Concerns Grow Over Stability of Fukushima Fuel Pool 4 Next strong earthquake could cause release of far more radiation than the initial meltdown – Common Dreams staff link http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/23-8 Whether the spent fuel pool at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant Unit 4 can withstand another strong earthquake has become a growing concern around the world. Fukushima’s [...]
A bulldozer dumps a load of trash into a burn pit just 300 yards from the runway at Bagram Airfield, January 2012. An Army memo from 2011 found the burn pit is associated with “long-term” health effects on soldiers at Bagram.Photo: U.S. Army Leaked Memo: Afghan ‘Burn Pit’ Could Wreck Troops’ Hearts, Lungs By Spencer [...]
Islamophobia: A New Form of Colonialism By Ismail Salami In an organized act of brutality, a number of US soldiers went on a house-to-house shooting spree in Zangabad village, Kandahar in March and massacred 16 people including nine children while they were sleeping and all Washington had to say were a [...]
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 [...]
link to interactive map- a must to look at to see the real position http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/interactive/2012/04/2012417131242767298.html Doha, Qatar - US military bases continue to form a strategic envelope around Iran, although the American withdrawal from Iraq at the end of 2011 may have changed the regional balance somewhat towards Iran’s favour. While US forces [...]
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 [...]
Dec. 19, 2001 — Marine Lt. Ronald Reed of Virginia waits inside his fighting position on the perimeter of the bombed-out airport in Kandahar. More than eleven years later, an end to the disaster that is the US war in Afghanistan is nowhere in sight. (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times) Drip, Drip, Drip: [...]
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 [...]
Wait a minute: that’s the WikiLeaks “Collateral Murder” video! The gunsight view of an Apache helicopter opening fire from half a mile high on a crowd of Iraqis — a few armed men, but mostly unarmed civilians, including a couple of Reuters employees — as they unsuspectingly walked the streets of a Baghdad [...]
US Quietly Plans to Betray Afghan Pact on Night Raids Obama, JSOC, and the CIA probably plan to continue to carry out night raids with no oversight by John Glaser, April 10, 2012 Print This | Share This Washington has relinquished control and final say over special operations night raids in Afghanistan to the Kabul government, but U.S. [...]
GETTY IMAGES 4 MONTHS AGONEW YORK, NY – NOVEMBER 02: Members of the New York City chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War and dozens of other uniformed veterans known as ‘Veterans of the 99%’ prepare to march from VietnamVeterans Plaza to Zucotti Park where the Occupy Wall Street movement is centered on November 2, 2011 in New York City. The [...]
US compensation for Afghanistan shooting spree – American authorities have charged Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, left, with 17 murders. Photograph: Reuters US compensation for Afghanistan shooting spree Authorities have paid $50,000 for each Afghan killed and $11,000 for each person wounded, say tribal leaders Associated Press guardian.co.uk, Sunday 25 March 2012 16.33 BST Article history US [...]
Afghanistan and the Roman Empire by Renee Parsons As Defense Secretary Leon Panetta stepped off the plane in Afghanistan recently, he accurately summed up the evils of war. Arriving to calm Afghani reaction to the massacre of sixteen civilians in their homes by a U.S. soldier, Panetta said that “war is hell.” The [...]
Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, shown in this senior photograph from the Norwood High School 1991 yearbook, is the US soldier accused of murdering 16 Afghan villagers War Crimes and the Mythology of ‘Bad Apples’ by Robert C. Koehler So it turns out that mass-murder suspect Robert Bales once used a bad word in a Facebook [...]
The war was presented as a ‘good war’. (Zoriah.net) By Ramzy Baroud The Afghans are a proud people with a long and formidable history of resistance to foreign occupation. The fact that they have always prevailed, however, should not distract from the horror they still routinely experience. The latest atrocious episode against Afghans took place [...]
Obama Declares War on Iraq an Honorable Success 2 Weeks Early for April Fool’s Day By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/obama-declares-war-iraq-honorable-success-2-weeks-early-april-fools-day President Proclaims ‘National Day of Honor’ American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, March 19, 2012 – On the ninth anniversary of U.S. forces moving into Iraq, President Barack Obama has proclaimed today [...]
Man in Search of Humanity Afghan Saga – Killing One Person is Killing Humanity By Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD March 19, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — Continued insanity of the on-going Terrorism of Wars got jolt to commit past mid night massacres of the 16 innocent civilians – women and children [...]
FORT ASHBY, W.Va. — Eight years before an American soldier shot 16 civilians in Afghanistan, there was another case of tragic military misconduct that ruined lives and threatened to derail a war effort. Today, the former soldier who became the callous, “thumbs-up” emblem of the Abu Ghraib scandal lives with [...]
“I Justy Want the Punishment of the Americans” By davidswanson - Posted on 19 March 2012 From a family member of Afghans we liberated last week: I want no compensation, from no one. I don’t want Hajj [pilgrimage to Mecca], I don’t want money, I don’t want a villa in Aino Mina [a posh neighbourhood in Kandahar city], I [...]
A partnership between Washington and Kabul is doomed to fail, the authors write. | AP Photo Close Afghanistan shooting shows U.S. should stop treading water By MALOU INNOCENT and ROBERT NAIMAN | 3/12/12 9:22 PM EDT The rogue U.S. soldier’s massacre Sunday of 16 Afghan villagers — nine of them children — follows the violent anti-American [...]
Up to 20 US Troops Behind Kandahar Bloodbath – Afghan ProbeBy RT March 18, 2012 “RT” — An Afghan parliamentary investigation team has implicated up to 20 US troops in the massacre of 16 civilians in Kandahar early on Sunday morning. It contradicts NATO’s account that insists one rogue soldier [...]
The situation in Afghanistan is a nightmare. The surge has not worked. As we escalated the war, the insurgency fought harder and grew in numbers. Western troops are seen as foreign occupiers in the Afghan homeland, and now have murdered 16 civilians, including little children, in the middle of the night in Kandahar [...]
We’ve Worn Out Our Welcome By Leah Bolger - Posted on 13 March 2012 “We’ve worn out our welcome.” I actually heard some television political pundit make this absurd comment about the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan. Well, duh. The latest outrageous act that has everyone in a tizzy and wondering if [...]
On Sunday, a US soldier murdered 16 civilians in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province [Reuters] I am sort of glad President Obama didn’t apologise for the recent US soldier killing spree in Afghanistan, leaving it to his “inferiors” to do the embarrassing bidding. Obama’s failure to apologise was not for the same reasons as Newt Gingrich, who reckons the US president shouldn’t [...]
Who Are the ‘Terrorists’? The pattern of American atrocities in wartime by Justin Raimondo, March 12, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum In the early morning hours of March 11, a US soldier assigned to “special ops” in Afghanistan, stationed near Kandahar, went into a local village and gunned down 16 people – including [...]
With the drumbeat for war with Iran growing louder, today’s opening of “Act of Valor,” a chest-thumping, terrorist-hunting feature-length propaganda video for American military action featuring Real Life SEALs, marks an alarming new step in what has become a burgeoning Military-Entertainment Complex. See the good guys get the bad guys! Check out your local recruitment office to [...]
Not a Peep About the President’s Praise for War Laura Flanders on January 25, 2012 – 11:54pm ET The grades for the president’s State of the Union are in and the critics have been kind. In fact, it’s chilling to see just how few hits the president takes for couching his entire [...]
US to Reestablish Military Presence in Philippines The move is part of a broader imperial plan to counter China‘s influence in Asia-Pacific by John Glaser, January 26, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The U.S. is in talks with the government of the Philippines about re-establishing a military presence in the country about two decades after the [...]
“A State of the Union address, with the entire military leadership staring at you from the floor of the Congress, is not the easiest place for a President to speak truth to power,” writes LeVine [GALLO/GETTY] Irvine, CA - How do you judge a State of the Union speech that begins with a lie? There was any number [...]
U.S. Paying Millions in Cash to Families of ‘Collateral Damage’ by John Glaser, January 23, 2012 link to article http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/23/u-s-paying-millions-in-cash-to-families-of-collateral-damage/ | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The Pentagon has a practice called “condolence payments.” This is when U.S. commanders pay surviving family members thousands of dollars for every civilian they’ve killed. After a [...]
Pfc Manning is just one of the ranks of US military whistleblowers [GALLO/GETTY] New York, NY - Who in their right mind wants to talk about, think about, or read a short essay about… civilian war casualties? What a bummer, this topic, especially since our Afghan, Iraq, and other ongoing wars were advertised as uplifting acts of philanthropy: [...]
The US has investigated a number of cases of alleged killings in Iraq A US soldier has been jailed for eight months after admitting playing a part in the killings of four Iraqi men in April 2007. Specialist Steven Ribordy, 25, admitted standing watch as fellow soldiers shot the four Iraqi prisoners, then threw their [...]
Privatizing the War on Terror: America’s Military Contractors by John W. Whitehead, January 18, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; [...]
War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery … and Fighting Back is “Aggression” By Kevin Carson January 14, 2012 “C4SS” – The US Department of Defense recently promulgated a new “defense” guidance document: “Sustaining US Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense.” I use scare quotes because it just doesn’t seem quite [...]
Karzai leads condemnation over video as US identifies marines Afghan president calls video of US marines urinating on corpses ‘inhumane’ as Pentagon says it has identified two of the four men responsible US defence secretary Leon Panetta said he found the marines’ behaviour ‘utterly deplorable’ Link to this videoAfghan president Hamid Karzai and US defence secretary [...]
US marines have been accused of war crimes after a video was posted on YouTube of soldiers urinating on dead bodies in Afghanistan. Photograph: David Goldman/AP US forces in Afghanistan are facing fresh accusations of war crimes after film emerged of American marines urinating on dead bodies and laughing. The US military command in Kabul, which was severely embarrassed [...]
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 [...]
Photo: U.S. Air ForceAccording to Wired’s Danger Room blog, a full 31 percent of all military aircraft are drones. This figure shows a massive uptick from 2005 when just 5 percent of military aircraft were drones. New Report Details Extent of US Military Reliance on Drones A recent Congressional Research Service report documents a staggering [...]
Freedom: An Endangered Species in America By Stephen Lendman - Posted on 09 January 2012 Freedom: An Endangered Species in America - by Stephen Lendman Last September, marking the 9/11 tenth anniversary, the ACLU published a report titled, A Call to Courage: Reclaiming Our Liberties Ten Years After 9/11.” Who then could have imagined America engaged [...]
Gul Rahman Qazi , center, head of an Afghan investigative commission speaks during a media conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012. Afghan President Karzai had charged the commission with investigating the detention of some hundreds of suspected militants and the investigative commission has accused the U.S. military of abusing detainees at its largest [...]
Congenital abnormalities have mushroomed in the wake of devastating US sieges in Fallujah in 2004 [EPA] Fallujah, Iraq - While the US military has formally withdrawn from Iraq, doctors and residents of Fallujah are blaming weapons like depleted uranium and white phosphorous used during two devastating US attacks on Fallujah in 2004 for what are being [...]
The Forgotten Wages of War By JOHN TIRMAN This is a fairly conservative look at the real cost of war. It proceeds on the assumption that we all need an accurate kill number to properly asses the true damage of ear. However, what is really needed is no killing, no war at all together [...]
US soldiers stuck in sand in southern Afghanistan. (Wikimedia Commons) Debacle! Iraq, Afghanistan and the End of US Supremacy How Two Wars in the Greater Middle East Revealed the Weakness of the Global Superpower by Tom Engelhardt It was to be the war that would establish empire as an American fact. It would result in [...]
Graphic: Mapping a superpower-sized military Despite the pending troop withdrawals in Iraq and those in Afghanistan between now and 2014, the United States remains a superpower on a scale not seen since the days of the Caesars. With this in mind, the National Post’s Richard Johnson takes a look at the scale of [...]
We here in Australia carry the same shame when it comes to the killing and murder. The cost although still large in money terms only highlights how little the elites and their stooge politicians and fake intellectuals care about the people. George Ikners ikners.com gikners@gmail.com Cost Of war Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered [...]
We here in Australia carry the same shame when it comes to the killing and murder. The cost although still large in money terms only highlights how little the elites and their stooge politicians and fake intellectuals care about the people. George Ikners ikners.com gikners@gmail.com Cost Of war Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered [...]
U.S. Doubts Intelligence That Led to Yemen Strike By ADAM ENTOUS and JULIAN E. BARNES in Washington and MARGARET COKER in Abu Dhabi Top U.S. military leaders who oversaw missile strikes last year against al Qaeda targets in Yemen suspect they were fed misleading intelligence by the country’s government and were duped into killing a local [...]
The evidence mounts up to the effect that all war is a crime. It is no stretch of the imagination or torture of what we know and perceive to reach that firm conclusion. The damage done is enormous which is why to an extent talking of money costs not only [...]
Scott Horton Interviews Jason Ditz Scott Horton, December 26, 2011 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses the large bombings in Iraq after US withdrawal; Prime Minister Maliki’s attempt to arrest Vice President Tareq Hashemi as a “terrorist;” Iraq’s coalition government falling apart, as [...]
