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  • GI’s Brains Fried by Military Dispensed Nose Candy
    2 October 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    (San Francisco) – Now it is official. Researchers have shown that uranium oxide, or DU, “travels the nerves from the nose to the brain,” in the words of a University of Chicago doc and researcher.
    A tiny amount (a milligram) of this radioactive poison quick marches up your smelling nerves right into your brain and keeps firing 1.2 Million bullets a day – forever. That’s a bunch. 850 Rounds a Minute
    The radioactive 850 rounds a minute automatic weapon is about as big as the period at the (…)

  • Jewish Gaza-bound activists: IDF used excessive force in naval raid (videos)
    29 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Activists aboard Gaza-bound ship ’Irene’ counter IDF version that the vessel was taken over in a peaceful manner.
    Israel Defense Forces soldiers used excessive force while taking over a Gaza-bound aid ship organized by Jewish and Israeli activists, the boat’s passengers said Tuesday, countering the military’s official version claiming that the takeover had been uneventful.
    Earlier Tuesday the IDF reported that Israeli naval commandos peacefully boarded the Jewish aid boat attempting to (…)

  • Israeli navy boards Gaza blockade vessel
    29 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Israeli navy boarded a yacht in the Mediterranean yesterday to prevent 10 Jewish activists sailing to the Gaza Strip to protest against Israel’s blockade.
    Israeli naval forces boarded the Irene "without incident" 20 miles off the Gaza coast, the military said. The vessel was being towed to an Israeli port.
    The voyage was organised by Jews for Justice for Palestinians, which is based in London. Those on board included an 82-year-old Holocaust survivor Reuven Moskovitz and Rami (…)

  • Print Email Share ’Kill team’ soldier in video confession (videos)
    29 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    In what is being described as one of the worst crime cases out of Afghanistan, five US soldiers have been accused of the premeditated murder of three randomly selected civilians.
    The five soldiers, who were stationed in the country’s south, are accused of forming their own "kill team".
    Prosecutors say the soldiers kept body parts of their victims and three of the accused men have confessed.
    In a video, one of the accused - Corporal Jeremy Morlock - tells investigators his sergeant (…)

  • Canada, Israel and Palestine
    21 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Yves Engler
    "Part of the US Security Coordinator office in Jerusalem, the Canadian military mission in the West Bank (dubbed Operation PROTEUS) now includes RCMP officers as well as officials from Foreign Affairs, Justice Canada and the Canadian Border Services Agency. According to deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Peter Kent, Operation PROTEUS is Canada’s ’second largest deployment after Afghanistan and it receives ’most of the money’ from a 5 year $300 Million Canadian ’aid’ program to (…)

  • JTF2: Canada’s Special Forces Actions in Afghanistan Probed
    21 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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    CBC News
    "Two criminal investigations launched by military police into the actions of Canadian special forces into the actions of Canadian special forces soldiers in Afghanistan probed the alleged improper killing of Afghans, CBC News has learned...Throughout the Afghan engagement Canadian special forces operated jointly with those of other nations, including Afghanistan and the US. The JTF2 unit was attached to an American special forces command based in Kandahar. JTF2 took its tactical (…)

  • U.S. troops accused of killing Afghans for sport
    20 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. — The U.S. soldiers allegedly floated a plan as simple as it was savage: to randomly target and kill an Afghan civilian, and to get away with it.
    For weeks, according to Army charging documents, rogue members of a platoon from the 5th Stryker Combat Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, hatched the idea. Then, one day last winter, a solitary Afghan man approached them in the village of La Mohammed Kalay. The "kill team" activated the plan.
    One soldier created a (…)

  • Western Sahara — the next desert storm
    17 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Betrayed by Spain and oppressed by Morocco, the Saharawi people of Western Sahara compare themselves to the Palestinians or the black majority in apartheid South Africa. And they want the world to know their story.
    "King Mohammed VI of Morocco was visiting a hammam when a genie appeared. “I can offer you one wish," the genie said. “I’d really like to see my late father, Hassan II," Mohammed replied. “That’s a difficult request, bringing a person back from the dead," the genie said. "Have (…)

  • The Language of Pipelines
    14 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Language of Pipelines
    Samstag, 11. September 2010 05:23 von Lars Schall
    The historian Dr. Daniele Ganser from the University of Basel, Switzerland, answers in the following interview questions related to the “National Energy Policy Development Group” of 2001, Peak Oil and the connection to pipelines in Central Asia. According to Dr. Ganser it is very doubtful that NATO will succeed in Afghanistan in order to built the proposed pipeline from Turkmenistan to Pakistan/India.
    Dr. (…)

  • 9/11 ANALYSIS: 9/11 and America’s Secret Terror Campaign The Imperial Anatomy of Al-Qaeda, Part III
    10 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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    9/11 ANALYSIS: 9/11 and America’s Secret Terror Campaign The Imperial Anatomy of Al-Qaeda, Part III
    by Andrew Gavin Marshall Global Research, September 10, 2010
    Anticipating An Attack For several years prior to the events of 9/11, top American strategists had been acknowledging the necessity of what they oft-termed a “new Pearl Harbor”, a momentous attack upon America itself, in order to mobilize the American populace for a new global war of domination. As Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote (…)