May 3, 2012
US-Afghan Pact Won’t End War or Night Raids by Gareth Porter, May 03, 2012 Print This | Share This The optics surrounding the Barack Obama administration’s “Enduring Strategic Partnership” [.pdf] agreement with Afghanistan and the memorandums of understanding (MOU) accompanying it emphasize transition to Afghan responsibility and an end to U.S. war. [...]
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May 3, 2012
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 [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Central Intelligence Agency, David Petraeus, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, United State, White House, Yemen
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April 26, 2012
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 [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Barack Obama, CIA, David Petraeus, Joint Special Operations Command, Obama, United States, Yemen
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April 17, 2012
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 [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, David Petraeus, National Intelligence Estimate, Ray McGovern, War in Afghanistan (2001–present), WikiLeaks, William Westmoreland
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March 27, 2012
Costs of a policy of profligacy with foreign lives By HIROAKI SATO NEW YORK — In the early hours of March 11, Sunday, a U.S. soldier went on a rampage in a village in Panjway, southwest of Kandahar, Afghanistan. He went from one mud house to another, shot, stabbed, and burned 16 [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, David Petraeus, George W. Bush, Naoki Inose, Obama, United State, War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
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March 23, 2012
War Crimes Must Be Stopped No Matter Who Does Them This article applies as much to Australian military and politicians as it does to the US George Ikners ikners.com By War Criminals Watch War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity March 22, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — The brutality with which the US government exercises its [...]
Tags: Bush, David Petraeus, Geneva Conventions, International law, Iraq, Obama, United State, War crime
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March 12, 2012
Director of National Intelligence James ClapperExclusive: Like before the invasion of Iraq, the U.S. news media is flooding Americans with alarmist accounts about Iran’s alleged pursuit of nuclear weapons. Even when U.S. officials suggest nuance and caution, the media ignores the signals, as ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern reports. By Ray McGovern Watching top U.S. intelligence officials present [...]
Tags: David Petraeus, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, IAEA, International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran, Iraq, National Intelligence Estimate, Ray McGovern, United State, United States
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February 28, 2012
“If those who support aggressive war had seen a fraction of what I’ve seen, if they’d watched children fry to death from Napalm and bleed to death from a cluster bomb, they might not utter the claptrap they do”. - John Pilger Related articles A John Pilger article, Once again, war is prime time and [...]
Tags: David Petraeus, David Richards, Harold Pinter, International Atomic Energy Agency, John Pilger, Ministry of Defence, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, United State
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January 11, 2012
This article is about a person from the US military and his stance on war. It outlines the conclusion often reached that the only way war can be stopped is for soldiers to stop fighting. Any form of refusal to fight of course sends the military [...]
Tags: David Petraeus, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Iowa, Paul Rieckhoff, Richard Nixon, Ron Paul, Texas, World War II
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January 11, 2012
Why Do We Ignore the Civilians We Kill in US Wars? By John Tirman January 10, 2012 “WP” – January 06, 2012 - As the United States officially ended the war in Iraq last month, President Obama spoke eloquently at Fort Bragg, N.C., lauding troops for “your patriotism, your commitment to fulfill [...]
Tags: David Petraeus, Fort Bragg, Iraq, Iraq War, Iraqi people, Korean War, United States, United States Armed Forces, Vietnam War, War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
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January 8, 2012
The US military plans to triple the number of Afghan police by the end of 2013. Photograph: Stringer/EPA US reliance on Afghan paramilitaries in rural areas worries European allies Britain wonders if local police force can keep stability, while Germans argue the units are not easy to control A split between the US and its [...]
Tags: Afghan National Army, Afghan National Police, Afghanistan, ALP, Australian Labor Party, David Petraeus, International Security Assistance Force, NATO, United States
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December 13, 2011
US-Supported Afghan Militias to Expand, Despite Atrocities Armed and trained by the US, the Afghan Local Police have committed widespread human rights abuses by John Glaser, December 12, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The U.S. policy of arming and supporting violent, criminal Afghan militias to fight Taliban [...]
Tags: Afghan Local Police, Afghan National Army, Afghanistan, ALP, Australian Labor Party, David Petraeus, Iraq, United States
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December 9, 2011
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 [...]
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, David Petraeus, Iran, Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel, Monty Python, Pepe Escobar, Victoria Nuland
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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 2, 2011
Once Again, War is Prime Time and Journalism’s Role is Taboo by John Pilger, December 02, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum 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 [...]
Tags: David Petraeus, International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran, Iraq, Israel, John Pilger, middle east, United States
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November 29, 2011
Scott Horton Interviews Steve Horn and Allen Ruff Scott Horton, November 29, 2011 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Steve Horn and Allen Ruff discuss their two-part article at Truth-Out, “How Private Warmongers and the US Military Infiltrated American Universities;” how the allies of empire (from neoconservatives to liberal hawks) united to promote “Grand [...]
Tags: American Enterprise Institute, David Petraeus, George W. Bush, Manhattan Institute, Norman Podhoretz, Politics, Roger Hertog, United States
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November 20, 2011
The Son of Africa claims a continent’s crown jewels 20 October 2011 On 14 October, President Barack Obama announced he was sending United States special forces troops to Uganda to join the civil war there. In the next few months, US combat troops will be sent to South Sudan, Congo and Central [...]
Tags: Africa, Barack Obama, David Petraeus, Libya, Lord Resistance Army, Osama bin Laden, Uganda, United States
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November 17, 2011
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 [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, CIA, David Petraeus, Jesselyn Radack, John Walker Lindh, Ray McGovern, Thomas Drake, William Westmoreland
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November 10, 2011
Flying the flag, faking the news 2 September 2010 In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger traces the history of propaganda to Edward Bernays, the American nephew of Sigmund Freud, who invented the term “public relations”. Bernays believed in “engineering public consent” and creating “false realties” as news. Here [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, David Petraeus, Edward Bernays, John Pilger, Labour, Rupert Murdoch, Sigmund Freud, United State
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October 26, 2011
Every Western democracy has answered the question, “How should the power of the leader be checked?” In the United States, we separated the role of the sovereign into three co-equal branches, incorporated the Bill of Rights into our written Constitution, and scheduled regular elections when the people, having observed the actions of the executive [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Baitullah Mehsud, Bruce Riedel, David Petraeus, Dick Cheney, Jane Mayer, Pakistan, Pakistani, United State, United States
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October 20, 2011
The Son of Africa claims a continent’s crown jewels 20 October 2011 On 14 October, President Barack Obama announced he was sending United States special forces troops to Uganda to join the civil war there. In the next few months, US combat troops will be sent to South Sudan, Congo and Central African Republic. They [...]
Tags: Africa, Barack Obama, David Petraeus, Libya, Lord's Resistance Army, Obama, Uganda, United States
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October 14, 2011
Petraeus’s CIA Fuels Iran Murder Plot by Ray McGovern, October 14, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, in his accustomed role as unofficial surrogate CIA spokesman, has thrown light on how the CIA under its new director, David Petraeus, helped craft the screenplay for this week’s White House spy feature: [...]
Tags: Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution, David Petraeus, Drug Enforcement Administration, Iran, Mexican Drug War, Saudi, Saudi Arabia, United States
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October 12, 2011
Nato success against Taliban in Afghanistan ‘may be exaggerated’ Isaf has given the impression top Afghan Taliban commanders are being killed or captured, says the report. Photograph: EPA Report says kill-or-capture raids are not a surgical tactic as claimed and use of the word ‘leader’ is suspect reddit this Julian Borger, diplomatic editor [...]
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October 12, 2011
Afghan Govt Blocks Major Corruption Probe US Produced Evidence Governor Was Colluding With Taliban, Taking Bribes by Jason Ditz, October 11, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum One of the few significant concrete moves by Afghan officials toward tackling their almost legendary levels of corruption has come to a less-than-satisfying end today, as officials report [...]
Tags: Abu Bakr, Afghanistan, David Petraeus, Hamid Karzai, Kapisa Province, NATO, October 11th 2011, Taliban
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October 4, 2011
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 [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Bob Woodward, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, David Petraeus, Leon Panetta, United States, Warfare and Conflict
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September 29, 2011
How McChrystal and Petraeus Built an Indiscriminate “Killing Machine” Gen. Stanley McChrystal describes his strategy going forward in Afghanistan after President Barack Obama announced he will increase the US troop presence by 30,000 beginning in early 2010. (Photo: U.S. Army Sgt. David E. Alvarado / isafmedia) Monday 26 September 2011 by: Gareth Porter, Truthout [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Barack Obama, Bob Woodward, David Petraeus, European Union, Iraq, Joint Special Operations Command, Stanley McChrystal, Taliban
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September 27, 2011
Pentagon to Increase Presence of US Trainers in Afghanistan by 800 Afghan forces, incapable and criminal, are pathetically unprepared to take over responsibility for security by John Glaser, September 26, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The United States will increase the number of American military trainers in Afghanistan by 800 in the [...]
Tags: Afghan National Army, Afghanistan, Australia, David Petraeus, Joel Fitzgibbon, NATO, Tony Blair, United States, War in Afghanistan (2001–present), William B. Caldwell, William Caldwell
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September 5, 2011
Petraeus’ Lies and Failure Mount — Toward Ever-Greater Career Success Jeremy Sapienza, September 01, 2011 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Where Gen. David Petraeus goes, lies follow. Or maybe he’s the liar. We probably can’t expect the truth from a man in the military for as long as he’s been. The 37-year veteran, retiring [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Barack Obama, Central Intelligence Agency, David Petraeus, Gareth Porter, Iraq, Iraq War, Maliki, Stanley McChrystal, United State, United States
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August 27, 2011
Details of Secret Pact Emerge: Troops Stuck in Afghanistan Until 2024 If you thought President Obama was ending the war in Afghanistan, think again. Your children will be fighting it in 2024 if the Pentagon has its way. August 23, 2011 | Maybe you thought we’d get out of Afghanistan this very year, the drawdown [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, David Petraeus, George W. Bush, NATO Training Mission Afghanistan, Pentagon, United States Armed Forces, War in Afghanistan (2001–present), William B. Caldwell
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August 25, 2011
Palestinian President Abbas says he will return to the negotiating table after the UN vote [GALLO/GETTY] First, let me put all my cards on the table. I believe that the intentional killing of civilians, whether by Palestinian terrorists on the ground or by the Israeli Air Force from the sky, is a war crime. As [...]
Tags: David Petraeus, Hamas, Israel, middle east, Palestinian National Authority, Palestinian people, State of Israel, United Nations, United States, West Bank
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August 13, 2011
US Raids in Afghanistan Triple Since 2009 Post-McChrystal, Night Raids Have Dramatically Increased by Jason Ditz, August 12, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum New figures released by NATO reveal a dramatic increase in the number of US commando raids across Afghanistan since the ouster of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who served as [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Central Intelligence Agency, David Petraeus, Hamid Karzai, NATO, Politics of Afghanistan, President of Afghanistan, Stanley McChrystal
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August 11, 2011
The Man Who Doesn’t Want to Be President Adam Campbell (CC-BY-ND) By William Pfaff Posted on Aug 9, 2011 The spectacle presented the world by the elected American government’s inability to deal with how the national debt is to be paid and the budget set, with its commercial exploitation by rating company Standard & Poor’s, is widely considered [...]
Tags: Alissa J. Rubin, Barack Obama, David Petraeus, George W. Bush, Stanley McChrystal, United State, Warren Buffett, William Pfaff
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August 2, 2011
World Beat by JOHN FEFFER | Tuesday, August 2, 2011 Vol. 6, No. 31 O U R L A T E S T AUG 2 | Afghanistan: U.S. and Pakistan Seek to Reinforce a Border That Was Arbitrary to Begin With Conn Hallinan AUG 1 | Islamophobes Insinuate Their Way Into U.S. Intelligence Paul [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Central Intelligence Agency, David Petraeus, Kabul, Leon Panetta, Taliban, United State
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July 22, 2011
Nexus 7: America’s Orwellian Project in Afghanistan Brian Beyer, July 21, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Now that America will soon start its “withdrawal” of troops from Afghanistan, the brainiacs over at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, have developed Nexus 7, which, “aims to tap that data ["exabytes" collected [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, DARPA, David Petraeus, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Demography of Afghanistan, Kabul, Subject–object problem, United States, Warfare and Conflict, WikiLeaks
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July 21, 2011
How Not to Make Friends in the Greater Middle East Washington’s Singular Accomplishment By Tom Engelhardt In the method, there is madness; in the comedy, nightmare; in the tragedy, farce. And despite everything, there’s still good news when it comes to what Americans can accomplish in the face of the impossible! No, not a debt-ceiling deal [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Ahmed Wali Karzai, Central Intelligence Agency, David Petraeus, Hamid Karzai, New York Times, President of Afghanistan, Tom Engelhardt, United State, United States, United States Armed Forces, Washington Post
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July 20, 2011
Petraeus Credited With Ramping Up Afghan Killing Legacy of Escalated Killings Spun as Success by Jason Ditz, July 19, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum After his repeated escalations left the situation dramatically worse, Gen. David McKiernan was replaced as commander in Afghanistan, leaving in failure. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, his replacement, escalated the [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, David Petraeus, Joint Special Operations Command, Libya, NATO, Stanley McChrystal, Syria, United Nations
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July 19, 2011
Hamid Karzai‘s authority under threat after the assassinations of two close allies. Photograph: EPA The assassination of a close ally and mentor of Hamid Karzai a week after the killing of the president’s powerful half-brother has raised new questions over whether Afghanistan‘s precarious power structure could collapse even before the departure of western combat troops in 2014. [...]
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July 16, 2011
General Petraeus’ Parting Spin On his way out of Afghanistan, General David Petraeus continues to throw out deceptive spin about the direction of the conflict in that country. The general wants to use cherry-picked numbers and vague characterizations to paint the insurgents as reeling under an assault by his pet counterinsurgency campaign, but big-picture “progress” [...]
Tags: Afghan National Army, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, David Petraeus, New York Times, Rethink Afghanistan, Robert Greenwald, Stanley McChrystal, United Nations, United State, War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
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July 12, 2011
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta sits with Commanding General of US Forces in Iraq, Lt. Gen. Lloyd Austin as they fly in a Blackhawk helicopter over Baghdad, on Monday, July 11. Paul J. Richards/AP Enlarge By Anna Mulrine, Staff writer / July 11, 2011 WashingtonAfter being sworn in as the nation’s new secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta’s first [...]
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Posted in Afghan Youth, Afghanistan, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Iran, Iraq, Leon Panetta, Obama, Obama warmonger, oil, oil and gas resources, President of the World, Propaganda, Protests, Psycopaths, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US public opinion, US war crimes, USA | No Comments »
July 11, 2011
Panetta Slips Up on Troop Withdrawal from Afghanistan By Adam Entous KABUL, Afghanistan — Leon Panetta, on his first day here as U.S. defense secretary, made what appeared to be his first big policy announcement: The U.S. would keep 70,000 troops in the country until the end of 2014, when the Afghans are scheduled to assume [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, David Petraeus, Douglas Wilson, Hamid Karzai, Kabul, Leon Panetta, United States Secretary of Defense
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July 5, 2011
Despite Troop Surge, Taliban Attacks and US Casualties Soared by Gareth Porter, July 05, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Data on attacks by armed opposition forces and U.S. combat casualties since the U.S. troop surge in Afghanistan was completed last summer provide clear evidence that the surge and the increase in targeted [...]
Tags: David Petraeus, Improvised explosive device, Iraq War troop surge of 2007, Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization, NATO, Special forces, United State, United States Department of Defense
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July 3, 2011
Full Metal Racket Jake Whitney interviews Michael Hastings May 2011 The Rolling Stone reporter on his blockbuster articles, how the generals pushed Obama into a war he didn’t want to fight, and the Pentagon’s effort to tear down the wall between PR and propaganda. Photograph courtesy Lucian Read On January 17, 2007, Michael Hastings was [...]
Tags: Andrea Parhamovich, David Petraeus, Joe Biden, Lara Logan, Michael Hastings, Pentagon, Rolling Stone, Stanley McChrystal
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June 30, 2011
Petraeus is expected to start his new job in September [Reuters] The US Senate has voted unanimously to confirm General David Petraeus to be the new director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Petraeus, commander of US forces in Afghanistan, was nominated by President Barack Obama to replace Leon Panetta, who is leaving the CIA to become [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Central Intelligence Agency, David Petraeus, Dianne Feinstein, Iraq War, Leon Panetta, United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
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June 28, 2011
As commander of U.S. troops in Iraq, David Petraeus made his opposition to torture crystal clear. Which is why it came as a surprise when Petraeus, nominated to lead the CIA, asked Congress on Thursday to clarify how far interrogators can go in inflicting pain on detainees in “special cases.” Petraeus referred to what’s known [...]
Tags: Abu Ghraib, Central Intelligence Agency, David Petraeus, Interrogation, Osama bin Laden, Torture, United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Waterboarding
Posted in torture, Torture as an aid to memory loss, Torture rules ok, torture works better than drugs, Torturers are true Americans, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US public opinion, US torture; art and science, US war crimes, voodoo rhythm economics, War, War and economics, War creates misery and despair, War Crimes, War is a crime, War means war, War no reason needed, War on drugs, War on terror, Waterboarding, Wikileaks | 1 Comment »
June 27, 2011
Obama Leaves Door Open to Long-Term US Afghan Combat by Gareth Porter, June 24, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum President Barack Obama’s speech announcing that the 33,000 “surge” troops in Afghanistan will be withdrawn by “summer” 2012 indicates that he has given priority to the interests of the military and the Pentagon [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, David Petraeus, Joe Biden, Presidency of George W. Bush, Robert Gates, United State, War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
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June 27, 2011
With the ever growing presence of fascist thought starting to dominate the mainstream of the media it is useful to look around at what people who are not psychopaths think about the directions being taken at present around the planet. Here in australia we are firmly in the grip of an unelected Prime Minister who [...]
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Civilian control of the military, David Petraeus, Naval Postgraduate School, Pennsylvania College of Technology, Ron Paul, Scott Horton, TomDispatch.com, United State, United States
Posted in Afghan Youth, Afghanistan, Australia, Australia and crimes against the indigenous, Australia and support it gives to Afghan war crimes, Australia and the imperial project, Australia Coal Country and Uranium and metals, Australia Politics, Australian complicity in international war crimes, Australian complicity in US warmongering policies and war crimes, Australian economy, Australian Foreign Policy, Australian Politics, Australian presence is the the Rudd dream, Australian support for Zionism, Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Capitalism and debt, civil liberty, Democracy, Democracy in the Arab World, Dissent, Drug Company Dependence, economic measures, Economics, Economy, elections, Elites, Fascism, Foreign Policy, Fossil fuel, Gillard, Gillard and Labor; Masters of the Australian Crawl, Human Rights, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Israel, Israel a state of settlers, Israel and AIPAC, Israel and diaspora forces of crime, Israel and force, Israel and oil, Israel and the settlers, Israel and zionist moral crimes, Israel Boycott, Israel death and destruction, Israel diaspora and deceit, Israel expulsion, Israel lobby and what it can do, Israel's wall, Israeli checkpoints, Leon Panetta, Manufacturing Consent, Middle East, Militants, Military, Military madmen, Military Murders, Mission Creep, Nakba, Negotiate. It's now or never, Netanyahu, Obama, Obama warmonger, oil, oil and gas resources, Peak oil, Pentagon, people's protests, Predator Drone, President of the World, Propaganda, Protest, Psycopaths, Racism, torture, UK, UK fascism, UK Foreign Policy, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US public opinion, US war crimes, voodoo rhythm economics, War, War and economics, War creates misery and despair | No Comments »
June 25, 2011
Perhaps all the talk after the so called drawdown in Afghanistan, may well amount to concealed laughter by the military. The numbers being removed, if any real decease is actually going to happen are extremely small. Then the replacement mercenaries become yet another US army. If you have been just shot and killed by a [...]
Tags: Admiral Michael Mullen, Afghanistan, Central Intelligence Agency, David Petraeus, Michael Mullen, Robert Gates, United State, United States, War in Afghanistan (2001–present), White House
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June 20, 2011
It will be interesting to see what the warmonger Obama decides is a ‘suitable’ drawdown in Afghanistan and if any of that has been or was communicated to the true friend downunder before she went on her crawling and servile spree doing and saying anything to further the position that Australia is there to the [...]
Tags: Afghan National Army, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, David Petraeus, Hamid Karzai, Mohammed Omar, Taliban, War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
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June 18, 2011
Pentagon Urges Obama to Keep Afghan Surge Going Until Fall 2012 Plan Would Keep Vast Majority of Surge Troops in Nation for Another Year and a Half by Jason Ditz, June 17, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum With the decision on the long-promised July 2011 dradown likely just weeks away, the [...]
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June 18, 2011
Pulling Obama at Both Ends on Afghanistan Pullout John Glaser, June 17, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Obama will make a public decision on an initial draw-down of troops in Afghanistan in the next few weeks. On one end, we have Defense Secretary Gates, General Petraeus, and – officially now – the [...]
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