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Blowing Up Afghanistan
British troops in action against "the enemy" in Afghanistan, and having a bloody good time too with all their bombs and guns.

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U.S in Libya: Get shot by your own bullets
22 mar  |  By Sean Maguire

There are few people in this world who would defend Gaddafi as a sane and viable leader of Libya; but I think there would be even less that would see the logic in the U.S selling guns to someone as psychotic as him and then parading about as world police.

It's the equivalent of a sheriff giving an outlaw a six-shooter and then acting surprised when he starts popping off the town folk. 

The second one U.S plane gets shot down by one U.S surface-to-air missile, all the military big wigs should get together and make a decision once and for all - "we have to stop shooting at tyrants we've given guns to".

What do you think about Libya? What do you think about the obvious contradictions in U.S foreign policy and how do you think they should be addressed? Tell us and remember...Disqus!  . . read more

Al-Qaeda or Al-Tricko? 'US cries wolf to rev up world for dominance war'
13 oct  |  European intelligence officials and senior Pakistan diplomats have accused the U.S. of crying wolf after it issued a terror alert for Europe earlier this week. The UK's Guardian newspaper goes on to allege the actual purpose of the alert was to justify a recent increase in drone attacks inside Pakistan. American-German historian F. William Engdahl, says the timing of the terror alerts has led to a questioniong of U.S. motives. You should also read about the issue of putting a human face on Afghani refugees and the Afghanistan war in general. . . read more
U.S. Leading The Terror In Afghanistan
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Killing Children: From Ghazi to Detroit
30 may  |  In Iraq, the news that families were having the doors to their houses kicked in by heavily armed US forces who then proceeded to awaken everybody in the house, overturn their bedding and other belongings and arrest the household’s menfolk became commonplace for several years following the US invasion of that country. All too often, women and children were killed by US troops during these raids.
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Skeletons Galore - From The Alchemist
2 dec  |  Six weeks before the election, this is what was here predicted. A week after the election, here are the first three skeletons.

1. Mamdouh Habib, an Australian citizen kidnapped in Pakistan by the Americans and sent to Egypt in 2002 for a spell of torture, after which he was flown to Guantanamo for another dose. While in office, John Howard and former Foreign Minister Alexander Downer repeatedly denied knowledge of these events. Last Friday the NSW Supreme Court released a bloodcurdling report on Habib's treatment by the Egyptians and Americans, which had been prepared by Australian officials and handed to the Government in mid 2002. (Placed neckhigh in water for long periods, electric shocks to the genitals, taunted with tapes that resembled the sound of his wife being raped etc). Downer and Howard's response? They suppressed the report, poured scorn on the character of Habib and doubted he'd ever been to Egypt. This makes them accomplices in aiding and abetting criminal acts.

2. Rigging the case against Dr Haneef, the Gold Coast doctor deported by the former Government after the prosecution had misfired. This act of bastardry was capped by a witch hunt against Haneef's lawyers, driven by ASIO and the Federal Police. Now the subject of an official enquiry, this dark episode will expose more skeletons.

3. Up until the midnight hour, John Howard's lying machine was in full swing. After Australian commando, Luke Worsley, was shot dead in Afghanistan while attacking a mud brick compound, Air Chief Angus Houston told the media that no civilians had been killed. This was not true. Two women and a child were wiped out, which was not made public until election day, for reasons which remain murky. Outgoing Defence Minister, Brendan Nelson, still refuses to say when he first learned of the civilian deaths.

These are but the first of more skeletons to come. The former Attorney General must be quaking in his oversized boots. . . read more

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8 aug  |  It is hard to top the arrogance of the Pentagon’s chief press spokesman, Geoff Morrell, as he stood at a podium Thursday to demand that the WikiLeaks web site return all the evidence of US war crimes in Afghanistan which was leaked to it and posted on the Internet ten days ago.
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Bill - From Beyond the Grave
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Trade troops for refugees as Afghanistan worsens
10 oct  |  Journalists and politicians like to talk about the human face of a conflict. But when it comes to the war in Afghanistan and the Australian Government's arbitrary discrimination of Afghan refugees, we don't have a human face. We have a series of human numbers. The first is 1005628. by Greg Foyster

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"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." -- Ronald Reagan (1986)