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Children among 20 killed in ISAF air raids | by Zainullah & Abdul Latif Ayubion, May 7, 2012 , Pajhwok Afghan News
from the page: "A mother and her five children were among 20 civilians killed in two separate airstrikes.. The first incident took place late on Friday when an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) helicopter missed its target and dropped bombs on a house in the Fatih Mohammad Pech area of Sangin district in Helmand... Daud Ahmadi told Pajhwok Afghan News instead of striking a militant hideout, the foreign forces killed a mother, her three daughters and two sons... Separately, 14 civilians were killed and six others wounded in another airstrike by the international forces in Bala Murghab district of northwestern Badghis province."--they aren't "mistaken" raids. the foreign forces repeat the "same mistake" countless times, which means they oppose avoiding making "mistakes". 11 years ago, they started with bombings on afghan civilians in Kabul, killing them, starving them, and forcing them to be refugees. since the start of this war, they've committed intentional atrocities.
mistakes  helmand  military  usa  nato  isaf  afghansitan  murders  children  death  civilians  from delicious
26 days ago by willowtrees
Striking Caterpillar workers in Illinois speak on their struggle | 7 May 2012, WSWS
from the page: "..Caterpillar-owned Electro-Motive workers in London, Ontario refused a new contract slashing wages and benefits. After locking out the workers for three weeks, Caterpillar announced it was closing the plant and moving operations to Muncie, Indiana, where it would pay $12.50 an hour compared to $28 an hour in Canada... A new strategy is needed, above all the international unity of the working class to politically oppose—on a class basis—the dictatorship of the big corporations..."--this article omits a very important thing: those workers in Ontario stood against also Caterpillar' bulldozers which are used by the Israeli army to destroy homes of Palestinians. It seems that the US workers for Caterpillar look away from Palestinians' sufferings and claim shares of bloody war profits. this article narrows the vision of "the working class" by regarding them as only victims of the company or capitalism, and prevents creating a greater international unity against capitalism.
american-style  layoff  protest  unity  canada  working-class  caterpillar  corporations  usa  war-industries  from delicious
26 days ago by willowtrees
Niqash - society - basra’s child prostitutes: ‘people i have sex with are generous and kind’ | Saleem al-Wazzan, 19.04.2012, niqash
from the page: "...A 2008 study undertaken by the well known Iraqi human rights organization, Al Amal (Hope), found that 72 percent of children of displaced families residing in Nasiriya, near Basra, were engaged in work inappropriate to their age, often more than seven hours per day, such as street cleaning and portering. The study, which surveyed 411 families with a total of around 1,200 children, also found that a lot of the child labourers were selling drugs or their own bodies... But observers believe child prostitution is particularly widespread among Iraq's displaced families - that is, families who have been forced to flee to other areas due to sectarian or other violence in their hometowns. And there are an estimated one million displaced persons in the thriving southern province. “Child abuse is a new phenomenon and it has emerged over the past three decades in Iraq, due to the abnormal circumstances here,” Toman explained."
abuse  slum  usa  destruction  refugees  basra  poverty  prostitution  children  middle-east  iraq  from delicious
4 weeks ago by willowtrees
Drone kills innocent girls |May 01, 2012, The Nation
from the page: "Hard on the heels of Khar-Grossman talks in which Pakistan turned down the US request to let Nato supplies pass through, the US ended its month-long hiatus in drone warfare and claimed that it had killed four suspected militants and wounded two others holed up in a girls’ school in North Waziristan on Sunday. The truth is that the attack left four young girls dead. The attack seems more like an attempt to pressurise Islamabad rather than fighting terrorism. "
school  death  civilians  usa  drones  children  asia  pakistan  from delicious
4 weeks ago by willowtrees
Killing of children sparks anti-US protest |by Nasim HotakonMay 1, 2012, Pajhwok Afghan News
from the page: "Hundreds of residents on Tuesday staged an angry protest against NATO-led forces in the southern province of Zabul... Three children were killed and another three wounded during a clash between Taliban and foreign troops on Monday evening, when the fighters attacked a gathering of tribal elders, local policemen and foreign forces... Local residents and Taliban accused foreign soldiers of killing the children. Foreign forces opened fire on the children after the attack, killing six and injuring five others, aged between 7 and 12 years, said resident Mohammadullah. Resident Syed Mohammad told Pajhwok Afghan News thousands of people wanted to stage a protest in the district bazaar, but security personnel did not allow them. Later on, they closed the Kabul-Kandahar highway. A delegation of provincial council, peace council and security personnel representatives arrived at the scene around noon but it failed to convince the demonstrators to halt their protest, he added.
death  civilians  children  demonstration  protest  usa  nato  asia  afghanistan  from delicious
4 weeks ago by willowtrees
Firearms industry jobs up 30 percent from 2008 to 2011 | Jerry Siebenmark | Wichita Eagle, april 26, 2012,McClatchy
from the page: "These are high times for gun makers and firearms retailers. While many sectors have been slogging through the recession and an anemic recovery, the firearms business has seen growth both nationally and locally. Industry officials and local retailers say most of the past three years has been good to them. They’ve hired new workers and seen annual sales increases of 40 percent or more. Their gains have also translated into expansion for some. And 2012 should prove to be another growth year, although local economic conditions could temper that growth. A report released earlier this month by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a trade group for gun and ammunition manufacturers and retailers, said nationally that the firearms industry increased jobs by more than 30 percent and improved its economic impact by more than 66 percent between 2008 and 2011."
bloodlust  maniac  employment  gun-society  war-industries  culture  american-style  war-addiction-nation  usa  from delicious
4 weeks ago by willowtrees
Sexual politics, torture, and secular time | Judith Butler, The British Journal of Sociology. Vol. 59, No. 1, pp. 1-23, March 2008.
from the page:"..The army considers itself more sexually `advanced' because they read pornography or impose it upon their prisoners... ..we have to understand the torture as the actions of a homophobic institution against a population that is both constructed and targeted for its own shame about homosexuality; the actions of a misogynist institution against a population in which women are cast in roles bound by codes of honour and shame, and so not `equal' in the way that women ostensibly are in the West. In this way, we can see the photographs that the US army distributed of women without the veil as a sign of the US `triumph' in Afghanistan as prefiguring the digital capture and coerced stripping and violation..in Abu Ghraib.. ..it [the US] brings [to the Islamic Other]..is torture as the instrument and sign of civilization. These are not aberrant moments of a war, but, rather, the cruel and spectacular logic of US imperial culture as it operates in the context of its current wars.."
burqa  immigrants  frameworks  culture  france  soldiers  military  iraq  afghanistan  war  photos  women  empire  civilization  guantanamo  abu-ghraib  muslim  secularism  sexuality  usa  politics  torture  from delicious
5 weeks ago by willowtrees
The Children of Fallujah - Sayef's story | Robert Fisk, 25 April 2012, The Independent
from the page: " ..Studies since the 2004 Fallujah battles have recorded profound increases in infant mortality and cancer in Fallujah; the latest report..says that congenital malformations account for 15 per cent of all births in Fallujah. "My son cannot support himself," Mohamed says, fondling his son's enlarged head. "He can move only his hands... He can't swallow. Sometimes he can't take even the milk, so we have to take him to hospital to be given fluids. He was blind when he was born. In addition, my poor little man's kidney has shut down. He got paralysed. His legs don't move. His blindness is due to hydrocephalus." ... "After he was born, I got Sayef to Baghdad and I had the most important neurosurgeons check him. They said they could do nothing..." .."Every time I watch my son, I'm dying inside," he says, tears running down his face... I ask whom he blames for Sayef's little calvary... "I am only asking for help from God.. I don't expect help from any other human being."
shame  military  usa  depleted-uranium  phosphorus  fallujah  children  cancer  deformity  middle-east  iraq  from delicious
5 weeks ago by willowtrees
Obama invokes Holocaust to ratchet up war threats on Iran, Syria | By Bill Van Auken 25 April 2012, WSWS
from the page: " ..."Iran is a threat, but can we say that it will make a second Auschwitz?" Wiesel remarked. "I don't compare anything to the Holocaust…" --the westerners have trampled non-westerners by regarding the nazi holocaust as the Holocaust, "which is beyond all comparison". by equating their "enemy" country's regime with the nazi one, "whose badness is beyond all comparison", they demonize it and justify shattering its people's livings by their bombings and sanctions. by comparing other holocausts committed by the west in africa, middle-east, america, asia and oceania with the nazi holocaust, "whose victims' sufferings are beyond all comparison", they regard other holocausts as "trifles", belittle and neglect non-westerners' sufferings caused by them, and repeat colonizing and destroying other countries. to regard their sufferings as ones, "which are beyond all comparison", is different from to strive to ease their sufferings, which nothing can completely erase from them.
imperialism  r2p  hypocrisy  history  disguise  filtering  museum  internet  holocaust  military  usa  middle-east  israel  syria  iran  from delicious
5 weeks ago by willowtrees
Japanese media said the Japanese Self-Defense Forces or the long-term presence of U.S. military bases of the Philippines | April 24th, 2012 , Chinese Military
from the page: "April 24 Xinhua China Press reported, 23, Japan and the U.S. hold talks, the two sides reach a consensus on common U.S. military base in the Pacific Ocean... In the talks, Japan and the U.S. government common use of U.S. military bases of the Pacific Ocean to reach a consensus. In addition to the base of the US-collar Guam Northern Mariana Islands, the Japan Self-Defense Force also possible to use U.S. military bases in the Philippines island of Palawan or Luzon. the U.S. government to prepare the U.S. military in Okinawa in the form of a “round robin” stationed in Hawaii, Guam, the Australian city of Darwin... In addition, conditions of use as a base, Tinian Island, Japan will U.S. military bases to provide a huge amount of preparedness fee. In addition, the Philippines, the use of base fee amount is currently under discussion. Japan Self-Defense Forces abroad in recent years have become increasingly frequent."--I'm shocked at this news and at silence over it in japan.
middle-east  Self-Defense-Forces  australia  military-bases  occupation  okinawa  guam  hawaii  Tinian  palawan  oceania  china  usa  Philippines  asia  japan  from delicious
5 weeks ago by willowtrees
Russia and China are intensifying cooperation in the military sphere | Ilyashenko Andrei, Apr 24, 2012, Voice of Russia
from the page: "Russian-Chinese war games "Naval Interaction-2012" in the Yellow sea has entered its active phase on April 24. 25 warships, 13 aircrafts, 9 helicopters and 2 units of the special forces of the two countries participate in them. Taking into account the number of participating forces and the scenario, these manoeuvres are apparently the most large-scale in the modern history of bilateral relations... According to the RF Ministry of Defence message, the goal of the manoeuvres is strengthening and development of the Russian-Chinese relations and strategic partnership, and cooperation between the two countries and their armed forces. At the same time one of the main aspects of any war games is a demonstration. Apparently, the necessity of such a large-scale demonstration of the Russian-Chinese strategic partnership possibilities has arisen after the promulgation of a new US military doctrine concerning the Asia-Pacific region.
military  usa  asia  war-games  china  russia  from delicious
5 weeks ago by willowtrees
South China Sea as the New Middle East | Volkhonsky Boris, Apr 17, 2012, Voice of Russia
from the page: "...It comes after the Barack Obama administration positively declared the South China Sea as an area of utmost importance for U.S. national interests. Already the U.S. has started allocation of its troops in adjacent regions. The first 200 marines have already arrived in Australia, and there are plans to deploy warships in Singapore... The South China Sea is one of the world’s busiest sea lanes, and has lately become a stage for harsh territorial disputes... A factor adding to the existing tensions is that all China's rivals are members of the ASEAN group and would prefer to deal with the territorial dispute in a multilateral format, while China prefers to deal with each country separately... Twenty years ago, the Filippinos voted for a removal of all U.S. bases, including its biggest naval base in the Pacific at Subic Bay. It seems that the U.S. strategists have come to a conclusion that it is time to return to a stage of national importance.
war-games  asean  japan  territorial-issue  natural-resources  oceania  australia  singapore  military-bases  usa  asia  china  Philippines  from delicious
5 weeks ago by willowtrees
PH's Palawan is US new Okinawa, says group | Mar 08, 2012 , Gerry Albert
from the page: "One of the groups critical of US military presence in the country accused the Washington government of turning Palawan island province into de facto naval base for US troops who will be redeployed to the country once they leave their naval base in Okinawa, Japan.“It is interesting to note that the next staging of RP-US Balikatan exercises is chiefly focused in Palawan province. The US government wants its 6,000 mercenaries to familiarize with the terrain of the island province and convince Palawan folks that US soldiers are kind, generous and they are their knights in shining armor in vain attempt to make the island as US new Okinawa naval base in the Southeast,”... Pamalakaya vice chairperson Salvador France theorized that the next joint US-PH military exercises in Palawan and the rest of Luzon Island scheduled on April 16-27, 2012 is a preparatory stage for the establishment of mini-naval bases in Palawan...
war-games  occupation  usa  military-bases  palawan  okinawa  japan  asia  Philippines  from delicious
5 weeks ago by willowtrees
Afghanistan and US agree on strategic partnership document | 22 April 2012 guardian.co.uk
colonialism  agreement  occupation  military  usa  asia  afghanistan  from delicious
5 weeks ago by willowtrees
1,200 newborns of Japanese A-bomb survivors studied by U.S.: researcher | 20120422, Kyodo, Mainich
from the page: "Organ samples and medical records of more than 1,200 babies of Japanese survivors of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of two Japanese cities who were born dead or died shortly after their birth were sent to the United States for radiation research... Hiroko Takahashi..has said internal documents of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, or AFIP, show some 77,000 newborns were studied between 1948 and 1954 and she estimates body samples and records of more than 1,200 newborns were sent to the United States. "Newborns were treated in the same way as guinea pigs for the study of nuclear weapons and radiation. The current radiation standard is based upon that,"... ..samples of bomb victims as well as their newborns in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were sent to the country [the US] during the General Headquarters of the Allied Forces' occupation period... The ABCC concluded after the research that there was no genetic influence stemming from radiation at that stage.
asia  occupation  cover-up  manipulation  research  history  human-guinea-pig  human-  babies  hibakusha  japan  usa  nuclear-test  nuclear-weapons  nuclear  from delicious
5 weeks ago by willowtrees
Why Haiti Wasn’t “Built Back Better” | by David L. Wilson, 17 April 2012, Upside Down World
from the page: "..With the help of the Haitian elite, the "international community" has imposed a series of neoliberal economic policies on the country since the 1970s. ..86 percent of the houses destroyed by the quake had been built since 1990... Chavannes Jean-Baptiste aptly summed up the foreign powers' view of post-earthquake Haiti. "Haiti is essentially roadkill.. Companies like Monsanto are devouring what is left of us at this point." Most Haitians are of course excluded from discussion... We want houses that respect our local architectural style and that use as much local materials as possible… We want beautiful houses that represent our culture, houses that give the community life, and that help us maintain dialogue between ourselves; houses that have yards and gardens where we can grow vegetables and medicinal plants…houses that provide space for us to live as families with neighbors in the lakou [traditional communal courtyard], where we can share food and daily activities.
journalism  monsanto  apparel  farmers  homeless  social-services  colonialism  exploitation  earthquake  poverty  food  agriculture  housing  capitalism  neoliberalism  NGO  usa  international-community  latin-america  haiti  from delicious
6 weeks ago by willowtrees
BAYAN leads protests against the VFA  and the Balikatan Exercises 2012, Posted April 19 2012
when I hear the news that Iraqis rejected the US demands that they should give it a permission that it uses their land to launch military strikes against other countries and should conclude the SOFA with it and should tolerate its military bases in Iraq, and that the people across Africa haven't permitted it to build its military bases of AFRICOM in africa, and that Afghans indomitably has resisted against the US military occupation, and that Filipino people protest against joint Philippine-US military exercises and the VFA, I realize that servility has taken root in the Japanese so deeply that they including me aren't fully aware of the seriousness of the problems about the US military bases in Japan, which are freely used as launch pads for US aggressive wars, joint Japan-US military exercises, which set up their neighboring countries as enemies, the US-Japan SOFA, and Japan's financing help for US bases. we've betrayed the people around the world, who resists against the US Empire.
treaty  china  occupation  hisotry  sustenance  farmers  imperialism  sofa  military-bases  asia  usa  war-games  military  photos  demonstrations  philippines  from delicious
6 weeks ago by willowtrees
ON PHILIPPINE SOVEREIGNTY, US & CHINA 2 | 20 April 2012 by admin Reply to Questions from Renato Reyes, BAYAN Secretary General By Prof. Jose Maria Sison, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan
from the page: "..It [the US] is more worried about China’s military strength being able to defend China, fend off US imperialist dictates and threats and combat separatist forces in Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang. The US strategy of encirclement is calculated to keep China as a friendly partner in the exploitation of the Chinese and other peoples... The efforts of China to find its own sources of energy and raw materials and markets and fields of investment can be at times irritating or even infuriating to the US (when the conflicts of interest occur as in Iran, Sudan, Libya and Syria). But the capitalist powers can settle their relations with each other at the expense of the working people and underdeveloped countries, until the crisis of the world capitalist system further worsens to the point that a number of capitalist powers accelerate their aggressiveness and even become fascist in their home grounds. "
natural-resources  military  libya  iran  hegemony  exploitation  neoliberalism  capitalism  imperialism  asia  common-points  territorial-issue  occupation  usa  philippines  china  from delicious
6 weeks ago by willowtrees
ON PHILIPPINE SOVEREIGNTY, US & CHINA |  20 April 2012 by admin Reply to Questions from Renato Reyes, BAYAN Secretary General By Prof. Jose Maria Sison, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan
from the page: ".. But so far China’s actions and actuations [regard to the China-Philippines territorial issue] manifest assertiveness rather than outright military aggression. The Philippine reactionary government should desist from self-fulfilling its claim of China’s aggression by engaging in an anti-China scare campaign. The Filipino people and progressive forces must consciously differentiate their position from that of the Aquino regime, its military subalterns and its Akbayan special agents who pretend to be super patriots against China but are in fact servile to the interests of US imperialism and are using the anti-China scare campaign to justify the escalation of US military intervention in the Philippines and US hegemony in the Asia-Pacific region."--territorial issues complicated by US military occupations are difficult to resolve, because the US keeps them alive to make profit from those unresolvedness. ..."
activism  exploitation  common-points  collective-self-defense  neoliberalism  servility  treaty  sovereignty  hegemony  military-bases  capitalism  territorial-issue  imperialism  china  usa  asia  philippines  from delicious
6 weeks ago by willowtrees
America's Lost War 2 | by Stephen Lendman, April 18, 2012
but it comes from cut in social services in the US. during the Vietnam war, it came from the draft. if it had come from conscience, they would not have neglected victims of agent orange nor would they have approved subsequent wars. even if they, who today approved the withdrawal, prepare waging a new war tomorrow to clear debts, I'm not shocked at it. they tolerate also the US keeping killing the occupied people to gain time for US face-saving withdrawal. and they never oppose sponging off taxpayers of the US allies, the "defeated nations", while opposing putting their tax money into war. their usual ways come from dehumanizing non-americans, the US exceptionalism. the Pentagon Papers was unhelpful to wipe out the US exceptionalism of americans. King, who struggled against poverty, racism, and the US exceptionalism, all of which are fuels of war, fell dead along the way to attainment. your words must be unuseful to mobilize war-addicted and US exceptionalist americans to stop war.
activism  war-addiction-nation  illegal  propaganda  whistle-blower  history  vietnam  war  afghanistan  usa  from delicious
6 weeks ago by willowtrees
America's Lost War 1 | by Stephen Lendman, April 18, 2012
I think that some americans who mention US wars in terms of a matter of winning or losing will regard a war which the US wins as right. the people of a nation, which lost a war with the US, keep suffering endlessly, because to squeeze them dry, the US strips them of their dignities, imposes a constitution and treaties on them, which enable it to legally exploit them as cheap labor and to plunder of their resources, destroys them culturally and psychologically, promotes corruptions of its puppets, and eliminates its opponents by any means. most americans have connived at this.
the biggest industry of the US is war. how many americans depend on it to make their livings? because of their war-addiction, they tolerate themselves, their families and neighbors joining army or working for the war industry as a way out of poverty, which is less serious than that of Afghanistan and Iraq. a large majority of americans, according to the recent poll, approve US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
war-addiction-nation  whistle-blower  military-spending  congress  propaganda  activism  antiwar  illegal  war  vietnam  afghanistan  history  usa  from delicious
6 weeks ago by willowtrees
U.S. troops posed with body parts of Afghan bombers | By David Zucchino, Los Angeles Times April 18, 2012
I don't want to say anything about these photos. rather, I have no comfort to offer Afghans. because Americans are used to seeing such photos of Iraq and Afghanistan for a decade, they must not be shocked at them. but no matter how many times Americans, especially ordinary Americans, see them, their reactions have never changed. I'm tired of seeing such articles as are full of self-justification, self-pity, self-promotion, makeshift self-examination, empty criticism of their government and the 1%, pseudo antiwar sentiment, nominal protection of human rights, amnesia, paranoia, US exceptionalism, and selfish motives, -- written by the Americans who want to play the innocent victim and to cling the US exceptionalism.
usa  inhumanity  death  dehumanization  occupation  soldiers  as-usual  photos  asia  afghanistan  from delicious
6 weeks ago by willowtrees
The United States’ Barbarous Policy on Iran | by Stephen Gowans, April 12, 2012 « what's left
from the page: "..The reason, then, for punishing Iranians with new and more debilitating privations is not because their government has a secret nuclear weapons program —which no one in the US state believes anyway—but because a developing Iran with independent energy, economic and foreign policies threatens Washington's preferred world political order—one in which the United States has unchallenged primacy... Iran’s economic policy, with its restrictions on foreign investment and foreign ownership, and reliance on state-ownership of key industries, is an anathema to a US corporate and financial elite... The barbarism—concealed beneath lies about the need to protect Israel from an existential threat posed by an Iran that is "suspected" to be secretly building nuclear weapons –is revealed: Iran is being impoverished and threatened with physical destruction,..because its insistence on sovereignty is a threat to unrestricted Western corporate and financial domination of the Middle East.
kissinger  history  iraq  sovereignty  punishment  capitalism  lies  nuclear-weapons  israel  neoliberalism  poverty  destruction  sanctions  barbarism  middle-east  west  usa  iran  from delicious
6 weeks ago by willowtrees
Those Laboratory Mice Were Children | By Karlos Zurutuza, Apr 13, 2012, IPS ipsnews.net
from the page: "At Fallujah hospital they cannot offer any statistics on children born with birth defects – there are just too many. Parents don't want to talk. "Families bury their newborn babies after they die without telling anyone," says hospital spokesman Nadim al-Hadidi. "It's all too shameful for them." "We recorded 672 cases in January but we know there were many more," says Hadidi... Hadidi says parents' feelings usually range between shame and guilt. "They think it's their fault, that there's something wrong with them. And it doesn't help at all when some elder tells them it's been 'god's punishment'."... the Americans tested all kinds of chemicals and explosive devices on us: thermobaric weapons, white phosphorous, depleted uranium...we have all been laboratory mice for them," says Hadidi..." --don't refer to the data of hiroshima/nagasaki, which were very manipulated by the US. referring them without mentioning the manipulation will damage the credibility of your article.
secret  bury  middle-east  usa  punishment  shame  guilt  children  war-crimes  illegal  thermobaric-weapon  phosphorus  depleted-uranium  human-experiment  iraq  fallujah  from delicious
7 weeks ago by willowtrees
Former Taliban leader flees for safety | Qais Azimy and Mujib Mashal, 09 Apr 2012, Al Jazeera English
from the page: "Abdul Salam Zaeef, a former Taliban leader considered an important interlocutor in negotiations to bring the armed group to the discussion table, has fled the country for safety reasons. A source close to Zaeef told Al Jazeera that American forces had tried to search his Kabul home twice over allegations of involvement in an international terror plot, but his government-provided bodyguards had prevented their entry... Zaeef, under close watch by the government since his release from Guantanamo, pleaded his innocence, according to Muzhda. He said the accusations against him were baseless. Muzhda said Zaeef feared for his life in the wake of the attempted raids on his home. Many of the Taliban prisoners freed from Guantanamo had been killed in night raids and that made Zaeef more nervous. Zaeef's book on his time in Guantanamo, detailing accusations of mistreatment of prisoners, had also not endeared him to the US. "t
torture  military  safty  detention  guantanamo  taliban  usa  raid  asia  afghanistan  from delicious
7 weeks ago by willowtrees
US Drought Monitor
data  map  agriculture  usa  drought  from delicious
7 weeks ago by willowtrees
US Osprey crash leaves 2 dead in Morocco | 20120412. NHK WORLD English
from the page: "...The MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor transporter belonging to a US Marine Corps unit based in North Carolina crashed during military training near Agadir, southwestern Morocco on Wednesday... The crashed aircraft is the same as the ones the US Marines plan to deploy on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa later this year... The Osprey takes off and lands vertically like a helicopter but flies like a fixed-wing airplane. The Osprey suffered a series of accidents during development. Another Osprey, belonging to the US Air Force, crashed in Afghanistan 2 years ago. People in Okinawa are voicing opposition to the planned deployment."
africa  asia  protest  afghanistan  death  okinawa  japan  scrap  military  usa  morocco  osprey  from delicious
7 weeks ago by willowtrees
Russia May Consider Establishing Private Military Companies | Konstantin Bogdanov, 13/04/2012, RIA Novosti
from the page: ".."I believe that such companies [PMCs] are a way of implementing national interests without the direct involvement of the state," Putin replied... Western governments find it difficult to conduct operations in the combat zones without "a contract workforce," which is another word for mercenaries whose losses are of no concern to anyone apart from their direct employers and who can be assigned the most delicate missions. If they are caught red-handed, they are on their own.. Russian PMCs could be also used in Afghanistan, whose pseudo-stability has closely tied the interests of NATO with those of Moscow. The deployment of additional troops there may be difficult due to local problems and political losses, but the use of the contract workforce could smooth off some rough edges. At the same time, PMCs could be a good way to offer retired servicemen new employment opportunities at a time when Russia's Defense and Interior Ministries are planning to reduce their workforces.
military  nato  libya  iraq  secret  special-forces  afghanistan  africa  history  veterans  uk  usa  russia  war-industries  pmc  from delicious
7 weeks ago by willowtrees
Faryab: 2 protestors shot dead by police | Apr 12, 2012 . Pajhwok Afghan News
from the page: "Two people were killed and another 25 injured during a clash with police after a protest over the killing of a seminary teacher by a joint Afghan-coalition force turned violent in northern Faryab province... More than 1,000 people took to the streets in Maimana, the provincial capital, against the overnight operation that resulted in the death of madraasa teacher Qayamuddin... Two of Qayamuddin's brothers and a cousin were arrested... Carrying the victim's coffin, the protestors marched on the governor's house, chanting slogans against the US and Afghan governments. They called for the immediate release of the detainees... Hours before the demonstration, Governor Abdul Haq Shafaq said he had contacted officials in Kabul to discuss the release of the detainees with foreign troops. The rally ended at around 4:30, but the protestors remained inside a mosque in the city, saying they would not offer funeral prayers for the victim until his killers were punished."
asia  police  raid  teacher  military  usa  afghanistan  demonstration  protest  detention  arrest  death  civilians  from delicious
7 weeks ago by willowtrees
Washington Leads World Into Lawlessness 3 | April 12, 2012, PaulCraigRoberts.org
> North Korea's immunity to American attack..
to get South Korea and Japan to buy armaments made by the US and to keep the US hegemony in Asia, the US has used north korea to produce a sense of impending crisis in the two countries. North Korea knows it is a good promotion tool for the US arm selling.

> A country that cannot produce industrial and manufactured goods, but can only print debt instruments and money is not a powerful country.
why do you look away from the US powerful military and its history? it has frozen other countries with its overwhelming military forces, has not hesitated to commit brutalities, and has had weapons which annihilate humanity. such a country might use its military power to cross its debt off accounts. if it does so, the Japanese most heavily suffer from it. do you think it's a SUCCESS of the Empire?
north-korea  military  japan  china  india  iran  oil  usa  from delicious
7 weeks ago by willowtrees
Washington Leads World Into Lawlessness 2 | April 12, 2012, PaulCraigRoberts.org
>Washington violates the human rights of its own citizens.
when Washington treats its citizens as subhuman, its citizens treat non-americans as subhuman. when Washington enjoys violating international laws, its citizens enjoy the US exceptionalism. when Washington pays no heed to its citizens' cry, its citizens pay no heed to the cry of outrage of the people of countries occupied by the US. when Washington attaches its minds only to interests of the 1%, its citizens sink into self-pity and claim a share of the US war profits. when Washington starts adding a new history of slow massacre of its citizens, by its exploitation and oppression, its citizens keep silent on the history of massacres by the US through the world.

> Why is Washington destroying America’s reputation as a country that respects law...
the US has committed countless massacres at home and abroad since it was a colony of the British. it has never gotten such a reputation.
oil  turkey  south-korea  china  india  eu  iran  japan  international-law  usa  reputation  from delicious
7 weeks ago by willowtrees
Washington Leads World Into Lawlessness | April 12, 2012, PaulCraigRoberts.org
> Washington has granted special privileges to Japan..to continue purchasing Iranian oil.
since 2002 the US has been pressuring Japan, who had agreed to oilfield development with Iran, to give up import of crude oil from Iran. in 2006 Japan gave in to pressure from the US to abandon most of the Azadegan oil field of Iran. in 2002 Japan imported 40 billion liters from Iran, which accounted for 16% of all crude oil import of Japan. thanks to the US pressure for a decade, it imported 18 billion liters from Iran in 2011, though it had enjoyed friendly relations with Iran before the US pressured Japan, and depends on import for almost 100% of its consumption of crude oil, and faces the difficult energy issue as a consequence of the nuclear crisis. (only one of 54 nuclear power plants in Japan is operated now.) and remember that the US, the occupier of Japan, has sheeted home 70~80% of the cost of its military bases in Japan to the Japanese. it's what you call "special privileges".
privileges  reputation  china  india  turkey  south-korea  eu  japan  international-law  middle-east  iran  oil  usa  from delicious
7 weeks ago by willowtrees
More US troops killed amid talks on permanent bases in Afghanistan | By Bill Van Auken 5 April 2012, WSWS
from the page: "At least three US soldiers were killed and several others wounded in a suicide bombing in northern Afghanistan as US and Afghan officials continued talks on a permanent American military presence after 2014... The Taliban claimed credit for the attack and quoted residents as saying that after the bombing US soldiers opened fire on civilians, killing one and wounding several... On Tuesday, it was reported that three foreign troops were killed in attacks, two by roadside bombs in the south and east of the country and a third in an attack by resistance forces in the east... Last Friday, nine members of the Afghan Local Police were shot and killed by one of their colleagues, reportedly a Taliban infiltrator, in the Yayakhil district of..Paktika province... A similar incident was reported on Wednesday in which a police officer in the Chardara district of Kunduz province turned his gun on the local police chief and his two bodyguards, killing them all and then fleeing... "
agreement  resistance  anger  endless-occupation  endless-war  civilians  police  soldiers  death  occupation  usa  asia  afghanistan  from delicious
8 weeks ago by willowtrees
Japan set to jointly develop weapons with Britain | mainichi Japan, April 04, 2012
from the page: "Japan is set to jointly develop weapons with Britain following Tokyo's easing late last year of its weapons export ban, government sources said. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda will agree to officially launch bilateral talks on the issue with his British counterpart David Cameron during an April 10 summit meeting in Japan. It will be the first such joint development since Japan eased its principles on its weapons export ban in December last year to open the way for the joint development and production of weapons and technology with countries with which Tokyo has security arrangements. Until then, Japan had jointly developed a missile defense (MD) system with the United States as an exception to the ban... Japan decided to cooperate with Britain in weapons development as compensation for selecting the F35 fighter developed mainly by the U.S. as its next-generation fighter rather than the Eurofighter that was strongly recommended by Britain, according to the sources.
compensation  usa  missile-defense  deregulation  military  europe  uk  asia  japan  arms-trade  from delicious
8 weeks ago by willowtrees
True democracy still far off | By Gibson Nyikadzino, 20120402, Southern Times
from the page: "...in any given historical epoch, the ideas that people generally think are the best and most important ideas are usually the ideas of the people in charge, according to Marx in “Historical Materialism”. If you have a lot of money and own a lot of property, then you have the power to propagandise your worldview. It is done to protect and promote your own interests and is the natural progression in the process of accumulation of wealth and exercise of power. As such, any talk of “democracy”, “rule of law” and “human rights” is packaged to promote and protect the interests of the wealthy in their exercise of power... The greatest fear that humanity should have is that the US and its Western friends might not even be interested in any pretence of supporting democracy in the future and that they will increasingly impose their plutocracy by force... Sadly, true democracy is still very far away from visiting this world. And if the West gets its way, we will never see it. ..."
myths  west  usa  propaganda  history  plutocracy  human-rights  democracy  from delicious
8 weeks ago by willowtrees
UNAC: A Real Anti-War Movement in the Belly of the Beast | Glen Ford, 03/28/2012 , Black Agenda Report
from the page: "It is a simple expression of the singular mission of anti-warriors in the belly of the beast. That mission is to disarm the beast – not to quibble with the war machine about where best to deploy its overwhelming firepower, or to advise corporate warmongers on the most efficient killing-mix of live troops and automated drones, or to pick and choose from a Democratic administration’s menu of regimes that might be changed to make the world more amenable to Wall Street. Our task as Americans – our overarching responsibility, for which we are uniquely positioned and, therefore, solemnly obligated – is to dismantle from within the monstrous apparatus of imperial aggression. Period... "
military  sanction  obligation  racism  exceptionalism  pmc  drones  assassination  occupation  r2p  war  responsibility  antiwar  usa  movements  from delicious
8 weeks ago by willowtrees
Gandhi, King and 99% Spring | by Brian Terrell, Voices for Creative Nonviolence
from the page: "..They pledge that they "will not be complicit with the suffering in our families," but do not express the same refusal to be complicit in the suffering of families in Afghanistan.. I accept, too, that in building a coalition that includes some labor unions that promote armaments contracts and organizations like MoveOn.org that regularly support candidates for office with decidedly pro-war agendas, silence on the threat of the military industrial congressional complex is required for the sake of unity.."--the organizers of 99% Spring and its participants are going to shout at their government and the 1%, "support the US war industries to make larger profits abroad to promote employment of Americans! give us a shares of war profits the 1% monopolize! We want to enjoy bundles of bills that the US war industries employing us and the US soldiers from us immerse in pools of non-American blood!" there're any differences between the mentality of the 1% and that of the US 99%.
warlike-nation  labor-union  unity  ngo  responsibility  ML-King-Jr  gandhi  war-industries  colonialism  occupation  war  silence  american-justice  american-style  war-addiction-nation  movements  disgust  usa  from delicious
8 weeks ago by willowtrees
Pambazuka - Kony2012: militarization and disinformation blowback | Horace Campbell 2012-03-22, Issue 578
from the page: "..The campaign, Kony 2012, is a classic example of military disinformation. The success in tapping into the emotions of 80 million young persons has exposed its linkages to the disinformation and cyber warfare capabilities of the US defense infrastructure. Ugandans have already responded with clarity to this manipulation of the war in their society.. Disinformation and Ideological coercion of US citizens to support the military-industrial complex has been most manifest in the propaganda war over terrorism... In this disinformation blowback, we have been given a very clear window into how the military information operatives are studying ‘social media’ to ‘cleverly target’ young persons in order to lobotomize them in preparation for the era of singularity... This Kony2012 video has reinforced my own conviction that demilitarization and peace in Africa is intricately connected to demilitarization and peace in the United States.
r2p  humanitarian-intervention  militarization  campaign  uganda  cyberwar  cyber  propaganda  video  youths  usa  africa  war  manipulation  disinformation  media  from delicious
9 weeks ago by willowtrees
Age of Ignorance by Charles Simic | March 20, 2012, The New York Review of Books
history-education  democracy  indifference  stupid  ignorance  usa  Charles-Simic  education  from delicious
9 weeks ago by willowtrees
Obama: Nuclear terrorism remains a threat 4 | 27 Mar 2012, Al Jazeera
(8)though human-beings cannot resolve the situation of Fukushima, i.e., they cannot repair those broken nuclear reactors and fuel storages, nor can they absolutely regather released radioactive substances, the Japanese government and other nuclear countries' governments (except a few countries' ones) have pretended to be able to do so to keep their nukes.
(9)most of the nuclear countries have underestimated the frequency rate of such nuclear facilities accidents that will lead to nuclear terrorism not committed by "terrorists" but caused by facilities workers' errors, design faults, lack in security features, natural disasters, etc. in other words, those countries deny the possibility that they themselves could become nuclear terrorists against their will.
(10)"fights against terror" is a myth made by the US and NATO countries which have intended to colonize the countries which are rich in natural resources and sit in the geopolitically important area.
terrorism  obama  usa  summit  nuclear-weapons  nuclear  from delicious
9 weeks ago by willowtrees
Obama: Nuclear terrorism remains a threat 3 | 27 Mar 2012, Al Jazeera
(6)nuclear crisis of Fukushima, which is a nuclear terrorism against the world in a sense, was caused by capitalism, especially, TEPCO's policy that puts its shareholder profits ahead of all else; Japanese government's kowtow to TEPCO, the Japanese nuclear village, the nuclear superpower US, and the nuclear villages across the world; the earthquake shocks (the principal clause isn't tsunami); Japanese public blindly trust to scientists, intellectuals, academics, media, science, technology, progress, civilization, governments, and human-beings; and Japanese public indifferences to hibakushas of Japan and other countries.
(7)though nuclear plants in quake-prone Japan could lead to another Fukushima, the Japanese government and power companies with nuclear plants fully intend to reoperate them without preventive measures for such crises, while refusing to uncover the full story behind the crisis and to take their responsibilities.
terrorism  summit  usa  obama  nuclear-weapons  nuclear  from delicious
9 weeks ago by willowtrees
Obama: Nuclear terrorism remains a threat 2| 27 Mar 2012, Al Jazeera
(4)nuclear arms countries have endangered human-beings with their nuclear weapons, DU ordnance, nuclear vessels, and nuclear submarines, and have increased hibakushas by developing, producing, testing, using, and storing them, and have underreported their sufferings. nuclear power plants countries have endangered human-beings with their nuclear facilities, and have increased hibakushas by operating, maintaining, and dismantling them, and have underreported their sufferings. all nuclear countries have increased hibakushas not only in their own countries but in uranium, nuclear fuels, and MOX fuels production countries, which have been accomplices of increasing hibakushas and underreporting their sufferings.
(5)most of the nuclear countries governments have advanced the interests of their countries' nuclear industries, or war industries, in the name of their national security, at the expense of their national security.
summit  terrorism  obama  usa  nuclear  nuclear-weapons  from delicious
9 weeks ago by willowtrees
Obama: Nuclear terrorism remains a threat | 27 Mar 2012, Al Jazeera
exaggerations of threat of nuclear terrorism are cover-ups of the following:
(1)the US with its nuclear arms has terrified other countries into accepting its cruel and selfish demands, with the consequence that it has driven small countries to seek to nuclear development, and other nuclear arms countries have terrified no-nuke countries, too.
(2)most of the countries which exaggerate the threat of nuclear terrorism have taken part in terrorizing civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia and so on.
(3)despite human-beings having no way of making spent nuclear fuels harmless and no storeroom of them for tens of thousands of years, the countries --which have had nuclear arms, have operated nuclear power plants, or have exported nuclear power plants-- have mass-produced nuclear materials in their nuclear reactors, which means that they have pushed ahead with proliferation of nuclear materials across the world and of threat of nuclear terrorism.
summit  security  usa  obama  north-korea  nuclear-weapons  terrorism  nuclear  from delicious
9 weeks ago by willowtrees
Empires Then and Now | March 26, 2012, PaulCraigRoberts.org
if the US empire, without exhaustion, had brought all Americans wealth from conquered lands, would you have approved it?

>The American empire works by stripping Americans of wealth and liberty. This is why the wars cannot end..
for decades, the US empire has extracted resources, wealth and human dignity from countries where US forces have stationed.

>Just like the bombed and murdered Muslims, the American people are victims of the American empire.
if a Japanese says that like the bombed and murdered Asians and Oceanians whose countries the Empire of Japan invaded, the Japanese were victims of the Empire of Japan, what do you think? you might underestimate sufferings of those Muslims. How about making two lists --sufferings of Americans and those of Muslims? it's true that Americans are victims of the US empire. but, just like most Japanese people at the time, most American people have made no desperate endeavor to prevent their military forces from invading other countries.
war-industries  capitalism  amnesia  afghanistan  iraq  endless-war  muslims  paranoia  victimhood  empire  histry  imperialism  usa  from delicious
9 weeks ago by willowtrees
U.S. asks Japan to cover more costs involving Marines' move to Guam | March 25, 2012, Kyodo, The Mainichi Daily News
from the page: "The United States has asked Japan to shoulder part of the costs involved in the planned transfer of U.S. Marines from Okinawa Prefecture... Japan's additional financial burden is expected to amount to more than $1 billion... Concerning the Guam transfer costs, the two countries agreed in 2006 that Japan will provide $6.09 billion of the total expense of $10.27 billion and that the United States will pay about $4.2 billion." --the lands, where US military bases have been located in Okinawa for decades, were grabbed from Okinawans by the US under the US military occupation of Japan. these land-grabs are against the international law, the Convention respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land. the US, the very land-grabber and illegal occupant, is so greedy and shameless that it demands that Japan, the very victim of the US' longstanding illegal occupation, should pay the US compensations for moving its soldiers from Okinawa. this is mafia-style.
military  illegal  landgrab  compentation  occupation  mililtary-bases  usa  asia  japan  money  from delicious
9 weeks ago by willowtrees
Afghan shooting relatives paid compensation | AFP, 25 March 2012, FRANCE 24
from the page: "The families of the dead received 2.3 million Afghanis ($46,000) each while the injured were paid 500,000 Afghanis at a private ceremony... The funds were provided by the US military... if the families received compensation they could be targeted by Taliban militants.."--divide and conquer. for 11 years, many afghans who were killed their families by the US joined taliban, because they learned the hard way that the US and its puppet regime are indifferent to justice and that military occupation causes another victim. in some cases, the US has put the bereaved, who have suffered extreme poverty, to silence by paying just 2,500 dollars for an Afghan's life, by way of "donations", only when the US couldn't make excuses for murdering civilians. others have been compelled to accept their fate or become the nonviolent resistance. it's the US who has mass-produced the bereaved and divided them to prevent Afghan national unity, which is the greatest obstacle for the occupation.
silence  death  civilians  divide-and-conquer  occupation  military  usa  compensation  murders  asia  afghanistan  from delicious
9 weeks ago by willowtrees
Clinton: US still open to Taliban talks | 03.21.12 By MATTHEW LEE and ANNE GEARAN, AP, MiamiHerald.com
definition of peace talk of the US: (1)an invader breaks into a house, murders the family, steals everything, burns the family heritage, and says aiming a gun at the bereaved, "you're terrorists. I'm going to occupy this house to wait for opportunity for break-in next door. I test new guns here, and build pipelines, through which I let my plunder flow into my house. if you accept it, you can get the honor of serving for me. if not, kill you!" (2)the family of an invader say, "he's a mischievous innocent boy and sometimes plays a trick at home too. because I show tolerance to him, you must do so and share the parenting of my proud boy. ... it's not my fault for his character! I did my best. due to your tolerance, he became a murderer. because we are victims of your tolerance, you must send him home by yourself at the risk of your life, must forget everything except that we're your victims, and must pay compensation to us. then, I generously treat you not as beast but as subhuman."
shameless  clinton  afghanistan  occupation  reconciliation  peace-process  peace-talk  negotiation  usa  from delicious
10 weeks ago by willowtrees
The U.S. Empire’s Achilles Heel: Its Barbaric Racism | Glen Ford, 03/14/2012, Black Agenda Report
from the page: "...The Afghans, including those on the U.S. payroll, repeatedly use the word “disrespect” to describe American behavior. But honest people back here in the belly of the beast know that the more accurate term is racism. The United States cannot help but be a serial abuser of the rights of the people it occupies, especially those who are thought of as non-white, because it is a thoroughly racist nation. A superpower military allows them to act out this characteristic with impunity... They know they are viewed collectively as less than human by the powers in Washington – and, if they don’t call it racism, we should, because we know our fellow Americans very well... The United States was conceived as an empire built on the labor of Blacks and the land of dead natives, an ever-expanding sphere of exploitation and plunder – energized by an abiding and general racism that is, itself, the main obstacle to establishing a lasting American anti-war movement."
history  barbarism  occupation  military  indigenous-people  black  exploitation  empire  movements  antiwar  pakistan  iraq  racism  murders  death  civilians  usa  asia  afghanistan  from delicious
10 weeks ago by willowtrees
19 March 2012: Rise in international arms transfers is driven by Asian demand, says SIPRI — www.sipri.org
from the page: "Asia and Oceania accounted for 44 per cent of global arms imports... India was the world’s largest recipient of arms, accounting for 10 per cent of global arms imports. The four next largest recipients of arms in 2007–2011 were South Korea (6 per cent of arms transfers), Pakistan (5 per cent), China (5 per cent) and Singapore (4 per cent)." --the US uses its asian "allies" as shields against china and north korea. it's like one dog making off with a bone two others are fighting over. "driven by Asian demand"? because the US and NATO members, whose arms demands are hitting a ceiling due to their deteriorating economic conditions, need "asian demand", they artificially driving "asian demand" by raising tensions in asia. as a consequence of tensions in asia, conflicts and exhaustion among asian countries will enable the US and NATO members to keep making easy money by arms-exports and getting natural resources preferentially as they always have been doing so in the past.
usa  singapore  oceania  asia  south-korea  india  china  arms-trade  from delicious
10 weeks ago by willowtrees
the parliament in Kabul urged Karzai to revoke an agreement that protects foreign troops in the country from facing legal proceedings in Afghanistan | Mar 18, 2012 Monsters and Critics
from the page: ".. Military officials with the NATO-led international forces have said the legal status of international soldiers is regulated in the military technical agreement between Afghanistan and the international community and 'very clearly regulates the responsibility for the legal handling of any activities of the international soldiers..."--NATO and the US, which have occupied Afghanistan illegally and blatantly disregarded the international laws, are preaching about laws. their shamelessness takes the biscuit. some sorts of agreements, SOFAs and VFAs (Visiting Forces Agreements), MTA, etc., are euphemisms for military occupation. with their overwhelming military power, the world powers force weak countries to give up their sovereignties, which go against basic principles of the UN Charter. on the authority of those INHUMANE, UNFAIR, and UNEQUAL agreements, the people of the world powers enjoy the privileges by violating human dignity of the people of weak countries.
afghanistan  protest  sovereignty  death  civilians  occupation  law  nato  usa  agreements  isaf  from delicious
10 weeks ago by willowtrees
Afghan lawmakers reject military agreement with ISAF | 24/10/2011, RIA Novosti
from the page: "Afghanistan’s lower house of parliament rejected on Monday an agreement on technical and military cooperation between the Afghan government and the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the Pajhwok news agency reported. The military-technical agreement between the interim government in Afghanistan and ISAF was signed in December 2001 but submitted to the lower house of Afghan parliament only in September 2011.The majority of lawmakers stated on Monday that the agreement with ISAF violated the country’s sovereignty... Under the agreement, the ISAF has complete and unimpeded freedom of movement or action throughout the territory and airspace of Afghanistan."
freedom  sovereignty  occupation  asia  afghanistan  immunity  military  isaf  usa  nato  agreemet  from delicious
10 weeks ago by willowtrees
End the Crime That Is the War on Afghanistan | by Prof. Francis Boyle, Global Research, March 17, 2012 warisacrime.org
from the page: "...Clearly what is going on now in Afghanistan is not self-defense. Let's be honest. We all know it. At best this is reprisal, retaliation, vengeance, catharsis. Call it what you want, but it is not self-defense. And retaliation is never self-defense. Indeed that was the official position of the United States government even during the darkest days of the Vietnam War. Then former Undersecretary of State Eugene V. Rostow tried to get the State Department to switch their position. They refused and continued to maintain their position that retaliation is not self-defense. This is not self-defense what we are doing in Afghanistan. Since none of these justifications and pretexts hold up as a matter of law, then what the United States government today is doing against Afghanistan constitutes armed aggression. It is illegal. There is no authority for this.
illegal  withdrawal  definition  terror  negotiation  nato  international-law  war-crimes  legality  war  military  usa  afghanistan  from delicious
10 weeks ago by willowtrees
The Media's Coverup of the Afghan Massacre | by Stephen Lendman, Global Research, March 18, 2012
from the page: "...One surviving family member said:“I don’t want any compensation. I don’t want money. I don’t want a trip to Mecca. I don’t want a house. I want nothing. But what I absolutely want is the punishment of the Americans. This is my demand, my demand, my demand and my demand.”...Afghan army head General Sher Mohammad Karimi said US military officials "ignored and blocked" his attempt to investigate the incident. They also prevented Afghan officials from interrogating Bales." In lockstep, US media scoundrels regurgitated Pentagon lies. Outrageously, the Washington Post quoted Captain Chris Alexander, Bales' platoon commander, saying he's "hands down, one of the best soldiers I ever worked with."... A Pentagon statement said Bales received over a dozen medals and badges for combat service and good conduct. His wife Karilyn was quoted, saying "all of the work Bob has done and all the sacrifices he has made for his love of his country, family and friends."..."
monster  iraq  compensation  immunity  kissinger  war  torture  atrocity  mercenary  pmc  war-crimes  american-style  history  washington-post  NYT  lies  journalism  death  civilians  occupation  usa  massacre  asia  afghanistan  from delicious
10 weeks ago by willowtrees
U.S. demands repair of Futenma base be included in bilateral report | March 18, Kyodo, Kyodo News
the US has sheeted home 70~80% of the cost of its military bases in Japan to the Japanese. e.g., its bases' construction, repair and maintenance costs, and its soldiers' and their families' housing and entertainment costs. they live much more luxuriously in Japan than the ordinary Japanese. before invading other countries, they train in those bases, destroying the living environment of Okinawans, and the Japanese government pays compensations for the horrible environment to them. Japanese taxpayers' money are also used for compensations to victims of crimes committed by US soldiers in Japan, who run into sanctuary, US bases, directly after committing crimes, and the US sends them back to the US to secure immunity from Japanese investigations and criminal trials and forces the Japanese to give up their dignity, which the US has repeated for 67 years, with the consequence that servility has taken root in the Japanese. US soldiers and their families are the privileged classes in Japan.
occupation  exploitation  military-bases  okinawa  japan  usa  mafia  money  from delicious
10 weeks ago by willowtrees
批評する工房のパレット: 自衛隊は誰のために戦うのか？--「３・１１以後」における自衛隊の機能と役割をめぐって | Kenji Nakao, mar 18, 2012
from the page: "..安保体制が無期限に存続する限り、自衛隊の海外における部隊展開は、半永久的に米軍の後方支援を担わされるか、それとも自衛隊員が「国際の平和と安全／安定」という「大義」の下で、米軍とNATO軍を中心とした多国籍軍の「戦略的捨て石」..。 読売は..事実上の戦闘行為ができるように法「改正」をしろ、と言っている..。「武器使用」緩和は、単年度ベースの防衛予算そのものも膨張させる..。だから防衛省は、当然にも、消極的...「戦争をたたわない自衛隊」..だからこそ入隊したという自衛隊員の比率はかなり多い... 何の責任も負わない..マスコミや学者、また自衛隊を外交の駒としか考えない外務省は好き勝手に自衛隊員を引きまわす..。
「防災＝国防戦略」を論じるものが一つとして見当たらない.. 腐敗した南スーダンの現政権を支えるために南スーダンの武装勢力が戦うことが、今自衛隊に問われていることではないはずだ。自衛隊に求められているのは..国内における「防災」を担いえる装備の拡充と技術の向上..。
自衛隊基地が米軍の思惑次第でいつでも「共同使用」できるようになる..「共同使用」は在日米軍の永久駐留を誤魔化すためのトリック..
endless-occupation  military-bases  natural-disaster  security  Self-Defense-Forces  relaxation  restrictions  use-of-weapons  UN  peacekeeping-mission  military  colonies  japan  usa  anpo  from delicious
10 weeks ago by willowtrees
Camillo mac Bica:  The People’s Resolution  | March 16, 2012, Information Clearing House
from the page: "I and other Veterans For Peace from Long Island will be lobbying members of Congress first to educate them regarding what is problematic, irresponsible, and even dangerous about Senate Resolution S. RES. 380 and its counterpart in the House H. RES. 568. Then, we will encourage our Legislators to introduce and sponsor what I perhaps hubristically term the “People’s Resolution" as a more sane and efficient alternative response to the Iranian “crisis.”"
sanctions  morality  international-law  history  invasion  israel  nuclear-weapons  resistance  veterans  middle-east  iran  usa  from delicious
11 weeks ago by willowtrees
Mainichi scoop on Mongolia's nuclear plans highlights problems in dealing with waste | March 13, 2012, The Mainichi Daily News
from the page: ""Would you please help the Mongolian people who know nothing about the plan. Mongolia is friendly to Japan, Japanese media certainly has influence on the country," the [US nuclear] expert said... Experts share the view that nuclear plants cannot be built in areas without water. I repeatedly asked Mongolian officials responsible for nuclear power policy how they can build nuclear plants at the sites without water. However, they only emphasized that all the three sites meet the safety standards for nuclear plants set by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). An Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry official, who is familiar with Mongolian affairs, said, "Mongolians are smart but their knowledge of atomic energy isn't that good ..." In other words, Japan and the United States proposed to build a spent nuclear waste disposal facility in Mongolia, a country that has little knowledge of nuclear energy. .."
asia  mongol  nuclear-waste  nuclear  usa  japan  journalism  from delicious
11 weeks ago by willowtrees
PressTV - India, South Korea increase oil purchases from Iran: IEA, Mar 15, 2012
from the page: "According to an IEA report, released on Wednesday, both Seoul and New Delhi sharply raised their oil purchases from Iran in January."
IEA  trade  south-korea  india  asia  sanctions  usa  middle-east  iran  oil  from delicious
11 weeks ago by willowtrees
Probe team: Women sexually assaulted before killing in Panjwai | by Absin ZaheeronMar 17, 2012 Pajhwok Afghan News
from the page: "The Wolesi Jirga’s, or lower house of Parliament, delegation investigating the Kandahar shootings by US troops said besides killing 16 civilians, the soldiers sexually assaulted them... MP Hamidzai Lali, representing Kandahar province and a delegation member, said before the gun attack, US soldiers physically manhandled the two women and later turned their weapons on the helpless residents. Shakiba Hashami, another delegation member, confirmed the vicious attack, adding about 15 to 20 American soldiers were involved in the killings and even helicopters were seen hovering the areas. Quoting local residents, Hashami, said ahead of the Sunday tragedy, there was a blast in the area and foreign troops had warned of revenge killings. The Afghan Parliamentarians strongly condemned the incident and demanded a public trial for the perpetrators."
trials  investigation  kandahar  women  rape  murders  military  usa  asia  afghanistan  from delicious
11 weeks ago by willowtrees
The end: It’s time to leave Afghanistan | By Fred Kaplan, Slate In Print: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 Tampa Bay Times
>..the new law [a ban of the use of mercenaries to protect foreign business and aid workers]will shut down nearly every development project..
not "development" but "exploitation and looting" is right.

>after the string of incidents, no Afghan can be regarded as reliable, any more than Afghans can regard any American as reliable.
americans' deep paranoia and amnesia.

>The U.S. and NATO strategy in Afghanistan relies on building trust..
some descendants of slaveowners continue to treasure the delusion that slaves trust slaveowners. they want to keep and justify slavery. the same goes for occupation.

>..NATO troops train and gradually hand over authority to the Afghan army..
the US wants to maintain puppet regimes for itself using oppression by Afghan army and police.

>..even the shootings of the two U.S. officers..seem to have been motivated by unique circumstances..
ignoring the fact that Afghans have endured the US occupation for more than a decade is dehumanizing Afghans.
war-industries  pmc  anomalies  aid  protest  stupid  training  trust  death  civilians  withdrawal  afghanistan  usa  hypocrisy  disgust  from delicious
11 weeks ago by willowtrees
Up to 20 US troops executed Panjwai massacre: probe | by Bashir Ahmad NaadimonMar 15, 2012 Pajhwok Afghan News
from the page:"A parliamentary probe team on Thursday said up to 20 American troops were involved in Sunday’s killing of 16 civilians in southern Kandahar province... He added the attack lasted one hour involving two groups of American soldiers in the middle of the night on Sunday... He said the people they met had warned if the responsible troops were not punished, they would launch a movement against Afghans who had agreed to foreign troops’ presence in Afghanistan under the first Bonn conference in 2001. The lawmaker said the Wolesi Jirga would not sit silent until the killers were prosecuted in Afghanistan. "If the international community does not play its role in punishing the perpetrators, the Wolesi Jirga would declare foreign troops as occupying forces, like the Russians," Lali warned. President Hamid Karzai on Thursday asked the US to pull out all its troops from Afghan villages in response to the killings."
anger  occupation  prosecution  UN  international-community  children  qatar  investigation  kandahar  massacre  soldiers  military  usa  asia  afghanistan  death  civilians  from delicious
11 weeks ago by willowtrees
Students protest over Afghan shootings | March 13, 2012, AFP, News.com.au
from the page: "About 400 university students in Jalalabad shouted "Death to America - Death to Obama".. protesters dispersed peacefully.."--I hope Afghans will shout so deafeningly that they freeze foreign soldiers, stop Afghan soldiers, police and warlords from pointing the gun at their people, and convince Afghan armed resistance that they can remove all invaders from Afghanistan without resort to arms. But because their raising voices highly endanger their lives, my hope is only selfish. I pray that they'd survive. It's we, the people of the US and its allies, who must shout at the top of voices against occupations, in response to desperate Afghans' shouts. I hope Afghans will act so carefully that they can prevent occupiers, puppets, nearby countries, etc. from taking advantage of their resistance, and can prevent themselves from dying prematurely and sidestepping off the road to their ideal nation, which will harmonize with their religion and culture and promote public welfare.
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11 weeks ago by willowtrees
The systemic atrocity of Afghanistan's occupation | Ross Caputi, 13 March 2012 | guardian.co.uk
It's inevitable for soldiers to be a monster in battlefields, but... Why didn't the US soldiers, who knew the possibility to be homeless and understood an issue on social inequality in the US, unleash their rage before going to Iraq? Even if they realized the truth in Iraq, why didn't they turn their rage on the US govt in Iraq, instead of keeping killing? Why didn't Americans at home, who heard the news of Falluja, encourage them to do so? Their loneliness, grief, confusion, etc. have been created by the US govt, US society and US people, and must be unleashed in the US. Instead, they always use the people of occupied countries as outlets for those emotions. Though they're violent abroad, most of them are sheep at home. They don't want to hurt Americans and exercise their self-control, which they cast off abroad. US soldiers and ordinary Americans, who aren't in the military today and ignore sufferings of occupied people, want to keep enjoying a sense of mastery over non-Americans.
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11 weeks ago by willowtrees
Afghan Humanitarian Crisis, Civilian Casualties, and Drone Warfare | Democracy Now Interviews Kathy Kelly, Mar 12, 2012,
from the page: "..I think that the United States should withdraw the troops from Afghanistan. But I believe the United States should pay reparations, along with other countries that have invaded and occupied and wrecked and created carnage in Afghanistan. And so I’m thinking of Russia, I’m thinking of Pakistan. All of these countries should be responsible to pay reparations for the suffering caused. And that money should be entrusted to people in Afghanistan who have had a track record of being able to sustain humanitarian work, and possibly to other NGOs, but not to the United States, not given the abysmal track record of the United States in the expenditures of billions and billions of dollars that have helped to fuel corruption. So, yes, I believe the United States troops should leave, and the United States should try to understand security for Afghans, not only in terms of militarism, but food security, health security, availability of clean water, availability of electricity. "
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11 weeks ago by willowtrees
The Contradictions of Modern Feminism: The Triumph of Machine Politics Over Feminism | by John Pilger, Global Research, March 8, 2012
from the page: "..The devotion of this new "feminist icon" to imperial war is impressive, if strange... the point is that celebration of this kind of politician, regardless of gender, has nothing to do with feminism... In the west, "glass ceilings" remain the issue-of-choice of bourgeois feminism. How many women who "make it" in politics speak out against the machine, reaching down to women left behind? How many resist the addiction of vanity to power and the media? How many use their platforms, to analyse and expose the psychopathic militarism and its industries of death and lies that contaminate our political, cultural and media life and are the source of so much violence against women in stricken, faraway countries, if not against women at home? Who spoke out against Julia Gillard's junket to Israel in the wake of the massacre of 1400 people in Gaza, mostly women and children, and her unctuous support for their killers?
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11 weeks ago by willowtrees
Massacre in Afghanistan: US soldier kills 16 villagers, including 9 children | By Patrick Martin 12 March 2012, WSWS
from the page: "..The victims included four girls six years old or younger... Samid Khan, a poor farmer, returned to the village to find his entire family shot to death and their bodies burned inside his home. "This is an anti-human and anti-Islamic act," he told the press. "Nobody is allowed in any religion in the world to kill children and women." He and his neighbors demanded that the killer be handed over to the Afghan government for punishment. According to one local Afghan official, villagers loaded the bodies of the victims into cars and drove to the entrance of the nearby American base to demand justice. "They were very angry," he said. "They wanted to do something to take revenge." ... In one such incident, only two days before the massacre in Kandahar province, NATO helicopters supposedly hunting insurgents fired on a group of civilians in Kapisa province, in eastern Afghanistan, killing four and wounding three. Some 1,200 people marched in protest in Kapisa on Saturday."
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11 weeks ago by willowtrees
US Kills 16 Civilians in Afghanistan: Kabul Government | By Reuters March 11, 2012, Information Clearing House
from the page: "Western forces shot dead 16 civilians including nine children in southern Kandahar province on Sunday, Afghan officials said, in a rampage that witnesses said was carried out by American soldiers who were laughing and appeared drunk. One Afghan father who said his children were killed in the shooting spree accused soldiers of later burning the bodies. Witnesses told Reuters they saw a group of U.S. soldiers arrive at their village in Kandahar's Panjwayi district at around 2 am, enter homes and open fire."
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11 weeks ago by willowtrees
Atrocities Update: The Afghanistan War's Lethal and Endemic Pattern | Mar 11, 2012,VCNV. org
from the page: "March 11 Either a lone United States service member or a small group wandered off a military base in Kandahar, entered 3 homes and opened fire on the people inside, killing at least 16 civilians, including 3 women and 9 children. At least five people were wounded. In at least one home, the soldier(s) attempted to burn the victims’ bodies.
March 9 Four Afghans were killed and three wounded when NATO/ISAF coalition helicopters apparently hunting Taliban insurgents fired instead on villagers."
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11 weeks ago by willowtrees
US Soldiers Massacre 16 Afghan Civilians in Killing Spree | by John Glaser, March 11, 2012, antiwar.com
mistake? Though the US tries to distinguish between this intended murder committed by drunk US soldiers and intended ones committed by sober US soldiers on orders from their supervisors (the chief is Obama) and to treat this murder as a rare case to justify their repeating murders and occupation of Afghanistan. But a phrase "were they (children, women, and elder) taliban?" said by the bereaved family of this murder has been repeated by Afghans many times. The people of countries where the US military bases are located can easily show by their examples that the US soldiers always treat those people as subhumans, regardless of whether they are sober or not, traumatized or not, in a disorderly country or not. Occupation put occupiers above laws and bring a sense of mastery to them. Playing the victim, many Americans, who oppose the war on the grounds of wasting their tax money, blame Afghans for not cooperating with the US, and refuse to mention Afghans' sufferings, enjoy this sense, too.
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11 weeks ago by willowtrees
occupation cases
OCCUPATION OF JAPAN
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12 weeks ago by willowtrees
Business as usual for top arms producers despite slowdown in arms sales | SIPRI, 27 February 2012
from the page: "...Sales by the 44 US-based companies accounted for over 60 per cent of all arms sales by the Top 100 arms-producing companies in 2010. The 30 companies based in Western Europe accounted for a further 29 per cent. The global arms industry continues to be highly concentrated, with the top 10 arms-producing companies accounting for 56 per cent, or $230 billion... Data for 2010 shows a continuing increase in the sales of military services–including systems support, training, logistics, and maintenance, repair and overhaul... Combined military sales for these companies rose from $22.3 billion in 2002 to $55 billion in 2010, a 147 per cent increase in real terms. ..as a result of outsourcing and changes in military technologies, such services will play a key role in company strategies for the foreseeable future. ...a large number of other companies in the Top 100 that are not specialized military services companies also generate significant sales from military services.
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12 weeks ago by willowtrees
Mossad, CIA and Blackwater operate in Syria - report | 07 March 2012, RT
from the page: "A security operation in Homs reveals Mossad, CIA and Blackwater are involved in the military violence in this part of Syria, as over 700 Arab and Western gunmen and Israeli, American and European-made weapons were detained in Baba Amr district. Syrian security forces got yet further proof of Western powers’ military involvement in Syria’s internal conflict, reports Al-Manar, a news agency, affiliated with Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based militant group and political party. “The captured gunmen held Arab nationalities, including Gulf, Iraqi, and Lebanese. Among them were also Qatari intelligence agents and non-Arab fighters from Afghanistan, Turkey, and some European countries like France,” the agency quotes Syrian expert in strategic affairs Salim Harba as saying... The recent Stratfor leak and hacked email of the company’s director of analysis also suggest undercover NATO troops are already on the ground in Syria.
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12 weeks ago by willowtrees
“Human Rights” Warriors for Empire | by Glen Ford, 02/15/2012, BAR
from the page: ...Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have chosen sides in the Washington-backed belligerency – the side of Empire... The French “Left” lifted hardly a finger while a million Algerians died in the struggle for independence, and have not proved effective allies of formerly colonized people in the 50 years, since. Among the European imperial powers, only Portugal’s so-called Carnation Revolution of 1974, a coup by young officers, resulted in substantial relief for the subjects of empire: the withdrawal of troops from Portugal’s African colonies... All that many U.S. lefties seemed to want was to get the Republicans off their backs, in 2008, and to Hell with the rest of the world... There is no such thing as an anti-war activist who is not an anti-imperialist. And the only job of an anti-imperialist in the belly of the beast is to disarm the beast. Absent that, s/he is useless to humanity... Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are part of the problem. "
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12 weeks ago by willowtrees
Afghan troops kill two more US soldiers in Kandahar | By Patrick Martin 2 March 2012, WSWS
Afghanistan has been a war-torn country since before being invaded, but the US has been forcing Afghans into more difficult situation. the occupied people are forced by the occupier to make a painful decision between the two sides, the occupier and the resistance. both eat dirt and risk their lives. to survive and to defend their families, some are forced to bend their principles and to pretend to be a collaborator. some believe occupiers' lies. once a collaborator, it's hard for them to change their course. some are driven to the wall, decide to go over to the opposite side, betray both sides, and are finally killed like dirt by either side.
while at home the US is ready to punish a young ordinary American "traitor" heavily as a lesson to Americans; outside the US, it has been bribing, torturing, and terrorizing ordinary people to become a traitor to their beloved nations, and been killing the nameless people on the spot, who had refused to do so or to keep on being a collaborator.
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march 2012 by willowtrees
Afghanistan : Quran burning protests rage on, injuring 7 more NATO troops | By Heidi Vogt and Rahim Faiez, February 26, 2012, Associated Press
from the page: "In Kunduz province, thousands of demonstrators started out protesting peacefully but then the group turned violent as they tried to enter the district's largest city, said Amanuddin Quriashi, district administrator. People in the crowd fired on police and threw grenades at a US base on the city outskirts, he said. Seven NATO troops were wounded and one protester was killed when troops fired out from the US base, Quriashi said. Another demonstrator was killed by Afghan police, he added. Provincial police spokesman Sarwar Hussaini confirmed the casualties... More than 30 people have been killed in clashes since it emerged Tuesday that copies of the Muslim holy book and other religious materials had been thrown into a fire pit used to burn garbage at Bagram Air Field, a large US base north of Kabul.
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february 2012 by willowtrees
Rivers of Blood, Rivers of Tears The Iraqi People: Criminally Neglected by the International Community Open Letter to The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay | Dirk Adriaensens, BRussells Tribunal, 09 February 2012
from the page: " We sincerely hope your office will closely monitor the human rights abuses of Nouri Al-Maliki’s government, the American “advisers” and the foreign mercenaries who are still present in Iraq. We will never accept that history will be rewritten by the invading powers that illegally occupied a sovereign country, an invasion and occupation that your office has never condemned. "To initiate a war of aggression is essentially an evil thing (…) It is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole", according to the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, which followed World War II. And not once have I seen a word of condemnation from International Human Rights bodies about the illegality of the Anglo-American invasion. Your office has excelled in silence. Silence is complicity. And silence kills.
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february 2012 by willowtrees
US Drone War Reaches Philippines: Some Filipino representatives have objected to encroaching US military domination | by John Glaser, February 28, 2012, antiwar.com
from the page: "The U.S. launched a drone strike in the southern Philippines early this month that reportedly killed 15 members of the Islamic terrorist groups... The airstrike prompted angry reactions from some in the Philippines weary of U.S. breach of their sovereignty. One Philippine representative, Luz Ilagan, called for repealing the U.S. Visiting Forces Agreement and an end to U.S. military intervention in national affairs. Ilagan also called for a probe into what she referred to as the "extensive and intensive intrusion of the U.S. military in Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) operations". She added, “If these reports are true, then U.S. troops are participating in and conducting operations beyond what is allowed in the Visiting Forces Agreement and directly transgressing our sovereignty. More importantly, their participation in these operations is a potential magnet for the Philippines' participation in a brewing U.S.-instigated regional conflict."
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february 2012 by willowtrees
Russia and the changing world | Vladimir Putin, RIA Novosti, 27/02/2012
from the page: "...We cannot accept North Korea's nuclear status. We have consistently advocated the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula - exclusively through political and diplomatic means -- and the early resumption of Six-Party Talks. However, it is evident that not all of our partners share this approach. I am convinced that today it is essential to be particularly careful. It would be inadvisable to try and test the strength of the new North Korean leader and provoke a rash countermeasure. Allow me to recall that North Korea and Russia share a common border and we cannot choose our neighbors. We will continue conducting an active dialogue with the leaders of North Korea and developing good-neighborly relations with it, while at the same time trying to encourage Pyongyang to settle the nuclear issue. Obviously, it would be easier to do this if mutual trust is built up and the inter-Korean dialogue resumes on the peninsula.
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february 2012 by willowtrees
msnbc.com msn Protests erupt over Quran burning in Afghanistan | msnbc
"Afghan policemen form a line outside the American military base during an anti-U.S. demonstration in Mehterlam, on Thursday.
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civil-war  occupation  human-shields  youths  children  usa  military-bases  herat  police  helmand  muslims  kabul  iraq  bangladesh  demonstration  pakistan  malaysia  death  koran  protest  afghanistan  photos  from delicious
february 2012 by willowtrees
Afghans besiege US base in protest over Quran burning | msnbc, 2012/02/21
"A boy watches as a young man aims an airgun at U.S. soldiers at the gate of Bagram airbase on Feb. 21, 2012."
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february 2012 by willowtrees
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harmful ⊕  Harvard ⊕  hate-crime ⊕  hate-speech ⊕  hatred ⊕  hawaii ⊕  hazara ⊕  health ⊕  health-care ⊕  health-insurance ⊕  health-services ⊕  health-system ⊕  healthcare ⊕  hearing ⊕  hedge-funds ⊕  hegemony ⊕  helmand ⊕  helmanda ⊕  helplessness ⊕  herat ⊕  herbicide ⊕  heritage ⊕  heritage-of-mankind ⊕  heroes ⊕  heroin ⊕  Hewlett-Packard ⊕  Hezb-e-Islami ⊕  hezbollah ⊕  hibakusha ⊕  high-seas ⊕  high-tech-weapons ⊕  highway ⊕  hisory ⊕  hisotry ⊕  historian ⊕  history ⊕  history-education ⊕  histry ⊕  hit ⊕  hit-and-run ⊕  Hitachi ⊕  HIV/AIDS ⊕  hollywood ⊕  holocaust ⊕  homeless ⊕  honduras ⊕  hong-kong ⊕  honor ⊕  honors ⊕  hopeless ⊕  horn-of-africa ⊕  horror ⊕  hospitals ⊕  hostility ⊕  household ⊕  housing ⊕  howard-zinn ⊕  hrw ⊕  HTS ⊕  Huffington-Post ⊕  human- ⊕  human-beings ⊕  human-experiment ⊕  human-guinea-pig ⊕  human-rights ⊕  human-shields ⊕  humanism ⊕  humanitarian-imperialism ⊕  humanitarian-intervention ⊕  humanity ⊕  humiliation ⊕  hummingbird ⊕  Hungary ⊕  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kyrgyzstan ⊕  L-3 ⊕  labor ⊕  labor-union ⊕  landfill ⊕  landgrab ⊕  landmines ⊕  laos ⊕  lapdog ⊕  laser ⊕  last-words ⊕  last-writing ⊕  latimes ⊕  latin-america ⊕  latvia ⊕  launchpad ⊕  laundering ⊕  law ⊕  law-enforcement ⊕  law-of-the-jungle ⊕  law-of-war ⊕  lawsuit ⊕  layoff ⊕  leader ⊕  leadership ⊕  leak ⊕  lebanon ⊕  lecture ⊕  left ⊕  legal ⊕  legal-costs ⊕  legalism ⊕  legality ⊕  legalization ⊕  legislation ⊕  legitimacy ⊕  legitimization ⊕  lese-majesty ⊕  Lesotho ⊕  letter ⊕  leukemia ⊕  liberal ⊕  liberal-imperialism ⊕  liberalism ⊕  liberator ⊕  liberia ⊕  liberties ⊕  library ⊕  libya ⊕  lies ⊕  life ⊕  liquidity ⊕  list ⊕  literature ⊕  lithium ⊕  lithuania ⊕  LLC ⊕  loans ⊕  lobby ⊕  local ⊕  local-economies ⊕  local-paper ⊕  localization ⊕  lockheed ⊕  Lockheed-Martin ⊕  logar ⊕  logging ⊕  logistics ⊕  London ⊕  London-bankers ⊕  loopholes ⊕  loot ⊕  looting ⊕  loser ⊕  loya-jirga ⊕  loyalty ⊕  Luxembourg ⊕  lynch ⊕  Macedonia ⊕  mafia ⊕  Magnumphotos ⊕  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Mission-Essential-Personnel ⊕  missionaries ⊕  mistakes ⊕  mistrust ⊕  MIT ⊕  ML-King-Jr ⊕  mlitary ⊕  mobility ⊕  modernization ⊕  monarchy ⊕  monetary-system ⊕  money ⊕  mongol ⊕  monitoring ⊕  monopoly ⊕  monsanto ⊕  monster ⊕  moral ⊕  morality ⊕  Morgan-Stanley ⊕  morocco ⊕  mosaic-theory ⊕  mothers ⊕  Motorola ⊕  mouthpiece-organ ⊕  movements ⊕  moveon.org ⊕  MSF ⊕  MSNBC ⊕  Mullah-Omar ⊕  multinationals ⊕  murders ⊕  museum ⊕  music ⊕  muslim ⊕  muslims ⊕  mutually-assured-destruction ⊕  Myanmar ⊕  myth ⊕  myths ⊕  nafta ⊕  nakba ⊕  names ⊕  namibia ⊕  Nangarhar ⊕  Nanking ⊕  nanotechnology ⊕  naomi-wolf ⊕  narcissism ⊕  narcissistic-nation ⊕  narrative ⊕  NASA ⊕  nation-building ⊕  nation-magazine ⊕  national-mobilisation ⊕  national-paper ⊕  national-treasure ⊕  nationalism ⊕  nationality ⊕  nato ⊕  natural ⊕  natural-disaster ⊕  natural-gas ⊕  natural-resources ⊕  nazis ⊕  NBC ⊕  neglect ⊕  negligence ⊕  negotiation ⊕  neoconservatism ⊕  neoliberalism ⊕  nepal ⊕  nestle ⊕  netherlands ⊕  neutral ⊕  neutrality ⊕  new-zealand ⊕  News-Corp ⊕  newspapers ⊕  Newsweek ⊕  ngo ⊕  Nicaragua ⊕  Niger ⊕  nigeria ⊕  nihilism ⊕  Nike ⊕  Nimroz ⊕  noam-chomsky ⊕  nobel-prize ⊕  noise ⊕  nokia ⊕  non-lethal ⊕  non-self-governing-territories ⊕  nonproliferation ⊕  nonrandom-sampling ⊕  nonviolence ⊕  north-korea ⊕  northern-alliance ⊕  Northern-Mariana-Islands ⊕  Northrop-Grumman ⊕  norway ⊕  not-sit-right ⊕  nothing ⊕  NPO ⊕  npt ⊕  nuclear ⊕  nuclear-industry ⊕  nuclear-power ⊕  nuclear-test ⊕  nuclear-umbrella ⊕  nuclear-waste ⊕  nuclear-weapons ⊕  nuclearism ⊕  nucler ⊕  nuremberg ⊕  Nuristan ⊕  NWFZ ⊕  nyt ⊕  obama ⊕  obesity ⊕  obey ⊕  obituary ⊕  objection ⊕  objectivity ⊕  obligation ⊕  occupancy ⊕  occupation ⊕  oceania ⊕  oceanisa ⊕  offer ⊕  official-corruption ⊕  officials ⊕  offshore ⊕  oil ⊕  oil-money ⊕  okinawa ⊕  oman ⊕  omissioin ⊕  omission ⊕  one-sided ⊕  one-state-solution ⊕  open-air-tests ⊕  operation-tomodachi ⊕  opium ⊕  opposition ⊕  oppression ⊕  orchard ⊕  organ-broker ⊕  organophosphate ⊕  orientalism ⊕  orphans ⊕  osprey ⊕  outsource ⊕  ovum ⊕  oxfam ⊕  pacific ⊕  pacifism ⊕  pact ⊕  pain ⊕  paki ⊕  pakistan ⊕  pakita ⊕  palawan ⊕  palestine ⊕  panama ⊕  panic ⊕  Papua-New-Guinea ⊕  paradise ⊕  paraguay ⊕  paranoia ⊕  parasites ⊕  parliament ⊕  parody ⊕  particularisms ⊕  partition ⊕  pashtuns ⊕  Pashtunwali ⊕  passivity ⊕  passport ⊕  pastor ⊕  patent ⊕  patriotism ⊕  pattern ⊕  pay ⊕  PC ⊕  pdf ⊕  peace ⊕  peace-process ⊕  peace-talk ⊕  peacekeeping-mission ⊕  peak-oil ⊕  penance ⊕  Pentagon ⊕  Pentagon-funded ⊕  permanency ⊕  personality-disorder ⊕  peru ⊕  pesticides ⊕  petition ⊕  pharmaceutical-industry ⊕  philanthropy ⊕  philippines ⊕  phosphorus ⊕  photo ⊕  photojournalism ⊕  photos ⊕  piano ⊕  PIC ⊕  pimping ⊕  pipeline ⊕  pipelines ⊕  pirates ⊕  plunder ⊕  plutocracy ⊕  plutonium ⊕  pmc ⊕  poetry ⊕  poland ⊕  police ⊕  police-state ⊕  polio ⊕  political-corruption ⊕  political-participation ⊕  political-theater ⊕  politicization ⊕  politics ⊕  poll ⊕  polling-centres ⊕  Polluter-Pays-Principle ⊕  Ponzi-scheme ⊕  poppy ⊕  population ⊕  portugal ⊕  poverty ⊕  precautions ⊕  precondition ⊕  prejudices ⊕  preposterous ⊕  presidents ⊕  press ⊕  pressure ⊕  preventive-detention ⊕  preventive-war ⊕  price ⊕  price-manipulation ⊕  priority ⊕  prisoner-exchange ⊕  prisons ⊕  privacy ⊕  privatization ⊕  privilege ⊕  privileged-belligerent ⊕  privileges ⊕  process-stories ⊕  proconsul ⊕  product-liability ⊕  productivity ⊕  professional ⊕  profit-margin ⊕  profits ⊕  progress ⊕  projects ⊕  proletariat ⊕  propaganda ⊕  prosecution ⊕  prosecutor ⊕  prostitution ⊕  protectionaism ⊕  protectorate ⊕  protest ⊕  provocation ⊕  prt ⊕  pseudo ⊕  psychiatrist ⊕  psychologist ⊕  psychology ⊕  ptsd ⊕  public ⊕  public-goods ⊕  public-opinion ⊕  public-service ⊕  public-space ⊕  publicity-stunt ⊕  publicly-owned ⊕  Puerto-Rico ⊕  pulitzer ⊕  punishment ⊕  puppet ⊕  putin ⊕  qatar ⊕  quote ⊕  r2p ⊕  race ⊕  racism ⊕  radicalization ⊕  radioactive-waste ⊕  raid ⊕  ramadi ⊕  ranking ⊕  rape ⊕  rare-earth ⊕  Ratchet ⊕  rats ⊕  ravages ⊕  rcc ⊕  realism ⊕  rearmament ⊕  rebellion ⊕  recession ⊕  reconciliation ⊕  reconstruction ⊕  recreation ⊕  recruit ⊕  recruiter ⊕  referendum ⊕  refueling ⊕  refugees ⊕  regulation ⊕  regulations ⊕  reinforcement ⊕  rejectionism ⊕  relationship ⊕  relaxation ⊕  religion ⊕  relocation ⊕  rendition ⊕  renditon ⊕  Rendon ⊕  reparation ⊕  reparations ⊕  reports ⊕  repression ⊕  reproduction ⊕  reputation ⊕  rescue ⊕  research ⊕  resentment ⊕  resignation ⊕  resistance ⊕  resolution ⊕  resouces ⊕  resources ⊕  responsibility ⊕  restitution ⊕  restoration ⊕  restrictions ⊕  retaliation ⊕  retirement ⊕  revenge ⊕  revolution ⊕  rewriting ⊕  rhetoric ⊕  right-to-return ⊕  rio-tinto ⊕  riot ⊕  rip-off ⊕  road ⊕  robots ⊕  rocks ⊕  rogue-state ⊕  Rolls-Royce ⊕  roman ⊕  romania ⊕  roundabout-export ⊕  RRW ⊕  rules ⊕  ruling ⊕  ruling-class ⊕  rumors ⊕  run-off-vote ⊕  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