The President’s Private War Andrew Napolitano on drone killings: ‘What monstrous nonsense all this is’ By Andrew Napolitano May 05, 2012 “Information Clearing House” – Did you know that the United States government is using drones to kill innocent people in Pakistan? Did you know that the Pakistani government has [...]
Land of the Un-free and Mind Controlled Just discovered this in my Draft folder – forwarding a Washington Post article acknowledging ten political atrocities which remain a dirty, unspoken secret in America. (Scroll to the bottom.) (I highly recommend this news source: WantToKnow.info, by Fred Burks.) Here’s to waking up. ~Jean “James Madison [...]
By David Model (about the author) opednews.com This page has been pointing out the terror tactics involved in Drone warfare for quite some time. Obama is possibly the worst Presient the US has produced. The electoral system there is corrupt and simply a plaything for the elite and their money backed up by ruthless media propaganda. [...]
Liberal WhoresCall a Georgetown law student a slut, and the liberal universe goes into supernova. Destroy Somalia and Libya, or obliterate due process of law, and the same people just yawn. Attorney General Eric Holder “asserts that the president can in fact decide to kill anyone he wants, as long [...]
US Steps Outside the Law as the War on Terror Drones On The use of unmanned aircraft belies America’s rhetoric about its values. By Justin Randle January 24, 2012 “SMH” — The CIA recently launched its first drone attack of 2012. Three people in North Waziristan were [...]
MIT Professor Emeritus Noam Chomsky, the world-renowned linguist and political dissident, spoke Monday night at Barnard College in New York City about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, just hours before Israel and Hamas completed a historic prisoner exchange. “I think [Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit] should have been released a long time ago. But there’s something missing from this [...]
An unmanned Predator drone of the type operating along the Afhanistan-Pakistan border. Photograph: Rex Features/Sipa Press By June 2004, it was confirmed that the US was using torture at secret detention sites and at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. It was in that month that piles of “torture memos” were released to the public. Torture did not officially end until [...]
Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, the Iranian nuclear scientist killed in Tehran on January 11, with his son, Alireza. Photograph: -/AFP/Getty Images On the morning of 11 January Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, the deputy head of Iran‘s uranium enrichment facility at Natanz, was in his car on his way to work when he was blown up by a magnetic [...]
Are Drones Watching You? By Jennifer Lynch January 11, 2011″ EFF” – -Today, EFF filed suit against the Federal Aviation Administration seeking information on drone flights in the United States. The FAA is the sole entity within the federal government capable of authorizing domestic drone flights, and for too long now, it has failed to release [...]
Czar Barack The candidate who criticized Bush-Cheney became the president who continued their legacy Steve Chapman | January 5, 2012 Back in 2007, when Barack Obama was running for president, a mildly surprising bit of news emerged: He and Dick Cheney were eighth cousins. Today, though, it appears that report was wrong. [...]
HENTOFF: Obama drones kill citizens: Where’s the law? By NAT HENTOFF, NEA Columnist | 0 comments The New York Times’ incisive public editor, Arthur Brisbane, asks a question that has not been raised by any Republican battlers for the presidency. Congressional Democrats loyal to the incumbent are also silent: “There remains,” says Brisbane, “no clear accounting of the legal [...]
In eroding civil liberties, Barack Obama finishes what George Bush began: James Gill Ron Paul, who is expected to fare well in next week’s Iowa caucuses, is also attracting passionate support in various other states, including Louisiana. Nobody gives him any chance of winning the GOP nomination, however. He wants, for instance to repeal the Patriot Act, so named, in the [...]
Secrecy defines Obama’s drone war By Karen DeYoung, Published: December 20 Since September, at least 60 people have died in 14 reported CIA drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal regions. The Obama administration has named only one of the dead, hailing the elimination of Janbaz Zadran, a top official in the Haqqani insurgent network, as a counterterrorism victory. The identities [...]
In many ways this is a very sad article from a former CIA analyst. The future imprisoning of US citizens is something that will be seen occurring to citizens in many countries around the world. It is all part of the attempt by the elites to maintain a system of extreme inequality [...]
Dressed in orange prisoner uniforms, students and other activists demonstrate against the Guantanamo Bay detention center on August 17, 2011, in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Dressed in orange prisoner uniforms, students and other activists demonstrate against the Guantanamo Bay detention center on August 17, 2011, in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) VIEWS [...]
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 [...]
A group of Pakistanis met in Islamabad late last month to discuss the impact of U.S. drone strikes in their communities. One of the attendees was a 16-year-old boy named Tariq Aziz, who had volunteered to learn photography to begin documenting drone strikes near his home. Within 72 hours of the meeting, Aziz was killed [...]
Noam Chomsky on Israel-Palestine Prisoner Exchange, U.S. Assassination Campaign in Yemen MIT Professor Emeritus Noam Chomsky, the world-renowned linguist and political dissident, spoke Monday night at Barnard College in New York City about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, just hours before Israel and Hamas completed a historic prisoner exchange. “I think [Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit] should have been [...]
Assassinating Children by Jacob G. Hornberger The extraordinary power of the U.S. government to assassinate people has, once again, been manifested in the assassination of Abdulrahman al-Awlaki. No, that’s not Anwar al-Awlaki, the American Muslim cleric whom U.S. officials recently assassinated in Yemen. That’s Abdulrahm al-Awlaki, the 16-year-old son of Anwar al-Awlaki. There are several [...]
Drone warfare headqyarters New US Drone Base in Ethiopia is Operational by John Glaser, October 27, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The United States has been secretly flying armed Reaper drones on bombing missions from a remote civilian airport in southern Ethiopia as part of a rapidly expanding proxy war against [...]
The Return of Barbarism How imperialism corrupts the soul of America by Justin Raimondo, October 24, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum “We came, we saw, he died,” babbled our notoriously bloodthirsty Secretary of State as news of Moammar Gadhafi’s grisly murder hit the headlines. Throwing her arms up in a gesture of mock-triumph, she averred – [...]
Noam Chomsky on Israel-Palestine Prisoner Exchange, U.S. Assassination Campaign in Yemen Image via Wikipedia democracynow on Oct 18, 2011 Posted on October 24, 2011 by dandelionsalad Dandelion Salad MIT Professor Emeritus Noam Chomsky, the world renewed linguist and political dissident, spoke Monday night at Barnard College in New York City about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, just hours before [...]
Warmonger and liar. It is difficult from this side of the planet to imagine the depths of despair Obama has introduced into the lives of decent US citizens. It is not just a matter of breaking promises, but he has done far more often than not the exact opposite of what he [...]
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 [...]
Obama Has Awlaki’s 16-Yr-Old Son, Friends Killed at Dinner 16-Year-Old US Citizen, Friends Were Eating Dinner When Missile Landed by Jason Ditz, October 18, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The extra-legal assassination of New Mexico cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was certainly controversial in its own right, but reports about the assassination targeting some sort [...]
Noam Chomsky on Israel-Palestine Prisoner Exchange, U.S. Assassination Campaign in Yemen MIT Professor Emeritus Noam Chomsky, the world-renowned linguist and political dissident, spoke Monday night at Barnard College in New York City about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, just hours before Israel and Hamas completed a historic prisoner exchange. “I think [Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit] should have been [...]
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 [...]
Following our own Australian security fears about just about anyone who is not white anglo saxon protestant it is worthwhile looking at the position in the US. Remember no matter what ASIO or UNCLE may say it is in the end a matter of trust to believe them. The extreme likelihood that if there is [...]
Journalism 101: If a US Official Says It, Report It by Charles Davis, October 10, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum In Pakistan, according to American officials, strikes from Predators and Reapers operated by the CIA have killed more than 2,000 militants; the number of civilian casualties is hotly debated. In Yemen last month, an [...]
Suppressing the truth There are some scandals that refuse to die, either because they are never fully investigated or because those responsible for them never paid the price they should have. –Gideon Levy by PAUL J. BALLES on OCTOBER 9, 2011 Issues that should concern everyone, but especially in America, have been subverted, [...]
Etzioni and the Great Drone Debate Amitai Etzioni’s contribution to the great drone debate makes the sensible point that drone strikes often offer our leaders a superior alternative to bombers, longer-range missiles and ground raids in places like Yemen and Pakistan. What drone critics miss, Etzioni says, is that all foreign attacks kill noncombatants, alienate [...]
Veterans for Peace Denounces Obama’s Assassination Policy Eric Garris, October 04, 2011 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum From Veterans for Peace: As of September 29, 2011, we are only one step away from a government where the top official can kill anybody, anywhere, any time he feels it necessary – and do it in [...]
White House: Secret Panel Can Order Americans Assassinated Officials Say Process Will Remain a Secret by Jason Ditz, October 05, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum In comments made through the media today, a number of top Obama Administration officials, including White House spokesman Tommy Vietor, confirmed that there is a “secret panel” which [...]
I Am a History Teacher, and I Lie to My Students by Dr. Brian Phillips, October 05, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum On Sept. 30, 2011, I woke up and began my daily routine, preparing for another day of teaching history to high school students. In the course of an average school year, I [...]
The Secret Memo That Explains Why Obama Can Kill Americans OCT 3 2011, 9:10 AM ET 1024 The Department of Justice produced it prior to the assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki. But they won’t release it. Outside the U.S. government, President Obama’s order to kill American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki without due process has [...]
Obama Wrong to Rub Out Al-Awlaki Forgive me while I don’t cheer the assassination of Anwar Al-Awlaki, the New Mexico-born cleric whom the United States just killed in Yemen. He was a U.S. citizen, after all. He had never been indicted for a crime here, much less convicted of one, much less sentenced to death. [...]
U.S. drone killing of American al-Awlaki prompts legal, moral debate Was it legal to kill al-Awlaki? STORY HIGHLIGHTS NEW: “You do not kill people without warning in non-battlefield situations,” law expert says NEW: “If you’re a terrorist, you’re a terrorist,” Defense Secretary Panetta says President Obama defends killing as “a major blow” against al [...]
Was Obama’s order to kill al Qaida cleric an assassination? Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/09/30/125807/was-obamas-order-to-kill-al-qaida.html#ixzz1ZbuXubaQ In this image taken from video and released by SITE Intelligence Group on Monday, Nov. 8, 2010, Anwar al-Awlaki speaks in a video message posted on radical websites. (AP Photo/SITE Intelligence Group) | AP Sign up for email newsletters now! Sign up [...]
As for the comments of General Lute in the post on this page read this and see for yourself where these alleged Al Qaeda connections are and how foolish it is to suggest that some sort of knockout punch can be delivered in Pakistan. As long as the US keeps its extremely close links to [...]
It is a credit to liberalism in Norway that the country’s prime minister did not respond to the attack with fear or vicious speculation [EPA] The Norwegian terrorist who murdered more than ninety innocent civilians – many of whom were teenagers – did not act alone. Or rather, he acted within a cultural and political context that [...]
Hairy-Chested Liberals Exult: Big Question, Who Do We Kill Next? By ALEXANDER COCKBURN Pinko terror-symps and the “rule of law” gang may cavil and whine at the lack of legal propriety in the execution of Osama , but it’s not cutting much ice with liberal America. For long years what might be called the “progressive” [...]
AMY GOODMAN: After the killing of Osama bin Laden and targeting of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the latest U.S. assassination attempt came in Yemen Thursday with a drone strike aimed at killing a U.S. citizen suspected of orchestrating terrorist attacks in the United States, including the 2009 Christmas Day underwear bomber plot. Anwar al-Awlaki, the [...]
