Article published in Amauta with permission from TomDispatch Source: TomDispatch by Pratap Chatterjee February 7, 2010 Sitting in air-conditioned comfort, cans of Coke and 7-Up within reach as they watched their screens, the ground controllers gave the order to strike under the cover of darkness. There had been no declaration of war.  No advance warning, nothing, in fact, that [...]

Source: The Nation by Jeremy Scahill February 4, 2010 Three US special forces soldiers were killed in northwest Pakistan this week, confirming that the US military is more deeply engaged on the ground in Pakistan than previously acknowledged by the White House and Pentagon (see ” The Secret US War in Pakistan,” November 23, 2009). The soldiers died [...]

Source: The Nation by Jeremy Scahill January 22, 2010 On Thursday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates confirmed that Blackwater is operating in Pakistan. In an interview on Express TV, Gates, who was visiting Islamabad, said, “They [Blackwater and another private security firm, DynCorp] are operating as individual companies here in Pakistan,” according to a DoD transcript of the interview. [...]

Fuente: World Socialist Web Site Traducción: Felisa Sastre, La Haine Los agentes de la CIA ejecutados eran los responsables de la elección de objetivos para los ataques con Predator por Bill Van Auken 7 de enero, 2010 Desde el ataque suicida que acabó con la vida de 7 agentes de la CIA y un espía jordano, se ha producido una [...]

Published in Amauta with special permission from TomDispatch Source: TomDispatch by Tom Engelhardt & Nick Turse January 10, 2010 It was a Christmas and New Year’s from hell for American intelligence, that $75 billion labyrinth of at least 16 major agencies and a handful of minor ones.  As the old year was preparing to be rung out, so were [...]

Source: The Indypendent by Arun Gupta January 8, 2010 If one case encapsulates the disaster that is the Obama administration, it may be the dustup over the A.I.G. bonuses last March. Recall that extreme gambling by A.I.G. Financial Products nearly crashed the world in 2008, necessitating a taxpayer bailout of $182.3 billion (and counting). Following this, A.I.G., now [...]

Source: TomDispatch by Tom Engelhardt & Nick Turse January 3, 2010 According to the Chinese calendar, 2010 is the Year of the Tiger.  We don’t name our years, but if we did, this one might prospectively be called the Year of the Assassin. We, of course, think of ourselves as something like the peaceable kingdom.  After all, the shock [...]

Source: Hornberger’s Blog by Jacob G. Hornberger December 28, 2009 To justify the federal government’s massive post-9/11 infringements on civil liberties, the proponents of Big Government have sometimes said, “There hasn’t been another major terrorist attack on the United States since 9/11. ” I have responded with the following: “But if there had been another major terrorist attack, you [...]

Source: Brave New Foundation Director: Robert Greenwald Rethink Afghanistan is a ground-breaking, full-length documentary focusing on the key issues surrounding this war. President Obama has committed 35,000 more troops to Afghanistan. This decision raises serious questions about troops, costs, overall mission, and exit strategy. Historically, it has been Congress’ duty to ask questions in the form of [...]

Fuente: IPS por Eli Clifton WASHINGTON, 22 dic (IPS) – Casi 70 por ciento de los 6.800 millones de habitantes del planeta viven en países con severas restricciones estatales y hostilidades sociales a la libertad religiosa, reveló un estudio. El Pew Research Center, centro de investigación con sede en Washington, analizó las restricciones a la religión en políticas [...]