Media hypes terror plot, despite the fact no one is charged with terror
John Byrne | RawStory.com It has a familiar ring: “Investigators are looking for about a dozen more people in connection with a wide-ranging terror investigation that has already netted arrests in Colorado and New York City, a source familiar with the investigation said Tuesday.” That’s the lead sentence of a CNN “breaking news” report filed [...]
Afghanistan: Where Empires Go to Die
Dahr Jamil | GlobalResearch.ca On September 7 the Swedish aid agency Swedish Committee for Afghanistan reported that the previous week US soldiers raided one of its hospitals. According to the director of the aid agency, Anders Fange, troops stormed through both the men’s and women’s wards, where they frantically searched for wounded Taliban fighters. Genghis Khan [...]
CIA-Linked Intel Center Releases Highly Suspicious Bin Laden Tape
Paul Joseph Watson | PrisonPlanet.com The shadowy figure of Osama Bin Laden has popped up once again out of nowhere and right on time to re-energize the war in Afghanistan at the most politically opportune moment for the White House, strengthening deeply held suspicions that the terror leader has been dead for years and [...]
U.S. leads world in foreign weapons sales: report
(Stop the presses! Someone has figured it out… again.) Jasmin Melvin | Reuters The United States accounted for more than two-thirds of foreign weapons sales in 2008, a year in which global sales were at a three-year low, The New York Times reported on Sunday. Citing a congressional study released on Friday, the Times said [...]
Sheehan: Wars Barely Register in U.S. National Psyche
In an exclusive interview with RT’s Anastasia Churkina, anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan talks about the need of accountability, an end to Iraq and Afghanistan, and the American psyche ignoring the truth.
Afghanistan Contractors Outnumber Troops
August Cole | WallStreetJournal.com Even as U.S. troops surge to new highs in Afghanistan they are outnumbered by military contractors working alongside them, according to a Defense Department census due to be distributed to Congress — illustrating how hard it is for the U.S. to wean itself from the large numbers of war-zone contractors that [...]
Why KSM’s Confession Rings False
(Note this article is from 3/15/2007. I don’t think this article from Robert Baer has been on this site and with KSM/Torture in the news today thought it would be a good post.) Robert Baer | Time.com It’s hard to tell what the Pentagon’s objective really is in releasing the transcript of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s confession. It [...]
Pentagon asks Congress for funds for 30,000 bunker-busting bombs
HomelandSecurityNewswire.com Intensifying the preparations for an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, the Obama administration has asked Congress for funds to accelerate production of a 30,000-pound “ultra-large bunker-buster” bomb designed to destroy deeply buried installations Amid continuing tension over political upheaval in Iran, the U.S. Defense Department says it wants to accelerate production of a 30,000-pound [...]
Obama: Afghan war secures America
PressTV.com US President Barack Obama says there will be no quick or easy victory over the Taliban, noting that the war in Afghanistan is crucial in protecting Americans from terrorism. Talking in a meeting of veterans in Arizona on Monday, Obama tried to step up the campaign in Afghanistan. “The insurgency in Afghanistan didn’t just [...]
Who is funding the Afghan Taliban? You don’t want to know
Reuters.com The article by Jean MacKenzie originally appeared in GlobalPost. This is part of a special series by GlobalPost called Life, Death and The Taliban. Click here for a related article Funding the Pakistani Taliban. KABUL — It is the open secret no one wants to talk about, the unwelcome truth that most prefer to [...]
The Real Grand Chessboard and the Profiteers of War
Prof. Peter Dale Scott | GlobalResearch.ca “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or [...]
Call it G.W.O.T. or J.I.H.A.D., Obama is waging Bush’s war
Kori Schake | ForeginPolicy.com Assistant to the President John Brennan gave a speech yesterday, ostensibly a landmark address. He assured listeners that “the fight against terrorists and violent extremists has been returned to its right and proper place: no longer defining — indeed, distorting-our entire national security and foreign policy, but rather serving as a [...]
Senators, Advisers Urge Obama to More Than Double Afghan Forces
Indira A.R. Lakshmanan | Bloomberg.com President Barack Obama and top U.S. military commanders are being pressed by senators and civilian advisers to more than double the size of Afghan security forces, a move that would cost billions of dollars. In letters and face-to-face meetings, the lawmakers and defense officials urged Obama, National Security Advisor Jim [...]
A Deadly Month for U.S. Troops in Afghanistan
Richard Oppel Jr. | NYTimes.com Four American soldiers were killed by a roadside explosion in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, making July the deadliest month for American service members in the country since the 2001 invasion and underscoring the frightening rise in the sophistication and accuracy of roadside bombs. With the four newest fatalities, at [...]
Clinton says 9/11 ringleaders are in Pakistan
Google | AP U.S. officials “firmly believe” that al-Qaida leaders who planned and carried out the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, are hiding in Pakistan near its border with Afghanistan, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday. At a news conference concluding three days of meetings, Clinton said Washington has told the [...]
A war of colonial conquest in Afghanistan
James Cogan | WSWS.org The largest military operation since the Obama administration took office is now underway in the southern Afghan province of Helmand. Some 4,000 marines, along with hundreds of British troops, are attempting to impose control over an ethnic Pashtun population that has opposed the US-led occupation ever since the 2001 invasion overthrew [...]
So This Is What Victory Looks Like?
Scott Ritter | Truthdig.com Fireworks lit up the Baghdad sky on the evening of June 30th, signaling the advent of “National Sovereignty Day.” Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki declared the new holiday to commemorate the withdrawal of American combat troops from the Iraqi capital and all other major urban centers, although thousands of “advisers” would [...]
White House: Acquitted detainees may not be released
RawStory.com The Obama administration signaled Tuesday it may keep terrorism detainees even if they’ve been acquitted. Chief Department of Defense lawyer Jeh Johnson told a Senate committee “that releasing a detainee who has been tried and found not guilty was a policy decision officials would make based on their estimate of whether the prisoner posed [...]
Call it what you want Obama but the “War on Terror” continues
Fort Lewis preps for largest deployment in decades Keith Eldridge | KomoNews.com Thousands of soldiers are are getting ready to head overseas as a part of the Army base’s largest deployment since the Korean War. The 5th Stryker brigade will head to Afghanistan as part of President Barack Obama’s troop surge, and additional troops will [...]
