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Why Do We Continue to Tolerate the BushCo Lies?
Video Shows US Carnage In AfghanistanBy Tom Coghlan / September 8, 2008 Harrowing video film backs Afghan villagers’ claims of carnage caused by US troops KABUL — As the doctor walks between rows of bodies, people lift funeral shrouds to … Continue reading
Khyber Pass Reopens for Traffic to NATO Troops
I cannot resist remarking that this is eerily similar to the Pakistani reaction following the events of September 11, 2001: instant acquiescence. Recall that there was rumour of a threat from the reigning US Vice-Emperor that Pakistan would be bombed … Continue reading
Pakistan Shuts Down Khyber Pass Supply Line
Lawyers in Multan burn an effigy of President Bush during a protest against U.S. attacks in Pakistan’s tribal areas, Sept. 6. U.S. forces have conducted a raid inside Pakistan in the first known foreign ground assault in Pakistan against a … Continue reading
Unaccountable Privatization: Your Tax Dollars Hard at Work
One Fifth of Iraq Funding Goes to Private ContractorsBy Willam Fisher / September 6, 2008. If spending continues at the current rate, the U.S. will have spent 100 billion dollars on military contractors in Iraq by the end of the … Continue reading
Where Iraqi Spending Priorities Lie
Please keep this in perspective: Iraq does not provide potable water for the majourity of its citizens, there are still 4 million Iraqis displaced because of ethnic cleansing (termed “civil war” by the US), cholera has become a majour concern … Continue reading
FILM : ‘WHY WE FIGHT’ — The Dominant Role of the Military in American Life
WHY WE FIGHT: ‘We must understand the underlying disease itself’By William Michael Hanks / The Rag Blog / September 5, 2008 One may scarcely witness the cascading events of the last decade without feeling a sense that something is going … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Film, Imperialism, Independent Film, Iraq Occupation, Iraq War, Military Industrial Complex, U.S. Military
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Is This a Reckless New Policy Targeting Pakistan?
US attack inside Pakistan threatens dangerous new warBy Peter Symonds / September 5, 2008 A ground assault by US Special Forces troops on a Pakistani village on Wednesday threatens to expand the escalating Afghanistan war into its neighbour. Pakistan is … Continue reading
Iraq Report: The Surge Didn’t Do What John and Sarah Think
Excerpt from Rambo and the Mean GirlBy Juan Cole / September 5, 2008 A crucial element in the fall of violence from the catastrophic levels of summer, 2006, was the ethnic cleansing of Baghdad of its Sunnis. I wrote in … Continue reading
Flyboy McCain : Hero or Fraud?
Updated September 5, 2008 This provocative article by Thomas Cleaver, written for The Rag Blog, was originally posted on August 30, 2008. We are publishing it again today with some very interesting discussion added. Thorne Dreyer / The Rag Blog … Continue reading
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Tagged History, McCain, Military History, PresidentialCampaign, U.S. Military, U.S. Navy, Vietnam
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U.N. Finds U.S. Airstrike Killed 90 Afghans
An Afghan doctor, left, examines Zinat Gul’s wounded hand, who allegedly was wounded by a U.S. air strike in Shindand district, as her mother looks on at a hospital in Herat, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday. Photo by Fraidoon … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Civilian Fatalities, Counterinsurgency, U.S. Military, United Nations, War Crimes
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Anyone Who Feels Disappointed Will Go Back
UNDER PRESSURE: Two Sunni Arab fighters in the Sons of Iraq look on this year during a military operation involving American and Iraqi forces south of Baghdad. The U.S. plans for the group to be “out of business” by June. … Continue reading
The US Does Not Really Have a Foreign Policy
The US missile defence system is the magic pudding that will never run outBy George Monbiot / August 19, 2008 Poland is just the latest fall guy for an American foreign policy dictated by military industrial lobbyists in Washington It’s … Continue reading
