By Stephen C. Webster RAW STORY Thursday, December 30th, 2010 – Middle Eastern leaders who’ve become friendly with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) could face severe retribution from their local populations if WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is killed or jailed for a lengthy amount of time. That’s because, in a recent interview with Arabic [...]
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Inside the Lawsuit That Could Ground Deadly CIA Predator Drones
BY Neal Ungerleider Fast Company Fri Oct 15, 2010 A new lawsuit alleges that Predator drone targeting software was pirated, and emails obtained by Fast Company suggest the CIA knew it was sub-par. Al Qaeda and the Taliban haven’t been able to bring down the CIA’s Predator drones. But a new lawsuit alleging parts of [...]
Obama’s enthusiasm for drone strikes takes heavy toll on Pakistan’s tribesmen
Drone missile attacks near to Pakistan’s Afghan border have become an everyday occurrence since Obama took power Declan Walsh in Islamabad guardian.co.uk, Thursday 7 October 2010 The Pashtun tribesmen have several nicknames for the drones that endlessly circle over their mud-walled mountain villages. Some call them “wasps” or “mosquitoes”, after the low buzz emitted by [...]
Report: Yemen sacrificing rights
Aljazeera - Wednesday, August 25, 2010 Yemen’s government has sacrificed human rights to preserve security in its battle against Shia rebels in the north and al-Qaeda fighters in the south, a new report by Amnesty International has alleged. Yemen’s catalogue of human-rights abuses over the past two years includes unlawful killings, arbitrary arrest, torture, unfair trials [...]
Afghanistan war logs: Secret CIA paramilitaries’ role in civilian deaths
Innocent Afghan men, women and children have paid the price of the Americans’ rules of engagement David Leigh guardian.co.uk – 25 July 2010 Shum Khan was a deaf and dumb man who lived in the remote border hamlet of Malekshay, 7,000ft up in the mountains. When a heavily armed squad from the CIA barrelled into [...]
Israel’s Attack on Egypt in ’67 was not ‘Preemptive’
- Jeremy R. Hammond is an independent journalist and editor of Foreign Policy Journal. He was among the recipients of the 2010 Project Censored Awards for outstanding investigative journalism, and is the author of “The Rejection of Palestinian Self-Determination”, available from Amazon.com. Visit: http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com. Palestine Chronicle July 4, 2010 It is often claimed that Israel’s [...]
CIA’s Panetta: Few al-Qaida are in Afghanistan
CIA’s Panetta estimates under 100 al-Qaida fighters in Afghanistan; most hiding in Pakistan ANNE FLAHERTY AP News - Jun 27, 2010 CIA Director Leon Panetta says there are probably only 50 to 100 al-Qaida fighters in Afghanistan, with “no question” that most of the terrorist network is operating from the western tribal region of Pakistan. That [...]
The U.S. War Addiction: Funding Enemies to Maintain Trillion Dollar Racket
By David DeGraw AlterNet June 19, 2010 A few recent news items help expose the true drivers of current wars around the world. #1) Wherever there is a war, look for CIA/IMF/private military war profiteers covertly funding and supporting BOTH sides in order to keep the wars raging and the profits rolling in. As former [...]
CIA’s secret Iraq weapon revealed: a Saddam gay sex tape
Bizarre US plots included exploding cigars to kill Fidel Castro and fake video of Osama bin Laden’s campfire drinking Paul Harris guardian.co.uk – 26 May 2010 In their time, America’s secret agencies have tried some outlandish schemes to attack their country’s enemies, including, most famously, an attempt to do away with Cuba’s Fidel Castro by [...]
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