Clinton’s $33m Raid on Pakistan Shows That, In The End, Hypocrisy Will Win The Long View: Are the Pakistanis being so dastardly when they lock up a national who has helped in a murder? By Robert Fisk May 28, 2012 “The Independent” – La Clinton hath spoken. Thirty-three million smackers lopped [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Below is a link to an excellent interview with Ray McGovern a former CIA analyst. He of course as a CIA employee reported directly to a President nd is an acknowledged expert in the field. Although this is only short you get a god sense of what is happening with the dissemination [...]
Ten Rules of the “War on Terrorism” by Jacob G. Hornberger I confess that I have trouble sometimes figuring out the nature and logic of the so-called war on terrorism. The following are what seem to be the principles of this “war”: 1. Since the “war on terrorism,” according [...]
Jamil el-Banna in 2007. The UK resident was seized in Gambia in 2002 and handed over to US authorities. Photograph: Alastair Grant/AP Richard Norton-Taylor guardian.co.uk, Thursday 19 April 2012 17.46 BST Article history The government is facing renewed pressure over its refusal to disclose Britain’s role in abducting terror suspects after the information tribunal ruled there [...]
Whistleblowers Prosecuted While War Criminals Remain Free? By RT Link to video interview with David Swanson http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31110.htm The video also contains material about how to “extract actionable intelligence” A newly released document acquired by Wired Magazine exposes the United States Defense Department‘s torture techniques. In the 37 page report, former CIA official [...]
David Petraeus, A Threat to CIA Analysis Thursday, 28 April 2011 09:35By Ray McGovern, Consortium News | Op-Ed The news that President Barack Obama has picked Gen. David Petraeus to be CIA director raises troubling questions, including whether the commander most associated with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will tolerate objective [...]
(Credit: Salon) For a few years now this page has consistently warned about the murder machines that are proliferating at the moment. They fit into what Orwell described so well in 1984. First they alleviate the need for a great deal of hand to hand combat and can fill the dual purpose of murdering the enemy and [...]
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 [...]
An undated handout photo of a US Air Force MQ-9 Reaper, a drone aircraft aimed with laser-guided munitions and Hellfire missiles. (Photo: Lt. Col. Leslie Pratt / US Air Force via The New York Times) Drones Flying Under the Radar Thursday, 05 April 2012 09:33By Tom Barry, Truthout | News Analysis Drones are the future, especially [...]
Goerge W Bush walks before speaking in defense of his war policy to an audience in December 2005. (Photograph: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP) Dissenting Memos on Bush Torture Program Released Administration tried to ‘collect and destroy’ all copies of advice White House received objecting to cruel acts – Common Dreams staff Internal State Department memos warning [...]
Abu Zubaydah, the first high-value detainee captured after 9/11, was tortured at CIA black site prisons beginning in May 2002. Seven of the ten techniques he was subjected came from a manual just released by the Defense Department under the Freedom of Information Act. (Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout)In May of 2002, one of several meetings [...]
McGovern Protests Brennan’s Speech March 22, 2012 After learning that U.S. national security official John Brennan would address Jesuit-run Fordham’s graduating class, ex-CIA analyst (and Fordham alum) Ray McGovern protested in a letter to the Fordham Ram. McGovern cited Jesuit principles of truth and justice — and Brennan’s role in the “dark side” of the “war on terror.” [...]
Syria: NATO countries are already militarily active in Syria – an overview BY SUSANA AL HALABI – MARCH 9, 2012 – POSTED IN: SIDEVIEWS British and French Special Forces operate in Syria. NATO acts against international laws. Currently, there are two calls for peace circulating with a good response about Syria and Iran. Both are calling for an [...]
For decades there has developed an art or science in the investigation of different forms of torture. That of course follows a history of centuries o the use of the infliction of pain as a means to an end. As long as those who seek power at any cost [...]
WASHINGTON – Top Pentagon officials are considering putting elite special operations troops under CIA control in Afghanistan after 2014, just as they were during last year’s raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan, sources told The Associated Press. The plan is one of several possible scenarios being debated by Pentagon staffers. [...]
The highlights of US-Iran relations for the past century have usually revolved around one thing: oil [EPA] link to article http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/01/201211812120940853.html New York, NY - These days, with a crisis atmosphere growing in the Persian Gulf, a little history lesson about the US and Iran might be just what the doctor ordered. Here, then, are a few high- [...]
When Is a Terrorist Not a Terrorist? & War With Iran or Not? By Alan Hart January 16, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — The longer and complete form of the first question in the headline is – When is a terrorist not a terrorist in the eyes of the Obama [...]
Top Iran General Threatens Retaliation Over Scientist Killing Warns US, Britain and Israel Will All Be ‘Held Accountable’ by Jason Ditz, January 15, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum In an interview with the Iranian state media this weekend, Iran’s Deputy Joint Chiefs [...]
Iran Sends Letter in Response to Attacks on Nuclear Scientists Tehran is claiming to have evidence that the assassinations are the work of the CIA by John Glaser, January 14, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Iran said on Saturday it has evidence that the latest assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist was orchestrated, at least in part, [...]
Meir Dagan, head of Mossad at the time Israel Framed CIA in Backing Jundallah Terrorists Memos: Mossad Agents With US Passports, US Dollars Recruited Terror Group by Jason Ditz, January 13, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The 2007 revelation by ABC News that the Bush Administration was covertly backing the Jundallah terrorist organization in an effort to [...]
National-Security Assassination of Americans in 1973 By Jacob G. Hornberger January 06, 2012 “fff” — A Chilean judge has indicted a retired U.S. Naval officer, Capt. Ray E. Davis, in the murder of two American citizens in Chile during the U.S.-supported Pinochet coup in 1973. [...]
Lebanon MP Seeks Info on CIA Spying Campaign Presses Cabinet to Clarify Policy Changes Since November by Jason Ditz, January 05, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Lebanese MP Hasan Fadlallah, from Hezbollah’s political wing, today announced that he is filing a formal request for information from the nation’s [...]
. This page has always warned of the insidious nature of the coming drone wars, perhaps the term droneocracy could be used to cover the field. To the military murderer and warmonger they represent the weapon of choice. But even more they could well be a cheap alternative and cause less loss of [...]
Contractors’ Role Grows in Drone Missions, Worrying Some in the Military by David S. Cloud WASHINGTON — After a U.S. airstrike mistakenly killed at least 15 Afghans in 2010, the Army officer investigating the accident was surprised to discover that an American civilian had played a central role: analyzing video feeds from a Predator drone [...]
This page has consistently warned about the expected effect of the drone wars. These monstrous murder machines take the US abilities at 30,000 feet and continue that advantage to ground level. It is at ground level that the US has been extremely poor at instilling its brand of justice and capitalist [...]
Secret Wars and the Rule of Law by Tim Kelly, December 21, 2011 The president of the United States now wages secret wars virtually independent of Congress and in direct violation of the United States Constitution. Earlier this month, the White House issued several findings authorizing U.S. intelligence services to carry [...]
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 [...]
Human Rights Watch Asks Obama What Legal Contortions He Favors to Justify Routine Murder by Unmanned Drone By davidswanson - Posted on 19 December 2011 Dear President Obama, We previously wrote to you on December 7, 2010, to express our concerns regarding the US targeted killing program. We made recommendations that would minimize harm to civilians and ensure [...]
Several reports have stated that British intelligence has provided locations for alleged militants targeted by the CIA’s campaign. Photograph: Ethan Miller/Getty Images link http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/17/william-hague-questioned-drone-strike Lawyers for the son of a victim of US drone strikes in Pakistan have asked foreign secretary William Hague to clarify whether British intelligence has helped the CIA’s “targeted killing” programme. A law firm acting on [...]
The epicenter of global terrorism, and the CIA’s highly classified drone war against extremist groups, is a black hole on the map — a region of Pakistan off limits to outsiders, and especially Westerners. It’s anarea so dangerous that even the Pakistani military avoids it. The CIA may have launched 70 drone strikes in tribal [...]
Pakistani Commission to Probe CIA Presence in Country ‘Abbottabad Commission’ Vows to Release Results to Public by Jason Ditz, December 08, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Speaking today at a press conference, Pakistani Justice Javed Iqbal, the head of the “Abbottabad Commission,” [...]
The Dead Drone sketch By Pepe Escobar (Hats off, of course, to Monty Python) A group of journalists attend a United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) press conference in a nondescript room in Langley, Virginia. Journalist 1 [approaching the podium]: Excuse me, I wish [...]
American style killing machines CLAUDIA FONSECA SOSA WITH the drone bombing attacks the United States government is carrying out in tribal regions of Pakistan, it’s hard to know what to believe. An article in the Wall Street Journal summarizes the situation this way, “Combatants of terrorist groups are fired upon, but their identity [...]
CIA, NATO Lied to Press About Lost Drone Move Couched as ‘Head Fake’ to Trick Iran by Jason Ditz, December 06, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum This weekend’s story of Iran shooting down a drone came with [...]
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 [...]
As if to show the world just how important the drones are to modern murder, or warfare if you prefer it seems nothing at the moment will stop their use. Here in Australia we should hang our heads in shame after a spectacularly stupid decision by an ex rock and roller, Peter Garrett leased our [...]
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 [...]
Ask the Candidates Real Questions – Like These by Ray McGovern, November 26, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum During recent presidential debates, moderators have asked mostly predictable questions and – except for some notable gaffes – have elicited mostly talking-point answers. But ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern says it’s time for citizens to put politicians [...]
I n recent decades, information – the lifeblood of democracy – has often been cut off from the American body politic on “national security” grounds or because insiders feel it wouldn’t be “good for the country.” To counter that benighted view, a group of ex-U.S. intelligence officials honors brave whistleblowers, this year Thomas Drake [...]
Former CIA Operative Glenn Carle. (Photo:Lance Page / Truthout) Sunday 23 October 2011 by: Jason Leopold, Truthout | Video Interview and Report Rob Richer, the No. 2 ranking official in the CIA’s clandestine service, paid a visit to Glenn Carle‘s office in December 2002 and presented the veteran CIA operative with an urgent proposal. “I [...]
Insiders voice doubts about CIA’s 9/11 story Tom Kean, George Tenet, Richard Clarke. Inset: The Pentagon on fire after an aircraft crashes into it, Sept. 11, 2001. Former FBI agents say the agency’s bin Laden unit misled them about two hijackers BY RORY O’CONNOR AND RAY NOWOSIELSKI TOPICS:9/11, CIA A growing number of former government insiders [...]
So-Called Changes in Afghan War Strategy Denote More of the Same A shift from country-wide military occupation to targeted special ops strategy could justify another decade of war in Afghanistan by John Glaser, October 08, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Even as the Obama administration promises to end the Afghan war in 2014, [...]
Ex-CIA chief acknowledges open secret — drones (AFP) – 1 day ago SIGONELLA AIR BASE, Italy — US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta on Friday acknowledged what has long been an open secret — that the CIA deploys armed Predator drones to hunt down Islamist militants. The US government officially declines to admit to the spy agency’s [...]
Judge Refuses to Sanction CIA for Destroying Torture Tapes By David Kravets October 6, 2011 | 4:48 pm | Categories: Sunshine and Secrecy, The Courts A federal judge won’t hold the CIA in contempt for destroying videotapes of detainee interrogations that included the use of a torture technique known as waterboarding, ruling instead Wednesday that [...]
David Petraeus (Credit: AP/Salon) MONDAY, OCT 3, 2011 11:01 PM AUS EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME The Petraeus projection: The CIA director’s record since the surge Hero worship hides the military failures of the CIA director’s “global killing machine” BY FRED BRANFMAN TOPICS:DAVID PETRAEUS Few issues are more important to America’s future than reducing the threat [...]
Aid agency withdrew Pakistan staff after CIA fake vaccination scheme The compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where Osama bin Laden was killed after the CIA ran a fake vaccination programme in the town. Photograph: Akhtar Soomro/Reuters Save the Children, which was not linked to the scheme, flew workers out of the country after US warnings [...]
By KIMBERLY DOZIER updated 9/27/2011 8:43:30 AM ET Print Font: WASHINGTON — A man accused of running an illegal contractor spy ring in Afghanistan has resigned from the Air Force, still maintaining his innocence, and still facing possible criminal charges. Two investigations continue in a case that has tested the definition of what contractors are allowed to do [...]
