Category: War

It is a war crime under the Geneva Conventions

U.S. drones targeting rescuers and mourners By Glenn Greenwald, Sunday, Feb 5, 2012 8:51 AM 16:08:00 CST … On December 30 of last year, ABC News reported on a 16-year-old Pakistani boy, Tariq Khan, who was killed with his 12-year-old cousin when a car in which he was riding was hit with a missile fired …

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Dysfunctional sectarian misery

An attack on Iran must be stopped By Andrew Murray, Saturday 4 February 2012 09.00 EST … The Anglo-American aggression addicts haven’t kicked the habit. The team that brought you shock and awe and Operation Infinite Justice is gearing up for yet another crack at winning a senseless war in the Middle East. This time …

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Old herrings

An attack on Tehran would be madness. So don’t rule it out By Robert Fisk, Saturday 04 February 2012 … If Israel really attacks Iran this year, it – and the Americans – will be more dotty than their enemies think. True, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a crackpot, but then so is Avigdor Lieberman, who is …

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The threat that is deemed intolerable

Equality for Palestinians? Israel won’t have it By Ben White, Friday 3 February 2012 07.25 EST … The presence of a few Palestinian members in the Knesset (MKs) is often touted as a sign of Israel’s robust democracy. Yet elected representatives of the Palestinian community inside Israel face growing harassment by the state, by fellow …

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Years of mendacity and deceit

Still Britain rattles sabres. Nothing has been learned from Afghanistan By Simon Jenkins, Thursday 2 February 2012 16.00 EST … The Afghan war, the longest in US history, is “scheduled to end” a year early, according to the Pentagon. Wars these days run to electoral timetables. The endgame is couched not as victory, let alone …

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Intimately backed

Afghanistan: the big lie Guardian editorial, Wednesday 1 February 2012 18.04 EST … Joseph Goebbels said that if you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The big lie told repeatedly about the war in Afghanistan is that the international security assistance force (Isaf) and the …

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If we killed them, they must be terrorists

With its deadly drones, the US is fighting a coward’s war By George Monbiot, Monday 30 January 2012 16.00 EST … The ancient Greeks, unlike the Jews or the Christians, invested their gods with human failings. Divine judgment, they believed, was neither flawless nor dispassionate; it was warped by lust, vengeance and self-interest. In the …

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