Tag: NATO

“….the depth of Pollard’s info that he passed on to Russia (amongst others) was as damaging as the Rosenberg’s was during that era. Devastatingly state of the art. Virtually everything that we knew/know about nukes….” (US Navy nuclear weapons expert exclusive to VT)

Don’t blame Pakistan for the failure of the war  By Imran Khan Before the West invaded Afghanistan my country had no suicide bombers, no jihad and...

By Lieutenant General Hamid Gul History is about to take a monumental turn in the rugged, desolate hills and dales of Afghanistan where the world's sole...

AFGHAN'S DEEP DRUG DIVIDE Colonel Eugene Khrushchev STAFF WRITER/Editor "Since Afghan drug lords’ special rep Richard Holbrooke, in cahoots with CIA and Karzai Bros Drug Inc.,...

ISRAELI HOAX VIDEOS DEBUNKED, USS LIBERTY REMEMBRANCE SUPPRESSED By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor The second the faked videos were available, cheap edits and voice overs...

Israel may believe she can do whatever she wants, wherever she wants. But this latest outrage will come at a political cost. Phyllis Bennis and...

For a national population to stay even, women must average 2.1 to 2.3 births apiece.

The battle for the Afghan town of Marja is being hyped as if it were the battle of Stalingrad. There was never doubt that NATO would force the Taliban out. A contemporary British account of frontier in the last century said of the Pashtun-fighting man: “When he stayed and defended something, whether a gun or a village, we trapped him and pulverized him. When he flitted and sniped, rushed and ran away, we felt we were using a crowbar to swat wasps.’’

Damn Europeans blowing off NATO refuse the truth that any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless. Headline above...

A power plant for the home smaller than a breadbox; does it work? Ask Google or FedEx. Video from 60 Minutes. If students at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo can create a vehicle that gets 2752 MPG using existing technologies, is it too much to expect something more than 30 MPG from the big guys? That one from Jerry James Stone at Treehugger. Raw story tells the story of Colin Powell kicking Cheney to the curb and supporting the President on National Security issues. Those stories and more in today's picks.

At least nineteen civilians have been killed so far in the US/NATO offensive in Marjah, Democracy Now reports. DN interviewed Wall Street Journal reporter Anand Gopal, who says the assault in Marjah is perceived as a "show of force" by coalition forces that will change little. Gopal says it's very difficult for reporters to get to Marjah; almost all the reporters who are there are embedded reporters, so they're only seeing one side of the story; and we won't know for some time if there are many more cases of civilian deaths.

Wonder why so many people are so seriously..overweight? Derrick Jackson at the Boston Globe writes that we might consider the 17 teaspoons of sugar in one 20 oz. soda. Cowboy iconoclast Jim Hightower casts light on Texas' Rick Perry's attempt to cover up state collusion with businesses cheating on tax abatement agreements and Dylan Ratigan patiently explains to Glen Beck "where snow comes from," those stories and more in today's picks.

The SCOTUS aided Corporate takeover has been prominent in the news this past week and featured heavily here as well, Personally. I can't think of a more important issue than changing or negating the effects of that ridiculous decision. In other stories NATO is coughing up 500mil to pay off the Taliban, apparently their roadside stickup revenues are sagging and Steve Benen address the problem of no nothing voters in today's picks.

BLACKWATER/XE ACCUSED OF COMPLICITY IN TERRORISM AND WAR AGAINST US TROOPS TOP TALIBAN MILITANTS RECEIVE MEDICAL CARE AT BAGRAM AIR FORCE BASE From Sabrina Elkhani &...

Editor's note: It looks from here as if the Taliban are launching a surge of their own.  The news of a coordinated attack by...

By Sherwood Ross As President Obama steps up the war that is inflaming ever wider sectors of the Middle East, USA continues its rapid slide...