Posts Tagged ‘Israel’
School bombing exposes Obama’s secret war inside Pakistan
Times Online | By Christina Lamb | 7 February 2010 THE discovery of three American soldiers among the dead in a suicide bombing at the opening of a girls’ school in the northwestern Pakistan town of Dir last week reignited the fears of many Pakistanis that Washington was set on invading their country . Barack Obama has banned the Bush-era [...]
U.S. Intelligence Community’s Threat Assessment: Country Excerpts
The Threat Perceptions of a Paranoid Hyperpower Admiral Dennis C. Blair, U.S. Director of National Intelligence, presented the Annual Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on 2 February 2010. The public proceedings are available as a video (at the Senate Select Committee on [...]
Preparing the Battlefield for American Occupation of Pakistan
The Nation | By Jeremy Scahill | 4 February 2010 The Expanding US War in Pakistan Click on link below for Earlier (23 Nov 2009) Article: The Secret US War in Pakistan Three US special forces soldiers were killed in northwest Pakistan this week, confirming that the US military is more deeply engaged on the ground in Pakistan than [...]
Dubai police chief: Mossad may have killed Hamas commander
Jerusalem Post | JP Staff and AP | 31 January 2010 Dhahi Khalfan tells AFP: "I don't exclude any possibility" in Mabhouh's assassination; Israeli officials say commander played key role in smuggling weapons from Iran to Gaza. At least seven people were involved in the assassination of a Hamas commander in Dubai last week, according to Dubai [...]
One Holocaust Justifies Another
Haaretz | By Gideon Levy | 28 January 2010 Holocaust remembrance is a boon for Israeli propaganda Israel's bigwigs attacked at dawn on a wide front. The president in Germany, the prime minister with a giant entourage in Poland, the foreign minister in Hungary, his deputy in Slovakia, the culture minister in France, the information minister at [...]
U.S. “Black Ops” Teams Deeply Involved in Yemen
Washington Post | By Bana Priest | 27 January 2010 U.S. military teams, intelligence deeply involved in aiding Yemen on strikes U.S. military teams and intelligence agencies are deeply involved in secret joint operations with Yemeni troops who in the past six weeks have killed scores of people, among them six of 15 top leaders of a regional [...]
“If you had any heart, you would be crying for the Palestinians” — Finkelstein
YouTube | 20 January 2010 Dr. Norman Finkelstein at the University of Waterloo (more...)
The Drone Surge: Today, Tomorrow, and 2047
TomDispatch | By Nick Turse | 24 January 2010 The Drone Surge Today, Tomorrow, and 2047 Jump to: Introductory Remarks by Tom Engelhardt One moment there was the hum of a motor in the sky above. The next, on a recent morning in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, a missile blasted a home, killing 13 people. Days later, the same [...]
Do Drones in Af/Pak Skies Share their Feeds with Israel?
Jerusalem Post | By Yaakov Katz | 21 January 2010 Israeli drones take over skies of Afghanistan While Israeli soldiers can't fight in the war in Afghanistan, Israeli drones can. Starting next week, five NATO member countries will be operating unmanned aerial vehicles produced in the Jewish state in anti-Taliban operations in the Central [...]
Al-Jazeera’s “Osama bin Ladin” Tape: Alternative Translation
Just as consensus was emerging that Osama bin Ladin was long dead and Al Qaeda a spent force, a 1-minute voice recording has emerged, in a video with an old photograph of an extremely young Osama bin Ladin, that starts with the incongruous greeting, "From Osama to Obama" . With exquisite timing for U.S. info-war objectives, the voice [...]
