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US Torture: Best al Qaeda Recruiting Tool
Major Matthew AlexanderTorture? It probably killed more Americans than 9/11By Patrick Cockburn / April 26, 2009 The use of torture by the US has proved so counter-productive that it may have led to the death of as many US soldiers … Continue reading
Master Sgt. Hatley — Convicted for Killing Iraqis — Was ‘Smear’ Blogger
A US soldier frisks a man north of Baghdad. Photo from AFP.Sergeant convicted for executing four handcuffed Iraqis had attacked fellow soldier and New Republic writer online. By Brian Beutler A senior enlisted U.S. Army soldier — Master Sergeant John … Continue reading
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Tagged Criminal Justice, Iraq Occupation, U.S. Military, War Crimes
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Drone Attacks: Killing Civilians at the Rate of Fifty to One
60 drone hits kill 14 al-Qaeda men, 687 civiliansBy Amir Mir / April 10, 2009 LAHORE — Of the 60 cross-border predator strikes carried out by the Afghanistan-based American drones in Pakistan between January 14, 2006 and April 8, 2009, … Continue reading
Ground the Drones … Lest You Reap the Whirlwind
The MQ-9 Reaper taxies into Creech Air Force Base, Nev., home to the newly reactivated 432nd Wing. U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Larry E. Reid Jr.Source: USAF.Down Where the Predators Live: Getting a Closer Look at the Killer DronesBy Kathy … Continue reading
PTSD Meds: Killing Soldiers When the Battle’s Over
Veterans’ families question cause of deaths: Post-traumatic stress syndrome treatment citedBy Julie Robinson / March 1, 2009 CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Stan and Shirley White’s son Andrew, a Marine reservist, died at home 2 1/2 years after he returned from Iraq. … Continue reading
America’s Unpleasant Tendency to Bury the Past
Agent Orange Landscape. This area was defoliated with dioxin at the request of the South Vietnamese. The VC were attacking their training bases nearby from the hills. It now looks a bit like Scotland. Photo source.Obama please note: Those who … Continue reading
NATO Has Developed a Strict Scenario to Convey Its Positive Message
A US soldier poses with a dead Afghani man in the hills of Afghanistan.Truth in Reporting: Meaningless to NATO in AfghanistanBy Richard Jehn / The Rag Blog / February 28, 2009 Thanks to Wikileaks, we now know with certainty that … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, NATO, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. Government, U.S. Military
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Afghanistan: Not Winning Hearts and Minds
Wounded Afghans recover after air strike bombings.Losing the People: The Cost and Consequences of Civilian Suffering in AfghanistanBy Erica Gaston / February 26, 2009 For the last year, I have been living in Afghanistan interviewing civilians harmed in the conflict … Continue reading
Kyrgyzstan Pulls the Plug on Imperial America
Kyrgyz parliament OKs closing air base that’s crucial to U.S.By Tom Lasseter / February 19, 2009 BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — The Kyrgyz parliament voted Thursday to force the U.S. military to abandon its air base here — part of what many … Continue reading
US Military: Just an Imperial Police Force?
Not to quibble, but the US military has been an imperial police force since time immemorial, or at least since the Monroe Doctrine. Thinking otherwise has frequently led this nation to murder (not to war) for no particularly good reason. … Continue reading
The Pentagon : Attack of the Killer Robots
The Pentagon’s dream of a techno army is doomed to fail. ‘They don’t get hungry,’ Gordon Johnson, who headed a program on unmanned systems at the Joint Forces Command at the Pentagon told the New York Times in 2005. ‘They’re … Continue reading
