GORDON DUFF: TERRORISM AND THE FLEECING OF THE FAITHFUL

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By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
The “war on terror” has been like no other.  America has kidnapped and tortured dozens, hundreds, even thousands of innocent civilians, bombed poor villages off the map and turned on its own citizens.  We hold mock trials, hire mercenaries and have covered up so [...]

Beat the Pentagon!

ShareThis video from Brave New Films:
Rethink Afghanistan [click here] is related to the article I posted mentioning “Operation Moshtarak”, called Marja, Afghanistan: Pentagon Propaganda taken to new heights!
Derrick Crowe, Robert Greenwald and the Brave New Foundation team remind us that the military-industrial complex has a well-oiled message machine. Just [...]

Foreign Policy Briefing 3/13/10

Secretary of State Clinton warned Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu Friday that Israel had sent a “deeply negative signal” about the U.S.-Israeli relationship and urged him to take immediate steps to demonstrate it was interested in renewing efforts at a Middle East peace agreement, the Washington Post reports. Her call, made in the wake of the embarrassment suffered by Vice President Biden when Israel announced it would build 1,600 housing units in a disputed area of Jerusalem, was an unusually tough message for the longtime U.S. ally, the Post says.

GORDON DUFF: AFGHANISTAN AND AMERICA: OUR DYSFUNCTIONAL APPROACH

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By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
I have only recently returned from the region where I toured as a journalist and lecturer.  Our group included Jeff Gates, Raja Mugtaba, BG Asif Haroon Raja and BG Ali Raza and me of Veterans Today and Opinion Maker.  We [...]

Killer App: Drones Are Lynchpin of Obama’s War on Terror

CIA drones are killing terrorists — and civilians — in Pakistan almost every day. The unmanned aircraft are becoming the weapon of choice in the fight against al-Qaida and its allies. But the political, military and moral consequences are incalculable. SPIEGEL ONLINE has investigated Barack Obama’s remote-controlled campaign against terrorism.

Foreign Policy Briefing 3/12/10

An open diplomatic row with Israel during the visit of Vice President Biden has shined a spotlight on the U.S. failure to rein in Israeli settlement ambitions and deepened Palestinian suspicions the US is too weak to broker a deal, AP reports. The Palestinians largely lost faith in the U.S. as a broker after Obama tried – and failed – to get the Netanyahu government to stop building on lands Palestinians claim for a future state, AP says.

AFGHANISTAN: THE FLAWED “OPERATION MUSHTARAK” IS PROLONGING

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By Colonel Eugene Khrushchev
The aims and purposes of “Operation Mushtarak” have been a perfect revelation of how an “innovative” approach disperses in a black hole of a familiar, antiquated path, and why high-maintenance troop and time intensive populace-centric COIN (Counterinsurgency) becomes a fiasco.
The grave imperfection:
To do the flawed thing the flawed technique – and [...]

at-Largely: The Truth Blurts

Individuals in the upper level of the Pentagon and media polloi are beginning to commit a cardinal sin. They’re blurting the truth – sort of. Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the military’s senior spin surgeon (his father was a Hollywood publicity agent), says that “Afghans are in the lead” of the Marjah offensive. But not everybody involved in writing the narrative is willing to tell a lie that big.

GORDON DUFF: From an “Old Fart”, Advice for our Soldiers in Afghanistan

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By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
I just returned from the region after a REMF “combat tour” of my own, 5 star hotels, dozens of armed guards and “consultations” with tribal leaders in Afghanistan and “everyone” in Pakistan.  This qualifies me to be as pig headed as the “Perfumed Princes of the Pentagon” [...]

Editor’s Picks: News and Opinion Around the Web

The cancellation of Bill Moyers journal is another stake in the heart of American journalism. The Nation pays tribute to the journalist who “refuses to treat Americans as imbeciles.” Justine Sharrock at Mother Jones takes aim and fires at the Oathkeepers, the militant wing of the Tea Party and Rachel Maddow publicly dismantles Lynn Cheney over commentary on the “values” of defense attorneys in her ‘Al Qaeda 7′ Attack Ad. Those stories and more in today’s picks.

Veterans put their own war stories on film

Irked by Hollywood’s portrayals of the Iraq and Afghan conflicts — don’t get them started on ‘The Hurt Locker’ — five veterans will offer their cinematic perspectives.

GORDON DUFF: IS AMERICA SUBJECT TO A DOMESTIC REIGN OF TERROR?

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By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
One day you read about a break-in at a Senator’s office, the next day, you learn the Acorn “scandal” was a ruse.  None of these things get any follow-up in the MSM/Corporate news.  Then you find the only magazine that will report [...]

Foreign Policy Briefing

Some American doctors are pleading U.S. officials to keep the Navy hospital ship Comfort in Haiti, the Baltimore Sun reports. University of Southern California surgeon Randy Sherman, medical director for the aid organization Operation Smile, said “there is no doubt” there are enough earthquake victims to keep the Comfort busy. He thinks it could operate at high volume for at least three more months. US doctors say Haiti is replete with patients whose orthopedic injuries have healed improperly and require complex surgeries that only the Comfort can provide.

NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE ON “COL. IMAM” PUZZLING

ShareGORDON DUFF:  Special Forces Trained “Col. Imam” Outspoken Critic of US Policy Wrongly Accused by Time
Times Reporter Victimized by “Spoof”
By Gordon Duff / STAFF WRITER / Senior Editor
Yesterday, the New York Times, in an article by journalist Carlotta Gall, “the queen” of the Kabul press corps, published an article accusing Special Forces trained Brigidier General Sultan [...]

ADMIRAL SIROHEY TO COLIN POWELL: “SAVE AMERICA’S HONOR”

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By Admiral Iftikhar Ahmed Sirohey (Retd) Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff, Chief of Naval Staff, Chairman BOG Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad

Dear General Colin L. Powell
Greetings
I am addressing this letter on the strength that we both held same appointments [...]

Editor’s Picks: News and Opinion Around the Web

Are international robber barons like Goldman Sachs ripping off the poorest and most desperate nations with the aid of the very institutions created to help them? William Pfaff examines at Truthdig. You remember KBR the former Halliburton subsidiary alleged to have overcharged, and defrauded the US government was accused of the electrocution of soldiers who thought they were turning on the shower, not the voltage? They’ve been awarded another giant contract in appreciation of their efforts; from Raw Story. Those and other stories in today’s picks.

Interference Seen in Blackwater Inquiry

An official at the United States Embassy in Iraq has told federal prosecutors that he believes that State Department officials sought to block any serious investigation of the 2007 shooting episode in which Blackwater Worldwide security guards were accused of murdering 17 Iraqi civilians, according to court testimony made public on Tuesday.

Top 10 Veterans News from Around the Country

“We polled many Whispers associates and sources, and they were quick to size up the top five Obama cabinet members.” Fifth on the list, according to Bedard, “is Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki, who has turned an agency that is at the bottom of lists in past administrations into an example of how to bring federal services to the troops, injured veterans, and even homeless vets. He’s showing that the VA has a heart.”

AHMED QURAISHI: CIA’S ROGUE “DRUG FUNDED” OPERATIONS IN AFGHANISTAN

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By Ahmed Quereshi
“When these CIA agents killed a couple of Chinese engineers back in 2004, CIA psy-ops used the incident to put the blame on Afghan Taliban, thereby creating doubts in the minds of Chinese officials that Pakistani intelligence might have had something to do with [...]

Foreign Policy Briefing 3/2/10

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Summary:
U.S./Top News
1) Japan’s Social Democratic Party, a junior partner in the governing coalition, will prioritize a plan to move U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Okinawa Prefecture entirely out of the country, Kyodo News reports.
2) The UN General Assembly [...]

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