The United States military has decided that no service members will face disciplinary charges for their involvement in a NATO airstrike in November that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, an accident that plunged relations between the two countries to new depths and has greatly complicated the allied mission in Afghanistan. “We found nothing criminally negligent on […]
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US Military again gets away with murder
March 28, 2012Why the Pentagon secrecy about Osama bin Laden?
March 21, 2012Ten months after the covert mission whereby Navy SEALs reportedly killed the world’s most wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden, an administration that has pledged to be the most transparent in American history is refusing to release documents about it under the Freedom of Information Act. Government officials have openly discussed details of the mission in […]
Osama Bin Laden what really happened to his body?
March 5, 2012Internal emails from the intelligence firm Stratfor, which offers services to major international corporations, as published by WikiLeaks, suggest that Osama bin Laden’s body may have been brought to America after he was killed by US Navy Seals. The emails were obtained in an attack on Stratfor’s servers by the Anonymous movement. In one email, […]
US Drones and Special Ops ending national sovereignty
February 9, 2012Make no mistake: we’re entering a new world of military planning. Despite the talk of massive cuts, the Pentagon budget is actually slated to increase through 2017: in the name of Washington’s needs, it will offer a direct challenge to national sovereignty. There will be no more land wars on the Eurasian continent. Instead, greater […]
US Special Forces in Syria and 119 other countries
January 17, 2012On January 2, a soldier in San Diego linked to Special Forces posted on his Facebook page that he was deploying to Syria. The soldier’s Facebook page has been scrubbed, as well as almost all references to him. Still, this tantalizing piece of information startled readers, leading many to ask: does our country have troops […]
The ethics of the online photos of Moammar Gadhafi
October 20, 2011Gruesome photos of an apparently lifeless Moammar Gadhafi raced around the Internet today as news broadcasters struggled to confirm reports that Libya’s longtime strongman was dead. First came a photograph showing what appeared to be Gadhafi’s bloodied face slumped against a man’s crimson-stained leg, as he was manhandled, dead or dying, among a crowd. A […]
Muammar Qadhafi killed in another political kudo for Obama
October 20, 2011After enduring years of Republican attacks for a feckless and weak foreign policy, Obama has scored a couple of dramatic victories abroad in recent months. In May, U.S. Navy SEALs killed Al Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden in a daring nighttime raid inside Pakistan. And just last month, a U.S. drone strike in Yemen killed […]
9/11 conspiracy
September 13, 2011Everything you ever wanted to know about the 9/11 conspiracy theory in a cynically-humorous 5-minute video by Corbett Report.
9/11 10 years later and still unanswered questions
September 4, 2011As we approach the 10th anniversary of 9/11, following are some still-unanswered questions posed by Jesse Richard: 1. Why did the news agencies report that WTC 7 collapsed almost 1/2 hour before it did, even though it was not hit by a plane, only had a few floors on fire, and gave no indication that […]
What has the war in Afghanistan really achieved?
July 1, 2011So far, the war in Afghanistan has lasted nine years, eight months and some days, cost the lives of 2,547 coalition troops, and between 14,000 and 34,000 civilians, created millions of refugees, and opened up a black hole in Western economies that has sucked in more $500bn dollars. Afghanistan costs the US around $10bn a […]
