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U.S. Military
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Jeffrey Archer , URUKNET
Sunday-Wednesday, February 28-March 3, 2010
Nineteen years ago, one of the most diabolical slaughters in war history occurred in Iraq. Despite the assurances of the Bush I regime that retreating Iraqi soldiers would not be attacked, just the opposite happened. Iraqi soldiers and civilians were massacred after Saddam Hussein called... » read this article
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Bill Van Auken , WSWS
6 February 2010
As US and British troops prepare to attack the town of Marjah in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province, military commanders and the media are openly comparing the operation to the November 2004 siege of Fallujah, one of the bloodiest war crimes of the Iraq war.
The operation in central... » read this article
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Alex Lantier , WSWS
18 January 2010
Amid the humanitarian tragedy following the January 12 earthquake in Haiti, Washington has concentrated on establishing indefinite military control of the country. Fearing mass protests and riots by desperate Haitians against inadequate rescue efforts, US logistical efforts are focused on massing tens of thousands of troops for... » read this article
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David Walsh , WSWS
"This is the moral state of the American media: the murder of poverty-stricken children by missiles or bombs might, after all, be no more than an 'honest mistake'.”
14 January 2010
American television news becomes more and more unwatchable, especially in its reports on the expanding wars in the Middle... » read this article
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Dahr Jamail , Truth Out
Army Specialist and Iraq war veteran Marc Hall was
incarcerated by the US Army on December 11, 2009, in Liberty County
Jail, Georgia, for recording a song that expresses his anger over the
Army's stop-loss policy.
Stop-loss is a policy that allows the Army to keep soldiers active
beyond the... » read this article
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Peter Schwarz , WSWS
7 January 2010
Four years ago in Hamburg, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and mercenary firm Blackwater planned and prepared the assassination of the German-Syrian businessman Mamoun Darkazanli. This is reported by the American magazine Vanity Fair in its January issue. The report has unleashed considerable turmoil in German political... » read this article
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Kate Randall , WSWS
4 January 2010
A federal judge dropped charges Thursday against five former Blackwater security contractors in connection with the September 2007 shooting deaths of unarmed Iraqis in Baghdad.
The ruling makes it almost certain that the security guards, Blackwater management, and the US State Department officials that employed the guards... » read this article
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