From Air Force Times, Jan. 16: A small group of out-of-uniform active-duty service members, supported by veterans and academics, gathered inside a Norfolk, Va., church on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to hold a rally calling for the immediate withdrawal… Read moreService members rally against troop “surge”
Startling claims from Focus on the Global South. But WW4 REPORT was warning of this four years ago. From AP, Jan. 15: MANILA — U.S. troops, in possible violation of the Philippines’ constitution, have taken part in combat operations against… Read moreUS troops fight in Philippines?
Negroponte‘s comments on Cuba recall Rumsfeld‘s on Iraq four years ago, don’t they? From AP, Jan. 17 (emphasis added): Cuban President Fidel Castro, ailing and out of sight, has been meeting with a trickle of international guests in recent months,… Read moreNegroponte salivates for Cuba instability
From The Guardian, Jan. 9: One in eight Iraqis have left their homes in what is the largest long-term population movement in the Middle East since the displacement of the Palestinians in 1948, the UN’s refugee agency said today. The… Read moreUN: Iraq biggest Middle East refugee crisis since ’48
From the ITV News, Jan. 15 (emphasis added): US President George W Bush said Iraqi people should be grateful to the US for the 2003 invasion and the removal of Saddam Hussein. He accepted that the conflict, which has cost… Read moreBush: Iraq should be grateful
Boy, this says just about everything that needs to be said, doesn’t it? From Newsday, Jan. 10: Serviceman back from Iraq hit, dragged by cars NEW MILFORD, N.J. – A U.S. Army specialist who had just returned from Iraq was… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
Never forget, this is what we’re fighting for in Iraq. It’s about our way of life, remember? From NY1, Jan. 10: Queens Man Arrested After Traffic Dispute Leads To Fatal Shooting The brother of a man fatally shot by an… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
Mowing somebody down with an SUV is certainly a rather decisive way to win an argument. Note how this charming incident uniquely merges the respective pathologies of the USA, with its automotive death cult, and the Balkans, with their endless… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
On Jan. 11 a federal grand jury in El Paso, Texas, indicted Cuban-born Venezuelan national Luis Posada Carriles, a longtime “asset” of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), on one count of fraud and six counts of lying to government… Read morePosada Carriles charged with fraud —not terrorism
Ethiopian occupation troops in Somalia are reportedly hunting down Ethiopian Oromo refugees living in the country. Allied Somali militias are also said to be abducting Oromos and handing them over to Ethiopian troops for reward money. Ethiopian forces in Somalia… Read moreEthiopian troops hunt down Oromo refugees in Somalia
Last week’s US air raids in the Lower Juba region of southern Somalia near the Kenyan border, caused heavy civilian casualties, according to local reports. Some of the attacks apparently hit groups of nomadic herdsmen on their way to watering… Read moreSomalia: US raids wiped out nomads; Kenya next domino?
Here we go again. We take it for granted that Washington is pressuring Baghdad to execute these guys before they can be tried for the far greater crimes of the Kurdish genocide—because that would raise questions about US complicity. But… Read more“Undignified” death for Saddam buds; Casey: “no guarantees”
