Archive for the 'War' Category
Dr. David Kelly Was Writing a Book
July 7th, 2009See: David Kelly: Secret Knife Evidence Points to Murder and David Kelly’s Closest Female Confidante on Why He Couldn’t Have Killed Himself Via: Daily Express: WEAPONS inspector David Kelly was writing a book exposing highly damaging government secrets before his mysterious death. He was intending to reveal that he warned Prime Minister Tony Blair there […]
U.S. Special Forces Briefing to Congressman Exposes Involvement in 19 Latin American Countries During 2009 Including Honduras
July 6th, 2009Via: Wikileaks: This confidential US Special Forces (7th, US Southern Command), briefing dated 17 May 2009 was created for Florida Congressman Miller. Although unclassified, it specifies a For Official Use Only (FOUO) distribution restriction. On page 7 of the document, it is proudly proclaimed that the 7h Special Forces Group has conducted missions in every […]
Afghan Drug Trade: “Most of the government officials are involved.”
July 5th, 2009Via: McClatchy: When it’s harvest time in the poppy fields of Kandahar, dust-covered Taliban fighters pull up on their motorbikes to collect a 10 percent tax on the crop. Afghan police arrive in Ford Ranger pickups — bought with U.S. aid money — and demand their cut of the cash in exchange for promises to […]
Flood of Afghan Heroin Fuels Drug Plague in Russia
July 5th, 2009Via: McClatchy: The drugs usually reach Russia from Tajikistan and Kazakhstan in trucks or, in smaller amounts, tucked away in train compartments or nervous travelers’ stomachs. The trade is nothing new in Russia, but after the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, it exploded. Afghan opium production climbed from 3,400 metric tons in 2002 to […]
U.S.-Built Bridge is Windfall for Illegal Afghan Drug Trade
July 5th, 2009Via: McClatchy: In August 2007, the presidents of Afghanistan and Tajikistan walked side by side with the U.S. commerce secretary across a new $37 million concrete bridge that the Army Corps of Engineers designed to link two of Central Asia’s poorest countries. Dressed in a gray suit with an American flag pin in his lapel, […]
Fears for the World’s Poor Countries as the Rich Grab Land to Grow Food
July 5th, 2009A pants shitting, must read. Via: Guardian: The acquisition of farmland from the world’s poor by rich countries and international corporations is accelerating at an alarming rate, with an area half the size of Europe’s farmland targeted in the last six months, reports from UN officials and agriculture experts say. New reports from the UN […]
Russia Opens Route for U.S. to Fly Arms to Afghanistan
July 4th, 2009There could be several factors at work here. Maybe the mobsters who run Russia were offered a cut of the drug money from the American mobsters. If might be that Russian strategists like the idea of giving the U.S. more rope to hang itself. Of course, there’s potential to make billions of dollars from arms […]
Amnesty Details Gaza ‘War Crimes’
July 2nd, 2009Via: Guardian: Israel committed war crimes and carried out reckless attacks and acts of wanton destruction in its Gaza offensive, an independent human rights report says. Hundreds of Palestinian civilians were killed using high-precision weapons, while others were shot at close range, the group Amnesty International says. Its report also calls rocket attacks by Palestinian […]
Afghanistan: Thousands of U.S. Marines Move Into the World’s Largest Opium Production Area
July 2nd, 2009Via: AP / USA Today: Thousands of U.S. Marines poured from helicopters and armored vehicles into Taliban-controlled villages in southern Afghanistan on Thursday in the first major operation under President Obama’s strategy to stabilize the country. The offensive was launched shortly after 4:30 p.m. ET Thursday in Helmand province, a Taliban stronghold and the world’s […]
Clarifying News Stories Using the Iraqis-Regaining-Their-Sovereignty Meme
June 30th, 2009Ah yes, June 30th is National Sovereignty Day in Iraq… There are dozens of boilerplate propaganda stories floating around today about Iraqis regaining their sovereignty because U.S. troops are being pulled out of Iraqi cities. This, of course, is ludicrous. Within the first hour of my first International Relations class in college, I came away […]
