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Warfare« Previous EntriesLiving in a Lying NationTuesday, September 2nd, 2008By Sean M. Madden | The following lead from Monday’s BBC Radio 4 Today program says it all, well, sort of: Leaders of the European Union are meeting to decide what can be done about Russia in the wake of its invasion of Georgia. The leader of the opposition, David Cameron, went to Georgia in the aftermath of ... tagged Propaganda and WarfareCIVILIANS PAY THE PRICE FOR IMPERIAL RIVALRIES IN GEORGIASaturday, August 16th, 2008SchNews | Despite the Olympics, you had probably noticed there’s another war on, this time in the mountainous region of the Caucuses, in a previously little mentioned place called South Ossetia. Whether or not Georgia’s president Mikheil Saakashvili went it alone, or if he was given a nod and a wink from the crazies in the White House, we won’t know until Dubya writes his memoirs (but don’t ... tagged WarfareIs Perpetual War Our Future? Learning the Wrong Lessons from the Bush EraThursday, August 14th, 2008TomDispatch | To the problem of an overstretched, over-toured military, there is but one answer in Washington. Both presidential candidates (along with just about every other politician in our nation's capital) are on record wanting to significantly expand the Army and the Marines. In part two of his series at TomDispatch, adapted from his remarkable new book, The Limits of Power, The End of ... tagged USA-News and WarfareWar in Georgia: The Israeli connectionMonday, August 11th, 2008For past seven years, Israeli companies have been helping Gerogian army to preparer for war against Russia through arms deals, training of infantry units and security advice By Arie Egozi | The fighting which broke out over the weekend between Russia and Georgia has brought Israel's intensive involvement in the region into the limelight. This involvement includes the sale of advanced weapons to Georgia and ... tagged WarfareU.S. forces apologize for civilian deathSunday, July 13th, 2008Thi-Qar | The U.S. forces offered an official apology for the Thi-Qar province police over the killing of a civilian in an airdrop operation on Friday, a security official said. "The apology, offered on Saturday by two senior U.S. officers, involved a pledge not to conduct any more operations without the previous knowledge of the local police," the Thi-Qar police chief, Brig. Sabah Mohsen al-Fatlawi, told Aswat al-Iraq – ... tagged WarfareWhistleblower Says Pentagon Putting KBR Above SoldiersFriday, July 11th, 2008By DAVID IVANOVICH | The Pentagon's oversight of Houston-based KBR's work in Iraq and Afghanistan has been "irregular and highly out of the ordinary," a former Army contracting official told Senate Democrats Wednesday. Charles Smith, the former chief of the Army Field Support Command with responsibility for overseeing KBR's massive contract with the Army, contends he was forced out of his job in 2004 for objecting to the ... tagged WarfareNew Law is Urged on War PowersWednesday, July 9th, 2008Los Angeles Times | A bipartisan commission Tuesday called for a new law to require the next president to ask Congress for formal approval of any decision to go to war and force the White House to consult Congress once a war is underway. The panel, led by former secretaries of State James A. Baker III and Warren Christopher, determined that the 1973 War Powers Act had failed and ... tagged WarfareAMERICA’S CULTURE OF WAR NOT AN ISSUE THIS ELECTIONTuesday, July 8th, 2008By Sherwood Ross | One issue the American people likely are not going to hear about in this presidential campaign is how to stop the millitary-industrial complex(MIC) from destroying this country, from bankrupting it morally and financially. No matter that each passing day brings some new revelation of gross Pentagon mismanagement and waste, of treaty violation or crimes against humanity, it is a topic no candidate for the White House dares ... tagged USA-News and WarfareNew War Brewing: US, Israel Take Dangerous StepsTuesday, July 8th, 2008By Eric Margolis | GENEVA – The U.S., Israel and Iran are playing a very dangerous game of chicken that soon could result in a new Mideast war. U.S. intelligence has concluded that Iran is not working on nuclear weapons. But the Bush administration and Israel, recently joined by France, are issuing increasingly loud threats of military action to frighten Iran into halting its nuclear enrichment program. Iran insists its ... tagged WarfarePretending That Bush is Not a TyrantTuesday, July 1st, 2008Consortium News | All over the world down through history, political leaders who have engaged in torture and other grotesque crimes of state have justified their actions as necessary to protect their governments or their people or themselves. It was true when England’s King Edward I had William Wallace – “Braveheart” – drawn and quartered in 1305 for resisting the crown’s rule in Scotland, and a gruesome death was what King ... tagged Bush and WarfareWelcome Home, Soldier: Now Shut UpSaturday, June 28th, 2008By Paul Rockwell | There are two kinds of courage in war - physical courage and moral courage. Physical courage is very common on the battlefield. Men and women on both sides risk their lives, place their own bodies in harm’s way. Moral courage, however, is quite rare. According to Chris Hedges, the brilliant New York Times war correspondent who survived wars in Latin America, Africa, the Middle ... tagged Warfare“Blood and Oil” an Important Film to See and ShareTuesday, June 24th, 2008ADS | "Blood and Oil" is a very, very well made film that will show you something new even if you already know that - as Dubya admits - the United States is addicted to oil, even if you know the deal that FDR cut with the king of Saudi Arabia on February 14, 1945 (and have already seen the film footage of them meeting on a US ... tagged Oil and WarfareNATO: 6,000 troops urgently needed in AfghanistanMonday, June 23rd, 2008BERLIN (Reuters) | Up to 6,000 additional troops are urgently needed in Afghanistan and a failure to deploy them will only prolong the presence of Western forces in the country, a German NATO general said on Sunday. Egon Ramms told public radio station Deutschlandfunk that alliance members would end up paying a price later if they did not boost troop numbers now. "We are talking about a total of 5,000, ... tagged Afghanistan, Warfare and World-NewsBlackwater is Still in Charge, Deadly, Above the Law and Out of ControlThursday, June 19th, 2008 On June 3, Jeremy Scahill's bestselling Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army was released in fully revised and updated paperback form. The new edition includes reporting on the now-famous Nisour Square massacre on Sept. 16 of last year, in which Blackwater mercenaries opened fire in a Baghdad neighborhood, brutally murdering 17 Iraqi civilians. The killing spree, which ...
tagged USA-News and WarfareDoctors’ Report Finds Evidence of U.S. Torture and ‘War Crimes’Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 AP | Medical examinations of former terrorism suspects held by the U.S. military at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, found evidence of torture and other abuse that resulted in serious injuries and mental disorders, according to a human rights group.
For the most extensive medical study of former U.S. detainees published so far, Physicians for Human Rights had doctors ...
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