Posts Tagged ‘USA’
Never-before-seen photos of Guantanamo detainees
Miami Herald | By Ricardo Lopez | 13 January 2010 The Miami Herald contacted the Guantanamo detainees' families and attorneys around the world to compile the most extensive collection of identifiable photographs of the prisoners taken by the International Committee of the Red Cross. (more...)
War Begets War, Don’t Call it Terrorism
Slate | By William Saletan | 11 January 2010 Traitor, Bomber, Soldier, Spy Stop crying "terrorism" every time we're attacked. Two weeks ago, a Jordanian suicide bomber blew up seven CIA employees at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan. The CIA called it a "terrorist attack." So did the Associated Press in a report published in dozens of news [...]
Inside White-Christian America
Ajazeera | 6 January 2010 People & Power - White Power USA - 6 Jan 10 Update: The video, dated 6 January 2010, that had been first posted below was removed by Aljazeera from the Internet — both from YouTube and from the Aljazeera site — around 9:00 a.m. GMT on 12 January 2010, but then re-appeared after a few hours with the date [...]
At war, America need not respect international law — U.S. federal court
EU News Network and Official Wire | 10 January 2010 WASHINGTON, DC — A powerful federal court, ruling on broad issues, has brushed aside international law and the laws of war, saying only domestic law restricts the president's power to hold an enemy combatant. Even viewed in isolation, the decision has considerable weight. But the [...]
Don’t Pakistanise Yemen
The Hindu | Editorial | 11 January 2010 Yemen, a second-tier preoccupation for terrorism trackers in the west until Christmas day 2009, has now been elevated to the highest-risk category. According to John Brennan, President Obama’s counterterrorism advisor, it was Anwar al-Awlaki, a Yemeni cleric of the al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula [...]
The American Way: Maintaining Supremacy
Pravda.ru | By John Stanton | 9 January 2010 The USA is the Great Satan: And Don’t You Forget It! “The massive energy resources of Central Asia are important for the world economy, ensuring a diversity of sources and transit routes, while also delivering new economic possibilities in the region itself.” George A. Krol ,Deputy Assistant [...]
The Pervasiveness of Racism in America
Deccan Chronicle | 10 January 2010 Reid apologises for racial remarks Veteran US senator Harry Reid has apologised to President Barack Obama for referring to him in racially insensitive language in private conversations during the 2008 presidential campaign as "light-skinned" and as having "no Negro dialect." "I deeply regret using such a [...]
U.S. Refuses to “Share” Shamsi Airbase in Balochistan, or to Vacate Three Other Bases in Pakistan
Quoting “an official,” a front page story in Pakistan's leading English news daily, Dawn, claimed on Saturday that the United States has vacated all airbases in Pakistan, except the Shamsi airbase: “... the airbases near Jacobabad, Pasni, and Dalbandin had been vacated by the Americans ‘a long time ago’... Sources said the Shahbaz [...]
Drum Rolls for the “Yem/Som” War
Washington Post | Editorial | 10 January 2010 Why it's wrong to rule out nation-building in Yemen THE DISMAL socioeconomic state of Yemen inspires despair in some of those considering what can be done about al-Qaeda's base there. It's the same defeatism that infects the discussion of other hosts to terrorism -- Afghanistan, Pakistan or [...]
Jordanian Khost Bomber Linked to CIA Killing of Baitullah Mehsud
Xinhua | 9 January 2010 CIA bomber calls for attacks on U.S. in video BEIJING, Jan. 9 -- The Jordanian doctor who killed seven CIA employees in a suicide attack in Afghanistan said all jihadists must attack US targets to avenge the killing of the Pakistani Taliban leader, according to a video that appeared posthumously Saturday on an Arabic [...]
