Is Afghanistan a Narco-State?

7-28-2008 • NY Times

[well duh] An unlikely coalition of corrupt Afghan officials, timorous Europeans, blinkered Pentagon officers and the Taliban has made poppy cultivation stubbornly resistant to eradication.

Missile strike in Pakistan may have killed Al Qaeda official

07-28-2008 • LA Times

Pakistan military is tight-lipped about the incident. Local officials say at least 12 people died in the attack, believed to have been carried out by a U.S. aerial drone.

Female suicide bombers target pilgrims, rally

07-28-2008 • CNN

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Four female suicide bombers and a gunman killed at least 70 people and wounded almost 300 others during a string of attacks in central Baghdad and Kirkuk on Monday, officials said.

Why is America so crazy?

7-28-2008 • BrasscheckTV

Former Marine and Chief WMD Inspector Scott Ritter makes a pretty good standup comic with a good backdrop in this video. Tweat!

Ellsberg’s Lessons for Our Time (The Pentagon Papers)

07-27-2008 • James Bovard for LewRockwell.com

Ellsberg knowingly risked spending a life in prison to bring the truth about the Vietnam War to Americans. He had hoped truth would set Americans free from the spell of official lies.

U.S. acknowledges Baghdad victims were law-abiding, not insurgents

7-27-2008 • McClatchy News

The U.S. military said the 3 people killed last month after U.S. soldiers shot at their car in one of the most secured areas of Iraq were civilians, not criminals as the military initially reported. The correction came more than a month after a bank

If Iran is Attacking It Might Really be Israel

07-26-2008 • Infowars.com

Those who argue that Israel would never do such a thing should think again. Israel is willing to behave with complete ruthlessness towards the US if they feel that the stakes are high enough, witness the attack on the USS Liberty in 1967 and the bomb

We will be in Iraq throughout the first Obama presidency

7-27-2008 • Reuters

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said in an interview published on Saturday the size of a residual U.S. force left in Iraq after the withdrawal of combat troops would be "entirely conditions-based." [will see my 2nd term]

Is Obama the 'Antiwar Candidate'?<br>by Justin Raimondo

7-27-2008 • AntiWar

So, you thought we'd be rid of the endless "war on terrorism" once we got Bush out of the White House, and ensconced a Democrat in his place? Well, think again, and get ready for an escalation of the Other War – the one in Afghanistan,

Iran to get new Russian air defenses by '09

07-23-2008 • Reuters

TEL AVIV, July 23 (Reuters) - Iran is set to receive an advanced Russian-made anti-aircraft system by year-end that could help fend off any preemptive strikes against its nuclear facilities, senior Israeli defence sources said on Wednesday.

US general warns Russia on nuclear bombers in Cuba

07-22-2008 • RawStory.com

Newspaper Iszvestia on Monday cited an unnamed senior Russian air force official in Moscow as saying that Russia may start regular flights by long-range bombers to Cuba in response to US plans to install a missile defense system in eastern Europe.

First U.S. war crimes trial starts at Guantanamo

7-21-2008 • Reuters

Osama bin Laden's driver went on trial at Guantanamo on Monday in the first U.S. war crimes trial since World War Two, nearly seven years after the September 11 attacks prompted U.S. President George W. Bush to declare war on terrorism.

Obama Meets Iraqi Officials in Baghdad

07-21-2008 • New York Times

Senator Barack Obama arrived in Baghdad on Monday, meeting with Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki and other senior Iraqi politicians, on the latest leg of a weeklong overseas tour, his first as the presumptive Democratic nominee for president.

Meteor sighting sparks UFO panic in Israel - Low Trajectory East TO West

07-09-2008 • By Yigal Hai, Haaretz Correspondent

An unexpected meteor cut through Israel's skyline from east to west Tuesday evening and disappeared shortly after, causing panic throughout central Israel and bafflement among astronomers who failed to predict it. ANYONE FAMILIAR WITH MISSLE TE

U.S. prepares to boost its forces in Afghanistan

07-17-2008 • LA Times

Senior U.S. military officials are developing plans to speed the deployment of thousands of additional troops to Afghanistan, including possibly pulling the next brigade scheduled to go to Iraq this fall and sending it to Afghanistan instead.

Quotes on Iraq: Sixty Notable Quotes on the War in Iraq

07-17-2008 • Mondoreb

Everyone seems to have been quoted, one time or another, on the War in Iraq. Pro-war, anti-war, Hollywood, comics: we've collected 60 of what we felt were the most interesting.

More US troops may go to Afghanistan this year

07-16-2008 • Associated Press

Faced with an increasingly sophisticated insurgency, particularly along Afghanistan's border with Pakistan, defense officials said sending more troops would have a significant impact on the violence.

US elections: Obama aims to send 10,000 more troops to Afghanistan

07-14-2008 • www.guardian.co.uk

Barack Obama today pledged to increase US troops in Afghanistan by a third if he becomes president, sending 10,000 more to reinforce the 33,000 already there.

Nine US troops, dozens of rebels dead in Afghanistan

07-14-2008 • KABUL (AFP)

Hundreds of militants stormed a remote military outpost in Afghanistan and briefly entered the base in a ferocious attack that left nine US soldiers dead, officials said Monday.

Amber Alert! Get Ready For War - by Justin Raimondo

7-14-08 • Antiwar.com

The Telegraph reports that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert recently told one of his closest friends that "in three months' time it will be a different Middle East." Yes, and also, perhaps, a very different America…

'Lob bombs' biggest worry for US in Baghdad

7-13-2008 • AP

US forces may be close to unlocking the mystery of who is behind a deadly innovation in Iraqi insurgents' weapons, a "lob bomb" now being used in Baghdad to target combat outposts. The weapon cannot be stopped once it has launched,

Attack on US base in Afghanistan kills 9 Americans

7-13-2008 • AP

A multi-pronged militant assault on a small, remote U.S. base close to the Pakistan border killed nine American soldiers and wounded 15 Sunday in the deadliest attack on U.S. forces in Afghanistan in 3 years, officials said. The attack began around 4

Afghan Warlords, Formerly CIA, Now Turn Their Guns On US Troops

7-13-2008 • US News & World Report

The war in Afghanistan reached a wrenching milestone this summer: For the second month in a row, U.S. and coalition troop deaths in the country surpassed casualties in Iraq. This is driven in large part,

U.S. visit feeds Pakistani worry over U.S. attack

7-13-2008 • Reuters

The Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, visited Pakistan on the weekend, fueling speculation that the US was about to take action against militants in northwest Pakistan. The US has become increasingly frustrated at what it

U.S., Iraq Scale Down Negotiations Over Forces

7-13-2008 • Washington Post

US and Iraqi negotiators have abandoned efforts to conclude a comprehensive agreement governing the long-term status of US troops in Iraq before the end of the Bush presidency effectively leaving talks over an extended US military presence there to t

Another leak of bring home the troops...must be election time again!

7-13-2008 • NY Times

The Bush administration is considering the withdrawal of additional combat forces from Iraq beginning in September raising the prospect of a far more ambitious plan than expected only months ago. Such a withdrawal would be a striking reversal from th

Iraq denies IAF using its airspace

07-11-2008 • www.jpost.com

Former military officers in the Anbar province said IAF jets arrive during the night from Jordanian airspace, enter Iraq's airspace and land on a runway near the city of Hadita. The sources estimated the jets were practicing for a raid on Iran