Foreign Affairs
More War Lies
Thu, 09/02/2010 - 15:24 — Dave Culver- Lies aren't used just to start wars, but also to escalate them, continue them, and even reduce or end them. And we got a pile of war lies from the president Tuesday evening (August 31).
- US Forces in Iraq Shift to Long-term Occupation
David Swanson, Global Research
Lies aren't used just to start wars, but also to escalate them, continue them, and even reduce or end them. And we got a pile of war lies from the president Tuesday evening.
Obama claimed the war on Iraq was initially a war to disarm a state. Really? And then "terrorist" Iraqis attacked our troops in their country. Yet if they had done that in our country, I suspect they would still be the terrorists. And then it became a civil war which we were innocently caught up in. Uh huh.
U.S. participants in this crime are heroes, always and everywhere. That's sacred. The troops' mission has involved protecting the Iraqi people, and by golly they've done a superb job, as long as we don't mention the complete devastation of Iraq, the million dead, the millions of refugees, and the intense resentment of those remaining toward our country for what we've done to theirs.
Related:
US Forces in Iraq Shift to Long-term Occupation, Debra Sweet, The World Can't Wait
Summary: Natural Disasters: Week of August 29
Sat, 08/28/2010 - 09:45 — Dave CulverHaitian Earthquake, Pakistani and Chinese Floods, Russian Fires
6 New Items including:
- Pakistani floods: A man-made not a natural disaster
- Where's Haiti's Bailout?
David Culver, ed., Evergreene Digest
Jeff Danziger
What is fuelling floods and fires? Julia Slater and Renat Künzi, Swiss Info
Summary: The Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq: Week of August 29
Sat, 08/28/2010 - 09:26 — Dave Culver5 New Items including:
- Task force: Military suicide prevention efforts inadequate
- The occupation of Iraq isn't over - it's being rebranded
David Culver, ed., Evergreene Digest
Jeff Danziger
Read Huffington Post's Afghanistan Big News Page, Huffington Post
Submitted by Evergreene Digest Contributing Editor Thomas Sklarski
Some News So Big It Needs It's Own Page
US Forces in Iraq Shift to Long-term Occupation, Debra Sweet, The World Can't Wait
Pakistani floods: A man-made not a natural disaster
Wed, 08/25/2010 - 11:06 — Dave Culver
The tragedy unfolding in Pakistan as a result of the country’s worst floods in 80 years is a devastating indictment not only of the present Pakistani government, but of its international allies—the US in particular—and the profit system as a whole.
Wije Dias, World Socialist Web Site
The tragedy unfolding in Pakistan as a result of the country’s worst floods in 80 years is a devastating indictment not only of the present Pakistani government, but of its international allies—the US in particular—and the profit system as a whole. While the torrential rains have been caused by natural forces, the human disaster has been compounded by decades of government neglect and the lack of planning and infrastructure.
National Disaster Management Authority head Nadim Ahmed yesterday put the number of people affected so far at 12 million, with 650,000 homes destroyed over some 132,000 square kilometres. The official death toll is 1,500 and rising. Hundreds of thousands of people are still stranded without shelter or supplies of food and clean water.
Iraq: Torture. Corruption. Civil war. America has Certainly Left Its Mark.
Tue, 08/24/2010 - 12:26 — Dave CulverThe American soldiers came. They saw. They lost. And now they say they've won. How the Arabs, surviving on six hours of electricity a day in their bleak country, must be hoping for no more victories like this one.
Robert Fisk, London Independent | UK, in ZCommunications
Submitted by Evergreene Digest Contributing Editor Bob Heberle
When you invade someone else's country, there has to be a first soldier - just as there has to be a last.
The first man in front of the first unit of the first column of the invading American army to reach Fardous Square in the centre of Baghdad in 2003 was Corporal David Breeze of the 3rd Battalion, Fourth Marine Regiment. For that reason, of course, he pointed out to me that he wasn't a soldier at all. Marines are not soldiers. They are Marines. But he hadn't talked to his mom for two months and so - equally inevitably - I offered him my satellite phone to call his home in Michigan. Every journalist knows you'll get a good story if you lend your phone to a soldier in a war.
"Hi, you guys," Corporal Breeze bellowed. "I'm in Baghdad. I'm ringing to say 'Hi! I love you. I'm doing fine. I love you guys.' The war will be over in a few days. I'll see you soon." Yes, they all said the war would be over soon. They didn't consult the Iraqis about this pleasant notion. The first suicide bombers - a policeman in a car and then two women in a car - had already hit the Americans on the long highway up to Baghdad. There would be hundreds more. There will be hundreds more in Iraq in the future.
Related:
RJ Matson | Last Combat Troops Leaving Iraq / CagleCartoons.com
Fri, 08/20/2010 - 10:58 — Dave Culver