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Monday, March 28, 2011
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011
MIlitary Action in Libya Already Exceeds UNSC Resolution 1973: Control of Oil is Actual "End"
Libya’s Slippery Slope: We're going down it fast
By Justin Raimondo
March 21, 2011
Barely 24 hours after the first Allied air strikes, President Obama’s high-flying Libyan adventure is losing altitude. The smoke hadn’t cleared from the first air strikes when the head of the Arab League complained that “what happened differs from the no-fly zone objectives. What we want is civilians’ protection, not shelling more civilians.” Russia and China, who abstained at the Security Council, are already getting restless.
There’s trouble...
Obama's Serbia-Solution for Libya; "Split the country and steal the oil"
By Mike Whitney
March 20, 2011 "Information Clearing
House" -- The Obama
administration never would have launched a war on Libya if they didn't have a
puppet-in-waiting ready to take power as soon as the fighting ended. That
puppet appears to be Mustafa Abdul Jalil, Gaddafi's former justice minister. Jalil is presently the opposition leader of the Libyan
National Transitional Council which oversees the insurgents from Al Bayda. This
is not a grassroots movement that embraces the fundamental precepts of
democratic government. It's...
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Predators continue to prowl North Waziristan skies
March 20, 2011 12:11 PM ETBy Bill Roggio
Despite the public protests by top Pakistani political leaders and General Kayani over last Thursday's US Predator strike that killed more than 30 (or 40 depending on which report you reference) people in North Waziristan, and vague threats to shoot the aircraft down, the unmanned hunter-killers continue to fly over the tribal agency. Dawn reports:
Five to eight drones were seen flying at high altitude over different areas of the region where an unmanned aircraft attacked a tribal...
Shabaab recruits 'underage children to fight for us
By BILL ROGGIOMarch 20, 2011 8:01 PM
It isn't every day that you get a terrorist leader to freely admit what an awful human he really is. Late last week, Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, a Shabaab commander and Specially Designated Global Terrorist with links to al Qaeda, proudly told how his organization recruits children to wage jihad. From Garowe:
"We recruit underage children to fight for us, the children are ready to die for their country and religion" said Sheikh Aweys while addressing people in a mosque at Elasha Biyaha camps...
Pakistan ready for peace with the Taliban?
This report from The Express Tribune on the Pakistani government opening negotiations with the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan is the first I've seen in the press. I've heard rumors of this from US military and non-military intelligence officials, and it does seem to fit with other related news reports.
Pakistan has started peace talks with the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), and other militant groups across the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata), in anticipation of early withdrawal of Nato troops from Afghanistan,...
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Karzai Calls On NATO And US To Stop Operations In Afghanistan
By DPA
March 12, 2011 "DPA" -- Kabul - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Saturday that NATO and US should stop their operations in the war-torn country.
"I ask NATO and US, with honor and humbleness and not with arrogance, to stop its operations on our soil," Karzai said in the eastern province of Kunar, according to a statement from the presidential palace.
Karzai visited Kunar on Saturday morning to personally express condolences to the families of nine children who were killed by US air attacks on March 1.
The...
"The Situation in Japan is Dire. It's Grave"
By Mike Whitney
March 15, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- News of a third explosion at the Fukushima nuclear power plant sent stocks plunging on the Nikkei exchange which dropped 1,015 points on the session. After 2 days of battering, the stock index is off more than 1,600 points in its worst performance since Lehman Brothers failed in September 2008.
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has ordered the evacuation of all people living within a 18 mile radius of the power station and warned homeowners to remain indoors to avoid contact...
War Is Illegal
by David Swanson
Global Research
March 14, 2011
It's a simple point, but an important one, and one that gets overlooked. Whether or not you think a particular war is moral and good, the fact remains that war is illegal. Actual defense by a country when attacked is legal, but that only occurs once another country has actually attacked, and it must not be used as a loophole to excuse wider war that is not employed in actual defense.
Needless to say, a strong moral argument can be made for preferring the rule of law to the...
