"In war, truth is the first casualty." —Aeschylus (525-456 BC)

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1. ACTIONS & EVENTS

• RECALL U.S. SENATORS AND CONGRESSMEN WHO VOTED FOR NDAA
2/28/12 Virginia Senate votes 39-1 to nullify NDAA
• NEW YORK CITY: OCCUPY WALL STREET (continuing coverage)
• WASHINGTON DC: OCTOBER2011.ORG
• OTHER ACTIONS ACROSS AMERICA: OCCUPY TOGETHER
• JOIN ROOTSACTION.ORG. • BE LOUDER THAN WORDS (VIDEO 1:21).
• BELOW: A BRIEF AND CRUCIAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES (VIDEO 22:52)

4/13/12 NEW! YES, THE '99% SPRING' IS A FRAUD, by Charles M. Young, This Can't Be Happening. "The first clue that my evening might go otherwise was the sign-up table, where there were a bunch of Obama buttons for sale...which didn't appear to be selling."

2. AMERICA IN DISTRESS: NATIONAL 911 EMERGENCY

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HOW IT BEGAN — CAN WE HANDLE THE TRUTH?
Our best hope for ending U.S. wars is to expose the mass deception of 9/11 — starting by overcoming our own self-deception.

"A meaningful anti-war movement must question the legitimacy of the 'Global War on Terrorism' which is based on the official 9/11 narrative. ... When the Big Lie regarding the 9/11 attacks is exposed and fully understood, the legitimacy of America's military agenda falls like a deck of cards. The warmongers no longer have a leg to stand on."
— Prof. Michel Chossudovsky, Centre for Research on Globalization, September 14, 2010

MORE THAN 3,000 PROMINENT AMERICANS HAVE QUESTIONED AND REJECTED THE OFFICIAL 9/11 ACCOUNT. High-level professionals — with extensive backgrounds in government, the military, aviation, engineering, academia, the arts, medicine, science and technology — have all dared to speak out, risking their professional reputations and careers for the sake of truth.

RETHINKING 9/11: 'STATE CRIME' OF THE MILLENNIUM

"Your government failed fooled you."

HOW TO BEGIN QUESTIONING
"Understanding the full truth of 9/11 seems to require two separate awakenings. The first, awakening to the fraudulence of the 'official 9/11 story,' is a pretty simple brain function and only requires a little study, logic or curiosity..... The second step, however, consciously confronting the implications of that knowledge—and what it says about our media, politics and economic system today—is by far the harder awakening and requires an enormous exercise of nerve and heart." —911truth.org

New York City, Sept. 13, 2009: Dr. Graeme MacQueen
9/11 TRUTH: THE CHALLENGE TO THE PEACE MOVEMENT
"You must understand 9/11 as a fraudulent trigger incident." (See video below)

[at 31:15]" ... I watched the official narrative dissolve before my eyes in two or three days. I want to offer that same challenge to the rest of the peace movement."

VIDEO LECTURE (1:28:16, uploaded 2/21/12), THE FICTIONAL BASIS OF THE WAR ON TERROR [An Evidentiary Analysis of the Anthrax Attacks and 9/11], presented at Harvard University, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, May 22, 2010, by Dr. Graeme MacQueen
[at 1:26:50] "Most of you have looked the other way. Some of you have even poured comtempt on citizens trying to find their way out of a maze of government lies and propaganda. But surely your duty is to look at the evidence these citizens have accumulated.... If you can find the courage to do this, you'll discover that you've been given an opportunity to perform a great service for humanity."

VIDEO TRAILER (3:14, uploaded 2/29/12) The Toronto Hearings on 9/11: Uncovering 10 Years of Deception - Preview

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
— Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. ... It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."
— Joseph Goebbels, 1933

"Naturally, the common people don't want war... But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along.... All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
— Hermann Göring, 1946, at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials

"We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
— Karl Rove, 2004

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"You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time."
— Abraham Lincoln, 1858

"Few are guilty, but all are responsible."
— Rabbi Abraham Heschel (1907 - 1972)

CONTINUED BELOW 9/11: STOP THE LYING. STOP DENYING. START DEFYING.

3. OUR GOVERNMENT: STOP THE BLEEDING

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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.... The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people."
—Dwight D. Eisenhower, "The Chance for Peace" speech, April 16, 1953

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.... Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together."
—Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address, January 17, 1961

**PENTAGON: 7 WARS OF AGGRESSION – ALL PLANNED BEFORE 9/11:**

FALL, 2001: "Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and finishing off Iran."
—Gen. Wesley Clark (Ret.), interviewed on March 2, 2007 [below left]

TAX DOLLARS AT WAR (Animated video, 3:46) [above right] "People have to realize that 53 cents of every dollar that they're paying in taxes is going to the military. It's an astonishing figure. There's an enormous, ENORMOUS amount of money being blown on war and killing and destruction..."

LOOK WHO'S GETTING OUR TAX DOLLARS – AND FOR WHAT:
(Contracts valued under $6.5 million are not counted here by DoD)

• U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for May 16, 2012. Total $  1,415,720,011
• U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for May 15, 2012. Total $     939,526,793
• U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for May 14, 2012. Total $     453,792,326
• U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for May 11, 2012. Total $     201,943,999
• U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for May 10, 2012. Total $     851,696,988
• U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for May 09, 2012. Total $     636,296,609
• U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for May 08, 2012. Total $     800,709,758
• U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for May 07, 2012. Total $     338,635,308
• U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for May 04, 2012. Total $  3,354,047,804
• U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for May 03, 2012. Total $       70,482,630
• U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for May 02, 2012. Total $     622,541,693
• U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for May 01, 2012. Total $       95,294,277
• U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards TOTAL, APR 2012 $ 26,976,679,871
• U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards TOTAL, MAR 2012 $ 25,326,441,247
• U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards TOTAL, FEB 2012 $ 20,086,856,609
• U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards TOTAL, JAN 2012 $ 37,057,447,392
• U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards TOTAL, DEC 2011 $ 33,814,406,787
• U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards TOTAL, NOV 2011 $ 51,220,457,307
• U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards TOTAL, OCT 2011 $ 25,300,004,573
• U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards TOTAL, SEP 2011 $ 28,353,878,454
• U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards TOTAL, AUG 2011 $ 25,214,310,677
• U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards TOTAL, JUL 2011 $ 13,649,406,508
• U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards TOTAL, JUN 2011 $ 30,460,201,120
• ARCHIVES HERE (since October 1994)

PENTAGON OVERSPENDING, CONGRESS COVERING UP:

REPORT: DOD AWARDED BILLIONS TO FIRMS DESPITE FRAUD, by Sarah Chacko, Federal Times (2/3/11).
According to the report by the Pentagon's Office of the Undersecretary for Acquisition, between 2007 and 2009:
   • $682.1 million in contracts were awarded to 30 Defense contractors who had been convicted of criminal fraud, resulting in judgments including fines, restitution, suspensions or debarments.
   • $280 billion in contracts were awarded to 91 contractors who had incurred civil judgments, and 120 contractors who had settled charges of fraud.
   • $992.5 million in contracts were awarded to 43 contractors who had been suspended from contracting with the Pentagon. They were awarded more than $3.8 million while they were suspended.
   • $4 billion in contracts were awarded to 164 contractors who had been debarred. They received $15 million in contracts after they were debarred.

PROJECT ON GOVERMENT OVERSIGHT: TOP 100 FEDERAL CONTRACTORS ACCUSED OF FRAUD AND OTHER VIOLATIONS

5/15/12 NEW! $642 billion for the Military? This year? You must be kidding!, by David Swanson, War Is A Crime. "The FY 2013 military budget (NDAA) is up for a vote in the House this Friday. It contains more than $642 billion of taxpayer money to pay for a war the majority of Americans oppose; nuclear upgrades that threaten non-proliferation agreements; programs and weapons that even the Pentagon doesn't want. The bill also promotes reckless threats on Iran, enables reckless actions by Israel and prohibits the transfer of prisoners from Guantanamo to the United States. It's not just the Republicans, who are at fault. The majority of Democrats on the House Armed Services Committee have voted in favor, producing a lopsided 56-5 margin for an outrageous bill. Partisan rhetoric should not obscure the reality that if this over-sized military budget passes the Congress, it will be paid for by programs that affect the most vulnerable –food stamps, school lunches, health insurance for low income children, 'Meals-on Wheels' for the elderly."
5/11/12 NEW! Public overwhelmingly supports large defense spending cuts, by R. Jeffrey Smith, iWatch News — The Center for Pubic Integrity. "According to the survey, in which respondents were told about the size of the budget as well as shown expert arguments for and against spending cuts, two-thirds of Republicans and nine in 10 Democrats supported making immediate cuts — a position at odds with the leaderships of both political parties. The average total cut was around $103 billion, a substantial portion of the current $562 billion base defense budget, while the majority supported cutting it at least $83 billion. These amounts both exceed a threatened cut of $55 billion at the end of this year under so-called 'sequestration' legislation passed in 2011, which Pentagon officials and lawmakers alike have claimed would be devastating."
5/7/12 NEW! Debunking the Missile-Defense Myth, by Yousaf Butt, The National Interest. "The simplest countermeasures to the planned missile defense are cheap inflatable balloons. Because the missile-defense interceptors try to strike ICBM warheads in the vacuum of space, any such balloons and the warhead would travel together, making it impossible to tell the decoys from the real thing."
2/29/12 A dubious, costly effort to win hearts, minds, by Tom Vanden Brook and Ray Locker, USA Today. "As the Pentagon has sought to sell wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to often-hostile populations there, it has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on poorly tracked marketing and propaganda campaigns that military leaders like to call 'information operations,' the modern equivalent of psychological warfare. ... In Iraq alone, more than $173 million was paid to what were identified only as 'miscellaneous foreign contractors.'"
2/28/12 Ten Companies Profiting Most from War, 24/7 Wall St. "While many industries continued to suffer in 2010 as a result of the financial crisis, leaders in the arms and military services were largely unaffected."
2/27/12 Business as usual for top arms producers despite slowdown in arms sales, says SIPRI [Stockholm International Peace Research Institute]
2/11/12 Army Officer's Leaked Report Rips Afghan War Success Story, by Gareth Porter Inter Press Service. " 'If the public had access to the classified reports,' [Lt. Col. Daniel] Davis writes, 'they would see the dramatic gulf between what is often said in public by our senior leaders and what is true behind the scenes.' ... Both Senate and House Armed Services Committees have exhibited little or no interest in probing behind the official claims of success in Afghanistan. That passive role reflects what many political observers, including some members of Congress, see as cozy relationships among most committee members, military leaders, Pentagon officials and major military contractors."
2/7/12 Aerospace, defense deals reach record totals in 2011, United Press International. "The aggregate deal value during the year reached $43.7 billion supported by 341 deals, compared to total deal value of $21.9 billion and 332 deals in 2010. The 2011 record surpassed the level of transactions reached in 2007 of $42 billion. It was a year marked by mega deals in excess of $1 billion each, one of those for a total value of $16 billion."
1/17/12 Privatizing the War on Terror: America's Military Contractors, by John W. Whitehead, Huffington Post. "In fact, at the same time that Obama is reducing the number of troops in Iraq, he's replacing them with military contractors at far greater expense to the taxpayer and redeploying American troops to other parts of the globe, including Africa, Australia and Israel. In this way, the war on terror is privatized, the American economy is bled dry, and the military-security industrial complex makes a killing — literally and figuratively speaking. ... Incredibly, while base pay for an American soldier hovers somewhere around $19,000 per year, contractors are reportedly pulling in between $150,000 - $250,000 per year."
12/2/11 Senate approves $662 billion defense bill, by Donna Cassata, Boston Globe. "The vote was 93-7 for the bill authorizing money for military personnel, weapons systems, national security programs in the Energy Department, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the fiscal year that began Oct. 1."
11/2/11 Report: Military Blew $1 Trillion on Weapons Since 9/11, by Adam Weinstein, Mother Jones. "Between 1981 and 1990, the Air Force bought 2,063 fighters. In contrast, between 2001 and 2010, it bought only 220. Yet between 2001 and 2010 the Air Force spent $38B of procurement funding just on fighter aircraft in inflation-adjusted dollars, compared with the $68B it spent between 1981 and 1990. In other words, the Air Force spent 55 percent as much money to get 10 percent as many fighters."
10/25/11 WARTIME CONTRACTING PANEL SEALS RECORDS FOR NEXT 20 YEARS, by Noel Brinkerhoff, AllGov.com. "After three years of work, the commission officially shut down last week, having concluded that the U.S. misspent between $31 billion and $60 billion in contracting for services in Iraq and Afghanistan. But it won't allow its records to be opened for public review at the National Archives until 2031, because some of the documents contain 'sensitive information,' according to one official."
10/22/11 DEFENSE DEPT. GAVE $431 BILLION TO CONTRACTORS AFTER THEY WERE CONVICTED OF FRAUD, by Noel Brinkerhoff, AllGov.com. "Examples include Lockheed Martin, which in 2008 paid $10.5 million to settle charges that it defrauded the government by submitting false invoices related to the Titan IV space launch vehicle program. The following year Lockheed pulled in $30.2 billion from the Defense Department. Northrop Grumman paid $62 million in 2005 to settle fraud charges, but by the next year, received nearly $13 billion in contracts, which amounted to a 16% increase over the previous year. In 2009, they were hit with a $325 million bill for malfeasance. Boeing has paid more than $600 million in civil settlements, and TRW $436 million."
9/15/11 DoD's audit avalanche, by Philip Ewing, DoD Buzz. "The Defense Department's books are in bad shape. The Pentagon and the military services can't reliably and accurately account for what they spend in the same way other government agencies can, despite a 1994 law that requires everyone in the federal circus to produce consistent, standard findings about their financial affairs."
7/26/11 Eliminating Waste, Fraud and Abuse in Defense Contracts, by Rep. John F. Tierney (D - Mass.), The Huffington Post. "In response to my numerous demands for action, we continue to hear from Pentagon officials that they are aggressively increasing oversight over these contracts and taxpayer money. But so far it has been all talk and no action."
7/23/11 U.S. wastes $34 billion in Afghan and Iraq contracting, by Phil Stewart, Reuters. "The analysis by the Commission on Wartime Contracting, details of which were first reported by the Wall Street Journal, offers the most complete look so far at the misuse of U.S. contracting funds in Afghanistan and Iraq, where more than $200 billion has been doled out in the contracts and grants over nearly a decade. ... The source, who declined to be named, said more than 200,000 contractors have been on the U.S. payroll at times in Iraq and Afghanistan -- outstripping the number of U.S. troops currently on the ground in those countries."
7/19/11 DoD personnel chief slammed in IG complaint, by Karen Jowers, Federal Times. "Other accusations in the IG complaint include wasteful spending on a $360,000 'sumptuous new conference room,' which 'exacerbated marginal working conditions,' and is used only for Stanley's three weekly half-hour internal staff meetings."

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See also:
2/1/12 Nobel peace prize jury under investigation (AP)
2/5/12 The Betrayal of the Nobel Peace Prize, by David Swanson, War Is A Crime.
2/29/12 PETITION: INVESTIGATE BETRAYAL OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE, War Is A Crime.

BOOKS: WAR IS A LIE; WHEN THE WORLD OUTLAWED WAR
VIDEOS: Interview with Author David Swanson, Part 1 (11:08); Part 2 (8:21), Project for the New American Century; "When The World Outlawed War" (10:05)
FY2012 PIE CHART (below center): "Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes" (Feb. 2012)
VIDEO: US spending problem (below right, 4/15/11)

**RELATED ARTICLES - OUR GOVERNMENT?**

5/11/12 NEW! Above the Law: U.S. Crimes during The War on Terror, by Henry "Chip" Carey, World Policy Institute. "The U.S. and Israel have routinely conducted acts of torture, from water-boarding, stress positions, sleep deprivations, shackling, sexual humiliation and beatings—all in violation of the Anti-Torture statute, which applies for actions outside U.S. territory. ... Not one U.S. or Israeli official, other than low-ranking soldiers or police, have ever been prosecuted or held liable for complicity with torture. ... Our failure to prosecute is not only criminal; it will only continue this endless war by creating more terrorism and encourage other countries to follow our bad examples."
5/8/12 NEW! NSA Whistleblower: Justice Department Covers Up Crimes of Obama, Bush Administrations, by Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter/Firedoglake. "In a recent segment from Current TV's show 'Viewpoint,' host Eliot Spitzer interviewed three National Security Agency whistleblowers: William Binney, a former technical director; Kirk Wiebe, former senior analyst; and Thomas Drake, a former senior official. Each man talked about what he saw the NSA do when they were employees. Each of these whistleblowers directly explained the threats to civil liberties posed by the lawlessness of the NSA in the past decade. ... Not only is the Justice Department engaged in the act of shielding officials and corporate executives from prosecution for crimes, but Congress is not fulfilling its role as the Legislative Branch that is supposed to check the power of the Executive Branch by engaging in oversight. It is complicit and impotent. And as these whistleblowers have been targeted, Congress has not raised much of an objection at all to this conduct by the Obama Justice Department."
5/2/12 NEW! Real Politics Must be in the Streets: The Constitutional Crimes of Barack Obama, by Dave Lindorff, This Can't Be Happening. "[I]t is time to make it clear that the current president...is, in truth, a war criminal easily the equal of his predecessor, George W. Bush, and perhaps even of Bush's regent, former Vice President Dick Cheney. ... The election of 2008 proved yet again that voting in the US is simply for show, at least as long as the public continues to be suckered into accepting the fake limitation of choice to the two parties, which actually compete only for the right to the patronage and financial spoils that come with winning. The real politics must be in our communities and in the street."
4/9/12 Obama targets journalists, by Jesselyn Raddack, Salon. "While the Bush administration treated whistleblowers unmercifully, the Obama administration has been far worse. It is actually prosecuting them, and doing so under the Espionage Act — one of the most serious charges that can be leveled against an American. ... That's not just a broken promise, it's a complete reversal. ... The law-breaking telecoms who received retroactive immunity from Congress, the interrogators who tortured prisoners, the officials who gave the orders, the attorneys who authored the torture memos, and the CIA agents who destroyed the interrogation tapes have not been held professionally accountable, much less been charged with crimes. National security and intelligence whistleblowers have become the glaring exception to the Obama administration's mantra of 'looking forward, not backward.'"
4/8/12 Obama Justice Department indicts ex-CIA agent for exposing torture, by Bill Van Auken, Centre for Research on Globalization. "Thursday's indictment of John Kiriakou for exposing CIA torture of detainees confirms yet again that the Obama administration is continuing and deepening the crimes carried out by the Bush White House. Kiriakou, a CIA agent for 14 years, is being prosecuted for speaking to two journalists about the waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah. ... Zubaydah's torture was overseen in detail by the top officials of the US government, from President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney on down. Bush publicly described Zubaydah as Al Qaeda's chief of operations, in charge of 'plotting and planning death and destruction on the United States.' He was charged not only with planning 9/11, but with involvement in virtually every other crime attributed to Al Qaeda. ... Yet, after a decade of imprisonment and torture, the government refuses to either try or release him. He is one of those designated by the Obama administration to be detained indefinitely without charges. The reasons are clear. There appears to be no evidence against him, and his case raises a whole range of crimes by government officials, including torture and the CIA's destruction of videotapes recording his interrogation sessions, carried out in defiance of court demands that they be produced. Nor have any of those responsible for the torture of Zubaydah and countless others been brought to justice. This includes not just the CIA torturers, but Bush, Cheney, former CIA Director George Tenet, former National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, and ex-Justice Department officials like Jay Bybee, and John Yoo, who drafted the memos arguing that torture was legal. The Obama administration has protected all of these individuals, repeatedly intervening in court and invoking 'state secrets' to quash cases brought by torture victims."
4/5/12 VIDEO (2:19) Peace Activist [and Retired Navy Commander] Leah Bolger Protests the Congressional Super Committee, Veterans For Peace. CONGRESS: 13% APPROVAL RATING, WORST IN GALLUP HISTORY. "...yes I did this and I wish Congress would listen to us without people having to break the law, but they don't."
4/3/12 Boredom, terror, deadly mistakes: Secrets of the new drone war, by Jefferson Morley, Salon. "The problems with the current operator system is that it was designed for engineers, not pilots, say drone specialists. The original drone was just an aerial surveillance vehicle; missiles were not added until 2001. ... And then boredom is punctuated by terror – and deadly mistakes. The exact death toll is much disputed. The New Jersey-based Long War Journal says 138 civilians have been killed in drone strikes in the last eight years. The London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism counters that the strikes have killed anywhere from 479 to 811 noncombatants in that period, including 174 children. ... Some legal authorities argue drone pilots could be charged with war crimes in the future. All the while, the drone war continues to escalate."
4/2/12 The Massacre of the Afghan 17 and the Obama Cover-Up, by James Petras, The Peoples Voice. "Obama's deliberate lies about the events surrounding the massacre and the fundamental responsibility of the high military command for the crimes committed by its troops underscores the breakdown of the occupation of Afghanistan, the very centerpiece of Obama's war policy. The President of the United States has personally played a major role in the cover-up. From a political vantage point, the executive conspiracy charge has wider and deeper implications than the massacre itself, as horrible as it is. ... It could ruin the Obama presidency, by putting him on trial for conspiracy to obstruct justice and arguably send him to jail for war crimes."
3/25/12 U.S. pays Afghans $50K per shooting death, by Associated Press, CBS News. "The United States has paid $50,000 in compensation for each Afghan killed in the shooting spree attributed to a U.S. soldier in southern Afghanistan, an Afghan official and a community elder said Sunday. ... Each wounded person received $11,000, Lalai said. They were told that the money came from U.S. President Barack Obama.... The families had previously received smaller compensation payments from Afghan officials – $2,000 for each death and $1,000 for each person wounded. Families of the dead declined to comment on any payments by U.S. officials on Sunday...."
3/24/12 The 'Exceptional Character' Of The U.S Armed Forces, by Jack A. Smith, Countercurrents. "The Bush and Obama governments have invested nearly $500 billion in the war, but two-thirds of Afghanistan's 30 million people are living below the poverty line, and unemployment is over 50%. Afghan children, according to a World Bank report this month, suffer one of the highest levels of chronic malnutrition in the world. Over 50% under the age of five are chronically malnourished. Hundreds of small kids die daily from hunger. The U.S. government has never apologized or assumed any responsibility for the wretched conditions it has imposed upon the people – and be assured that the reported instances of war crimes, atrocities, and abuses attributed to the Pentagon's foreign legion are but a small portion of the horrors that take place repeatedly but are never observed, or photographed or written about."
3/22/12 The Ascendence of Sociopaths in US Governance, by Doug Casey, Information Clearning House. "The fact that they're chronic, extremely convincing and even enthusiastic liars, who often believe their own lies, means they aren't easy to spot, because normal people naturally assume another person is telling the truth. ... With sociopaths in charge, we could very well see the Milgram experiment reenacted on a national scale. In the experiment, you may recall, researchers asked members of the public to torture subjects (who, unbeknownst to the people being recruited, were paid actors) with electric shocks, all the way up to what they believed were lethal doses. Most of them did as asked, after being assured that it was 'all right' and 'necessary' by men in authority. The men in authority today are mostly sociopaths."
3/18/12 Stopping the US Drone War: A Chilling Feature of the US War of Terror, Expanded by Obama Administration to Include Targeted Assassinations, War Criminals Watch. "The Obama administration is coordinating drone strikes in at least six countries: Yemen, Somalia, Libya, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan. In fact, these drones are being used eight times more by the Obama administration than by the Bush regime, in programs run by the military and the C.I.A. ... [T]he pilot does his killing and then goes home for dinner with his family, remaining removed and aloof from the death and destruction caused by his work. When a home or other location is targeted, the drone cannot tell if there are civilians or insurgents in the vicinity — yet everyone who's killed is called an insurgent."
3/12/12 Americans to Obama: Get Out of Afghanistan, by George Zornick, The Nation. "[I]t's crystal clear that Americans disapprove of Obama's handling of Afghanistan because they want US forces out of the country. Only 35 percent say the war is worth fighting, and 60 percent say it's not. ... Remember, this poll and the pressure from the Hill came before this weekend's awful shootings–which prompted even Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum to question the American mission. The president's position is increasingly becoming a lonely one."
2/21/12 Lawmakers unite at anti-war town hall, by Rob Christensen, Raleigh News Observer. "Jones' activism has grown out of what he has said was his mistake in voting to approve the war in Iraq after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. At the time, Jones was among the most gung ho, proposing the french fries served in the Congressional cafeteria be renamed freedom fries, because the French were not supportive of U.S. efforts in Iraq. But Jones said he has since learned that he was lied to about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq."
2/20/12 Consequences To Expect If The U.S. Invades Iran , by Brandon Smith, Alternative Market Project. "Ultimately, most Americans who support continued destruction in the Middle East, or anywhere else for that matter, do so out a selfish need for private absolution and elevation, not out of a sincere sense of patriotism, and not because nations like Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, or Iran present a legitimate danger to their safety. ... This is not our fight. This is a fight we are being conned into undertaking for the profit of others, and thus, it is a fight we cannot win."
2/8/12 Where is Conyers with Impeachment Threats Against President for Iran Attack Now?, by Ralph Lopez, War Is A Crime. "Chairman of the Judiciary Committee John Conyers spent years fending off nationwide calls to impeach George W. Bush over the invasion of Iraq, the shredding of the Constitution after 9/11, and other high crimes and misdemeanors.... Conyers refused to impeach, but did in fact draw one hard line in the sand, saying that if Bush attacked Iran, it would guarantee impeachment proceedings."
2/6/12 US Iran Policy in 'Lockstep' with Israel?: President Obama Risks Becoming a Major-League War Criminal, by David Lindorff. This Can't Be Happening. "But surely the most appalling thing of all was hearing the US president say on national TV that he is operating US policy towards Iran in 'lockstep' with the pipsqueak nation of Israel—an apartheid country currently being run by a bunch of corrupt, neofascist, genocidal war-mongers and religious fanatics. To tie the fortunes of the US rigidly and unthinkingly to such lunacy and to allow such lunatics to drag the US into yet another disastrous and wholly unnecessary war should be seen as an act of lunacy itself, and certainly should in itself disqualify Obama for the office of president of the United States."
2/2/12 27 of 35 Bush Articles of Impeachment Apply to Obama, by David Swanson. War Is A Crime. "President Obama has accumulated his own massive list of high crimes and misdemeanors that were unavailable for Bush's list (things like openly murdering U.S. citizens, launching massive drone wars, selectively and abusively prosecuting numerous whistleblowers as spies, holding Bradley Manning naked in isolation, attacking Libya without so much as bothering to lie to Congress, etc.). Nonetheless, it is instructive to review the 35 Bush articles in the Obama age. It quickly becomes apparent that Obama has either exactly duplicated or closely paralleled most of the 35."
1/31/12 Consensus 9/11: Seeking Truth, Dispelling Lies, by Stephen Lendman. The Progressive Radio News Hour. "9/11 was the defining event of our time. Multiple wars followed. More are planned. America's business is war – permanent, destructive, lawless ones. Global terror wars rage, another on truth, democratic values, rule of law principles, social justice, and freedom. Debunking the official 9/11 lie is a vital first step to ending the global nightmare threatening humanity if it continues."
1/30/12 What Happened to the War Powers Act?, by Renee Parsons, Common Dreams. "What neither Pelley nor Panetta, who received a law degree from Santa Clara University Law School, mentioned was that for the US to be 'engaged in a shooting war,' not to mention more shooting wars than he could recount, without congressional approval is not only unconstitutional but is a clear violation of the War Powers Act of 1973."
1/26/12 Fallout from Failure to Impeach, by Herbert Hoffman, OpEd News. "So therefore it is up to us, the people, if we are to move this Nation on a course that reinstates our Constitution, that replaces aggression with diplomacy as a means for conducting foreign policy, that respects our treaties defining what are war crimes. Without our voices and our actions sounding out loud and clear we are destined to continue on the current path."
1/26/12 Obama's Failed State of the Union, by Stephen Lendman, Progressive Radio News Hour. "It was typical Obama, taking credit for what should be condemned. He's a fraud, a crime boss, a war criminal multiple times over, a moral coward, and serial liar. His State of the Union address was beginning-to-end doublespeak, duplicity, coverup, and denial of failed policies complicit with Wall Street crooks, war profiteers, and other corporate favorites while popular needs go begging."
1/19/12 Army Foresees Expanded Use of Drones in U.S. Airspace, by Steven Aftergood, Federation of American Scientists. "The Army issued a new directive last week to govern the growing use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) or 'drones' within the United States for training missions and for 'domestic operations'...in civilian airspace, according to a 2007 Memorandum of Agreement between the Department of Defense and the Federal Aviation Administration, which regulates domestic air traffic."
1/13/12 Waging Covert War on Iran, by Stephen Lendman, Progressive Radio News Hour. "Washington and Israel plan regime change in Iran and Syria. ... Washington, Israel, and rogue allies use many destabilization tactics. They include fake accusations, political and economic sanctions, isolation, covert and direct confrontation, cyberwar, targeted assassinations, and other provocations short of war perhaps planned. Accusing Iran of developing nuclear weapons is a red herring."
1/7/12 VIDEO (4:53) WHAT IF..., by Judge Andrew Napolitano, Fox Business News. "What if Democrats and Republicans were two wings of the same bird of prey?...What if elections don't matter?"
1/6/12 Obama Plans More War, by Stephen Lendman, Progressive Radio News Hour. "Obama's a serial liar. He's also a global threat. Millions worldwide know it. Angry Americans are catching on. Hopefully, today's numbers will surge to millions in time to save humanity before he destroys it. There's not a moment to lose."
1/5/12 Pentagon Plan: More Drones, Increased Presence in Asia, Common Dreams. "US stoking fears for public to support 'the next wild burgeoning arms race in the Pacific.'"
1/5/12 VIDEO (13:50) Murder of The Constitution in Full Public View by Congress & Obama: Paul Craig Roberts 1/2, The Alex Jones Channel. Part 2/2, VIDEO (5:36)
1/2/12 Obama's America: Tyranny and Permanent War, by Stephen Lendman, Progressive Radio News Hour. "December 31, 2011 will be remembered as a day of infamy. ... [Obama] signed the FY 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). It gives presidents unchecked power to order military force arrests and indefinite detentions of US citizens, based solely on uncorroborated accusations of terrorist group associations. Constitutional, statute and international law protections don't apply. America's military may snatch and grab anyone, throw them in torture prisons, and hold them indefinitely without charge or trial, based solely on suspicions, spurious allegations or none at all."
1/2/12 How Congress Has Signed Its Own Arrest Warrants in the NDAA Citizen Arrest Act, by Naomi Wolf, Information Clearing House. "US Congresspeople and Senators may think that their power protects them from the treacherous wording of Amendments 1031 and 1032: but their arrogance is leading them to a blindness that is suicidal. ... They will immediately become, not the masters of the great might of the United States military, but its subjects and even, if history is any guide — and every single outcome of ramping up police state powers, unfortunately, that I have warned for years that history points to, has come to pass — sadly but inevitably, its very first targets."
12/31/11 Obama Crowned Himself on New Year's Eve, by David Swanson, War Is A Crime. "On that day, Obama issued an unconstitutional signing statement rewriting a law as he signed it into law, a practice that candidate Obama had rightly condemned. ... [He] has claimed the power to imprison people without a trial since his earliest months in office. He spoke in front of the Constitution in the National Archives while gutting our founding document in 2009.... [He] has claimed the power to torture "if needed," issued an executive order claiming the power of imprisonment without trial, exercised that power on a massive scale at Bagram, and claimed and exercised the power to assassinate U.S. citizens. Obama routinely kills people with unmanned drones."
12/29/11 VIDEO (10:32) Military Spending: Bang for the Buck?, The Real News. Robert Pollin, Co-Director of PERI [Political Economic Research Institute] shows that military spending creates significantly fewer jobs than spending for clean energy, health care, or education.
12/27/11 NDAA 2012 torture of Americans, or arrest the 1%'s criminals: your choice , by Carl Herman, The Examiner. "Because US government's 1% 'leadership' has tortured, refused to stop or prosecute torture under 'new' 'leadership' of Obama, now assassinates American citizens upon the dictation of the president, and repeats legislative language in NDAA 2012 again to 'disappear' American citizens, Americans' choice in 2012 seems clear: either arrest the criminal 1% 'leadership' for obvious War Crimes, or suffer the torture of your neighbors, friends, family, and yourself in 2012."
12/23/11 Republican Security Advisers Tied to $40 Billion in Contracts, by Roxana Tiron, Bloomberg News. "National security advisers to the Republican presidential candidates have ties to defense, homeland security and energy companies that have received at least $40 billion in federal contracts since 2008."
12/16/11 The Criminal in Chief, by Anthony DiMaggio, Counterpunch. "American majority sentiment is very clearly opposed to the Obama administration's continuation of the illegal attacks on the Constitution and basic due process rights. We have an opportunity today to send a message to our members of Congress that denial of due process is unacceptable regardless of the party of the president."
12/15/11 One Million + Dead & Displaced in Iraq for This?, by Debra Sweet, Open Salon. "Barack Obama's announcement yesterday that the 'war is over' is wrong on so many levels. ... The wealthiest country and military in the world leaves behind billions of dollars worth of trashed equipment, and civil and physical society in shambles."
12/14/11 How the House Voted on More War, More Military, and Imprisonments Without Trials, by David Swanson, War Is A Crime. "H.R. 1540 - TITLE: To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2012 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes. AYES: 283; NAYS: 136; NOT VOTING: 14."
12/1/11 Senate votes to allow indefinite detention of Americans, by Josh Gerstein, Politico. "By a 45-55 vote, senators rejected an amendment from Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) that would have excluded U.S. citizens from the detention authority created by the Authorization for the Use of Military Force passed just after the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001."
11/30/11 How the Drone Warfare Industry Took Over Our Congress, by Tom Barry, AlterNet. "The drone fair, which took place in the lobby of the Rayburn House Office Building, also displayed the easy mix of government and business...the kind of bipartisan unity often seen when Democrats and Republicans rally around security and federal pork. ... The drone business is projected to double over the next decade despite stagnant military budgets. The annual global market is expected to rise from $5.9 billion to nearly $11.3 billion by 2020 – with the United States accounting for about three-quarters of the total research, development and procurement markets."
11/14/11 War Is a Force That Pays the 1 Percent: Occupying American Foreign Policy, by J. A. Myerson, truthout. "It's clear that the interests of the majority of people in this country do not align with the military-industrial complex who put corporate profiteering based on destruction ahead of the needs of people."
11/9/11 The US is a Police State: Review of Andrew Kolin, State Power and Democracy, by Prof. John McMurtry, Center for Research on Globalization. "Beneath continuous corporate-state and media proclamation of America's freedoms and simultaneous academic fear to expose the lines of despotism, this work largely succeeds in providing the procedural workings of the U.S. police state building both before, and dramatically after, the turning point of 9-11."
11/8/11 Fahrenheit 11/11/11, by David Swanson, Center for Research on Globalization. "Millions of Americans who had supported World War I came, during the years following its completion on November 11, 1918, to reject the idea that anything could ever be gained through warfare. ... A ten-year campaign was launched in 1918 that in 1928 created the Kellogg-Briand Pact, legally banning all wars. That treaty is still on the books, which is why war making is a criminal act and how Nazis came to be prosecuted for it."
11/2/11 Report: Military Blew $1 Trillion on Weapons Since 9/11, by Adam Weinstein, Mother Jones.
10/26/11 VIDEO (2:28) Meet the 0.01 Percent: War Profiteers , Brave New Foundation. "War industry CEOs make tens of millions of dollars a year, putting them in the top 0.01 percent of income earners in the U.S. ... These guys use their corporations' massive lobbying dollars to keep their job-killing gravy train rolling. Last year, their companies spent a whopping $46 million on lobbying, corrupting our politics and ensuring that their bank accounts continue to fatten at our expense. These executives are some of the main reasons why we're wasting so much on war instead of rebuilding our own nation here at home."
10/13/11 Obama raised $70 million for re-election in third quarter, by Michael A. Memoli, Chicago Tribune. "In an e-mail to supporters, Obama campaign manager Jim Messina said that Obama for America and the DNC raised that $70 million from more than 606,000 donors -- more than the previous quarter -- and that 98% of the 766,000 total gifts were in amounts of $250 or less. ... The campaign has not yet released full details of its third-quarter filing...."
10/12/11 We Shut Down the Hart Senate Office Building, by David Swanson, War Is A Crime. "How 99% Prevented Senators from Working Yesterday."
9/26/11 When the World Outlawed War: Remarks at Lynchburg College, by David Swanson, War Is A Crime. "The Kellogg-Briand Pact [signed in 1928 and ratified by the U.S. Senate], which has never been repealed, makes a stronger case against wars like Afghanistan and Iraq than does the U.N. Charter. To comply with Kellogg-Briand, wars need not be defensive or U.N.-authorized. Rather, wars need to simply not exist."
9/23/11 Majority Rates Obama 'Same' as or 'Worse' Than George W. Bush, by Devin Dwyer, ABC News. "Predictably, Democrats were most supportive of Obama, while Republicans favored Bush in the poll. The response from independent voters might be most telling for Obama: a troublesome 67 percent said they considered him about the same or worse than Bush."
9/20/11 The substantial cost of keeping a sizable U.S. force in Iraq, by Robert Naiman, The Washington Post, Letters. "According to the Congressional Research Service [PDF], it currently costs an average of $802,000 to keep one U.S. soldier in Iraq for one year. At that rate, to keep 10,000 U.S. soldiers in Iraq from 2012 to 2021 would cost $80 billion; to keep 25,000 soldiers there would cost $200 billion."
9/19/11 Whistleblowing, and How to Get More of It, by Karen Kwiatkowski, War Is A Crime. "What I have learned from my own experience in telling the truth from within the military industrial complex when it is politically unpopular, is that our whistleblowers are indeed uncommon men and women. For every truth-teller who feels they must speak honestly and openly to preserve their dignity, their pride, and their liberty, there are one thousand, maybe ten thousand, even one hundred thousand men and women who want nothing more than to be able to pay their mortgage, get along with their employer, and keep their head down, and serve their time in the well-managed penitentiary."
9/19/11 Rage Against the System, by Stephen Lendman, Progressive Radio News Hour. "In plain sight in Washington, bipartisan crooks wage war on personal freedoms, democratic values, and general welfare to grab all they can for themselves and corporate partners. The public be damned. It's there to be exploited, not helped. Corruption is the order of the day. So is war-making - permanent state terrorism against humanity one country at a time or in multiple theaters. ... Mark your calendar. October 6, 2011."
9/18/11 Imperial Arrogance and Hypocrisy, by Stephen Lendman, Progressive Radio News Hour. "Washington supports a UN seat for the illegitimate Transitional National Council (TNC) Libyan government. Obama vows to veto a Palestinian bid for statehood and full de jure UN membership. ... It's no different at home where political leaders favor wealth and power interests over working households, struggling to cope during America's greatest Depression."
9/13/11 Vets For Peace Calls for Impeachment of Obama for War Crimes, by John Walsh, Antiwar.com. "A call for impeachment, whatever the prospects for success, makes crystal clear that the antiwar community regards the President as a criminal — whether that President is Bush or Obama. And it puts a stop to the nasty tactic of shutting up impeachment advocates by calling them racists."
9/13/11 VIDEO (11:26) Bruce Fein: "We Are at the Verge of Despotism!", video by William Hughes. Roundtable discussion on the U.S. Government's reaction to 9/11, at Busboys & Poets in Washington, DC, with Ralph Nader, Lawrence Wilkerson, Mike German.
9/13/11 VIDEO (14:43) Col. Wilkerson: "The American Republic Is Expiring!", video by William Hughes. Roundtable discussion on the U.S. Government's reaction to 9/11, at Busboys & Poets in Washington, DC, with Ralph Nader, Bruce Fein, Mike German.
9/12/11 VIDEO (2:13) War profiteers escalate their war on jobs, Brave New Foundation. "War contracting doesn't make us safer. But it does make a few corporations and CEOs very rich. ... That's why they've hired 843 lobbyists and recently spent $210 million to influence Congress to protect their profits."
9/12/11 Ron Paul says U.S. has military personnel in 130 nations and 900 overseas bases, St. Petersburg Times. PolitiFact: "On balance, we rate Paul's statement Mostly True."
9/4/11 Senator says troops must head out of Afghanistan, by Peter Wong, Statesman Journal. "Although he praised U.S. diplomats and troops, the Oregon Democrat said Afghanistan cannot sustain the buildup of military and police forces — and is failing to reduce corruption — that would hasten the end of the U.S. effort there. 'This nation-building mission is not working,' he said at a luncheon last week sponsored by the Strategic Economic Development Corp. in Salem. 'We need to do a lot more nation-building at home.' "
8/13/11 Congressional Junkets to Israel, by Stephen Lendman, Progressive Radio News Hour. "Eighty-one House members, one fifth of the chamber, will visit Israel during the traditional summer recess, instead of addressing festering local issues at home during the nation's gravest economic crisis too serious to ignore. ... Spouses are also going at an estimated cost of $8,000, including business-class flights, first-class hotels, meals, transportation, side trips, guides and incidentals. ... One congressional wife, in fact, who's been there before, said she and her husband never before experienced such pressure. Another representative's staff member said those invited had no choice. If they don't go, AIPAC will target them for removal, and most likely succeed."
8/13/11 Special Ops: The New Face of War, by John Grant, This Can't Be Happening. "What the CIA seems to be doing is playing the old cruel wink'n'nod used in Vietnam that all US killed corpses are the enemy — even if it's an 8-year-old boy next to the corpse of his mother in the kitchen of their home. The real problem, here, is that those questioning this kind of blatant dishonesty become "subversives" in the eyes of the War Party."
8/11/11 War Budget Cuts Possible If We Counter Contractors' Multimillion-Dollar Campaign Spending, by Robert Greenwald, Alternet. "What's not reasonable is to continue funding an outdated view of national defense that requires garrisoning the planet, throwing hundreds of thousands of troops at essentially political problems and spending close to a trillion dollars every year to fight enemies who use homemade bombs."
8/10/11 Who bankrolls the Super Congress?, by Sandy Johnson, Center for Public Integrity. "Every member of the Super Congress comes with a history of political patrons and connections with special interests. The Center for Public Integrity's iWatch News has produced an in-depth look at their involvement with the gears that make Washington work, often to the consternation of the public and government watchdogs."
8/9/11 Gravel names his price: $1 million to challenge Obama, The Daily Caller. "He presented himself not as what he is; he presented himself as you would want him to be," Gravel said. "And then, of course, when he gets power he turns out to be what he is: a tool of the military-industrial complex and Wall Street."
8/6/11 WAKE UP, AMERICA! YOUR HOUSE IS ON FIRE!, by Joan Wile, author, Grandmothers Against the War. "WAKE UP, AMERICA, ORGANIZE / THE TIME HAS COME TO MOBILIZE / WE MUST HAVE MORE THAN MOANS AND GROANS / WE'VE GOT TO LEAVE OUR COMFORT ZONES / AND FINALLY TAKE ACTION, NOW, TODAY / LET'S HIT THE STREETS, WITHOUT DELAY!"
7/28/11 Conyers Has "Had It" With Obama, by Joyce Jones, BET. "We've got to march on him," Conyers said. "We want him to know from this day forward that we've had it. We want him to come out on our side and advocate, not to watch and wait to see what [lawmakers] are doing in the House and Senate. We're suffering."
7/22/11 Impeach President Obama, by Sherwood Ross, Center for Research on Globalization. "Yet worse than anything Obama has done or not done domestically, are the illegal wars he's waging across Asia and Africa.... These wars are being pushed despite a building majority opposition of Americans who are telling Congress and the pollsters they want the return of our troops from distant battlefields and bases."
7/22/11 Obama's Budget Betrayal — Questions and Answers, by David Swanson, War Is A Crime. "There will never be any change as long as just about everybody in elective office and much of the judiciary remain in office. You can't get there from here as long as they control the political scene for their patrons, The Money Party."
7/21/11 Ask your Congress Member to sign a letter to President Obama and Congressional leaders calling for reevaluation of military spending, by David Swanson, War Is A Crime. "[W]e will not have the resources we need to create jobs, fund healthcare and education, protect Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid - and address all the other urgent social needs we have - without ending the wars and redirecting funds from the bloated and wasteful Pentagon budget to meet our domestic priorities."
7/18/11 Five Reasons to Impeach Obama, by David Swanson, War Is A Crime. "Congress is not without blame. By appropriating astronomical amounts of money to the so-called 'war on terror'—approaching $4 trillion since the September 11, 2001 attacks—Congress has put the cost of imperialism on the American public's credit card without taking the responsibility of declaring war. Congress has been astute in grandstanding, maneuvering and laying blame, but short on officially declaring itself on matters of life and death."
7/7/11 House Votes to Stay in Afghanistan and Libya, by David Swanson, War Is A Crime. "The vote on the Lee Amendment was 97-322, with Democrats 87-94, and Republicans 10-228. The vote on the Kucinich Amendment was 199-229. That's the kind of vote you get when congress members in both parties are going against their parties' leadership."
7/6/11 The "War On Terror" Is A $6 Trillion Racket, With $1 Trillion In Interest Alone, Exceeding The Total Cost Of World War II, by David DeGraw, AmpedStatus Report. "For anyone who researches this, it is easy to see that the primary goal is not our safety, it is huge profits for military companies and global banking interests."
6/29/11 The Business of America is War, by Stephen Lendman, Progressive Radio News Hour. "In fact, America's business is war, more war, multiple wars, permanent wars, pillaging one nation after another for wealth, power, and dominance, while homeland needs go begging."
6/27/11 How Every Congressmember Voted on "Authorizing" and Funding an Illegal War, by David Swanson, War Is A Crime. "Here's the roll call as the House voted not to 'authorize' Libya war. And here's the roll call as the House voted against restricting the funding of the Libya War. Thus do 'war opponents' fund wars."
6/21/11 Sagging Economy Draws Attention to War Spending, by Helene Cooper, The New York Times. "...what $1.3 trillion in spending on two wars in the past decade has meant at home: a ballooning budget deficit and a soaring national debt at a time when the economy is still struggling to get back on its feet."
6/20/11 Lies, Damn Lies, and Liberating Wars, by Stephen Lendman, Progressive Radio News Hour. "Obama is just the latest hired hand, furthering Washington's rogue agenda - pressuring, intimidating and/or terror bombing countries to comply, slaughtering civilians to protect them, destroying their countries for their own good, while lying about America's good intentions that, in fact, seek only to make the world safe for capital, not people."
6/20/11 U.S. Mayors Pass Resolution To Bring 'War Dollars' Home, by Matt Sledge, Huffington Post. "The mayors are asking that money spent on wars abroad be used in the United States to develop cities and towns."
6/18/11 Waging Another Unconstitutional War, by Ralph Nader, Common Dreams. "You see, the widespread daily bombing of Libya, the strict naval blockade of Muammar Gadhafi-controlled Libya, the destruction of Gadhafi's family compound and tent encampment in the desert--killing his son and three grandchildren--and the deployment of special forces inside Libya is not a 'War.'"
6/18/11 Duplicitous Congressional Posturing on Libya , by Stephen Lendman, Progressive Radio News Hour. "In fact, rhetorical posturing, toothless congressional measures and ineffective lawsuits aside, most members of Congress support wars by passing defense authorization bills and supplemental appropriations with comfortable margins."
6/15/11 Congress Members Sue Obama to End Libya War, by David Swanson, War Is A Crime. "On Wednesday in federal court, 10 members of the U.S. Congress sued President Obama in an attempt to end U.S. involvement in a war in Libya."
6/13/11 Revealed: How $6.6billion of taxpayers' money sent to Iraq by Bush may have been STOLEN, by Paul Bentley, Daily Mail (UK). "In 2004, the U.S. sent $2.4billion in packaged bricks of $100 bills to Iraq in a giant C-130 Hercules cargo plane, followed by 20 other flights full of cash."
6/13/11 Washington Post Wants Endless War, by David Swanson, War Is A Crime. "So a decade-long war should continue because each week costs 'only' $2 billion, even though those weeks pile up, the interest on the debt piles up, the cost of caring for the veterans mounts into the future, the impact on fuel costs is heavy, the lost opportunity costs are huge, the hatred built around the world by the war makes us less safe, the leading cause of death for US participants is suicide, and we are routinely slaughtering men, women, and children."
6/12/11 Obama's Slipping Popularity, by Stephen Lendman, Progressive Radio News Hour. "39% say he deserves reelection; 52% want change; -- congressional approval also dropped to 17%, a testimony to mass public disdain; and -- given America's direction, waging multiple imperial wars at the expense of vital homeland needs, expect an angrier public reaction ahead as pain levels rise."
6/8/11 Billions In Afghan Aid May Not Do Long-Term Good, Senate Report Warns, by Mark Memmott, National Public Radio. "The nearly $19 billion that the U.S. has already spent on foreign aid to Afghanistan and the billions more to come in the next few years could end up doing little if any long-term good unless more focused planning is done, according to a report today from the Democratic majority in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee."
6/5/11 Cynthia McKinney's truth dispatches from Libya: Days 1-3, by Wayne Madsen, San Francisco Bay View. "Not only is war good for the weapons industry, but refugee crises brought about by Western-implemented wars fatten the wallets of NGOs anxious to cash in on the human misery created by Pentagon and NATO overt and covert military operations."
6/5/11 Secret Wars of CIA Have Cost Taxpayers Billions, by Sherwood Ross, OpEd News. "Like the Ku Klux Klan of old, the CIA is the new illegal, 'invisible empire,' one that works harmoniously with its one-time employee, President Obama, to serve the needs of the Empire."
6/3/11 House rebukes Obama on Libya mission, but does not demand withdrawal, by David A. Fahrenthold, The Washington Post.
6/2/11 GOP seizes on Kucinich idea as a way to condemn Obama on Libya, by Howard LaFranchi, The Christian Science Monitor.
6/2/11 The war in Libya 'is not a war'. Really?, by Dennis Kucinich, The Guardian (UK). "The recent strikes are believed to be most intense attack on the Libyan capital since action against Muammar Gaddafi began in March; the US has contributed 93% of cruise missiles and 50% of planes involved in Nato combat operations, at an estimated cost of $700m."
5/27/11 Patriot Act provisions extended just in time, by Lisa Mascaro, Los Angeles Times. "Acting with minutes to spare, President Obama approved a four-year extension of expiring provisions of the Patriot Act, after Congress overcame mounting opposition from both parties to narrowly avoid a lapse in the terrorist surveillance law."
5/27/11 Congressman questions Patriot Act "autopen" signature, by Stephanie Condon, CBS News.
5/25/11 OPINION: Netanyahu's speech to Congress shows America will buy anything, by Gideon Levy, Haaretz (Israel). "...or at least their applauding legislators will." Netanyahu's "speech of his life" was the speech of the death of peace.
5/24/11 The Worst Bill Ever in Congress, by David Swanson, War Is A Crime. The "Defense Authorization" bill now before Congress, HR 1750....
5/22/11 Obama emulates lying Bush, by Gideon Polya, Media With Conscience News. "President Barack Obama's 19 May 2011 speech on the Middle East is extraordinary for its comprehensive dishonesty involving egregious deceit, lying by commission and lying by omission."
5/19/11 Reality Check: The Profound Hypocrisy of President Obama's Speech on the Middle East, by Brian Becker and Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, ANSWER Coalition.
5/17/11 VIDEO (3:43) Making a Killing: Military contracting last defense in bad economy, RT America. "And the defense contractors are raking in the dough." (at 3:15).
5/17/11 VIDEO (4:52) David Swanson: Don't make guns, make solar panels, RT America.
5/16/11 The Need for Impeachment, by Dan DeWalt, War Is A Crime. "Because our loyalties are to the Republic and not to any political party, we once again call upon our fellow Americans to recognize that this President must too be called to account and impeachment proceedings should be initiated against Barrack Obama."
5/15/11 U.S. Policy is Rooted in Lies, Injustice, and War, by Cynthia McKinney, Public Intelligence Blog. "Finally, I am saddened as an American at what my country is doing to the world. I am saddened that our first African-American President presents a false perception of the Black political consensus in the U.S. when he participates in war crimes and global death and destruction."
5/12/11 House panel authorizes nearly $700 billion in Defense spending, by John T. Bennett, The Hill.
5/8/11 Room For Debate: How to Cut the Military. Eight proposals by Gordon Adams, Lawrence J. Korb, Jennifer Mittelstadt, Mackenzie Eaglen, Cindy Williams, Douglas MacGregor, Benjamin H. Friedman, Linda J. Blimes. The New York Times.
4/28/11 Recent reports from the Congressional Research Service on the costs of war since 9/11 and related topics.
4/23/11 White House Website Lying About Your Taxes, by David Swanson, War Is A Crime.
4/22/11 News Flash: Iraq War Was About Oil, by Ray McGovern, Consortium News.
4/21/11 Libya: another neocon war, by David Swanson, The Guardian(UK).
4/21/11 Libya and hindsight: "War Is A Lie" British Version Published in London Just as UK Troops Sent to Libya, BiteBack Publishing (UK).
4/19/11 Secret memos expose link between oil firms and invasion of Iraq, by Paul Bignell, The Independent (UK).
4/19/11 Kucinich to Introduce Legislation to End the War in Libya, War Is A Crime.
4/15/11 Oliver Stone: Don't Betray Us, Barack -- End the Empire, by Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick, AlterNet.
4/5/11 President Obama Gets His Groove Back By Attacking Africans, by Cynthia McKinney, Green Party of the United States. "Silence is the deadliest weapon of mass destruction."
3/29/11 Audit of Pentagon Spending Finds $70 Billion in Waste, by Christopher Drew, The New York Times.
3/24/11 Kucinich Demands Immediate End to U.S. Role in the War in Libya, War Is A Crime.
3/23/11 U.S. spending on military operations in Libya drains Pentagon, by Walter Pincus, The Washington Post.
3/23/11 Revolt Against American Militarism, by Timothy Gatto, OpEd News.
3/4/11 People v. U.S. Govt, by David Swanson, War Is A Crime.
2/25/11 Report: Billions lost on contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan, by Charley Keyes, CNN.
2/22/11 Defense spending and national well-being, by Stephen M. Walt, Foreign Policy.
2/14/11 End the Pentagon's back-door budgets, by Politico Writer, The Charleston Gazette.
2/13/11 Pentagon seeks $553 billion – Record request justified by national security demands, by Nancy A. Youssef, McClatchy Newspapers.
2/3/11 Report: DoD awarded billions to firms despite fraud, by Sarah Chacko, Federal Times.
1/27/11 Did Congress approve America's longest war? Congress did empower the president in 2001 to pursue al-Qaida in Afghanistan. But a decade later, where's the oversight? By Bruce Ackerman and Oona Hathaway, The Guardian (UK).
1/24/11 VIDEO (5:12) Kucinich: What Will We Sacrifice for These Wars?, War Is A Crime
1/22/11 How Congress thwarted Obama's closing of Guantànamo. By Carol Rosenberg, The Miami Herald.
1/22/11 Reneging on Guantànamo: In January 2009, President Obama promised a clean break with Bush era detentions. Two years on, only continuity is visible. By Karen Greenberg, The Guardian (UK).
1/13/10 What Eisenhower Got Wrong, by David Swanson, War Is A Crime
1/7/11 VIDEO (5:03) A Rant: What to Tell Your Misrepresentatives in Congress Now, by David Swanson, War Is A Crime: End the filibuster • Stop signing statements • Tax the rich • Cut military spending
12/31/10 Determination is Part of Stopping Unjust Wars, by Debra Sweet, OpEdNews. "We can't rely on mainstream media to relate our demands.... We've got to use every outrage as a way of educating people to understand that these wars are fundamentally against the interests of the people living in this country, and of those who are occupied, and that your government is lying to you."
12/30/10 63 Percent of Americans Oppose War In Afghanistan, by Amanda Terkel, The Huffington Post
12/27/10 2011: US Primed For Fascist Dictatorship, by Paul Craig Roberts, Sign of the Times. "If not already obvious, 2010 has made clear that the US government does not care a whit for the opinions of citizens.... The situation will be worse by 2012."
12/23/10 Pentagon's Christmas Present: Largest Military Budget Since World War II, by Rick Rozoff, OpEdNews
12/22/10 VIDEO (in 7 Parts) John Pilger – The War You Don't See, Information Clearing House
12/22/10 Why we write: End unlawful US wars; have justice and love, by Carl Herman, Examiner.com
12/21/10 The costs of war, by Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Washington Post
12/17/10 House approves billions for wars without debate, Associated Press
12/11/10 It is time that we abandon the language of war, by Dan Gardner, The Vancouver Sun. "It should be challenged and denounced as the futile and self-defeating nonsense it is."
12/2/10 NYT Stokes Fear of Iran, by Ray McGovern, Consortium News. (See video interview (13:56) New York Times Beats Drums for War, Real News Network)
12/1/10 Why New Evidence Demands End to Wars (open letter) by David Swanson, et al., War Is A Crime
11/29/10 Stop These Wars or We'll Fill Your Jails, by David Swanson, War Is A Crime
11/28/10 Breaking Our Addiction to War by Brian Willson, Global Research. (Originally published 1/25/10 here.)
11/21/10 The New War Congress: An Obama-Republican War Alliance? by David Swanson, War Is A Crime
11/19/10 U.S. deploying heavily armored battle tanks for first time in Afghan war by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, The Washington Post
11/11/10 Thank You Alan Grayson (Former Congressman, Florida's 8th District), Brave New Films
10/12/10 98 Challengers and 115 Incumbents Oppose War $, by David Swanson, War Is A Crime
10/7/10 VIDEO (31:30) Private Security Contractors in Afghanistan: Senate committee reports US money funding both sides of war, C-SPAN
9/24/10 Barney Frank Wants All Troops Home From Iraq: 'What The Hell Are They Doing There?' by Ryan Grim, Huffington Post
9/11/10 Another reason to close Guantanamo: It's expensive by Carol Rosenberg, Miami Herald
7/1/10 Rep. Nadler: We Must End the War in Afghanistan Now
6/29/10 Rep. Delahunt To Oppose War Funding
6/28/10 End Vietghanistan This Week by David Swanson, War Is A Crime
6/11/10 The Courage to Leave, by Bob Herbert, The New York Times
5/28/10 US Senate Passes $60B Funding for Afghan War
5/25/10 Afghans believe US is funding Taliban Intellectuals and respected Afghan professionals are convinced the west is prolonging conflict to maintain influence in the region, by Daniella Peled, The Guardian (UK)
5/4/10 33 Billion Dishonest Excuses for War, by David Swanson, War Is A Crime
4/30/10 Seven Deadly Sins in Afghanistan (Remarks By David Swanson at 4/29 Teach-In on War)
4/27/10 Kucinich Invites Colleagues to Teach In on War This Thursday
4/19/10 Ending Wars: The Flexible Waiverable Timetable Approach, by David Swanson, War Is A Crime
4/12/10 Rep. Delahunt's Forum on Not Funding Afghan War Escalation [videos included], by David Swanson, War Is A Crime
4/10/10 Podcast PDA interview: Rep. Kucinich discusses the recent floor debate on Afghanistan, the pending supplemental vote and the importance of an engaged anti-war movement (21:50)
4/9/10 $33 Billion to Escalate a Quagmire, by David Swanson, War Is A Crime
4/8/10 "Congressman, Vote No on Afghan War Escalation", by David Swanson, War Is A Crime
4/5/10 VIDEO (8:42) Example of democracy in action at local level:
Portland, Maine City Council Passes Resolution to Stop War Funding, 7-1

OBAMA'S "NON-WAR" ON LIBYA, AND NOW SYRIA

FOLLOW THE LATEST NEWS ON LIBYA: LIBYAN FREE PRESS

3/7/12 Stratfor Emails: Covert Special Ops Inside Syria Since December - A private conversation with Pentagon officials suggested US and allied troops were on the ground in Syria, by John Glaser, Antiwar.com. "According to the Stratfor analyst, after rejecting the prospect of 'an eventual air campaign,' the officials at the Pentagon told him 'the idea "hypothetically" is to commit guerrilla attacks, assassination campaigns, try to break the back of the Alawite forces, elicit collapse from within.' ... The date of the email coincides roughly with the first public reports of secret contingency planning in December."
1/13/12 Why is President Obama sending 12,000 U.S. troops to Libya?, by Cynthia McKinney, Information Clearing House. "A resistance Libyan doctor-become-journalist reported yesterday that all of the petroleum platforms are occupied by NATO and that warships occupy Libya's ports. Photographs show Italian encampments in the desert with an announcement that the French are to follow. Another news outlet reports that Qataris and Emiratees are the engineers now at the oil plants, turning away desperate Libyan workers. While long lines exist for Libyan drivers to get their gas, foreign troops ensure the black gold's export. Libyans lack enough food and the basics, the country has been turned upside down, and contaminated with uranium while the true number of dead and unaccounted for remains high and unknown."

4. JUSTICE
WAR CRIMES: NO STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS

Center for Constitutional Rights:
SUPPORT BUSH TORTURE INDICTMENT & HELP ENSURE ACCOUNTABILITY

WHERE ARE THEY NOW? War Criminals Scheduled Appearances

WANTED: WAR CRIMINALS Arrest Warrants Requested for Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Tenet, Rice and Gonzales at the International Criminal Court

Francis A. Boyle, Professor of International Law at the University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign, has filed a Complaint with the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (I.C.C.) in The Hague against U.S. citizens George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, Condoleezza Rice, and Alberto Gonzales (the "Accused") for their criminal policy and practice of "extraordinary rendition" perpetrated upon about 100 human beings...[which] constitute Crimes against Humanity in violation of the Rome Statute establishing the I.C.C. [more]. [Full text of Complaint]
1/25/10 BushToTheHague.org: Complaint received and docketed
Pursuant to the Rome Statute, the Prosecutor can initiate an investigation on the basis of a referral from any State Party or from the United Nations Security Council. In addition, the Prosecutor can initiate investigations proprio motu on the basis of information on crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court received from individuals or organisations ("communications").
Call for action Contact the Hague to insist they proceed with a criminal investigation:
The Honorable Luis Moreno-Ocampo / Office of the Prosecutor / International Criminal Court / Post Office Box 19519 / 2500 CM, The Hague / The Netherlands
Tel 31-70-515-8515 Fax 31-70-515-8555 Email here

RELATED ARTICLES - JUSTICE

5/11/12 NEW! Kuala Lumpur War Tribunal Finds Bush, Seven Others Guilty Of War Crimes, BERNAMA - Malaysian National News Agency. "In a unanimous decision, former Court of Appeal president Tan Sri Lamin Mohd Yunus who headed the quorum of the tribunal, ruled the prosecution had proved its case beyond reasonable doubt. ... The eight accused persons were charged with the crime of torture, that they had wilfully participated in the formulation of executive orders and directives to exclude the applicability of international conventions and laws, namely Convention against Torture 1984, Geneva Convention 1949, Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the United Nations Charter, in relation to the war launched by the US and others in Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in March 2003."
• ALSO REPORTED IN: Great Britain, Russia, Canada, New Zealand, Iran, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Borneo, Honduras. No American mainstream media have reported this story. Non-mainstream reports: Antiwar.com, Common Dreams, Digital Journal, Eurasia Review, Examiner, Jurist, Salon (blog), OpEd News, CultureMap (Austin, TX), NewJerseyNewsRoom, Indiana Daily Student, Auburn Journal (CA).
5/10/12 NEW! Guantanamo Show Trial Begins, by Stephen Lendman, Progressive Radio News Hour. "After years of horrific torture, mistreatment, and deprivation, it's astonishing he[Khalid Sheikh Mohammed]'s still alive to be tried. Doing so in military courts is scandalous. At issue is their illegitimacy. It's also about using torture extracted evidence. ... According to MCA [2006 Military Commissions Act] provisions, [torture]'s permitted. Appeals are prohibited. Convictions are certain. Executions will follow. Justice will be denied. The real 9/11 co-conspirators remain free. They're in charge of condemning innocent suspects to death."
5/9/12 NEW! Justice and the Guantánamo trial — OUR OPINION: Release full reports involving torture of accused, The Miami Herald. "What the CIA did to prisoners now at Guantánamo was wrong. We know that from partially released CIA Inspector General's reports on torture, one under President Bush, and the other under President Obama. For the process to have a shred of the credibility Gen. Martins is seeking, the world must not only know what the terrorists did to America, but also what America did to them during their detour to the dark sites on their way to Guantánamo justice."
5/7/12 NEW! Torture: The Bush Administration on Trial, by Andy Worthington, The Future of Freedom Foundation. "[Former Director of the CIA's National Clandestine Service Jose] Rodriguez joins an elite club of public officials – including George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld – who have not been prosecuted for using torture or authorizing its use. Instead, they have been writing books, going on book tours, and appearing on mainstream TV to attempt to justify their unjustifiable actions."
5/7/12 NEW! Malaysia puts Bush, Cheney on 'trial' for war crimes, by Lauren Booth, Press TV (Iran). "For the second time, the Kuala Lumpur Foundation to Criminalize War is putting a former head of state and their administration before a peoples court to face charges of Torture and War Crimes."
5/4/12 NEW! ACLU seeks broad public access to secret testimony in 9/11 trial, by The Miami Herald staff, Boston Herald. "At issue is the court system that employs a 40-second delay of the proceedings, time enough to let an intelligence official hit a white-noise button if any of the men describe what CIA agents did to them after their capture in Pakistan in 2002 and 2003 and before their arrival at Guantanamo in September 2006. ... A court security officer used the white noise at an earlier, aborted effort in 2008 and 2009 to put the five men on trial for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks."
5/3/12 NEW! Why Did Rodriguez Destroy The Torture Tapes?, by Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Beast. "[W]atching live-action tapes of waterboarding would have brought the reality of torture – and the rank incompetence and brutality of the torturers – into stark relief. It would have destroyed any remnants of Bush's and Cheney's reputation and America's moral standing in the world. ... The war criminals are on notice. We won't forget. And we will bring you to justice one day – as history already has."
5/2/12 NEW! Court rejects torture-related case against Bush lawyer, by Terry Baynes [Reuters], Chicago Tribune. "A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday ruled that John Yoo, a former legal counsel to the Bush administration, is immune from a lawsuit by an American citizen convicted on terrorism charges who said he was tortured at a military jail in South Carolina. ... In a separate case in January, another appeals court rejected a similar suit Padilla filed against former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, current Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and other officials. Padilla has appealed that case to the Supreme Court."
4/21/12 The Torture Trials At Guantánamo — OpEd, by Andy Worthington, Eurasia Review. "Four years later, President Obama has finally decided to proceed with the trial of Mohammed and four of his alleged accomplices, although, as the New York Times reported last week, in an editorial entitled, 'The Road We Need Not Have Traveled,' [see 4/7/12 below]there is nothing to celebrate about this milestone finally being reached. Over ten and a half years after the attacks that spawned the disastrous 'war on terror,' the dark reverberations of the Bush administration's brutal response continue to echo throughout America, and also to pervade America's reputation around the world."
4/16/12 Tribunal to Hear Second War Crime Charge Against Bush & Associates, by Peter Foster, Mathaba News Agency. "KUALA LUMPUR, 12 April 2012 (mathaba) The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal will be hearing the second charge of Crime of Torture and War Crimes against former U.S. President George W. Bush and his associates namely Richard Cheney, former U.S. Vice President, Donald Rumsfeld, former Defence Secretary, Alberto Gonzales, then Counsel to President Bush, David Addington, then General Counsel to the Vice-President, William Haynes II, then General Counsel to Secretary of Defense, Jay Bybee, then Assistant Attorney General, and John Choon Yoo, former Deputy Assistant Attorney-General. The charge reads as follows..."
4/13/12 Guantánamo war crimes tribunals 'transparently unfair', by Peter Foster, The Telegraph (UK). "During the hearings, the defence complained they were locked in a grossly unequal contest with the US Government, being left short of resources for translators and blindsided by rules governing the disclosure of classified documents. Mr Kammen objected strenuously to being asked to submit an outline of defence arguments without seeing summaries of secret documents. Originals cannot be shown to the defence because of national security concerns."
4/11/12 The unclassified Zelikow torture memo as evidence of crimes, by Michael Collins, The Agonist. "The memo makes clear that successive Justice Departments to this day have ignored their obligation to prosecute those responsible for outlawed interrogations. This would make all those responsible but failing to prosecute eligible for charges under the honest services fraud law of 1988. That law makes it a federal crime for government officials to fail to do their jobs...."
4/9/12 9/11 As Sequel to Iran-Contra: Armitage, Carlucci and Friends, by Kevin Ryan, Foreign Policy Journal. "[T]he lack of thorough investigation and prosecution of those responsible for Iran-Contra led to 'strengthening the very institutions that made their abuses possible.'[33] As a result....Armitage and Carlucci, along with colleagues like Cheney, McDaniel, Green, and Rumsfeld, were in positions to make the attacks of September 11 an extraordinary sequel to the Iran-Contra crimes. If and when an honest and independent investigation into 9/11 occurs, these men should certainly be among those investigated."
4/8/12 'Bush, Blair must stand trial for committing war crimes', Interview with Webster Griffin Tarpley, PhD, et al., Press TV (Iran). "George W. Bush and Tony Blair have committed international conspiracy to launch an aggressive war, subject to a future Nuremberg prosecution, says an analyst."
4/7/12 The Road We Need Not Have Traveled, Editorial, The New York Times. "All of the men could have been brought to trial years ago, but President Bush decided he could ignore the Constitution. He ordered them to be held in secret C.I.A. prisons and subjected to brutal and illegal interrogations. Mr. Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times in one month alone. That torture produced no useful intelligence, according to virtually all accounts, except those offered by people like former Vice President Dick Cheney, who was the key architect of the Bush administration's lawless detention and interrogation policies."
4/5/12 Obama Indicts Sixth Whistleblower Under the Espionage Act, by Dylan Blaylock, Government Accountability Project. "It is outrageous that John Kiriakou — the whistleblower — is the only individual to be prosecuted in relation to the Bush administration's torture program. The interrogators who tortured prisoners, the officials who gave the orders, the attorneys who authored the torture memos, and the CIA agents who destroyed the interrogation tapes have not been held professionally accountable, much less charged with crimes. But John Kiriakou is facing decades in prison for helping expose torture."
4/5/12 Death penalty trial of five 9/11 suspects to resume at Guantanamo, by Carol Rosenberg, Miami Herald. "The men face charges of terrorism, hijacking aircraft, conspiracy and murder in violation of the law of war, among other charges, in the system set up by President George W. Bush within months of the attack, and then modified by President Barack Obama in 2009. ... All five were interrogated by the CIA in secret overseas prisons — Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times, according to declassified CIA documents — before their 2006 transfer to Guantanamo. Once in Cuba, he bragged to a panel of U.S. military officers that he was responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks 'from A to Z.'"
4/5/12 Video: Bush Administration Committed War Crimes Says Bush Official Philip Zelikow, by Michael Allen, Opposing Views. "An anti-torture memo that the Bush administration has been trying to hide from public view for years was finally made public, reported MSNBC's Rachel Maddow (video below) on Wednesday night. ... Wired reporter Spencer Ackerman finally obtained the memo, through a Freedom on Information Act request that he made three years ago. Zelikow's memo warned the Bush Administration in 2006 that the interrogation techniques used on terror suspects by the CIA were 'a felony war crime.'"
4/1/12 Man whose WMD lies led to 100,000 deaths confesses all, by Jonathan Owen, The Independent (UK). "'Curveball', the Iraqi defector who fabricated claims about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, smiles as he confirms how he made the whole thing up. It was a confidence trick that changed the course of history, with Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi's lies used to justify the Iraq war. ... The chemical engineer claimed to have overseen the building of a mobile biological laboratory when he sought political asylum in Germany in 1999. His lies were presented as 'facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence' by Colin Powell, US Secretary of State, when making the case for war at the UN Security Council in February 2003."
3/31/12 Poles talk about CIA prison, breaking silence, by Associated Press, CBS News. "Former CIA officials have told the AP that a prison in Poland operated from December 2002 until the fall of 2003, and that prisoners were subjected to harsh questioning and waterboarding in Stare Kiejkuty, a village set in a lush area of woods and lakes. Human rights groups believe about eight terror suspects were held in Poland, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.... Poland is the only country that has opened a serious investigation into the matter, something which Bodnar says is a sign of maturing in this 23-year-old democracy, with prosecutors, journalists and human rights lawyers all trying to seek truth and accountability."
3/27/12 Polish Ex-Official Charged With Aiding C.I.A., by Joanna Berendt and Nicholas Kulish, The New York Times. "The former head of Poland's intelligence service has been charged with aiding the Central Intelligence Agency in setting up a secret prison to detain suspected members of Al Qaeda, a leading newspaper here reported on Tuesday, the first high-profile case in which a former senior official of any government has been prosecuted in connection with the agency's program. The daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza reported that the former intelligence chief, Zbigniew Siemiatkowski, told the paper that he faced charges of violating international law by 'unlawfully depriving prisoners of their liberty,' in connection with the secret C.I.A. prison where Qaeda suspects were subjected to brutal interrogation methods."
3/27/12 Op-Ed: The War Criminal's New Heart, by Denis G. Campbell, UK Progressive. "[T]his organ recipient has confessed to ordering and condoning torture. He should legitimately be sitting in a jail cell in The Hague awaiting trial for crimes against humanity. ... When Cheney said on global television he recommended and approved of torture, he became a self-admitted war criminal. It is no coincidence that Cheney, Bush, former AG Gonzalez and others ruled that 'enhanced interrogation techniques' such as waterboarding were legal and NOT torture. It is also no coincidence they all now routinely cancel trips abroad for fear of arrest by another government who takes the Geneva Convention on torture seriously."
3/26/12 To Hell With The Hague!, by Philip T. Shingirai, The Southern Times (South Africa). "The ICC serves as a tool with which to beat Africa while ignoring the excesses of the powerful and rich in the West. ... The selective prosecution at The Hague that has seen the likes of Blair, Bush, Kagame and Museveni going scot-free does nothing to instill faith in the international justice system. Just last year, the West was complicit in starting a war in Libya that resulted in the deaths of an untold number of civilians and forcing a change of government. Nothing has been done about that, but the ICC is eager to prosecute members of the former regime led by Muammar Gaddafi, who was murdered in broad daylight. Former US Secretary of State, Collin Powel, is on record confessing that the Bush regime that he worked for lied so that it could start the war in Iraq. ... Does that testimony not lay the basis for at least an investigation into the war on Iraq?"
3/25/12 Afghanistan Crimes: Absolving Higher-Ups, by Stephen Lendman, Progressive Radio News Hour. "Convicted Nazi war criminals were hanged. American ones keep killing with impunity. ... Perhaps one day American war criminals will face their Nuremberg moment. It won't compensate for decades of war, mass killing and destruction, torture as official policy, every other imaginable barbarity, and human suffering beyond comprehension."
3/24/12 NATO's Secrecy Stance [Cover-Up of War Crimes: "Zero" Civilian Deaths], by C.J. Chivers, The New York Times. "By the time NATO's planes departed, at least 34 people had been killed, many of them women and small children.... In a report quietly made public early this month, a United Nations commission pointedly noted that after examining the destruction in Majer, interviewing survivors, reviewing documents and conducting an analysis of satellite imagery from before and after the attack, it found no evidence that 'the site had a military purpose.' It added that 'it seems clear that those killed were all civilians.' ... [B]ecause the [NATO] alliance has refused to look into credible allegations of the scores of civilian deaths that independent investigations have found it caused, it is impossible for the official tally to rise above zero."
3/12/12 Dick Cheney cancels Toronto visit over security concerns, by The Canadian Press, CBC News. "Former U.S. vice-president Dick Cheney has cancelled a Canadian speaking appearance due to security concerns sparked by demonstrations during a visit he made to Vancouver last fall, the event promoter said Monday. Cheney, whom the protesters denounced as a war criminal, was slated to talk about his experiences in office and the current American political situation at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on April 24."
3/9/12 Beast of the Middle East: Hillary Clinton & War Crimes, by Bill Van Auken, World Socialist Web Site. "Behind the crocodile tears shed by the war criminals in Washington, the demands for regime-change in Syria have no more to do with human rights than the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq had to do with protecting the American people from terrorism."
3/4/12 Un-Cheating Justice: Two Years Left to Prosecute Bush, by David Swanson, War Is A Crime. "But it is the Democratic switch to defending all presidential wrongdoing since 2008 that has put the largest nails into the coffin of legitimate rule by law in this country. Bush's crimes have been legitimized. Obama has claimed the power to torture as he deems necessary, the power to imprison and rendition as he sees fit, the power to murder any human being including U.S. citizens and children as he and he alone declares necessary, and powers of state secrecy that Nixon and Cheney never dreamed of."
3/4/12 Obama, the "Denier" of Israel's Crimes, by Col. Ann Wright, War Is A Crime. "Having been to Gaza within days after the 22-day Israeli attack on Gaza that killed 1440, wounded 5,000 and left 50,000 homeless (13 Israelis were killed–5 by Israeli fire), I know the Goldstone Report is accurate in its recording of endless Israeli attacks on Gaza by air, land and sea. President Obama must not know that the Goldstone report comments on the actions of all parties, not just the Israelis. ... In another event concerning Gaza, Obama recounted, 'When Israel was isolated in the aftermath of the flotilla incident, we supported them.' I was a passenger on one of the six ships in the 2010 Gaza Freedom Flotilla. I know personally that Israeli commandos brutally attacked all six ships in the flotilla."
3/3/12 Hillary Clinton and Middle East war crimes, by Bill Van Auken, World Socialist Web Site. "Behind the crocodile tears shed by the war criminals in Washington, the demands for regime-change in Syria have no more to do with human rights than the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq had to do with protecting the American people from terrorism."
2/28/12 President Obama and His Key Advisors are a Gang of War Criminals, by Dave Lindorff, This Can't Be Happening. "The simple fact is that the president of the United States, Barack Obama, and his top generals and cabinet officers, are committing a war crime every time they threaten Iran with attack. ... What is absolutely stunning is that this massive criminality at the highest levels of the US government is going on totally unchallenged by the US mainstream media."
2/22/12 Americans Abandon International Law, by Nat Parry, Consortium News. "While just six years ago the U.S. public ranked among the world's most enthusiastic supporters of international law (falling just behind the Germans and the Chinese in global surveys), it now appears that vast majorities of Americans reject the applicability of international law when it comes to the actions of the U.S. government in the 'global war on terror.' ... With the Obama administration's failures to prosecute the worst crimes of the Bush years as well as its continuation of many of the same policies, the U.S. government's routine violations of international norms has seemingly become normalized to a broad cross-section of the American people."
2/12/12 Guantanamo Ten Years Later: "It's a Disgrace," Says Expert Andy Worthington, Interview by Brad Jacobson, truthout. "All of the studying that I've done over the years of what purports to be the evidence establishes that there's very little that can be regarded as reliable....when analyzed, are full of statements made by a handful of particular, notoriously unreliable informants." [See : Seton Hall Report (PDF) concluding that 92% of the Guantanamo detainees had not been al-Qaeda fighters; only 5% of the Guantanamo detainees were captured by the Americans themselves; 440 of 517 detainees appeared to have been captured by bounty hunters, in return for a $5,000 reward.] We need decent and honest Americans of all political persuasions to say, 'This is a disgrace, and we'd like it brought to an end.'"
2/10/12 Israel, MEK and state sponsor of Terror groups, by Glenn Greenwald, Salon. "The group of MEK shills includes former top Bush officials and other Republicans (Michael Mukasey, Fran Townsend, Andy Card, Tom Ridge, Rudy Giuliani) as well as prominent Democrats (Howard Dean, Ed Rendell, Bill Richardson, Wesley Clark). As The Christian Science Monitor reported last August, those individuals 'have been paid tens of thousands of dollars to speak in support of the MEK.'... [T]here are numerous Muslims inside the U.S. who have been prosecuted for providing 'material support for Terrorism' for doing far less than these American politicians are publicly doing on behalf of a designated Terrorist group."
2/9/12 VIDEO (1:05:16) Nader and Fein at Harvard Law School: "America's Lawless Empire: The Constitutional Crimes of Bush and Obama", Harvard Law School. "Ralph Nader '58 and Bruce Fein '72 visited Harvard Law School for a talk sponsored by the HLS Forum and the Harvard Law Record. At the event, 'America's Lawless Empire: The Constitutional Crimes of Bush and Obama,' both men discussed what they called lawless, violent practices by the White House and its agencies that have become institutionalized by both political parties."
2/9/12 Famous Spain Judge Convicted of Misusing Authority, by Daniel Woolls, Associated Press. "Baltasar Garzon was unanimously convicted by a seven-judge panel of the Supreme Court. ... Hours after the verdict, hundreds of Garzon supporters braved freezing weather in Madrid's central Sol plaza shouting 'Shame! Shame!' in protest. ... The verdict came despite declarations by Spanish prosecutors that Garzon committed no crime. ... Human rights groups that hold up Garzon as a hero slammed the decision, saying he was targeted by critics who wanted to bring him down."
1/27/12 Justice Dept. takes on itself in probe of 2001 anthrax attacks, by Jerry Markon, The Washington Post. "In documents deep in the files of a recently settled Florida lawsuit, Justice Department civil attorneys contradicted their own department's conclusion that Ivins was unquestionably the anthrax killer. The lawyers said the type of anthrax in Ivins's lab was 'radically different' from the deadly anthrax. They cited several witnesses who said Ivins was innocent, and they suggested that a private laboratory in Ohio could have been involved in the attacks."
1/25/12 Interview with Col. Morris Davis, by The Talking Dog, The Moderate Voice. "When I resigned as chief prosecutor for the military commissions in 2007, I immediately received an order directing me that I couldn't talk about why I had resigned."
1/25/12 Baltasar Garzón: The Man Who Refuses Silence, by William Fisher, The Public Record. "According to West Chester University history professor Lawrence Davidson, Spanish and US authorities want even the remotest possibility of charges against Bush Administration officials to go away – quietly. To this end Spain is attempting to silence 'a very important truth-teller (who has) conducted a number of investigations into violations of international law against torture.' ... He concludes: 'Yet truth-tellers, like Manning, Assange and Garzon have good historical memories and they do notice and do care. They realize that when big truths turn out to be big lies people suffer–they suffer in the millions, bombs range down from the skies, economies falter and the public sphere of life becomes like a poisoned well. That is why accountability for the crimes hidden behind big lies is so important. That is why no government, no politician, no media organization should be allowed to manipulate the truth about the past or the present. On this the future depends.'"
1/25/12 U.S.: Drowning In Hypocrisy, by Paul Craig Roberts, Foreign Policy Journal. "But it is in the War Crimes Arena where Washington shows the greatest hypocrisy. The self-righteous bigots in Washington are forever rounding up heads of weak states whose countries were afflicted by civil wars and sending them off to be tried as war criminals. All the while Washington indiscriminately kills large numbers of civilians in six or more countries, dismissing its own war crimes as 'collateral damage.' Washington violates its own law and international law by torturing people."
1/23/12 Marine charged in Haditha, Iraq, killings pleads guilty to lesser charge, by Stan Wilson, CNN. "After years of delay, the court-martial of the last of eight Marines charged in the shooting deaths of 24 Iraqis in the village of Haditha in 2005 ended in a guilty plea to one count of negligent dereliction of duty, officials said Monday. ... Maximum punishment for the single guilty charge is confinement of three months, two-thirds forfeiture of pay for three months and reduction in rank to private (E-1), McMeen said."
1/20/12 Complaint Filed with U.N. Special Rapporteur, by Matt Eisendbrandt and Katherine Gallagher, Scoop Independent News (NZ). "The complaint focuses on three criminal cases currently before the Spanish courts in which all potential defendants are U.S. citizens. The first is an investigation into the systematic use of torture at U.S.-run detention centers in Guantánamo and elsewhere initiated by Judge Baltasar Garzón, who oversaw the investigation until he was removed from office in 2010. The second case is the so-called 'Bush Six case,' filed against former Bush administration lawyers for elaborating and authorizing a torture policy, and aiding and abetting the torture of detainees. The third case regards the unlawful killing of José Couso Permuy, a Spanish cameraman killed in Baghdad in 2003 as a result of U.S. tank fire at his hotel."
1/17/12 Halting Canadian Bush Prosecution Violated International Obligations, by Matt Eisendbrandt and Katherine Gallagher, JURIST. "One hundred and forty-seven countries, including Canada and the US, are parties to the Convention Against Torture, meaning that those countries have committed to promptly investigate, prosecute and punish torturers. All signatories are obligated to investigate and submit for prosecution, or extradite to another country for prosecution, anyone present in their territory who they reasonably believe has committed torture. In light of Canada's violation of its duty in the case of George W. Bush, we are reviewing our options at the domestic and international levels."
1/13/12 Spanish judge reopens Guantánamo torture probe, by Carol Rosenberg, Miami Herald. "A Spanish judge on Friday re-launched an investigation into the alleged torture of detainees held at the U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, one day after a British authorities launched a probe into CIA renditions to Libya. The twin developments demonstrated that while the Obama administration has stuck to its promise not to investigate whether Bush administration officials acted illegally by authorizing the use of harsh interrogation techniques, other countries are still interested in determining whether Bush-era anti-terror practices violated international law."
1/13/12 For the families of Haditha, this is a matter of honour, by Nick Broomfield, The Guardian (UK). "This was Bush's My Lai, or, as Pennsylvania congressman John Murtha later put it: 'cold blooded murder.' ... The Iraqi families who turned down the insulting offer of $2,500 in compensation for each family member killed are still waiting to see justice done. As do we all, and to see if the hypocrisy of the Bush era, with its willful disregard for the Geneva conventions, the rule of law, and every other yardstick of a civilised democracy, will continue under the Obama administration. "
1/10/12 'Tortured' Guantanamo Bay prisoner seeks release of secret videos, by Jeff Black, MSNBC News. "In their lawsuit filed Monday, Lawrence Lustberg and Sandra Babcock seek to shed light on the treatment of their client Mohammed al-Qahtani, who was captured in Afghanistan during the hunt for Osama bin Laden in 2001 and was whisked to Guantanamo Bay, where government investigators later identified him as a man who had planned to participate in the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. ... In February 2008, he was charged with war crimes and murder, but on May 11 of that same year those charges were dropped. ... 'We tortured Qahtani,' [Bush Administration Official] Susan J. Crawford said. 'His treatment met the legal definition of torture. And that's why I did not refer the case' for prosecution."
1/6/12 US war history in 2 minutes: arrest US War Criminals to stop war on Iran, by Carl Herman, Examiner. "US military and/or law enforcement must arrest the current War Criminals to end this history of murder. If not, it will repeat by mass-murdering Iranians, and more ignorant/gullible US soldiers. The basis of law provides US military and all with Oaths to defend the US Constitution to refuse unlawful orders and act to arrest those who issue them."
1/4/11 No Immunity for Torture, World Organization for Human Rights USA. "This recently released report, Indefensible: A Reference for Prosecuting Torture and Other Felonies Committed by U.S. Officials Following September 11th (PDF, 3.4MB)...lays the groundwork for litigation against those responsible for approving and using illegal interrogation techniques that were the official policy of the Bush Administration."
12/5/11 Arrest George W. Bush for Crimes against Peace, War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity, by Dirk Adriaensens, Centre for Research on Globalization. "More political personalities should have the courage to follow Dr. Mahathir's example. War Crimes should not go unpunished. Visits of Bush & Blair should be protested, wherever they go. War criminals should not feel themselves safe from punishment. Moreover, many countries have the right and the duty to arrest and prosecute War Criminals under the law of Universal Jurisdiction."
12/2/11 Amnesty International calls for arrest of George W. Bush, by Corbett B. Daly, CBS News. "It is not the first time human rights groups have called for Mr. Bush's arrest. Amnesty called for his arrest in October during a visit to Canada and the former president canceled a visit to Switzerland in February on fears that he may have faced legal action there."
12/2/11 The Bush Administration Was an Ongoing Criminal Conspiracy Under International Law and U.S. Domestic Law, by Prof. Francis A. Boyle, Centre for Research on Globalization. "Of course the terrible irony of today's situation is that sixty-five years ago at Nuremberg the U.S. government participated in the prosecution, punishment and execution of Nazi government officials for committing some of the same types of heinous international crimes that the members of the Bush administration inflicted upon people all over the world. "
11/28/11 Kuala Lumpur tribunal: Bush and Blair guilty, by Prof. Richard Falk, Aljazeera. "This recent session of the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal offers a devastating critique of the persisting failures of international criminal law mechanisms of accountability to administer justice justly, that is, without the filters of impunity provided by existing hierarchies of hard power. "
11/25/11 Iran Contra At 25: Reagan and Bush [Sr.] 'Criminal Liability' Evaluations, by Robert O'Dowd, Salem-News.com. "The criminal liability studies were drafted in March 1991 by a lawyer on Walsh's staff, Christian J. Mixter (now a partner in the Washington law firm of Morgan Lewis), and represented preliminary conclusions on whether to prosecute both Reagan and Bush for various crimes ranging from conspiracy to perjury. ... As the scandal unfolded a year later, Reagan and his top aides gathered in the White House Situation Room the day before the November 25 press conference to work out a way to protect the president from impeachment proceedings. On the Contra operations, Mixter determined that Reagan had, in effect, authorized the illegal effort to keep the contra war going after Congress terminated funding by ordering his staff to sustain the contras 'body and soul.' "
11/25/11 Action possible against Bush, Blair, by Eunice Au, New Straits Times. "Bush and Blair were found responsible for the war that had killed more than 1.4 million Iraqis and declared guilty as charged. Whether or not the tribunal's findings will make an impact at the UN assembly, the fact remains that both men had been tried and found guilty, and all countries can take notice of this."
11/23/11 Bush and Blair found guilty of war crimes for Iraq attack, by Glenn Greenwald, Salon. "In other words, because their own nations refuse to hold them accountable and can use their power to prevent international bodies from doing so, the tribunal wanted at least formal legal recognition of these war crimes to be recorded and the evidence of their guilt assembled. ... But the only thing this Malaysian tribunal is doing is applying the clear principles of the Nuremberg Tribunal as enunciated by lead prosecutor and former U.S. Attorney General Robert Jackson in his Opening and Closing Statements at Nuremberg.... That American war criminals are being aggressively shielded from any and all accountability is not an ancillary matter but one of enduring historical significance."
11/22/11 U.S. human rights abuser using PSYOP against Iran: Shocking torture video proof, by Deborah Dupre, Human Rights Examiner. "With impunity, the U.S. has put 80,000 people through its 'rendition' system, kidnapped and taken them to secret prisons that torture according to Reprieve. Specialists such as U.S. Air Force reservist, Lt. Col. Yvonne Bradley report that the American public has only seen 'tip of the iceberg' of torture horrors secretly practiced in their name."
11/20/11 The Prosecution of Tony Blair and George W. Bush: Day 2 of the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal - PNAC, Downing Street Documents, Bush Book All Smoking Guns on Conspiracy to go to War Against Iraq, by Cynthia McKinney, Center for Research on Globalization. "The Prosecution asked that the Tribunal's findings be sent to the International Criminal Court for their information and action and urged individual states to exercise universal jurisdiction 'if ever these war criminals appear on their shores; include the names of these two accused in the Commission's register of war criminals, and inscribe them in the publications of this Tribunal should they be found guilty.' "
11/14/11 KL [Kuala Lumpur] tribunal to try Bush, Blair for Iraq war crimes, by R. Sittamparam, New Straits Times. "The three-day hearing, conducted by seven senior judges headed by retired Federal Court judge Datuk Abdul Kadir Sulaiman, will go on although the two accused leaders and other defendants have yet to respond to the tribunal's notice. ... Yaacob said the tribunal of conscience was modelled on the one convened by philosopher Bertrand Russell in 1966 to try the perpetrators of the Vietnam War."
11/13/11 Former Guantanamo Chief Prosecutor: "A Pair of Testicles Fell Off the President After Election Day", by Jason Leopold, truthout. "Davis continued to publicly oppose the military commission process after his resignation and, more recently, he has also criticized the Obama administration for refusing to hold accountable key Bush officials who implemented a policy authorizing the torture of 'war on terror' detainees."
11/9/11 Guantanamo Trial Opens With A Series Of Firsts, by Dina Temple-Raston, National Public Radio. "For his alleged role [in the USS Cole bombing in 2000], al-Nashiri is being charged with war crimes – including terrorism, conspiracy and murder. ... Another issue: Al-Nashiri was arrested in 2002 and then disappeared for nearly four years. The CIA has since acknowledged that he was in its custody and that he was waterboarded and subjected to other enhanced interrogation techniques. ... 'It is not a real court; this is not fair or legitimate. It is a court organized to convict and a court organized to kill.' "
10/29/11 Former US chief prosecutor condemns 'law-free zone' of Guantánamo, by Ed Vulliamy, The Guardian (UK). "The former chief prosecutor for the US government at Guantánamo Bay has accused the administration he served of operating a 'law-free zone' there, on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the order to establish the detention camp on Cuba. Retired air force colonel Morris Davis resigned in October 2007 in protest against interrogation methods at Guantánamo...which he described as 'torture'...."
10/27/11 Argentine case revives call for post 9/11 accountability, by Carol Rosenberg, The Miami Herald. "In Argentina Wednesday night, a court ordered a dozen ex-military officers to serve life in prison for committing crimes against humanity in the treatment and disappearances of thousands of leftists at the Navy Mechanics School, during the country's 1976-83 dirty war. Hours later after a marathon session, Uruguay's Congress lifted its national amnesty law, suddenly making it possible for the first time to prosecute crimes committed during the military dictatorship that ended a quarter century ago. And in Brazil, the legislature endorsed creation of a truth commission to probe crimes committed during the military regime that ruled from 1964 to 1985."
10/21/11 BUSH AND BLAIR TO BE TRIED FOR WAR CRIMES, Press Release, Kuala Lumpur Foundation to Criminalise War. "The prosecution for the trial will be lead by Prof Gurdial S Nijar, prominent law professor and author of several law publications and Prof Francis Boyle, leading American professor, practitioner and advocate of international law, and assisted by a team of lawyers. The trial will be held in an open court on November 19-22, 2011 at the headquarters of the Al-Bukhary Foundation at Jalan Perdana, Kuala Lumpur."
10/19/11 Torture Victims to Initiate Private Prosecution against George W. Bush on His Arrival in Canada, Press Release, Canadian Centre for International Justice. "Matt Eisenbrandt, legal director of the [CCIJ], who will submit the filing on men's behalf, added, 'Canadian law could not be clearer. If an alleged torturer is present in Canada, the government has the power to prosecute. As a signatory of the Convention Against Torture, Canada has an obligation to initiate an investigation when Mr. Bush sets foot in this country.' "
10/13/11 Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch Call For Arrest Of George W. Bush, Huffington Post. "The advocacy organizations have called on Canadian federal authorities to arrest Bush [before his appearance at an economic summit in Surrey, British Columbia on October 20th] due to the 'overwhelming evidence that Bush and other senior administration officials authorized and implemented a regime of torture and ill-treatment of hundreds of detainees in US custody.' "
10/11/11 Justifying the Killing of an American, Editorial, The New York Times. "The decision to kill Mr. Awlaki was made entirely within the executive branch. The memo was not shared with Congress, nor did any independent judge or panel of judges pass judgment. The administration set aside Mr. Awlaki's rights to due process."
10/8/11 Secret U.S. Memo Made Legal Case to Kill a Citizen, by Charlie Savage, The New York Times. "The Obama administration's secret legal memorandum that opened the door to the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born radical Muslim cleric hiding in Yemen, found that it would be lawful only if it were not feasible to take him alive, according to people who have read the document."
10/6/11 Feds urged to detain and investigate Bush for war crimes, by Bryn Weese, Toronto Sun. "The government of Canada has an obligation to start an investigation into former U.S. president George W. Bush's alleged involvement in, and responsibility for crimes under international law, including torture, while he is visiting Canada on 20 October."
10/4/11 War Crimes - Start at the Top Like at Nuremberg, by Lance Ciepiela, OpEdNews. "If justice were to truly prevail in the United States, if the rule of law was really supreme, and if 'no one was above the law' as our officials say, and IF ONLY Obama/Holder had the required courage to 'uphold the laws of the land' and their sworn duties, the Principals of the George W. Bush administration would be tried for the very same war crimes as those at Nuremberg, and these Principals would have a 'Day of Reckoning' in the United States - justice, so swift and sure, helping all of mankind to secure the peace of the world, by serving notice to all would be dictators and tyrants, that evil shall not prevail in the United States."
10/2/11 Abu Ghraib defense attorney faces murder charge, by Dolores Cox, Workers World. "Bergrin, a renowned defense attorney for the poor and people of color, former military officer and former prosecutor, has been aggressively fighting to put Bush and Rumsfeld on trial for the abuses in Iraq. ... Although none of the prosecutor's statements were corroborated, Judge Madeline Arleo denied the bail request and included a $50,000 fine. Bergrin was immediately put in solitary confinement for nine months — and remains in prison to this day. On Oct. 11, Bergrin's trial is scheduled to begin in a federal court in Newark." See also www.paulbergrin.org
9/29/11 Obama: A disaster for civil liberties, by Jonathan Turley, Los Angeles Times. "By blocking the investigation and prosecution of those responsible for torture, Obama violated international law and reinforced other countries in refusing investigation of their own alleged war crimes. ... In time, the election of Barack Obama may stand as one of the single most devastating events in our history for civil liberties."
9/29/11 Ex-U.S. leaders should face justice, by Matt St. Amand, The Windsor Star (Ontario). "The government of Stephen Harper must commit to arresting and prosecuting former U.S. president, George W. Bush, former vice-president, Dick Cheney, former secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld on the charge of war crimes should they ever enter Canada."
9/28/11 VIDEO (5:34) Keith Olbermann - Veterans For Peace Board member Rumsfeld protest Boston. Veterans For Peace Treasurer and Board member Nate Goldshlag interviewed by Keith Olbermann about the attempted citizens arrest on Donald Rumsfeld Sept. 26, 2011.
9/27/11 Vancouver protesters call Dick Cheney a war criminal, by Kevin Drews, The Globe and Mail (Toronto). " 'We're very angry that he has chosen Vancouver as the first location outside of the United States to do a book tour event, and we feel it's important that citizens of Vancouver show that we won't tolerate a war criminal coming and speaking in our town,' said Derrick O'Keefe, co-chair of the StopWar Coalition."
9/23/11 Protesters at Beth El demand jail for former President Bush, by Jonathan Kunesh, Twin Cities Daily Planet. "A protester holding a large sign that read, 'ARREST BUSH FOR WAR CRIMES' said that while a handful of drivers yelled at them, the majority of people who drove by honked their horns and gave them a 'thumbs up' for support."
9/23/11 Cheney and justice for torture victims, by Ariel Dorfman, CNN Opinion. "By refusing to investigate, let alone prosecute, members of the Bush administration who stand accused by many human rights activists of crimes against humanity, the United States is telling the world that it does not obey the treaties it has signed or even its own domestic laws."
9/23/11 Donald Rumsfeld's Ugly Suits, by Joel Handley, In These Times. "If Vance, Ertels and Doe win their cases and receive financial restitution, Attorney General Eric Holder might be emboldened to pursue criminal charges against Rumsfeld and other Bush administration officials who oversaw human rights abuses."
9/20/11 [WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT] UPDATED: Welcome to Boston, Mr. Rumsfeld. You Are Under Arrest., by Ralph Lopez, Daily Kos. "In the criminal complaint filed in Germany against Rumsfeld, Karpinski submitted 17 pages of testimony and offered to appear before the German prosecutor as a witness. Congressman Kendrick Meek of Florida, who participated in the hearings on Abu Ghraib, said of Rumsfeld: 'There was no way Rumsfeld didn't know what was going on....' ... And Major General Antonio Taguba, who led the official Army investigation into Abu Ghraib, said in his report: 'there is no longer any doubt as to whether the [Bush] administration has committed war crimes. The only question is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account.' "
9/15/11 Bush Kept Out of Canada, Can We Keep Him Out of Minnesota Too?, by Coleen Rowley, Huffington Post. "Has Beth El Synagogue sold out? I'm referring of course, to their 250 tickets ranging in price from $1250 to $3600 that Synagogue leaders predicted would sell out quickly for an 'intimate evening' with George Bush."
9/12/11 Media Whitewash on Cheney War Crimes Palpable as Whistleblowers Cry Foul, by Gustav Wynn, OpEd News. "New Whistleblowers Joining Old Whistleblowers - With Wilkerson making headlines telling Amy Goodman and Salon's Glenn Greenwald he is 'willing to testify', interest is growing anew, with recent reports coming from several directions."
9/12/11 Who Are These People?, by Robert Parry, Consortium News. "Yet what is perhaps most striking about Keller's article is what's not in it. There is not a single reference to international law, or to the fact that Bush undertook the invasion in defiance of a majority on the United Nations Security Council and in violation of longstanding U.S.-enunciated principles against aggressive war."
9/9/11 Bird-Dogging Torturers in NYC, by Ray McGovern, Consortium News. "In coming to the Rumsfeld/Mukasey/Fleischer/Medved whitewash of the incompetence before 9/11 and then the aggressive wars and torture afterwards, I did not expect to be able to resume the four-minute impromptu debate I had lucked into with Rumsfeld on live TV on May 4, 2006, in Atlanta."
9/9/11 Canada must arrest George W. Bush if he enters Canada, by Lawyers Against the War, Global Research. "In coming to the Rumsfeld/Mukasey/Fleischer/Medved whitewash of the incompetence before 9/11 and then the aggressive wars and torture afterwards, I did not expect to be able to resume the four-minute impromptu debate I had lucked into with Rumsfeld on live TV on May 4, 2006, in Atlanta."
9/8/11 Cheney 'War Criminal' protest crowd at his book talk, by Deborah Dupre, Human Rights Examiner. "Iraq war veterans held a banner that read: '1 million dead, thousands tortured: Bush and Cheney guilty of war crimes — IndictBushNow.org.' "The rights group outside chanted through their megaphones and hands, 'Cheney, you can't hide. We charge you with genocide,' following the voice of Mike Prysner, a former U.S. army soldier," reported the Daily Titan's Susana Cobo."
9/7/11 Obama Team Feared Coup If He Probed War Crimes, by Andrew Kreig, Justice Integrity Project. "Edley's rationale implies that Obama and his team fear the military/national security forces that he is supposed be commanding. It suggests also that Republicans have intimidated him right from the start of his presidency even though voters in 2008 rejected Republicans by the largest combined presidential-congressional mandate in recent U.S. history. ... [T]he White House and Justice Department have, in effect, ignored countless news reports and what must be hundreds of thousands of reader phone calls, letters and emails seeking accountability for Bush-era injustices."
9/3/11 Insider Tells Why Obama Chose Not to Prosecute Torture, by David Swanson, War Is A Crime. Peace and justice activist Susan Harman: "Then Dean Chris Edley volunteered that he'd been party to very high level discussions during Obama's transition about prosecuting the criminals. He said they decided against it.... He shrugged and said they will never be prosecuted, and that sometimes politics trumps rule of law."
9/2/11 Cheney: Still no shame, Editorial, The Charleston (SC) Gazette. "History showed that all the Bush-Cheney reasons for the 2003 Iraq invasion were bogus. Yet now the former vice president had the gall to write a churlish memoir claiming he was correct and most of his Bush Republican allies weren't. ... In addition to the Iraq war and his pandering to Wall Street, [Atlantic Magazine] cited his advocacy of torturing Muslim prisoners, plus wiretapping of U.S. citizens, plus lucrative war contracts given without bids to Cheney's Halliburton firm by the Bush administration."
8/30/11 Former Powell Chief of Staff: Cheney "Fears Being Tried as a War Criminal", by Shushannah Walshe, ABC News. "He's developed an angst and almost a protective cover, and now he fears being tried as a war criminal so he uses such terminology as 'exploding heads all over Washington' because that's the way someone who's decided he's not going to be prosecuted acts: boldly, let's get out in front of everybody, let's act like we are not concerned and so forth when in fact they are covering up their own fear that somebody will Pinochet him," Wilkerson said alluding to the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, who was arrested for war crimes.
8/30/11 George W. Bush: Canada Must Bar Entry or Arrest and Ensure Prosecution for Torture, by Lawyers Against the War, Global Research. "Canadian courts have recognized that the duty to deny safe haven from prosecution cannot be mitigated in the case of grave and heinous crimes such as torture. Inadmissibility under the IRPA is established when there are "reasonable grounds to believe" the foreign national--in this case George W. Bush--has engaged in torture or other international crimes."
8/26/11 Obama moves more deeply into Bush-Cheney dark side, by Nat Hentoff, Coshocton Tribune. "Almost immediately after he was sworn in, Obama also offered us a pie in the sky by assuring Americans he would close all CIA secret prisons ('black sites') and end 'renditions' of terrorism suspects to countries known for torture."
8/19/11 Obama bans war criminals, except our own , by Nat Hentoff, The Star Democrat. "This means that you, President Obama, are obligated to bring the foregoing list of war criminals during the Bush presidency into our courts or, before that, be subject to an independent criminal investigation. [There are] reasons to believe that you and your administration have also been violating the Geneva Conventions, the Convention Against Torture and U.S. laws."
8/12/11 The Patriot Act and the End of the Rule of Law, by Charles Lugosi, Jurist. "Since 9/11, we are living in a political state where personal privacy, free flow of information and freedom of association have been diminished as a result of the Patriot Act, which weakens the rights of individuals while increasing the military and police power of the state and federal governments."
8/11/11 The shrinking world of George W Bush, by Ali Dayan Hasan, The Express Tribune Interview. "International law binding on the US obliges President Barack Obama to order criminal investigations into allegations of detainee abuse authorised by Bush and his other senior officials. The evidence of torture by the Bush administration is overwhelming."
8/11/11 VIDEO (20:30) U.S. Navy Vet Sues Donald Rumsfeld for Torture in Iraq, Court Allows Case to Move Forward, Democracy Now! Interview. "Donald Vance and Nathan Ertel were working for a private U.S. government contractor, Shield Group Security, in 2006 when they witnessed the sale of U.S. government weapons to Iraqi rebel groups for money and alcohol. After they became FBI informants and collaborated with an investigation into their employer, the company revoked their credentials... [T]hey were arrested and detained by U.S. troops, moved to the U.S.-run prison at Camp Cropper, and subjected to [torture]... eventually released and never charged with a crime."
8/11/11 Commentary: Ignoring the past doesn't erase our responsibility for it, by Dennis Jett, McClatchy Newspapers. "Instead of bearing any responsibility for the war and its aftermath, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell and Tenet rake in seven figure advances for their books and six figure fees for giving speeches to friendly audiences. ... The four failures identified by the Chilcot committee apply even more to Bush since Blair was only acting as Bush's poodle. ... So if crimes were committed and go unpunished, and not even investigated, all Americans are accomplices and the blood is on all our hands."
8/10/11 War Criminals Converging on NYC for 10th Anniversary of 9/11, War Criminals Watch. "These are the people who brought us torture, indefinite detention, and trillion-dollar wars that have claimed countless Afghani, Iraqi and US lives. They should be indicted and prosecuted for their crimes, not honored as speakers and special guests at symposia, memorials and fancy dinners."
8/9/11 Donald Rumsfeld Faces Another Torture Lawsuit, by Patrick G. Lee, The Wall Street Journal Law Blog. "The suit upheld Monday includes unnamed individuals as defendants and it alleges that they, along with Rumsfeld, developed and authorized rights-violating interrogation tactics for use in Iraq in 2006 against the two men, who worked for a private security company at the time."
8/4/11 Judge allows American to sue Rumsfeld over torture , by Nedra Pickler, Associated Press. "In many other cases brought by foreign detainees, judges have dismissed torture claims made against U.S. officials for their personal involvement in decisions over prisoner treatment. But this is the second time a federal judge has allowed U.S. citizens to sue Rumsfeld personally."
7/31/11 The damning of Tony Blair: Former PM to be held to account on Iraq in Chilcot report on war, by Simon Walters, The Mail (UK). "Tony Blair is to face scathing criticism from the official inquiry into the Iraq War for the role he played in leading Britain into one of its biggest foreign policy fiascos in modern history. [He] will be held to account on four main failings: * Bogus claims that were made about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. * Not telling the British public about his secret pledge with George Bush to go to war. * Keeping the Cabinet in the dark by his 'sofa government' style. * Failing to plan to avoid the post-war chaos in Iraq."
7/24/11 National commentary: Don't close the book on U.S. torture policy, by Nat Hentoff, Herald Times Reporter. "So far, there is no record of Petraeus saying torture is wrong to those he now commands in the CIA. Does he agree with Obama and Holder that accountability for this part of the CIA's history not be subject to a full-scale investigation? Is this disgraceful chapter in our history — in our American history — to be closed, [G]eneral? Not on this citizen's watch."
7/22/11 Afghan Judges Accuse U.S. of War Crimes, by David Swanson, War Is A Crime. "What the United States and NATO are doing, seizing people, locking them up, disappearing them, and torturing them is clearly illegal and against international law, she said. According to international treaties, she went on, when one country occupies another, the host country does not lose its sovereignty, and yet all decisions are now being made by the occupying country without any say by the Afghan government."
7/22/11 Demands for U.S Waterboarding in Thailand to be Investigated, by Richard S. Ehrlich, Scoop News (New Zealand). "The [CIA] agency believed tougher-than-usual tactics were necessary to squeeze information from him [Zubaydah], so Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Jessen flew to a secret CIA prison in Thailand to oversee Zubaydah's interrogation," the Associated Press reported in December 2010, referring to two American psychologists who helped create the CIA's interrogation program. 'The pair waterboarded Zubaydah 83 times, according to previously released records and former intelligence officials,' A.P. reported. ... The CIA's former head, Porter Gross, agreed with his top aide's 2005 decision to destroy videotapes in Thailand of harsh interrogation, according to internal CIA e-mails, A.P. reported in 2010."
7/21/11 The Criminal Fraud of the ICC, by Allen L. Jasson, Media With Conscience. "As a result of the excessive and unreasonable influence of the US the ICC has become a contrived deception of the general global population and governments. While masquerading as an instrument of justice it serves merely as an instrument of imperial power to undermine the authority of governments and support an unfair imbalance of global political and economic power."
7/19/11 VIDEO (11:56) Jeremy Scahill: Eyewitness report on CIA's secret prisons in Somalia and US drone attacks, morning joe, MSNBC.
7/18/11 VIDEO (2:56) Pakistan drone victims seek CIA arrest - Press TV News, Press TV. "Relatives of the drone victimes...filed a complaint with the police in the capital Islamabad against a retired CIA official [John A. Rizzo, former acting general counsel to the CIA] who used to approve a list of persons to be killed every month in Pakistan by US drones... [and] who has publicly confessed* to have approved the killing of innocent civilians in the Pakistan's tribal belt."
*Inside the Killing Machine, by Tara McKelvey, Newsweek (February 13, 2011). "At times, Rizzo sounded cavalier. 'It's basically a hit list,' he said. Then he pointed a finger at my forehead and pretended to pull a trigger."
7/18/11 VIDEO (4:48) Trained for Pain: Get your Torture Degree from School of Americas, Russia Today.
7/18/11 Time Is Right For Americans To Pay Attention To Human Rights Watch's New Torture Report — OpEd, by Andy Worthington, Eurasia Review. "Seven years is a long time to wait for something — anything — resembling justice, and, of course, the Obama administration has been a thorough disappointment, allowing the damning conclusions of an ethics investigation into Yoo and Bybee...to be whitewashed...."
7/18/11 Predator Drones and the International Mafia, by Dr. Reza Pankhurst, Foreign Policy Journal. "Arbitrary extrajudicial executions, carried out at the press of a button from CIA locations in California, with no transparency or accountability, are undoubtedly a violation of international law possibly constituting war crimes. ... According to the Brookings Institution more than 90 percent of those killed have been civilians."
7/13/11 Feds Eye CIA Officer in Prisoner Death, by Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman, Time. "Stormoen, 56, was part of the CIA's paramilitary arm, the Special Activities Division, after leaving the Army. He retired after al-Jamadi's death and received a letter of reprimand for his role in Abu Ghraib. He has since rejoined the intelligence community as a contractor working for a company called SpecTal, which was bought last year by BAE Systems, a leading defense contractor. ... There is no statute of limitations on war crimes if a death is involved."
7/12/11 Obama urged to investigate Bush torture claims, BBC News. "In its 107-page report, HRW [Human Rights Watch] claims there is substantial information warranting criminal investigations of Mr Bush and his senior officials for ordering practises such as waterboarding, the use of secret CIA prisons and the transfer of detainees to countries where they were tortured. ... The failure to investigate officials undermines US efforts to press for accountability for human rights violations abroad in countries like Libya and Sri Lanka, the group argues."
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7/8/11 Avoiding Impunity: The Need to Broaden Torture Prosecutions, by Prof. Marjorie Cohn, Jurist. "Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Yoo have all said they participated in the decision to waterboard and would do it again. Thus, they have admitted the commission of war crimes."
7/2/11 'Obama made deal to cover up torture', Press TV (Iran). "Allen Roland, an online columnist based in California:.... Once again we are talking about covering up for senior people who ordered this.... This is all a cover-up to protect higher-ups -- that's the big thing -- particularly people like Rumsfeld, etc. They are all being protected by this Obama administration."
7/1/11 Torture crimes officially, permanently shielded, by Glenn Greenwald, Salon. "All of those efforts, culminating in yesterday's entirely unsurprising announcement, means that the U.S. Government has effectively shielded itself from even minimal accountability for its vast torture crimes of the last decade. Without a doubt, that will be one of the most significant, enduring and consequential legacies of the Obama presidency."
6/30/11 Justice Department won't pursue bulk of CIA detention cases by Ken Dilanian, Los Angeles Times. "The announcements mean that no CIA officer will face criminal prosecution in connection with interrogations that the agency's inspector general and a former Bush Justice Department official concluded exceeded what lawyers had authorized.... [S]aid Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU's National Security Project[:] 'The central problem was not with interrogators who disobeyed orders, but with senior officials who authorized a program.' "
6/29/11 Memoirs of Torturers by David Swanson, War Is A Crime. "This is the story of how a none-too-bright, self-centered, insecure, careerist bureaucrat with weak principles, a fragile ego, a troubled marriage, and no interrogation experience, but the ability to actually speak Arabic, was chosen to lead the interrogating (or 'interviewing') of an innocent man the CIA boneheadedly believed to be a 'top al Qaeda terrorist' when they kidnapped him off a street and flew him to an undisclosed location outside any rule of law.... Carle concludes his book by opposing prosecuting anyone involved in the crimes he was involved in."
6/24/11 One Tiny Voice, by William Manson, Counterpunch. "You see, I discovered who (and what) the voice is. It is the voice of conscience--a voice often unheard in the mad activity and mindless diversions of our daily lives, but a voice utterly true to our truest, innermost selves.
So, as you might expect, I stopped hearing the voice--stopped, because I became the voice. I don't know what I can accomplish, but I can't really go back to the way things were. In any way I can, by speaking up, I will challenge my friends' complacency, my neighbors' self-indulgence, by speaking for something so much greater than our personal comforts: Justice. And this is what I will say: George W. Bush is a mass murderer."
6/23/11 Washington's Hardliners Are Guilty of Treason: Team B's Direct Connection To 9/11, by Saman Mohammadi, OpEdNews. "If Rumsfeld, Cheney and Wolfowitz were chased out of town like rats for spreading lies and manipulating the public in the 1970s and 1980s then these traitorous demons would not have been confident and powerful enough to stage the 9/11 attacks. They should be hanged for deceiving the U.S. military and the American people and committing crimes humanity in the Middle East."
6/22/11 The true definition of "Terrorist", by Glenn Greenwald, Salon. "The U.S. repeatedly tried to kill Saddam at the start of the Iraq War, and -- contrary to Obama's early pledges -- has done the same to Gadaffi in Libya."
6/20/10 U.S. officially drop all charges against Osama bin Laden, Daily Mail (UK).
• June 6, 2006: FBI says, "No hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11", by Ed Haas, Muckraker Report, Global Research. See also Project Censored (Top 25 of 2008): #16 No Hard Evidence Connecting Bin Laden to 9/11
6/15/11 Osama bin Laden: Closing the Case on an Innocent Man - A Bush Era Lie: they made the whole thing up., by Gordon Duff, Salem-News. "The real Osama bin Laden was someone few Americans knew anything about. He knew nothing of Al Qaeda, never planned 9/11, never advocated terrorism, not once, but he did make enemies. Bin Laden, in 2001, believed Israel would push the US into a war across the Middle East, a war that would go on for years."
6/13/11 Haunted by Homicide: Federal Grand Jury Investigates War Crimes and Torture in Death of 'the Iceman' at Abu Ghraib, Plus Other Alleged CIA Abuses, by Mark Thompson, Time.
6/13/11 Families say Guantanamo 'suicides' were killings, by Stephen M. Walt, Agence France-Presse. "A subsequent medical exam revealed that his son's esophagus had been ripped out and his body bore signs of torture, including several injection marks on his hands, according to Zahrani."
6/13/11 VIDEO (8:47) A Security and Finance State that Dominates the American People: Interview with Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, The Real News. (At 1:01) "The thing that probably tunred me off from my enthusiasm for Truth, Justice, and the American Way, more than any other element of what occurred during the Bush administration--the Cheney administration... the thing that really got me was torture--torture and abuse. ... This was a perversion of American values and a perversion of American beliefs."
6/8/11 War Crimes and Misdemeanors, by Stephen M. Walt, Foreign Policy.
6/6/11 Impeachment or an obsolete Constitution?, by Bob Patterson, OpEd News. "Has President Obama become the first Nobel Peace Prize winner to be subject to arrest in The Hague for war crimes?"
6/3/11 Former Gitmo Prosecutor: "Torture has no place as evidence in what purports to be an American military court of justice", by Matt Welch, Reason Magazine. "Morris Davis used to be the United States government's chief prosecutor for military commissions at Guantanamo Bay. He resigned in late 2007 to protest the admission of evidence obtained via torture." Read his first person account here (TORTURE: FINDING OUR MORAL COMPASS).
6/2/11 A memo on torture to John Yoo, by Vincent Iacopino, MD, PhD, The Guardian (UK). "The acts of torture that John Yoo and other Bush administration officials so proudly defend are nothing less than war crimes that, in the absence of accountability, continue to undermine the United States' claim to respect the rule of law."
5/31/11 Conditioned To Love Deception, by Ethan Jacobs, J.D., Activist Post. "Sadly, people who refuse to objectively examine the overwhelming evidence that 9/11 was a false flag operation, or simply 'don't want to know,' act as accomplices to the crimes of that day. Allowing the true perpetrators to evade justice and even prosper is clearly aiding and abetting them."
5/31/11 'Obama is convicting himself of war crimes in Afghanistan', by Rick Rozoff, PressTV (Iran).
5/30/11 French lawyers to sue Sarkozy for war-crimes over Libya campaign, by Agence France-Presse, News.com (Australia).
5/28/11 Anatomy of a Murder: How NATO Killed Qaddafi Family Members, by Cynthia McKinney, Dissident Voice. "On 22 May 2011, I had the opportunity to visit the residence of the Qaddafi family, bombed to smithereens by NATO.... According to the BBC, the NATO military operations chief stated that a 'command and control center' had been hit. That is a lie."
5/26/11 Libya under NATO attack, by Cynthia McKinney, Dissident Voice. "Whatever the military objectives of the attack (and I and many others question the military value of these attacks) the fact remains the air attack was launched [against] a major city packed with hundreds of thousands of civilians.... What we do know, and what is quite clear, is this: what I experienced last night is no 'humanitarian intervention.'"
5/20/11 There is Much More to Say, by Noam Chomsky, ZNet.
5/25/11 Daniel Ellsberg: "Secrets ... Can Be Kept Reliably ... For Decades ... Even Though They Are Known to THOUSANDS of Insiders", Washington's Blog. "In summary, the claim that conspiracies couldn't have happened or else we would have known when someone bragged about their deeds [is] completely false. Conspiracies are generally not discovered unless the facts are aggressively investigated and prosecuted."
5/20/11 There is Much More to Say, by Noam Chomsky, ZNet.
5/20/11 Obama's "Original Sin" Against Morality, by Andrew Levine, Counterpunch. "If Bush and Cheney can go free, there is impunity for anyone 'too big' to be brought to justice without shaking the system to its foundations. In Obama's America, the rule of law is just for the little people; and, despite Nuremburg and the UN Charter, their counterparts in the international arena."
5/19/11 Time to Tell the Truth: Obama Ought to be Impeached, by Mark Goldman, OpEd News. "The fact is that Obama has continued to commit many of the crimes that Bush and his administration committed, including murder, torture, renditions, indefinite detentions, launching illegal war and other crimes including various war crimes and other affronts against the Constitution."
5/16/11 US Government Spying on Americans, Lawsuits Against Telecom Partners, by Tom Burghardt, Global Research (Canada). "What should interest readers here, is the fact that while the Obama administration wages war on whistleblowers like Thomas Drake, Bradley Manning and others, who expose waste, fraud, abuse and war crimes, the architects and perpetrators of those offenses, high-level corporate and government officials, escape justice and continue to operate with impunity."
5/16/11 Supreme Court refuses terror suspects' case alleging CIA torture, by Warren Richey, The Christian Science Monitor. "U.S. officials have acknowledged that such a policy [extraordinady rendition] existed, but the government nonetheless urged the courts to throw the case out because the litigation would disclose state secrets."
5/15/11 The Catholic voice in the torture debate, by Father John A. Coleman, SJ, Catholic San Francisco. "It would be ironic and perverse for Christians who worship a man who was tortured and killed, to use torture themselves."
5/13/11 Inside the Detainee Abuse Task Force, by Joshua E.S. Phillips, The Nation. "It didn't accomplish anything—it was a whitewash."
5/13/11 The quaint and obsolete Nuremberg principles, by Glenn Greenwald, Salon. "Comparisons [to Bin Laden] aside: what is clear is that Bush's crimes are grave, of historic proportion, and it's simply impossible for anyone who believes in the Nuremberg Principles to deny that."
5/11/11 Bin Laden's death and the debate over torture, by Sen. John McCain (R - Ariz.), The Washington Post. "I asked CIA Director Leon Panetta for the facts, and he told me the following: The trail to bin Laden did not begin with a disclosure from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who was waterboarded 183 times."
5/11/11 AUDIO (7:29) Cynthia McKinney: Attack on Gaddafi Family Shows Obama as "War Criminal", Black Agenda Radio. "If there was anyone who doubted that our president was a war criminal, there is no doubt anymore."
5/9/11 VIDEO (2:00) Activists Confront Condoleeza Rice at Stanford University, Code Pink. "You are a war criminal... You should be ashamed of standing in front of law students and law professors as if you knew anything about international law...."
5/9/11 The Targeted Assassination of Osama Bin Laden, by Marjorie Cohn, law professor, author.
5/5/11 Angry Colonel [Lawrence Wilkerson] On MSNBC: Let Me Waterboard Rumsfeld And 'We'll See If He Says It's Torture', by Matt Schneider, MEDIAite (includes video clip).
5/5/11 Gaddafi, Obama, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld — All War Criminals, by Rick Bronson, From the Trenches World Report.
5/2/11 Applying the Law in Guantanamo: 'The Government's Narrative Was a Lie', by Col. Morris Davis, Der Spiegel (Germany). When he arrived at Guantanamo in 2005 as chief prosecutor, Colonel Morris Davis thought that he would be dealing exclusively with fanatical terrorists. But he soon realized that many prisoners shouldn't have been imprisoned at all. In a contribution for SPIEGEL, he describes his path from idealism to disillusionment.
4/29/11 The Easter Message Most Christians Didn't Hear ... and Should Have, by Rev. William E. Alberts, Ph.D., CounterPunch.
4/25/11 Newly leaked documents show the ongoing travesty of Guantànamo, by Glenn Greenwald, Salon.
4/25/11 Guantànamo Files: The essential primer, by Natasha Lennard, Salon.
• Almost 100 of the inmates who passed through Guantànamo are listed by their captors as having had depressive or psychotic illnesses. Many went on hunger strike or attempted suicide.
• Children and senile old men were among the detainees, including "an 89-year-old Afghan villager, suffering from senile dementia, and a 14-year-old boy who had been an innocent kidnap victim."
• "Authorities relied heavily on information obtained from a small number of detainees under torture. They continued to maintain this testimony was reliable even after admitting that the prisoners who provided it had been mistreated." [cont'd]
4/22/11 Ex-Blackwater Guards Face Renewed Charges, by James Risen, The New York Times.
4/22/11 ElBaradei suggests war crimes probe of Bush team, Associated Press.
4/11/11 Video: US troops fire on Iraqi detainees, Press TV (Iran). "The footage shows US forces using disproportionate force and live rounds against prisoners at the US prison facility Camp Bucca located in Iraq. The Iraqi detainees were protesting the American troops' desecration of Islam's holy book, the Qur'an."
3/26/11 The Case against George W. Bush under Torture Law, by Michael Ratner, Global Research.
3/25/11 Suit Filed on Behalf of Spanish Judge, by The Associated Press, The New York Times.
3/21/11 Nader, Kucinich call Libya action "impeachable", by Peter Finocchiaro, Salon.
3/11/11 Guantanamo: Obama Turns The Clock Back To The Days Of Bush's Kangaroo Courts And Worthless Tribunals, by Andy Worthington, The Public Record.
3/7/11 Obama approves Guantanamo prosecutions, reversing vow, by Paul Koring, The Globe and Mail.
2/25/11 Spanish Judges Rule Case on US Torture Can Continue, Center for Constitutional Rights.
2/19/11 Indictment For Torture Filed Against George W. Bush: The Facts, by Andy Worthington, Eurasia Review.
2/15/11 Activists Encourage Spanish Government to Prosecute Bush Administration Lawyers, by Staff, InfoZine (Kansas City).
2/8/11 AP IMPACT: At CIA, grave mistakes, then promotions, by By Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo, Associated Press. "In the years since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, officers who committed serious mistakes that left people wrongly imprisoned or even dead have received only minor admonishments or no punishment at all, an Associated Press investigation has revealed."
2/8/11 George Bush: Preliminary Indictment For Torture, by Stephen Lendman, Countercurrents.
2/7/11 Bush cancels Europe trip amid calls for his arrest, by Justin Elliott, Salon.
2/6/11 George W. Bush cancels trip to Switzerland amid calls for protests & war crimes investigation, by Philip Caulfield, New York Daily News.
2/4/11 Japan parliament calls for Iraq war inquiry, by Barbara Bayer, Press TV, Tokyo.
2/4/11 Anti-torture group urges Swiss to probe Bush, Expatica Switzerland.
2/3/11 Rumsfeld remains largely unapologetic in memoir, by Bradley Graham, The Washington Post.
1/28/11 Bush, Obama, Wiki and the CIA, by William Fisher, truthout.
1/26/11 Blair sister-in-law wants him tried for Iraq crimes, Agence France-Presse.
1/24/11 Special Counsel: Bush Administration Broke Law, CBS News.
1/24/11 U.S. Condemns Tyranny While Torturing Bradley Manning, by Juan Cole, Veterans Today.
1/24/11 It Gets Worse: The Ongoing Torture of Bradley Manning, by Charles Davis, CriminalJustice.Change.org.
1/24/11 More evidence of US war crimes, by Patrick Martin, World Socialist Web Site. The ACLU states that 25-30 of the 190 deaths that occurred under custody of the U.S. government at Guantanamo Bay were "unjustifiable homicides."
1/22/11 Swiss groups plan protest, legal action during Bush visit to Geneva, The Associated Press. "Bush is taking part in a Feb. 12 dinner hosted by the United Israel Appeal.... Protest co-ordinator Paolo Gilardi said several groups will seek Bush's arrest on war crimes charges during the visit."
1/22/11 Blair should be prosecuted to prevent future illegal wars, says MP. By IRNA, TwoCircles.net (India).
1/21/11 Iraq: 'evidence for criminal case against Blair' says expert. Michael Mansfield QC tells Channel 4 News that there is enough evidence for the International Criminal Court to mount a case against Tony Blair (includes VIDEO, 5:41), Channel 4 News (UK).
1/21/11 'Blair should be tried for war crimes', interview with Dr. Shahrar Ali, Britain Green Party, London (includes VIDEO, 24:29), PressTV (Iran).
1/21/11 Reversal of Guantànamo policy 'will harm US reputation abroad', interview with Jonathan Hafetz, Associate Professor of Law at Seton Hall University, Newark, NJ, Deutsche Welle (Germany).
1/20/11 Former CIA "Ghost Prisoner" Abu Zubaydah Recognized as "Victim" in Polish Probe of Secret Prison, by Andy Worthington.
1/20/11 'War-crimes' complaint centred around role of chain of command, documents show, by Colin Freeze, The Globe and Mail (Toronto).
1/18/11 Pentagon Propaganda on Gitmo Prisoners Releases, by Andy Worthington, The Future of Freedom Foundation.
1/18/11 'I wake up screaming': A Gitmo nightmare - Islamic scholar's experience sheds light on counterterrorism efforts in wake of 9/11 attacks, by Carol Grisanti and Fakhar ur Rehman, NBC News.
1/17/11 Exclusive: DoJ veteran sees 'dangerous precedent' in letting Bush officials walk, by Brad Jacobson, The Raw Story.
1/12/11 Will Bush's Torture Memo Team Face Justice in Spain?, by Nancy Goldstein, The Nation.
1/7/11 Bringing the 'Bush Six' to justice, by Michael Ratner, The Guardian (UK).
1/7/11 Rights Groups Urge Spanish Judge to Subpoena Former Guantànamo Commander for Role in Detainee Torture, Center for Constitutional Rights.
1/6/11 Ending Bush's big lie on Guantànamo, by Andy Worthington, The Guardian (UK).
1/4/11 PODCAST The Rob Kall Bottom Up Radio Show Podcast: Andy Worthington [on] Guantànamo Prison, Wikileaks and Julian Assange, by Rob Kall, OpEdNews.
12/27/10 Dick Cheney's $250-Million 'Get Out of Jail Free' Card, by John Nichols, The Nation.
12/24/10 From Florida to Spain, intrigue to stop a judge, by Carol Rosenberg, The Miami Herald. WikiLeaks cables revealed a secret concerted U.S. effort to stop a crusading Spanish judge from investigating a torture complaint against former Bush administration officials.
12/23/10 Pakistani drone victim seeks to put US on trial Associated Press
12/23/10 CIA drone strikes: a legal war? Channel 4 News (Belfast)
12/17/10 Bush Sr., James Baker Instrumental in Getting Nigeria to Drop Bribery Charges Against Cheney by Jason Leopold, truthout
12/7/10 Nigeria charges Dick Cheney with bribery, by Jennifer Epstein, Politico.
12/5/10 Cables reveal policies of war, torture by Bush, Obama, by Thomas E. Reifer, San Diego Union Tribune.
12/1/10 Nigeria to Charge Dick Cheney in Pipeline Bribery Case, by Elisha Bala-Gbogbo, Bloomberg.
12/1/10 Wikileaks: US pressured Spain over CIA rendition and Guantànamo torture, by Giles Tremlett, The Guardian (UK).
12/1/10 Obama and GOPers Worked Together to Kill Bush Torture Probe, by David Corn, Mother Jones.
12/1/10 Zimbabwe's Mugabe: Why not indict Bush and Blair?, Reuters Africa.
11/29/10 WikiLeaks v. the imperial presidency's poodle, by Pratap Chatterjee, The Guardian (UK).
11/24/10 Insouciant America, by Paul Craig Roberts, Pacific Free Press
11/23/10 The Two Most Essential, Abhorrent, Intolerable Lies Of George W. Bush's Memoir, by Dan Froomkin, The Huffington Post
11/23/10 A Liar's Narrative: George W. Bush's "Decision Points", by Bud Goodall, OpEdNews
11/22/10 RALPH NADER: Bush at large, The Register Citizen (Litchfield County, CT)
11/19/10 VIDEO (6:04) COUNTDOWN with Keith Olbermann:
BUSH WARNED TO KEEP BOOK TOUR DOMESTIC

11/19/10 Bush branded a 'war criminal' at Rocky's Salt Lake rally, by Derek P. Jensen, The Salt Lake Tribune
11/19/10 About (Late) Last Night: George W. Bush wins big laughs on 'The Tonight Show' (includes NBC video clips), Los Angeles Times Entertainment blog
11/18/10 Obama's Torture Problem, by David Cole, The New York Review of Books Blog
11/17/10 Floridians confront Bush for 9/11, war crimes (video), by Deborah Dupré, Examiner.com
11/17/10 Hundreds of masked protesters call for George Bush to be arrested for war crimes as he opens Presidential Centre in Dallas, Daily Mail (UK)
11/16/10 Accountability for Torture (in Britain), "The contrast could not be more distressing." Editorial, The New York Times
11/16/10 INTERVIEW-UN expert urges full U.S. torture investigation, by Stephanie Nebehay, Reuters Africa
11/12/10 Damn Wrong: Bush Admission on Torture Should Draw Special Prosecutor, by Elizabeth Holtzman, The Huffington Post
11/11/10 Outrage Mounts over Bush's Waterboarding "Confession", by Wiliam Fisher, Inter Press Service
11/11/10 ACLU: Investigate Bush for Waterboarding Admissions, CBS News
11/10/10 Amnesty International: US must begin criminal investigation of torture following Bush admission, (AI Press Release)
11/10/10 George Bush could face arrest over sanctioning torture, says leading human rights lawyer, by Tim Shipman, James Slack and Tom Leonard, Daily Mail (UK)
11/10/10 Bush Lying in Memoir, Says Ex-German Leader, CBS News
11/12/10 George Bush Book 'Decision Points' Lifted From Advisers' Books, by Ryan Grim, The Huffington Post
11/9/10 The People vs. Bush: How to Prosecute a President, by Charlotte Dennett, The Huffington Post
11/9/10 Special Prosecutor Declines to File Criminal Charges Over Destruction of CIA Torture Tapes, by Jason Leopold, truthout. "Anthony Romero, executive director of the ACLU, said Durham's decision 'is stunning.' 'There is ample evidence of a cover up regarding the destruction of the tapes,' Romero said. 'The Bush administration was instructed by a court of law not to destroy evidence of torture, but that's exactly what it did....' "
10/19/10 Obama Working Hard to Shield Ashcroft from Penalty for His Crimes, by David Swanson, War Is A Crime.org
10/18/10 VIDEO (7:49) Citizens Arrest of Condi Rice, War Criminal in San Francisco, CODEPINK
9/18/10 Blair's Journey: Questions Before Charge. Evidence of Extensive War Crimes Committed by a British Prime Minister, by Dr. David Halpin, Global Research
9/8/10 Nuremberg is valid precedent for Iraq trials, by Cesar Chelala, MD, PhD, Gulf Times (Qatar)
9/4/10 VIDEO Interview With Kate O'Sullivan after making Citizen's Arrest on Tony Blair (Ireland)
9/2/10 Where to Arrest Karl Rove
9/1/10 A Court Without Jurisdiction: A Critical Assessment of the Military Commission Charges Against Omar Khadr, by Prof. David W. Glazier, Loyola Law School Los Angeles
8/18/10 Other countries probing Bush-era torture — Why aren't we?, by Shashank Bengali, McClatchy Newspapers
8/18/10 EDITORIAL: Barack Obama, war criminal, The Washington Times
8/10/10 Iraq Veterans Against the War Calls for Prosecution of Bush Administration Officials for War Crimes, Common Dreams
8/8/10 [Ret. US Brig. Gen.] Stephen Xenakis: Omar Khadr's unlikely defender, by Michelle Shephard, The Toronto Star
8/7/10 Khadr trial will be a window into America's war on terror, by Carol Rosenberg, The Miami Herald
7/27/10 Hold U.S. Leaders Accountable for War Crimes: LEGAL AUTHORITY, by Sherwood Ross, Veterans Today
7/26/10 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange: Documents on 'thousands' of possible US war crimes in Afghanistan N.Y. Daily News
7/15/10 Author of Torture Memos Admits Some Techniques Were Not Approved By DOJ by Jason Leopold, truthout
7/13/10 Fox Host: Bush and Cheney 'Should Have Been Indicted'
7/12/10 VIDEO (2:27) C-SPAN: JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO INTERVIEWED BY RALPH NADER:

JUDGE NAPOLITANO [at 1:04]: "So what President Bush did with the suspension of habeas corpus, with the whole concept of Guantanamo Bay, with the whole idea that he could avoid and evade federal laws, treaties, federal judges and the Constitution was blatantly unconstitutional and in some cases criminal...."
RALPH NADER: "What should be the sanction?"
JUDGE NAPOLITANO: "They should have been indicted! They absolutely should have been indicted — for torturing, for spying, for arresting without, without warrant...."
RALPH NADER [at 1:43]: "So you think George W. Bush and Dick Cheney should, even though they've left office, they haven't escaped the criminal laws, they should be indicted and prosecuted?"
JUDGE NAPOLITANO: "The evidence in this book, and in others — our colleague, the great Vincent Bugliosi has amassed an incredible amount of evidence; the purpose of this book was not to amass that evidence, but I do discuss it — is, is overwhelming, when you compare it to the level of evidence required for a normal indictment, that George W. Bush, as President, and Dick Cheney, as Vice President, participated in criminal conspiracies to violate the federal law and the guaranteed civil liberties of hundreds, maybe thousands, of human beings."

7/13/10 Rep. Nadler: Investigate torture or face road to 'tyranny' by Sahil Kapur, the raw story
7/9/10 Torture Complicity Under the Spotlight in Europe (Part Two): Germany and France by Andy Worthington, The Public Record
7/6/10 Torture Complicity Under the Spotlight in Europe (Part One): The UK by Andy Worthington, The Public Record
6/28/10 Antitorture group demands probe of doctors' roles in experiments on detainees The Christian Century
6/27/10 Obama won't charge Blackwater with violation of Sudan sanctions
6/14/10 Did CIA Doctors Commit War Crimes for Bush?
6/4/10 Bush admits to war crimes in Grand Rapids speech
5/20/10 VIDEO (18:00) The People v. Bush Author Charlotte Dennett Interview on Chelsea Green TV (Extended) discusses her campaign to prosecute Geroge W. Bush for murder and the Accountability Movement
5/4/10 The Battle for Justice Heats Up, by Charlotte Dennett, The Huffington Post
5/3/10 Prosecuting A Tortured Child: Obama's Guantanamo Legacy, by Andy Worthington, Eurasia Review
5/2/10 Bush and Blair Guilty of War Crimes and Genocide, by Peter Eyre, The Palestinian Telegraph
4/28/10 Drone Pilots Could Be Tried for 'War Crimes,' Law Prof Says, by Nathan Hodge and Noah Shachtman, WIRED Magazine
4/26/10 Members of U.S. Congress Circulate Anti-ICC Letter, by Mark Leon Goldberg, UN Dispatch
4/24/10 Tony Blair, Very Close to Being Indicted for War Crimes, by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky, GlobalResearch.ca
4/22/10 Why Were CIA Interrogation Tapes Destroyed?, by Robert Baer, Time Magazine
4/21/10 Tony Blair stands accused, by Prof. Shad Saleem Farudi, The Star (Malaysia)
4/16/10 Secret CIA Documents: CIA Officers May Have 'Lied' About Permission To Destroy Torture Tapes, ABC News
4/14/10 Wilkerson Demolishes Bush, Cheney, And Rumsfeld's Lies About Guantanamo, by Andy Worthington, The Public Record. Download Wilkerson affidavit, 3/24/10 (9 pages, 908KB PDF)
4/14/10 Crimes without punishment: The question of accountability for human rights abuses in the Bush era has not been resolved by the Obama administration, by J. Patrice McSherry, The Guardian (UK)
4/9/10 Ramsey Clark chosen to head commission to investigate Bush crimes, Veterans Today
4/8/10 A duty to uphold the law, even in war, by Benjamin B. Ferencz, prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trials after World War II.
4/2/10 Washington Post Warns That Prosecuting Crime of Aggression Might Deter It, by David Swanson
4/1/10 United States Should Join the International Criminal Court, by Amitabh Pal, The Progressive
4/1/10 The Case for Impeachment of President Barack Obama, by David Lindorff
3/23/10 Journalist attempts citizen's arrest of Blair in EU parliament, by Leigh Phillips, EUobserver
3/20/10 Iraq Inquiry asks to question George Bush's senior officials, The Daily Telegraph (UK), Iraq: Bush team should talk, Boston Globe editorial (3/23/10)
3/15/10 Cynthia McKinney: Leaders' lack of respect for rule of law makes us all victims of 9/11
3/4/10 The People v. Bush: How to Prosecute a President, by Charlotte Dennett
3/3/10 Transcript: Jonathan Hafetz on GITMO lawyers, by Glenn Greenwald
3/1/10 How the Torture Lawyers Broke the Law, and Why They Must be Punished, by Steve Sheppard, Judge Enfield Professor of Law, University of Arkansas School of Law
2/23/10 Lawyers and Journalists' Group Sees No End in Sight to the Controversy over Bush "Torture Lawyers", by The Justice Robert Jackson Steering Committee
2/22/10 David Margolis Is Wrong, by David Luban
2/15/10 Cheney Admits to War Crimes, Media Yawns, Obama Turns the Other Cheek, by Jason Leopold
2/12/10 Cynthia McKinney: Munich Peace Speeches
2/6/10 Why We Can't Afford to Let Obama Give Bush's War Criminals a Free Pass, by Charlotte Dennett

6. WAR PROPAGANDA

To understand how to end wars, we must understand how they're started —
WAR IS A LIE (Video, 11:08)

End US Wars calls upon our fellow war resisters to become disablers of war party mentality. To do this, we have to confront and reject war propaganda.

In the video below left, long-time peace activist Dr. Graeme MacQueen, Professor of Religious Studies and founding director of the Centre for Peace Studies, McMaster University in Toronto, Canada, explains how he became aware of the "fraudulent trigger incident" (referring to 9/11) that allowed the American public to accept the October 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, which had been planned months in advance.

The 36-minute video presents a "Challenge to the Peace Movement" delivered by Professor MacQueen on September 13, 2009 in New York City. It's all the more relevant relevant now, as we see no end to our wars, while more and more failed "terrorist" plots are being overhyped by the media to keep Americans in a constant state of fear. (See below: Video "YEMEN: Connect the Dots..." and RELATED ARTICLES.)

MacQueen: [above, at 31:15] " ... I watched the
official narrative dissolve before my eyes in two or
three days. I want to offer that same challenge to
the rest of the peace movement. This is important.
How can you claim to understand war if you don't
understand the events that trigger it?"

RELATED ARTICLES - WAR PROPAGANDA

5/11/12 NEW! Why is the New York Times enabling a U.S. government smear campaign against reporters exposing the drone wars?, by John Hanrahan, Nieman Watchdog: Questions the press should ask. "Pakistani human rights attorney Shahzad Akbar and the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism (BIJ) say the campaign is intended to deter mainstream news organizations from reporting that the White House is lying about how many innocent people are being killed by the drone strikes. President Obama's top terrorism adviser John O. Brennan recently contended that civilian deaths were 'exceedingly rare.' The BIJ, though, puts total drone deaths in Pakistan since 2004 at between 2,440 and 3,113, and they say between 479 and 821 of the dead were civilians, including 174 children. Drone attacks in Pakistan have dramatically increased since Obama took office: President Bush was responsible for 52; Obama for 270 and counting."
5/10/12 NEW! U.S. Military Taught Officers: Use 'Hiroshima' Tactics for 'Total War' on Islam, by Noah Shachtman and Spencer Ackerman, Wired. "Ironically, Dooley and his guest lecturers paint a dire picture of the forward march of Islamic extremism right as its foremost practitioner feared its implosion. Documents recently declassified by the U.S. government revealed Osama bin Laden fretting about al-Qaida's brutal methods and damaged brand alienating the vast majority of Muslims from choosing to wage holy war. Little could he have known that U.S. military officers were thinking of ways to ignite one."
5/9/12 NEW! Manufactured False Flag Bomb Plot Exposed, Officials Irate Over Leak Proving CIA Ran Entire Operation, TheIntelHub. "Immediately after the release of this full scale propaganda story, the corporate CIA run media went to work promoting the dangerous naked body scanners and literally worshiping homeland securities draconian 'security' measures. Employees of the Chertoff Group touted their naked body scanners throughout all three major news networks within minutes of the story hitting the newswires. ... Quoting a former head of Israeli airport security, [CNN reporter Marnie Hunter] then went on to reference the Christmas Day Bomber from 2009 (an event completely 100% staged in its own right) and described how the use of naked body scanners inside the U.S. is making us all so much more safe."
5/9/12 NEW! Another Foiled False Flag, by Stephen Lendman, Progressive Radio News Hour. "Big lies substitute for truth. Stories are fabricated. Media scoundrels promote them. At issue is heightening fear for planned policies. Pretexts are needed for militarism, imperial wars, and homeland repression. If and when people learn they were duped, it's too late to matter. ... Threats are manufactured. States of emergency are declared. Rule of law principles are discarded. Unchallenged dominance alone matters. Wars on humanity follow. Big lies facilitate them. False flags play their part. Here we go again...."
5/8/12 NEW! Bomber in Plot on U.S. Airliner Said to Be a Double Agent, by Scott Shane and Eric Schmitt, The New York Times. "The would-be suicide bomber dispatched by the Yemen branch of Al Qaeda last month to blow up a United States-bound airliner was actually a double agent who infiltrated the terrorist group and volunteered for the suicide mission, American and foreign officials said Tuesday."
5/8/12 NEW! Rep. King suggests administration may have misled public on bomb plot, calls for review, by Catherine Herridge, Fox News. "At the time, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano also said 'we have no specific or credible information about anything pinned to the anniversary. And around the same time, a senior counterterrorism official was asked by Fox News during a formal briefing to mark the bin Laden death anniversary whether any explosive package had been recently picked up or intercepted. 'Not that I know of, no,' the official said."
5/8/12 NEW! Insider thwarted underwear bomb plot, triggered drone strike, US officials say, by Pete Williams and Robert Windrem, NBC News. "The plot, which U.S. officials described Monday as a plan to detonate aboard a U.S.-bound jetliner a refined version of the 'underwear bomb' that failed to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day 2009. ... The senior administration official would not comment on whether the would-be bomber, who is believed to be a Yemeni national, was in custody, but did say, 'We do not believe the intended user of the device poses a threat.'"
4/28/12 Terrorist Plots, Hatched by the F.B.I., by David K. Shipler, The New York Times. "[A]ll these dramas were facilitated by the F.B.I., whose undercover agents and informers posed as terrorists offering a dummy missile, fake C-4 explosives, a disarmed suicide vest and rudimentary training. Suspects naïvely played their parts until they were arrested."
4/17/12 Barak: Israel made no promises not to attack Iran, by JPost.com Staff, The Jerusalem Post. "Israel has not made any commitment to Washington not to attack Iran's nuclear facilities during its negotiations with the West, Defense Minister Ehud Barak emphasized Tuesday morning. In an interview from Colombia with Army Radio Barak said, 'I do not believe the efforts of the international community to stop Iran's nuclear program will bear fruit.'"
4/16/12 What A Difference A Day of Iran Talks Makes, by Kate Gould, Friends Committee on National Legislation. "After ten hours of talks with Iran, opportunities for a diplomatic resolution of the standoff over Iran's nuclear program have dramatically improved, and Congress gears up to vote on yet another attempt to kill diplomacy before the next round of talks. ... Hardliners on all sides–in Iran, the United States, and in other countries–have sabotaged promising opportunities for diplomacy before. This time, the Senate was on the verge of passing a far-reaching Iran sanctions package that could well have undermined the talks last weekend–if it wasn't blocked by Senator Rand Paul (KY)."
3/18/12 Scoundrel Media Afghan Massacre Cover-Up, by Stephen Lendman, Progressive Radio News Hour. "Compared to America's bloodstained history, killing 16 Afghan civilians on March 11 was a drop in the ocean. Yet it was too much for major media scoundrels to provide truth and full disclosure. Various reports, including Russia Today [Up to 20 US troops behind Kandahar bloodbath – Afghan probe], said up to 20 US troops were involved in the incident, not a lone sergeant. He's been hung out to dry to absolve others, including commanders who deploy them on missions, as well as top US military and civilian officials who approve America waging lawless wars of aggression."
3/15/12 PENTAGON SAYS IT HAS NO RECORDS OF BIN LADEN'S DEATH; CIA hasn't answered open records request, by Richard Lardner, Associated Press, Minneapolis StarTribune. "Ten months after that electrifying covert mission, an administration that has pledged to be the most transparent in American history is refusing to release documents about it under the Freedom of Information Act. ... Citing the law, The Associated Press asked for files about the raid in more than 20 separate requests, mostly submitted the day after bin Laden's death. The Pentagon told the AP this month it could not locate any photographs or video taken during the raid or showing bin Laden's body. It also said it could not find any images of bin Laden's body on the Navy aircraft carrier where the al-Qaida leader's body was taken. The Pentagon said it could not find any death certificate, autopsy report or results of DNA identification tests for bin Laden, or any pre-raid materials discussing how the government planned to dispose of bin Laden's body if he were killed. It said it searched files at the Pentagon, U.S. Special Operations Command in Tampa, Fla., and the Navy command in San Diego that controls the USS Carl Vinson, the aircraft carrier used in the mission."
3/15/12 Up to 20 US troops executed Panjwai massacre: probe, by Bashir Ahmad Naadim, Pajhwok Afghan News. "The team spent two days in the province, interviewing the bereaved families, tribal elders, survivors and collecting evidences at the site in Panjwai district. ... [T]heir investigation showed there were 15 to 20 American soldiers, who executed the brutal killings. "We closely examined the site of the incident, talked to the families who lost their beloved ones, the injured people and tribal elders," he said. He added the attack lasted one hour involving two groups of American soldiers in the middle of the night on Sunday."
3/6/12 Goebbels Would Stand in Awe: The US Corporate News Media are Rank Propagandists on Iran, by David Lindorff, This Can't Be Happening. "[I]t is clear that what passes for mainstream journalism in the US is not really journalism at all. It is propaganda—in this case pro-Israel, pro-war propaganda. That's why we see calls in the US media for Iran to submit to UN inspection of its entire nuclear program, while no similar demand is made of Israel, which has some 300 nuclear weapons, and which has never allowed in any inspectors."
3/6/12 'Syria Danny' Caught Staging CNN War Propaganda Stunt, by Paul Joseph Watson, Infowars. "Astounding footage has emerged of 'Syria Danny' – the dubious 'activist' who appears on mainstream news every week begging for a US or Israeli military invasion – in which he apparently coordinates gunfire and explosions to be staged during his interview with CNN." [INCLUDES VIDEO]
3/3/12 Israel Lobby Beats the Drums For War, by John Grant, This Can't Be Happening. "In an election year with such cynicism about government in the air, one might think more Americans would question the propaganda for war that AIPAC represents and that sadly goes so hand-in-hand with the uncritical pandering too many American politicians and mainstream journalists engage in. Most Americans are sheep when it comes to criticizing Israel. A tax-paying American has to be a particularly willful contrarian — be willing to be called 'unpatriotic,' an 'antisemite' or a 'terrorist' — just to raise even a reasonable question in the face of this PR juggernaut for Israel."
3/1/12 New York Times Promoting War on Iran, by Stephen Lendman, Progressive Radio News Hour. "For months, The Times also stoked spurious fears about an alleged Iranian threat and need to confront it. On January 5, it claimed 'a recent assessment by the International Atomic Energy Agency (says) Iran's nuclear program has a military objective.' In fact, no such report exists."
2/17/12 Inside the plans of Capitol bomb suspect, by John Miller, CBS News. "Over the next year, FBI agents, detectives from the U.S. Capitol Police, and other investigators from the sprawling Joint Terrorism Task Force that covers the National Capitol Region, kept close tabs on El Khalifi. ... Yusuf claimed to be from al Qaeda, but was actually an undercover officer working for the JTTF. He talked with El Khalifi for months about El Khalifi's alleged plans. ... Sidi Amine El Khalifi is one of over a hundred suspects who have been arrested in terrorist plots targeting the U.S. at home or providing assistance to plots overseas since Sept. 11, 2001."
2/16/12 Iran 'unlikely' to provoke conflict, US official says, by msnbc.com and news services, MSNBC World News. "U.S. intelligence agencies predict that Iran will respond if attacked but is unlikely to start a conflict, and they believe that Israel has not taken a decision to strike Iranian nuclear sites, a top U.S. intelligence official said Thursday."
2/16/12 The New York Times: America's Unofficial Propaganda Ministry, by Stephen Lendman, Progressive Radio News Hour. "Last year, it backed NATO's killing machine in Libya. It sanitized mass killing, destruction, and human misery. Now it's waging war on Syria and Iran. It vilifies regimes Washington opposes. It defends sabotage and targeted assassinations. It blames both countries for defending their sovereign rights. It turns victims into villains. It ignores lawless Western intervention. It brazenly justifies the unjustifiable. It backs the worst of imperial lawlessness. It cheerleads war, the more the better. It denigrates leaders supporting diplomatic solutions."
2/11/12 SYRIA: NATO's Next "Humanitarian" War?, by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky, Centre for Research on Globalization. "Our objective is to dispel the tide of media lies and government propaganda, which presents the events in Syria as a 'peaceful protest movement'. The 'protests' did not emanate from internal political cleavages as described by the mainstream media. From the very outset, they were the result of a covert US-NATO intelligence operation geared towards triggering social chaos, with a view to eventually discrediting the Syrian government of Bashar Al Assad and destabilizing Syria as a Nation State. Since the middle of March 2011, Islamist armed groups — covertly supported by Western and Israeli intelligence — have conducted terrorist attacks directed against government buildings including acts of arson. Amply documented, trained gunmen and snipers including mercenaries have targeted the police, armed forces as well as innocent civilians. There is ample evidence, as outlined in the Arab League Observer Mission report, that these armed groups of mercenaries are responsible for killing civilians."
2/9/12 Israel teams with terror group to kill Iran's nuclear scientists, U.S. officials tell NBC News, by Richard Engel and Robert Windrem, NBC News. "Deadly attacks on Iranian nuclear scientists are being carried out by an Iranian dissident group that is financed, trained and armed by Israel's secret service, U.S. officials tell NBC News, confirming charges leveled by Iran's leaders."
2/7/12 Dwindling time, rising tension make Iran top fear, by Anne Gearan, Associated Press. "The United States and its allies believe the window to stop Iran from building a bomb is quickly closing, pushing conflict with the Islamic republic to the top of the Obama administration's national security worries in the midst of an election year."
2/7/12 Iran: A Manufactured Threat, by Stephen Lendman, Progressive Radio News Hour. "Iran attacked no other country in over 200 years. It threatens none now. Its neighbors know it. So do Washington and Israel. Nonetheless, saber rattling warnings continue. At issue is making an independent state a client one. It's why Washington orchestrated Syria's insurgency and continues anti-Iranian propaganda."
2/4/12 Brookings: 'Horrific Provocation' and 'Tehran-Sponsored 9/11' Needed to Trigger Iran Invasion, by Jurriaan Maessen, Infowars. "All this hinting at another false-flag attack underway and prepping the international community for a future invasion of Iran is becoming increasingly serious as the warmongering is being stepped up. This is the time to fix our eyes upon these globalists and their think tanks. If their blatant arrogance permits them to openly publish their bloodthirsty musings, we should be vigilant enough to pass this knowledge around lest we have another 9/11 on our hands."
2/4/12 The growing Iranian military behemoth [sarcasm], by Glenn Greenwald, Salon. "And there is, tragically, little doubt that if there is an attack on Iran by Israel – with direct U.S. involvement or, more likely, U.S. support and approval – there will be little opposition in either American political party, and even less challenge to the ludicrous claims about the Grave Iranian Threat that will be invoked to justify it."
2/2/12 VIDEO (10:28) Will Netanyahu Use US Elections to Push Obama into Iran War? , The Real News Network. Interview with Max Blumenthal, author, Republican Gomorrah.
2/2/12 ABC's Iran Propaganda – Alarmist reporting on 'terrorist' threat, FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting). "The January 31 ABC World News broadcast featured a blatantly propagandistic report on the supposed threat from Iran. ... In its effort to substantiate Clapper's strong claim, ABC could only provide the most dubious evidence."
2/1/12 UNCRITICAL MAINSTREAM MEDIA DRIVEL War Plan Iran: Endemic US/Israeli Double-Think Is Now "Normal Discourse", by Finian Cunningham, Centre for Research on Globalization. "The propaganda fog over Iran in particular is becoming so thick it is almost laughable – because the political leaders who are spouting this fog don't even seem to realize just how much they are tripping up over their own absurd statements. And thanks, in a way, to the pathetically servile mainstream media, the lies and deceptions of these political figures are being exposed for all their worthlessness and criminality."
1/30/12 Science v. Lies: Imagining a "Clean Break" with Israel Over Iran, by Gary Leupp, Dissident Voice. "The world of science acknowledges matter-of-factly that Iran is not pursuing a nuclear weapons program. There is simply no evidence for one. ... But then there is the political world of systematic disinformation. The world of big, bold lies which, as they are constantly repeated, acquire a certain life of their own. Thus the mainstream press and the entire political class in this country refer routinely to 'Iran's nuclear weapons program' as though there obviously were one. "
1/24/12 VIDEO (2:37) US/Israel may sink USS Enterprise in false flag attack to be blamed on Iran, NWONoWorldOrderNWO. See also 1/13/12 CNN hype: U.S. ships harassed in Strait of Hormuz..
1/24/12 US Media Reporting on the Iraq War: See No Evil, by Dave Lindorff, Counter Punch. "Over 6000 residents of Fallujah were reportedly killed in the nine-day sacking of the city which followed, beginning on November 7. Given that the Pentagon concedes that many of the insurgents managed to slip out of the city before the attack, or to hide out until it was over, this means that thousands of civilians, including boys – many of whom had tried to leave before the attack – were slaughtered by invading American and British troops. ... Danny Schechter, a media critic who runs a blog called the 'News Dissector,' says the embedding of journalists with US troops makes it less likely they will write about war crimes. 'They become part of the units they are covering and see things from that perspective,' he says. But he adds, 'The failure to report on war crimes like Fallujah should itself be a crime.'"
1/19/12 VIDEO (12:39) Former IAEA Inspector Speak Out Against Another Fraudulent War, The Real News, War Is A Crime. Robert Kelley, a nuclear engineer, former director at the IAEA, where he worked for nine years, interviewed about his Jan. 10, 2012 article in Bloomberg News, Nuclear Arms Charge Against Iran Is No Slam Dunk.
1/16/12 Under a False Flag – Our "friends," the Israelis, implicate us in war crimes, by Justin Raimondo Antiwar.com. "Isn't it time we gave our 'special relationship' with Israel a second look? As Israeli agents covertly seek to incite the peoples of the Middle East – including the Iranians – against us, one has to wonder, like those intelligence analysts cited above: just whose side are these guys on, anyway? The answer is: they're on their own side. The question Perry's scoop ought to raise in the mind of every American is: when are we going to start being on our own side?"
1/13/12 False Flag, by Mark Perry Foreign Policy. "A series of CIA memos describes how Israeli Mossad agents posed as American spies to recruit members of the terrorist organization Jundallah to fight their covert war against Iran."
1/13/12 U.S. troops quietly surge into Middle East, by David S. Cloud San Francisco Chronicle. "The Pentagon has quietly shifted combat troops and warships to the Middle East after the top American commander in the region warned that he needed additional forces to deal with Iran and other potential threats, U.S. officials said. ... Officials said the deployments are not meant to suggest a buildup to war, but rather are intended as a quick-reaction and contingency force in case a military crisis erupts in the standoff with Tehran over its suspected nuclear weapons program."
1/10/12 NY Times Admits to Iran War Lies, Makes No Promise to Cease and Desist, FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting). "New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane...concluded: 'I think the readers are correct on this. The Times hasn't corrected the story but it should...because the Iranian program has emerged as a possible casus belli. ... Some readers, mindful of the faulty intelligence and reporting about Saddam Hussein's weapons program, are watching the Iran nuclear coverage very closely.'"
1/10/12 Obama Ready to Use Military Force to Stop Nuclear Iran, Ex-Adviser Says, by Indira A.R. Lakshmanan, Bloomberg News. "There really is no justification for it," [ex-Obama National Security Council member Dennis] Ross said of the latest enrichment activities. "I don't think there's a whole lot of doubt that they are embarked on a program that can produce, at a certain point, weapons."
1/8/12 When War Games Go Live. Preparing to Attack Iran. "Simulating World War III", by Michel Chossudovsky, Centre for Research on Globalization. "It should be understood that the conduct of these war scenarios with America under attack is also intended as an instrument of internal propaganda within the upper echelons of Military Intelligence and participating government agencies, with a view to developing an unbending consensus pertaining to the preemptive war doctrine—i.e., that the threat against the 'American Homeland' is 'real' and that a pre-emptive attack—including the use of US nuclear weapons—against rogue enemies is justified. And that premeptive warfare is an instrument of peacemaking which contributes to global security."
1/6/12 Promoting War on Iran, by Stephen Lendman, Progressive Radio News Hour. "Iran poses no belligerent or terrorist threat. In contrast, America, key NATO partners and Israel are global menaces. Initiating war on Iran and/or Syria could be catastrophic, especially if nuclear weapons are used. Yet major media scoundrels promote it, mindless of the potential consequences. Nonetheless, more war in 2012 is likely because Washington, Britain, France, and Israel want it, no matter the risks."
1/6/12 NYT [New York Times] Misleads Readers on Iran Crisis, FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting). "Overstating the case on Iran isn't a new problem at the Times. One story last month (12/8/11) referred matter-of-factly to the 'recent public debate in Israel about whether time is running out for a military strike to slow Iran's progress toward a nuclear weapon.' With tensions between Iran and the United States rising, and Republican presidential candidates agitating for a more confrontational stance, it is imperative that outlets like the New York Times get the story right. If the Times wishes to do better than it did during the run-up to the Iraq War, it should be more careful."
1/1/12 VIDEO (14:17) FAKING IT: How the Media Manipulates the World into War, by James Corbett, Global Research TV. "As the US and Iranian governments escalate tensions in the already volatile Straits of Hormuz, and China and Russia begin openly questioning Washington's interference in their internal politics, the world remains on a knife-edge of military tension. Far from being a dispassionate observer of these developments, however, the media has in fact been central to increasing those tensions and preparing the public to expect a military confrontation. But as the online media rises to displace the traditional forms by which the public forms its understanding of the world, many are now beginning to see first hand how the media lies the public into war."
12/29/11 Slip-Sliding to War with Iran, by Robert Parry, Consortium News. "This pattern of ignoring – or downplaying – evidence that runs counter to the prevailing narrative was a notable feature during the run-up to war with Iraq. It is now being repeated not just by the right-wing news media, but by the New York Times, the Washington Post, MSNBC and other centrist-to-left-leaning outlets. ... Even left-of-center media personalities, like MSNBC's Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow, talk tough against Ahmadinejad, just as many 'liberals' did regarding Hussein."
12/29/11 Crackpot Anti-Islam Activists, "Serial Fabricators" and the Tale of Iran and 9/11, by Gareth Porter, Truthout. "In fact, after US complaints about al Qaeda presence in Iran in late 2001, Tehran detained nearly 300 al Qaeda operatives, and gave a dossier with their names, passport pictures and fingerprints to the United Nations. Iran also repatriated at least 200 of those detainees to the newly formed government of Afghanistan. ... But in the world of the right-wing Islam-hating extremists and others pushing for confrontation with Iran, reality is no obstacle to spinning tales of secret Iranian assistance to al Qaeda."
12/26/11 Justifying War with Iran, by Russ Baker, WhoWhatWhy. "A growing body of evidence points to a concerted campaign to prepare Americans and the world for war against Iran. This is not idle speculation. It fits a pattern that repeatedly preceded previous hostilities."
12/25/11 Christmas Day Two Years Later and the Current State of the U.S., by Kurt Haskell [see 10/10/11 story below], Haskell Family Blog. "Would the U.S. Government willingly turn over evidence to me to show conclusively that it was behind the Underwear Bombing attack when it believes it can kill or detain American citizens indefinitely? Not a chance in hell. It is much more likely that the U.S. Government would declare me a person that 'substantially aided' a terrorist under the new defense authorization bill and detain me indefinitely without a trial.... Why are Americans not outraged and protesting by the millions in Washington over this law?"
12/16/11 VIDEO (6:08) US court claims Iranian 9/11 link, RT News. "A US court has won a default judgement that Iranian officials, including its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, provided help to the 9/11 hijackers behind the worst terror attack on American soil. The lawsuit was filed by the families of the atrocity's victims. There was no Iranian representation in court. RT talks to Michel Chossudovsky, Director of the Center for Research on Globalization."
12/3/11 The We-Are-At-War! mentality, by Glenn Greenwald, Salon. "[S]o war-obsessed is America's political and media culture that it seems indisputably clear that the U.S. Government – in total secrecy, without any remote legal basis – is involved to some unknown degree in multiple acts of war against Iran, and nobody seems to notice or care or even want to know what the U.S. Government is doing in this regard."
11/25/11 Target Iran: Washington's Countdown to War, by Tom Burghardt, Centre for Research on Globalization. "Despite, or possibly because no credible evidence exists that Iran is building a nuclear bomb as a hedge against 'regime change,' belligerent rhetoric and regional military moves targeting Syria and Iran simultaneously are danger signs that imperialism's manufactured 'nuclear crisis' is a cynical pretext for war."
11/24/11 Heading for War on Syria?, by Stephen Lendman, Progressive Radio News Hour. "At issue is regime change, establishing another client state, and isolating Iran ahead of similar tactics there. It's part of America's Middle East project to redraw the region according to US/Israeli geopolitical aims. Washington's dirty hands lie behind what's happening. Partners include Israel, Britain, France, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Lebanon's March 8 Alliance, Jordan, and other despotic Arab League states. Obama, the peace candidate, wages wars like a crazed psychopath."
11/24/11 'They Found Nothing. Nothing.' - The IAEA, Iran And 'Fantasy Land', by Editor, Media Lens. "For anyone relying solely on corporate news media coverage, the case against Iran was closed. All that remained was to decide the necessary course of international action: ramped-up 'diplomacy', international sanctions and perhaps — the threat was left 'lying on the table — war. What is so breathtaking is that the apparent consensus on Iran, like the case against Iraq, is a fraud."
11/21/11 Informer's Role in Terror Case Is Said to Have Deterred F.B.I., by William K. Rashbaum and Joseph Goldstein, The New York Times. "But it was the informer's role, and that of his police handlers, that have now been cited as among the reasons the F.B.I., which had its own parallel investigation of Mr. Pimentel, did not pursue the case.... There was concern that the informer might have played too active a role in helping Mr. Pimentel, said several people who were briefed on the case, who all spoke on the condition of anonymity...."
11/19/11 Ex-Inspector Rejects IAEA Iran Bomb Test Chamber Claim, by Gareth Porter, IPS News. "Kelley, a nuclear engineer who was the IAEA's chief weapons inspector in Iraq and is now a senior research fellow at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, pointed out in an interview with the Real News Network that a cylindrical chamber designed to contain 70 kg of explosives, as claimed by the IAEA, could not possibly have been used for hydrodynamic testing of a nuclear weapon design, contrary to the IAEA claim."
11/9/11 Fabricated IAEA Report on Iran Released, by Stephen Lendman, Progressive Radio News Hour. "Based on forged, otherwise suspect, long ago discredited, discounted, or nonexistent documents, IAEA's report lacks credibility. ... Based on identical information, US intelligence and ElBaradei produced completely opposite conclusions. Now they're politicized, fraudulently hyped, and regurgitated by major media liars, political Washington, Israeli hard-liners, and supportive Western leaders."
11/9/11 [Israel Opposition Leader] Livni: World must act to halt Iran nuclear program, by JPost.com Staff and Reuters, Jerusalem Post. "According to Livni, who made the comments in nine separate interviews with foreign outlets, the UN watchdog's report proved Israel's allegations that Iran is seeking to develop an atomic bomb. ... Livni was interviewed by three Russian news agencies, China's official news agency, Associated Press, CNN, BBC, Sky News and Reuters." COMMENT from docroc: "It is hard to be accepted as holding the high moral ground when one rails against nukes while having them oneself. This is why so many people are cynical about US and Israeli rants about Iran's nuclear capabilities."
11/4/11 Target Iran, by Stephen Lendman, Progressive Radio News Hour. "Iran's nuclear program was specifically targeted. Regime change plans were prepared long ago. Washington favors a 'Greater Baluchistan,' integrating Pakistani and Iranian Baluch areas under puppet officials subservient to America. In other words, balkanizing both countries for easier control."
11/3/11 Debunking the Iran "Terror Plot", by Gareth Porter, Middle East Research and Information Project. "This history makes it clear that the Justice Department and FBI are prepared to go to extraordinary lengths to fabricate terrorism cases against targeted individuals, and that misrepresenting these individuals' intentions and actual behavior has long been standard practice. The trickery and deceit in past 'counter-terrorism' sting operations provides further reason to question the veracity of the Obama administration's allegations in the bizarre case of Manssor Arbabsiar."
10/17/11 U.S. Officials Peddle False Intel to Support Terror Plot Claims, by Gareth Porter, IPS News. "Officials of the Barack Obama administration have aggressively leaked information supposedly based on classified intelligence in recent days to bolster its allegation that two higher-ranking officials from Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were involved in a plot to assassinate Saudi Ambassador Adel al-Jubeir in Washington, D.C....But the information about the two Iranian officials leaked to NBC News, the Washington Post and Reuters was unambiguously false and misleading, as confirmed by official documents in one case and a former senior intelligence and counterterrorism official in the other."
10/14/11 Why I Published US Intelligence Secrets About Israel's Anti-Iran Campaign, by Richard Silverstein, truthout. "I went public for two reasons: one was to expose Israel's propaganda campaign in this country against Iran. But just as importantly, I wanted Americans to know why Shamai Leibowitz did what he did. I wanted them to know that not only was he a whistleblower, a profile in courage, but that he is a person of conscience, who faced the full force of the US government during his prosecution. I wanted the world to know Shamai was a sacrificial victim who deserved to be honored rather than imprisoned."
10/13/11 FBI Account of "Terror Plot" Suggests Sting Operation, by Gareth Porter, IPS News. "Although the legal document, called an amended criminal complaint, implicates Iranian-American Manssor Arbabsiar and his cousin Ali Gholam Shakuri, an officer in the Iranian Quds Force, in a plan to assassinate Saudi Arabian Ambassador Adel al-Jubeir, it also suggests that the idea originated with and was strongly pushed by a undercover DEA informant, at the direction of the FBI."
10/13/11 Iran Falsely Charged with Fake Terror Plot, by Stephen Lendman, Progressive Radio News Hour. "US media scoundrels regurgitate official lies and suppress vital truths. New York Times writers and commentators play lead roles. The latest alleged plot is laughable on its face. ... Clearly, Iran has nothing to gain and everything to lose by plotting what Holder charged."
10/13/11 Intel chair [Sen. Diane Feinstein, D-Calif.]: "Chain" of Iran plots possible, CBS News. "The alleged plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States was comically amateurish, but the U.S. government believes not only that it was approved at high levels in Tehran but also that it was not the only plot..."
10/12/11 VIDEO (5:08) Illusion of Security: Feds NOW Say Iran Gov't Knew NOTHING of Assassination Plot! 10/12/11, Fox News. Judge Napolitano (at 4:13): "We are fools if we praise the government for exposing a plot of its own creation and saving us from a danger that never existed."
10/12/11 Alleged Iranian Assassination Plot Suspicious, Experts Say, by Barbara Slavin, IPS News. "U.S. experts on Iranian spy agencies and tradecraft say the hare-brained scheme described in the Justice Department complaint does not resemble the operations of the Quds Force, the external arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC). Al-Quds means Jerusalem in Arabic.
'Nothing about this adds up,' said Kenneth Katzman, author of a book on the IRGC and expert on Iran at the Congressional Research Service.
'Iran does not use non-Muslim groups or people who are not trusted members or associates of the Quds force,' Katzman said. 'Iran does not blow up buildings in Washington that invites retaliation against the Iranian homeland.'"
10/11/11 Iran 'Directed' Washington, D.C., Terror Plot, U.S. Says, by Richard Esposito and Brian Ross, ABC News. "An Iranian representative in Washington, D.C., told ABC News the U.S. government's story was 'fake' but declined to provide any other information. In a pair of reports on different Iranian state-sponsored news outlets, Iranian officials rejected the charges, calling the plot a 'prefabricated scenario' and the start of a 'new propaganda campaign against Iran.'"
10/11/11 VIDEO (19:44) The War on Whistleblowers - Sibel Edmonds on GRTV , Global Research TV. "This week GRTV talks to Sibel Edmonds, famed FBI whistleblower and the Editor of BoilingFrogsPost.com about the various ways that whistleblowers in the national security establishment are retaliated against, set upon by the establishment, and undermined by the very foundation-funded organizations that are supposed to be helping them."
10/10/11 Bombshell: Underwear Bomber Calls Haskell As Defense Witness, by Paul Joseph Watson, Infowars.com. "Detroit Lawyer Haskell has been a prominent skeptic of the government's official version of events, having witnessed a well-dressed man help Abdulmutallab clear security before the incident on Christmas Day 2009.... Abdulmutallab could reveal which intelligence agents gave him the dud bomb, while also lifting the lid on the role of Anwar al-Awlaki, who as we have documented was clearly a double agent posing as an Al-Qaeda leader while doing the bidding of the US intelligence community."
10/9/11 Scientists' Analysis Disputes F.B.I. Closing of Anthrax Case, by William J. Broad and Scott Shane, The New York Times. "The new paper raises the prospect — for the first time in a serious scientific forum — that the Army biodefense expert identified by the F.B.I. as the perpetrator, Bruce E. Ivins, had help in obtaining his germ weapons or conceivably was innocent of the crime."
10/8/11 Iraq, siding with Iran, sends essential aid to Syria's Assad, by Joby Warrick, The Washington Post. "Some of the proposed financial deals with Syria, however, 'turn out to be a lot of talk,' said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to candidly discuss sensitive issues."
9/30/11 Is The War On Terror A Hoax?, by Paul Craig Roberts, Foreign Policy Journal. "For ten years, the 'superpower' American population has sat there, being terrified by the government's lies. While Americans sit in fear of non-existent 'terrorists,' sucking their thumbs, millions of people in six countries have had their lives destroyed. As far as any evidence exists, the vast majority of Americans are unperturbed by the wanton murder of others in countries that they are incapable of locating on maps."
9/30/11 Ron Paul Condemns Killing of al Qaeda's Awlaki, by Paul Craig Roberts, The Wall Street Journal Blogs." 'Nobody knows if he ever killed anybody,' Mr. Paul said after a breakfast at Saint Anselm College's New Hampshire Institute of Politics. 'If the American people accept this blindly and casually...I think that's sad.'"
9/30/11 Entrapping Muslims in America, by Stephen Lendman, Progressive Radio News Hour. "Other cases involved alleged plans to attack US marines at Quantico, VA, down National Guard jets with stinger missiles, target Pakistan's ambassador with a surface-to-air missile, blow up Chicago's Sears Tower, and others just as preposterous.
"They include a fake shoe bomber, fake underwear bomber, fake Times Square bomber, an earlier fake one there, fake shampoo bombers, fake Al Qaeda woman planning fake attacks on New York landmarks, fake Oregon bomber, fake armed forces recruiting station bomber, fake 9/11 bombers, and others to enlist public support for the fake war on terror.
All cases entrapped Muslims. Accusations against them were bogus, yet they were arrested, charged, convicted and sentenced to long imprisonments – for being Muslims in America at the wrong time...."
9/29/11 The FBI again thwarts its own Terror plot, by Glenn Greenwald, Salon. "Time and again, the FBI concocts a Terrorist attack, infiltrates Muslim communities in order to find recruits, persuades them to perpetrate the attack, supplies them with the money, weapons and know-how they need to carry it out -- only to heroically jump in at the last moment, arrest the would-be perpetrators whom the FBI converted, and save a grateful nation from the plot manufactured by the FBI."
9/13/11 The Colossal Deceit Known As The Underwear Bomber Case, by Kurt Haskell, [personal blog of eyewitness/attorney]. "The truth is that your U.S. Government staged a false terrorist attack in order to steal your tax dollars and your 4th Amendment Rights to be free of unreasonable searches and seizures."
9/3/11 Promoting Fear and Hate in America, by Stephen Lendman, Progressive Radio News Hour. "In fact, the real threat comes from hatemongers like Gingrich and many others like him, being paid to stoke fear, mistrust, and hate."
8/28/11 The 13 Psy-Ops Against You , by Saman Mohammadi, OpEdNews.
"Whether you are watching television on your couch, manning a checkpoint in Iraq, propagating the latest talking points in Washington, or surfing the internet...we become enslaved to politically constructed perceptions and fake narratives that benefit a privileged few."
8/6/11 Pakistan TV Report Contradicts US Claim of Bin Laden's Death, by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, Global Research. [Translation and transcript of eyewitness report in VIDEO below of helicopter crash on lift-off, killing all aboard.
8/4/11 The Mysterious Death of Osama bin Laden: Creating Evidence Where There Is None, by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, Global Research. "In the immediate aftermath of bin Laden's alleged murder by the SEALs, Pakistani TV interviewed the next door neighbor to bin Laden's alleged compound. According to [news videos] (HERE and HERE), the next door neighbor, Mr. Bashir, said that he watched the entire operation from the roof of his house. There were 3 helicopters. Only 1 landed. About a dozen men got out and entered the house. They shortly returned and boarded the helicopter. When the helicopter lifted off it exploded, killing all aboard. Mr. Bashir reports seeing bodies and pieces of bodies all over.
The US government acknowledges that it lost a helicopter, but claims no one was hurt. Obviously, as there were no further landings, if everyone was killed as Mr. Bashir reports, there was no body to be dumped into the ocean.
7/26/11 The Oslo Attacks: More False Flag Evidence , by Stephen Lendman, Progressive Radio News Hour. "Targeting Oslo on Friday resembled GLADIO, this time perhaps a CIA, Mossad, MI6 or joint operation, using Breivik for plausible deniability as a previous article noted.
It wasn't the first time stooges took a fall for others. Notable previous ones included Lee Harvey Oswald, Sirhan Sirhan, James Earl Ray, the alleged 9/11 perpetrators, and numerous other falsely charged victims - never the treacherous Machiavellian villains."
7/19/11 DOJ casts serious doubt on its own claims about the anthrax attack, by Glenn Greenwald, Salon. "On July 15, Justice Department lawyers acknowledged in court papers that the sealed area in Ivins' lab -- the so-called hot suite -- did not contain the equipment needed to turn liquid anthrax into the refined powder that floated through congressional buildings and post offices in the fall of 2001."
7/6/11 Looking at FBI Entrapment, by Rehanna Jones-Boutaleb, Foreign Policy In Focus. "For those convicted on dubious charges of domestic terrorism, the probability of mounting a successful entrapment defense is slim to nil. ... In an effort to 'better this world,' a phrase taken from Darby himself, government informants are taking suspects to the edge of the pool and pushing them in."
7/6/11 The Lies That Sold Obama's Escalation in Afghanistan, by Gareth Porter, Truthout. "The story of the lies that took the Obama administration into a bigger war in Afghanistan shows that those lies have structural, systemic roots. The political dynamics surrounding the making of war policies are so completely dominated by the vested interests of the heads of the Pentagon, the military, and other national security bureaucracies that the outcome of the process must be based on a systematic body of lies. Only by depriving those institutions of their power can Americans have a military policy based on the truth."
7/5/11 Iran is singled out because it defies Washington: Jeremy R. Hammond, Interview by Kourosh Ziabari, Salem-News.com. (TEHRAN) - Jeremy R. Hammond is an American political analyst and journalist who is the editor of Foreign Policy Journal, a progressive online publication dedicated to providing critical analysis of the United States Foreign Policy. Hammond is a recipient of the Project Censored 2010 Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism.
7/3/11 Conspiracies, by Paul Craig Roberts, Information Clearing House. "Sometimes governments are willing to kill large numbers of their own citizens in order to advance an agenda. ... Before the reader cries 'conspiracy theory,' be apprised that the secret Operation Northwoods was made public on November 18, 1997, by the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board. When the plan was presented to President Kennedy in 1962, he rejected it and removed Lemnitzer as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs."
6/30/11 Philip Zelikow Speaks For The Makers of Terror , by Saman Mohammadi, OpEdNews.
"There is a coming clash of universes between the universe that Zelikow, Cheney, Rove, Rice, Bush, the CIA, Mossad, and the neocon traitors want the world to believe exists, and the real universe - the universe of fact, and truth. Zelikow, and all the U.S.-Israeli state terrorists he speaks for, does not want the real universe to come into being because he will be executed in that universe as a traitor and a war criminal."
6/28/11 FBI Entraps Two More Muslims, by Stephen Lendman, Progressive Radio News Hour. "After entrapping victimized targets, the Justice Department disingenuously ends relevant press releases, saying: 'The charges contained in the complaint are only allegations. A person is presumed innocent unless and until he or she is proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.' In fact, prosecutors have already convicted them by accusation, hanging them out to dry for being Muslims in America at the wrong time, imprisoning hundreds of innocent victims of Washington's war on terror."
6/23/11 Two men charged with plan to attack military recruiting station, by Terry Frieden, CNN. "Two U.S. citizens from Seattle and Los Angeles -- described as "would-be terrorists" by the FBI -- have been arrested and charged with plotting to kill Americans enlisting in the armed forces in Seattle, federal officials announced Thursday.... Law enforcement officials said that unbeknownst to the defendants, the weapons they obtained, including machine guns, were rendered inoperable and posed no risk to the public."
6/22/11 The true definition of "Terrorist", by Glenn Greenwald, Salon. "The second set of acts involves a plot apparently concocted by the FBI, and then presented to Alwan through the use of an informant, to ship weapons and money to 'Al Qaeda in Iraq.' ... Leaving aside the fact that this seems to be yet another case where the FBI manufacturers its own plots which they entrap people into joining, and then praises itself for stopping them, the alleged crimes here are confined entirely to past attacks on U.S. invading forces in their country and current efforts to aid those waging such attacks now."
6/20/11 U.S. officially drop all charges against Osama bin Laden, Daily Mail (UK).
• See 6/6/06: FBI says, "No hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11", by Ed Haas, Muckraker Report, Global Research. See also Project Censored (Top 25 of 2008): #16 No Hard Evidence Connecting Bin Laden to 9/11
6/15/11 Osama bin Laden: Closing the Case on an Innocent Man - A Bush Era Lie: they made the whole thing up., by Gordon Duff, Salem-News. "The real Osama bin Laden was someone few Americans knew anything about. He knew nothing of Al Qaeda, never planned 9/11, never advocated terrorism, not once, but he did make enemies. Bin Laden, in 2001, believed Israel would push the US into a war across the Middle East, a war that would go on for years."
6/12/11 Terrorist leader killed in Somalia carried plans for bombing the West, by Geoffrey York, The Globe and Mail (Toronto). "Suspected al-Qaeda terrorist leader Fazul Abdullah Mohammed was carrying 'very specific' plans for bombings in Western countrieswhen he was killed by Somali soldiers near Mogadishu [last week]."
• Report from Kenya, 1/11/07: FAZUL ABDULLAH MOHAMMED IS DEAD AFTER AIR STRIKE IN SOMALIA Coastweek (Kenya). "(JANUARY 11, 2007) -- Senior al-Qa'ida suspect Fazul Abdullah Mohammed has been killed in a U.S air strike on the remote Coastal village of Hayo, near the Southern Somalia town of Ras Kamboni."
6/9/11 McKinney human rights fact-finders show Libyan deaths, injuries not 'propaganda', by Deborah Dupre, San Francisco Bay View. "In the videos, one after another wounded innocent civilian described atrocities to Cynthia McKinney, in a fact-finding mission with a team including a delegation of former MPs and professors from France, all now in Tripoli."
6/7/11 Sowing the Seeds of Violence and Instability, by Ghali Hassan, Ph.D., Axis of Logic. "The fabricated assassination of bin Laden was an opportunity for the Western mainstream media to continue the racist campaign of demonising Muslims and Islam."
6/3/11 VIDEO (9:05) US Soldiers Tell The Truth THEY PLANTED WEAPONS & Killed innocent people!, American News Project. (At 8:20) "The American public just doesn't know what's going on. And the American public doesn't care.... And that's not necessarily their fault. I think it's our leadership's fault." --Prof. Gary Solis (served 26 years in Marine Corps, taught "Law of War" at West Point for 5 years)
5/31/11 Conditioned To Love Deception, by Ethan Jacobs, J.D., Activist Post. "Sadly, people who refuse to objectively examine the overwhelming evidence that 9/11 was a false flag operation, or simply 'don't want to know,' act as accomplices to the crimes of that day. Allowing the true perpetrators to evade justice and even prosper is clearly aiding and abetting them."
5/31/11 U.S. announces charges against five 9/11 terror suspects, by Agence France-Presse, The Raw Story.
"A letter sent to families of 9/11 victims said fresh charges against Sheikh Mohammed, Walid bin Attash, Ramzi Binalshibh, Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, and Mustapha Ahmed al-Hawsawi would be filed at Guantanamo on Tuesday. It listed the charges as: 'conspiracy, murder in violation of the law of war, attacking civilians, attacking civilian objects, intentionally causing serious bodily injury, destruction of property in violation of the law of war, hijacking aircraft and terrorism.' "
5/23/11 Report: Intelligence Unit Told Before 9/11 to Stop Tracking Bin Laden, by Jeffrey Kaye, Truthout.
5/23/11 BARACK OBAMA: I'M READY TO REPEAT PAKISTAN RAID, by Alison Little, Daily Express (UK). "Barack Obama would order a fresh US raid into Pakistani territory if another terrorist mastermind like Osama Bin Laden was found hiding there, he indicated yesterday.
5/21/11 VIDEO (12:10) Q & A with Mickey Huff from Project Censored, AbbyMediaRoots. Censorship in the alternative and corporate media, specifically on 9/11 and election fraud. See also VIDEO (31:19) Pre-Q&A Talk.
5/20/11 US, Pakistan Near Open War; Chinese Ultimatum Warns Washington Against Attack, by Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. "China has officially put the United States on notice that Washington's planned attack on Pakistan will be interpreted as an act of aggression against Beijing. This blunt warning represents the first known strategic ultimatum received by the United States in half a century, going back to Soviet warnings during the Berlin crisis of 1958-1961, and indicates the grave danger of general war growing out of the US-Pakistan confrontation."
5/19/11 Websites air audio purportedly recorded by Osama bin Laden, by the CNN Wire Staff, CNN. "CNN, which translated the audio, could not confirm its authenticity."
5/13/11 Unreleased bin Laden audio message called 'puzzling', by Pam Benson, CNN. "For instance, the official said it was a 'head scratcher' why bin Laden would not indicate his support for the uprising against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, a man bin Laden detested."
5/13/11 Ludicrous Bin Laden "Porno" Claim Harks Back To CIA Fakery, by Paul Joseph Watson, Prison Planet.
5/12/11 CLASSIFIED: Why we will never see dead Osama bin Laden, by Raqib Shah, Veterans Today.
5/10/11 GORDON DUFF: SELLING THE BIN LADEN LIE and TEAM BIN LADEN: WAS RAYMOND DAVIS THE CIA'S "BIN LADEN HANDLER?", by Gordon Duff, Veterans Today.
5/6/11 The Osama Bin Laden File, by Jim Staro, War Is A Crime.
5/6/11 Staged Bin Laden Killing Hokum, by Stephen Lendman, Progressive Radio News Hour. As reported, it sounded more like bad fiction than eliminating "Enemy Number One," especially with no visuals, corpse, independent proof, and shifting official accounts. In Hollywood, it's called rewrite. In politics, it's lying....
5/4/11 Media Lies and Misinformation on Bin Laden, by Stephen Lendman, Progressive Radio News Hour. After Obama's May day announcement, round-the-clock coverage now features "story one" ad nauseam, cheerleading the death of a dead man with no one allowed on to refute it.
5/3/11 Lies, Damn Lies, and Bin Laden's Death, by Stephen Lendman, Progressive Radio News Hour.
4/19/11 History Was Hijacked By War Criminals And Predatory Banksters, by Saman Mohammadi, OpEdNews.
"Political and imperial power is most successfully wielded in modern authoritarian societies when officials in government, academia, and the media collaborate together to generate myths and misconceptions about certain issues and world events and present them to people as the factual accounts of reality.... In such a society, people resist by demythologizing official myths, revealing official falsehoods, and stop believing the government and media."
4/11/11 Did Obama Kneecap the 9/11 Suspects' Defense Lawyers?, by Nick Baumann, Mother Jones.
4/6/11 Military Tribunal May Hide 9/11 Motives, by Ray McGovern, Consortium News.
4/3/11 The Anthrax Attacks and the Cover Up, by Barry Kissin, War Is A Crime.
3/31/11 Why I'm A "Truther", by Paul Carline, CounterCurrents. "Bizarrely, Moyers quotes the very research which explains his own 'willful ignorance': research showing that when misinformed people are exposed to corrected facts in new stories, they rarely change their minds. In fact, they often become even more strongly set in their beliefs. ... Let me finish by quoting Bill Moyers again... 'An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only on partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias, a people made morbidly obese in mind and spirit by the junk food of propaganda, is less inclined to put up a fight, to ask questions and be skeptical. That kind of orthodoxy can kill a democracy - or worse.' "
3/27/11 Katastrophic Treason: The Truth About 9/11 And The Plot To Destroy America, by Saman Mohammadi, OpEdNews.
3/25/11 Philip D. Zelikow: The Big Head Behind The Big Lie About 9/11, by Saman Mohammadi, OpEdNews.
3/3/11 Israel's Hidden Faces: A Long Day's Night for Us All , by Dr. Alan Sabrosky, Salem-News.com (OR).
2/27/11 Military denies use of intelligence tactics on senators, by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, The Washington Post.
2/23/11 Another Runaway General: Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators, by Michael Hastings, Rolling Stone.
2/25/11 Saudi Student to Be Arraigned in Bomb Plot, by James C. McKinley Jr. and Sarah Wheaton, The New York Times. "The notes in the journal that F.B.I. agents found in his apartment on Feb. 14 stood in stark contrast to many of the postings he put on a blog during his first year as a student in America, when he studied English at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. In May 2009, for instance, he wrote in his blog about his interest in epidemiology and expressed a desire to work for a government to stop the spread of disease. A few days earlier, he wrote that his dream was to work for Google. During the spring and summer of 2009, many of his posts expressed an admiration and fondness for America, often in faltering English...."
2/15/11 Panel Review Questions FBI Theory in Anthrax Attacks After 9/11, by Pierre Thomas, Jack Cloherty and Jason Ryan, ABC News. More details here.
1/26/11 Updated: Richard Falk Is Right on 9/11—Will Obama and Friends Forsake Falk for Telling the Truth, by Michael Leon, Veterans Today. "In fact, Falk wrote: the 'media ... [is] unwilling to acknowledge the well-evidenced doubts about the official version of the events [of 9/11].' And that author David Ray Griffin is of a caliber of 'other devoted scholars of high integrity.' That's it. Why is the Lobby and its supporters so enraged by Falk's rather banal comments?"
1/26/11 AJC Calls on UN to Dismiss Richard Falk, American Jewish Committee. "January 26, 2011 – New York – AJC called on the UN to immediately dismiss Richard Falk after he publicly endorsed 9/11 conspiracy theorists. Falk is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories."
1/26/11 HOW A PSYCHO-SEXUAL CULT HOLDS AMERICA PRISONER, by Gordon Duff, Veterans Today. "What isn't told is that the war crimes, torture, murder of civilians, has been largely the result of hatred and fear systematically instilled into members of the armed forces, a form of 'brain washing' which, not only has indoctrinated hundreds of thousands to accept torture, murder and rape but has done so as part of a bizarre religious cult that is everything but Christian."
1/12/11 FBI infiltration of anti-war movement uncovered in Minneapolis, Fight Back! News.
1/8/11 VIDEO (in 6 Parts) 1. The Fictional Basis For The War On Terror by Dr. Graeme MacQueen (Part 1 of 6), Lecture, Peace Through Truth - 9/11 State Crimes Against Democracy presented by the 9/11 Working Group of Bloomington, 9/4/10, Buskirk-Chumley Theater, Bloomington, IN. See also WFHB Bloomington radio interview VIDEO (in 4 parts).
1/4/11 Electromagnetic Frequency Mind Control Weapons, by Stephen Lendman, War Is A Crime.
12/30/10 Smell Something Rotten? 2010 P.U.-litzer Prizes recognize the worst of U.S. journalism, by Fair and Accuracy in Reporting, FAIR.
12/28/10 Greenwald trashes CNN contributors for 'extreme misinformation' on WikiLeaks, by David Edwards, The Raw Story. [includes VIDEO, 11:15]
12/22/10 VIDEO (in 7 Parts) John Pilger – The War You Don't See, Information Clearing House. "We journalists...have to be brave enough to defy those who seek our collusion in selling their latest bloody adventure in someone else's country.... That means always challenging the official story, however patriotic that story may appear, however seductive and insidious it is. For propaganda relies on us in the media to aim its deceptions not at a far away country, but at you at home...."
12/10/10 Ivins' lawyer, colleague share details FBI left out, by Megan Eckstein, The Frederick News-Post.
12/10/10 F.B.I. Asks Panel to Delay Report on Anthrax Inquiry, by Scott Shane, The New York Times.
12/10/10 The Feds Are Cultivating Their Own "Homegrown Terrorists", by Seth Freed Wessler, ColorLines.
12/8/10 VIDEO (2:21) Geraldo Rivera Tells Bill O'Reilly Recent Domestic Terror Plots Are Fake.
12/6/10 WikiLeaks Iran Cables — New York Times in Full-Spin Mode, by Sharmine Narwani, The Huffington Post.
12/5/10 Could Israel Be Using Wikileaks to Prepare US for Air Strike Against Iran?, by James M. Wall, Salem-News (OR).
12/2/10 NYT Stokes Fear of Iran, by Ray McGovern, Consortium News. (See video interview (13:56) New York Times Beats Drums for War, Real News Network)
12/1/10 A U.S. Citizen's Defense Against War Propaganda - a review of War Is A Lie by Nicolas Davies, War Is A Crime
11/29/10 In U.S. Sting Operations, Questions of Entrapment, by Eric Schmitt and Charlie Savage, The New York Times. "They're saying, 'Why allow it to get to this public stunt? To put the community on edge?'" Mr. Khan said.
11/29/10 Was FBI grooming Portland suspect for terror?, by Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times. "The case is the latest in a series of sting operations that have involved FBI undercover operatives or informants posing as terrorists to help make a case against would-be bombers."
11/29/10 Mohamed Osman Mohamud - Terrorist or Victim? , by Stephen Lendman. "It's high time an aroused public understood that terrorists R us, that inflammatory official Washington and major media accounts are either bogus or suspect to enlist popular support for state crimes. They include imperial wars and repressive laws assuring police state justice against anyone challenging government policies or, in Mohamud's case, for political advantage."
11/28/10 Fabricating Terror, by Paul Craig Roberts, Sign of the Times. "The story arrives at its Kafka highpoint when President Obama thanks the FBI for its diligence in saving us from the fake plot the FBI had fabricated."
11/28/10 US Lies About N. Korea Situation, by Rob Kall, OpEdNews.com. "Don't be fooled. This confrontation was intentionally started by US and S. Korean provocation."
11/27/10 FBI apparently set up US teen blamed for fake car bomb, by Stephen C. Webster, The Raw Story.
11/27/10 Somali-American accused of plotting to bomb Oregon tree-lighting event, CNN. "The arrest was the culmination of a long-term undercover operation during which Mohamud had been monitored closely as his alleged bomb plot developed, the Justice Department said. Officials said the public was never in danger from the device."
11/23/10 Government yells "Terrorism" to justify TSA procedures, by Glenn Greenwald, Salon.
11/21/10 TSA now needs false flag security incident to convince Americans to accept obscene pat-downs, by Mike Adams, NaturalNews.
11/18/10 Exclusive Report: Evidence of Iran Nuclear Weapons Program May Be Fraudulent, by Gareth Porter, truthout.
11/18/10 Terror detainee largely acquitted, by Peter Finn, The Washington Post. "The first former Guantanamo Bay detainee to be tried in federal criminal court was found guilty on a single conspiracy charge Wednesday but cleared on 284 other counts.... After deliberating for five days, a jury of six men and six women found Ahmed Ghailani, 36, guilty of conspiracy to damage or destroy U.S. property but acquitted him of multiple murder and attempted-murder charges for his role in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in East Africa.... At a 2007 military hearing at Guantanamo Bay, Ghailani had presented himself as an unwitting participant in the embassy bombings. At the end of the four-week trial, one of his attorneys told the jury he was a "dupe" who was fooled by al-Qaeda conspirators into buying a truck and gas tanks used in the Tanzanian attack."
11/14/10 VIDEO (6:16) US military fear mongering, Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies, interviewed on RT
11/11/10 Bomb would have exploded over [largely unpopulated area of] Canada, data show, by Peter Finn and Julie Tate, The Washington Post
11/6/10 Qaeda: Yeah, The Printer-Bomb Plot Was Us by Spencer Ackerman, WIRED
11/5/10 Yemen denies any link between al-Awlaki trial and suspected parcels, Yemen News Agency (SABA)
11/2/10 Could a Cellphone Call From Yemen Blow Up a Plane? [Updated] by Spencer Ackerman, WIRED
10/18/10 Ahmadinejad deserves fair reporting by Matthew Cassel, The Guardian (UK)
10/7/10 A Long History of America's Dark Side by Peter Dale Scott and Robert Parry, Consortium News
9/26/10 Israel: "Wiped off The Map": The Rumor of the Century, Fabricated by the US Media to Justify An All-Out War on Iran by Arash Norouzi, Global Research
9/20/10 Can America stop an Israeli 'nuclear' 9/11? by Gordon Duff, Online Journal
9/17/10 GAO to review FBI's Ivins [anthrax] investigation by Megan Eckstein, The Frederick News-Post
9/15/10 Never Forget: Bad Wars Aren't Possible Unless Good People Back Them by Michael Moore
9/10/10 Pentagon aims to buy up book [to destroy it] by Peter Finn and Greg Miller, The Washington Post
9/3/10 Movie review The Tillman Story: Debunking the myth-making of the U.S. military, by Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post
9/2/10 VIDEO (3:01) Pentagon Enlists Half-Billion-Dollar P.R. Apparatus to Sell Afghanistan War
8/31/10 Don't jump to conclusion that 2 air passengers planned terror, U.S. says, by Niraj Warikoo, Ellen Creager and Matt Helms, The Detroit Free Press
8/31/10 Alleged terror plot puts spotlight on Yemen again, by Niraj Warikoo and Bill Laitner, The Detroit Free Press
8/25/10 CIA sees increased threat in Yemen, by Greg Miller, The Washington Post (front page, above the fold)
8/3/10 Obama Warned Israel May Bomb Iran by Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), Consortium News
8/3/10 The War on Terror: Beyond the Military by Lt. Col. Barry Wingard, The Public Record
7/9/10 VIDEO (47:29) NATO's Secret Armies (2009) by Andreas Pichler. In 1990, alarming evidence of NATO-sponsored terrorist attacks came to light. This is the shocking story of Operation Gladio; a tale of espionage, conspiracy and political violence. This film shows how the Right subverts democracy by using fear to push a population in a certain direction.
6/24/10 'Manchurian Candidate' Shahzad confesses all by Jerry Mazza, Online Journal
6/14/10 Trial of Newburgh Men Accused of Terror Plot Delayed by William Glaberson, The New York Times: "...there would have been no plot without the informant. 'But for the insistence and persistence of the government's informant, this case never would have occurred,' he said. 'You never would have heard of our four guys.'"
5/28/10 No Terror Evidence Against Some Detainees by Charlie Savage, The New York Times
5/26/10 Unless otherwise directed... by John Grant, This Can't Be Happening: "There is no indication Shahzad calculated becoming a citizen to pull off a terrorist act. His decision to kill seems to have come later, a combination of his life coming apart and anger at US drone attacks in northwest Pakistan where he was raised."
5/23/10 Editorial: Tainted Justice The New York Times
5/16/10 The "Times Square Bomb" by Sajid Ansari, Veterans Today
5/14/10 Holder balks at blaming 'radical Islam' for terror attempts by Stephen Dinan, The Washington Times
5/10/10 Holder & Company jump the gun on Shahzad by Jeff Stein, The Washington Post
5/3/10 VIDEO (in 5 Parts) [1-5] Dr. Graeme MacQueen: The Connection between 9/11, Anthrax and Iraq, Lecture, Walkerton, Ontario - 5/1/10.
2/8/10 Flight 253: Intelligence Agencies Nixed State Department Move to Revoke Bomber's Visa by Tom Burghardt
2/2/10 Officials Warn al Qaeda 'Certain' to Try Attack Soon, The Wall Street Journal
1/25/10 Flight 253 Cover-Up: "No Smoking Gun" Claims Undercut by New Disclosures by Tom Burghardt
1/8/10 "Conspiracy or Cock Up?" White House Reaction to Ersatz Bomber by Michael Collins
Summer 2009 From Movements to Mosques, Informants Endanger Democracy by Thomas Cincotta, The Public Eye. "In February, 2009, members of the Islamic Center of Irvine learned that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had hired Craig Monteilh, a 46-year-old fitness instructor and convicted con man, to infiltrate their mosque and keep it under surveillance.... Monteilh had a long rap sheet and had served 16 months in state prison on two grand-theft charges.... In a dozen or so cases exposed within the last few years, [FBI] informants facilitated bomb-making, provided logistical support, cajoled others with provocative language, and goaded people to break the law."

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• 9/11 COMMISSION CAMPAIGN: Citizens Working For a New 9/11 Investigation Through The Ballot Initiative
• VIDEO (19:32) Psychologists on coping with 9/11 truth: Why is Explosive 9/11 Evidence so Hard to Accept?, AE911truth.

"Understanding the full truth of 9/11 seems to require two separate awakenings. The first, awakening to the fraudulence of the 'official 9/11 story,' is a pretty simple brain function and only requires a little study, logic or curiosity..... The second step, however, consciously confronting the implications of that knowledge—and what it says about our media, politics and economic system today—is by far the harder awakening and requires an enormous exercise of nerve and heart." —How To Begin Questioning? 911truth.org

WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? The Twin Towers burned for only 56 and 102 minutes respectively before being suddenly [PHOTO], explosively [PHOTO], and totally demolished [PHOTO] in less than 15 seconds. Damage of this magnitude simply cannot be caused by an airplane impact [VIDEO, 0:36] and localized office fires, regardless of duration. The official explanation contradicts universal laws of physics [VIDEO, 5:32], as well as common sense.

COINCIDENCE? The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 were the single "catastrophic and catalyzing event — like a new Pearl Harbor" which was eerily predicted in a September 2000 report by the neo-conservative think tank Project for the New American Century. It was considered a necessary accelerant for the "process of transformation" of the U.S. military to ensure global American dominance in the 21st century (See p. 51 of the 90-page report, PDF). Many PNAC members (Cheney, Libby, Perle, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz) later held powerful positions in the Bush Administration, which repeatedly exploited the 9/11 tragedy in order to:

   • justify "preventive" wars in Afghanistan and Iraq (which had been planned before 9/11);
   • launch a never-ending global "War on Terror";
   • pass and continue to extend the insidiously-named "Patriot [U.S.A.P.A.T.R.I.O.T.] Act";
   • create a vast Orwellian cabinet department to protect "The Homeland";
   • legalize surveillance on innocent American citizens — and secrecy for guilty Government officials;
   • impose Islamophobia as our national religion and torture as our foreign policy;
      and finally
   • escalate military spending to astronomical levels, to benefit the power elite, while neglecting critical domestic needs in education, health care, social services and infrastrcuture.

9/11 CHANGED EVERYTHING.
ONLY 9/11 TRUTH WILL CHANGE IT BACK:

WEBSTER TARPLEY (above) historian, investigative journalist and author of 9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA. A well-researched, scholarly presentation from 2006 with historical examples on how the 9/11 "false flag" operation was staged by the shadow government, using patsies, moles, technicians, and professional killers — under cover of multiple routine military drills which were "flipped live" on the morning of 9/11.

Q. WOULD THE U.S. MILITARY DO SOMETHING SO BARBARIC TO INNOCENT CIVILIANS?
A. YES. NORTHWOODS Memorandum, Classified "TOP SECRET" 13 March 1962, declassified November 1997 for the Assassination Records Review Board [Read the entire 201-page document here.].
5/1/01 "U.S. Military Wanted to Provoke War With Cuba", by David Ruppe, ABC News. "In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities... [including] the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities...as ways to trick the American public and the international community into supporting a war to oust Cuba's then new leader, communist Fidel Castro [emphasis added]." (It has been suggested that President Kennedy's blunt rejection of the plan led to an assassination plot against him by agents of the shadow government.)
11/21/11 SEE ALSO "The Doomsday Project and Deep Events: JFK, Watergate, Iran-Contra, and 9/11" by Prof. Peter Dale Scott, The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 9, Issue 47 No. 2, Nov. 21, 2011. "I shall try to show today that in this respect 9/11 was only the culmination of a sequence of deep events reaching back to the Kennedy assassination if not earlier, and that the germs of the Doomsday Project can be detected behind all of them."
2/7/12 ...AND SYRIA: CIA-MI6 Intel Ops and Sabotage by Felicity Arbuthnot, Centre for Research on Globalizatiom, "In late 2003, the year of the Iraq invasion, Matthew Jones, a Reader in International History, at London's Royal Holloway College, discovered 'frighteningly frank' documents: 1957 plans between then UK Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, and then President, Dwight Eisenhower, endorsing: 'a CIA-MI6 plan to stage fake border incidents as an excuse for an invasion (of Syria) by Syria's pro-western neighbours.' "

"Credible scientific evidence brings into question the possibility that some aspects of the events of 9/11 involved State Crimes Against Democracy. Psychologically this is a very hard concept for Americans to even consider. However, ignoring the issue in the context of multiple proven SCADs* since World War II seems far more dangerous for democracy than the consequences of future scientific inquiry and transparent, fact-based investigative reporting." [emphasis added]
—Profs. Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff, State Crimes Against Democracy, The Daily Censored, March 4, 2010.

*Proven SCADs since World War II: McCarthyism, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Watergate, Iran-Contra, Florida's 2000 Election, Iraq's WMDs. Other suspected SCADs: the assassinations of Lee Harvey Oswald, Martin Luther King, George Wallace (attempted); the October Surprise; the collapse of Building 7 on 9/11; the anthrax mailings post-9/11. "The proven SCADs have a long trail of congressional hearings, public records, and academic research establishing the truth of the activities. The suspected SCADs listed above have substantial evidence of covert actions with countervailing deniability that tend to leave the facts in dispute. The term 'conspiracy theory' is often used to denigrate and discredit inquiry into the veracity of suspected SCADs." See deHaven-Smith, "Beyond Conspiracy Theory: Patterns of High Crime in American Government" [PDF, 225K], American Behavioral Scientist, Feb. 2010.

NOT IN OUR NAME! AMERICA MUST DEMAND THE WHOLE TRUTH, WHEREVER IT MAY LEAD, HOWEVER PAINFUL IT MAY BE — AND WHOMEVER IT WILL CONDEMN.

FROM 9/11 TRUTH TO 9/11 JUSTICE. In honor of the 3,000 victims who were murdered that day, and the millions of others who have suffered and died as a result, we join our fellow patriots in questioning the discredited 9/11 Commission Report and demanding a new, non-partisan, scientifically thorough, and truly independent investigation — leading to the prosecution and punishment of all guilty parties.

TREASON AND MURDER: NO STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS. ANYONE IN THE U.S. GOVERNMENT WHO HAD PRIOR KNOWLEDGE OF THE ATTACKS AND REMAINED SILENT — OR WORSE, SECRETLY HELPED TO PLAN OR CARRY THEM OUT — MUST BE PROSECUTED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF U.S. AND INTERNATIONAL LAW.

FURTHER, anyone who participates in a COVER-UP — including the President, members of the U.S. Congress and their staff, the 9/11 Commission, the Department of Justice, NIST, other governemntal agencies and the media, after having knowledge of treason, perjury or other high crimes — is guilty at a minimum of MISPRISION OF TREASON or MISPRISION OF FELONY.

WELCOME! Who We Are and Who We Are Not

Hello Friends,

Thank you for your interest in our organization.

We came together in early November 2009 to oppose and end US wars. Our rally on December 12, which included over twenty speakers and four presidential candidates, was considered an historic occasion by the many hundreds in attendance that day in front of the White House, as well as the tens of thousands who have since followed us on the Internet, here and abroad.

Our distinguished speakers have been recognized for their lasting contributions to the peace movement worldwide. At our "NO YOU CAN'T!" anti-war rally, they delivered crucial messages to the American public and to the international community, in response to President Obama's call for intensified warfare in Afghanistan.

We ask for your participation and greatly appreciate your involvement in our organization. Together, we believe we are beginning to help shape a newly invigorated anti-war movement in this country. Our website will soon be expanding to include a blog and other ways to become more actively involved.

Our goals, which are clearly stated on our website, are non-ideological and non-partisan. We do not recognize, support or endorse any particular political party or candidate. What we are organized to provide is an inclusive forum among peace and justice groups, as well as political organizations, with a singular focus against these wars, as you will see by our demands and purpose. Our aim and our responsibility is simply moral: to end US wars – nothing more, nothing less.

Thank you,
Laurie Dobson
Director, EndUSWars.org
December 23, 2009

ARCHIVE: EMERGENCY ANTI-ESCALATION RALLY
Saturday, Dec. 12, 2009 • 11am-4pm • Washington DC

Thanks to everyone who joined us for this momentous rally!
Click here for archive of original page, all videos and related links.

Historic occasion: Four former US presidential candidates unite to oppose President Obama's war.
(Photo above, L to R: Dennis Kucinich, Ralph Nader, Cynthia McKinney, Mike Gravel.
With Laurie Dobson, director of End Us Wars.)

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Put Obama on Notice Against Afghanistan Escalation
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End US Wars Director Laurie Dobson's Personal Appeal to Peace Leaders

CYNTHIA McKINNEY: Letter to President Obama, 11/21/2009

Also published at www.globalresearch.ca

How to Get Out of Afghanistan by William Polk, 11/23/2009

"In its war in Afghanistan, the United States has come to a crossroads. President Obama will be forced to choose one of four ways ahead. The choices are expensive and dangerous for our country; so we must be sure that he chooses the least painful, least expensive and safest of the possible choices...." [more]

8. WAR CASUALTIES: STOP THE KILLING!

U.S. MILITARY CASUALTIES
Iraq: 4,486 KILLED (to date); 31,928 WOUNDED (DoD Report, March 19, 2003 through April 30, 2012)
Afghansitan: 1,968 KILLED (to date); 15,560 WOUNDED (DoD Report, October 7, 2001 through April 30, 2012)
Operation New Dawn (post-war Iraq, 9/1/10 to 4/30/12): 66 KILLED; 305 WOUNDED
Official US Department of Defense reports: Download PDFs here.
Unreported Suicides (January 2010): "Over the past nine years, more US military personnel have taken their own lives than have died in action in either the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan."

CIVILIAN CASUALTIES

VIDEO (4:39) 12/20/09 AMAZING SPEECH BY WAR VETERAN [at 0:36] "We were told we were fighting terrorists. The real terrorist was me, and the real terrorism is this occupation."

A Christmas Carol for Obama: The Ghost of Presidents Past

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2. AMERICA IN DISTRESS: NATIONAL 911 EMERGENCY

New York City, Sept. 13, 2009: Dr. Graeme MacQueen9/11 TRUTH: THE CHALLENGE TO THE PEACE MOVEMENT"You must understand 9/11 as a fraudulent trigger incident." (See video below)

CONTINUED BELOW 9/11: STOP THE LYING. STOP DENYING. START DEFYING.

SEE ALSO WAR PROPAGANDA BELOW

3. OUR GOVERNMENT: STOP THE BLEEDING

PENTAGON: 7 WARS OF AGGRESSION – ALL PLANNED BEFORE 9/11:

LOOK WHO'S GETTING OUR TAX DOLLARS – AND FOR WHAT: (Contracts valued under $6.5 million are not counted here by DoD)

PENTAGON OVERSPENDING, CONGRESS COVERING UP:

VOTE FOR THE AMERICA YOU WANT:

OBAMA'S "NON-WAR" ON LIBYA, AND NOW SYRIA

4. JUSTICE WAR CRIMES: NO STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS

Center for Constitutional Rights:SUPPORT BUSH TORTURE INDICTMENT & HELP ENSURE ACCOUNTABILITY

WANTED: WAR CRIMINALS Arrest Warrants Requested for Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Tenet, Rice and Gonzales at the International Criminal Court

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