The Nightmare Weaponry of Our FutureThe Armed Forces can't adequately equip those already in uniform, but the Pentagon is committing itself to massive corporate contracts for new high-tech weapons systems slated to come on-line decades from now.
We are not winning the war on terrorism (and would not be even if we knew what victory looked like) or the war in Iraq. Our track record in Afghanistan, as well as in the allied "war" on drugs, is hardly better. Yet the Pentagon is hard at work, spending your money, ... (more)
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Martin Luther King: "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam"
Martin Luther King speaks out against the Vietnam War. Part of a sermon at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, April 30, 1967.
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Martin Luther King Family Still Convinced Assassination Was ConspiracyMartin Luther King Day is a profoundly reflective time for the Rev. Mike Clark. The pastor of St. John's United Methodist Church in Watertown finds himself examining how King shaped the arc of his own life and how Clark, in turn, helped rewrite the story of King's death.
"When I was 19 and he was killed, I was just a white kid in a small town in Pennsylvania," said Clark, 56. "If you told me on the night he was assassinated, 31 years later I'd be in court with his widow and his ch... (more)
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Bush: "the Iraqi people owe the American people a huge debt of gratitude"From 60 Minutes:
SCOTT PELLEY: Do you think you owe the Iraqi people an apology for not doing a better job?
BUSH: That we didn't do a better job or they didn't do a better job?
PELLEY: Well, that the United States did not do a better job in providing security after the invasion.
BUSH: Not at all. I am proud of the efforts we did. We... (more)
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Saddam Execution Rushed to Hide Information - Russian Ex-PM The execution of Saddam Hussein was rushed to prevent the former Iraqi leader from revealing facts that could compromise the United States, former Russian prime minister Yevgeny Primakov has said.
Saddam was executed in an “unexpected” way so “he could not have the last word” and reveal compromising information on the relationship between the United States and his former regime, the PTI news agency quoted Primakov as saying in a televised interview on Sund... (more)
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Escalation in the Middle EastWhile the president’s announcement that an additional 20,000 troops would be sent to Iraq dominated the headlines last week, the real story was the president’s sharp rhetoric towards Iran and Syria. And recent moves by the administration only serve to confirm the likelihood of a wider conflict in the Middle East.
The president stated last week that, “Succeeding in Iraq also requires defending its territorial integrity- and stabilizing the region in the face of th... (more)
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Mind GamesNew on the Internet: a community of people who believe the government is beaming voices into their minds. They may be crazy, but the Pentagon has pursued a weapon that can do just that.
IF HARLAN GIRARD IS CRAZY, HE DOESN'T ACT THE PART. He is standing just where he said he would be, below the Philadelphia train station's World War II memorial -- a soaring statue of a winged angel embracing a fallen combatant, as if lifting him to heaven. Girard is wearing pressed khaki pan... (more)
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US strikes on al-Qa'ida chiefs kill nomadsThe herdsmen had gathered with their animals around large fires at night to ward off mosquitoes. But lit up by the flames, they became latest victims of America's war on terror.
It was their tragedy to be misidentified in a secret operation by special forces attempting to kill three top al-Qa'ida leaders in south-ern Somalia.
Oxfam yesterday confirmed at least 70 nomads in the Afmadow district near the border with Kenya had been killed. The nomads were bombed at nig... (more)
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Bush's big mess in the Middle East"You [President Paul von Hindenburg] have just handed over our sacred German Fatherland to one of the greatest demagogues of all time. I prophesy to you this evil man will plunge our Reich into the abyss and will inflict immeasurable woe on our nation . . ." --German General Erich Ludendorff, 1933
"He that is the author of a war (of aggression) lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death." --Thomas Paine
"[I can' ... (more)
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Israel ‘spits in America’s face’ as Rice visits First, China and Russia, now israel. Everyone seems to be taking potshots at Washington this week - even its 'only ally in the Middle East.'
Israel announced a settlement expansion in the West Bank Monday, dealing a blow to US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as she held talks with Israel's premier on jumpstar ... (more)
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Presidential Candidate Fears "Gulf Of Tonkin" To Provoke Iran War Republican Congressman and 2008 Presidential candidate Ron Paul fears a staged Gulf of Tonkin style incident may be used to provoke air strikes on Iran as numerous factors collide to heighten expectations that America may soon be embroiled in its third war in six years.
Writing in his syndicated weekly column, the representative of Texas' 14th district warns of "a contrived Gulf of Tonkin-type incident (that) may occur to gain popular support for an attack on... (more)
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Absolute PowerWhy is the United States poised to try Jose Padilla as a dangerous terrorist, long after it has become perfectly clear that he was just the wrong Muslim in the wrong airport on the wrong day?
Why is the United States still holding hundreds of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, long after years... (more)
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Robot wars The Demo III is the US Army Research Lab’s newest experimental unmanned vehicle. (Photograph: KL Vantran)
In November 2004, during the second battle of Fallujah, an American uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) -- a robot plane -- located a mortar battery that had been hampering the United States operation to retake the town. The mortar's position was logged by the UAV's operator, who was sitting at his desk in Nellis air-force base near Las Vegas, thousands of kilometres aw... (more)
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Saddam's half-brother executed in gruesome hanging Saddam Hussein's half brother has been executed in a gruesome hanging which left his head severed from the body.
Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Saddam's former intelligence chief, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, the leader of Iraq's Revolutionary Court, were put to death at dawn after being found guilty of killing 182 Shiite Muslims more than twenty years ago.
A government spokesman said: "In a rare case, the head of Barzan was detached from his body during the execution."... (more)
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Bush Must Go: Only Impeachment Can Stop HimWhen are the American people and their representatives in Congress and the military going to wake up and realize that the US has an insane war criminal in the White House who is destroying all chances for peace in the world and establishing a police state in the US?
Americans don’t have much time to realize this and to act before it is too late. Bush’s “surge” speech last Wednesday night makes it completely clear that his real purpose is to start wars with ... (more)
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MADD at Drunk Drivers, but Not Influential OnesA few months ago, Delaware state Rep. John C. Atkins was pulled over in Ocean City Maryland under suspicion of drunken driving. Immediately after getting pulled over, he flahsed his Delaware Legislature ID, after which the officer assured him that he wouldn't be arrested. Problem is, Atkins took a roadside breath test which came back at .14, well over the legal limit.
Atkins wasn't arrested. H... (more)
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Top Dem Wesley Clark Says 'N.Y. Money People' Pushing War With IranWashington - Retired general Wesley Clark drew harsh criticism this week after reportedly saying that “New York money people” are pushing America into a war against Iran.
By Tuesday, Clark, a past and likely future Democratic candidate for president, was working to assure Jewish groups that he was in no way attempting to advance an antisemitic conspiracy theory. But the controversy still had Jewish organizations bracing for a new wave of claims that they are the drivin... (more)
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Housing Bubble Bloodbath“The crash of the housing bubble will not be pretty. Millions of people stand to lose their homes and life savings. However, it was inevitable. The bubble created a fantasy world that could not continue. At the peak of the bubble, 160,000 people a week were buying a home, most at bubble inflated prices. The longer the bubble persists, the larger the group of people who paid way too much for their home. While it is not good that so many dreams had to be ruined, the number wil ... (more)
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Instead of "al-Qaeda," U.S. Kills Nomads in SomaliaAs usual, it takes a few days for the truth to emerge, not that the corporate media here in America notices.
Instead of killing Fazul Abdullah Moham-med, Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan and Abu Taha al-Sudani, supposedly “al-Qaeda” operatives responsible for the 1998 US embassy bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, the Pentagon killed “herdsmen … gathered with their animals around large fires at night to ward off mosquitoes” in Somalia, according to the In... (more)
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Escalation is Hardly the Answer Mr. Speaker, A military victory in Iraq is unattainable, just as it was in the Vietnam war.
At the close of the Vietnam war in 1975, a telling conversation took place between an NVA Colonel named Tu and an American Colonel named Harry Summers. Colonel Summers reportedly said, “You never beat us on the battlefield.” Tu replied, “That may be so, but it is also irrelevant.” It is likewise irrelevant to seek military victory in Iraq.
As condition... (more)
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Bush Speech: Full Steam Ahead on Iran AttackSpeaking through the unitary decider—sort of like a ventriloquist speaking through a dummy—the neocons have once again issued threats against Iran and Syria.
“In his speech to the American nation yesterday, President George W. Bush issued a warning to Iran and Syria, accusing them of taking deliberate action against U.S. forces in Iraq and enabling aid transfers to insurgents,” reports Haaretz.
“Bush said the U.S. intends to tak... (more)
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Iran’s IEDs: Made in AmericaNow that Bush has delivered Kristol’s speech, we can expect a full-court press in the corporate media to demonize Iran in preparation for an attack against that country.
“U.S. officials tell CBS News that American forces have begun an aggressive and mostly secret ground campaign against networks of Iranians that had been operating with virtual impunity inside Iraq,” CBS News reports, or rather reads from the neocon script.
“According... (more)
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Get Your War On: Bush Plays Casus Belli Card Against Iran That there will be war with Iran is now virtually guaranteed. The Bush Administration set out a clear casus belli over the weekend in two stories – masterworks of warmongering propaganda – appearing in two major basions of the "liberal media." The argument for this new war – buttressed with "facts" that as usual went unchallenged by the corporate scribes – is actually stronger and cleaner than the collection of conflicting mendacities that led to the invasion of Ira... (more)
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