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Can the US Triumph in the Drug-Addicted War in Afghanistan?
https://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/scott-pd2.1.1.html

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U.S. Military Confidence Sinks on Winning Afghan War, Poll Finds

The military's confidence that it will win the Afghan war is declining, according to a new tracking poll showing only 60 percent of active-duty military personnel believe the U.S. can triumph.

https://snipurl.com/vhmx7



Mexico drug war kills almost 23,000

The report, leaked to media on Tuesday, indicated that security forces were involved in most of the violence.

https://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/04/201041432158263233.html



Ciudad Juárez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields

Charles Bowden

"This thing started in 2006 with the new president, as a statement of his personal power. You know, mano dura-"I'm a strong man." He ripped the mask off Mexico. In other words, he was going to claim he's the big guy. And the mask he ripped off revealed what's really going on in Mexico: mass poverty and social disintegration. Now it's turned into a war by the Mexican government against the Mexican people."

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25244.htm



Is the CIA behind Mexico's Bloody Drug War?

By Mike Whitney

The militarization of the war on drugs has been a colossal disaster which has accelerated the pace of social disintegration. Mexico is quickly becoming a failed state, and Washington's deeply-flawed Merida Initiative, which provides $1.4 billion in aid to the Calderon administration to intensify military operations, is largely to blame.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25319.htm


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U.S. Drug Policy Feeds Violence in Mexico
https://act.commondreams.org/go/292?akid=29.124981.MHAcOz&t=28

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Ciudad Juarez: The Global Economy's New Killing Fields

Audio

Rose Aguilar, Your Call: "How is the so-called 'war on drugs' and NAFTA affecting Mexico? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with journalist Charles Bowden, author of 'Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields.' In 2009, 23,000 people were killed in drug-related violence in Mexico, 4,300 of them in Ciudad Juarez alone. What explains the rise in drug violence?"

https://www.truthout.org/ciudad-juarez-the-global-economys-new-killing-fields-audio58825



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John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus: "Let's imagine that the Cold War was a detour. The entire 20th century, in fact, was a detour. Since conflicts among the 20th-century ideologies (liberalism, communism, fascism) cost humanity so dearly, it's hard to conceive of World War II and the clashes that followed as sideshows. And yet many people have begun to do just that. They view the period we find ourselves in right now - the so-called post-Cold War era - as a return to a much earlier time and a much earlier confrontation. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq aren't discrete battles against a tyrant (Saddam Hussein) or a tyrannical group (the Taliban)."

https://www.truthout.org/the-really-really-long-war58553



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Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein, ProPublica: "In late 2005, the booming US housing market seemed to be slowing. The Federal Reserve had begun raising interest rates. Subprime mortgage company shares were falling. Investors began to balk at buying complex mortgage securities. The housing bubble, which had propelled a historic growth in home prices, seemed poised to deflate. And if it had, the great financial crisis of 2008, which produced the Great Recession of 2008-09, might have come sooner and been less severe."

https://www.truthout.org/the-magnetar-trade-how-one-hedge-fund-helped-keep-bubble-going58537



How Bubble Barons Protected Their Influence While the Economy Tanked

Kevin Connor, AlterNet: "Following the deadly mine explosion in West Virginia last week, the CEO of the company that owned the mine quickly emerged as a sort of Dickensian villain in media reports. Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship's cavalier, profit-obsessed approach to mining had led him to dismiss pressing safety concerns at his mines."

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US missile strike in Pakistani tribal agency kills 5

At least five "militants" were reportedly killed in a US missile strike Monday evening in Pakistan tribal agency, bordering Afghanistan, security sources said.

https://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2075297&Language=en



4 killed, 2 injured in US attack in NW Pakistan

At least four people were killed and two others were injured Monday evening in a U.S. drone attack in northwest Pakistan's tribal area, Xinhua informed.

https://www.focus-fen.net/?id=n216365



Drone strikes: a violation of law

by Aaleem Gardezi

The drone attacks by the US violate both the United Nations Charter and the Geneva Conventions of 1949, which prohibit wilful killing. Article 2(4) of the UN Charter prohibits "the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state."

https://www.pkcolumns.com/2010/04/13/drone-strikes-a-violation-of-law-by-aaleem-gardezi/


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Ender’s Game in Real Time
https://www.lewrockwell.com/shirtz/shirtz22.1.html

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Legal questions raised over CIA drone strikes

MSNBC

04/28/10

Is the CIA’s secret program of drone strikes against terrorists in Pakistan and Yemen a case of illegal assassinations or legitimate self defense? That was a central question Wednesday as the program came under fire from several legal scholars who called for greater oversight by Congress, arguing the attacks may violate international law and put intelligence officers at risk of prosecution for murder in foreign countries...

https://tinyurl.com/29nwlmj


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Dahr Jamail, Truthout: "The WikiLeaks video footage from Iraq taken from an Apache helicopter in July 2007 showing soldiers killing 12 people and wounding two children has caused an explosion of media coverage. But many Iraq vets feel it is too little and too late.

https://www.truthout.org/iraq-vets-coverage-atrocities-is-too-little-too-late58527



Iraq Vet Denounces War Crimes: "We Fired on Buses Full of Civilians"

Leo Paz, Truthout: "Seven years on after the second US invasion of Iraq, the Americans continue slaughtering civilians, now in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Recently, the video of the massacre of 12-15 Iraqis by an US helicopter gunship in 2007 began making the rounds thanks to WikiLeaks.org. Episodes like what is shown in that video have been denounced by Iraq Veterans Against the War for years now."

https://www.truthout.org/iraq-vet-denounces-war-crimes-we-fired-buses-full-civilians58594



Seven Years of (Unconvincing) Lies in 39 Minutes: A Primer

Dr. Matthew Feldman, Truthout: "No wonder the US military said the tape was lost. Those murderous images leave you gasping for air like a punch in the gut at boot camp. Then you hear a bit of cackling, some banter and more shooting. Dahr Jamail reported in Truthout that a dozen people were killed in the massacre, including two Reuters news staff, with another two children wounded but (amazingly) alive. The US troops sounded as if they were having fun, like aiming for high-score on an arcade game."

https://www.truthout.org/seven-years-unconvincing-lies-39-minutes-a-primer58695

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Boeing: Bringing Death From the Skies
https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2010/04/14/boeing-bringing-death-from-the-skies/


Informant: Kev Hall

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Collateral damage denialism

The American Prospect
by Matthew Yglesias

04/15/10

Early this week, downtown Washington, D.C., played host to a nuclear-security summit that occasioned a lot of frustrating road closures for those of us who live here. On the stretch of New York Avenue right by my office, National Guard vehicles would sporadically move in to block traffic from entering the street, the better to facilitate the passage of motorcades. And Monday evening, one such multi-ton truck hit and killed Constance Holden, a 68-year-old Science magazine correspondent, as she was riding her bicycle. In a bizarre response, the National Guard assured a local TV station reporter that ‘we will look at the video to make sure the pedestrian didn’t run into the truck as it was moving.’ Separately on Monday came the news that American soldiers in Afghanistan shot at a civilian bus in an incident ‘which killed as many as five civilians and wounded 18.’ Disparate events, to be sure, but the former casts the latter in a different light, and both challenge the notion that the counterinsurgency-era American military is really engaged in a kinder, gentler form of warfare or, indeed, that such an approach is even plausible...

https://tinyurl.com/y2vxfyt


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Two U.S. Soldiers >From Wikileaks 'Collateral Murder' Video Apologize

"Letter Of Reconciliation"

We are both soldiers who occupied your neighborhood for 14 months. Ethan McCord pulled your daughter and son from the van, and when doing so, saw the faces of his own children back home.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25241.htm



'Dehumanizing, part of US training'

A former US Army specialist, who was part of the same unit that killed Iraqi civilians from a helicopter in 2007, says dehumanizing is part of basic US army training.

https://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=123673&sectionid=3510203



Wikileaks Video Revisited: What Needs To Happen Now

By Dan Froomkin

Where's the outrage? Where's the responsibility? Where's the oversight? H..., where's the basic curiosity? Has anyone on the Hill even asked any questions of the Pentagon or the White House? Hey, President Obama, are you OK with this? Does your member of Congress give a s...?

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25296.htm


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The FCIC: Passing the Buck
https://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul661.html

Feds Busy Rewriting the History of the Collapse
https://www.lewrockwell.com/mcmaken/mcmaken131.html

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A Banana Republic With No Bananas

Experts on third world banana republics from the IMF and the Federal Reserve have said the U.S. has become a third world banana republic.

https://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/04/banana-republic-with-no-bananas.html


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Your Tax Dollars at War: More Than 53% of Your Tax Payment Goes to the Military
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United for Peace & Justice: Tax Day Actions For Peace!
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Planning the Peace and Enforcing the Surrender: Deterrence in the Allied Occupations of Germany and Japan

By Melissa Willard-Foster

What exactly did the United States plan to do in the case of resistance? This study seeks to address the gap in both the historical and political-science literature by examining policy designed for the initial period of occupation in Germany and Japan.

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The Guy Who Brought Down AIG - and Maybe the World Economy - Gets Off Scott-Free, and Gets to Keep $315 Million in Loot

Jospeh Cassano, the guy who brought down AIG - and maybe the world economy - with trillions in risky derivatives deals which AIG couldn't back up, is getting prosecuted ... and the government will claw back all the money he made, right? Uh, no.

https://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/04/jospeh-cassano-guy-who-brought-down-aig.html



Scheming to steal workers' pensions

Amy Muldoon looks behind the hype about how public-sector workers get "exorbitant" pensions--and finds a cabal of right-wing politicians and CEOs out to bash unions.

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Kissinger’s role in Operation Condor

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

04/12/10

While the Obama administration is now officially confirming its power to assassinate Americans abroad as part of its foreign assassination program, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet’s foreign assassination program has just reared its ugly head in the form of a new revelation regarding former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. First, a bit of background...

https://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2010-04-12.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The Only Good Terrorist . . . Hit Squads To Believe In

By Robert S. Becker

Aligning himself with presidents Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan, and at least one Bushwhacker, President Obama joined an American pantheon that has sanctioned all sorts of overseas shenanigans in the name of national security. Now that's legacy bipartisanship with a vengeance. Literally.

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