Archive for the 'War' Category
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 […]
Key Leaders of Honduras Military Coup Trained in U.S.
June 30th, 2009Via: Institute for Southern Studies: At least two leaders of the coup launched in Honduras on June 28 were apparently trained at a controversial Department of Defense school based at Fort Benning, Georgia infamous for producing graduates linked to torture, death squads and other human rights abuses. Leftist President Manuel Zelaya was kidnapped and transported […]
Confidential Memo Reveals U.S. Plan to Provoke an Invasion of Iraq
June 30th, 2009Via: Guardian: A confidential record of a meeting between President Bush and Tony Blair before the invasion of Iraq, outlining their intention to go to war without a second United Nations resolution, will be an explosive issue for the official inquiry into the UK’s role in toppling Saddam Hussein. The memo, written on 31 January […]
Brookings Institution Report: A “Sufficiently Horrific Provocation” Would Make the U.S. Decision to Invade Iran, “Almost Easy”
June 29th, 2009Which Path to Persia? Options for a New American Strategy Toward Iran (PDF 1.2MB) Analysis Paper Number 20 June 2009 Authors: Kenneth M. Pollack Daniel L. Byman Martin Indyk Suzanne Maloney Michael E. O’Hanlon Bruce Riedel — The Question of a Provocation As noted above, in the section on the time frame for an invasion, […]
Nigeria: Rebels Attack Multiple Oil Production Facilities
June 29th, 2009The ongoing oil infrastructure attacks in Nigeria have been stepped up in recent days. Shell is now having to shut in some production. Via: Reuters: Royal Dutch Shell said on Monday it had shut in some oil production at its western operations in Nigeria’s Niger Delta while it investigated reports of attacks on two well […]
U.S. Air Force Test Fires ICBM from California Coast
June 29th, 2009Via: AP: The Air Force successfully launched an unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile Monday from the California coast to an area in the Pacific Ocean some 4,200 miles away. The ICBM was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base near Santa Barbara at 3:01 a.m. and carried three unarmed re-entry vehicles to their targets near […]
More Obama Lies: Signing Statement on $106B War Bill
June 28th, 2009Via: The Hill: President Obama signed the $106 billion war-spending bill into law Friday, but not without taking a page from his predecessor and ignoring a few elements in the legislation. Obama included a five-paragraph signing statement with the bill, including a final paragraph that outlined his objections to at least four areas of the […]
U.S. Confirms U-Turn in Afghan Counter-Narcotics Policy
June 28th, 2009My previous guess was that the USUK drug cartel was going to try to drive prices back up and then unload the tons of stuff that have been stockpiling. According to the information below, that doesn’t seem to be the case. Perhaps the new goal is to get as many acres as possible going with […]
