Posts Tagged ‘Information War’
The Aetiology of American Islamophobia
Afpakwar | By Arshad Zaman | 10 June 2010 America subscribes to the ‘melting pot’ rather than the ‘mosaic’ model of unity—seeking unity from diversity (E pluribus unum: Out of many, one), rather than unity in diversity. Confronted by the ‘Other’ the American way is to absorb or to eliminate; living with diversity is not an option. [...]
Bin Ladin’s Confession of Guilt for 9/11 is a Fake CIA Tape
Mail Online | By Sue Reid | 11 September 2009 Has Osama Bin Laden been dead for seven years - and are the U.S. and Britain covering it up to continue war on terror? Bin Laden had already insisted four times in official Al Qaeda statements made to the Arab press that he played no role in 9/11. Indeed, on the fourth occasion, on September 28, [...]
Afghan-Taleban Statement on the Forthcoming Jirga
Voice of Jihad | 1 June 2010 Statement of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Regarding the Convening of the So-called Consultative Jirga in Kabul The holding of the so-called National Consultative Jirga under the name of peace is a part of the failed efforts of the invading Americans and their surrogates in Afghanistan. The idea for [...]
McChrystal Fails to Clear, Much Less Hold, Marjah
McClatchy | By Dion Nissenbaum | 24 May 2010 McChrystal calls Marjah a 'bleeding ulcer' in Afghan campaign MARJAH, Afghanistan — Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top allied military commander in Afghanistan, sat gazing at maps of Marjah as a Marine battalion commander asked him for more time to oust Taliban fighters from a longtime [...]
Vietnam and the Bush-Obama Wars
Antiwar | By William Pfaff | 28 May 2010 Mac Bundy Said He Was ‘All Wrong’ Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam By Gordon M. Goldstein Holt, 300 pp., $16.00 (paper) The debate over foreign policy that culminated in President Barack Obama’s address to the nation on December 1, 2009, concerns a war [...]
Covering Faisal Shahzad: How Israeli-Indian Media Influence Misleads the American People
Dissident Voice | By Maidhc Ó Cathail | 26 May 2010 Framing Pakistan How the Pro-Israel Media Enables India’s Surrogate Warfare “We have very little doubt that the Indians and the Israelis, that are all over Afghanistan with German passports pretending to be military contractors, are operating 17 camps along the Taliban regions [...]
Sometimes conspiracy theories are true
The American Conservative | By Alexander Cockburn | 1 July 2010 Unlike the French or the Italians, for whom conspiracies are an integral part of government activity, acknowledged by all, Americans have been temperamentally prone to discount them. Reflecting its audience, the press follows suit. Editors and reporters like to offer themselves as [...]
Christian-Racists Openly Planning Anti-Muslim Pogrom in UK this Summer
Guardian | By Matthew Taylor, Guy Grandjean, Teresa Smith and Jason Parkinson | 28 May 2010 The English Defence League uncovered Formed less than a year ago, the English Defence League has become the most significant far-right street movement since the National Front. The Guardian spent four months undercover with the movement, and found them [...]
U.S. considering invasion of Pakistan
Washington Post | By Greg Miller | 29 May 2010 Options studied for a possible Pakistan strike The U.S. military is reviewing options for a unilateral strike in Pakistan in the event that a successful attack on American soil is traced to the country's tribal areas, according to senior military officials. Ties between the alleged Times Square [...]
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 [...]
