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US building military base in Afghanistan near Iran border

May18
by admin on May 18, 2013 at 6:32 pm
Posted In: Warmongering, Worlds Policemen


The United States is building a military base in Afghanistan near the border with the Islamic Republic of Iran,Press TV reports.

Press TV’s correspondent in Afghanistan said the base is being built in an area known as Chahlang in Afghanistan’s Farah Province. The site of the construction is three kilometers from the Iranian border.

US building military base in Afghanistan near Iran border

According to information obtained by Press TV, the US forces have already constructed a communications tower and dug some channels in the ground at the site of the base.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on May 9 that the US had demanded to keep nine military bases across the war-torn country, adding that, “We are in very serious and delicate negotiations with America.”

On Thursday, however, White House Spokesman Jay Carney rejected Karzai’s remarks, saying that Washington “does not seek permanent military bases in Afghanistan.”

Emal Feizi, a spokesman for the Afghan president, later denied Carney’s claims and said Washington has even chosen some cities for establishing the bases.

On May 2, 2012, Washington and Kabul signed a deal that authorized the presence of US troops for a period of 10 years after 2014, which was the original date agreed earlier for the departure of all foreign combat troopers from Afghanistan. Afghanistan’s Parliament approved the pact on May 26.

Karzai had confirmed for the first time in 2011 that the administration of US President Barack Obama had demanded the establishment of a system of permanent US military bases across Afghanistan.

The United States and its allies invaded Afghanistan in 2001 as part of Washington’s so-called war on terror. The offensive removed the Taliban from power, but insecurity remains high across the country despite the presence of many US-led foreign troops.

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Benghazi Survivors: Where Are They And Why Have They Been Told To Be Quiet?

Mar19
by admin on March 19, 2013 at 9:43 am
Posted In: Political Agenda, Warmongering, Worlds Policemen

la-oe-boot-benghazi-iraq-security-20121021-001As a man suspected of involvement in the September 11, 2012 attack in Benghazi is being held in Libya, wounded Benghazi survivors of the attacks are still under wraps and once again U.S. Senators are applying pressure to hear from them. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) says that he “had [...]Continue reading →

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The warmongering begins: PRESIDENT OBAMA: IRAN ‘YEAR OR SO’ AWAY FROM NUCLEAR BOMB

Mar15
by admin on March 15, 2013 at 6:07 am
Posted In: Warmongering, Worlds Policemen

President Obama: Iran Year or So Away From Nuclear BombJERUSALEM (AP) — Iran is about a year away from developing a nuclear weapon and the United States remains committed to doing everything in its power to prevent that from happening, President Barack Obama said in an exclusive interview aired Thursday on Israeli TV.

Just days before he is to arrive in Israel for his first presidential visit, Obama told Israel’s Channel 2 TV that while he still prefers diplomacy over force, but that a nuclear Iran is a “red line” and all options remain on the table to stop it.

“Right now, we think it would take over a year or so for Iran to actually develop a nuclear weapon, but obviously we don’t want to cut it too close,” he said. “So when I’m consulting with Bibi (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu) as I have over the last several years on this issue, my message to him will be the same as before: ‘If we can resolve it diplomatically that is a more lasting solution. But if not I continue to keep all options on the table.’”  http://goo.gl/kJii0

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England’s Ministry of Defense finally says it like it is: Afghanistan is an “unwinnable war”… well Duh!

Mar15
by admin on March 15, 2013 at 5:38 am
Posted In: Warmongering, Worlds Policemen

British soldiers in Afghanistan are fighting an 'unwinnable' warBritish soldiers fighting in Afghanistan are part of a campaign that attempted to “impose an ideology foreign to the Afghan people” and was “unwinnable in military terms”, according to a damning report by the Ministry of Defence.

The internal study says that Nato forces have been unable to “establish control over the insurgents’ safe havens” or “protect the rural population”, and warns the “conditions do not exist” to guarantee the survival of the Afghan government after combat troops withdraw next year.

The report, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, says that when troops leave, Afghanistan “will be left with a severely damaged and very weak economic base”, which means that the West will have to continue to fund “large-scale support programmes” for many years to come.

read more:  http://goo.gl/l7hBf

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RUSSIA: We Told You Not To Overthrow Qaddafi!… Here’s you blowback

Jan26
by admin on January 26, 2013 at 9:15 am
Posted In: Corruption, Government, Warmongering, Worlds Policemen

On Wednesday Russia blamed Western countries for creating the current turmoil in Africa by arming Libyan rebels, Timothy Heritage and Gabriela Baczynska of Reuters report.

“Those whom the French and Africans are fighting now in Mali are the [same] people who…our Western partners armed so that they would overthrow the Gaddafi regime,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told a news conference.

The toppling of Libyan ruler Muammar Qaddafi led to “perhaps the greatest proliferation of weapons of war from any modern conflict,” Emergency Director of Human Rights Watch Peter Bouckaert told The Telegraph.

This very short story appeared on the businessinsider.com Internet site on Wednesday. It’s certainly worth skimming…and it, too, is courtesy of Roy Stephens. The link is here.

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President Touts Need to Keep Children Safe During Gun Violence Speech, Despite the Fact That Many Have Been Killed During Drone Strikes

Jan17
by admin on January 17, 2013 at 2:28 pm
Posted In: Hypocrisy, Warmongering

In his remarks Wednesday on gun violence in America, President Obama was joined on stage by four children who had written him letters urging tougher gun control requirements. He stressed that our “first task as a society” is to keep “our children safe.”

But does the president’s drone campaign go against this message? Judge Napolitano argues that it does. According to numbers reported by Stanford Law School and New York University Law School, from June 2004 to September 2012, drones killed from 2500 and 3300 people in Pakistan alone, 176 of whom were children. The judge pointed out that two of these children were Americans. He also pointed out that these statistics span both President Obama and President Bush’s times in office.

“We have a president who has not hesitated to kill foreign innocent children or American innocent children when they are in a foreign country. He loses credibility when he stands with innocent American children and says ‘I’m going to keep you safe,’” Napolitano said.  More with video:  http://goo.gl/o0wUv

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MIT’s Noam Chomsky: Obama’s Running a ‘Global Assassination Campaign’

Jan15
by admin on January 15, 2013 at 5:35 pm
Posted In: Warmongering

By Patrick Burke

January 14, 2013

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MIT Professor of Linguistics Noam Chomsky. (AP)

(CNSNews.com) — MIT Professor of Linguistics Noam Chomsky, a long-time left-wing writer and activist, told Al-Jazeera that he does not believe President Barack Obama has a “moral center,” and that he is running a “global assassination campaign” using drone warfare.

“There’s some nice rhetoric here and there, but you look at the actual policies, they’re pretty shocking,”Chomsky said, speaking of President Obama. “The drone assassination campaign’s a perfectly good example. It’s just a global assassination campaign.”

In an interview on Saturday, Jan. 12, with Al-Jazeera’s Rosiland Jordan, Chomsky was asked, “Does President Barack Obama have a moral compass? And if he does, is he ignoring it at his own peril, at the country’s peril?”

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President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Chomsky said, “It’s an interesting question. During the last election, I happened to be talking to a well-known black activist very much involved in civil rights and other activism, and he told me a story. He said that after Obama’s first election in 2008, he was visited by a group of African American women leading activists who wanted to talk to him. He said he was there when they came out of the meeting and asked them what he was like.”

“And their answer was this man has no moral center,” said Chomsky. “That’s their reaction and I think they’re right. If you look at his policies, I think that’s what they reveal.”

“There’s some nice rhetoric here and there but you look at the actual policies, they’re pretty shocking,” Chomsky said. “The drone assassination campaign’s a perfectly good example. It’s just a global assassination campaign.”

Noam Chomsky has been a professor of Linguistics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) since 1955. He has also lectured and written on economics, U.S. foreign policy and international relations. In his current post at MIT, he is Institute Professor & Professor of Linguistics (Emeritus).

He has described himself as “anarcho-syndacalist,” which calls for the organization of workers to combat the anti-working class interests of the State.

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Here why the U.S. is pushing for WW3

Dec29
by admin on December 29, 2012 at 4:47 pm
Posted In: Corruption, Warmongering

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U.S. sending troops to Syria: Hey Mr. Peace President… why so angry?

Dec15
by admin on December 15, 2012 at 1:36 am
Posted In: Warmongering, Worlds Policemen

U.S. troops will man Patriot batteries along Turkey’s border with Syria

By Ernesto Londoño, Published: December 14

INCIRLIK AIR BASE, TURKEY — The United States authorized on Friday the deployment of 400 troops for two Patriot missile-defense batteries along Turkey’s border with Syria, a move that could put American forces near the front lines of the Arab country’s escalating civil war.

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta signed the order authorizing the deployment of the batteries Friday morning while flying from Kabul to this military base in southern Turkey.

Speaking to U.S. airmen inside a hangar, Panetta said the crisis in Syria has made this base, roughly 60 miles from Syria, and others in the region exceptionally important.

“This is a challenging time, a critical time,” Panetta said. “You are in a critical place doing a critical task.”

Pentagon press secretary George Little told reporters the U.S. troops operating the Patriots will be tasked with a defensive mission only. The surface-to-air missiles could technically be used to enforce a no-fly zone over northern Syria, but NATO officials have stressed that they are not gearing up for such a move, which would mark a sharp escalation in the West’s involvement in Syria’s conflict.

Panetta said “it is a matter of time” before the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is toppled. The United States, he said, is providing nonlethal aid to certain factions of the opposition, hoping to bolster responsible new leaders.  http://goo.gl/nRetA

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Republican Congressman Says Obama’s “Kill List” Is Constitutional

Nov01
by admin on November 1, 2012 at 6:02 pm
Posted In: Constitutionalism, Idiocy, Warmongering, Worlds Policemen

king/napolitanoRepresentative Peter King (R-NY) serves as the Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. Recently he was interviewed by We Are Change’s Luke Rudkowski concerning Barack Obama’s presidential “kill list” and he asked if Mitt Romney were to win this election what should he do. At first the congressman blew Rudkowski off. But when Rudkowski [...]Continue reading →

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