
| The U.S. military's quest to weaponize culture
(Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists) posted 07/08/2008 ... 2007. The Pentagon plans 26 Human Terrain Teams--one for each combat brigade in Iraq and Afghanistan. The five-person teams include three military personnel. Each team al ... NBC's Williams allowed Bush to make false and misleading assertions about Katrina recovery, pre-war WMD claims, and Iraqi links to 9-11 (Media Matters) posted 09/01/2006 ... the National Guard angry about what they did to us on 9-11, thought he was going to Afghanistan, killed in Iraq.' To counter Bush's claim that the argument is 'not b ... Fury at Blair as 100,000 take to the streets over Lebanon (Socialist Worker) posted 08/05/2006 ... 'war on terror' and George Bush's plans for a 'new Middle East'. 'First it was Afghanistan and Iraq, now it's Lebanon - this is another imperial war,' said Soumaya G ... FLASHBACK: CIA holds young sons of captured al-Qa'eda chief (The Telegraph) posted 03/16/2007 ... Their father, Mohammed, 37, is being interrogated at the Bagram US military base in Afghanistan. He is being held in solitary confinement and subjected to 'stress an ... The Evil War on Drugs (Anthony Gregory) posted 02/01/2006 ... the long-term increase would be so dramatic, if there were one at all. At various times, heroin, cocaine, marijuana, LSD, ecstasy, and amphetamine were legal. The problem ... The War On Terror (Paul Craig Roberts) posted 10/16/2010 ... to the US invasion of Iraq, the US government declared victory over the Taliban in Afghanistan? Does anyone remember that the reason Dubya gave for invading I ... Does Britain's new weapon break Geneva Convention? (London Independent) posted 02/05/2006 ... in contravention of the Geneva Convention. Hand-held thermobaric devices were used in Afghanistan by the Russians. The grenade of a Russian RPO70 Schmel, known to the g ... Korey Rowe Could Be Sent Back To Iraq (Infowars) posted 08/01/2007 ... he had clearly been given permission to leave the Army in 2005. Rowe, an Iraq and Afghanistan combat veteran, defiantly stated that he is not going anywhere and ... 'Silent policy' of torture addressed in ACLU talk (Worcester Telegram & Gazette) posted 11/12/2006 ... States is “so despised around the world, why it is losing so many soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq, and why we are less safe from terrorists than we were be ... Ex-CIA Analyst Faults U.S. Policy (Hartford Courant) posted 04/28/2006 ... awareness of torture against war prisoners. The reported torture of prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the transfer of detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to co ... 'Free' detainees not allowed home (Herald Sun) posted 04/22/2006 ... 40 countries and the West Bank, with the largest number from Saudi Arabia, followed by Afghanistan and Yemen. ... It Is Now Official: The U.S. Is a Police State (Paul Craig Roberts) posted 02/10/2010 ... at MIT and Brandeis University, was seized in Pakistan for no known reason, sent to Afghanistan, and was held secretly for five years in the U.S. military’s notor ... Obama and the Nobel Prize: When War becomes Peace, When the Lie becomes the Truth (Michel Chossudovsky) posted 10/13/2009 ... war. The 'defense budget' under Obama has spiraled with increased allocations to both Afghanistan and Iraq. 4. Under orders of president Obama, acting as Commander ... Everybody Supports the Troops (Rep. Ron Paul) posted 02/03/2007 ... forget that the administration took $600 million from the war in Afghanistan and used it in Iraq, before any direct appropriations were made for the ... The questions a shocked America is asking its President (The Independent) posted 09/03/2005 ... in Iraq. More than one-third of Louisiana's 10,000 guardsmen are either in Iraq or Afghanistan. No mass deployment of guardsmen from other states is being contemplated be ... |