Pearl Harbor: setting history straight
• Stephen Mansfield via Japantimes.co.jpDEMYSTIFYING PEARL HARBOR: A New Perspective From Japan, by Iguchi Takeo.
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WAR: About that War
Clinton off to Afghanistan as war fears rise
• Matthew Lee via AntiWar.comClinton to press Afghanistan on security, corruption as concerns about war deepen
Netanyahu admits on video he deceived US to destroy Oslo accord
• Jonathan Cook via The NationalThe contents of a secretly recorded video threaten to gravely embarrass not only Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister but also the US administration of Barack Obama.
South Korea seeks a new way to handle North Korea
• Donald Kirk via Yahoo! NewsThe late South Korean president, Kim Dae-jung, borrowed from Aesop's fables when he initiated his "Sunshine Policy" of reconciliation with North Korea after his election in December 1997.
'Scary' growth of gangs in war zones
• Frank Main via SUN-TIMESChicago cop who served in Afghanistan and Iraq has warning: Gang members are coming home with military training
Militants kill 16 passengers in northwest Pakistan
• AntiWar.com16 people killed in convoy ambush by insurgents in restive northwestern Pakistan
Sudan says 75 troops, 300 rebels die in Darfur strife
• Yahoo! NewsThe Sudanese army said 75 of its troops and more than 300 fighters of the rebel Justice and Equality Movement have been killed in clashes in Darfur over the past week.
At Least 48, Mostly Awakening Forces, Killed in Iraq Bombing
• Jason Ditz via AntiWar.comSuicide Bombers Hit Line of Militia Members Collecting Paychecks
Nuke at hearing made Senate realize ‘we’ve got a problem’
• David Edwards and Muriel Kane via the raw storyPresident Obama and Russian President Medvedev signed a new Strategic Arms Reduction Talks treaty in April that would reduce both countries' nuclear arsenals by about a third, but Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney thinks this is a bad idea.
Lieberman’s Model For America: Purging The Internet of Dissent
• Paul Joseph Watson via Prison Planet.comThe Chinese system has nothing to do with “war” and everything to do with political oppression
Karzai approves plan for new Afghan police force
• ReutersAfghan President Karzai has approved a controversial US plan for a new local defense force to help tackle the growing Taliban insurgency, which is a sensitive issue for Afghans who remember the notorious militias mobilised by the Soviets during their
8 U.S. service members killed in Afghan attacks
• Washington PostA spate of attacks, including a bombing outside an Afghan police base in Kandahar, killed 8 American troops and 3 police officers, NATO officials said, as the Taliban intensified resistance to coalition efforts to take control of southern Afghanistan
Guess Who?
• Rense.com (Thanks Jeff!)Without research, can you guess who wrote these words? Could be just about anybody these days...
Funding Corruption and Waste in Afghanistan - by Ron Paul
Powell GammillGOP chairman Michael Steele came under fire for daring to say what a lot of Americans already know – that our involvement in Afghanistan is an ill-advised quagmire with no end in sight. After nearly 10 years and approaching $1 trillion spent, the co
Fidel Castro to appear on Cuban television and radio
• Havana via ReutersFormer Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who has lived in seclusion since falling ill four years ago, will appear on Cuban television and radio on Monday evening to discuss his theory that the world is on the verge of nuclear war, the Communist Party newspa
Move the Money, Starve the Empire
• Christine Ahn, FPIFMike Prokosch is among the organizers of the 25% Solution campaign in Massachusetts, which aims to cut a quarter, or about $250 billion, from the Pentagon and other military agencies and institutions. The campaign wants to redirect this money to soci
Seven Reasons Why We Can't Stop Making War: Why it is That Our Wars Today Never Seem to End
• William J. Astore, CBS News:Why do our elites so readily and regularly give war, not peace, a chance? What exactly are the wellsprings of Washington’s (and America’s) behavior when it comes to war and preparations for more of the same?
The Military-Industrial Complex's Win: now morphed into a ‘national security complex’
• Melvin A. GoodmanThis Military-Industrial-Complex has now “morphed into a new type of public-private partnership — one that spans military, intelligence, and homeland-security contracting — that amounts to a ‘national security complex’.”
The Case for War: The Iron Mountain Report
Stephen LendmanOne of numerous confirmations of America's permanent war strategy
Hearings Reveal Lapses in Private Security in War Zone
• Pratap Chatterjee. . . the use of some 18,800 armed "private security contractors" in Iraq and another 23,700 in Afghanistan to protect convoys, diplomatic and other personnel, and military bases and other facilities in Afghanistan and Iraq was not working.
Newsweek editor asks: ‘Why are we fighting a major war in Afghanistan?
• RawstorySince the resignation of General Stanley McChrystal as the commander of US forces in Afghanistan and CIA Director Leon Panetta's admission a week ago that there may be no more than fifty to a hundred al-Qaeda members in that nation, there have been i
Republican Steele’s Afghanistan Remarks Praised by Ron Paul
• BloombergRepublican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, whose remarks suggesting the U.S. will lose the war in Afghanistan have prompted some Republicans to demand his resignation, won praise from Representative Ron Paul. “Michael Steele should not
Appeals court orders new hearing for detainee
• APA U.S. appeals court says an Algerian protesting his Guantanamo detention deserves a new lower court review -- to determine whether he was part of al-Qaida, not just a supporter.
War in Afghanistan: Illegal, Untenable and Unwinnable
Stephen LendmanCongress and Obama administration endorse escalation in Afghanistan
Obama: Mercs can aid wearied troops
• RawstoryUS soldiers in combat could use an assist from a civilian workforce while trying to rebuild war-torn nations, President Barack Obama said. Obama called for sending a "civilian expeditionary force" to Afghanistan and Iraq to help overburdened military
Intel: Suspected US missiles kill 10 in Pakistan
• APSuspected U.S. missiles hit a house Tuesday in a Pakistani tribal region along the Afghan border where the army has been battling Taliban fighters, intelligence officials said. At least 10 suspected militants were killed, including a possible al-Qaid
Sacking McChrystal: Testimony to a Lost War
Stephen LendmanEven McChrystal suggested the war is unwinnable - why he was fired
CIA Director Panetta: ‘There May Be Less Than 100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan’
• Glynnis MacNicolThis morning on This Week CIA director Leon Panetta told Jake Tapper that there were less than 100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. Panetta said. “At most, we’re looking at 50 to 100, maybe less."
U.S. officials say Karzai aides are derailing corruption cases involving elite
• Washington PostTop officials in President Hamid Karzai's government have repeatedly derailed corruption investigations of politically connected Afghans, according to U.S. officials who have provided Afghanistan's authorities with wiretapping technology and other as
Funny? Too funny? Just plain sad? What words describe your reaction to this?
Found ZeroAfghan soldiers in the USA generally whooping it up and having a good time. I don't really know what I'm feeling as a response but whatever it is I'm feeling it very strongly. Video.
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