Archive for December, 2009
In 2010 the “Yem/Som” War: America Prepares to Encircle Saudi Arabia, While Securing the Arabian Sea and the Red Sea
Antiwar | By Justin Raimondo | 30 December 2009 Next Stop: Yemen The panty-bomber and US foreign policy The abortive efforts of the "panty-bomber" have inspired the War Party to focus on a new front in our ongoing and seemingly permanent "war on terrorism": Yemen, a godforsaken outpost of medievalism and sun-scorched desert on [...]
Preparing the Battlefield: America Moves “Al-Qaeda” to Yemen
The Independent | By Patrick Cockburn | 29 December 2009 Some in the US already see Arab state as 'tomorrow's target' Washington has quietly been supplying military equipment, intelligence and training to Yemeni forces Yemen is the Afghanistan of the Arab world. It is the poorest Arab country, its government is weak, its people are armed, it [...]
White Supremacists Call OBAMA “Oppressive Bloodsucking Arrogant Muslim Alien”
Dissident Voice | By Bill Berkowitz | 29 December 2009 White Supremacists Crash Anti-Obama Tea Party It began with Apr. 15 Tax Day protests as thousands rallied in a number of cities across the country. It continued on into the summer with raucous town hall meetings and gun-toting anti-Barack Obama demonstrators, and appeared to reach its [...]
Afghan-Taleban on the 30th Anniversary of the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
Voice of Jihad | 27 December 2009 Statement of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan concerning thirtieth anniversary of Red Army invas December 27, 1979, a time when the former Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in violation of all international laws, a move that brought the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR) to its knee. (more...)
New Spyplane Lands in Afghanistan, Ready to Snoop
Danger Room | By Nathan Hodge | 29 December 2009 The newest addition: The MC-12W, the Air Force’s new piloted surveillance plane. According to an Air Force news release, the newest MC-12W – tail number 090623, for all you planespotters out there — arrived two days ago at Bagram Airfield, the main U.S. hub for central and eastern [...]
UAE Military Gears Up to Provide Greater Logistic Support to US/NATO “Af/Pak” War
Aviation Week | By Robert Wall | 22 December 2009 UAE C-17 Deal Advances LONDON — The United Arab Emirates plan to procure four Boeing C-17 airlifters has taken another step forward with the formal foreign military sale (FMS) notification now submitted to Congress for parts of the transaction. The FMS deal would cover the logistics element [...]
Mr. 10%: Our Man in Islamabad
Huffington Post | By Eric Margolis | 23 December 2009 In my office hang photos of this writer with Pakistan's last four leaders. Two of them - Zia ul Haq and Benazir Bhutto - were murdered. Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was ousted in a military coup led by photo number four, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who was deposed last year by Pakistan's [...]
Pakistan Heading Toward Constitutional Breakdown
Guest Blog | By Ezzat Dawood-Zai | 27 December 2009 On the eve of the Supreme Court’s landmark judgment on NRO, Prime Minster Yousuf Raza Gillani sent a message to the Chief Justice, through the Attorney General, where he assured the Court that the Government respects the judgment, which will be implemented in letter and spirit. That was on [...]
Native informers and the making of the American empire
Al-Ahram | By Hamid Dabashi | 1-7 June 2006 Lacking internal support or external legitimacy, writes Hamid Dabashi, the US empire now banks on a pedigree of comprador intellectuals, homeless minds and guns for hire. IN THE COURSE OF the US presidential election of 2004, during the final round of campaign between President George W Bush [...]
Jewish American, Norman Finkelstein, Urges Arabs to Have Self-Respect
YouTube | 17 February 2008 Norman Finkelstein - Hezbollah, the Honour of Lebanon End | (Not Continued)
