Posts Tagged ‘Racism’
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 [...]
U.S. Racists Call for Torture and Murder of Congressman
Southern Poverty Law Centre | 1 July 2010 Congressman’s Immigration Remarks Prompt Calls for Death, Torture Posters on neo-Nazi forums are publicly calling for the torture and murder of Congressman Pete Stark (D-Calif.) over comments he made on June 26 during a Fremont, Calif., town hall meeting. The Youtube video of the event has gone [...]
BJP threatens stir against 15% quota for Muslims
Times of India | 4 July 2010 BANGALORE: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday threatened to launch a mass agitation if the central government implemented the Ranganath Mishra Commission report which recommended 15 percent reservation for Muslims in education and government employment. "We will launch a massive agitation if the United [...]
Israel: Rogue Terrrorist State Marching on a Fast Track to Hell
Pravda.ru | By Lisa Karpova | 29 June 2010 Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the head of United Nations relief operations in Gaza have deplored Israel’s latest attack on a recreational facility for children in Gaza, the second such incident in a month. A group of about 25 armed and masked men attacked and set fire to the facility on [...]
McChrystal was fired for being too soft
WSWS | By Patrick Martin | 29 June 2010 The “Hitler” option in Afghanistan The removal of Gen. Stanley McChrystal as the US commander in Afghanistan and his replacement by Gen. David Petraeus is not, as portrayed by Obama’s political apologists, a principled defense of civilian control over the military. Nor is it, as the official [...]
DoD Briefing on McChrystal and Petraeus
The Pentagon | 24 June 2010 Department of Defence Briefing “I do not believe we are bogged down” – Gates Source: The Pentagon Channel
Afghan strategy needs review
Irish Times | 25 June 2010 “After nine years of war, the Taliban simply remains too strongly entrenched for the US military to openly attack. The very people that counter-insurgency seeks to win over – the Afghan people – do not want us there. Our supposed ally, President Karzai, used his influence to delay the offensive, and the [...]
American Jewry on Obama’s Insubordination to Netanyahu
Commentary | By Peter Berkowitz | June 2010 Obama, Israel & American Jews: The Challenge—A Symposium We asked 31 prominent American Jews to respond to this statement: The open conflict between the Obama administration and the government of Benjamin Netanyahu has created tensions between the United States and Israel of a kind not seen [...]
Text of Obama’s Announcement Sacking McChrystal
The White House Blog | 23 June 2010 President Obama on Afghanistan, General McChrystal & General Petraeus Listen to Audio Transcript The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release | June 23, 2010 Statement by the President in the Rose Garden Rose Garden 1:43 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon. [...]
The Rolling Stone Story that Got Gen. McChrystal Sacked
UPDATE: Obama kills two birds with one stone! 13:20 EST: McChrystal sacked, Petraeus to take over Had Gen. Colin Powell said of Bush what McChrystal said of Obama, would it have been called just "poor judgment"? McChrystal is no fool; he saw the Rolling Stone story in draft and cleared it for publication. Having failed in Marjah and [...]
