Yemen’s Renewed “War on Terror” By Ramzy Baroud Columnist and the Editor of Palestine Chronicle. Monday, 28 May 2012 00:00 Yemeni forces continue to push against Islamic fighters affiliated with al-Qaeda. Their major victories come on the heels of the inauguration of Abd Rabbuh Mansur al-Hadi, who is now entrusted with the task of [...]
Young girl waiting at a cash grant distribution by Oxfam GB in Al Hodeidah governorate, district of Al-Jarrahi, Yemen in March 2012. (photo: Wolfgang Gressmann/Oxfam, March 2012)The aid groups, including Oxfam, Save the Children and CARE, report that 10 million people, 44 percent of the population, don’t have enough to eat and say that the [...]
Federal Court Enjoins NDAA An Obama-appointed judge rules its indefinite detention provisions likely violate the 1st and 5th Amendments By Glenn Greenwald May 17, 2012 “Salon‘ — A federal district judge today, the newly-appointed Katherine Forrest of the Southern District of New York, issued an amazing ruling: one which preliminarily enjoins enforcement of the highly controversial [...]
Syria: the deadliest third party 15 May 2012 At a time when the Syrian opposition is experiencing sharp internal conflict, which threatens both themselves and the Syrian people it represents, a third armed force has emerged, casting aside many theories on the Syrian uprising that were previously taken for granted. The Arab [...]
‘A third element has crept into this conflict, possibly from Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan, and its agenda has nothing to do with the Arab spring or the clamour for democracy.’ Illustration by Toby Morison. Abdel Bari Atwan guardian.co.uk, Sunday 13 May 2012 21.00 BST Comments (60) The two suicide car bombs in Damascus on 10 May were an [...]
Supposed Would-Be Underwear Bomber Is CIA Informant Obama officials tried to present this as some successfully foiled terror attack, while it was anything but by John Glaser, May 08, 2012 Print This | Share This U.S. and Yemeni officials have confirmed that the supposed would-be underwear bomber at the heart of [...]
Collectivism appears to be on the rise in the United States [AFP] New Haven, CT - When it comes to President Barack Obama’s foreign policy, I’m of two minds. Killing Osama bin Laden? Thumbs up. Killing a US citizen who worked for al-Qaeda? Not so much. But at least he knows what’s going on. When Mitt [...]
President Obama has said he wants to ‘finish the job we started in Afghanistan’ [GALLO/GETTY] President Obama has been of two minds towards Afghanistan since the outset of his presidency. In December 2009, en route to tripling the US military presence there, he declared that US military forces would begin to withdraw from the country in 18 [...]
John Brennan, chief counterterrorism advisor to President Obama. Photo Credit: Pete Souza/White House The Obama Team Just Doesn’t Get It: US Violence and Occupation Spark Terrorism There is almost no discussion about why so many people in the Muslim world object to U.S. policies so strongly that they are inclined to resist violently. May 3, [...]
Why I Interrupted Obama’s Counterterrorism Adviser: Because the U.S. Keeps Killing Innocents Abroad “Mr. Brennan, will you speak out about the innocents killed by the U.S. in our drone strikes?,” asked Benjamin during a speech marking the anniversary of bin Laden’s death. May 2, 2012 | Photo Credit: AFP LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing [...]
Suggested Topics Al-Qaeda O Lordy, lordy. So there’s Bin Laden, hiding in Abbottabad and he’s waffling on about Fisk. Should The Independent’s man in the Middle East and my old chum Abdul Bari Atwan be given exclusive material on the 10th anniversary of the international crimes against humanity of 9/11 (my definition, not OBL‘s)? Can OBL be [...]
Posters of 22 fugitives, including Osama bin Laden, line a wall at the FBI headquarters in Washington, October 10, 2001. (Photo: Stephen Crowley / The New York Times)A few days after US Navy Seals killed Osama bin Laden in a raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan, a “senior intelligence official” briefing reporters on the materials seized from [...]
Counterterrorism adviser John Brennan (second from right) in the Situation Room as President Obama and his national security team monitored the raid against Osama bin Laden on May 1, 2011. (White House photo) Not Explaining the Why of Terrorism May 2, 2012 Exclusive: President Obama signed a U.S.-Afghan strategic agreement on May 1, committing U.S. combat forces [...]
Confessions of an angry young drone By Pepe Escobar PARIS – These are tumultuous times in Droneland. Some bewildered United States drones are actually mired in second thoughts about their god-given mission – as expressed in detail to author and blogger David Swanson. [1] They even founded their own awareness [...]
Leaving Afghanistan by Staying By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/leaving-afghanistan-staying Is staying in Afghanistan OK with you as long as we call it leaving? President Obama has signed an agreement with President Karzai to keep a major U.S. military presence in Afghanistan (currently about three times the [...]
Image Credit: Illustration: Ramachandra Babu/©Gulf News Even extremists may find new political pragmatism The electoral failure of secular, liberal parties can be seen as a vote against continued Western interference By Abdel Bari Atwan, Special to Gulf News Published: 00:00 May 2, 2012 Share on facebookShare on twitterShare on emailShare on printMore Sharing Services2 [...]
Bin Laden: Everyone Is Missing the Big Picture Washington’s Blog May 1, 2012 Obama and Romney Are Both Ignoring the Real Issue with Killing Bin Laden The anniversary of Bin Laden’s death is big news. Obama is bragging about how he whacked Bin Laden, accusing Romney of being too soft to take out [...]
NATO vs. Rogues? By John Feffer Institutions rarely vote themselves out of existence. Not if they still have money in their budgets. Large institutions in particular have an almost genetic propensity to cling to life even after their reasons for being have vanished. That’s why I don’t expect NATO, which will [...]
(Photo: isafmedia / Flickr) You Are All Suspects Now. What Are You Going to Do About It? Saturday, 28 April 2012 08:01By John Pilger, Truthout | News Analysis You are all potential terrorists. It matters not that you live in Britain, the United States, Australia or the Middle East. Citizenship is effectively abolished. Turn on your computer [...]
Evidence in British Court Contradicts CIA Drone Claims By Chris Woods April 26, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — A major case in the British High Court has revealed fresh evidence of civilian deaths during a notorious CIA drone strike in Pakistan last year. Sworn witness testimonies reveal in graphic detail how the village [...]
The Drone-Happy President: Obama Escalates in Yemen – Again by Glenn Greenwald Ten days ago, I wrote about a request made by CIA Director David Petraeus to expand the drone war in Yemen in accordance with the following, as expressed by the first paragraph of The Washington Post article reporting it: At the time, I wrote that “it’s [...]
YouTube/NCPCF2010 Attorney Stephen Downs speaks at a news conference in March organized by the National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms in Washington, D.C. Every week, Truthdig recognizes an individual or group of people who spoke truth to power, blew the whistle or stood up in the face of injustice. See past winners here, and nominate [...]
The recent decision by the Taliban and one of its allies to withdraw from peace talks with Washington underlines the train wreck the U.S. is headed for in Afghanistan. Indeed, for an administration touted as sophisticated and intelligent, virtually every decision the White House has made vis-à-vis Afghanistan has been a disaster. On Mar. 15 [...]
A few months back, I reposted here an article that I wrote 10 years ago, before the invasion of Iraq: a fictional scenario of how the Terror War would play out on the ground of the target nations — and in the minds of those sent to wage these campaigns. I was reminded of that piece by [...]
Pakistan deports bin Laden’s family to Saudi Arabia By Tom Hussain / McClatchy Newspapers Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - Added 24 hours ago ISLAMABAD — On Wednesday, Pakistan was scheduled to deport the 14 members of Osama bin Laden’s family who had lived with him in a garrison town near Islamabad until U.S. forces killed [...]
The recent decision by the Taliban and one of its allies to withdraw from peace talks with Washington underlines the train wreck the U.S. is headed for in Afghanistan. Indeed, for an administration touted as sophisticated and intelligent, virtually every decision the White House has made, vis-a-vis Afghanistan, has been a disaster. On Mar. [...]
Update On War Crime Those Laboratory Mice Were Children By Karlos Zurutuza April 15, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — FALLUJAH, Iraq, Apr 13, 2012 (IPS) – At Fallujah hospital they cannot offer any statistics on children born with birth defects – there are just too many. Parents don’t want to talk. “Families bury their [...]
. 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 [...]
We Must Weep for All Children 25 March 2012 The month of March has been steeped in the blood of innocent children. In Gaza, three children were among twenty-six Palestinians killed in Israeli air strikes on their homes – and twenty-seven more were seriously wounded. These killings, according to the western press, [...]
The concept of ‘war crimes’ is a western luxury. (Zoriah.net) By Sarah Gillespie ‘Western civilization? I think it would be a good idea.’ – Mahatma Gandhi The US army staff sergeant Robert Bales, who shot dead Afghani civilians in their homes two weeks ago, has now been formally charged with 17 counts of murder. Aside from [...]
Abdullah Kamel (L) and Abdulaziz al Shammeri (R) are both former Guantanamo prisoners. In the middle is Khalid al Odah, whose son has been in Guantanamo for 10 years without trial or charge [Jenifer Fenton/Al Jazeera] The Kuwaiti Parliament has condemned the continued detention of two Kuwaiti citizens in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, calling their imprisonment [...]
Iraq VP Accuses Govt. of Torturing Bodyguard to Death; 22 Killed in Other Violence Tuesday: 22 Killed, 30 Wounded by Margaret Griffis, March 21, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi alleges the government tortured one of his bodyguards to death while in detention. The body of Amer Sarbut Zeidan al-Batawi [...]
The Unstoppable Legacy of the War on Terror Ever More and Ever Less: A New Age of Enemies by Karen Greenberg By now, you’d think we’d be entering the end of the 9/11 era. One war over in the Greater Middle East, another hurtling disastrously to its end, and the threat of [...]
A US soldier‘s massacre of 16 civilians is Afghanistan’s My Lai moment, says Escobar [EPA] “We must kill them. We must incinerate them. Pig after pig… cow after cow… village after village… army after army…” – Colonel Kurtz in Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse NowHong Kong - It started way before a lone killer, a US Army [...]
Syria: heralding a change in the international strategic situation? ERNESTO GÓMEZ ABASCAL* EVIDENTLY the Cold War ended in the final decade of the 20th century with the disappearance of the Soviet Union and the European socialist countries, but the U.S. plan of domination enshrined in the Project for the New [...]
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 [...]
Murder Is Legal, Says Eric Holder By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/murder-legal-says-eric-holder Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday explained why it’s legal to murder people — not to execute prisoners convicted of capital crimes, not to shoot someone in self-defense, not to fight on a battlefield in a war that is somehow legalized, [...]
How to Leave Guantánamo: By Means of a Plea Deal or In A Coffin by Andy Worthington, March 2, 2012 Guantánamo briefly emerged from the shadows on Wednesday, February 29, when Majid Khan, a Pakistani national described as one of 14 “high-value detainees” when he arrived at Guantánamo in September 2006, after three [...]
Saudi Arabia May Be Tied to 9/11, 2 Ex-Senators Say By ERIC LICHTBLAU March 01, 2012 “NY Times” –WASHINGTON — For more than a decade, questions have lingered about the possible role of the Saudi government in the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, even as the royal kingdom has made [...]
Hamas Abandons Assad, Backs Syrian Rebels Move to Back Sunni Rebels Further Complicates Situation by Jason Ditz, February 24, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum As if there weren’t already enough factions jockeying for position as the backers of the Syrian revolution, Hamas leader Ismail [...]
USAID’s FY 2013 budget released; Pakistan to receive $ 2.4 billion Washington: (Tuesday, February 14, 2012) The President’s FY 2013 Budget for the Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) strengthens U.S. national security, advances America’s economic interests, and elevates America’s global leadership through diplomacy and development. It supports [...]
How the CIA‘s fake aid projects put real humanitarian workers at risk in Pakistan By Rob Crilly World Last updated: February 16th, 2012 22 Comments Comment on this article A fake vaccination programme was used to track Bin Laden (Photo: AP) You don’t need to be a cynic of US overseas aid to know that cash is generally [...]
US to Reestablish Military Presence in Philippines The move is part of a broader imperial plan to counter China‘s influence in Asia-Pacific by John Glaser, January 26, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The U.S. is in talks with the government of the Philippines about re-establishing a military presence in the country about two decades after the [...]
Instead, Steinitz called for the international community to impose a full naval and aerial blockade across all of Iran so that “no one can even go out[sic].” This is the only option with any chance of success, he said. Steinitz said a good [...]
There seems to be something missing in all the talk in Australia about refugees. Where is the evidence for what people and politicians say about the “Border Security” issue or problem. Perhaps you may expect that if there is an issue [...]
Pakistan Secretly Helping US Drone Campaign Officials Say Recent Strikes ‘Joint Operations’ by Jason Ditz, January 22, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum A new report from Reuters cites unnamed security officials who confirm that the Pakistani intelligence community is, despite government protestations to the contrary, [...]
A Fitting Symbol of the American Empire by Sheldon Richman, January 20, 2012 The image of four U.S. marines urinating on the corpses of Afghan fighters is a fitting symbol of American intervention in Central Asia and the Middle East. That picture will live forever in the memories [...]
Iraqi demonstrators hold pictures of missing relatives during a weekly protest against corruption. Photograph: Ali Al-Saadi/AFP/Getty Images Ghaith Abdul-Ahad reports from Baghdad where families of innocent detainees face extortion from corrupt officials The walls of Um Hussein’s living room in Baghdad are hung with the portraits of her missing sons. There are four of them, and [...]
Nick Turse, Drone Disasters Posted by Nick Turse at 9:00pm, January 15, 2012. After almost two months in abeyance and the (possibly temporary) loss of Shamsi Air Base for its air war, the CIA is again cranking up its drone operations in the Pakistani tribal borderlands. The first two attacks of 2012 were launched within 48 hours [...]
US Drone Strike Kills Six in Pakistan Missiles Target Two Cars in North Waziristan by Jason Ditz, January 12, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The US drone war appears to be back in full force today, with its second drone strike in the [...]
