Mass Assassinations Lie at the Heart of America’s Military Strategy in the Muslim World Greatly expanded U.S. military Special Ops teams, U.S. drone strikes and private espionage networks run by former CIA assassins create a threat to our security. by Fred Branfman August 24, 2010 | “[General McChrystal says that] for every innocent person you kill, you create 10 new enemies.” — “The Runaway General,” Rolling Stone, 6/22/10 One of the many innocent victims of drone attacks The truth that many Americans find hard to take is that that mass U.S. assassination on…
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The War On Terror
The War On Terror by Paul Craig Roberts, October 16, 2010 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Does anyone remember the “cakewalk war” that would last six weeks, cost $50-$60 billion, and be paid for out of Iraqi oil revenues? (Nov. 15, 2002, CBS: …Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld…rejected concerns that a war would be a quagmire. “… it’s [not] going to be a long, long, long battle of some kind… Five days or five weeks or five months, but it certainly isn’t going to last any longer than that…” ) Does anyone remember…
“Debunking the ‘War on Terror'”: Symposium Videos
An international symposium, “Debunking the ‘War on Terror’”, occurred in London, UK, on Wednesday, 14 July 2010. This featured James Fetzer, Scholars for 9/11 Truth, Kevin Barrett, Muslims for 9/11 Truth, and Gilad Atzmon, political commentator. The speakers focused on the false rationales that have been advanced to promote the “war on terror”, including distortions of the events of 9/11, appealing to religious and cultural differences, and loading language to achieve a predetermined political effect. They provided three perspectives for debunking the “war on terror”. BELOW ARE THE VIDEO ARCHIVES…
‘Ground Zero Mosque’ inflating Islamophobia
Jerry MazzaOnline Journal Associate Editor20 August 2010 Residents in Temecula, Calif., protest against a mosque’s proposed worship center. I have the feeling that like the Broadway Bomber, the underwear bomber, the shoe bomber, the Khalid Sheik Mohammed trial and where it should be held, and other ‘false-flag’ events that building this new Mosque two blocks from Ground Zero is inflating the inherent Islamophobia of New Yorkers and America. And that ain’t good, for New York, Muslims, Americans and America, or the world. I see more and more articles on the…
Targeted Assassinations: Challenging US Policy
Stephen Lendman6 August 2010 The WikiLeaks “Afghan War Diaries” provided documented evidence of America’s out-of-control lawlessness, including Special Forces death squads (Task Force 373) extrajudicially murdering or capturing suspected Taliban and Al-Qaeda figures, many hundreds or perhaps thousands on a so-called Jpel (joint prioritized effects) list, also willfully killing civilian men, women and children, the London Times Kabul-based Jerome Starkey reporting earlier on these crimes, suppressed in US media accounts, presenting an embedded view of the war, omitting the targeting of Americans until then Director of National Intelligence Dennis C.…
