Archive for the 'War' Category
Yemen: Pentagon’s War On The Arabian Peninsula
January 4th, 2010Via: Global Research: Yemen will become a battleground for a proxy war between the United States and Saudi Arabia – whose state-to-state relations are among the strongest and most durable of the entire post-World War II era – on one hand and Iran on the other. It is perhaps impossible to determine the exact moment […]
BLACKWATER CHARGES DISMISSED
January 1st, 2010Via: Reuters: Iraq expressed its disappointment on Friday with a U.S. federal court ruling that threw out all charges against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards accused of gunning down Iraqi civilians in 2007. Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said the five men had committed a “serious crime” in the September 2007 shooting in Baghdad, which strained […]
CIA Attempted to Recruit Bomber
January 1st, 2010Via: BBC: The suicide bomber who killed seven CIA agents in Afghanistan had been courted by the US as a possible informant, US intelligence sources have said. They said he had not undergone the usual full body search before entering the base in Khost province, and so was able to smuggle in an explosive belt. […]
CIA Officers Killed in Afghanistan Bomb Attack
December 31st, 2009Via: BBC: Eight Americans reportedly working for the CIA have died in a bomb attack in Afghanistan, the worst against US intelligence officials since 2001. A bomber wearing an explosive vest entered Forward Operating Base Chapman in Khost Province, near Pakistan. A Taliban spokesman said one of its members who was working for the Afghan […]
Balance of Terror: From Detroit City to Ghazi Khan
December 29th, 2009Via: Chris Floyd: A lone man on an airliner makes a badly botched attempt to ignite what appears to be some kind of hastily cobbled-together device that might or might not have caused some kind of unspecified but apparently non-crippling damage to the plane. The plane lands safely; no one is killed. Yet the reverberations […]
Pakistan: Detained Americans had Nuclear Power Site Map
December 28th, 2009Were they wearing Dockers? Via: Guardian: Police are trying to determine whether five Americans detained in Pakistan had planned to attack a complex that houses nuclear power facilities. The young Muslim men, who are from the Washington DC area, were arrested in Pakistan earlier this month. Pakistani police and government officials have made a series […]
Dred Scott Redux: Obama and the Supremes Stand Up for Slavery
December 26th, 2009Via: Chris Floyd: While we were all out doing our Christmas shopping, the highest court in the land quietly put the kibosh on a few more of the remaining shards of human liberty. It happened earlier this week, in a discreet ruling that attracted almost no notice and took little time. In fact, our most […]
Federal War Spending Exceeds State Government Outlays
December 26th, 2009Via: Public Record: The U.S. spends more for war annually than all state governments combined spend for the health, education, welfare, and safety of 308 million Americans. Joseph Henchman, director of state projects for the Tax Foundation of Washington, D.C. says the states collected a total of $781 billion in taxes in 2008. For a […]
Cost to Fight Each Al Qaeda Member in Afghanistan Per Year: $300 Million
December 23rd, 2009War is a Racket by Smedley D. Butler Via: ABC News: As he justified sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan at a cost of $30 billion a year, President Barack Obama’s description Tuesday of the al Qaeda “cancer” in that country left out one key fact: U.S. intelligence officials have concluded there are only about […]
U.S. General Declares War on Pregnancy
December 21st, 2009Via: AP: A US Army general in Iraq has added pregnancy to the list of reasons a soldier under his command could be court-martialled. The policy, outlined last month by Major-General Anthony Cucolo, would apply to female soldiers who become pregnant while deployed in combat zones and the male soldiers who impregnate them. Civilians reporting […]
