“Didn’t they see TERMINATOR?” – Military Drone Operations Expand
By HANNAH ROBERTS The Obama administration is building a ring of secret drone bases in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula as part of an aggressive campaign against al Qaeda franchises in Somalia and Yemen. One base for the unmanned aircraft is being established in Ethiopia and another has been installed in the [...]
Bloody Bankers and Wall Street Killers
Wall Street banks that loaned recklessly to Third World and Communist countries and expected the US taxpayer to pick up the tab
How DC, Pentagon Create Global Instability
How Washington Creates Global Instability by Nick Turse and Tom Engelhardt, September 19, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum It was built for… well, not to put too fine a point on it, victory. I’m talking, of course, about the ill-named Camp Victory, the massive military complex, a set of bases really, constructed around an old [...]
WikiLeaks: Iraqi children in U.S. raid shot in head
A U.S. diplomatic cable made public by WikiLeaks suggests that U.S. troops executed at least 10 Iraqi civilians, including a woman in her 70s and a 5-month-old infant, then called in an airstrike to destroy the evidence, during a controversial 2006 incident in the central Iraqi town of Ishaqi. The unclassified cable, which was posted [...]
CIA rendition flights exposed in mundane billing lawsuit
The CIA’s super-secret rendition program–to whisk terrorist suspects in the dark of night to CIA black sites for interrogation–has been further exposed to the light of day in rather humble fashion: a billing dispute in upstate New York. The flight logs for a Gulfstream IV plane hired by a one-man Long Island firm are among [...]
Leaked cable: Sen. McCain promised to help Gaddafi obtain U.S. military hardware
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) promised to help former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi obtain U.S. military hardware as one of the United States’ partners in the war on terror, according to a U.S. diplomatic cable released Wednesday by anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks.
Gaddafi under siege: Two CIA-backed groups, an al-Qaeda-linked LIFG on top of power stakes
With the imminent departure of Muammar Gaddafi from absolute power as the rebels are closing on Tripoli two CIA-backed Libyan groups and an al-Qaeda affiliated Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), a declared foreign terrorist organization (FTO) by the US State Department since 2004, could emerge as real power in Libya when it is clear that the rebel military forces are a patchwork of armed groups, former soldiers and freelance militias including self-appointed neighborhood gangs.
US troops may stay in Afghanistan until 2024
America and Afghanistan are close to signing a strategic pact which would allow thousands of United States troops to remain in the country until at least 2024, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
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