Archive for February 10th, 2010
FY2011 Budget: Is America “the Sick Man of Christendom”?
LewRockwell.com | By Eric Margolis | 9 February 2010 Spending America Into Ruin One of history’s most important lessons is that politicians should never be given a free hand to borrow money to cover the costs of wars, overseas adventures, or military spending. More empires have been brought down by reckless spending than by invaders. The [...]
Chris Hedges on Aafia Siddiqui
Truth Dig | By Chris Hedges | 8 February 2010 The Terror-Industrial Complex The conviction of the Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui in New York last week of trying to kill American military officers and FBI agents illustrates that the greatest danger to our security comes not from al-Qaida but the thousands of shadowy mercenaries, [...]
ABC News Obtains New NYPD Helicopter Photographs of 9/11
Daily Mail | By Mail Foreign Service | 10 February 2010 Dramatic images of World Trade Centre collapse on 9/11 released for first time After 9/11 the U.S.'s National Institute of Standards and Technology collected images from amateur, professional and freelance photographer as part of its investigation into the collapse of the World Trade [...]
Drones and the law
Dawn | By Rafia Zakaria | 27 January 2010 See also: Critique by Dr. Tausif Kamal (7 February 2010) In recent months, international and local attention has begun to focus on the legality of these attacks and the international instruments that control incursions by one government organisation into the territory of another. In the United [...]
Marjeh: McChrystal & Co. Talking Up a Big Battle for U.S. Audiences
By Saeed Shah, McClatchy Newspapers Stars and Stripes online edition, Wednesday, February 10, 2010 As Afghan assault looms, many civilians haven't fled KABUL — As U.S.-led coalition troops prepare for a long-awaited offensive against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan, few civilians have managed to escape the town at the center of the [...]
UAE Assassination: “Mossad knows how to get the job done” — Israeli Minister Daniel Herschkowitz
The Jerusalem Post | By Yaakov Katz | 7 February 2010 Security and Defense: Espionage, with a smile The smiles said it all. As ministers made their way down the hall of the Prime Minister’s Office to the cabinet room on Sunday – flanked on one side by reporters – they couldn’t stop smiling. “All the security services make, thank [...]
Yvonne Ridley on Aafia Siddiqui and U.S. Justice
The News | By Yvonne Ridley | 10 February 2010 The truth about US justice Many of us are still in a state of shock over the guilty verdict returned on Dr Aafia Siddiqui. The response from the people of Pakistan was predictable and overwhelming and I salute their spontaneous actions. From Peshawar to Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore and beyond [...]
