This Land is Mine. Palestinian and Israeli Deaths: Timeline of Violence Since September 2000. Renegade Jewish Settlers Part 1/5. - Palestine Blues PART 1 - A MUST SEE DOCUMENTARY. Obama gives himself control of all communication systems in America. Administration Hardens Stance Against Leaks to Press. He took his concerns everywhere inside the secret world: to his bosses, to the agency’s inspector general, to the Defense Department’s inspector general and to the Congressional intelligence committees.
But he felt his message was not getting through. So he contacted a reporter for The Baltimore Sun. Today, because of that decision, Mr. Drake, 53, a veteran intelligence bureaucrat who collected early computers, faces years in prison on 10 felony charges involving the mishandling of classified information and obstruction of justice. The indictment of Mr. In 17 months in office, has already outdone every previous president in pursuing leak prosecutions. Mr. Obama Signs NDAA, ACLU Disgusted. Patriot Act extension signed into law despite bipartisan resistance in Congress.
Racing against the clock, Congress approved a four-year extension Thursday to key provisions of the USA Patriot Act that will allow federal investigators to continue to use aggressive surveillance tactics in connection with suspected terrorists.
Overcoming objections from a bipartisan clutch of libertarian-minded lawmakers, the legislation passed the Senate, 72 to 23, and the House, 250 to 153. The provisions were due to expire at midnight Thursday without an extension. President Obama is attending a summit in France, but the bill was signed by autopen with his authorization moments before the deadline, the White House said. “I think it is an important tool for us to continue dealing with an ongoing terrorist threat,” Obama said Friday, after a meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
SecrecyRC_2010.pdf. The Bin Laden raid exposes the Obama administration's selective secrecy. Earlier this year, the Obama administration responded to a lawsuit seeking videos and photographs of the Osama bin Laden raid by claiming (as usual) that it was all too secret to disclose.
A federal court (as usual) acquiesced to those assertions and dismissed the suit, finding that "the release of the images and/or videos 'reasonably could be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security.'" The administration made the same secrecy and national security claims to deny the requests of multiple news agencies for related materials about the Bin Laden raid. Those materials would have resolved still lingering and serious questions about that raid – questions created by the administration's numerous inconsistencies and false claims, including whether it was a "kill-not-capture" mission from the start and whether Bin Laden resisted capture in any way.
Obama Signs NDAA Martial Law ∞ Justifying why U have no Rights ? Ron Paul Rohbs new channel. NDAA's CIA, military targeted killings of innocent Americans - National Human Rights. NDAA: Death of America, Targeted killings of innocent Americans After the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 (NDAA FY 2012) passed the Senate 86-13 Thursday afternoon, the world's largest human rights group updated its explanation of the bill's inclusion of targeted killings of Americans, a component already signed as an Executive Order by President Barack Obama, that the NDAA FY 2012, now being studied by the Obama administration after the White House announced the president would sign it.
Headlines for September 18, 2012. Talking Points: 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Three myths about the detention bill. Condemnation of President Obama is intense, and growing, as a result of his announced intent to sign into law the indefinite detention bill embedded in the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
U.S. finalizes $30 billion weapons deal with Saudi Arabia. The U.S has finalized the sale of F-15 fighter Jets to Saudi Arabia in a deal worth 30 billion dollars, Principal Deputy Press Secretary Joshua Earnest said in a statement on Thursday.
According to the statement, the agreement includes "production of 84 new aircraft and the modernization of 70 existing aircraft as well as munitions, spare parts, training, maintenance and logistics. " Last year, Israel tried to prevent the contract going through, fearing it would undermine its air force superiority. Andrew Shapiro, Assistant Secretary at the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, said that the deal won't impact Israel. Untitled. Yemen Fact Sheet - the U.S. covert war in Yemen. On December 17, 2009, Barack Obama ordered airstrikes on the Middle Eastern country of Yemen (read) , killing 63 civilians, 28 of whom were children (read) .
Amnesty International reports that a U.S. cruise missile carrying cluster bombs was behind the attack (read) . Eight days later, on Christmas day, the "underwear bomber", who reportedly received training in Yemen, was accused of attempting to blow up an airplane headed to Detroit. Obama quickly seized the opportunity to label Yemen as a terrorist hotbed, vowing action against "those who threaten our homeland" (read) . On September 20, 2010, Obama sent a letter to the president of Yemen declaring the United States' unwavering support for the country's government whose undemocratic and repressive tactics have stoked an internal rebellion (read) . Scahill - Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army.
Outrage at U.S. torture dwindles. Repulsive progressive hypocrisy. During the Bush years, Guantanamo was the core symbol of right-wing radicalism and what was back then referred to as the “assault on American values and the shredding of our Constitution”: so much so then when Barack Obama ran for President, he featured these issues not as a secondary but as a central plank in his campaign.
But now that there is a Democrat in office presiding over Guantanamo and these other polices — rather than a big, bad, scary Republican — all of that has changed, as a new Washington Post/ABC News poll today demonstrates: Obama’s Continuing Cover-Up of Torture. Obama’s Normalization of Neo-Convervatism 2 of 4: Continuing Cover-Up of Torture (MediaRoots) – With 8 years of scandal, contempt, torture and two illegal ground wars deep there was a a strong anti-bush sentiment pervasive among American citizens leading up to the 2008 presidential elections.
And during Obama’s campaign for president, he made it clear that water boarding was torture, and that bush administration officials broke the law with their counter terrorism torture strategies. Excuses for assassination secrecy. In response to his widely discussed Esquire article entitled “The Lethal Presidency of Barack Obama,” Tom Junod received a telephone call from someone he describes as “a person with intimate knowledge of the executive counter-terrorism policies of the Obama administration.”
This unnamed person called Junod specifically to defend the administration’s refusal to provide any minimal transparency or even acknowledgment about these policies, even when drone attacks ordered by the President kill innocent American teenagers such as 16-year-old Abdulrahman Awlaki. Obama Administration Maintains Bush Position on ‘Extraordinary Rendition’ Lawsuit. Feb 9, 2009 2:44pm From Jake Tapper and Ariane de Vogue: The Obama Administration today announced that it would keep the same position as the Bush Administration in the lawsuit Mohamed et al v Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc. The case involves five men who claim to have been victims of extraordinary rendition — including current Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohamed, another plaintiff in jail in Egypt, one in jail in Morocco, and two now free. Top 10 Bush Terror Policies Continued by Obama.
After campaigning vigorously against President Bush’s terror policies, Barack Obama continued a good many of them after assuming the presidency. To those policies, along with the Navy SEALS who entered the Abbottabad compound, go the credit for the long-awaited, bullet-to-the-head takedown of Osama bin Laden. Here are the Top 10 Bush Terror Policies Continued by Obama. 1. Special Forces funded: Since 9/11, funding for U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) has tripled, even as its overseas deployments quadrupled. 2. Former CIA Chief: Obama's War on Terror Same as Bush's, But With More Killing.
President Barack Obama has closely followed the policy of his predecessor, President George W. Bush, when it comes to tactics used in the “war on terror” — from rendition, targeted killings, state secrets, Guantanamo Bay to domestic spying, according to Michael Hayden, Bush’s former director of the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency. The comments come two months before the Nov. 6 elections, where Obama, a Democrat, faces off for re-election against GOP challenger Mitt Romney. Out of Sight, Out of Mind: A visualization of drone strikes in Pakistan since 2004. Attack of the Drones - People & Power. The US government’s growing reliance on aerial drones to pursue its war on al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Yemen, Afghanistan and elsewhere is proving controversial – as evidenced by the international reaction to recent drone missile attacks along the border with Pakistan.
But Barack Obama’s administration is undeterred, favouring the technology more and more because it reduces the need for American troops in those countries and the risk of politically unpalatable casualties. “He probably thinks this is already a controversial war,” says Christ Klep, an international relations analysts at the University of Utrecht. “I’d better not endanger my pilots and my special forces, so what else do I have? Unmanned aerial vehicles? Deploy them.” Nevertheless, Ko Colijn, a security expert at the prestigious Clingendael Institute, says that the technology is here to stay.
“In a way the Americans reached a turning point in 2009, 2010. Obama Personally Oversees 'Secret Kill List': NYT. President Obama, who ran for the nation's highest office on a promise to close Guantanamo and end the war in Iraq, has now become a president who personally oversees a covert assassination program that allows a small group of top US officials to monitor, select, and mark for death those it alone deems a threat to national security. Obama Finally Talks Drone War, But It's Almost Impossible to Believe Him. President Obama doesn’t like to talk about how he uses drones to kill suspected militants — including American citizens.
Explanations about who gets picked for remote-control death and who does the picking are left to underlings and aides. U.S. Expands Its Drone War Into Somalia. An American military attacked several Somalis in the militant group the late last month, the officials said, killing at least one of its midlevel operatives and wounding others.
Drone strikes kill, maim and traumatize too many civilians, U.S. study says. A Pakistani man burns an American flag during a protest against U.S. drone attacks in Multan on February 9, 2012. New Stanford/NYU Study Documents the Civilian Terror from Obama's Drones. What Bush's Iraq War and Obama's Drone Strikes Have in Common - Conor Friedersdorf. An opportunity to kill bad guys can blind presidents and their supporters to the costs and unintended consequences of their actions. Obama Apologists Are Defending a Parallel-Universe Drone War - Conor Friedersdorf. Obama Supporters Know His Drone War Is Indefensible - Conor Friedersdorf.
Noam Chomsky - Propaganda & Control of the Public Mind. Oliver Stone on the Untold U.S. History from the Atomic Age to Vietnam to Obama’s Drone Wars. This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. Ducumentary on IRAN Iran Is Not the Problem; Stop War on IRAN. America's False History Allows the Powerful to Commit Crimes Without Consequence.
Journalist Robert Parry working at his desk. (Photo: Consortiumnews.com)Seasoned journalist Robert Parry offers a thoroughly researched account of how the Republican Party and neocons have conspired to creative a false narrative about America's political and constitutional history. Britain destroyed records of colonial crimes. The European Atrocity You Never Heard About - The Chronicle Review. Phil Taylor's Web Site. The Shock Doctrine 2009. HUMAN RESOURCES Social Engineering In The 20th Century HQ FULL. The Business of War: SOFEX. War Is A Racket. Gas Fracking Industry Using Military Psychological Warfare Tactics and Personnel In U.S. Communities. Adam Curtis: MR PINK, MR WHITE AND BOTTOM. Empire - Hollywood and the war machine. Psychologist Lt. Col. Dave Grossman On The Act Of Killing. This Is What Winning Looks Like. Black Hearts. YouTube.
Providence — a short film featuring Bradley Manning's voice. Where Are The Media's Iraq War Boosters 10 Years Later? 26 September 2002 New York Times Advertisement. Engelhardt, Field of Nightmares. Steven Pinker: The surprising decline in violence. The End of World Violence? - Print View. Angels and Anarchists: A Conflict Scholar’s Response to Steven Pinker’s New Book. Delusions of peace. A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 - by Isao Hashimoto Quantum Stealth; The Invisible Military Becomes A Reality. OASD(NCB/Nuclear Matters)