadership [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Anwar al-Awlaki, Michael Bloomberg, New York, September 11 2001, Terrorism, United States, United States Armed Forces
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November 22, 2011
The Nurenberg trials allowed the US to try germans without reflecting on their own warfare [GALLO/GETTY] Princeton, NJ – Ever since German and Japanese surviving leaders were prosecuted after World War II at Nuremberg and Tokyo, there has been a wide abyss separating the drive for criminal accountability on the part of those who commit [...]
Tags: Cold War, International Criminal Court, Nuremberg, Nuremberg Trials, Richard Falk, United Nations, United States, World War II
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November 18, 2011
“Occupy” Actions Across the Country In DC and other cities, demonstrators rally at bridges Go to story | Go to homepage NYPD Aid Protesters in Shutting Down Stock Exchange Voices from Zuccotti Park: why arenâ t people too big to fail? Go to story | Go to homepage Does the IAEA report on Iran prove the [...]
Tags: IAEA, International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran, Nuclear weapon, Tehran, United State, Weapons, Yukiya Amano
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November 16, 2011
Arms Sales to Asia and the Gulf Vital to US Corporations Amid talk of budget cuts in America and Europe, US military contractors look to exports, with the Pentagon’s help by John Glaser, November 15, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The Pentagon’s plan to sell 5,000 bunker-buster [...]
Tags: Asia, Iran, Iraq, Leon Panetta, Pentagon, Persian Gulf, United Arab Emirate, United States
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November 14, 2011
Write text here… Related articles As Obama Talks Sanctions With Foreign Leaders, Lawmakers, Candidates Debate … – Fox News (foxnews.com) European shares gain further on euro zone hopes – Reuters (reuters.com) Showdown between Occupy Portland, police – CBS News (cbsnews.com) Deficit Panel Seeks to Defer Details on Raising Taxes – New York Times (nytimes.com) Cain [...]
Tags: Arts, Currency union, Facebook, International Federation for Human Rights, Literature, Richard Blumenthal, World Literature
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November 14, 2011
Colonel Morris Davis, Former Chief Prosecutor Guantanamo Military Commissions. (Photo: Crimes of War) Former Guantanamo Chief Prosecutor: “A Pair of Testicles Fell Off the President After Election Day” Sunday 13 November 2011 by: Jason Leopold, Truthout | Report Morris Davis speaks bluntly about some of President Barack Obama’s policy decisions. “There’s a pair [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Congressional Research Service, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Morris Davis, Obama, USS Cole bombing, White House
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November 14, 2011
Will Dick Cheney Be Arrested on Wednesday? http://warisacrime.org/content/will-dick-cheney-be-arrested-wednesday I’ve just sent this letter by email. To: Charlottesville, Va., Mayor Dave Norris, Police Chief Timothy Longo From: David Swanson I hope you will consider this request from a deeply concerned citizen on its legal merits rather than its acceptability in certain social circles [...]
Tags: Bradley Manning, Cheney, David Swanson, Dick Cheney, United States, University of Virginia, Virginia, World War II
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November 14, 2011
Obama used to refer to longtime Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak as a ‘friend’ of the US – and not as a dictator [EPA] During the past few months, Barack Obama has come under increasing pressure from his would-be Republican opponents, not for secretly subscribing to the faith of the enemy (Obama Muslim-baiting is so 2010), [...]
Tags: Arab Spring, BarackObama, Hosni Mubarak, Newt Gingrich, Obama, Tunisia, United State, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali
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November 13, 2011
Why Defense Debates Are Unbalanced THE SKEPTICS |More Benjamin H. Friedman | November 8, 2011 A reporter asked me the other day why my side of the military budget debate—for slashing spending—has been quiet lately. Given that I have been spending too much time making such arguments, I was slightly annoyed. The conversation was a [...]
Tags: Congress, Democratic Party (United States), Military budget, Military–industrial complex, Pentagon, Republican Party, Tea Party, United States, United States Congress
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November 11, 2011
Ahmed Kamel, 12-year old Iraqi, victim of US cluster bomb US Moves to Overturn Ban on Cluster Bombs Cluster bombs are widely deemed inherently indiscriminate weapons, but the US aims to torpedo international ban by John Glaser, November 10, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The U.S. is leading an effort to water down an international [...]
Tags: Amnesty International, Cluster bomb, Convention, Convention on Cluster Munitions, Iraq War, Obama administration, United States, WikiLeaks
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November 7, 2011
There seems little doubt that what happened prior to the Iraq invasion is set to repeat. It will not surprise to see the sam lies and deceit all over again. However, this time with hope we will be spared the sight of Powell, the prince of liars, with fake maps and vials of non-existent [...]
Tags: Ali Akbar Salehi, Gaza Strip, International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran, Israel, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Saudi Arabia, Shimon Peres, United States
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October 30, 2011
“Blood on the Tracks”: Brian Willson’s Memoir of Transformation from Vietnam Vet to Radical Pacifist Today we spend the hour with a man who put his life on the line twice: once when he served in the Vietnam War and again when he came back. On September 1, 1987, Brian Willson took part in a [...]
Tags: Brian Willson, Central America, Concord Naval Weapons Station, El Salvador, Glenn Greenwald, Occupy Wall Street, Vietnam War, Wall Street
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October 20, 2011
Police in British Columbia have taken extra security measures ahead of today’s visit by former President George W. Bush, who is set to speak at an economic summit. The security is to handle hundreds of protesters, but Amnesty International has also called on the Canadian government to arrest Bush and either prosecute or extradite him [...]
Tags: Amnesty International, British Columbia, Bush, Canada, Constitutional Rights, George W. Bush, Guantánamo Bay, Muhammed Khan Tumani, Murat Kurnaz, United Nations Convention Against Torture
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October 20, 2011
How Liberals Buy Into Stupid Wars Richard Cohen’s column in Tuesday’sWashington Post, under the headline “Dangerous behavior from Iran,” deserves scrutiny, and not just to pick on Cohen (although he deserves to be picked on for this kind of work). The column exemplifies several of the types of distorted thinking and non-thinking that were critical [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Cohen, Hezbollah, Iran, Iraq, Iraq War, Israel, middle east, Paul R. Pillar, Richard Cohen, Saddam Hussein, Saudi Arabia, United State, United States
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October 18, 2011
America’s Foreign Dictatorship by Jacob G. Hornberger President Obama’s reaction to the alleged Iranian assassination plot reflects, once again, the dictatorial powers that the president of the United States now wields in foreign affairs. As many commentators are noting, the whole scheme appears to be as bogus as a 3-dollar bill, but that isn’t really [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Congress, Future of Freedom Foundation, George W. Bush, Iran, Jacob G. Hornberger, Obama, United States
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October 16, 2011
US to field deadlier missile in war againt al Qaeda 14 Oct 2011 19:38 Source: Reuters // Reuters * US Army hopes to deploy new Hellfire version soon * “One missile for many missions,” manufacturer says * Combines killing capabilities of all previous models By Jim Wolf WASHINGTON, Oct 14 (Reuters) – A precision-strike [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Anwar al-Awlaki, Central Intelligence Agency, Lockheed Martin, Saudi Arabia, United States, United States Army, Yemen
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October 15, 2011
Obama Invades Uganda, Only the Latest Intervention Against LRA John Glaser, October 14, 2011 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum The wars are piling up for the Nobel Prize winner, war-monger-in-chief. By arbitrary presidential decree, Obama has involved America in another war without asking for approval from Congress and without even giving an explanation as to how [...]
Tags: Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Lord Resistance Army, LRA, Uganda, United States, United States Africa Command
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October 15, 2011
War Breeds War, Peace Breeds Prosperity by Lee Wrights, October 15, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum “Having seen the people of all other nations bowed down to the earth under the wars and prodigalities of their rulers, I have cherished their opposites, peace, economy, and riddance of public debt, believing that these were the [...]
Tags: China, Great Depression, Libya, Randolph Bourne, September 11 2001, Thomas Jefferson, United States, World War II
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October 12, 2011
Video: Ray McGovern Reflects on the Horrors of War By BillyClub - Posted on 10 October 2011 Ray McGovern was a CIA analyst for 27-years, who turned political activist. A native of the Bronx and graduate of Fordham, he is a strong critic of U.S. wars. On Sunday, Oct. 9, 2011, I caught up with him, (he’s also [...]
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October 10, 2011
The British government illegitimately agreed to give special temporary immunity to Tzipi Livni, argue writers [EPA] Changes to UK law didn’t protect Tzipi Livni A London judge ordered a former Israeli foreign minister’s arrest, but the UK is preventing this. Daniel Machover and Raji Sourani Last Modified: 10 Oct 2011 09:15 In December 2009, [...]
Tags: Crown Prosecution Service, Daniel Machover, Gaza Strip, Israel, Livni, London, Raji Sourani, Tzipi Livni
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September 24, 2011
‘A Constellation of Secret Drone Bases’ and the American License to Kill John Glaser, September 21, 2011 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Yesterday’s Washington Post: The Obama administration is assembling a constellation of secret drone bases for counterterrorism operations in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula as part of a newly aggressive [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Arabian Peninsula, Horn of Africa, Pakistan, Red Sea, Somalia, United States, Yemen
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September 14, 2011
Colin Powell, the former US secretary of state, has said he regrets providing misleading intelligence that led the US to invade Iraq, believing it had weapons of mass destruction. Powell, the first secretary of state in the administration of George W. Bush, the former US president, which declared war on Iraq [...]
Tags: 2003 invasion of Iraq, Colin Powell, Dick Cheney, Osama bin Laden, Presidency of George W. Bush, Tony Blair, United States, United States Secretary of State
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September 13, 2011
US embassy in Kabul under attack – live updates Smoke rises from buildings during an on-going attack in Kabul city centre. Photograph: Daud Yardost/AFP/Getty Images Rockets are being fired at the US embassy in Kabul, say police in Afghanistan. The Taliban has claimed responsibliity and says the attackers are armed with rocket-propelled grenades, [...]
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September 8, 2011
Quick military ‘victories’ in Afghanistan and Iraq soon proved to be illusory [EPA] The imperial delusions of the United States Almost ten years after the 9/11 attacks, US foreign policy remains aggressive and unrealistic. Robert Jensen Last Modified: 07 Sep 2011 12:47 Ten years ago, critics of the United States’ mad rush to war were right, [...]
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, George W. Bush, middle east, Osama bin Laden, Robert Gates, Robert Jensen, September 11 attacks, United State, United States, Warfare and Conflict, World War II
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August 31, 2011
Us or the war machine To publish only with credit and link to The Cavalier Daily http://www.cavalierdaily.com/2011/08/31/us-or-the-war-machine An upcoming Charlottesville conference highlights the importance of whistleblowers when addressing the corruption present in military contracting By David Swanson, Guest Viewpoint on August 31, 2011 Bunnatine “Bunny” Greenhouse YOU MAY have heard something about a budget crisis in Washington [...]
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August 31, 2011
US has wasted $30bn on Iraq and Afghanistan contracts, report finds An Iraqi worker cleans raw sewage at Rustumiya ruined sewage plant. Photograph: Marwan Naamani/AFP/Getty Images Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan says change needed to avoid similar waste in future reddit this Peter Walker guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 30 August 2011 11.52 [...]
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August 31, 2011
Obama Cheers ‘Successes’ of a Decade of War Praises ’9/11 Generation’ for ‘Extraordinary Decade of Service’ by Jason Ditz, August 30, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Speaking today to the American Legion, President Barack Obama praised what he dubbed the “9/11 generation,” insisting that they had provided an “extraordinary decade of service” [...]
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August 31, 2011
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 [...]
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August 31, 2011
Afghan Taliban Predict Imminent Victory In Statement NATO Isn’t the Only One That Thinks They’re About to Win by Jason Ditz, August 30, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum A new formal statement released Monday and signed by former Afghan ruler Mullah Omar predicts “imminent victory” for the Taliban inside Afghanistan, insisting that [...]
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August 31, 2011
Mullah Omar Admits Taliban Are Negotiating With US Dropping a long-held precondition that troop withdrawals precede talks, Omar signals potential for political settlement by John Glaser, August 30, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar has confirmed that negotiations with the U.S. are taking place, disproving the long-held [...]
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August 30, 2011
‘Now Pakistan and America have some problems. So they’re taking it out on me’ Binosche Barrett, Matthew’s wife, with their two children. Photograph: Declan Walsh for the Guardian ‘Now Pakistan and America have some problems. So they’re taking it out on me’ Tensions between Pakistan and the US often made life tricky for [...]
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Fateh Jang, Inter-Services Intelligence, ISLAMABAD, Matthew Barrett, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, The Guardian, United States
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August 30, 2011
Night Raids and War Crimes John Glaser, August 29, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Just wanted to quickly draw attention to this WikiLeaks State Department diplomatic cable which details a horrible war crime committed by the US in Iraq in 2006. The cable excerpts a letter written by Philip Alston, [...]
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August 29, 2011
25 years later, how ‘Top Gun’ made America love warby David Sirota, Published: August 27 Americans are souring on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The military budget is under siege as Congress looks for spending to cut. And the Army is reporting record suicide rates among soldiers. So who does the Pentagon enlist [...]
Tags: David Sirota, Jerry Bruckheimer, Kelly McGillis, Osama bin Laden, Pentagon, Ronald Reagan, United States, White House
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August 29, 2011
dick be in chains Cheney: Bush Leaked Iraq Strategy Debate Slams Bush for Doing ‘Disservice’ to Troops by Jason Ditz, August 28, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The latest in a number of revelations coming out of his new book, former Vice President Dick Cheney revealed that a 2007 leak to [...]
Tags: David Ignatius, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Iraq, Oval Office, Presidency of George W. Bush, Stephen Hadley, Washington Post
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