To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
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Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any Time Soon (Video)
Posted: 30 September 2010 by Little Alex in Af-Pak War, National News, Political ScienceTags: Afghanistan, airstrikes, Boeing, drones, extrajudicial assassination, Israel, Ivan Eland, Lockheed MArtin, military industrial complex, military welfare, Obama Administration, Pakistan, Pentagon, Robert Gates, War on Terror, war spending
Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon’s rhetoric into actual policy (7:04):
Afghan Elections Rigged on Video? (Video)
Posted: 28 September 2010 by Little Alex in Af-Pak WarTags: Afghan elections, Afghanistan, Al Jazeera, Ballot stuffing, Dion Nissenbaum, McClatchy, Spin Boldak, Warfare and Conflict
Fuckin’ Oil, Where Did It Went?
Posted: 28 September 2010 by Little Alex in National NewsTags: BP, BP escrow fund, BP Exploration & Production, corporatism, Deepwater Horizon, eco-terrorism, environment, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf oil spill, Newspeak, NOAA, Obama Administration, Rainer Amon, Suzanne Goldberg, US
With 90% of up to 4.4 million barrels of oil ‘unaccounted for’, it’s now… still unaccounted for.
Afghan Villagers Claim Self-Defense in NATO’s Deadly Night Raid (Video)
Posted: 28 September 2010 by Little Alex in Af-Pak WarTags: Afghanistan, airstrikes, CIA, civilian casualties, COIN, CT, drone, extrajudicial assassination, FATA, Hamid Karzai, Haqqani Network, Laghman Province, NATO, night raids, North Waziristan, NWFP, Pakistan, Quetta Shura, War on Terror
Locals of the Laghman Province claim civilians were killed in a NATO raid, contrary to NATO claims, and that they are not “insurgents”, but people defending their home against NATO’s ‘broken promises’ to not raid their village (2:00):
Attorney: Gov’t Raids Targeting Antiwar Activists, Searching Docs Containing ‘Palestine’
Posted: 27 September 2010 by Little Alex in National News, Political ScienceTags: antiwar activists, Arab American Action Network, Bush Administration, Chicago, civil liberties, criminal justice, FARC, FBI, Hatem Abudayyeh, Jason Ditz, Jim Fennerty, Joe Iosbaker, Minneapolis, Obama Administration, Patrick Martin, peace movement, SCOTUS, Stephanie Weiner, The Humanitarian Law Project v. Holder, thoughtcrime
U.S. Troops Theatrically ‘Slaying’ Afghan Civilians
Posted: 27 September 2010 by Little Alex in Af-Pak WarTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, civilian casualties, Jeremy Morlock, military tribunals, United States armed forces
‘Inalienable Constitutional Rights in Court is Terrorism’
Posted: 27 September 2010 by Little Alex in National News, Political ScienceTags: Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, civil liberties, conservatives, constitutional rights, Guantanamo Bay, John Grisham, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, NY Times, tea party movement
A Gitmo detainee expressed support for U.S. civilian courts over military tribunals, so they must be evil.
Obama ‘Fighting Tooth and Nail’, Citing ‘State Secrets’ to Assassinate Citizens Without Due Process
Posted: 27 September 2010 by Little Alex in International Affairs, National News, Political ScienceTags: ACL, al-Qaeda, Anwar al-Awlaki, Charlie Savage, civil liberties, constitutional rights, counterterrorism, CT, Eric Holder, extrajudicial assassination, Glenn Greenwald, Jason Ditz, libertarian, Obama, Obama Administration, Obamaphilia, terrorism
The Justice Department is playing hardball against the ACLU’s efforts to block an executive order to assassinate an American citizen charged with no crime.
Poll: Majority of Americans Oppose U.S. Intervention in Hypothetical Israel-Iran War
Posted: 27 September 2010 by Little Alex in International Affairs, Political ScienceTags: Chicago Council on Global Affairs, IAEA, Iran, Israel, Middle East, NPT, Scott Horton, US, Warfare and Conflict
Were Iran to retaliate to a hypothetical military strike by Israel, Americans oppose U.S. military involvement.
Report: U.S. Troops ‘Still Killing Civilians’ in Iraq
Posted: 15 September 2010 by Little Alex in International AffairsTags: Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, civilian casualties, counterterrorism, CT, Iraq, Iraq War, Middle East, Newspeak, Nouri al-Maliki, Obama Administration, Operation New Dawn, US, War
A U.S.-Iraqi night raid results in the deaths of eight civilians weeks after U.S. combat operations were announced as over.
Report: U.S. Troops See Combat in Iraq… Again
Posted: 13 September 2010 by Little Alex in International AffairsTags: Abd al-Qadr Muhammed Jassim al-Obaidi, Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, AQI, Bush Administration, COIN, Hudaiay, Iraq, Iraq War, Iraq withdrawal, Iraqi security forces, Isam Shakar Mizher, Jason Ditz, Middle East, Obama Administration, SOFA, Timothy Williams, War on Terror
Weeks after Obama announced the end of combat operations in the Iraq War, ‘residual troops’ engaged in lethal combat reportedly for the second time over the weekend.
Eleven ‘Myths’ Clouding the Afghanistan Discourse
Posted: 8 September 2010 by Little Alex in Af-Pak War, Political ScienceTags: Af-Pak War, Afghan surge, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Study Group, al-Qaeda, CNAS, COIN, counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, electoral politics, Iraq Surge, ISAF, Matthew Hoh, NAF, NATO, New American Foundation, Obama Administration, Pakistan, Stephen Walt, Taliban, United States, US, War on Terror
Red States’ ‘Weird Government Monopoly’
Posted: 6 September 2010 by Little Alex in National NewsTags: Alabama, Alcoholic beverage control states, anarchism, Idaho, Kentucky, libertarian, Mitch McConnell, privatization, prohibition, public goods, Utah, Virgina, Virginia
Likud Lobbies for Settlement Expansion Consent From U.S. as Netanyahu-Abbas ‘Ceremonial Peace Talks’ Begin
Posted: 31 August 2010 by Little Alex in Palestine-Israel, Political ScienceTags: Alan Dershowitz, Ali Abunimah, Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu, Danny Dayan, international law, Israel, Likud, Mahmoud Abbas, Middle East, Middle East peace process, Newspeak, Obama Administration, Occupied Palestinian Territories, Palestinian Authority, Saeb Erekat, settlement expansion, two-state solution, United States, US, West Bank, Zionism
Likudniks’ rejection of conceding its occupation of Palestine confirms reports in the Israeli media that this week’s meetings between regional authorities are “ceremonial and not substantive”.
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