Posts Tagged ‘“War on Terror”’
Posted by smeddum on July 23, 2010
The consequences of a US war crime
By Tom Eley
23 July 2010
WSWS
The Iraqi city of Fallujah continues to suffer the ghastly consequences of a US military onslaught in late 2004.
According to the authors of a new study, “Cancer, Infant Mortality and Birth Sex-Ratio in Fallujah, Iraq 2005–2009,” the people of Fallujah are experiencing higher rates of cancer, leukemia, infant mortality, and sexual mutations than those recorded among survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the years after those Japanese cities were incinerated by US atomic bomb strikes in 1945. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on July 21, 2010
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Posted by smeddum on July 21, 2010
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Posted by smeddum on July 18, 2010
Alternet
16/7/10
Wall Street has been caught laundering massive amounts of drug money. So why isn’t anybody being punished? July 16, 2010 |
This piece originally appeared at Campaign for America’s Future. It has been expanded for this publication.
Too-big-to-fail is a much bigger problem than you thought. We’ve all read damning accounts of the government saving banks from their risky subprime bets, but it turns out that the Wall Street privilege problem is far more deeply ingrained in the U.S. legal system than the simple bailouts witnessed in 2008. America’s largest banks can engage in flagrantly criminal activity on a massive scale and emerge almost completely unscathed. The latest sickening example comes from Wachovia Bank: Accused of laundering $380 billion in Mexican drug cartel money, the financial behemoth is expected to emerge with nothing more than a slap on the wrist thanks to an official government policy which protects megabanks from criminal charges. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on July 12, 2010
Ensnaring terrorists demands creativity
by Stephan Salisbury
The Liberty City Seven, the Fort Dix Six, the Detroit Ummah Conspiracy, the Newburgh Four – each has had their fear-filled day in the sun. None of these plots ever came close to happening. How could they? All were bogus from the get-go: money to buy missiles or cell phones or shoes and fancy duds – provided by the authorities; plans for how to use the missiles and bombs and cell phones – provided by authorities; cars for transport and demolition – issued by the authorities; facilities for carrying out the transactions – leased by those same authorities. Played out on landscapes manufactured by federal imagineers, the climax of each drama was foreordained. The failure of the plots would then be touted as the success of the investigations and prosecutions. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on July 8, 2010
Peter Pan and child trafficking
Gabriel Molina
Granma
23/6/10
• IT is particularly difficult for Cuba’s enemies to justify the reason for U.S. citizens being prohibited to travel freely to Cuba.
Approximately 10 years ago, almost at the end of his second term, President William Clinton attempted to restore that right to his compatriots. At that time he affirmed that allowing citizens to travel to Cuba would be in the interest of the United States, as the best means of influencing the island. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on July 6, 2010
“Blowback” theory is a polite way of saying that al-Qaida is a US/UK intelligence operation which can serve as both “friends” and “enemies”. Above all, they provide cover for the false flag operations which drive US/UK foreign policy.
Mark Curtis
Guardian
5th July, 2010
When the London bombers struck five years ago, many people blamed the invasion of Iraq for inspiring them. But the connection between 7/7 and British foreign policy goes much deeper. The terrorist threat to Britain is partly “blowback”, resulting from a web of British covert operations with militant Islamist groups stretching back decades. And while terrorism is held up as the country’s biggest security challenge, Whitehall’s collusion with radical Islam is continuing.
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Posted by smeddum on June 29, 2010
How Saville Got the Higher-Ups Off the Hook
The Bloody Sunday Report
By EAMONN McCANN
28/6/10 Counterpunch
“We hope it will lead to greater harmony among all the parties,” declared Louis Susman, US ambassador to Britain, speaking during a visit to Northern Ireland a week after the June 15 publication of the report of Lord Saville into the massacre in Derry of 13 civil rights marchers by British paratroopers on Bloody Sunday, January 30 1972.
The 5,000-page £200 million report, published 12 years after the establishment of the tribunal by Tony Blair, found that none of the dead or wounded had been offering any threat to soldiers or anyone else when they were shot. The paratroopers, concluded the tribunal, had acted reprehensibly and without justification. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on June 22, 2010
Anthony Lawson
rense.com
20th june, 2010
Extract: …it would be a remarkable irony, and quite possibly a unique circumstance in the annals of American jurisprudence, if the assumptions used as reasons for launching wars against two sovereign nations, as well as the more generalised ‘War on Terror’ would not stand up as evidence in either a criminal prosecution or a civil damages suit in an American court of law.
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Posted by smeddum on June 19, 2010
Sat, 19 Jun 2010 08:53:46 GMT
The US military may be testing a controversial weapon that focuses microwave energy with a so-called “goodbye effect” on targets in Afghanistan, a report says.
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