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WAR: About that War
US considering drone attacks on Pakistani city of 850,000
• RawstorySenior US officials are pushing to expand CIA drone strikes beyond Pakistan's tribal region and into a major city in an attempt to pressure the Pakistani government to pursue Taliban leaders based in a city of 850,000 people.
Karzai in anti-graft speech defends convicted mayor
• ReutersAfghan President Hamid Karzai used a keynote anti-corruption speech on Tuesday to defend the most senior of his officials to be convicted of graft in years, a move that could anger Western backers who demand more accountability.
Our Murderers in the Sky - by Scott Ritter
• Truthdig.comWar is hell, as the saying goes. Murder, on the other hand, is a crime.
Veterans Group Calls On Soldiers to Refuse Orders to Deploy to Afghanistan and Iraq !!!!
• godlikeproductions.comn response to President Barack Obama's announcement on December 1 to deploy 30,000 additional troops to the occupation of Afghanistan, the organization March Forward!, comprising both veterans and active-duty members of the US military, has called o
Afghanistan Taliban’s Billion Dollar Heroin Trade and the Africa Heroin Hub
• GinnEver wonder how the Taliban, which, in news reports resembles a ragtag band of tribal desert and cave dwellers, finances terrorism and obtains weapons to fight U.S. and NATO troops? One word: opium.
Today on LewRockwell.com - Dec 13 2009
• LewRockwell.comIt's Time To Leave Afghanistan - Now, Ron Paul tells Gen. Stanley McChrystal / The Future of Gold and the Dollar - Peter Schiff shares his insights / Stay Away From US Stocks and Bonds - Gold? Jim Rogers wouldn't think of selling it /
Thailand seizes 'N Korea arms jet'
• Al JazeeraThe North's biggest arms sales come from ballistic missiles and its customers include Iran and other Middle Eastern states, according to US government officials.
Is Obama Really Preparing For Civil War?
• ChuckBaldwinLive.com"...Barack Obama has issued an order... in what these reports warn is an expected outbreak of civil war within the United States before the end of winter."
Rearranging the Letters in Obama’s “Just War” Theory
• C4SS / Thomas L. KnappJust a war, folks. That’s all it is — a picking of your pocket, and if some carnage is required to distract your attention, so be it. There is no “higher purpose” … this is government’s main purpose and primary activity, your tax dollars at work.
US air strikes kill 'exactly 30' enemies every time
• RawstoryThe unnamed military affairs blogger published a list of recent air strikes against militants and an amazing pattern emerged: Just about every time an air strike is reported in the news, the Taliban casualty figure cited is 30.
Gossiping taxi driver was source of Iraq 45-minute WMD claim
• London TimesAn Iraqi taxi driver who overheard two military commanders talking about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction was allegedly the “intelligence sub-source” quoted in the Government’s dossier to prove that chemical missiles could be fired in 45 minutes
Peace Doesn’t Work, Obama Informs Nobel Committee
• Antiwar.comAccepts Peace Prize by Defending Merits of War
Unlikely support: GOP loved Obama's Nobel speech
• McClatchy NewsBy using his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech Thursday to justify expanding the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama won over some Republican critics at home, even as he preached messages of multilateralism, diplomacy and civil diso
Another Drone Attack, Another Great CIA Victory Over al-Qaida
• NBC NewsA high-ranking al-Qaida figure was killed Thursday in an attack by a drone aircraft in northwest Pakistan, U.S. officials told NBC News. The officials did not identify who was killed, except to say that it was not al-Qaida’s supreme leader, Osama
Not Satire: Obama to Invoke Afghanistan in His Nobel Speech
• .On the October morning Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, I informed a friend who hadn’t yet heard the news that our greenhorn president was now a Nobel laureate. “I hope it’s not for literature,” he replied. The Nobel Prize for Lit
Kucinich: US tax dollars help fund Taliban attacks
• RawstoryOhio's Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich, a strident anti-war crusader, cited a report on the floor of the House of Representatives Tuesday which claims that US tax dollars used by defense contractors to bribe the Taliban in Afghanistan ultimate
Getting bin Laden key to defeating al Qaida
• McClatchy NewsDays after his boss said that there was no new intelligence on the whereabouts of al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan told Congress Tuesday that killing or capturing bin Laden is critical to defeating the terrorist
US Air Force confirms 'Beast of Kandahar' drone
• AFPThe US Air Force on Tuesday confirmed for the first time that it is flying a stealth unmanned aircraft known as the "Beast of Kandahar," a drone spotted in photos and shrouded in secrecy. The RQ-170 Sentinel is being developed by Lockheed Martin a
Gates: NATO troop numbers show commitment
• UPIThe pledge of 7,000 more NATO troops in Afghanistan is a sign of the military alliance's commitment to the country, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said.
Coordinated blasts hit Baghdad; kill at least 118
• APA series of coordinated attacks struck Baghdad Tuesday, including two suicide car bombers and another vehicle that blew up near government sites. At least 118 were killed and hundreds wounded in the worst wave of violence in the capital in more than
US to Launch New Bid to Hunt Down bin Laden (WHO?!!)
• AntiWar.comAs the last defense secretary of the Bush Administration and the current defense secretary of the Obama Administration, Robert Gates is probably in a better position than any official to explain the failure of the US to capture Osama bin Laden over t
Who Wants War? - by U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)
Powell GammillIf anyone still doubted this administration’s foreign policy would bring any kind of change, this week's debate on Afghanistan should remove all doubt. The President’s stated justifications for sending more troops to Afghanistan and escalating war
In Which the Terrorists Win
• The AgitatorIn his thorough history of 9/11 The Looming Towers, Lawrence Wright makes a pretty persuasive case that Osama bin Laden’s goal in planning out terrorist attacks throughout the 1990s was to suck the U.S. into a Soviet-style war in Afghanistan. Bin Lad
Lawmakers rally to sailors' aid in court martial
• APLawmakers are seeking a reprieve for three Navy SEALs facing court-martial because one allegedly punched a suspect after arresting him for an ambush killing of U.S. contractors in Iraq.
US Marines launch large offensive
• APU.S. Marines and Afghan troops Friday launched the first offensive since President Barack Obama announced an American troop surge, striking against Taliban communications and supply lines in a southern insurgent stronghold, a military spokesman said.
The reason for the troop surge not Afghanistan, but Pakistan
• Asia TimesNotwithstanding the surge of 30,000 additional US troops in Afghanistan, as outlined by US President Barack Obama in his policy speech on Tuesday, the next phase of the war will primarily be aimed at fighting al-Qaeda in Pakistan's tribal areas
Iranian arms merchant says 'war is coming'
• The Philadelphia InquirerOn a grainy undercover videotape recorded in a hotel room in Tbilisi, Georgia, an Iranian arms merchant chats with two Philadelphia salesmen who have brought samples of their military wares. The merchant, Amir Hossein Ardebili, who has flown from
C.I.A. Is Expanding Drone Assaults Inside Pakistan
• NY TimesTwo weeks ago in Pakistan, Central Intelligence Agency sharpshooters killed eight people suspected of being militants of the Taliban and Al Qaeda, and wounded two others in a compound that was said to be used for terrorist training.
Pew poll: Americans turning sharply toward isolationism
• McClatchy NewsThe survey by the Pew Research Center found a plurality of Americans — 49 percent — think that the U.S. should "mind its own business internationally" and leave it to other countries to fend for themselves.
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