Prosecuting John Ashcroft
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Peter Dale Scott: 9/11, Deep Events, and the Curtailment of U.S. Freedoms
9/11, Deep Events, and the Curtailment of U.S. Freedoms A talk delivered to the New England Antiwar Conference, MIT, January 30, 2010. By Prof Peter Dale Scott Global Research, January 31, 2010 Hello everyone! I’m honored to be invited to this important anti-war conference. As I am in the final stages of editing my [...]
U.S. military teams, intelligence deeply involved in aiding Yemen on strikes
Dana Priest | WashingtonPost.com U.S. military teams and intelligence agencies are deeply involved in secret joint operations with Yemeni troops who in the past six weeks have killed scores of people, among them six of 15 top leaders of a regional al-Qaeda affiliate, according to senior administration officials. The operations, approved by President Obama and [...]
Is Anyone Telling Us The Truth?
Paul Craig Roberts | InformationClearingHouse.com What are we to make of the failed Underwear Bomber plot, the Toothpaste, Shampoo, and Bottled Water Bomber plot, and the Shoe Bomber plot? These blundering and implausible plots to bring down an airliner seem far removed from al-Qaida’s expertise in pulling off 9/11. If we are to believe the [...]
Obama Expands Federal Power Over the States with Executive Order
Kurt Nimmo | InfoWars.com Read the entire executive order here (in PDF format). Obama has issued another executive order, this time establishing a so-called “Council of Governors.” The order, signed on January 11, further diminishes the sovereignty of the states and builds on a framework for possible martial law. The executive order was completely ignored [...]
Gates proposes $2 billion in funds to aid unstable countries
Mary Beth Sheridan and Greg Jaffe | WashingtonPost.com Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has proposed a major overhaul of the way the Pentagon and State Department do nation-building, seeking to end friction between the bureaucracies by putting them jointly in charge of three huge new funds aimed at stabilizing strife-ridden countries. The proposal is aimed [...]
VF exclusive: Blackwater’s Erik Prince to step down, reveals CIA role
RawStory.com Power struggle’ inside Blackwater over Prince’s successor Blackwater’s Erik Prince was recruited as a CIA agent in the years after the 9/11 attacks, says an exclusive report at Vanity Fair that also reveals the billionaire ex-Navy SEAL plans to step down from Blackwater to teach high school. For the past six years, Prince “appears to have [...]
Obama orders 30,000 troops to Afghanistan, plans withdrawal in 2011
AP | RawStory.com President Barack Obama announced Tuesday he was dispatching 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, accelerating a risky and expensive war buildup, even as he assured the nation that U.S. forces will begin coming home in July 2011. The first new Marines will join the fight by Christmas. The escalation — to be completed by [...]
Robert Baer: What We’re Up Against In Afghanistan Is A “War Of National Resistance”
HuffingtonPost.com In the latest video from the Brave New Foundation’s “Rethink Afghanistan” project, former CIA agent Robert Bear says that what the U.S. faces when it comes to the Afghan insurgency isn’t terrorism, but a war of national resistance. “The people that want their country liberated from the West have nothing to do with Al [...]
Nafeez Mossadeq Ahmed – The War on Truth
Nafeez Ahmed’s books on 9/11 are fine examples of scholarship that deconstruct the official story of 9/11. His first book, “The War on Freedom: How & Why America was Attacked, September 11, 2001″, convinced me personally that 9/11 was in reality not the event that was delivered to us by the U.S. and Western corporate press, fed by Western [...]
Pentagon Pouring Your Money Into Afghanistan: Are They Preparing for a Very Long War?
Nick Turse | Alternet.org In recent weeks, President Obama has been contemplating the future of U.S. military operations in Afghanistan. He has also been touting the effects of his policies at home, reporting that this year’s Recovery Act not only saved jobs, but also was “the largest investment in infrastructure since [President Dwight] Eisenhower built the Interstate [...]
Obama Quietly Backing Congressional Moves on Iran Sanctions
Jason Ditz | AntiWar.com Though officials in the Obama Administration have been publicly neutral about the new round of sanctions against Iran moving its may through the House and Senate, the administration is quietly supporting the efforts, despite the deleterious affect they may have on negotiations. Iran is in the process of negotiating with the P5+1 on a draft deal for third [...]
Obama signs bills for record Pentagon, Homeland Security spending
Patrick Martin |wsws.org In a ceremony Wednesday, US President Barack Obama signed legislation authorizing the largest ever military budget, a gargantuan $680 billion for the Pentagon, including $130 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. On Thursday, he signed a spending bill funneling another $44 billion into the Department of Homeland Security, to strengthen [...]
In Military Campaign, Pakistan Finds Hint of 9/11
Jane Perlez| Mark Mezzetti | NYTimes.com Pakistani forces pushing toward a lair of hard-core Taliban fighters found documents this week linked to a member of the Hamburg cell of Al Qaeda that is believed to have planned the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. In a small village in the dun-colored hills of South Waziristan, soldiers found a German passport belonging to [...]
Peace Prize Anyone? Obama quietly deploying 13,000 more US troops to Afghanistan
Move is separate from Nato commander General Stanley McChrystal’s request to increase troop levels Ewen MacAskil | Guardian.co.uk President Barack Obama is quietly deploying an extra 13,000 troops to Afghanistan, an unannounced move that is separate from a request by the US commander in the country for even more reinforcements. The extra 13,000 is part [...]
Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize
“for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples” Nobel Peace Prize nominations are due by Feb 1st – two weeks after he took office. The commander-in-chief of a country that has is involved in 3 major wars whose policy was/is to escalate and expand these wars gets a peace prize? Iran?… [...]
Iran’s Nuclear Threat Is A LIE
The lying game: how we are prepared for another war of aggression JohnPilger.com In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger compares the current drum-beating for war against Iran, based on a fake “nuclear threat”, with the manufacture of a sense of false crisis that led to invasion of Iraq and the deaths [...]
Billions in U.S. aid never got to Pakistan army Read
Kathy Gannon | AP | SFGate.comThe United States has long suspected that much of the billions of dollars it has sent Pakistan to battle militants has been diverted to the domestic economy and other causes, such as fighting India.Now the scope and longevity of the misuse is becoming clear: Between 2002 and 2008, while al Qaeda [...]
McChrystal’s Conundrum
Justin Raimondo | AntiWar.com Is the Afghan war already lost? Well, not quite, says the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, but almost: “Failure to gain the initiative and reverse insurgent momentum in the near-term (next 12 months) – while Afghan security capacity matures – risks an outcome where defeating the insurgency is no longer possible.” [...]
