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by Justin Raimondo

09/02/09

We can’t get out of Afghanistan, because Pakistan will fall, and vice versa. But each may fall on its own. What kind of a shell game are war supporters playing? And what, by the way, are we fighting for? No one seems to know: or, more accurately, no one dares say what it’s really all about — revenge. It’s a war that has nothing to do with protecting America from another 9/11, and everything to do with institutionalizing an endless war of aggression the aim of which is slaughter for its own sake, as an end in itself. Vengeance, not prevention, is what all the references to 9/11 are about, because that is the only way we can justify our policy of perpetual warfare in the eyes of the American people...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/09/01/the-ghost-of-911/

 

Win, hold and lose

Cato Institute
by Ted Galen Carpenter

09/01/09

Although President Obama insists that America’s goal in Afghanistan is to disrupt, degrade, and defeat al-Qaeda, it is apparent that the objective is much broader than that. U.S. and NATO officials speak of supporting an indigenous political structure that will provide security to the Afghan people and implement good governance. Since the U.S.-led invasion that overthrew the Taliban government in late 2001, hordes of Western military and civilian personnel have been involved in everything from setting up schools to drilling wells to building roads. Although they avoid using the term nation-building, that is clearly what is taking place. Not only is Afghanistan an extremely unpromising candidate for such a mission, given its pervasive poverty, its fractured clan-based and tribal-based social structure, and its weak national identity, U.S. and NATO officials should also be sobered by the disappointing outcomes of other nation-building ventures over the past two decades. An audit of the two most prominent missions, Bosnia and Iraq, ought to inoculate Americans against pursuing the same fool’s errand in Afghanistan...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10498


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pakistan
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A US-based medical rights advocacy group on Monday blasted health experts for playing a "central role" in advising and implementing the CIA's abusive interrogation techniques used on terrorism suspects.

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Doctors_had_central_role_in_CIA_abu_08312009.html

 

American Diplomats Advocated 'Nuremberg Defense':

Two newly-obtained documents show how American diplomats during the Bush administration worked tenaciously to incorporate what is commonly known as the Nuremberg Defense into a new international convention addressing enforced disappearances.

http://snipurl.com/rj15u


From Information Clearing House

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Group Charges Complicity by CIA Medics in Torture
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/09/01-7

 

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David Goldstein, McClatchy Newspapers: "It wasn't a bullet or roadside bomb that felled Lance Cpl. Josef Lopez three years ago after nine days in Iraq. It was an injection into his arm before his unit left the states."

http://www.truthout.org/090109Y?n

 

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Dean Baker, The Guardian UK: "Most of us work for a living, the rest are bankers. These days the news is filled with great tales about how America's banks are coming back. Even that giant corpse Citigroup is showing signs of life. Its stock is now selling for more than five times the lows it hit earlier this year. Its market capitalization is up near $57 billion, a bit more than the $45 billion that the government lent them through the Troubled Assets Relief Program, or TARP. Some are even expecting that the government will make a profit on its Citigroup investment."

http://www.truthout.org/090109R?n

 

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By John S. Hatch

Henry Kissinger once referred to military service people as 'dumb, stupid animals to be used' as tools of foreign policy. One wonders if this man of no regrets nevertheless wishes he had not vocalized what in fact has been the position of successive US governments including the present one?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23409.htm

 

"Army Strong"

Video

This video is a mix of the Army Strong video produced by the army to entice young women and men to join the military.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23404.htm

 

America Needs To Wake Up

By Cindy Sheehan

In an exclusive interview with RT's Anastasia Churkina, anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan talks about the need of accountability, an end to Iraq and Afghanistan, and the American psyche ignoring the truth.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23403.htm

 

Obama: The Last Emperor

"The Crash of America"

Video Report

Professor Igor Panarin, believes President Obama will lead his country to a breakup. Panarin compares Obama to former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23401.htm

 

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Greg Miller, The Los Angeles Times: "Their transformations took place in a sensory cocoon: aboard a CIA aircraft, shackled in place, deprived of sight and sound by blindfolds, headsets and hoods. They emerged into an existence that was hidden for most of the last eight years, but now is possible to glimpse through dozens of declassified files released by the Obama administration last week."

http://www.truthout.org/090109B?n

 

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Freedom's Phoenix
by Stephen Lendman

09/01/09

In response to two Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits, ‘The government today handed over to the American Civil Liberties Union (one of dozens of documents comprising an unprecedented 130,000 previously secret pages, including) a detailed official description of the CIA’s interrogation program.’ Referring to a heavily redacted December 2004 report (originally commissioned by CIA director George Tenet) detailing torture of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan, it ‘describes the use of abusive interrogation techniques including forced nudity, sleep deprivation, dietary manipulation and stress positions.’ Far worse ones were understated or redacted entirely...

http://tinyurl.com/mjyu9a


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ACLU
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=George+Tenet
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogat
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=abuse

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Stephen+Lendman

Charlotte Observer
by Steven Thomma

08/28/09

Less than a year into Barack Obama’s presidency, the promise of hope has faded. America’s public square is an angry and bitter place. Untold numbers of Americans seethe with anger at Obama and his fellow Democrats, resentment coupled with fear even more intense than the rage other Americans expressed just a year ago at George W. Bush and the Republicans. One telling sign: The comparisons of the president to Hitler remain the same — only the face has changed from Bush to Obama...

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/408/story/916641.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=what+change
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