War
Criminal
Tony Blair: 'I Cried for Iraq
War Victims'
By JILL LAWLESS
Tony Blair regrets banning fox hunting, but not
invading Iraq. Continue
Oval Office Lovefest
By Mike Whitney
Barack Obama kicked off campaign season
in grand style last night with a celebratory
"The Iraq War is Over" speech from the
Oval Office. Continue
Least We
Forget
Operation Iraqi Freedom Picture
Album
WARNING
These Pages Depict The Horror And
Reality Of War. Continue
Veterans
For Peace
Obama's Re-branded Occupation Of
Iraq
By Mike Ferner
A veteran’s perspective makes it
clear that two major points must be made in
response to President Obama’s announcement
regarding combat troops leaving Iraq. Continue
Least We
Forget
President Bush's "Bring
Them On" Picture Album
WARNING
These Pages Depict The Horror And
Reality Of War. Continue
A Trillion-Dollar Catastrophe.
Yes, Iraq Was a Headline War
By Simon Jenkins
The west is leaving
Iraq in a pool of blood, dust and dollars. It
remains wedded to Iraq's twin sister in folly,
Afghanistan. Continue
They're Leaving as Heroes?
By William Blum
Drum roll, please ... Stand tall
American GI hero! And don't even think of ever
apologizing. Iraq is forced by the United States
to continue paying reparations for its own
invasion of Kuwait in 1990. How much will the
American heroes pay the people of Iraq? Continue
Least We
Forget
Take No Prisoners
Another proud moment
in U.S. Military History.
U.S. Marines execute an Iraqi to the cheers of
fellow marines
-:WARNING:-
This video should only be viewed by a mature
audience Continue
What Obama Should Have Said
About Afghanistan
A much-needed addition to last
night's speech
By Ray McGovern
What’s particularly embarrassing is that CIA
Director Leon Panetta goes on TV and says, with
no apparent awkwardness, that there are only 50,
“maybe less,” al-Qaeda left in
Afghanistan. Continue
The State and Local Bases of
Zionist Power in America
By James Petras Ph.D. -
Any serious effort to understand the
extraordinary influence of the Zionist power
configuration over US foreign policy must examine
the presence of key operatives in strategic
positions in the government and the activities of
local Zionist organizations affiliated with
mainstream Jewish organizations and religious
orders. Continue
How to Kill Goyim and Influence
People:
By Max Blumenthal
Israeli Rabbis Defend Book's Shocking Religious
Defense of Killing Non-Jews (with Video) A
rabbinical guidebook for killing non-Jews has
sparked an uproar in Israel and exposed the power
a bunch of genocidal theocrats wield over the
government. Continue
Death By Globalism
Economists
Haven’t A Clue
By Paul Craig Roberts
When the jobs have been shipped overseas, fiscal
stimulus does not call workers back to work in
order to meet the rising consumer demand. If
fiscal stimulus has any effect, it
stimulates employment in China and India. Continue
The GOP's Masterplan: Obstruct,
Smear, Lie, Repeat
By Mike Whitney
By the time the Republicans were swept from
office in 2008, the economy was in freefall.
Unemployment was rising at 750,000 per month, and
all of the main economic indicators were plunging
faster rate than after the Crash of '29. Continue
I Love You
3 Minute Video
How much of a difference can three words make? Continue
6
more U.S. troops killed during Afghanistan
combat: - Six more American troops
were killed in action in Afghanistan, ending
August with a spike in bloodshed that has claimed
the lives of 19 U.S. service members in only four
days.
3
Court Staff Shot Dead, 12 hurt in Kabul:
A court staff car was stopped in ‘Abdul
Rahouf' area in Mosahee district of Kabul by two
gunmen riding a motorbike and then they shot the
staff, witnesses said.
Oxfam
workers killed in Afghanistan: Three
aid workers with British humanitarian group Oxfam
have been killed by a roadside bomb in northern
Afghanistan, the charity said on Tuesday.
Taliban
footprint 'spreading': Petraeus: The
number of American troops killed fighting the
Taliban in the last four days hit 21 on Tuesday
with the deaths of four US soldiers in the east
of the country, NATO's International Security
Assistance Force (ISAF) said.
Afghanistan's
biggest bank in near disastrous collapse:
Authorities have reportedly intervened to try to
avert the potentially disastrous collapse of
Afghanistan's biggest bank after uncovering a web
of shady transactions involving well-connected
insiders.
Murdering Civilians: Pakistan
raid kills 45 "militants" and their
families: "Some of the families
were living in the vicinity of these hideouts and
they were also among the dead," he said,
adding he did not know how many non-combatants
were among the casualties.
Terrorism
claims 81 lives in week in northwest Pakistan:
The continuing spate of terrorism killed at least
81 lives, including civilians and militants,
during the past week in northwest Pakistan's
tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, intelligence
reports suggested Tuesday.
18
killed, 150 injured in Lahore suicide attacks:
Suicide bombers blew themselves up during a
Shiite procession in the Pakistani city of
Lahore, killing at least 18 people and injuring
more than 150, according to local officials.
Military
officers cancel trip after humiliation at US
airport: A Pakistani military
delegation became the latest victim of the
paranoia permeating US airports on Monday night,
when US security officials detained a brigadier
at Washington’s Dulles airport on a
complaint by a passenger who said he did not feel
safe sharing the flight with the delegation.
15
killed in bomb blast in Somalia: At
least fifteen people were killed and more than 30
injured Tuesday after a roadside bomb explosion
hit two passenger buses in the Somali capital
Mogadishu, officials and witnesses said.
Ugandan
troops killed in Somalia: Four
Ugandan soldiers with the African Union forces in
Somalia were killed yesterday when hardline
insurgents fired a mortar shell at one of their
bases, the force’s spokesman said.
Have gun will travel: Somalia:
Army Ready to Send 10,000 to Somalia if US pays:
Uganda is set to send thousands of its reserve
troops for deployment to Somalia if the US
government provides promised funding for the
mission, the Chief of Defence Forces has said.
Two
militants killed, one soldier injured in Iraq:
Two militants were killed and a soldier was
injured in separate attacks in Iraq's northern
city of Mosul Tuesday, police said
Sniper
kills U.S. soldier in Tikrit: A
sniper killed a U.S. soldier in central Tikrit on
Tuesday, raising the U.S. fatalities in August to
four soldiers, a source from the Salah al-Din
police department said.
Fearful
Iraqis scrambling to buy weapons:
Four days after his brother was slain in a
Baghdad robbery this month, Muntather Shaker
borrowed $1,500 and bought a pistol. He carries
it in his back pocket, sleeps with it under his
pillow and is ready to use it to defend his
family.
Iraqi
women miss Saddam Hussein's days:
Women in Iraq bear double burden, feel less
secure or free following US-led invasion.
Spoils of war: Iraq
to spend $13B on U.S. arms, equipment:
Iraq is preparing to buy as much as $13 billion
in American arms and military equipment, a huge
order of tanks, ships and hardware that U.S.
officials say shows Iraqi-U.S. military ties will
be tight for years to come.
Military
Subcontractors Bribing U.S. Personnel With
Prostitutes? : Taxpayer cash is
flowing to subcontractors in Iraq and
Afghanistan, who engage in shady, illegal
practices with few repercussions.
CBO:
US war in Iraq costs $709bn: The
cost, published in the CBO's Budget and Economic
Outlook, comprises of military expenditure,
including training of Iraqi forces and diplomatic
operations.
Four
Israelis killed in shooting attack in occupied
West Bank: Two men and two women,
one of whom was pregnant, killed in attack that
occurred around 7:30 P.M. when gunmen opened fire
on victims' car.
Obama
backs security for Israel: "I want everybody
to be clear: The United States is
going to be unwavering in its support of Israel's
security, and we are going to push back against
these kinds of terrorist activities," Obama
said.
British
spy found dead in bath was padlocked into sports
bag: After colleagues reported him
missing, police broke into his flat and found his
partially decomposed body locked inside a large
sportsbag in the bath, the hearing was told.
Wikileaks
rape complaint revived: Swedish
officials revived a rape complaint against the
founder of the Wikileaks whistle-blower website
after the chief prosecutor claimed that new
evidence had emerged.
Secret
'Kill Lists' Fly in the Face of US and Int'l Law:
Two of the nation's most influential human rights
organisations have filed a lawsuit challenging
the government's authority to carry out
"targeted killings" of U.S. citizens
located far from any armed conflict zone.
Hate
Moves Upstate: Mosque Near Rochester Targeted by
Bigots: Waterport, New York, is 373
miles from the sacred ground of the World Trade
Center site. But apparently, the good Americans
up near the Canadian border have some
sensitivities just like those folks down in the
Big City, and the
local-but-god-damn-foreign-seeming Muslims
aren’t respecting those sensitivities at all
Number
of illegal immigrants in USA down:
The number of immigrants coming to the USA
illegally every year has plummeted — the
first significant decline in two decades,
according to a Pew Hispanic Center report out
today.
Fed
lets China firm buy Morgan Stanley shares:
The Federal Reserve on Tuesday approved a
proposal by Chinese sovereign wealth fund China
Investment Corp. to buy up to 10 percent of the
voting shares of Morgan Stanley.
Citigroup
to Hire Up to 7, 500 In China: Report:
Citigroup Inc plans to almost triple its
workforce in China by hiring up to 7,500 people
in the next three years, an executive told
Bloomberg in an interview published on Tuesday.
Problem
bank list climbs to 829: The number
of banks at risk of failing rose by 53 to 829,
the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said in its
quarterly survey of the nation's banking system.
That increase marks the smallest rise since the
first quarter of 2009.
17
Percent of America in Anti-Poverty Programs:
One out of every six Americans are in government
anti-poverty programs, according to USA TODAY.
More than 50 million Americans are in Medicaid.
Forty million receive food stamps and 10 million
receive unemployment benefits.
Homelessness
Up 50% In New York City: If you
think you've been seeing more people sleep on
city streets, statistics back up the perception.
The homeless population living on New York City
streets has gone up 50 percent in the past year,
according to city statistics reported by the
HellsKitchenLife.com blog.
Man
'sick' of poverty gets prison in Pa. heist:
An Erie man who told the FBI he was "sick of
being poor" has been sentenced to serve six
years and nine months for robbing a northwestern
Pennsylvania bank and violating his probation for
another robbery.
Stranger than fiction: For
Newark, it's come to this: Selling city buildings:
The city is trying to sell off its buildings to
win a cash windfall today, a move that will force
it to make rent payments in years ahead.
It’s like selling your house to grab the
equity, and then renting it back from the new
owner..
August
30, 2010
Abbas is a Man in Exile, Even
Among His Own
By Omar Karmi
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, faces a
crisis of credibility among his own people as he
heads into direct talks with Israel in Washington
this week. Continue
Hamas, the I.R.A. and Us
By ALI ABUNIMAH
The resumption of peace talks without any Israeli
commitment to freeze settlements is another
significant victory for the Israel lobby and the
Israeli government. It allows Israel to pose as a
willing peacemaker while carrying on with
business as usual. Continue
Serving in Iraq Killed my Faith
in God
By Adnan Sarwar
The destruction I saw made me question everything
I had previously thought about religion. Continue
To Tackle Domestic Terrorism,
End Foreign Wars
By Haroon Siddiqui
Stop being in denial that there is no connection
between the wars we wage and the terrorist mayhem
that they trigger, there and here. Continue
The Backward Slide into
Recession
By Mike Whitney
The US is now facing a protracted period
of high unemployment and subpar economic
performance punctuated by infrequent stock market
rallies and predictable bursts of optimism. The
recovery is over. Continue
"I Was Wrong Again!"
What Ben Bernanke meant to say
By Andrew Leonard
The Fed chairman delivers a big, but boring,
speech on the economy at Jackson Hole. Here's a
translation. Continue
U.S. Government Prepares for
'Crisis'
By Jeff Nielson
The Obama regime has to "go big, or go
home." It must either engage in massive
(genuine) stimulus of the U.S. economy -- meaning
a multi-trillion dollar commitment, or simply
allow the collapse to proceed (and feed upon
itself). Continue
19
people killed as rebel assault Chechnya
President's fortress: "We let
them in so they couldn't escape," the
President said. He was previously on the side of
the rebels but switched side when he was named
President by the Kremlin in 2007.
15
Taliban militants killed in Afghanistan:
Fifteen Taliban militants, including a rebel
commander, were killed in fighting with security
forces in Afghanistan, Xinhua reported Monday.
7
US occupation troops killed in south Afghan bomb
attacks: No details were given of
Monday's attacks, although eyewitnesses in the
southern city of Kandahar said an armored U.S.
Army Humvee hit a roadside bomb in the early
afternoon. Several bodies were seen being removed
from the vehicle, which was on fire. The deaths
bring to 14 the number of U.S. troops killed in
action in eastern and southern Afghanistan over
the past three days.
Afghan
district chief killed in Jalalabad bombing:
A bomb blast in the eastern Afghan city of
Jalalabad Monday killed a district chief and
injured up to five others, an official and the
interior ministry said.
Somalia:
Fresh Mogadishu clashes kill six civilians:
– Clashes in Somalia pitting Islamist
radicals against government troops backed by
African Union forces have killed at least six
civilians and wounded 16, officials and medical
sources said Monday.
4
Killed as Somali Presidential Palace Shelled :
Four African Union (AU) peacekeepers have been
killed in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, after
al-Shabab fighters fired a mortar at the
presidential palace.
Somali
Government Appeals for Help as Islamists Advance:
Somalia's government is urgently appealing for
more help as insurgents threaten to seize full
control of the capital, Mogadishu.
Death
toll rises to 12 in Yemen attack:
The death toll of a weekend attack by suspected
Al-Qaeda gunmen on an army post in south Yemen
has risen to 12, including one civilian, the
interior ministry said on Monday.
At
least one killed in bomb attack in Iraq's Mosul:
At least one civilian was killed and 12 others
were wounded on Sunday in a coordinated cart bomb
and hand grenades attacks in the city of Mosul,
the capital of Nineveh province, a provincial
police source said.
Report:
Hezbollah, Syria to join forces in future clash
with Israel: Kuwait's al-Rai daily
says Lebanon-based group, Syrian army have
created a joint military command, dividing
potential war fronts.
Mahmoud
Abbas: If talks fail over settlements, only
Israel will be to blame: Palestinian
President: We understand Israel's need for
security, but it is not an excuse to expand
settlements and steal lands.
U.S.:
Rabbi's 'offensive' remarks harm peace efforts:
U.S. State Department spokesman Philip J. Crowley
condemns Rabbi Ovadia Yosef's 'inflammatory'
statement that all Palestinians should perish.
‘Sinner’
singer given 39 lashes by rabbis: A
singer who performed in front of a “mixed
audience” of men and women was lashed 39
times to make him “repent,” after a
ruling by a self-described rabbinic court on
Wednesday.
How Bush and Blair plotted in
secret to stop Brown: Tony
Blair attempted to prolong his time as prime
minister after he was warned that George W
Bush’s US administration had “grave
doubts” about Gordon Brown’s
suitability to follow him into No10, well placed
sources have revealed.
Veterans’
group: CIA blocking lawsuit over experiments on
troops: An advocacy group working on
behalf of Vietnam veterans has asked a federal
judge in California to sanction the CIA, saying
the spy agency has been blocking efforts to
uncover its role in alleged experiments on US
soldiers from the 1950s to 1970s
Fire
and Gunshots at Tennessee Mosque Site Called
‘Terrorism’: On Sunday,
one day after a fire at the site of a planned
Islamic center and mosque in the Nashville suburb
of Murfreesboro, Muslim community members
reported hearing gunshots as they inspected the
damage.
In
activist’s video, Glenn Beck fans agree with
Ted Nugent on shooting illegal immigrants:
Nugent also recently claimed during a radio
interview that he's convinced the president is a
"muslim operative."
And
Now We're Headed For The GREATEST Depression,
Says Gerald Celente: Celente says
the country is headed for rising unemployment,
poverty, and violent class warfare as the
government efforts to keep the economy going
begin to fail.
Top
economists: The second Great Depression has
arrived: As long as two years ago,
one of Britain's top economists predicted a
decade-long depression, $45 trillion in debt
defaults and unemployment in the US and UK
approaching 25% or higher.
Record
number in government anti-poverty programs:
Government anti-poverty programs that have grown
to meet the needs of recession victims now serve
a record one in six Americans and are continuing
to expand.
More
Employers Looking for Armed Guards:
One valley security agency said the troubled
economy is driving businesses to ask for armed
guards because they are concerned about what some
desperate, unemployed people could do. FOX 10
spent the day at an intense training camp.
Las
Vegas logs 5 murder-suicides since Aug. 7:
Police say murder-suicides are on the rise in the
Las Vegas area because of a bad economy.
Cash-Poor
Governments Ditching Public Hospitals:
Faced with mounting debt and looming costs from
the new federal health-care law, many local
governments are leaving the hospital business,
shedding public facilities that can be the
caregiver of last resort.
August
29, 2010
America’s Corruption Racket
in Central Asia
By Scott Horton
This is the third time this summer that the
United States has been slammed with credible
charges of corrupting foreign governments in
Central Asia. Continue
Afghanistan
PowerPoints 'R' Us
By Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D., is a colonel
in the U.S. Army Reserve
I have been assigned as a staff officer to a
headquarters in Afghanistan for about two months.
During that time, I have not done anything
productive. Fortunately little of substance is
really done here, but that is a task we do well. Continue
Our Bloody Valentine
By David Michael Green
when an empire has to label its military
gang-rape of 25 million other people by the title
“shock and awe”, it’s a safe bet
that the folks who need convincing are the ones
doing the giving, not the receiving. Continue
Stranger
Than Fiction?
At Lincoln Memorial, a Call for
Religious Rebirth
By KATE ZERNIKE, CARL HULSE AND BRIAN KNOWLTON
“Something that is beyond man is
happening,” Mr. Beck told the crowd, in what
was part religious revival and part history
lecture. “America today begins to turn back
to God.” Continue
Kill Them
By Linh Dinh
The scapegoating of Muslims, blacks and Mexicans
gives the appearance that we're being threatened
from without and below, when we're actually being
mugged from above, from the inside. It's the
entrenched who are killing us, not outsiders. Continue
Cycling in a Depression;
"Guys like
me who built this great land are no longer
needed"
By John Mele
Do I take any job and try to keep the
home I spent a lifetime working for? In short, do
I suck it up again, go to where I must and start
over again at 60 and keep my mouth shut and show
up for work and do this until I am dead? Continue
Make Sure the Bunker is Well
Stocked
By Mike Whitney
No one wants to fix the problem, because
then the big players would lose boatloads of
money. So the vehicle continues to speed faster
and faster down the mountain veering wildly from
one side of the road to the other. How long
before it jumps the guardrail and plunges to the
bottom of the canyon? Stay tuned.... Continue
Overdose
Must Watch - ABC Australia Video Documentary
This is the story of the greatest
financial crisis we will ever see... The one that
is on the way. Continue
Afghanistan:
At Least 21 killed as occupation force bases come
under attack: Up to 30
Taliban-linked fighters, including suicide
bombers, have attacked two Nato bases in
Afghanistan's east.
Seven
US occupoation troops killed by latest fighting
in Afghanistan: Seven US troops have
died in weekend attacks in Afghanistan's
embattled southern and eastern regions, while
officials found the bodies Sunday of five
kidnapped campaign workers for a female candidate
in the western province of Herat.
3
NATO Soldiers Killed in Afghan Violence:
Three coalition soldiers were killed in Taliban
attacks Friday in eastern Afghanistan, NATO
statement says.
Afghans
protest killing of civilians: Over
500 protesters condemned the killing of two
Afghan civilians by mercenaries in the region, a
Press TV correspondent reported on Saturday.
US
Official say the CIA pays multiple members of
Afghan government for information:
Several former U.S. government officials said the
U.S. has little choice but to cut deals with
corrupt individuals.
Afghan
president condemns CIA payment reports:
"We strongly condemn such irresponsible
allegations which just create doubt and defame
responsible people of this country," it
said.
Taliban
has spies in British army bases:
Taliban spies have infiltrated army bases in
Afghanistan, the former commander of British
forces there warned yesterday.
8
killed in clashes between militant groups in NW
Pakistan: At least eight militants
were killed and many others injured on Saturday
afternoon when two militant groups of Punjabi
Taliban opened fire at each other in North
Wazirsitan, a tribal area in northwest Pakistan
which borders Afghanistan, reported local media.
US
Attack Kills 4 In Pakistan: US drone
strike on Saturday killed "four
militants" in Pakistan's north-western
tribal belt near the Afghan border, security
officials said.
Blast
kills 3, wounds 7 in Pakistan:
Pakistani officials told Press TV that the bomb
went off in a shop in a village in South
Waziristan Agency, near the Afghan border, late
on Saturday.
15
dead in fresh clashes in Somalia:
Government troops accompanied by Africa Union
Soldiers were still battling Saturday with the
armed Islamists at the strategic road that links
the presidential palace and Mogadishus main
airport.
Somali
militants seize key road in Mogadishu:
Saturday's attack triggered an intense gun battle
on the Muka al-Mukarama, a vital artery that
connects key government ministries and the
presidential palace to the airport. The fighting
sent hundreds fleeing their homes and trapped men
like Mohammed Ali in the cross hairs of war.
Ethiopia
troops invade Somalia to battle
"radicals": A large number
of Ethiopian troops in military vehicles on
Sunday reached Somali villages after crossing its
borders with Hiran region in Central Somalia.
Al
Qaeda kill seven Yemeni soldiers: Seven
Yemeni soldiers were killed and five wounded in
an Al Qaeda attack in the country's troubled
Abyan province, an official said.
Yemen
denies foreign troops fighting Qaeda on its soil:
Sanaa says 'surprised' at reports suggesting
presence of British, US forces in Yemen.
U.S.
military involvement may worsen situation in
Yemen: The U.S. open involvement is
also causing embarrassment for Yemeni
authorities, who have insisted Yemeni military
forces alone are responsible for anti-terror
operations in the country and that the U.S.
military's job is limited to intelligence and
training.
U.S.
Senators make sudden visit to Yemen:
A delegation of U.S. Congressional Senators led
by George LeMieux, a member of the armed services
committee, was received by President Ali Abdullah
Saleh to commend the efforts exerted by Yemen in
the fight against terrorism, said the official
website of the General People’s Congress
(GPC) al-Moatamar.
Five
people killed in northern Iraq: Five
people, including four policemen, were killed in
three separate shooting incidents in the the
northern Iraqi city of Mosul, police said Sunday
Five
killed in attacks on Iraqi police: A
group of armed men attacked a police checkpoint
in the village of al-Djawana in the al-Qiyara
district on Saturday, Aswat al-Iraq news agency
quoted local police sources as saying.
'Every
Corner in the Region Is Frightened:
Ayad Allawi: Iraq's former and possibly future
prime minister, discusses the withdrawal of US
troops, the power struggle in Baghdad and the
"very high possibility" of a new war in
the Middle East.
U.S.
wasted billions in rebuilding Iraq: A
$40 million prison sits in the desert north of
Baghdad, empty. A $165 million children's
hospital goes unused in the south. A $100 million
waste water treatment system in Fallujah has cost
three times more than projected, yet sewage still
runs through the streets
Adm. Mike Mullen: 'National Debt
Is Our Biggest Security Threat':
America's highest-ranking military official
thinks the U.S. has bigger security problems than
al-Qaeda, suicide bombers and an increasingly
deadly nine-year war.
Larijani:
Iran ready for nuclear talks: As the
US expresses optimism about future talks on
Iran's nuclear program, Iranian Parliament
Speaker Ali Larijani says Tehran has never
refused nuclear talks, Press TV reported.
Report:
Israel planning to attack Hezbollah arms depots
in Syria: The Kuwaiti newspaper Al
Rai reports that Israel is preparing to strike
Hezbollah targets in Syria; Al-Arabi Al-Quds
reports that western diplomats have asked Bashar
Assad to refrain from interfering with Israel-PA
direct peace talks.
'IDF can destroy Lebanon army
within 4 hours': An senior
advisor to US special envoy to the Middle East
George Mitchell has threatened Lebanese army
commander, Jean Kahwajim that should his army
initiate additional fire exchanges with Israel,
the IDF would annihilate his military within four
hours, Lebanese newspaper al-Liwa reported
Friday.
Rabbi: Abbas and Palestinians
should perish : "Abu
Mazen and all these evil people should perish
from this world," Rabbi Ovadia was quoted as
saying during his weekly sermon at a synagogue
near his Jerusalem home. "God should strike
them with a plague, them and these
Palestinians."
Any
bastard can be a rabbi: Some 30
years ago, the Hebrew slogan was coined:
"Medinat halakha - halkha hamedina,"
which means more or less that if Israel becomes a
state governed by Jewish law, that will be the
end of the state. Is the end near? It is coming.
CIA
probes British spy murder: Questions
also remain over why his body lay undiscovered
for up to a fortnight at hisŁ400,000 flat in a
Victorian townhouse in Pimlico, central London,
half a mile from MI6 headquarters.
Congress
may sneak through Internet ‘kill
switch’ in defense bill: A
federal cybersecurity bill that critics say
creates a presidential "kill switch"
for the Internet could be added on to a defense
spending bill and passed without much debate,
technology news sources report.
Who
is watching you? Spy satellite use
in the U.S. : Video report
Inside
Top Secret America: A major
investigation reveals the extent of America's
vast and heavily privatized
military-corporate-intelligence establishment.
Desperate
homeowners line up for mortgage modification
marathon: Before dawn, with a plump
white moon overhead, a line of desperate
homeowners trailed around the outside of the
building. They slept in beach chairs or on
blankets on the ground, refugees from a bad
economy, bad loans, or bad decisions.
12%
of Houston homes underwater: About
12 percent of residential properties in the
Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown are underwater,
according to a recent report from financial and
real estate data provider CoreLogic.
Housing's
new nightmare: In another ominous
sign for the economy, the number of people
falling behind on their mortgages for the first
time is on the rise.
August
27, 2010
The Soul of the 'Land of the
Pure'
By Robert Grenier
Only the flint-hearted could be left unmoved by
this. The heart aches for Pakistan. Continue
Hawks Box in Obama on Afghan
Occupation
By Ray McGovern
The Obama administration’s reluctance to
discipline senior generals for comments bordering
on insubordination seems to have encouraged the
generals to believe they can speak their mind
with impunity about President Obama's management
of the Afghan conflict. Continue
Mass Assassinations
Lie at the Heart of America's
Military Strategy in the Muslim World
By By Fred Branfman
Greatly expanded U.S. military Special Ops teams,
U.S. drone strikes and private espionage networks
run by former CIA assassins create a threat to
our security. Continue
'The War on Democracy'
Video By John Pilger
"The film tells a universal story,"
says Pilger, "analysing and revealing,
through vivid testimony, the story of great power
behind its venerable myths. It allows us to
understand the true nature of the so-called war
on terror". Continue
Wikileaks Red Cell CIA Release -
Say What?
CIA Perception
Management - How the World Sees the United States
By Michael Collins
Other nations allow the US to violate their
sovereignty to kidnap and torture their citizens
as a result of asymmetrical power. The US can
crush these nations militarily and financially.
The US also offers financial inducements to the
leaders of some nations involved. Therefore, they
cooperate. Continue
Death of the
First Amendment
The Nazification of the United
States
By Paul Craig Roberts
Encouraged by its success in breaking the law,
the executive branch early this year announced
that the Obama regime has given itself the right
to murder Americans abroad if such Americans are
considered a “threat.” Continue
Psywar:
The Real Battlefield is the Mind
Must Watch Video Documentary
This film explores the evolution of
propaganda and public relations in the United
States, with an emphasis on the “elitist
theory of democracy” and the relationship
between war, propaganda and class. Continue
How a Hero Was Arrested, Labeled
a Terrorist and Imprisoned
By Democracy Now!
Five years ago, Hurricane Katrina struck
New Orleans. Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a Syrian-born
New Orleans building contractor, stayed in the
city while his wife and children left to Baton
Rouge. He paddled the flooded streets in his
canoe and helped rescue many of his stranded
neighbors. Continue
Bernanke Ponders the
"Nuclear Option"
By Mike Whitney
Just months ago, 57
out of 57 economists surveyed predicted that the
economy would avoid a double dip recession. Now
they're not so sure. Stock market gains have been
wiped out and the S&P 500 has dropped 14
percent from its high in April. Continue
NATO
kills 6 Afghan children : 'Six
children were killed by NATO warplanes in Kunur
province Thursday while they were collecting
scrap metal in a mountainous area when aircraft
dropped bombs,' provincial police chief
Khalilullah Ziayee said.
5
killed in Afghanistan market bombing:
- A roadside bomb tore through a crowded market
in Afghanistan's increasingly volatile north,
killing three policemen and two civilians, a
police official said today
Afghan
war kills 3 more US occupation force soldiers:
The latest deaths bring to 35 the number of
fatalities among American soldiers in war-ravaged
Afghanistan this month.
'Death
toll in Pakistan floods to rise':
Pakistani officials warn of a significant
increase in the death toll from the heavy
flooding in the worst affected areas which
currently stands at 1,600.
One
million flee south Pakistan: As many
as one million people have been displaced in
Pakistan's Sindh province since Wednesday, as the
country's devastating floods sweep southward.
Video:
Flood leaves Pakistan doctors helpless:
Iraq:
At least 14 killed in another bloody day of US
occupation: : It was another day of
bloodshed in Iraq on Friday as at least 14 people
were killed and 23 were injured in separate
attacks across Iraq mostly directed at security
forces.
Bullshi*: US
soldiers back from Iraq made 'America safer':
Obama: US President Barack Obama in a YouTube
message on Friday thanked US troops back from
Iraq for their "dedication" and
"courage" that "has made America
safer."
Fort
Carson soldiers' killing spree after Iraq combat:
Seventeen US soldiers from a Colorado military
base who mostly served in Iraq have been linked
to violent killings and attempted killings since
their return to US soil.
Poll:
Most Americans Say Iraq War Was a Mistake:
Fifty-seven percent now say the war is going well
for America, including majorities of Democrats,
Republicans and independents. That reflects
improved perceptions since July 2007, when just
22 percent said things were going well.
Thirty-eight percent say things are going badly.
More like 1.5 million civilians killed: Iraq
war inquiry 'ignoring 100,000 civilian deaths':
The official inquiry into the Iraq war has been
accused of ignoring the deaths of the estimated
100,000 Iraqi civilians who have been killed
since the 2003 invasion.
UK:
Muslims 'being turned into terrorists in jail':
Britain faces a "new wave" of
home-grown terrorist attacks led by up to 800
Muslim ex-prisoners who have been radicalised by
jihadists while serving their sentences, a
think-tank has warned.
U.S.
troops in Iraq will keep combat pays:
“Iraq (land and airspace) is included in the
list of designated hostile fire or imminent
danger pay areas (effective since Sep 17,
1990),” said Defense Department spokeswoman
Eileen Lainez in an e-mail. “These pays are
based upon a location's designation as a combat
zone or direct support area. Therefore, the pays
won't change Sept. 1.”
Yemeni
Colonel killed in "Al Qaida" attack:
A senior security official died after being
seriously injured in an assassination attempt
carried out by Al Qaida suspects in Mareb
province east of Yemen, an official statement
said on Friday.
Yemen
officials, rebels reach peace deal in Qatar:
Yemen's government and northern rebels have
agreed to bolster a fragile truce and start
political dialogue to end a civil war that has
raged on and off since 2004.
Somali
fighters attack capital: Government
forces have said they are still in control of the
airport, sea port and the presidential palace,
adding that attacks on the presidential palace
have been resisted.
Iran
bank assets withdrawn from Europe: central bank
chief: "The Central bank ...
has transferred the (Iranian) banks' assets from
Europe. Currently there is no problem in regards
to blocking of assets of the Iranian banks by the
European Union," Mahmoud Bahmani was quoted
as telling the Fars news agency.
Hamas:
PA can't give up Jerusalem in direct Mideast
peace talks: Speaking at
fast-breaking meal in Gaza, Hamas PM Haniyeh says
Palestinians worldwide do not support 'absurd
talks with Israel.'
Boats
reach Gaza despite blockade: Two
vessels carrying 46 international human rights
activists have reached the Gaza Strip, despite
Israel's strict 14-month siege of the Palestinian
territory.
NIGER: Almost 200,000 displaced
by floods: Further heavy
rains in Niger have caused the number of people
displaced by flooding to soar from 111,000 last
week to 198,740 this week, says the UN Office for
the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA),
which is calling on donors and aid agencies to
urgently send shelter materials, blankets and
mosquito nets.
Niger Update: "People are
so poor it's hard to tell who is suffering the
most": "Four of my
children died," said Hadjo, "They did
not have enough food and I had no way to feed
them. This is the third year in a row we have had
very little. Some days we go to bed without
eating anything at all."
Too
little, too late for Niger: This is
the front line of what has been called
"Africa's world war". More than
five-million people have died, mainly from hunger
and disease.
Collapse
of ancient Ellesmere ice shelf stuns scientists:
The breakup points to the profound change
underway in the Arctic and the accelerating loss
of a unique and “majestic” part of
Canada’s landscape, says John England,
University of Alberta earth scientist.
ACLU:
‘Pain ray’ in California prison amounts
to ‘torture’ of US prisoners:
"The idea that a military weapon designed to
cause intolerable pain should be used against
county jail inmates is staggeringly
wrongheaded,"
One
in 10 with a mortgage face foreclosure:
More than 2.3 million homes have been repossessed
by lenders since the recession began in December
2007, according to foreclosure listing service
RealtyTrac Inc. Economists expect the number of
foreclosures to grow well into next year.
Blockbuster
to file bankruptcy in September:
Source says that video retailer could close 500
to 800 of its stores
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