The Obscenity of War in a World of Need and Suffering
Posted: April 24, 2014 Filed under: War on Terror | Tags: Afghanistan, Iraq 2 Commentsby Adnan Al-Daini
Dissident Voice / April 19th, 2014
A study by professor Linda J. Blimes of Harvard University concludes that the cost to the US of the Iraq and Afghan wars, taken together, will be between $4 and $6 trillion. This includes long-term medical care and disability compensation for service members, veterans and families, military replenishment and social and economic costs. The cost so far is $2 trillion.
In order to get our head round the colossal figure of $6 trillion, this is equivalent to $75,000 for every household in the US. Deaths of Iraqis and Afghans taken together are estimated from 600,000 to a million, coalition troop deaths around 8,000, over 7,000 of whom are Americans. The suffering and the sheer misery of widows, orphans and families behind these statistics are unimaginable.
Documentary – Fallujah, a Lost Generation?
Posted: April 23, 2014 Filed under: War Crimes | Tags: Chris Busby, Crimes Against Humanity, Depleted Uranium, Documentaries, Fallujah, Iraq, US Army, White Phosphorus 1 CommentSecrets of a dirty war
RT – 16.07.2012
In 2004, Fallujah in Iraq became the theater of a major showdown between the American soldiers and the Iraqi insurgents. But even though the sounds of this harsh battle have died down a long time ago the consequences are only showing now. And they are of the toxic kind. Babies are born with malformations, kids are affected with leukemia and cancer has multiplied tenfold. The situation reminds the one of 1945 post atomic Hiroshima.
New geopolitical orientation completed: What do the killings of Milosevic, Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi have in common?
Posted: October 28, 2011 Filed under: Human Rights, II Cold War, Imperial Power, World Hegemony | Tags: Gas, International Criminal Tribunal, Iraq, Libya, Media, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Multinational Corporations, NATO, Oil, Russia, Saddam Hussein, Slobodan Milosevic, Soviet Union, UN Sanctions, USA, Yugoslavia 10 Commentsby Hannes Hofbauer
Published: Oct. 27, 2011 – Strategic Culture Foundation
On the 20th of October 2011, late afternoon, international news agencies reported the death of Muammar al-Gaddafi. He was killed by some rebels in his hometown Sirte, after NATO-bombs hit his convoy. Only two days later US-president Barack Obama in Washington and NATO-officials in Brussels declared to stop the war on Libya that had lasted for almost eight months. Mission completed.
At this moment of time there was hardly anyone left who believed in the official version legitimating the foreign intervention. UN-resolution 1973 from the 17th of March 2011 empowered a coalition of willing states around NATO to intervene militarily in a regional uprising to build a shelter over the civic population, to protect civilians. The opposite was the case. In these eight months NATO flew 9600 sorties causing an innumerable figure of deaths, both soldiers and civilians. Regional uprising thereby accelerated towards a civil war. The aim of the NATO-intervention did not even respect the text of UN-resolutions 1973 and 1970.
Unending “9/11s”: “A Sad Kind of Freedom.”
Posted: September 12, 2011 Filed under: Human Rights, Illegal Occupation, Imperial Power, War Crimes, War on Terror | Tags: 9/11, Afghanistan, AFRICOM, Civilian Casualties, Crimes Against Humanity, False Flags, Iraq, Libya, Obama's Wars Leave a comment“You love your country
as the nearest, most precious thing to you.
But one day, for example,
they may endorse it over to America,
and you, too, with your great freedom –
you have the freedom to become an air-base.”
From: “A Sad Kind Of Freedom”, by Nazim Hickmet (1902-1963) courtesy Rick Rozoff, Stop NATO*
by Felicity Arbuthnot
Published: Sep. 11, 2011 – Global Research
It is instructive to look at the plethora of 9/11, tenth anniversary pullouts in newspapers, to note the commemorative programmes, interviews, memories. The heartbreak, broken and lost lives: the ten year old, now twenty, who realized, horror struck, that her father was in the building she watched flaming and falling, on television.
There are spreads of other ten years olds, children unborn when their pregnant mother was widowed, by a terrible atrocity, on a sunlit day, in a city turned dark by smoke and ash. Pregnant survivors, say “experts”, passed their trauma to their children, we learn.
“Share your memories of 9/11 ten years on”, invite newspapers
Photographers have recalled: “the day of horror.”
1 Million Dead in Iraq? 6 Reasons the Media Hide the True Human Toll of War — And Why We Let Them
Posted: July 21, 2011 Filed under: Illegal Occupation, War Crimes | Tags: Civilian Casualties, Crimes Against Humanity, Iraq, Media, Obama's Wars, US Army, USA 5 CommentsMost Americans turn a blind eye to the violent acts being carried out in their name.
by John Tirman
Published: Jul. 19, 2011 – Alternet
As the U.S. war in Iraq winds down, we are entering a familiar phase, the season of forgetting—forgetting the harsh realities of the war. Mostly we forget the victims of the war, the Iraqi civilians whose lives and society have been devastated by eight years of armed conflict. The act of forgetting is a social and political act, abetted by the American news media. Throughout the war, but especially now, the minimal news we get from Iraq consistently devalues the death toll of Iraqi civilians.
Why? A number of reasons are at work in this persistent evasion of reality. But forgetting has consequences, especially as it braces the obstinate right-wing narrative of “victory” in the Iraq war. If we forget, we learn nothing.
Libya: “The Price of Freedom”
Posted: April 28, 2011 Filed under: Economy, Human Rights, Illegal Occupation, Imperial Power | Tags: Iraq, Libya, Media, NATO, Obama's Wars, Oil, UN Sanctions, Wikipedia 12 CommentsTranslation from German by John Catalinotto
Original article: Libyen – Überlegungen zum drohenden „Preis der Freiheit“
by Joachim Guilliard
Published: Apr. 27, 2011 – Global Research
Libya has the highest living standard in Africa. The “United Nations Development Program (UNDP) confirms that the country has excellent prospects for achieving United Nations development goals by 2015. NATO’s war will have already dashed those hopes. A collapse like the one in Iraq now threatens the country.
There has been little reaching the European public in the past few years about Libya, whose relationship with the West had normalized. European leaders met with their Libyan counterpart Muammar al-Gadhafi often and business flourished. In the course of preparation for war, the country was suddenly transformed into the most evil dictatorship. Even many war opponents accepted this characterization as their own and now want to overthrow the “tyrant.”
How the U.S. Invented ‘al Qaeda’! (With Videos)
Posted: January 25, 2011 Filed under: Illegal Occupation, Imperial Power, Problem Reaction Solution, World Hegemony | Tags: 9/11, Afghan Opium, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Bin Laden, CIA, Iraq, Media, You Tube Videos 6 Commentsby Len Hart
Published: Dec. 22, 2011 – The Existentialist Cowboy
Al Qaeda was a U.S. creation, specifically a product of inverted right wing psuedo logic. If ‘al Qaeda’ did not exist, never mind –the shills would invent it and cite it to justify wars abroad, crackdowns on freedom at home! They would bestow upon it a virtual existence via press releases, propaganda and outright lies –deliberate attempts to mislead the American people!
Bin Laden should pay royalties to the U.S. right wing if, indeed, he ever benefited from his new found celebrity, his holographic ‘creation’ by the mass media, his elevation to arch-enemy status! His is falsely characterized as the ‘mega-terrorist’ brain behind a sinister world terrorist organization resembling an octopus with tentacles in every real or fictitious terrorist attack. There had not been anything like it since Bond fought SPECTRE –an evil terrorist organization specializing in terrorism and extortion. In the Bushco rewrite the part of Blofeld is played by Bin Laden.
A State of Permanent Human Bondage
Posted: January 20, 2011 Filed under: War Crimes | Tags: Bush, Civilian Casualties, Crimes Against Humanity, Desert Storm, Iraq, US Army 2 Commentsby Malcom Lagauche
Published: Jan. 19, 2011 – Uruknet.info
The goal of Desert Storm was to destroy the country of Iraq under the guise of liberating Kuwait. In February 1991, during the height of U.S. bombing, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark visited Iraq and reported his findings. At that time, few photos had come from Iraq showing the devastation. Most reporters left Iraq on the eve of the bombing campaign and spent their time in Saudi Arabia listening to the daily propaganda given by the U.S. military. They became so bored that they began to interview each other.
What Clark saw was not pretty. He stated:
The effect of the bombing, if continued, will be the destruction of much of the physical and economic base for life in Iraq. The purpose of the bombing can only be explained rationally as the destruction of Iraq as a viable state for a generation or more.
U.S. Responsible for Human Toll of Iraq Sanctions
Posted: December 24, 2010 Filed under: Human Rights | Tags: Civilian Casualties, Iraq, UN Sanctions 7 Commentsby Joy Gordon
Published: Dec. 23, 2010 – Common Dreams
Last week the U.N. Security Council voted to lift the sanctions that it imposed on Iraq 20 years ago. Vice President Joe Biden hailed the occasion as “an end to the burdensome remnants of the dark era of Saddam Hussein.”
What he did not say was that the sanctions were more than burdensome. They triggered a humanitarian crisis that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children, and the collapse of every system necessary to sustain human life in a modern society. And he certainly did not mention that among all the nations on the Security Council, it was the U.S. — and the U.S. alone — that ensured that this human damage would be massive and indiscriminate.
Iraq: A Country of Orphans
Posted: September 26, 2010 Filed under: Illegal Occupation | Tags: Civilian Casualties, Iraq, Obama's Wars 4 CommentsPublished: Sep. 13, 2010 – Azzaman
One in every six Iraqis is an orphan. That is the toll Iraqi children are paying in a country which is supposedly under the occupation and protection of the world’s only superpower.
Not all the orphans are the result of the violence that swept the country in the aftermath of the 2003-U.S. invasion.
But the invasion has caused untold miseries for Iraqis, surpassing those inflicted on them by their former tormentors, the clique that ruled Iraq under Saddam Hussein.
Legacy of Iraq war won’t be winding down
Posted: September 7, 2010 Filed under: Illegal Occupation | Tags: Crimes Against Humanity, Iraq, Obama's Wars, US Army 2 Commentsby Cesar Chelala
Published: Sep. 03, 2010 – Japan Times
The withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq in what is euphemistically called the end of the Iraq war portends anything but the end of the conflict.
The consequences of the war will be felt for many years to come. Former President George W. Bush and his advisers are to blame for engaging in a war that has ravaged Iraq and cost the United States not only economically but also the lives and well-being of hundreds of thousands of its soldiers.
Deadly Legacy – Iraq
Posted: August 16, 2010 Filed under: Illegal Occupation, War Crimes | Tags: Crimes Against Humanity, Depleted Uranium, Fallujah, Iraq, Obama's Wars, You Tube Videos 5 CommentsPublished: Aug. 16, 2010 – You Tube
Seven years after the invasion of Baghdad, the Iraqi people are experiencing a devastating legacy. Babies are being born with severe deformities and cancer at a rate, which makes the effects of Hiroshima look tame.
The number of babies born with severe deformities and children developing leukaemia is rising dramatically in parts of Iraq.
US forces used depleted uranium weapons to attack the city, which locals say has left them with this devastating legacy.
One report even says the number of such illnesses in Falluja is higher than that recorded after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Walkley Award winning video journalist Fouad Hady returns to his home country to see some of the deformed and desperately ill children, and meets some of the people battling against the odds to rebuild their lives, and their city.
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yUDFicLNZ0&feature=player_embedded
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The US isn’t leaving Iraq, it’s rebranding the occupation
Posted: August 5, 2010 Filed under: Illegal Occupation | Tags: Blackwater, Contractors, Iraq, Multinational Corporations, Obama's Wars, Oil 5 CommentsObama says withdrawal is on schedule, but renaming or outsourcing combat troops won’t give Iraqis back their country
by Seumas Milne
Published: Aug. 04, 2010 – Guardian
For most people in Britain and the US, Iraq is already history. Afghanistan has long since taken the lion’s share of media attention, as the death toll of Nato troops rises inexorably. Controversy about Iraq is now almost entirely focused on the original decision to invade: what’s happening there in 2010 barely registers.
That will have been reinforced by Barack Obama’s declaration this week that US combat troops are to be withdrawn from Iraq at the end of the month “as promised and on schedule”. For much of the British and American press, this was the real thing: headlines hailed the “end” of the war and reported “US troops to leave Iraq”.
Nothing could be further from the truth. The US isn’t withdrawing from Iraq at all – it’s rebranding the occupation. Just as George Bush’s war on terror was retitled “overseas contingency operations” when Obama became president, US “combat operations” will be rebadged from next month as “stability operations”.
Yet another war atrocity by the “brave American soldiers” captured on video – How many more are still out there?
Posted: May 21, 2010 Filed under: War Crimes | Tags: Iraq, US Army, You Tube Videos 3 CommentsFirst Published: May 20, 2010 – Free Iraq
This is yet another video of “Brave American” war criminals surrounding then shooting to death an unarmed old man (video 5 minutes).
Notice their fear as they circle around him and hear their filthy shouts to shoot him down even though he is unarmed.
Source: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m66172&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Who is Bombing in Iraq? Are the bombers Al-Qaeda, the CIA or Israel?
Posted: May 15, 2010 Filed under: Illegal Occupation | Tags: CIA, False Flags, Iraq 3 CommentsChristopher King argues that it is likely that the American CIA – or Israel acting on its behalf – is responsible for recent atrocities in Iraq, in order to extend and consolidate the occupation, just as it is probable that the Times Square bomber was, wittingly or otherwise, acting for the CIA or Israel, to justify the US military intervention in South Asia.
by Christopher King
First Published: May 14, 2010 – Redress
On 10 May there were more than two dozen bombings and shootings in Iraq that killed at least 85 people and injured at least 300.These were coordinated attacks, clearly by the same organization.
The American response to this and other recent attacks is to delay plans for withdrawal of troops from Iraq. Obama’s election promise was to withdraw troops from Iraq by May this year. Not only is that obviously not going to happen but we learned after his election that “withdrawal” meant leaving 50,000 troops as ‘trainers’ as well as 4,500 special forces and tens of thousands of para-military contractors.
Now, the US is reviewing even the slipped drawdown schedule out of concern for the security of the Iraqi people. Considering the million killed by the US and the four to five million refugees created by them I would not have thought that they would be bothered by fewer than one hundred dead in a little internal trouble. It might be said to be an improvement on US outcomes.
Mass Depopulation, Genocide, WW3? Part 1 The link to the New World Order
Posted: May 13, 2010 Filed under: New World Order, World War III | Tags: 9/11, Afghanistan, AIPAC, Depleted Uranium, Depopulation Agenda, False Flags, Gaza, Global Elite, Illuminati, Iraq 14 Comments
by Peter Eyre
Published: Apr. 02, 2010 – Pal Telegraph
This heading may appear alarming to some people but is there a hidden master plan? Is it possible that some aspects of this has already started and if so how and who is involved. We hear so many times of the so called “New World Order and the “Illuminati” but does it actually exist? What ever you want to call this elite organisation one can say with some certainty that it does certainly exist. I also find it incredible that this relatively small group can change the course of history and we the millions may have no power to stop it.
So where does this start and who is involved? In my opinion mass depopulation is already well underway with the use of weapons containing uranium components. It all started back in the Balkans and has progressively worked its way via Kuwait – Iraq – Afghanistan – Lebanon – Gaza – Pakistan and soon Yemen and Somalia.
But let’s turn back the clock and see when the aggressive use of “Dirty Weapons” really started. As I said previously the war in Balkans was the initial testing grounds for these weapons but something significant had to happen to allow the New World Order to move forward. Obviously 9/11 kick started a series of events that has now become part of the “New World Orders Master Plan. In my opinion 9/11 was a total conspiracy and a very carefully planned Mossad operation, with of course the full support of certain figures within the US and elsewhere. I will cover this conspiracy in more details later on in the series.
Collateral Murder (With Videos)
Posted: April 7, 2010 Filed under: War Crimes | Tags: Interviews, Iraq, Obama's Wars, US Army, You Tube Videos 4 CommentsPublished: Apr. 05, 2010 – Collateral Murder
Overview
5th April 2010 10:44 EST WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad — including two Reuters news staff.
Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter gun-site, clearly shows the unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers. Two young children involved in the rescue were also seriously wounded.
Collateral Murder – Wikileaks – Iraq (Short Version)
Collateral Murder – Wikileaks – Iraq (Full Version)
The military did not reveal how the Reuters staff were killed, and stated that they did not know how the children were injured.
After demands by Reuters, the incident was investigated and the U.S. military concluded that the actions of the soldiers were in accordance with the law of armed conflict and its own “Rules of Engagement”.
Consequently, WikiLeaks has released the classified Rules of Engagement for 2006, 2007 and 2008, revealing these rules before, during, and after the killings.
WikiLeaks has released both the original 38 minutes video and a shorter version with an initial analysis. Subtitles have been added to both versions from the radio transmissions.
WikiLeaks obtained this video as well as supporting documents from a number of military whistleblowers. WikiLeaks goes to great lengths to verify the authenticity of the information it receives. We have analyzed the information about this incident from a variety of source material. We have spoken to witnesses and journalists directly involved in the incident.
Former IAEA chief: Iraq war killed “a million innocent civilians”
Posted: April 4, 2010 Filed under: War Crimes | Tags: Bush, Civilian Casualties, Crimes Against Humanity, Iraq, Tony Blair 8 Commentsby Patrick Martin
Published: Apr. 03, 2010 – WSWS
The former head of the UN’s chief nuclear agency, Mohammed ElBaradei, said in an interview with the British newspaper Guardian Wednesday that those who launched the war in Iraq were responsible for killing a million innocent people and could be held accountable under international law. He was clearly referring to US President George Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and their top military and security aides.
It was his first interview with an international publication since ElBaradei returned to his native Egypt, after a decade heading the International Atomic Energy Agency, where he won the Nobel Peace Prize, in large measure because of his opposition to the efforts by the Bush administration to use concocted charges about “weapons of mass destruction” as an all-purpose pretext for military intervention throughout the Middle East.
Tony-Gate: Blair Strikes Oil in Iraq
Posted: March 28, 2010 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Iraq, Multinational Corporations, Oil, Tony Blair 6 Commentsby Jayne Lyn Stahl
Published: Mar. 25, 2010 – CounterPunch.org
Here in the States when someone mentions “UI,” most of us think of Unemployment Insurance, but not former UK prime minister Tony Blair.
Late last week came word of a major scandal from the UK Daily Mail. In the three years since he stepped down as prime minister, Blair pocketed more than $30 million in oil revenues from his secret dealings with a South Korean oil consortium, UI Energy Corporation. Despite all his best efforts to keep his connection to UI secret, word is spreading like wildfire throughout the U.K
Documentary – Enemy Image (2005)
Posted: March 18, 2010 Filed under: Propaganda | Tags: Documentaries, Iraq, Media, Pentagon, US Army, USA, Vietnam War 1 CommentThe invasion of Iraq was the most closely documented war ever fought. Lasting only 800 hours, it produced 20,000 hours of video, but those images were tightly controlled, producing a monolithic view of combat sanitised and controlled by the Pentagon.
Enemy Image traces the ways U.S. television has covered war, starting with Vietnam in the 1960s and shows how the military has devised ever-improving means of ensuring the American public never again has the real face of combat beamed directly into their living rooms.
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