‘From the Imperium’ Archives
CIA Spreads Disinformation to Cover Up Botched Rendition/Psy-Op
Washington | Greg Miller and Thomas Erdbrink | 15 July 2010 U.S. paid Iranian nuclear scientist $5 million for aid to CIA, officials say The CIA has authority to bring as many as 100 people into the United States each year under a provision of the 1949 Central Intelligence Agency Act that enables the agency to bypass ordinary immigration [...]
Tea Party Racist Calls NAACP Racist
Huffington Post | By Mark Williams | 14 July 2010 Mark Williams, Tea Party Express Spokesman: NAACP Is Racist (VIDEO) (TRANSCRIPT) Tea Party Express spokesman Mark Williams fired an unexpected response to a challenge from CNN contributor Roland Martin. Asked to tell racists "you're not welcome" in the tea party, Williams replied, "Racists [...]
Proceedings of the Balochistan International Conference, Washington, DC, 21 November 2009
The Baluch | 21 November 2009 Baluchistan International Conference, Washington D.C. Organized by American Friends of Balochistan This post reproduces selected remarks, statements, and papers delivered at the Baluchistan International Conference, National Press Club, Washington, D.C., Nov. 21, 2009. By way of background, in a 14 November 2008 [...]
US CENTCOM Chief, Gen. Mattis: It’s fun to kill people
Common Dreams | By Tom Turnipseed | 13 July 2010 Killing For Fun; Military Madness Successful professionals enjoy their work. The Obama administration has picked a successful and happy warrior in Marine Corps Gen. James N. Mattis to head the US Central Command. The command includes all US forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, the entire Middle East [...]
Afghanistan’s Srebrinica: Massacre, and Mass Graves in Dasht-e-Leili
Physicians for Human Rights War Crimes Video Afghanistan's Srebrenica: Under the leadership of CIA agent, notorious Afghan warlord, General Abdul Rashid Dostum, 2,000 surrendered Taliban fighters were reportedly suffocated in container trucks by Afghan forces operating jointly with the U.S. in November 2001, buried in mass graves in the [...]
Why Afghanistan is a lost cause
San Francisco Chronicle | By Joel Brinkley | 11 July 2010 As Gen. David Petraeus assumed his new command in Afghanistan earlier this month, he took up a strategy that has already failed - though not for the reasons most people assume. Certainly, as most everyone knows, the battle plan appears hopeless. Every night in Marjah, Taliban [...]
Indian Army deployed to quell deadly Kashmir protests
Christian Science Monitor | 7 July 2010 The Indian Army moved into the northern city of Srinagar to clamp down on clashes between police and protesters that left at least three dead Tuesday. Elsewhere along the India-Pakistan border Wednesday, crossfire killed three troops. Indian Army troops patrolled in Kashmir on Wednesday for the [...]
Likudniks in U.S. Government; and U.S. War Crimes Exposed
Antiwar | By Scott Horton | 4 July 2010 Scott Horton Interviews Lawrence Wilkerson Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, discusses why Bush and Cheney must have known most Guantanamo prisoners were innocent, the US military’s inability to do battlefield vetting of Afghan war prisoners, [...]
Restrepo: A Look at the War in Afghanistan
Ares | By Paul McLeary | 6 July 2010 Update: See a critical review by Nick Turse During the 90 minutes it took for an invited audience to sit though a screening of Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington’s new documentary about the war in Afghanistan last Monday night, the Department of Defense announced the deaths of six more American [...]
America Doomed To Fail In Afghanistan — RNC Chairman
American Chronicle | By Robert Paul Reyes | 4 July 2010 Michael Steele Is Right: America Doomed To Fail In Afghanistan "Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is facing a new test of his leadership over comments he made that appear to question America's military effort in Afghanistan. Video footage that emerged Friday shows [...]
