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The following article, about information warfare, is in itself information warfare. Israel's Mossad, along with the CIA/US military and India's RAW did indeed conduct the Mumbai attacks. That aside, the sad fact remains that "inshallah"as understood by the average Joe and Jane results in needless deaths and sets a person up for gross manipulation ( Read more... )

 Special report

In the second of our series of dispatches from the ravaged country, Afghans explain how mounting civilian casualties are aiding Taliban recruiting.

• Clancy Chassay
• The Guardian, Tuesday 16 December 2008
  
  Clancy Chassay on Afghanistan's civilian casualties Link to this video

It was 7.30 on a hot July morning when the plane came swooping ( Read more... )

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By Noah Shachtman October 03, 2008 | 9:28:00 AMCategories: Missiles, Mullah Menace, Sabras  
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'Fiasco', 'The Forever War', 'Descent into Chaos' - the titles of recent books capture the consensus on the US entanglement in Iraq and Afghanistan. Pankaj Mishra asks whether a new president will change the crazy logic of American militarism

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We Have the Money
If Only We Didn't Waste It on the Defense Budget
By Chalmers Johnson
There has been much moaning, air-sucking, and outrage about the $700 billion that the U.S. government is thinking of throwing away on rich New York bankers who have been ripping us off for the past few years and then letting greed drive their businesses into a ( Read more... )

Pakistani troops fire on US helicopters at border

By FISNIK ABRASHI, Associated Press Writer1 hour, 46 minutes ago

Pakistani troops fired at American reconnaissance helicopters near the Afghan-Pakistan border Thursday, and ground troops then exchanged fire, the U.S. military said.

No injuries were reported, but the incident ( Read more... )

By Peter Chamberlin

Is it really necessary that we let Bush and Cheney destroy another innocent country before they pretend to leave the stage after Nov. 4? Does this Nation, which fancies itself as a great defender of freedom and democracy, intend to allow them do to our ally Pakistan what they have done to Iraq and Afghanistan? If we do not ( Read more... )

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - 16 hours ago

WASHINGTON (AP) - Eight generals, ranging in rank from one to three stars, have been disciplined as a result of the mistaken shipment of fuses for nuclear warheads to Taiwan, The Associated Press has learned.

Defense officials said Wednesday that the six Air Force and two Army generals were given disciplinary ( Read more... )

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Posse Comitatus you say? Well, from the Wiki we learn the following:

* On September 26, 2006, President Bush urged Congress to consider revising federal laws so that the U.S. military could seize control immediately in the aftermath of a ( Read more... )