Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered
In US War And Occupation Of Iraq "1,339,771"
Number
of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed
(Officially
acknowledged) In U.S. War And
Occupation Of Iraq 4,680
Number
Of International Occupation Force Troops
Slaughtered In Afghanistan
: 1,515
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Americas Dismal Future
By Paul Craig Roberts
Allegedly, the US is a superpower and Israel is a
client state whose very existence depends
entirely on US military and economic aid and
diplomatic protection. Yet, in the real world it
works the other way. Israel is the superpower and
the US is its client state. Continue
From the River to the Sea
By Gilad Atzmon
Lets once and for all stop getting excited
about America mounting pressure on Israel to
freeze West Bank settlements. The entire
fascination with the topic is a product of
Zionist spin. It is there to divert attention
from the root cause of the conflict: Continue
How the US Funds the Taliban
By Aram Roston
"The American soldier in me is repulsed by
it," he said in an interview in his office
at FOB Shank in Logar Province. "But I know
that it is what it is: essentially paying the
enemy, saying, 'Hey, don't hassle me.' I don't
like it, but it is what it is." Continue
A
Morally Bankrupt Military
When Soldiers and Their Families
Become Expendable
By Dahr Jamail
According to military records, over
43,000 troops classified as nondeployable
for medical reasons have been deployed to
Iraq and Afghanistan. Continue
Lack Of Health Care Killed 2,266
US Veterans last Year: Study
By AFP
The number of US veterans who died in
2008 because they lacked health insurance was 14
times higher than the US military death toll in
Afghanistan that year, according to a new study. Continue
Slavery
Still Has Defenders
Business Aims to Relax Bans on
Products Made with Child & Slave Labor
By David Sirota
.
That corporations' advocacy for deregulation has
now become so brazen that they are effectively
pushing the U.S. government to endorse child
slave labor is predictable.
Continue
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killed in Waziristan assault:
Pakistani troops have killed 22 Taliban
militants during the ongoing military offensive
the country's restive north-western region, the
army said Thursday. Five soldiers also died and
eight more were injured in the clashes that took
place in various areas of South Waziristan
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Pakistani soldiers killed in clashes:
At least 10 Pakistani soldiers were killed today
when troops encountered the stiffest resistance
yet during a four-week offensive against the
Taliban, military and security officials said.
Iran
consulate official killed in Peshawar:
Unknown gunmen have shot dead a local official at
Iran's consulate in Pakistan's northwestern city
of Peshawar.
Afghanistan:
Over 2,000 civilians killed in first 10 months of
2009: Armed
conflict in Afghanistan claimed the lives of over
2,000 civilians from January to October 2009, and
the numbers are rising, according to the UN
Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA).
US
Afghan mission 'not open-ended':
President Barack Obama has warned that the US
commitment to Afghanistan is 'not open-ended' and
that he does not plan to accept any of the
options presented by his advisors, a White House
official says.
Obama
Asks for New Afghan Options: Video:
President Barack Obama won't accept any of the
Afghanistan war options before him without
changes as concerns soar over the ability of the
Afghan government to secure its own country one
day.
Blaming Karzai: : U.S.
envoy to Afghanistan warns about sending more
troops: Ambassador Karl Eikenberry
had sent classified cables in the past week
expressing strong reservations about President
Hamid Karzai's erratic behavior and corruption in
his government
Afghanistans
Oil Binge: 22 Gallons of Fuel Per Soldier Per
Day: The U.S. military consumes 22
gallons of fuel per soldier, per day. And each
gallon costs $45 or more to haul to the
battlefield. Actually, $45 per gallon is a
lowball estimate; according to the Navy,
its more like $300 to $400.
UK:
Row over bonuses for MoD staff: "Every
foot soldier is basically earning nothing. But
they can give these huge bonuses while our boys
give up their lives," the mother of three
said.
Attacks
kill 2 paramilitary members in Iraq:
Two Awakening Council group members were killed
and five people injured in two separate attacks
in and near Baghdad on Thursday, an Interior
Ministry source said.
US
security firm in Iraq bribe row: The
New York Times says quoting former top executives
at Blackwater Worldwide that the US security
contractor sent about $1 million to its Iraq
office. The intention was to pay off officials in
the country who were angry about the fatal
shootings of 17 civilians by Blackwater employees
in September 2007
Scahill:
Obama may be afraid of Blackwater:
"You know who's guarding Hillary Clinton in
Afghanistan right now? Blackwater," Scahill
told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Tuesday night.
"You know who guards members of Congress?
Blackwater. They have half a billion dollars in
contracts in Afghanistan right now.
KBR
improperly billed for security guards, senator
says: KBR, the largest contractor in
Iraq and Afghanistan, improperly billed the
Pentagon and was paid about $103 million for
armed security guard services, a U.S. senator
says.
U.S.
adviser to Kurds stands to reap oil profits:
Galbraith, 58, son of the renowned economist John
Kenneth Galbraith, stands to earn perhaps $100
million or more as a result of his closeness to
the Kurds, his relations with a Norwegian oil
company and constitutional provisions he helped
the Kurds extract.
Iran
consulate official killed in Peshawar:
Unknown gunmen have shot dead a local official at
Iran's consulate in Pakistan's northwestern city
of Peshawar.
Teheran
urges Russia to deliver S-300:
"We have a contract with Russia to buy S-300
missiles. I don't think it is right for Russia to
be seen in the world as a country which does not
fulfill its contractual obligations," AFP
quoted Iranian Defense Minister Vahidi as telling
the ILNA news agency.
Nasrallah
slams Obama Israel 'bias': The
leader of the Lebanese group Hezbollah has
accused Barack Obama, the US president, of
"absolute bias" in favour of Israel and
of disregard for the dignity of Arabs and
Muslims.
Palestinian
poll delay recommended: Electoral
body informs Mahmoud Abbas about its inability to
organise polls on January 24.
Alleged
Jewish terrorist: I know God is pleased
: Court charges Yaakov (Jack) Teitel with
murdering 2 Palestinians, attempted murder and
incitement.
Yemen,
US sign military deal as country fights rebels:
Yemen has signed an agreement with the United
States for cooperation on military intelligence
and training, its official news agency reported,
as the Arabian peninsula state faces a worsening
rebellion in the north.
Yemen
seeks US help to quash Houthis:
Under the military pact, Washington will provide
the Yemeni army with intelligence and training to
strengthen cooperation in the 'extermination of
terrorism, smuggling and piracy', Saba quoted
Yemen's Chief of Staff Ahmed Ali al-Ashwal as
saying.
Judge
shot dead in Somalia: A judge who
jailed pirates and members of Somalia's
anti-government group, al-Shabab, has been shot
dead in Bossaso, a port in Somalia's
semi-autonomous Puntland region, police say.
S
Korea 'will pay dearly for sea clash':
The navies of the two sides clashed off the
countries' west coast Tuesday for the first time
in seven years, leaving a North Korean naval boat
severely damaged.
Ugly
Truth: Most U.S. Kids Sentenced to Die In Prison
Are Black: The U.S. stands alone in
the world in condemning thousands of juveniles to
life without parole. And race is a huge factor.
Will the Supreme Court even consider it?
America's
dirty little secret: Influence
wielded by coal-producing states 25 of
them is the big reason the U.S. is a
climate-change laggard
Budget
'disasters' await ten US states:
Nine US states have joined California in the club
of the worst financially-hit states which face a
fiscal 'disaster' over America's reeling economy,
a report says.
November
11, 2009
US Is Doing No Good in
Afghanistan
By Malalai Joya
As an Afghan woman who was elected to Parliament,
I am in the United States to ask President Barack
Obama to immediately end the occupation of my
country. Continue
From Gaza to Pakistan
The Cost of War Abroad and at Home
Must Watch
Video
Kathy Kelly co-coordinates Voices for
Creative Nonviolence, a campaign to end U.S.
military and economic warfare, and co-founded
Voices in the Wilderness, a group which had
openly defied economic sanctions from 1996-2003
by bringing medicines to children and families in
Iraq. Continue
A Nation
Of Destroyers
What You Didn't Know About The
War
Video
Click
to view
US Denies Pakistan Nuclear
Report
By Al Jazeera
Seymour Hersh, a Pulitzer prize-winning writer,
said in his report that the US and Pakistan have
agreed on a security protocol allowing a special
US team to assist in the guarding of Pakistan's
nuclear armaments. Continue
Remembering
Veterans and the Dead
Blood on Their Hands
By Eamonn McCann
"I have seen and endured the
sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be
a party to prolong these sufferings for ends
which I believe to be evil and unjust."
Continue
1948
Again, in Sheikh Jarrah
Heroism in a Vanishing Landscape
By Ellen Cantarow
"Disputed is a word often
used about East Jerusalem and homes in Sheikh
Jarrah. Would the international community have
considered the homes of American blacks attacked
by the Ku Klux Kla as disputed? Or
those of Jews ejected by Brown Shirts in the
early 1930s? Continue
Cut Off
Economic and Military Aid to Israel?
Department of Meaningless Gestures
By Stephen M. Walt
There's no way to cut the aid package so long
as Congress is in hock to AIPAC and the other
groups in the status quo lobby. Continue
Day That Shook the World
By Eric Margolis
In 1975, physicist Andrei Sakharov and a group of
fellow Soviet academicians warned the Kremlin
leadership that unless the nations ruinous
defense spending was slashed and funds refocused
on modernizing the nations decrepit,
obsolete industrial base and its wretched state
agriculture, the Soviet Union would collapse by
1990.
Continue
Mishkin's Bubblenomics and the
Crash of '08
By by Mike Whitney
At some point, the avalanche of asset
liquidation, writedowns and defaults will thunder
from the mountaintop sending stocks into
hibernation while the anemic greenback stages a
comeback. Continue
Still Waiting for Health Care
By Ralph Nader
The House of Representatives debate on the health
insurance "reform" is over with the
Democrats failing the people and the Republicans
disgracing themselves as having left their minds
back in the third grade (with apologies to third
graders).
Continue
Hedge Fund Perps Walk Free
Will Anyone Ever Go To
Jail In Connection With Wall Street Crimes?
By Danny Schechter
Senator Christopher Dodd and fellow Senate
Democrats are proposing to scale back the
regulatory authority of the Federal Reserve and
eliminate the Office of the Comptroller of the
Currency, among many other provisions in a new
1,136-page bill made public on Tuesday. Continue
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killed in Colombia clashes: Nine
soldiers and at least 30 rebels were killed in
clashes in the southwestern Colombian province of
Cauca, the Colombian Army said Tuesday.
U.S.
and Colombia bases deal signed, but what are the
real intentions?: After several
months of secrecy and controversy, on October
28th the US and Colombia signed an agreement to
allow the US military extensive access to seven
Colombian bases, notwithstanding serious concerns
about true intentions and eventual consequences.
10
Pakistan troops killed: A LANDMINE
and separate ambush killed 10 Pakistani troops
near the Afghan border on Wednesday, in a sign
that violence is spreading away from the
frontlines of an anti-Taleban offensive.
9
killed in South Waziristan: :
According to an Inter-Services Public Relations
(ISPR) handout, the militants were killed in an
intense exchange of fire that took place at a
newly-established check post at Fort Knoll.
Security forces lost two lives, including an
officer.
Musharraf
warrants to be executed, NA told:
Opposition leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan was
cheered by desk-thumping from both opposition and
treasury benches as he lambasted Mr Musharraf for
using such (insulting) words against the
elected president of Pakistan and, while
demanding a government response to it, repeated
his Pakistan Muslim League-Ns demand for a
high treason trial of the former army chief for
his violations of the Constitution.
Suicide
raid against NATO occupation force troops kills 2
Afghans: A suicide bomber targeted a
convoy of NATO-led forces in Zabul province south
of Afghanistan Wednesday killing two civilians
and destroyed a military vehicle, military
officer at the site of incident Ghulam Jilani
Khan said.
1
killed, 2 injured in roadside bomb explosion in
Afghanistan: A roadside bomb planted
by Taliban militants in Afghanistan's northern
Kunduz province exploded, killing one person and
injuring two others on Wednesday, provincial
governor Mohammad Omar said.
Afghan
Red Crescent angry after NATO-led occupation
forces storm compound: The Afghan
Red Crescent Society (ARCS) expressed anger on
Tuesday at NATO-led troops who used explosives to
storm a Red Crescent compound and temporarily
detain two aid workers.
Taliban
expands control of Nuristan: Taliban
fighters are expanding their control of
Afghanistan's Nuristan province, an area they
claim to have recaptured from US occupation
troops. Their leaders say they have appointed
some local officials and reopened schools.
Veterans To Obama: Do Not
Escalate: An Afghanistan War
veteran will travel to D.C. to deliver this
message to the White House. Make sure your voice
is heard.
3
people killed in gunfire, bomb attacks in Iraq:
Three Iraqi people were killed, two others
wounded, and 16 more detained, including a dean
of a college, in separate bomb attacks and
gunfire in the provinces of Salahudin and Diyala
on Tuesday, police said.
Blackwater Bribed Iraqi
Officials After Killing 17 Civilians:
Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized
secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi
officials that were intended to silence their
criticism and buy their support after a September
2007 episode in which Blackwater security guards
fatally shot 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad,
according to former company officials.
The
plunder of Iraqs oil: As the
direct result of the Iraq war, major American and
other transnational energy conglomerates are now
gaining control over some the largest oilfields
in the world.
US
says Iran violated UN arms embargo:
Speaking at the UN Security Council, US deputy
ambassador, Alejandro Wolff, and British deputy
ambassador, Phillip Parham, raised Israels
seizure of the cargo vessel on 4 November, during
a debate on implementation of the 2006 ceasefire
between Israel and Hezbollah.
Israeli
flights over Lebanon break resolution:
UN: All Israeli military flights over Lebanon
break a resolution aimed at ending the 2006
hostilities between the two neighbors, a UN envoy
said Tuesday.
Iran
'ready to aid Yemeni security':
Manouchehr Mottaki, Iran's foreign minister, made
the offer on Wednesday, a day after Tehran warned
Middle Eastern governments against interfering in
the affairs of the the Arab Peninsula country.
Israel
wants answers from Solomon Islands over UN vote:
ISRAEL is sending a foreign ministry official to
the Solomon Islands next week to seek an
explanation as to why it was the only country in
Oceania to vote at the UN for the Goldstone
report condemning Israel's assault on Gaza.
Power
cut hits millions in Brazil: The
blackouts came three days after a report on US TV
network CBS said that several past power outages
in Brazil had been caused by hackers attacking
electricity control and distribution systems.
UK:
Every phone call, email and internet click stored
by 'state spying' databases: Every
phone call, text message, email and website visit
will be stored for a year for monitoring by the
state.
Justice
Dept. Asked For News Site's Visitor Lists:
In a case that raises questions about online
journalism and privacy rights, the U.S.
Department of Justice sent a formal request to an
independent news site ordering it to provide
details of all reader visits on a certain day.
American
Sues F.B.I., Saying He Was Detained in Africa:
A New Jersey man who contends that he was
detained and mistreated in Kenya, Somalia and
Ethiopia in 2007 with the approval of the United
States filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against F.B.I.
agents and other unidentified American officials
who he says interrogated him and threatened him
with execution.
Ted
Rall: America Sneezes : Failure on H1N1
highlights a bigger crisis:
America's lame (non-)response to the swine flu
pandemic isn't a big deal. Not compared to, say,
the melting of the polar ice cap. It isn't
torture. Or war. It pales next to giving hundreds
of billions of dollars to wealthy bankers and
nothing to homeowners facing foreclosure. But it
sure is interesting.
Dollar
falls to 15-month low as euro rises:
The dollar dropped to a new 15-month low as the
the euro rose above $1.50 Wednesday morning, even
as Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner reiterated
the administration's stance that a strong dollar
is good for the U.S. economy.
November
10, 2009
Manufacturing
Consent For Attack On Iran
US Rep. Cantor: Answer Enemies
with Renewed Vigilance'
By Yoni Kempinski
Republican Whip Eric Cantor reminded the 2009
General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of
North America in Washington that Iranian
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is "the man
holding the gun with which he vows to kill Israel
and the Jews." Continue
Israeli Jews and the One-state
Solution
By Ali Abunimah
With the total collapse of the Obama
Administration's peace efforts, and relentless
Israeli colonization of the occupied West Bank,
the reality is dawning rapidly that the two-state
solution is no more than a slogan that has no
chance of being implemented or altering the
reality of a de facto binational state in
Palestine/Israel. Continue
Denying Responsibility for the
Wars One Cheers On
By Glenn Greenwald
The NYT columnist who has supported 4 wars on
Muslims in 6 years decries the Islamic disregard
for human life. Continue
Can Attacks on a Military Base
Constitute "Terrorism"?
By Glenn Greenwald
If attacks on soldiers now qualify, how is it
possible to exclude many American actions? Continue
Making Wall Street Pay
By Dean Baker
Wall Street's irresponsible bankers caused this
economic crisis. It's only fair that they pay to
clean up their mess. Continue
What Will It Take to Break Our
Trance?
By Doug Page
We are a nation of millions of
brainwashed individualists, living, working, and
acting under false perceptions of reality as if
we were all Manchurian Candidates. We
have forgotten that government is the only
effective institution that we have to protect us
from the brute force of the Law of the Jungle. If
we do not very quickly awaken from our trance,
and act together in a cooperative human
community, millions of us will perish. Continue
Suicide
bomber kills 32 in Pakistan:
Tuesdays blast is the latest in a series of
deadly attacks since the army launched an
offensive against the Taliban in the restive
tribal belt last month.
Pakistan:
Militants killed in security operation in border
area: At least seven suspected
militants were killed and nine others injured as
Pakistani security forces pounded militant
hideouts in South Waziristan near the Afghan
border
Militants
open a new front: The attack appears
to be part of a larger plan by the
Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan in and around Darra
Adamkhel and their allies in Khyber Agency to
demoralise the leadership and disrupt the local
organised resistance to the militants
onslaught on Peshawar from the south and
south-west of the city.
Pakistani
Taliban vow tough guerrilla war:
"They thought they would capture Waziristan
easily but the fight in Waziristan will be
tougher than in Kashmir," he said
Afghan
Taliban deny links with Pakistan militants:
"Our mission is to eradicate from
Afghanistan the US and allied forces
who
had invaded our homeland. We have no influence
over Pakistani Taliban based in the tribal
belt."
US
occupation force soldier killed: An
American soldier was killed in a landmine
explosion in Afghanistan on Tuesday. A statement
from headquarters of the International Security
Assistance Force
Obama
narrows US Afghan strategy to 4 options:
Gen. Stanley McChrystal the top U.S.
commander in Afghanistan has told the
president that the U.S. mission there is headed
for failure unless the president sends an
additional 40,000 troops. Sources tell The
Associated Press that the president will add tens
of thousands more forces, though probably not
quite the 40,000 McChystal is seeking.
Gorbachev
Says Obama Should Start Afghan Withdrawal
: While he said President Barack Obama would be
unlikely to take his advice, Gorbachev said he
saw no chance of success even with more U.S.
troops.
US
will give Karzai measures to end corruption:
Clinton signalled the Obama administration's
growing impatience with Karzai, declared the
victor of a fraud-marred election, when she said
the steps are needed to leave "no
doubt" as to what Washington expects from
the relationship.
Karzai
hits back against critics:
Afghanistan's president has come out fighting
against calls by the US to crack down on
corruption, arguing that his government is not
solely to blame and saying that the West is in
his country only for its own ends.
3
people killed in gunfire, bomb attacks in Iraq:
Three Iraqi people were killed, two others
wounded, and 16 more detained, including a dean
of a college, in separate bomb attacks and
gunfire in the provinces of Salahudin and Diyala
on Tuesday, police said.
Saudi
to continue bombing Yemen rebels: minister:
"We are not going to stop the bombing until
the Huthis retreat tens of kilometres (miles)
inside their border," Deputy Defence
Minister Prince Khaled bin Sultan said on a visit
to troops in the southwestern province of Jizan.
Saudi
navy blockades north Yemen coast:
Saudi Arabia on Tuesday imposed a naval blockade
on the Red Sea coast of northern Yemen to combat
Shiite rebels along its border, an adviser to the
government said, in the latest escalation of
fighting in the southern Arabian peninsula.
Iran
warning over Yemen conflict:
Unidentified parties were adding fuel to the
crisis, and attempts to help or to take military
action would have negative consequences, Mr
Mottaki said. Correspondents say his comments
appear to have been intended for Saudi Arabia.
Iran
denies involvement in Yemen conflict: The
Yemeni rebels said on Tuesday they had taken
control of more territory on the border with
Saudi Arabia. "Full control was taken last
night over Qatabar directorate and control of all
supplies and ammunition as well as buildings and
other military sites," a rebel statement
said.
Manufacturing Consent For Attack
On Iran : U.S.
Official Says IAEA Has Evidence Iran Sought
Atomic Warhead: A U.S. arms-control
official said today there is strong
evidence Iran sought to develop the means
to put a nuclear weapon on a missile prior to
2003 and perhaps afterward.
Obama-Netanyahu
talks see no result: The latest
attempt by the US president to salvage the Middle
East peace talks appears to have come to nothing
after his meeting with Israel's prime minister
ended with only a brief statement from the White
House.
Rahm
Emanuel: Dialogue is the only path to peace:
The U.S. will remain actively engaged, and
Israel's one true friend. The Palestinians must
come to the table, recognize Israel's right to
exist and reject violence," he went on to
say.
French
FM: It seems Israel no longer wants peace:
France fears that Israel no longer desires a
Middle East peace deal, French Foreign Minister
Bernard Kouchner said on Tuesday, adding that
Paris remained deeply opposed to settlement
building in the West Bank.
West
Bank rabbi: Jews can kill Gentiles who threaten
Israel: Just weeks after the arrest
of alleged Jewish terrorist, Yaakov Teitel, a
West Bank rabbi on Monday released a book giving
Jews permission to kill Gentiles who threaten
Israel.
U.S.
State Department: Israel is not a tolerant
society: Israel dismally fails the
requirements of a tolerant pluralistic society,
according to a new report from the U.S. State
Department.
Benjamin
Netanyahu heckled at major US Jewish Conference:
Protestors shouted "Peace for everyone,
shame on you!" as they were escorted out.
A
million infected in Ukraine flu epidemic:
minister: Ukraine's epidemic of flu
and acute respiratory disorders has now affected
more than a million people, the country's deputy
health minister said on Tuesday. Vasyl
Lazoryshynets said the death toll from the
epidemic had risen to 174, as President Viktor
Yushchenko warned the country must brace itself
for a second wave of infections
Honduras
deal collapses, and Zelaya's backers blame U.S.:
A U.S.-brokered accord that was supposed to
return ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya to
power has collapsed and his supporters pinned
much of the blame Monday on the Obama
administration.
Obama
honors Fort Hood victims, condemns murders: "No
faith justifies these murderous and craven acts;
no just and loving God looks upon them with
favor," Obama told the crowd on a steamy
Texas afternoon. "And for what he has done,
we know that the killer will be met with justice
in this world and the next."
Marine
reservist accused of attacking Greek priest:
A Marine reservist was charged with attacking a
Greek Orthodox priest he said he thought was a
terrorist. Jasen D. Bruce allegedly hit
29-year-old Alexios Marakis over the head with a
tire iron and chased him for three blocks Monday
evening before Tampa police officers intervened.
Torture
Memos Author John Yoo Withdraws from Federalist
Society Panel: John Yoo, author of
the most infamous of the torture
memos withdrew as a speaker at the
conservative Federalist Society Convention where
Alliance for Justice and human rights supporters
are scheduled to take action.
UK
internet surveillance plan to go ahead:
The Home Office says it will push ahead with
plans to ask communications firms to monitor all
internet use.
China's
Premier Warns Obama to Get America's Deficit to
an "Appropriate Size": A
clear message to the leader of the world's
largest debtor nation from its largest creditor.
Commercial
mortgage lending down 54%:
Commercial and multifamily mortgage lending in
the U.S. fell 12 percent from the second quarter
to the third quarter and is down 54 percent from
year ago levels, according to the Mortgage
Bankers Association.
November
10, 2009
Afghanistans Sham Army
By Chris Hedges
American military advisers who work with the
Afghan National Army, or ANA, speak of poorly
trained and unmotivated Afghan soldiers who have
little stomach for military discipline and even
less for fighting. They describe many ANA units
as being filled with brigands who terrorize local
populations, exacting payments and engaging in
intimidation, rape and theft. Continue
'These People Just Want To Be
Left Alone'
By Real News
Sean Smith spent a month embedded with the US
Army's 501st Parachute Regiment in June this
year. With inadequate vehicles, relations with
Afghan security forces at a standstill and the
constant threat of IEDs, the soldiers are losing
heart for a fight they feel their presence is
only prolonging. Continue
Afghanistan: Karzai Rival
'Withdrew Under US Pressure'
By Syed Saleem Shahzad
The United States put pressure on Afghan
president Hamid Karzai's rival, Abdullah
Abdullah, to withdraw from the country's
presidential race and hand victory to Karzai,
sources have told Adnkronos International (AKI). Continue
Admiral
Mullen Announces Afghanistan Strategy
Prepare to Nonviolently Resist
By Jeff Leys
Instead, its a matter of the Obama
Administration now leading us down the path of
the most expensive year in war funding since
President Bush began the so-called Global
War on Terror (now morphed into the
Overseas Contingency Operations under
President Obama).
Continue
Air Force Document Reveals
Intentions Behind the US-Colombia Military
Agreement
By Eva Golinger
An official document from the Department of the
US Air Force reveals that the military base in
Palanquero, Colombia will provide the Pentagon
with
an opportunity for conducting
full spectrum operations throughout South
America
Continue
Kucinich Withdraws Amid Uproar
over His Israel Stance
By George Bennett
U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich lasted less than 24
hours as headliner for the Palm Beach County
Democratic Party's annual fundraising dinner
after some of the party's elected officials
blasted the Ohio Democrat's stance on Israel and
threatened to skip the event.
Continue
Profit Not Solutions To Hunger
By GRAIN
Corporate investors lead rush for control of poor
countries' farmland. Continue
Free Market Flawed, Says Survey
By James Robbins
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a
new BBC poll has found widespread dissatisfaction
with free-market capitalism. n the global poll
for the BBC World Service, only 11% of those
questioned across 27 countries said that it was
working well. Continue
The Battle in Seattle; 10 years
after WTO
By Mike Whitney
The images of cops dressed in black stormtrooper
gear, firing concussion grenades, plastic bullets
and tear gas at protesters, business people and
shoppers on the streets of America's most
self-consciously progressive (and white) city
revealed how thoroughly infected the nation's
police forces had become with these brutal
tactics and anti-constitutional measures. Continue
NATO
officials, Afghans claim 130 Taliban fighters
killed in Kunduz: However, Taliban
spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said only five
fighters had died, and called the death toll
given by NATO and Afghan officials
"propaganda."
Allied
occupation forces may abandon most of
northern Helmand: A new
strategy for Afghanistan that could lead to a
British troop withdrawal from a former Taleban
stronghold in northern Helmand province sparked
immediate controversy yesterday.
Karzai
Claims Mystery Helicopters Ferrying Taliban to
North Afghanistan: While the Western
press has been occupied recently with accounts of
fraudulent elections in Afghanistan and the
alleged role of President Hamid Karzais
brother as a paid CIA agent, a stranger but
perhaps more instructive story was playing out in
Afghanistan that reveals the rather shallow
penetration NATO and Coalition efforts have made
in building trust and confidence in that country
Seven
security personnel among 17 killed in Pakistan
violence : Seventeen people,
including six soldier and a policeman, were
killed Monday when Taliban militants targeted
security personnel with a suicide bombing, rocket
attack and a roadside blast in restive
north-western region, the officials said.
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U.S. occupation force personnel killed in Iraq:
Three American service members, including two
pilots, were killed in two incidents in Iraq on
Sunday, the U.S. military said Monday.
Ex-UK
occupation force soldier says colleagues caused
Iraqi's death: A former British
soldier told an inquiry on Monday into
allegations of abuse by British troops in Iraq
that he saw two of his colleagues kick and hit a
handcuffed Iraqi detainee shortly before he died.
U.S. top brass: Nuclear Iran is
existential threat to Israel:
Mullen said he would prefer that the U.S. work
diplomatically to keep the country from acquiring
nuclear weapons, but hinted that should such
efforts fail, the U.S. air force and navy could
be put into action as well.
Iran
accuses Americans of spying: The US
government and the families of Shane Bauer, 27,
Sarah Shourd, 31, and Josh Fattal, 27, say they
were on a hiking holiday and crossed the Iranian
border by mistake.
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