Posts Tagged ‘War Crimes’
Americans Testing Microwave Weapon to Roast the Taleban
Danger Room | By Noah Schachtman | 19 June 2010 U.S. Testing Pain Ray in Afghanistan (Updated Again) The U.S. mission in Afghanistan centers around swaying locals to its side. And there’s no better persuasion tool than an invisible pain ray that makes people feel like they’re on fire. OK, OK. Maybe that isn’t precisely the logic [...]
Americans Failing to Suppress Afghan Resistance to Occupation
DefenseTech | By Greg Grant | 9 June 2010 The “Lone Guerrilla Paradox” and the Failure of COIN Doctrine in Afghanistan The New York Times runs a story today from reporter Rod Nordland in Kandahar about the shift in strategy there away from a military headlined offensive to more aid and reconstruction efforts, with a gradual increase [...]
Obama to Petraeus: Yes You Can!
Antiwar | By Jeff Huber | 15 June 2010 King David and His Howling Commandos As Renaissance political scientist Niccolo Machiavelli noted, the fall of Rome came about when its military elite, known as the Praetorian Guard, gained control over the emperor and the Senate. Had irony survived the Bush Jr. administration, it would relish that [...]
Mavi Marmara and the U.S.S. Liberty
Brookings | By Charles K. Ebinger | 15 June 2010 The Attack on the USS Liberty: Lessons for U.S. National Security General Petraeus warned that the stalled Middle East peace process is a direct threat to U.S. interests and prestige in the region and that the lack of progress in Palestine foments anti-Americanism, undermines Arab [...]
From the CENTCOM Af/Pak Conference in Tampa, Florida
Registan.net | By Joshua Foust | 7-8 June 2010 Dispatches from the CENTCOM Afpak Conference Jump to: 1. The Art of the Implausible | 2. Assertions, or Arguments? 3. A Problem of Implementation | 4. Extremely Extremist Extremism 5. Opinion Polls Make You Dumb This week, the United States Central Command, CENTCOM, is holding a conference [...]
The Afghan Catastrophe
New York Times | By Bob Herbert | 11 June 2010 The Courage to Leave There is no good news coming out of the depressing and endless war in Afghanistan. There once was merit to our incursion there, but that was long ago. Now we’re just going through the tragic motions, flailing at this and that, with no real strategy or decent end in [...]
U.S. Defends Against U.N. Charge of “Playstation Mentality” to Drone Killings
Christian Science Monitor | By Jonathan Adams | 3 June 2010 Download the UN Report (pdf) US defends unmanned drone attacks after harsh UN report UN special rapporteur Philip Alston on Wednesday called for a halt to US unmanned drone attacks, which he called a path to a 'Playstation' mentality towards killing. US officials and [...]
U.S. Authorities Misleading Pakistan on Aafia Siddiqui’s Repatriation
Asian News International (ANI) | 11 June 2010 Pak Govt. can bring back Qaeda suspect Aafia Siddiqui in a day if it wants: US counsel Karachi, Jun.11 (ANI): Hinting that the Pakistan Government was not serious in bringing back Dr. Aafia Siddiui, the Al-Qaeda terror suspect currently detained in a US jail, her American lawyer has said that [...]
Stop this Racist War — U.S. War Veteran
ThePhaedrus83 | By Mike Prysner | 20 December 2009 Amazing Speech by War Veteran In this excerpt from an amazing speech, War Veteran Mike Prysner holds Ammerican racism and their belief in their own superiority as the real drivers of American current wars of occupation. He speaks of the mother, who cried hysterically and told him and his [...]
NextGen UAVs: Toward Self-Guided Nano-Drones
The Daily Mail | By Niall Firth | 10 June 2010 The mini flying robot drones that join forces before takeoff - all without human help It conjures up a rather frightening vision of a future where intelligent robots work in packs without the need for human intervention. But scientists are developing robots which can 'dock' with each other and [...]
