Category Archives: anti-War
INTERNATIONAL – Muslim religious leaders deliver emotional prayer at Auschwitz for Holocaust dead
The emotional visit was part of a Holocaust awareness and anti-genocide programme organised in part by the US State Department’s Office of International Religious Freedom. Of the six million Jews killed by the Nazis during World War II, a million were murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau, mostly in its notorious gas chambers, along with tens of thousands […]
Engineer at Elite Army Weapons Lab Tied to Racist Groups | Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center
A young research engineer at the U.S. Army’s elite chemical and biological research laboratory in Maryland has close ties to two racist groups espousing white nationalist views, one of which has called for a homeland for white people. John Stortstrom, a mechanical engineer who works for the Army at its Edgewood Chemical Biological Center ECBC […]
Obama Administration Admits Drone Attacks Killed 4 US Citizens | Common Dreams
In a letter to senior members of Congress, Attorney General Eric Holder writes that in addition to the targeted assassination of cleric Anwar al-Aulaqi, since 2009, three other U.S. citizens—Samir Khan, Abd aI-Rahman Anwar al-Aulaqi, and Jude Kenan Mohammed—were also killed in “U.S. counterterrorism operations” though they “were not specifically targeted.” The Washington Post notes […]
NYT: U.S. Formally Admits Killing 4 Americans In Drone Strikes | TPM LiveWire
The New York Times reports: In a letter to Congressional leaders obtained by The New York Times, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. disclosed that the administration had deliberately killed Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical Muslim cleric who was killed in a drone strike in September 2011 in Yemen. The American responsibility for Mr. Awlaki’s death […]
Body of tortured Afghan unearthed near former US Special Forces base – report — RT News
Afghan officials have reportedly found the footless body of a local man who went missing a half-year ago. The corpse was unearthed near the former A-Team US Special Forces base – where detainees were tortured and killed, locals claim. Authorities alleged that the grisly discovery is directly connected to Zakaria Kandahari, a notorious wartime collaborator […]
Appeals court says no to release of bin Laden death photos
[http://tvnewslies.org] A federal appeals court Tuesday ruled the government properly classified more than 50 post-mortem photos of Osama bin Laden and they can remain secret…The organization Judicial Watch had filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking 52 images of bin Laden taken after his death by U.S. Navy SEALS and other military and Central […]
Juan Cole: Revenge of the Bear: Russia Strikes Back in Syria – Juan Cole’s Columns – Truthdig
Russia’s motives have sometimes been attributed to the profits it realizes from its arms trade with Syria, going back to the Soviet era, but that business is actually quite small. Others have suggested that Syria’s leasing to Russia of a naval base at Tartous, Russia’s only toehold on the Mediterranean, is a consideration. Rather, Russia’s […]
Israeli official: Syria’s Bashar Assad preferable to Islamist takeover – Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper
Israel prefers the regime of President Bashar Assad in Syria to continue than see a takeover of the country by rebel Islamist militants, The Times of London reported Friday, quoting an Israeli intelligence official. “Better the devil we know than the demons we can only imagine if Syria falls into chaos, and the extremists from […]
AP, Tea Party, Bloomberg Clients All Being Monitored Just Like You
It’s quaint how people still manage to get outraged about surveillance. You are being monitored, right now, just like everybody else with a phone or a computer or a bank account or a pressure cooker, because Total Information Awareness is real. ‘Welcome to America. All of that stuff is being captured as we speak whether […]
Op-Ed: US is involved militarily directly or advising in 74 countries
The US military is the world’s largest landlord. Not only does it have long-established bases in Germany, Japan, South Korea and the UK but also has a significant presence in Bahrain, Djibouti, Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Kosovo, and Kyrgyzstan. Some bases are large. The Al Udeid Air Force Base in Qatar, the forward base […]
