2022-01-05: News Headlines

Carson Midkiff (2022-01-04). Military's internal 'collateral damage' documents make excuses for war crimes. peoplesworld.org The fact that the countless numbers of drone strikes the United States military has conducted in the past few decades have resulted in the deaths of civilians is no surprise to anyone. Since the invasion of Iraq in 1991, up until the end of the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, it has become far too common …

_____ (2022-01-04). The War On Terror Is A Success — For Terror. popularresistance.org It began more than two decades ago. On September 20, 2001, President George W. Bush declared a "war on terror" and told a joint session of Congress (and the American people) that "the course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain." If he meant a 20-year slide to defeat in Afghanistan, a proliferation of militant groups across the Greater Middle East and Africa, and a never-ending, world-spanning war that, at a minimum, has killed about 300 times the number of people murdered in America on 9/11, then give him credit. He was absolutely right. | Days earlier, Congress had authorized Bush "to use a…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-01-04). Video: The Dangers of Nuclear War. globalresearch.ca While one can conceptualize the loss of life and destruction resulting from present-day wars including Iraq and Afghanistan, it is impossible to fully comprehend the devastation which might result from a Third World War, using "new technologies" and advanced weapons, until it occurs and becomes a reality.

teleSUR (2022-01-04). Puebla Group Supports AMLO's Offer to Grant Asylum to Assange. telesurenglish.net Julian Assange is a victim of political persecution by U.S. authorities after revealing in 2010 crimes against humanity committed by U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. | "Mexican President AMLO said he had sought a pardon for Julian Assange from former U.S. President Donald Trump before he left office last year and repeated his offer of asylum for the Wikileaks founder on Monday."

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-01-04). Blowback from Afghanistan. libya360.wordpress.com M.K. Bhadrakumar Fence along Durand Line separating Pakistan & Afghanistan Reports of the recent period are indicative of tensions between the Taliban forces and the Pakistani military deployed on their border. On December 22, the Afghan Defence Ministry spokesman Enayatullah Khwarazmi disclosed that the Taliban forces had stopped the Pakistani military from erecting an "illegal"…

_____ (2022-01-04). Who Won in Afghanistan? Private Contractors. strategic-culture.org By Dion NISSENBAUM, Jessica DONATI, Alan CULLISON | The U.S. lost its 20-year campaign to transform Afghanistan. Many contractors won big. | Those who benefited from the outpouring of government money range from major weapons manufacturers to entrepreneurs. A California businessman running a bar in Kyrgyzstan started a fuel business that brought in billions in revenue. A young Afghan translator transformed a deal to provide forces with bed sheets into a business empire including a TV station and a domestic airline. | Two Army National Guardsmen from Ohio started a small business providing the military with Afghan…

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