Archive for July 7th, 2010
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 [...]
Mullah Omar Captured? Taleban Deny It
Pravda.ru | ByIvan Tulyakov | 7 July 2010 US Blogger Captures Talib No. 1 Read the original in Russian The authorities of the United States and Pakistan refused to conform the rumors about the capture of Taliban movement leader Mohammad Omar, aka Mullah Omar. A US blogger, who posts under the screen name Bred, posted a message on 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, [...]
The Mirror of 1776
Huffington Post | By David Bromwich | 3 July 2010 "Things are in the saddle,/ And ride mankind." The words were written by Emerson in a poem about the Mexican war--the first crisis that took America out of itself. The second such crisis was the Spanish-American war, and we are now in the middle of the third. The extent of our empire would [...]
Does Israel Make Us Safer?
The Daily Beast | By Thaddeus Russell | 4 July 2010 Israel just announced it has loosened Gaza blockade rules to allow in consumer goods and Turkey is demanding an apology for the flotilla raid. As Obama and Netanyahu await tomorrow's meeting, historian Thaddeus Russell argues that it's time to ask if the country makes Americans safer—even [...]
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 [...]
The kidnapping of Shahram Amiri
Middle East Reality | By Arnold Evans | 7 July 2010 An Iranian scientist who disappeared during a religious pilgrimage in June 2009 has sent a message that he was abducted by the United States and Saudi Arabia. I am Shahram Amiri, a lecturer at Malek Ashtar University, and at the moment I am in the town of Tucson in the US state of [...]
