Robert O’Dowd and Tim King Salem-News.com Gary Webb reported treasonous activities within the US govt relating to the Contra rebels and lost his life in a most unusual manner. (SACRAMENTO, CA) – Investigative reporting is not for the faint hearted. Gary Webb, an excellent investigative reporter, was dead eight years on December 10, 2012. Webb’s [...]
There is much to both question and criticize about NATO but primary is the fact that America has created an international organization that is not answerable to international or constitutional laws and is still mired in a cold war mentality.
The oppression and occupation of the Palestinians is not a matter for the Methodists or Presbyterians or Catholics or Muslims or Jews or any denomination across the planet; it is the responsibility of humans everywhere.
“Khalilzad: A Satan whispering in the Hearts of Men”, was titled in an email sent to many recipients by two Piled higher and Deeper (PhDs) expressing their views about Mr. Zal Khalilzad.
“Criminal elements within the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) appear to be conducting their own “War on Physicians” who are attempting to change the nation’s drug laws to benefit the people.”
No wonder Dick Cheney has asked Hillary Clinton to offer a primary challenge to President Obama. As Obama has finally begun to take the grips of state, offending Israel with realistic foreign policy and demanding that wealthy Americans begin paying for their decades of failed "Reaganomics" free ride, Cheney, biggest lunatic of them all, works to divide.
An upcoming planned speaking engagement in Canada by former President George W. Bush is again generating a wave of protest. Bush is reportedly scheduled to speak on October 20th at a gathering in Surrey, British Columbia hosted by Surrey Mayor Diane Watts.
Kandahar, a conservative and sacred Pashtun heartland, the epicenter of complex Afghan tribal politics where Prophet Muhammad’s cloak has resided for over half a millennium.
On June 8, 1967, land and sea military forces of the State of Israel attacked a clearly identified and flagged American ship, the USS Liberty, in international waters, killing and wounding nearly 200 of 296 on board.
We might call what happened to America “the good cop, bad cop” syndrome. The skies are full of our air power; the seas teeming with our fleets; and a large part of the world is garrisoned with our military installations and troops. The America of today is largely being viewed as the bad cop after its invasions and occupations of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan over the past decade.
In the current patchwork of Medical Marijuana laws and regulations across the country, clinical cannabis use is not decided by the military patients’ need for medicine, but rather where they live.
President Obama is now exploring avenues for a faster withdrawal from Afghanistan. American is flat broke, busted and our allies in Afghanistan have proven, beyond a shadow of a doubt. that they are far worse than our enemies.
News suppression is a way of life in the USA. Our 2007 NIE said the same thing. What is different is that this one is based on deep penetration of Iran, teams on the ground, far more advanced surveillance techniques, in fact, we have spies everywhere in Iran.
When people say “support the troops” but aren’t fighting to bring them home and get the criminals who run things in check, I wonder how serious they are about helping anybody.
The illegal production of narcotics in Afghanistan as a land-locked and war-torn country has continually increased and grown following the commencement of the U.S. War on Terror and the occupation of Afghanistan by the multinational forces in 2001.
‘How can you speak of human rights and the dignity of peoples when you perpetually violate them and block those who don’t share your ideology and must endure your abuses?’, asks 1980 Nobel Prize winner Adolfo Perez Esquivel in an open letter to US President Barack Obama.
If Washington has been the driving force for the regime’s war, Wall Street banks have been the main instruments ensuring the profits of the drug cartels.
It is typical to scoff at David Miliband’s position for his post-political career. But in a recent New York Times article the former U.K Foreign Secretary showed that his intellect and judgment on a number of key issues, including how to bring the Afghan War to an end, was and remains almost finely honed; but it lacks an indigenous solution to be airborne:
Self inflicted morose and despised crumbling US empire ratchets up domestic and global calamity in a race with the 24 hour clock to the dark abyss and bottom of collapse.
Legalization would help with American Jobs, help our balance of trade, reduce the prison population, create state, local and federal revenue. The downside is that the Bible Belt and hypocritical assholes will be just engorged with fear and rage. Like I said, win/win.
Yet another Justification to Impeach Obama, the Usurper, and to Try and Convict Both, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and Attorney General Eric Holder for Treason, Sedition, Breach of Fiduciary Duty, Dereliction of Duty, corruption, and Accessory to Murder.
The Viceroy of India, Lord Curzon, at the beginning of the 20th century aptly described Afghanistan as “a piece on the chessboard on which is being played out the game for domination of the world.”
Tomer: Bygones should be kept bygones and Shrimp gets me really angry with his constant attack on the germans, although I am not one of them.
Any serious military historian can ...
Gerry Kraut: Of course this bit of counterfeit European metal junk doesn´t effect you Americans, does it?
BLOODY HELL IT DOES !!!
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stephen G: lol. I thought he had the most problems when he spoke. You could actually hear his two brain cells pinging around inside his skull.
I should have said when he mis ...
stephen G: How did your source calculate this? and Was it Piecenuik?
blakehamilton: Was the Balfour Declaration even British Govt policy? I believe it was not, merely a letter written by a jew Leopold Amery in Lord Balfour's name.