Iraq
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Stop NATO News: December 21, 2011
21 December 2011 — Stop NATO CSTO Warns U.S., NATO Over European Missile System Israel: U.S. Commander Finalizes Largest-Ever Interceptor Missile Drill NATO Doubles Georgian Troop Deployment To Afghanistan NATO Pushes Permanent Mission In Baltic Sea Hungary: U.S.-NATO Strategic Airlift Operation Logs 6,000 Flight Hours AFRICOM-Trained Djibouti Troops Arrive In Somalia Troops Out, U.S. Military… Continue reading
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The Globalization of War: The “Military Roadmap” to World War III
The concept of the “Long War” has characterized US military doctrine since the end of World War II. The broader objective of global military dominance in support of an imperial project was first formulated under the Truman administration in the late 1940s at the outset of the Cold War. Continue reading
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Iran Newslinks 19-20 December 2011
19 December 2011 — williambowless.info 19 December 2011 US: Iran a year away from nukes, strike ‘not off the table’ Russiatoday.ru Today at 17:36 Washington is not ruling out a military operation against Tehran if it gets wind of an Iranian nuke program, declared US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. The US believes Iran could develop… Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: December 20, 2011
20 December 2011 — Stop NATO Military Chief: U.S. To Train ‘For All Potential Forms Of Warfare’ U.S., India, Japan To Hold First Trilateral Meeting: China Targeted Japan: Lockheed Wins Order For 42 F-35 Stealth Fighters NATO Defiant On Afghan Night Raids NATO Duty: 2,500 Polish Troops Spend Christmas In Afghanistan Big Shoulders In Chicago… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 19 December 2011: Israel to Build 1,000 More Units in West Bank, Jerusalem Settlements
19 December 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Ad-Dameer Denounces Daily Arrests In Shu’fat Refugee Camp IMEMC – The Ad-Dameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association denounced the Israeli Army for the daily kidnappings of children and youth at the Shu’fat refugee camp, in occupied East Jerusalem, adding that the army kidnapped… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 19 December 2011:
19 December 2011 — Information Clearing House New Pictures of Iraq Atrocity, With Documents and Video By David Swanson The Iraqi was detained and questioned then with his hands tied behind his back, SGT Rogers skinned his face. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30034.htm Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 19 December 2011
19 December 2011 — williambowles.info Cables on Bradley Manning’s computer ‘exactly matched’ WikiLeaks documents The Guardian A forensic investigator who examined Bradley Manning’s army computers following his arrest discovered thousands of US embassy cables and Guantánamo detainee reports that matched exactly the documents published by WikiLeaks, the soldier’s pretrial … http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/19/cables-bradley-manning-computer-wikileaks?newsfeed=true Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 18-19 December 2011
19 December 2011 — williambowles.info 19 December 2011 Syria official in Cairo expected to sign Arab deal The Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Syria’s deputy foreign minister has arrived in Cairo and is expected to sign an agreement allowing Arab observers into the country. The Arab League has given Syria until Wednesday to sign the… Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 18 December 2011
18 December 2011 — williambowles.info Bradley Manning hearing: court told of Iraq unit’s intelligence security chaos The Guardian A shocking lack of basic discipline and intelligence security at the unit in which Bradley Manning worked before his arrest for allegedly transferring the largest trove of state secrets in American history to WikiLeaks has been revealed… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 17 December 2011: The Jews Go To War (With Themselves)
17 December 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Settlement Guard Mildly Injured In Stabbing Attack IMEMC – Israeli sources reported Saturday that a settlement guard, working at the Ma’aleh Adumim settlement, east of occupied East Jerusalem, suffered mild injuries after being stabbed. … Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 17 December 2011: How Maliki and Iran Outsmarted the U.S.
17 December 2011 — Information Clearing House Obama’s “Mission Accomplished” Troops and Prisons Move, Wars and Torture Never Ends By Ted Rall War is an addiction. If we wanted to, we could quit any time. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30023.htm Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: December 17, 2011
17 December 2011 — Stop NATO Pentagon Commends Turkey For NATO Radar Site Turkey: U.S. NATO Ally On Missiles, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Kurds Pentagon Appoints Turkey To Police Iraq, Confront Iran Turkey’s Top Military Council Prepares For War Iraq: Fallujah Celebrates U.S. Troop Exit, Honors The Slain U.S. Rallies NATO Support For Georgia’s Accession Georgia… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 16 December 2011: Soldiers: “West Bank Problem Is Jews, Not Palestinians”
16 December 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Palestinian Killed By Army Fire In Central Gaza IMEMC – Israeli soldiers shot and killed, on Saturday at dawn, a Palestinian man in Al Boreij Refugee camp, in central Gaza, medical sources reported. … Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 11-17 December 2011
17 December 2011 — Strategic Culture Foundation European Union: From economic crisis to constitutional disaster17.12.2011 | 11:50 | Hannes HOFBAUER (Austria) The Brussels summit of December 2011 intended to solve a huge fiscal and budget (and in reality an economic) problem in the Euro-zone. It let to a political split within the EU-27 and risks… Continue reading
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ICH Newsletter 16 December 2011: Obama's Hypocritical Embrace of a Criminal War
16 December 2011 — Information Clearing House Obama at Fort Bragg: A Hypocritical Embrace of a Criminal War By Bill Van Auken President Barack Obama used his speech to US troops at Fort Bragg, to embrace the nine-year war in Iraq that he had ostensibly opposed and to declare the destruction of the country a… Continue reading
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The death of David Kelley: First court hearing Mon 19 Dec & vigil from 10am
At long last a step closer to a coroner’s inquest into the death of Dr. David Kelly. This would be the first time a court would hear the medical anomalies that led many to conclude that Dr Kelly did not commit suicide. Will the lid on the government cover-up about the case and this pandora’s box… Continue reading
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Iran Newslinks 12-16 December 2011
16 December 2011 — williambowles.info 16 December 2011 Iran denies construction of new nuclear plant in Isfahan Strategic Culture Foundation Today at 02:41 Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: December 16, 2011
16 December 2011 — Stop NATO Missile Shield To Destroy Strategic Balance: Russian Defense Minister U.S. Receives Final Approval To Deploy Missiles In Romania U.S.-NATO Missiles: Russian Baltic Radar Fully Operational In 2014 Syria, Iran, Russia Targeted: Pentagon Chief Strengthens Military Ties With Turkey Global Turmoil Set To Worsen In Coming New Year Iraq: Fallujah… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 15 December 2011: Settlers torch Ramallah mosque
15 December 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Settlers Torch A Mosque In Ramallah IMEMC – A group of fanatic Israeli settlers burnt, on Thursday at dawn, a mosque in Borqa village, east of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and wrote racist graffiti on its walls. The attack is the… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 15 December 2011: Junkyard Gives Up Secret Accounts of Massacre in Iraq
15 December 2011 — Information Clearing House “Yankee Go Home” Iraq Celebrates US Army Withdrawal By Reuters Iraqis burned American flags, brandished banners and thronged the streets of the western city of Falluja to celebrate the withdrawal of US troops. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29999.htm Continue reading