The True Afghanistan Withdrawal Date
The seemingly endless war in Afghanistan is now admittedly endless, as Obama has officially announced at the NATO summit in Lisbon that the U.S. military will remain heavily engaged, with “eye-watering levels of violence,” beyond 2014. (Sacramento Bee, Nov. 18)When the Bush administration launched a full-scale invasion of Afghanistan in ...
US to launch covert strikes on terror targets
The US has authorised a sweeping expansion of covert military operations in the Middle East and Africa, aimed at destroying terrorist networks in the region, and preparing the ground ahead of any presidential decision to attack Iran.According yesterday's The New York Times, a directive, called the Joint Unconventional Warfare Task ...
Guantanamo 'hell on Earth', says Somali detainee
HARGEISA, Somalia — A Somali just home from eight years in the US jail at Guantanamo Bay told AFP the prison was "hell on Earth", and alleged torture there had scarred some of his fellow inmates.Mohamed Saleban Bare, who arrived in his hometown of Hargeisa on Saturday, said he was ...
Obama Ordered U.S. Military Strike on Yemen Terrorists
On orders from President Barack Obama, the U.S. military launched cruise missiles early Thursday against two suspected al-Qaeda sites in Yemen, administration officials told ABC News in a report broadcast on ABC World News with Charles Gibson. One of the targeted sites was a suspected al Qaeda training camp north ...
President vs. party on troop increase
President Obama will reveal his new Afghanistan war strategy in a speech Tuesday evening to cadets at West Point, but his most skeptical audience is likely to be the powerful Democrats on Capitol Hill who oppose a troop buildup. Top Democrats have made it clear to Obama that he will ...
US skeptics fear Afghan mission turning into a quagmire
WASHINGTON — Skeptics reject President Barack Obama's expected decision to ramp up the Afghanistan war as a misguided bid to fix a muddled mission, arguing it will draw America deeper into a quagmire.Ahead of Obama's momentous address to the nation on Tuesday, even fellow Democrats in Congress are voicing growing ...
Don't Turn the Page on History: Facing the World We Created ...by Tom Engelhardt
TomDispatchWe've just passed through the CIA assassination flap, already fading from the news after less than two weeks of media attention. Broken in several major newspapers, here's how the story goes: the Agency, evidently under Vice President Dick Cheney's orders, didn't inform Congress that, to assassinate al-Qaeda leaders, it was ...
Sons of Seffner man killed in Afghanistan have lost two father figures to war
By Steven Overly / St. Petersburg TimesTAMPA — It's the visit every military family fears. Casualty assistance officers knock on the door, a letter bearing solemn news in hand: The war claimed a loved one. Most families never experience such grief. At the ages of 6 and 9, Tyler and ...
Israeli Police and Military Brutalize Peaceful Protesters at Netanyahu's Speech ...by Ann Wright
CommondreamsWhile Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was making a major foreign policy speech at Tel Aviv university on June 14, 2009, Israeli police outside the university attacked international protesters of Israel's invasion of Gaza, illegal settlements and the apartheid wall.Heavy handed police treatment of the CODEPINK: Women for Peace delegation ...
Can Leon Panetta move the C.I.A. forward without confronting its past By Jane Mayer / New Yorker The Central Intelligence Agency typically fights distant enemies, but on May 21st its leaders were preoccupied with a local opponent. A few miles from the agency's headquarters, which are in Langley, Virginia, former ...
West's made-up terror links to blame for killing ...by Jeremy Keenan
IndependentThe killing of Edwin Dyer marks a big – and disturbing – change in the Sahara. This is the first time a hostage has been executed in the region. The two women kidnapped with Mr Dyer were released, as were the two Canadian diplomats abducted a couple of months previously. ...
Freshman Democrat Alan Grayson Attacks Obama's War Policy
Vanity FairIn 2007, Vanity Fair's David Rose wrote about an ambitious lawyer and entrepreneur named Alan Grayson, who at the time was suing KBR and other defense contractors in Iraq for alleged fraud on behalf of whistleblowers and American taxpayers. Grayson, who ran for Congress unsuccessfully in 2006, ran again ...
Strikes Worsen Qaeda Threat, Pakistan Says
By Eric Schmitt and Jane Perlez / New York Times ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — American missile strikes have reduced Al Qaeda's global reach but heightened the threat to Pakistan as the group disperses its cells here and fights to maintain its sanctuaries, Pakistani intelligence officials said. The officials acknowledge that the ...
Mesquite soldier killed in Afghanistan only ever wanted to serve
By Michael E. Young / Dallas Morning News Raymond Munden never talked about being a doctor or a lawyer. All he ever wanted to do was join the Army. Over 17 years, he completed five tours of duty overseas, including two in Iraq. On Monday, three weeks shy of completing ...
Bin Laden is isolated, Qaeda resilient: CIA chief
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Osama bin Laden, deeply isolated and likely near the rugged Afghanistan-Pakistan border, has been forced to devote much of his energy to his own security while his Al-Qaeda terror network remains resilient, CIA Director Michael Hayden said Thursday."He is putting a lot of energy into his own ...
Secret Order Lets U.S. Raid Al Qaeda in Many Countries
By Eric Schmitt and Mark Mazzetti / New York Times WASHINGTON — The United States military since 2004 has used broad, secret authority to carry out nearly a dozen previously undisclosed attacks against Al Qaeda and other militants in Syria, Pakistan and elsewhere, according to senior American officials. These military ...
A closer look at the life and career of John McCain reveals a disturbing record of recklessness and dishonesty By Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone At Fort McNair, an army base located along the Potomac River in the nation's capital, a chance reunion takes place one day between two former ...
McCain gaffes pile up; critics pile on
By Mike Allen & Jim Vandehei / The Politico Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said “Iraq” on Monday when he apparently meant “Afghanistan”, adding to a string of mixed-up word choices that is giving ammunition to the opposition. Just in the past three weeks, McCain has also mistaken "Somalia" for "Sudan," ...
ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
Kucinich.House.gov Washington, Jun 10 - Dennis J. Kucinich of Ohio In the United States House of Representatives Monday, June 9th, 2008 A Resolution INDEX Article I Creating a Secret Propaganda Campaign to Manufacture a False Case for War Against Iraq. Article II Falsely, Systematically, and with Criminal Intent Conflating the ...
Admissions of Iraqi Refugees Lagging
By Matthew Lee / Associated Press WASHINGTON - U.S. admissions of Iraqi refugees are nose-diving amid bureaucratic in-fighting despite the Bush administration's pledge to boost them to roughly 1,000 per month, according to State Department statistics obtained by The Associated Press. For the third straight month since the United States ...
From the Desk of Donald Rumsfeld . . .
In Sometimes-Brusque 'Snowflakes,' He Shared Worldview, Shaped Policy By Robin Wright / Washington Post In a series of internal musings and memos to his staff, then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld argued that Muslims avoid "physical labor" and wrote of the need to "keep elevating the threat," "link Iraq to Iran" ...
Fight the U.S., al Qaeda's Zawahri says in new video
By Lin Noueihed / Reuters DUBAI - Al Qaeda's second-in-command Ayman Zawahri called on Muslims to fight the United States and its allies around the world in a new video aired on Thursday to mark the sixth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. "Stand oh nation of Islam under the ...
Bin Laden urges Pakistanis to revolt
By Lee Keath / Associated Press CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden called on Pakistanis to wage a holy war against President Gen. Pervez Musharraf in a new recording released Thursday, saying his military's siege of a militant mosque stronghold makes him an infidel. The storming of the ...
Pope Laments ‘Slaughter’ in Iraq
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- On Christianity's most joyous day, Pope Benedict XVI lamented the ''continual slaughter'' in Iraq and unrest in Afghanistan as he denounced violence in the name of religion. In his message for Easter, Benedict said suffering worldwide puts faith to the test. ''How many wounds, how much ...
Medic on trial for refusing Iraq mission
By Catherine Hornby / Reuters WUERZBURG, Germany - A U.S. Army medic and self-described conscientious objector goes before a court-martial in Germany on Tuesday for refusing to return to Iraq with his unit. Mexican-born combat medic Agustin Aguayo, 35, could face up to seven years in prison, a dishonorable discharge ...
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June 5th, 2013
Here's How We Built a Movie Theater for the People – and Why the MPAA Says It's #1 in the World
This past week, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the main federation of Hollywood's six major studios, posted on their web site a list of what they believe ...
March 23rd, 2013
This evening is going be a big moment in turning our country around on the issue of gun violence. That's why I desperately want you ...
March 21st, 2013
I am hosting a nationwide series of house parties this Saturday night where tens of thousands of people will gather together in living rooms to ...
March 15th, 2013
The response to my Newtown letter this week has been overwhelming. It is so very clear to everyone that the majority of Americans have had ...
March 13th, 2013
America, You Must Not Look Away (How to Finish Off the NRA)
The year was 1955. Emmett Till was a young African American boy from Chicago visiting relatives in Mississippi. One day Emmett was seen "flirting" with ...
February 26th, 2013
My Final Word on Buzzfeed and Emad Burnat's Detention at LAX
Thanks to everyone for bearing with me as I spend so much time on what happened to Emad Burnat. It's important to me because he's ...
February 26th, 2013
Michael Moore Responds to Buzzfeed Story on '5 Broken Cameras' Co-Director Emad Burnat
On Tuesday, February 19th, Emad Burnat, the Palestianian co-director of the Oscar-nominated documentary '5 Broken Cameras,' was detained with his wife and son at Los ...
September 11th, 2010
If the 'Mosque' Isn't Built, This Is No Longer America
OpenMike 9/11/10 Michael Moore's daily blog I am opposed to the building of the "mosque" two blocks from Ground Zero. I want it built on ...
December 14th, 2010
Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange
Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that ...
May 12th, 2011
Some Final Thoughts on the Death of Osama bin Laden
"The Nazis killed tens of MILLIONS. They got a trial. Why? Because we're not like them. We're Americans. We roll different." – Michael Moore in ...
November 22nd, 2011
Where Does Occupy Wall Street Go From Here?
This past weekend I participated in a four-hour meeting of Occupy Wall Street activists whose job it is to come up with the vision and ...
September 22nd, 2011
A STATEMENT FROM MICHAEL MOORE ON THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS
I encourage everyone I know to never travel to Georgia, never buy anything made in Georgia, to never do business in Georgia. I will ask ...
December 16th, 2010
Dear Swedish Government: Hi there -- or as you all say, Hallå! You know, all of us here in the U.S. love your country. Your ...
November 2nd, 2010
This letter contains (almost) no criticisms of how the Democrats have brought this day of reckoning upon themselves. That -- and where to go from ...
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Why have you started a comedy festival in northern Michigan in the middle of winter?
Because if you were here in the dead of winter in the middle of nowhere (which is actually somewhere to us), you'd need a few laughs too ... Continue Reading
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