Saturday, September 11, 2010
Trailer for The Tillman Story Documentray About the Pat Tillman Cover-Up
Watch this. The f-ckery around this REAL American Hero by the former administration is F-CKING OUTRAGEOUS!!!
More...
Documentary director Amir bar-Lev's The Tillman Story is a scathing indictment of the U.S. government. [Metro News]
In case you didn't know, disgraced Afghan US Forces commander, General Stanley McChrystal is a central figure in the Pat Tillman cover-up.
In the Name of Pat Tillman: Good Riddance to Stanley McChrystal. [The nation]
Pat Tillman's mother on Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal: I told you so. [MichaelMoore.com]
Mother of Pat Tillman, Michael Moore, speak out about Gen. McChrystal's appointment to teach at Yale, calls it 'an insult.' [Daily News]
Labels: Afghanistan, GOP corruption, GOP incompetence, War on Terror
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
CBS News: Disturbing Iraq US Helicopter Attack Video Leaks
I just saw this story on CBC's The National news show tonight but they don't have any video up on their youtube channel (why?) so I'm putting up this CBS video instead. BTW the part that CBS News doesn't make clear (but The National did): when that gunship helicopter asks permission to open fire a second time, that's on two men who are clearly shown trying to help carry the lone survivor of the initial attack to safety! WTF??!? This is deeply disturbing. It's time to get out of Afghanistan and Iraq. What good can we (the US and Canada) do there now at this point?
Get more info and the full video on the attack at wikileaks.com.
Related:
"Despite denials to the contrary, leaked government memos show the Canadian Conservative government was warned last summer that working with the Afghan secret police, the NDS would lead to allegations Canada condoned abuse and that Canadians could face legal liability for complicity in torture." [CBC News]
Labels: Afghanistan, Iraq war, WTF
Sunday, December 13, 2009
60 Minutes interview with President Obama
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Speaking on the situation on Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Click HERE for more.
Labels: 60 Minutes, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Pakistan, Politics
Thursday, December 10, 2009
President Obama Announces His New Afghanistan Strategy
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*Late pass*
Short on time? Watch the 4-minute version of his address at West Point above HERE.
Counterpoint:
Moderate conservative thinker, Eric Margolis says Pres. Obama's Afghan surge strategy is misguided.
And on the liberal side, filmmaker Michael Moore agrees.
Related:
Oh yeah, Pres. Obama also accepted his Nobel Peace Prize award today.
Labels: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Michael Moore, War on Terror
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
President Obama Says He Intends to ‘Finish the Job’ in Afghanistan
More via The New York Times HERE.
Is there really a way this ends as anything more than just a catastrophe or failed mission?
Labels: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, War on Terror
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Music video: Jasiri X - "Afghanistan (HerStory)"
Yes, guilty as charged - another one of my 'random posts' about the Afghan elections and such! :/
"Episode 26 is tells the story of the connection between Afghanistan and war, leading to her intimate yet volatile relationship with the United States. "Afghanistan (HerStory)" is produced by Kai Roberts and directed by Paradise the Arkitech of X-Clan."
Click HERE for the lyrics.
Online:
Real Talk Xpress
Labels: Afghanistan, Jasiri X, Politics
Thursday, November 05, 2009
Video: The US strategy is failing in Afghanistan - "Afghans just want to be left alone"
Related:
Video + Article: Hail of fire raises a chilling question: who is the enemy in Afghanistan? [The Guardian]
Labels: Afghanistan, War on Terror, WTF
Sunday, November 01, 2009
AP video: Abdullah Abdullah Drops Out of Afghan Runoff Election
Reuters take HERE.
NY Times: Transparent Election Is Not Possible, Says Rival to Karzai.
Expect the Mayor of Kabul and his sheisty-ass brother to continue their corruption and drug dealing unabated after Wednesday's now defacto sham, run-off election.
Labels: Afghanistan, War on Terror, WTF
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
The CIA: Bigger Smack Dealers than Frank Lucas and 'Freeway' Ricky Ross Combined?
Afghan president, Hamid Karzai's brother, Ahmed Wali Karzai has widely been suspected of being one of the country's leading opium (heroin) dealers.
Now comes a New York Times report today claiming he's also been on the CIA payroll for years! Ergo, ipso facto....
Semi-related:
The C.I.A. Buy Stake in Firm That Monitors Blogs, Tweets and other Social Media Networks. [Wired]
So if the posts come to a sudden halt at The Kitchen, you'll know what happened!
Labels: Afghanistan, C.I.A., War on Terror, WTF
CBS Video: Deadly Coordinated Taliban Attacks Today in Lead-Up to the Afghan Run-Off Election
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
CBS video: Fourteen Americans Killed In Afghanistan
Wow. Even CBS has now booked a military analyst with a decidedly 'frosty' attitude towards Obama's deliberations on what comes next on Afghanistan. Why does every Obama-unfriendly pundit claim he's had 10 months to figure out Afghanistan when they know the recent election there completely changed the gameplan options?
Related from The Kitchen: Rachel Maddow & Major General Paul Eaton ETHER Dick Cheney!
Labels: Afghanistan, War on Terror
Monday, October 26, 2009
Rachel Maddow & Major General Paul Eaton ETHER Dick Cheney!
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Former Vice President Dick Cheney: the Obama administration should stop 'dithering' and 'waffling' on Afghanistan. [MSNBC]
Gen. Eaton: "Dick Cheney and the Bush administration were incompetent war fighters." [National Security Network]
Senate Armed Services Committee chairman, Carl Levin: Cheney is 'totally out of bounds' and has no credibility left. [The Hill]
John McCain: "I wouldn't use [Dick Cheney's] language."
Conservative pundit, George Will To Cheney: You Should Have Dithered Before Invading Iraq. [Huff Post]
Vice President Biden is RIGHT, why is anyone even listening to this moron still??
Related:
14 Americans Die in Afghan Helicopter Crashes. [NY Times]
Labels: Afghanistan, Dick Cheney, GOP fearmongering, GOP incompetence, Rachel Maddow, Republican f-ckery, War on Terror
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Was the Afghan UN Envoy Fired for Saying the UN was Ignoring Widespread Election Fraud?
Watch the video....
Here's the NY Times article and Washington Post Op-Ed by UN envoy, Peter Galbraith cited in the video. Read more via: Guardian | NPR.
Related:
President Obama tries to heal rifts over war strategy in Afghanistan. [Times of London] More via The Washington Post.
Afghanistan is a f-cking disaster and this was the Just battle in the 'war on terror.' *Smh*....
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Here's the NY Times article and Washington Post Op-Ed by UN envoy, Peter Galbraith cited in the video. Read more via: Guardian | NPR.
Related:
President Obama tries to heal rifts over war strategy in Afghanistan. [Times of London] More via The Washington Post.
Afghanistan is a f-cking disaster and this was the Just battle in the 'war on terror.' *Smh*....
Labels: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, United Nations, War on Terror, WTF
Friday, September 11, 2009
September 11, 2001: the aftermath....
Sen. Bernard Sanders (I-VT) on rethinking Afghanistan, the (now) 'un-winnable war.' This was supposed to be the 'just' war in the so-called War on Terror but it's been getting worse and worse, with no end in sight, the Taliban actually getting stronger and the end-goal & exit strategy becoming less and less clear. You lie?? Yes, President Bush, you did....
Labels: 9/11, Afghanistan
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Video: Afghan election excitement overshadows Taliban threat
I guess that's a good sign?
More via Worldfocus, BBC News, NY Times and CNN.
Labels: Afghanistan, War on Terror
Monday, May 11, 2009
BREAKING: Top US Afghan General Fired by President Obama and Defense Secretary Gates
Semi-related:
U.S. Soldier Shoots 5 of His Comrades to Death in Iraq. [The New York Times]
Bteween this and Pakistan, your boy Bush left a HUGE pot of sh-t for Obama to deal with. Invading Iraq was the worst US foreign policy decision in almost 50 years!
Labels: Afghanistan, Iraq war, War on Terror, WTF
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Video: Obama's new strategy in Afghanistan
Side question: is Russia Today the Al Jazeera English of Russia? I mean: even if the story has merit, isn't it a bit rich of them do a piece on the threat of Big Brother-style surveillance coming to Americans' computer given what goes on in Russia? I'm just saying....
Labels: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Russian Imperialism
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Gen. David Petraeus leaves Iraq after 20 months
When Petraeus said in the video above that he might never use the word victory for Iraq on 9/11 this year did he mean never ever or just until he left the country 5 days later?
Related:
"Pakistan's army spokesman has made clear that its forces have been ordered to open fire if US troops launch another raid across the Afghan border." [BBC News]
Afghanistan: Pakistan fury at US cross-border attacks. [The Independent of London]
Labels: Afghanistan, GOP incompetence, Iraq war, Pakistan, War on Terror
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Afghanistan: from bad to worse?
From an AP article by Jason Straziuso in the Miami Herald:
"Taliban insurgents once derided as a ragtag rabble unable to match U.S. troops have transformed into a fighting force -- one advanced enough to mount massive conventional attacks and claim American lives at a record pace."
Click here for the full article.
Related:
"A Senior US diplomat in northwest Pakistan escapes gun attack on consulate vehicle." [AP via amNY.com]
American deaths in Afghanistan war reach 500 - don't think I forgot that grim milestone earlier this month. [MSNBC.com]
Iraq and U.S. disagree on timetable for troop withdrawal. (Or do they?) [Seattle Times | Time]
Labels: Afghanistan, GOP incompetence, Iraq war, War on Terror
