Archive for May, 2010
CIA Made Fake Videos of bin Ladin Drinking and Boasting of his Gay Conquests
Guardian | By Paul Harris | 26 May 2010 CIA's secret Iraq weapon revealed: a Saddam gay sex tape Bizarre US plots included exploding cigars to kill Fidel Castro and fake video of Osama bin Laden's campfire drinking In their time, America's secret agencies have tried some outlandish schemes to attack their country's enemies, including, most [...]
Morocco Stepped Up Repression against Saharawi Activists in 2009
Pravda.ru | By Lisa Karpova | 28 May 2010 Amnesty International Report on Morocco In 2009, Moroccan repression Against Saharawi activists who advocate the independence of Western Sahara has increased enormously. It was denounced in the report by Amnesty International (AI), presented Wednesday in London. The annual report of Amnesty [...]
On Conspiracy Theories
The Express Tribune | By Arshad Zaman | 28 May 2010 Apart from the logic of an argument and the language in which it is expressed, there is — what in 17th century Europe was called — a ‘climate of opinion’ that regulates which arguments will be admissible in polite company and which will simply not be heard. In some circles today it [...]
America’s Non-Compliance
London Review of Books | Vol. 32 No. 9 · 13 May 2010 | pages 18-22 Gareth Peirce presents the case against extradition During the first months of this year, the embers of a long running legal controversy have reignited in the United States. ‘Of all the issues,’ Rahm Emanuel was told by the senior Republican senator for South Carolina, [...]
Mubarak’s Last Breath
London Review of Books | Vol. 32 No. 10 · 27 May 2010 | pages 6-10 Adam Shatz reports from Egypt On 6 October 1981, President Anwar al-Sadat attended a parade to mark the anniversary of the crossing of the Suez Canal in the 1973 war with Israel. It was also an occasion to display the American, British and French aircraft Egypt had [...]
Petraeus to Challenge Obama in 2012
Christian Science Monitor | By Howard LaFranchi | 7 May 2010 David Petraeus for president? He keeps speculation alive. Army Gen. David Petraeus, credited with devising a counterinsurgency doctrine to save Iraq from chaos, spoke at a Thursday dinner for conservatives and neo-conservatives. He didn't exactly squelch speculation about a possible [...]
How Hollywood Covers Up American War Crimes
The Japan Times | By Charles Buress | 7 May 2010 War epics on screen skip mass slaughter of civilians "If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals." -- Maj. Gen. Curtis LeMay, architect of the 1945 U.S. bombing of 66 Japanese cities, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in which "probably close to four hundred [...]
America’s War on Pakistan
Asia Times Online | By Syed Saleem Shahzad | 8 May 2010 US takes the war into Pakistan ISLAMABAD - The approval given to the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) by the administration of President Barack Obama to expand drone strikes in Pakistan's tribal regions is on face value a declaration [...]
