The Myths of NATO by Tim Kelly, May 30, 2012 The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was cast into the national spotlight last week when the 63-year-old alliance held its 25th summit in Chicago. While the thousands of anti-NATO protesters and the government’s heavy-handed security measures attracted most of the [...]
On May, 2012, the BBC published a photo showing several rows of dead Iraqi children to illustrate a recent massacre in the Syrian city of Houla. As the BBC came under fire for trying to sell a NATO-led attack on Syria, a BBC spokesman has shirked responsibility for checking the authenticity of the image saying [...]
Obama OKs Proliferation of US “Hunter-Killer” Drone Technology Administration plans to arm Italy‘s fleet of Reaper drones – Common Dreams staff The Wall Street Journal is reporting today that the Obama administration plans to arm Italy’s fleet of Reaper drone aircraft, a move that would open the door for sales of advanced hunter-killer drone technology to [...]
Some anti-war veterans threw away their medals at anti-NATO protests in Chicago [EPA] New York, NY - Whether they are against it or for it, few in the West seem to have a coherent account of war, in Afghanistan or anywhere else. Last week, Occupy Chicago demonstrated against “NATO/G8″ in the name of the “Planet over [...]
No One Hears the Poor By Kathy Kelly http://warisacrime.org/content/no-one-hears-poor Here in Kabul, Voices co-coordinator Buddy Bell and I are guests at the home of the Afghan Peace Volunteers, (APV), where we’ve gotten to know four young boys who are being tutored by the Volunteers in the afternoons, having “retired” from their former [...]
NATO Airstrike Kills Six Afghan Children, Parents Afghan Govt. Announces Probe After Family Slain in Attack by Jason Ditz, May 27, 2012 Print This | Share This A Saturday evening NATO air strike against a village in Paktia Province, Afghanistan, has killed a family of eight, including six children. The strike is the latest [...]
NATO Summit A Show Of Force By Paul Heise May 24, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — The NATO summit held in Chicago last weekend reflects everything that is wrong with our society. The NATO summit put on display how we can and do conjure up foreign and domestic threats to [...]
Photo by Reuters I’ve just returned home from the NATO summit and I can’t stop focusing on all that we don’t know after dozens of world leaders met for two days. I have to wonder if the Obama Administration is disappointed in the results. At the end of all of those hours of talking, the [...]
, May 22, 2012 Print This | Share This Following in the rich history of fake endings to wars during the Obama Administration’s first term, the US and other NATO member nations are loudly hyping their endorsement of a transition pact, which is being presented as an “irreversible pullout” of occupation forces. [...]
Seepage and Suffering: Obama’s Civil War Scenario for Afghanistan WRITTEN BY CHRIS FLOYD TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2012 16:37 “The winds in Chicago Have torn me to shreds; Reality has always Had too many heads.” – Bob Dylan, “Cold Irons Bound” So now we know the grand plan of the Peace [...]
Afghanistan: exit with no strategy The least one can expect of a president who prolonged Afghan suffering by ordering a surge of troops to finish the job, is that he has something that could be dignified with the name of an exit strategy It is disingenuous to claim, as Barack Obama did [...]
War and cheeseburgers By Pepe Escobar A specter haunts Europe. No, it’s not communism; it’s US rating agencies. Greece is bankrupt; the eurozone is about to crack; JP Morgan makes billion-dollar “mistakes”; there’s no (jobs) future for the new generations. And yet the weaponized arm of the Western 0.1% elites occupies [...]
Violence and Greeting Cards by Robert C. Koehler “We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies . . .” My thanks to Medea Benjamin for her recent Common Dreams essay putting the spirit of Julia Ward Howe back into Mother’s Day. I’d forgotten about her 1870 proclamation of disarmament and call to the mothers of Planet Earth to [...]
Supporters of the Catholic Workers social justice and peace movement march on Randolph Street after a protest Monday outside President Barack Obama’s national campaign headquarters at Prudential Plaza, where eight demonstrators were arrested. (José M. Osorio, Chicago Tribune / May 14, 2012) From Afghanistan to Chicago, NATO‘s Hard Sell by Roxane Assaf & Michael Lynn [...]
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Ties between the United States and Pakistan have been severely strained over the past year [Reuters] Pakistan has confirmed its president will attend a summit of NATO leaders this weekend in Chicago as negotiations with US to reopen supply lines into Afghanistan continues. Nadeem Hotiana, a Pakistani embassy spokesman in Washington, said on Tuesday that Asif Ali Zardari [...]
General John Allen could become the fourth US and Nato commander to leave Kabul early. Photograph: Ahmad Masood/Reuters Afghanistan is confident the US will stump up billions of extra dollars for its army and police on top of the main chunk of a $4.1bn (£2.6bn) annual budget that is expected to be sealed at a Nato summit [...]
Change Europe can believe in? By Pepe Escobar Europe may just be living a remix of the late 2008 moment when Barack Obama won the presidency in the United States. But this time, will it be real? The election on Sunday of socialist Francois Hollande as president of France comes at [...]
NATO: The New Holy Alliance The Chicago conclave and history’s little ironies by Justin Raimondo, May 09, 2012 Print This | Share This They’re cowering in Chicago, where the NATO summit is scheduled to open on May 20: the security arrangements go well beyond paranoia. They’re telling office workersin buildings adjacent to the site to “dress [...]
Scott Horton Interviews Ray McGovern Scott Horton, May 07, 2012 Print This | Share This | Comment Ray McGovern, member of Veterans For Peace and former senior analyst at the CIA, discusses Russian Gen. Nikolai Makarov’s suggestion that a NATO missile-defense shield in Eastern Europe could be the target of a Russian pre-emptive strike; the [...]
US Admits Killing Innocent Afghan Family in Airstrike The incident did not come to light until the governor in Helmand Province made a public accusation by John Glaser, May 07, 2012 Print This | Share This The U.S. military has claimed responsibility for an airstrike that killed six innocent members of a family in southwestern Afghanistan and pledged a [...]
Vladimir Putin was sworn in as President of Russia again, with a personal mandate of harnessing the resource potenial of Russia’s far eastern territories (Photo by Junko Kimura/Getty Images) [GALLO/GETTY] Moscow, Russia - Vladimir Putin – the apex of a highly personalised system – is back as President of Russia. Forget about a velvet [...]
Obama Misleads on Afghanistan, Claims Victory and Promises Withdrawal The war has not only failed, it will continue for another decade by John Glaser, May 05, 2012 Print This | Share This In his weekly address, President Obama promised to withdraw U.S. troops by the end of 2014 and to start wasting money here at home, instead of [...]
THE ROVING EYE Off with King Sarko’s head By Pepe EscobarHe posed in spectacular grandeur as the neo-imperial Liberator of Libya – only a few years after Colonel Muammar Gaddafi helped finance his 2007 election campaign with a cool US$65 million. Profiting from a mysterious alliance between the Holy Ghost and [...]
. Britain: Germany Needs to ‘Get Over WW2,’ Fight in More Wars ‘Huge Potential’ for Germany to Fight Massive Wars by Jason Ditz, May 02, 2012 Print This | Share This Speaking today in Berlin, Britain’s Defense Secretary Philip Hammond said he believesGermany has a [...]
The Empire vs. Iran (and Syria): A New World War for a New World Order? By Jooneed Khan May 02, 2012 “Rabble” – Confronted with a declining World Order it can no longer control, does the West want to re-assert its will through a new world war, which this time would be really global? [...]
The Libyan Model and the Oxymoron: Class of 2012 Queen and King By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/libyan-model-and-oxymoron-class-2012-queen-and-king There’s a new Atrocity Prevention Board in town, and its chief tool for preventing atrocities will be . . . wait for it . . . atrocities! What a breakthrough! And this clown is forming a tentative life partnership with an [...]
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 [...]
Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdogan has hinted he will use the NATO treaty to obligate intervention in Syria [REUTERS] Princeton, NJ - The conventional wisdom last week on whether Syria would comply with former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan‘s ceasefire plan was that it was up to Russia. We were reverting to Cold War politics, in which [...]
Nick Turse, Memory Failure at the Pentagon Posted by Nick Turse at 8:50am, April 24, 2012. Call it a mantra, a litany, or a to-don’t list, but the drip, drip, drip of Afghan disaster and the gross-out acts accompanying it have already resulted in one of those classic fill-you-in paragraphs that reporters hang [...]
Turkey says Israel must apologize for killing 9 Turkish nationals in May 2010. ISTANBUL (Reuters) — Turkey has refused to allow Israel to take part in a NATO summit next month because the country has not apologized for the 2010 killing of Turkish activists in a raid on a ship taking aid to Palestinians, a [...]
A Mental Health Movement protest in Chicago on April 17, 2012. (Photo: sierraromeo [sarah-ji]) The Wild Unadulterated Joy of Revolt Sunday, 22 April 2012 13:09By Natalie W. and Aaron Cynic, Diatribe Media | News Analysis For more than a week, a coalition of Chicago activists including patients and staff from the Woodlawn Mental Health Clinic, representatives from the [...]
Still killed and killing in the lost Afghanistan War By Lindsey German Stop the War Coalition Afghans for Peace say end the war now April 20, 2012 – Has anyone told the media that the NATO forces are losing the war in Afghanistan? The capital city, Kabul, supposedly the safest place in the country was faced [...]
Afghan Screams Aren’t Heard by Kathy Kelly and Hakim http://warisacrime.org/content/afghan-screams-aren%E2%80%99t-heard Last weekend, in Kabul, Afghan Peace Volunteer friends huddled in the back room of their simple home. With a digital camera, glimpses and sounds of their experiences were captured, as warfare erupted three blocks away. Two Afghan youth taking refuge together with the Afghan [...]
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 [...]
AfPak: Mutiny on the Bounty By Eric Walberg – CairoKabul was cast into chaos Sunday as the Taliban began their spring offensive with attacks on US, British, German and Russian embassies, NATO headquarters, Camp Eggers, a hotel, President Karzai’s palace compound and parliament. “These are coordinated attacks that went just [...]
The publication of the photos by the LA Times comes at a sensitive time for US-Afghan relations. Graphic photos published in an American newspaper show US soldiers posing with the mangled bodies of suspected Afghan suicide bombers. Senior US and NATO officials moved quickly to condemn the pictures even before they were published on Wednesday by [...]
The US commander in Afghanistan, General John Allen, has promised an inquiry into the photos. Photograph: Massoud Hossaini/AFP/Getty Images The US president, Barack Obama, has called for an investigation into a series of photographs that appear to show American soldiers posing with the bodies of dead Afghans, the White House said on Wednesday. The most [...]
America’s Lost War by Stephen Lendman America’s Afghan war is lost and illegal. The Bush administration got no Security Council authorization or congressional declaration of war. International law expert Francis Boyle said Congress passed a War Powers Resolution Authorization. Doing so gave Bush “blank check” power “to use [...]
US says Australia not leaving Afghan early AAPApril 18, 2012, 3:04 am A senior US defence official is insisting that Australia remains a solid combat partner in Afghanistan and is not pulling out early. The official says that Australia’s plans to gradually turn over frontline fighting in strategic Uruzgan province to Afghans [...]
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. [...]
Dilip Hiro, How to Trump a Superpower Posted by Dilip Hiro at 9:03am, April 17, 2012. Chalk it up to the genuine strangeness of our second Afghan War. Americans, according to the latest polls, are turning against the conflict in ever greater numbers, yet it’s remarkable how little — beyond a few obvious, sensational events – they [...]
Afghan police were left to pick up the pieces after a devastating series of Taliban attacks across the country [AFP] Doha, Qatar - In one of the first official US reactions to the attacks against Kabul and cities across eastern Afghanistan last weekend, Ryan C Crocker, US ambassador to Afghanistan, said: “The Taliban are really good [...]
Nobel Peace Laureate Rejects U.S. State Department – NATO – Chicago Agenda http://warisacrime.org/content/nobel-peace-laureate-rejects-us-state-department-nato-chicago-agenda FROM: MAIREAD MAGUIRE Dear Friends, I write to let you know that I have decided not to attend the 12th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates on 23rd-25th April, 2012, in Chicago, USA. On 10th April, Sec. of State H. Clinton [...]
We thank you for your love and your hands and feet, in organizing for the upcoming Chicago protests! Protesting NATO in Chicago will be too Late for Afghanistan by Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers Dear friends of ordinary 99 percent Afghans, In these killing days, we in Afghanistan do not expect the interests of people to triumph [...]
The intentional misreading of UN security council resolution 1973 resulted in Nato’s predictably violent Operation Odyssey in Libya last year. The Logic of Unintended Consequences: The ‘Mess in Mali’ by Ramzy Baroud People from northern Mali march against the seizure or their home region by Tuareg and Islamist rebels, in the capital Bamako, April 10, 2012. [...]
The Dark Side of the West’s ‘Humanitarianism’ – How Nato Left Boat People to Die By Matthew Vella April 11, 2012 “Malta Today” – The 19 interviews by Goldsmiths researchers into the ‘left-to-die-boat’ ignored by Nato vessels in the Mediterranean in April 2011 has determined that 72 migrants were ignored [...]
“To forbid the use of military bases on our territory” By davidswanson - Posted on 09 April 2012 U.S. Military Bases in Germany and a Brief History of Protests Against Them By Elsa Rassbach On September 25, 2009, U.S. and NATO commanders emblematically chose Ramstein Air Base in Germany to announce the request [...]
How NATO Dehumanizes Us Categories:Afghanistan http://vcnv.org/how-nato-dehumanizes-us by Jerica Arents When we finally stepped off the helicopter and greeted the mountains of Bamiyan, Afghanistan, I was exhausted. A full day and a half after our departure, my eyelids were heavy and I was hoping, desperately, for a cup of warm, life-giving [...]
NATO: The Military Enforcement Wing Of The West 1% http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/nato-the-military-enforcement-wing-of-the-west-1/ NATO: The Military Enforcement Wing Of The West 1% Rick Rozoff With hyperlinks at URL above On April 7 Fox News Chicago reported on Occupy Chicago’s march through the city’s downtown, the Loop, recording that hundreds of protesters chanted “End [...]
