Karzai Flips Out on Rep. Rohrabacher Jason Ditz, May 22, 2012 Print This | Share This | Comment In an interview today on CNN, Afghan President Hamid Karzai was asked about reports that Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R – CA) is banned from entering Afghanistan. Karzai confirmed the ban, and went on to say that: “A [...]
Demonstrators protest against government austerity measures outside the Greek Parliament in Athens last month. (Photo: CNN)Greece’s situation is not an isolated event, but a bellwether for the industrial world and beyond. The fallout from the 2008 global crisis hasn’t reached bottom yet, and the depths will be dug deeper as the Euro crisis spreads — [...]
Alexis Tsipras: Austerity Will Send Greece (and Europe) ‘Directly To Hell’ – Common Dreams staff Alexis Tsipras, head of Syriza, Greece’s ascendent left-wing political party, appeared on CNN’s evening news showAmanpour on Wednesday to voice his party’s position on the ongoing economic crisis in his country and across Europe. “We want to change the [...]
Ret. Gen.: Massacre Could Force US From Afghanistan in Weeks Karzai Demands to Confine Troops to Base Could Mean Pullout by Jason Ditz, March 19, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Speaking to CNN on Sunday, Retired Major General James A. Marks, the senior intelligence officer [...]
CNN Silences War-Skeptical Soldier By obsessing over Iran gaining a nuclear weapon “capability” – even with no actual bomb – while ignoring Israel’s undeclared nuclear arsenal, the U.S. news media proves the point of its own bias. There’s also the usual hostility toward dissenting voices, as ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern notes. [...]
Attacking Iran Because We Can, Doesn’t Mean We Should By Camillo mac Bica February 24, 2012 “Information Clearing House” - The debate regarding Iran’s nuclear program has focused upon pragmatic, tactical, strategic, and economic issues regarding the feasibility and consequences of continuing and/or escalating military action against Iran. There have been innumerable [...]
Satellite television, unlike internet-based new media, required no interactivity and tended to reach its target audience with relative ease [EPA] Editor’s note: This article is an excerpt from chapter six, and the sixth of a series of excerpts that Al Jazeera will be publishing, from The Invisible Arab: The promise and peril of the Arab revolutions. Missed [...]
CNN reports: graphic from ProPublica State leaders have ordered that four fluid-injection wells in eastern Ohio will be “indefinitely” prohibited from opening in the aftermath of heightened seismic activity in the area, an official said. Ohio Department of Natural Resources Director James Zehringer had announced on Friday that one such well — which injects “fluid deep [...]
Texas doctors to operate on girl burned in U.S. drone strike By davidswanson - Posted on 22 December 2011 (CNN) – She has eyelashes but no eyebrows. She has all her fingers but is missing four nails. Her skin is so taut now that she can no longer frown. LOOK AT HER.
Piers Morgan was questioned by inquiry counsel, Robert Jay QC, on Tuesday. Photograph: Pool/REUTERS It may be worthwhile noting that the word “refute” in the net headline should be used where evidence is offered to show that a proposition is true. He does not seem to have done that. Perhaps the word “denies” would have [...]
Story Change: US Drone Was Spying on Iranian Sites, Officials Admit Military ‘Did Not Have a Good Understanding of What Was Going On’ by Jason Ditz, December 15, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum [...]
Senator John Kerry cited Republicans’ ‘intransigence’ for the committee’s failure to come to an agreement [Getty/AFP] So far the super committee charged with stepping up to the plate and dealing with America’s deficit does not have a deal. But if they make one, they won’t be what you see on the screen. They will be [...]
India has one of the world’s fastest growing economies. But the southwest Asian country also has the largest number of slaves in the world. “They injected me with drugs and beat me. Then I was sold on.” Jamila, a former bride slave In the midst of widespread poverty, fueled by economic [...]
Scott Horton, November 01, 2011 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Former Guantanamo prison guard Brandon Neely discusses the first six months Guantanamo was open for business (covered here by CNN) when no guidelines existed for prisoner treatment; why the guards thought all Gitmo prisoners were 9/11 terrorists and treated them accordingly [...]
Occupy By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/occupy-winter-our-discontent Can occupations survive a winter of global weirding, escalated police brutality, and the corporate media‘s venom? Should they? In some parts of the country there will be no cold weather. In others, police abuses will result in larger occupations, not smaller. And it’s certainly possible that for the first time [...]
Ex Wall-Streeter (And Creator of Viral Charts on Inequality) On Why Wall Street Must Acknowledge Protests It’s the powerpoint presentation that has been seen around the world: 4 million hits and counting. A former Wall Streeter, Henry Blodgett, who founded the site BusinessInsider.com recently created a presentation that dramatically explains “why they’re protesting”, using [...]
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, pictured, speaks at a press conference during the Palestinian ambassadors meeting with President Mahmoud Abbas in Istanbul. [AFP/Mustafa Ozer]\ PM: ‘Broken’ ties with Israel may become norm for Turkey Published yesterday (updated) 25/09/2011 20:34 WASHINGTON (AFP) — Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared Sunday that his country’s [...]
Irresponsibly Exposing Gadhafi Torture, Ignoring Comparable US Crimes John Glaser, August 31, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum There are various reports of a vast torture regime in Libya under Muammar Gadhafi, including this graphic CNN report on some in Gadhafi’s immediate family throwing boiling hot water on their nanny. It is always [...]
New York Times: Lying about Libya and Palestine By Stephen Lendman - Posted on 22 August 2011 New York Times: Lying about Libya and Palestine – by Stephen Lendman Note: A follow-up article will continue the narrative below. Currently, events in Tripoli are fluid. Progressive Radio News Hour contributor Mahdi Nazemroaya’s overnight email said: “NATO [...]
Showing Enemy Crimes, Ignoring Allied Crimes Jeremy Sapienza, August 17, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum CNN’s top-front story this morning is a disgusting video showing a dead girl from the al-Ranel neighborhood of Latakia. She was shot in the eye, and is sprawled out on the sidewalk. “Her mouth [...]
Fox News chairman Roger Ailes. Photograph: James Leynse/ James Leynse/CORBIS SABA At the Fox News Chrismas party the year the network overtook arch-rival CNN in the cable ratings, tipsy employees were herded down to the basement of a midtown bar in New York. As they gathered around a television mounted high on the wall, an image [...]
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By Mantiq al-Tayr * | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz 1. As is usually the case all of the experts on terrorism and all the Islam-hating bigots were wrong. Sometimes I am not even sure which group is the more loathsome and of course there is considerable overlap between the two. And even though Will McCants actually seems okay, he [...]
Debt ceiling talks between Barack Obama and John Boehner have broken down, throwing the US into economic uncertainty. Photograph: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP The US is on the brink of a major economic crisis after negotiations between Barack Obama and Republican Congressional leaders over the national debt dramatically broke downon Friday. Obama, showing anger, passion and [...]
Editor’s note: CNN correspondent Kaj Larsen recently visited the Arctic to observe the U.S. naval exercise known as ICEX. His experience is part of the CNN documentary “Ice Wars,” which will air at 8 p.m. ET Sunday on CNN Presents. (CNN) — On a small, floating piece of ice in the Beaufort Sea, several hundred [...]
Dozens of university students are arrested for demonstrating against a tuition hike. But Puerto Rico Governor Luis Fortuno remains steadfast in charging students more to help close a $3.2 billion budget gap. Fault Lines extra: • Breaching ‘the point’ • Behind the university strikes The students’ fight is representative of a larger debate in Puerto Rico, and [...]
Patrick Cockburn Lies, damn lies, and reports of battlefield atrocities World View: Gaddafi is feeding his troops Viagra and ordering them to rape the womenfolk of the rebels … well, maybe. Or is truth, as usual, the first casualty in this war? EPA A woman alone: Iman Al-Obeidi, who claims she was raped by pro-Gaddafi [...]
As far as Afghanistan is concerned you need to make a start. A start to disseminate information that not only is war a crime but the damage being done to people’s everyday lives by the ridiculous expenditure required to not just fight a war but to remain on a war standing is ruinous. If you [...]
Pentagon Memo: Costs of Libyan War Soaring Administration Insists War Will Continue Amid Growing Congressional Opposition by Jason Ditz, June 09, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum A Pentagon memo whose content was revealed today by the Financial Times shows that the cost of America’s involvement in the war in Libya is around [...]
US senator views ‘grotesque’ Osama bin Laden photographs Al-Qaida leader had major head wounds and ‘is history’, says James Inhofe, who believes less ‘gruesome’ pictures of body should be released Share18 Chris McGreal in Washington guardian.co.uk, Thursday 12 May 2011 18.33 BST Article history Osama bin Laden is dead. ‘He’s history,’ says Senator James Inhofe, [...]
For millennia women have been mistreated, abused, downtrodden, exploited, raped, beaten, enslaved, made to do man’s work as a male humiliation, told to keep quiet, made love, made love to, been wonderful, been mothers with distinction and without peer, lived alone, lived together…..the list is . But just what is it that makes or drives or tells a [...]
White House to Release Osama Bin Laden Death Photo Adrian Chen — Two days after Osama Bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces, he remains dead. (As far as we know.) A photo is likely forthcoming, as U.S. intelligence pores over Osama’s hard drive. Updated: 4:35pm In lieu of the still-forthcoming (?) death photo, reporters have [...]
Now that the US can claim to have killed Bin Laden think about the Pakistanis who have watched as the reign of terror of the drones has continued in their country. What will now happen is that the US will say that the use of these weapons is a Godsend or as an officer said [...]
Police fire on demonstrators in Iraq; 35 wounded Email Print AP – An Iraqi soldier secures the scene of a suicide car bomb in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, April 18, 2011. Suicide … Slideshow:Iraq Play VideoMideast Video:Palestinian Authority condemns ‘cowardly’ hanging AFP Play VideoMideast Video:Islamists kill Italian kidnapped in GazaAFP By YAHYA BARZANJI, Associated Press – Sun Apr 17, 4:43 pm ET SULAIMANIYAH, [...]
