The Mohawk Nation: OBAMA RESTORES OLD ROMAN COLISEUM BLOODBATHS ANNOTATED NEWS, ANTIWAR, Policies & Politicians Comments Off May 052011 PRESS COMMUNIQUE A leading North American indigenous nation does not approve of President Obama’s way of waging war. Yale Skull-and-Bones members. George H.W. Bush stands next to clock, fourth from left. MNN. May 4, 2011. US President Obama made the decision to send assassins to disfigure and brutally murder someone he said was Osama Bin Laden. Rather than capture and question a mastermind, they kill him and cowardly feed him to the sharks. Obama invited his powerful government decision makers to become desensitized to human slaughter by watching a live stream public killing. Obama misnamed it “Operation Geronimo”. Factually the Apache Warrior was a respected military genius who brilliantly evaded the US and Mexican armies simultaneously. In 1889 he was forced to surrender when they threatened to capture and kill his people. The US ignored these conditions. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
Osama bin Laden and America’s Unworthy and Invisible Victims Before and Since 9/11 ANNOTATED NEWS, Obama, Paul Street, Policies & Politicians Comments Off May 052011 Paul Street One of the most memorable images of the Vietnam War. The Indochinese died before their time in far greater number (to say the least) than the American invaders. The Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations killed at least 3 million human beings in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia . Much of Vietnam and its neighboring territory were bombed and burned “back to the stone age” by the American “liberators.” “War” is a curious term for such one-sided imperial slaughter, which turned Vietnam into a “basket case” (the Pentagon’s own language) while many Americans enjoyed historically unprecedented mass affluence in relative freedom at home. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
The Myth of Humanitarian Catastrophe ANNOTATED NEWS, The Middle East, US Military Comments Off May 052011 Counter-Insurgency Deceptions in Iraq and Afghanistan By ANTHONY DiMAGGIO Baghdad orphanage. The children are not dead, merely near dead. We could show thousands of far more shocking images, all documenting the monstrosity that the US war and invasion of Iraq has wrought on this nation. Despite a 2008 U.S.-Iraqi agreement requiring a total withdrawal from Iraq by the end of 2011, U.S. Admiral and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen is now “warning” Iraqi leaders that they only have a few weeks to decide if they want troops to remain in the country past the formal withdrawal date. In recent weeks, Democrats and Republicans have also recently taken up “debate” over Obama’s alleged plan for “withdrawal” from Afghanistan. U.S. military planners love to frame their violent occupations as necessary “humanitarian” interventions, aimed at “saving” the poor and downtrodden of the third world. These claims have always been disingenuous, and the gravity of recent evidence suggests that efforts to entertain the humanitarian myth amount to little more than propaganda. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
Petraeus at the CIA—what does it really mean? ANNOTATED NEWS, US Military Comments Off May 052011 The Return of Domestic CounterInsurgency? By BRENDAN McQUADE Gen. Petraeus being gladhanded by John McCain. Perfect fit for an age of courtier generals. David Petraeus’ appointment as CIA director speaks to the increasing dominance in counterinsurgency in policy and raises a series of troubling questions about general militarization of American society. Petraeus is the man who literally rewrote the book on counterinsurgency and is set to lead the most powerful covert agency in human history. His appointment means that the CIA is going to be even more involved in the shadowy, protracted, ambiguous conflicts that involve building up governments and social movements that support US policy and destroying those that do not. What is Counterinsurgency? In the terms of Petraeus’ celebrated manual, counterinsurgency is the “military, paramilitary, political, economic, psychological and civic actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency.” Petraeus describes “insurgency” as “an organized protracted politico-military struggle to weaken the control of and legitimacy of an established government, occupying power or other political authority while increasing insurgent control.” Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
Careerism and Psychopathy in the US Military IMPERIALISM, US Military 1 Response » May 052011 “Glibness, Superficial Charm, Grandiose Sense of Self-Worth, Deceitful, Cunning, Manipulative, Lacks Remorse, Callous, Lacks Empathy, Does Not Accept Responsibility for Own Actions, and Impulsiveness … “ By G. I. WILSON, USMC Ret. Gen. George A. Custer: Many of his actions—often flamboyant and heroic, were dictated by an unbridled desire for self-promotion. This essay attempts to make it easier for you to identify the quality and character of military officers and civilian bureaucrats, to increase your awareness and recognition of careerism and its consequences. As Americans, we all must exercise more care and caution in our appraisal of our senior military officers and the Washington “suits” that exert dominating influence on the cost of defense and the conduct of American national security policy. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
OpEd: Trial By Hit Squad ANNOTATED NEWS, IMPERIALISM, OpEds Comments Off May 052011 May 3, 2011 Why Patriotic Americans Should Be Angry That Bin Laden Was Killed By BRIAN J. FOLEY Navy SEALs: Tremendously well-trained, but to serve what goals? The widespread jubilation at reports of Bin Laden’s death is misplaced. Patriotic Americans should be angry. After 9/11, the United States government shredded our Constitution and took away our rights not be be spied on and not to be tortured and not to be assassinated abroad. Our government built Guantanamo. The goal of destroying our laws was, we were told, to usher in an era of “enhanced interrogation” to get information to prevent terrorist attacks. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
Waterboarding ‘Worked’? ANNOTATED NEWS, MEDIA SCUM Comments Off May 052011 Media Advisory Waterboarding ‘Worked’? Media push pro-torture message 5/4/11 Peter King: as despicable a right-wing blowhard as they make them. To hear some tell it, the intelligence clues that ultimately led to Osama bin Laden’s hideout in Pakistan were generated by the use of torture. But the evidence available so far does not bear this out. Torture advocates on the right are claiming vindication. On Fox News Channel‘s O’Reilly Factor (5/2/11), Rep. Peter King (R.-N.Y.) announced that we obtained information several years ago, vital information about the courier for Obama [sic]. We obtained that information through waterboarding. And so for those who say that waterboarding doesn’t work, to say that it should be stopped and never used again– we got vital information which directly led to us bin Laden. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
SYRIA: Who is Behind The Protest Movement? Fabricating a Pretext for a US-NATO “Humanitarian Intervention” ANNOTATED NEWS, IMPERIALISM Comments Off May 052011 by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, May 3, 2011 There is evidence of gross media manipulation and falsification from the outset of the protest movement in southern Syria on March 17th. The Western media has presented the events in Syria as part of the broader Arab pro-democracy protest movement, spreading spontaneously from Tunisia, to Egypt, and from Libya to Syria. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
