The Yemen Hidden Agenda: Behind the Al-Qaeda Scenarios, A Strategic Oil Transit Chokepoint

On December 25 US authorities arrested a Nigerian named Abdulmutallab aboard a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on charges of having tried to blow up the plane with smuggled explosives. Since then reports have been broadcast from CNN, the New York Times and other sources that he was “suspected” of having been trained [...]

US helping terrorists in southeast Iran: Report

Jan. 05, 2010 – Press TV
The US is helping the Pakistan-based Jundallah militants to enter Iran through the Persian Gulf and carry out terrorist acts in the country, a report said Wednesday.
The United States has given a vessel to members of the Jundallah terrorist group to travel in the southern Iranian waters, an informed source [...]

US warns Yemen to be focus in “worldwide” war

Jan. 05, 2010 – WSWS
Tensions mounted Monday in advance of a widely expected expansion of US military operations inside Yemen, with the US, British, French and other embassies either closing down entirely or sharply curtailing operations, with many foreign personnel leaving the country.
Yemen is being targeted in the aftermath of the attempted bombing of a [...]

“US plans military aggression against Venezuela”

Jan. 02, 2010 – RT
Venezuela’s Foreign Ministry has accused the US of plotting a military aggression from the nearby Dutch islands of Aruba and Curacao, off the Venezuelan coast.
The Foreign Ministry’s official statement says recurrent violations of Venezuela’s air space by American military planes is “irrefutable” proof that the United States, supported by the Netherlands, [...]

Obama administration prepares public opinion for attack on Yemen

by Patrick Martin
Published: Dec. 31, 2009 – WSWS
Five days after the unsuccessful attempt by a Nigerian student to set off a bomb aboard a Detroit-bound passenger jet, US military and intelligence officials are said to be preparing expanded military action against targets in Yemen, the Arab country where the student allegedly received terrorist training and [...]

UK to follow US intervention in Yemen

Jan. 03, 2010- Press TV
The British premier’s office says that Prime Minister Gordon Brown and US President Barack Obama have agreed to fight what they call terrorism in Yemen and Somalia.
The UK and the US have agreed to fund a counter-terrorism police unit in Yemen to tackle the rising threat from the country.
The British premier’s [...]

Welcome to Orwell’s World 2010

Obama’s lies over the Afghanistan war remind us of the lessons of Nineteen Eighty-Four
by John Pilger
Published:  Dec. 30, 2009 – New Statesman
In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell described a superstate called Oceania, whose language of war inverted lies that “passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’, ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: [...]

Pentagon’s Role in Global Catastrophe: Add Climate Havoc to War Crimes

by Sara Flounders
First Published: Dec. 18, 2009 – International Action Center
In evaluating the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen — with more than 15,000 participants from 192 countries, including more than 100 heads of state, as well as 100,000 demonstrators in the streets — it is important to ask: How is it possible that the [...]

A New World War for a New World Order

The Origins of World War III: Part 3

This article is Part 3 in the Series, “The Origins of World War III.”
Part 1: An Imperial Strategy for a New World Order: The Origins of World War III
Part 2: Colour-Coded Revolutions and the Origins of World War III
by Andrew Gavin Marshall
Published: Dec. 17, 2009 – Global Research
Introduction
In [...]

Obama Declares War On Pakistan

by Webster Tarpley
Published: Dec. 12, 2009 – Rense.com
WASHINGTON, DC — Obama’s West Point speech of December 1 represents far more than the obvious brutal escalation in Afghanistan — it is nothing less than a declaration of all-out war by the United States against Pakistan . This is a brand-new war, a much wider war now [...]

Mercenaries and assassins: The real face of Obama’s “good war”

by Bill Van Auken
Published: Dec. 12, 2009 – WSWS
Reports that mercenaries employed by the notorious Blackwater-Xe military contracting firm participated in CIA assassinations in Iraq and Afghanistan have further exposed the real character of so-called “good war” that is being escalated by the Obama administration.
Citing former employees of the firm and US intelligence agents, the [...]

Who Wants More War?

by Rep. Ron Paul
Published: Dec. 08, 2009 – Antiwar.com
If anyone still doubted that this administration’s foreign policy would bring any kind of change, this week’s debate on Afghanistan should remove all doubt. The president’s stated justifications for sending more troops to Afghanistan and escalating the war amount to little more than recycling all the false reasons [...]

Making the TransAfghanistan Pipeline Safe for Democracy

by McCamy Taylor
Published: Dec. 05. 2009 – DemocraticUnderground
Intro.
I don’t pretend to know why President Obama is so determined to escalate the war in Afghanistan, the country that drove the Soviet Union into bankruptcy. Maybe he covets the executive privilege that goes with being a war time president. Maybe he is courting the center and center-right [...]

The Great Game: U.S., NATO War In Afghanistan

Fifty or more countries in a single war theater
by Rick Rozoff
First Published: Dec. 05, 2009 – Stop Nato
The U.S. (and Britain) began bombing the Afghan capital of Kabul on October 7, 2001 with Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from warships and submarines and bombs dropped from warplanes and shortly thereafter American special forces began ground operations, [...]

The Audacity of Ethnic Cleansing: Obama’s plan for Afghanistan

“Today, we Afghans remain trapped between two enemies: the Taliban on one side and US/NATO forces and their warlord hirelings on the other.” Malalai Joya “A Woman Among the Warlords” Scribner Publishing, New York
by Mike Whitney
Published: Dec. 04, 2009 – Information Clearing House
The Bush administration never had any intention of liberating Afghanistan or establishing democracy. [...]

Documentary – U.S. Foreign Policy: Secret Wars of the CIA

The history of the terrorism conducted by the CIA, since the end of the World War II when countries in Asia and Latin America, were trying to make changes to improve their economical and political situation, the Unite States of North America realized that it was not good for their status as new super power; [...]