Posts Tagged ‘US Military’
Kerry finds “eerie” parallels between Af/Pak and newly released Vietnam files
Common Dreams | By Brian Bender | 15 July 2010 In Vietnam-Era Files, Parallels of Anxiety Kerry releases records to spur Afghan debate Download the Released Records: pdf | 2.9 MB (1175 pages) WASHINGTON - The CIA director predicted it would be a "long war.'' A senator from Missouri, expressing concern about the unconventional nature [...]
CIA Spreads Disinformation to Cover Up Botched Rendition/Psy-Op
Washington | Greg Miller and Thomas Erdbrink | 15 July 2010 U.S. paid Iranian nuclear scientist $5 million for aid to CIA, officials say The CIA has authority to bring as many as 100 people into the United States each year under a provision of the 1949 Central Intelligence Agency Act that enables the agency to bypass ordinary immigration [...]
U.S. Kidnap, Torture Victim Returns to Iran
PressTV | 15 July 2010 Iranian scholar speaks about abduction Iranian academic Shahram Amiri, who was abducted by US and Saudi agents last year, says the United States aims to put the Iranian government under pressure. "The US administration has connected my abduction to Iran's nuclear case to pursue certain goals and exert pressure on the [...]
Proceedings of the Balochistan International Conference, Washington, DC, 21 November 2009
The Baluch | 21 November 2009 Baluchistan International Conference, Washington D.C. Organized by American Friends of Balochistan This post reproduces selected remarks, statements, and papers delivered at the Baluchistan International Conference, National Press Club, Washington, D.C., Nov. 21, 2009. By way of background, in a 14 November 2008 [...]
The Baloch Narrative
Blip.tv | Undated The Baluch 'The Baluch' is a 25-minute documentary about the history of Balochistan, once a sovereign nation, now a troubled province of Pakistan. In late 2006, following the assassination of tribal leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, our team traveled to Balochistan where for 5 days we visited the towns of Quetta, Kalat and [...]
US CENTCOM Chief, Gen. Mattis: It’s fun to kill people
Common Dreams | By Tom Turnipseed | 13 July 2010 Killing For Fun; Military Madness Successful professionals enjoy their work. The Obama administration has picked a successful and happy warrior in Marine Corps Gen. James N. Mattis to head the US Central Command. The command includes all US forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, the entire Middle East [...]
Afghanistan’s Srebrinica: Massacre, and Mass Graves in Dasht-e-Leili
Physicians for Human Rights War Crimes Video Afghanistan's Srebrenica: Under the leadership of CIA agent, notorious Afghan warlord, General Abdul Rashid Dostum, 2,000 surrendered Taliban fighters were reportedly suffocated in container trucks by Afghan forces operating jointly with the U.S. in November 2001, buried in mass graves in the [...]
Mortenson’s “Three Cups of Tea”
In a brilliant reflection on Greg Mortenson's Three Cups of Tea, Nosheen Ali exposes how the book constructs a patronising and misleading narrative of terror in which the realities of Northern Pakistan and Muslim life-worlds are distorted through simplistic tropes of ignorance, backwardness and extremism, while histories of US geopolitics and [...]
British Marines Pinned Down in Sangin
Telegraph | By Thomas Harding | 10 July 2010 Keeping sane in Sangin: life and death in Afghanistan's most perilous military posting More British troops have been killed in Sangin than anywhere else in Afghanistan. Thomas Harding visits a base where marines eat, rest, sleep, fight - and sometimes die. Flanked by deep green orchards on one [...]
Republicans might turn against war
Seattle Times | By Danny Westneat | 10 July 2010 Joe Colgan has been protesting America's wars so long he thought he'd heard it all. But even he's been startled by what's happened these last few weeks. Suddenly anti-war talk is coming from the unlikeliest place — from the right wing of politics. "I don't know whether to be happy [...]
