(HigginsBlog) – The man behind fabricating intelligence reports to invade Iraq says the war was one of it not the greatest decision of the 21st century. Read the rest of this entry »

(BeforeItsNews) – U.S. naval carrier group positioned closer to Iran – Read More Here

(ThisWeek) – Are jihadists hijacking Syria’s uprising? – Read More Here

(Salon) – Israelis prepare for war with Iran

Even ex-Mossad chief who opposes an attack on Iran seems to have given up Read More Here

(CaseyResearch) – Is a US-Iran War Inevitable?

Interviewed by Louis James – US-Iranian saber-rattling or impending shoot-out? In his usual, candid manner, contrarian investor Doug Casey talks about why he believes it’s serious this time… why the US is the greatest threat to peace today… why Iran might move towards a gold standard… and what smart investors should do. Read More Here

(PressTV) – Japan warns Israel against attacking Iran

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has warned Israel against the ramifications of launching a military strike on Iran over Tehran’s nuclear program.

Noda told visiting Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak in a meeting that an attack on Iran would be ”extremely dangerous” and would ”escalate” the situation in the region. Read More Here

(MailOnline) – BBC spent £350,000 on legal battle to keep its ‘biased’ Middle East coverage secret

Report examined corporation’s coverage of Israeli-Palestinian conflict Read More Here

(HoustonPress) – Blood Money

More than 200 soldiers are suing KBR for knowingly exposing them to toxic chemicals in Iraq, whose effects started with nose bleeds and could end with cancer. KBR says that didn’t happen. But even if it did, the company isn’t responsible. Read More Here

(ReutersHuffPost) – China sends envoy to Damascus

China disapproves of armed intervention or regime change in Syria, a minister said on Thursday before leaving on the first official trip to Syria since Beijing blocked a U.N. resolution calling for President Bashar al-Assad to step down. Read More Here

(Yahoo) – Video: Island Paradise Shattered By Violent Coup – View Here

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(RussiaToday) – War is over but Pentagon wants billions for Iraq

President Obama has unveiled the 2013 Department of Defense’s new budget which is around $614 billion. Among the slightly decreased budget, $3 billion are set aside for operation “Post-New Dawn” for the war in Iraq that has been declared as over. Many critics speculate the need to spend more money on an already unsuccessful war in Iraq and no reports have surfaced to determine how the funds will be used. Douglas MacGregor, a retired Colonel for the US Army, joins us to discuss the possible ways the money will be spent. Read the rest of this entry »

(Infowars) – Editor’s Note: Although this article can be seen as a standard piece of consensus reality propaganda coming out of Washington, it contains some real truths about how the US arm of the New World Order will be conducting its overseas affairs in the event of a large troop draw-down. The US will have left a considerable ‘stay behind operation’ in both Iraq, and later in Afghanistan. Read the rest of this entry »

(EmpireBurlesque) – In March 2003, the United States of America launched an entirely unprovoked act of military aggression against a nation which had not attacked it and posed no threat to it. This act led directly to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent people. It drove millions more from their homes, and plunged the entire conquered nation into suffering, fear, hatred and deprivation. Read the rest of this entry »

(PressTV) – A War Crimes Tribunal in Malaysia has found former US President George W. Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair guilty of war crimes for their roles in the Iraq war, Press TV reports. Read the rest of this entry »

(AJC) – On the Tuesday edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex talks with activist and talk radio host Adam Kokesh about the DC Occupy movement. Kokesh was a Corporal in the United States Marine Corps Reserve and is a veteran of the Iraq War. He is an outspoken opponent of the U.S. military intervention in Iraq. Alex also covers the latest breaking news, including the latest on the teetering economy and the growing End the Fed and occupation movement in numerous cities around the nation. He also takes your calls. – Read the rest of this entry »

See Also: (Guardian) – Afghanistan officials ‘systematically tortured’ detainees, says UN report – Read More Here

(RussiaToday) – One out of three Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans believe the wars were not worth fighting. Some also say the money being spent in Iraq and Afghanistan should be spent at home on domestic issues. Michael Prysner, an Iraq war veteran, is one of those veterans and speaks out. Read the rest of this entry »

(InfoClearingHouse) – Does anyone remember the “cakewalk war” that would last six weeks, cost $50-$60 billion, and be paid for out of Iraqi oil revenues?

Does anyone remember that White House economist Lawrence Lindsey was fired by Dubya because Lindsey estimated that the Iraq war could cost as much as $200 billion? Read the rest of this entry »

by Robert David Palmer

I see conspiracy theories everywhere:

9/11 was an Inside Job and Pearl Harbor Was a LIHOP, A UFO Was Recovered at Roswell and the Apollo Moon Landing was a Hoax and of course the assassinations of famous people known by their three initials.

Therefore, when Fox released Avatar, a mega budget film, with $500 million of other people’s money (“outside investors”), I get suspicious. Read the rest of this entry »

Listening to neoconservative mastermind Richard Perle at the Nixon Center yesterday, there was a sense of falling down the rabbit hole. Read the rest of this entry »

The War on Iraq, filmmaker Robert Greenwald chronicles the Bush Administration’s determined quest to invade Iraq following the events of September 11, 2001. The film deconstructs the administration’s case for war through interviews with U.S intelligence and defense officials, foreign service experts, and U.N. weapons inspectors — including a former CIA director, a former ambassador to Saudi Arabia and even President Bush’s Secretary of the Army. Their analyses and conclusions are sobering, and often disturbing, regardless of one’s political affiliations. Read the rest of this entry »

Recent media reports on the mounting evidence of wholesale corruption in US reconstruction efforts in Iraq are symptomatic of the criminal nature of Washington’s war and occupation from their inception nearly six years ago. These crimes are continuing under the Obama administration, with no end in sight. Read the rest of this entry »

This speech by Dr.Martin Luther King in 1967 is as poignant today as it was back then. The names change but the nightmare remains the same. Today’s Iraq and Afghanistan replace yesterday’s Vietnam. Today’s increased level of poverty and imprisonment of a hugely disproportionate number of African Americans in the prison system, the slaughter of millions more of the world’s poor and Dr. King’s subsequent murder at the hands of his own government bear witness to exactly which initiative was taken. Read the rest of this entry »

Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) has said that he will most likely reintroduce legislation to reinstate the universal military draft this year.

Asked if he plans to introduce the legislation again in 2009, Rangel last week said, “Probably … yes. I don’t want to do anything this early to distract from the issue of the economic stimulus.” according to an article featured in The Hill yesterday.

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Congressman warns that auto-bailout could lead directly to fascism in America

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But the White House and the corporate media consistently continued to state otherwise

A new report by the National Bureau of Economic Research has concluded that the US economy slipped into recession in December 2007, a full year ago. Read the rest of this entry »

In violation of its pledge to the United Nations not to recruit children into the military, the Pentagon “regularly target(s) children under 17,” the American Civil Liberties Union(ACLU) says.

The Pentagon “heavily recruits on high school campuses, targeting students for recruitment as early as possible and generally without limits on the age of students they contact,” the ACLU states in a 46-page report titled “Soldiers of Misfortune.”

This is in violation of the U.S. Senate’s 2002 ratification of the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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In violation of its pledge to the United Nations not to recruit children into the military, the Pentagon “regularly target(s) children under 17,” the American Civil Liberties Union(ACLU) says.

The Pentagon “heavily recruits on high school campuses, targeting students for recruitment as early as possible and generally without limits on the age of students they contact,” the ACLU states in a 46-page report titled “Soldiers of Misfortune.”

This is in violation of the U.S. Senate’s 2002 ratification of the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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The Army will deploy a satellite communications-on-the-move (COTM) device for its Iraq forces to provide greater situational awareness, speed and flexibility to small, quickly moving units of warfighters.

The device includes a satellite communications hub and two satellite COTM systems that will be installed on Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles. The COTM device includes a low-profile antenna that can enable satellite communications connectivity at vehicle speeds of 80 miles per hour or faster.
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BAGHDAD — Two Iraqi insurgent groups called on President-elect Barack Obama to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq and abandon the war on terror, an Internet monitoring service reported Friday.
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TEL AVIV – The U.S. Army today confirmed it carried out a raid inside a Syrian village near the Iraqi border, killing at least eight.

Today’s operation is the first in which American forces so openly attacked militants on Syrian soil, clearly broadening the scope of the U.S. military campaign in Iraq. Read the rest of this entry »

A suspected US missile strike has killed at least eight students at a religious school in north-western Pakistan, witnesses say.

The school, in North Waziristan, is close to the residence of a fugitive Taleban leader, Jalaluddin Haqqani, witnesses told the BBC Urdu Service.
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The Iraq war is many things to different people. It is called a strategic blunder and a monstrous injustice and sometimes even a patriotic mission, much to the chagrin of rational human beings. For many big companies, however, the war is something far different: a lucrative cash-cow. Read the rest of this entry »

Al Jazeera speaks to Howard Zinn, the author, American historian, social critic and activist, about how the Iraq war damaged attitudes towards the US and why the US “empire” is close to collapse. Read the rest of this entry »

Ten days ago, as the nation focused attention on the hurricane nearing the Mississippi delta, another storm was brewing far upstream in St. Paul, Minnesota — a storm far more dangerous, it turned out, but one by and large overlooked by the Fawning Corporate Media (FCM). Read the rest of this entry »

shows how the mall replaced the factory as America’s dominant economic engine and how big banks and credit card companies buy our Congress and drive us into what a former major bank economist calls modern serfdom. Read the rest of this entry »

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