Kevin Hayden – TruthisTreason.net

Source: New American, Hayden’s Note near end

It remains unclear exactly why or how the Gadhafi regime went from “a model” and an “important ally” to the next target for regime change in a period of just a few years. But after claims of “genocide” as the justification for NATO intervention were disputed by experts, several other theories have been floated.

Oil, of course, has been mentioned frequently — Libya is Africa‘s largest oil producer. But one possible reason in particular for Gadhafi’s fall from grace has gained significant traction among analysts and segments of the non-Western media: central banking and the global monetary system.

According to more than a few observers, Gadhafi’s plan to quit selling Libyan oil in U.S. dollars — demanding payment instead in gold-backed “dinars” (a single African currency made from gold) — was the real cause. The regime, sitting on massive amounts of gold, estimated at close to 150 tons, was also pushing other African and Middle Eastern governments to follow suit.

Hayden’s Note:

Saddam did the same thing… Invaded and hanged....

Kevin Hayden – TruthisTreason.net

Source: RT News

A new report reveals that in the decade since the September 11 attacks, the Department of Defense spent around $1 trillion on weaponry for troops in Iraq in Afghanistan.

Conservative lawmakers and most of the GOP front-runners meanwhile have insisted that making any cuts to the US military budget would be detrimental to the defense of the nation. As the country continues to hemorrhage money abroad and a financial crisis is causing a second recession in just as few years, however, the United States has wasted $1 trillion on wars that a recent poll showed that even those who served didn’t think was worth it.

Hayden’s Note:

See also: What withdrawal? Obama wants $100 million prison in Afghanistan, US building drone bases in Africa, Veterans say wars weren’t worth it, August was deadliest month for Americans in Afghanistan

In the recently released report from the Stimson Center, “What We Bought: Defense Procurement From FY01 to FY10,” it is revealed that rather than investing the Pentagon’s massive budget in the troops themselves, the United States spent colossal amounts on modernizing its army with tanks, ships, jets and other warcraft....

Kevin Hayden – TruthisTreason.net

Source: Tony Cartalucci – Truth Contributor

For ten months the Obama administration has presided over the “Arab Spring,” a geopolitical gambit years in the making, and executed simultaneously in multiple nations throughout the Middle East and North Africa in the beginning of 2011. The regional conflagration was stoked by a steady stream of first, denial, even feigned surprise, with covert support for US-backed opposition groups, then more overt support, and finally NATO airstrikes, weapons, training, and special operations forces lent to the rebellion in Libya and weapons and support sent to Syria’s militants. These collective efforts stretching from Tunisia and leading up to Iran’s doorstep serve a singular agenda -that is, to contain and ultimately overturn the reemergence of Russia as well as containing the rise of China.

Toppling Iran

Integral to this stated agenda, is the toppling of Iran’s government and its integration into the Wall Street-London “international order.” Efforts to topple Syria’s government by US-backed and now apparently armed opposition groups aim to isolate and even provoke the Islamic Republic into a suitable justification for US or Israeli (or both) retaliation....

Kevin Hayden – TruthisTreason.net

President Barack Obama has announced that virtually all US troops will come home from Iraq by the end of the year - at which point he can declare an end to America’s long and costly war in that Middle Eastern nation.

“After nearly nine years, America’s war in Iraq will be over, Obama said. “The coming months will be a season of homecomings. Our troops in Iraq will definitely be home for the holidays. – CNN “

However, this begs the question, “When will our troops from Yemen, Uganda, Afghanistan, Somalia, Germany, Egypt, Pakistan, Japan, Libya, South Korea, Turkey, United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Kuwait, Bahrain, Portugal, Belgium, and the numerous other countries where soldiers are stationed come home?”

Furthermore, I don’t foresee a massive “homecoming” for the holidays.  The Administration is attempting to create some aire of happy holidays and hugs at the airport, when in reality, most of these soldiers will simply be shifted to other regional bases, such as Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Afghanistan.  This is merely a military troop re-allocation in preperation for a conflict with Iran, or perhaps a handful of other countries who might suddenly find themselves within the Western crosshairs....

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Kevin Hayden – TruthisTreason.net

Source: McClatchy

A U.S. diplomatic cable made public by WikiLeaks provides evidence that U.S. troops executed at least 10 Iraqi civilians, including a woman in her 70s and a 5-month-old infant, then called in an airstrike to destroy the evidence, during a controversial 2006 incident in the central Iraqi town of Ishaqi.

The unclassified cable, which was posted on WikiLeaks’ website last week, contained questions from a United Nations investigator about the incident, which had angered local Iraqi officials, who demanded some kind of action from their government. U.S. officials denied at the time that anything inappropriate had occurred.

Hayden’s Note:

It’s called, “War Crimes.”

But Philip Alston, the U.N.’s special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, said in a communication to American officials dated 12 days after the March 15, 2006, incident that autopsies performed in the Iraqi city of Tikrit showed that all the dead had been handcuffed and shot in the head.  Among the dead were four women and five children. The children were all 5 years old or younger....

TruthisTreason.net – Kevin Hayden

Source: Raw Story

The United States spends $20.2 billion annually on air conditioning for troops stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan — more than NASA’s entire budget, NPR reported.

In fact, the same amount of money that keeps soldiers cool is the amount the G-8 has committed to helping the fledgling democracies in Tunisia and Egypt.

The necessary cooling costs so much because of the remote locations and danger involved in delivery equipment and fuel says Steven Anderson, a retired logistician who served under Gen. David Petraeus in Iraq.

“When you consider the cost to deliver the fuel to some of the most isolated places in the world — escorting, command and control, med-evac support — when you throw all that infrastructure in, we’re talking over $20 billion,” Anderson told NPR. “You’ve got risks that are associated with moving the fuel almost every mile of the way.”

Hayden’s Note:

Funny that they mention the costs involved in moving the fuel “almost every mile of the way.”  Previously, we’ve discussed the insane ways in which the poppy fields and strategic roadways are controlled by warlords and at least in the southern Helmand Province, by the Afghan President’s own brother.  Top military leaders have admitted to on-going bribes paid in order for supplies to travel through certain regions – and this money goes directly back into growing opium, arming insurgents and financially supporting those that take up arms against the occupying Western forces.  So,literally, the $20 billion we pay every year in order to air condition TENTS and metal containers in a desert goes right back into the hands of defense contractors and insurgents alike....

TruthisTreason.net – Kevin Hayden

Source: Wired

The consortium in charge of restructuring the world’s most infamous private security firm just added a new chief in charge of keeping the company on the straight and narrow. Yes, John Ashcroft, the former attorney general, is now an “independent director” of Xe Services, formerly known as Blackwater.

Ashcroft will head Xe’s new “subcommittee on governance,” its backers announced early Wednesday in a statement, an entity designed to “maximize governance, compliance and accountability” and “promote the highest degrees of ethics and professionalism within the private security industry.”

In other words, we should expect no more shooting civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan; no more signing for weapons its guards aren’t authorized to carry in warzones; no more impersonations of cartoon characters to acquire said weaponry; and no more steroids and coke on the job….?  What about the adolescent dancing boys they pay for?  Or the young girls they gang rape?...

TruthisTreason.net – Kevin Hayden

Source: Public Integrity

A once-classified FBI memo reveals that the bureau treated a senior ABC News journalist as a potential confidential informant in the 1990s, pumping the reporter to ascertain the source of a sensational but uncorroborated tip that the network had obtained during its early coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing.

The journalist, whose name is not disclosed in the document labeled “secret,” not only cooperated but provided the identity of a confidential source, according to the FBI memo — a possible breach of journalistic ethics if he or she did not have the source’s permission.

The ABC employee was even assigned a number in the FBI’s informant database, indicating he or she was still being vetted for suitability as a snitch after providing “highly accurate and reliable information in the past” and then revealing information the network had obtained in the hours just after the 1995 terrorist attack by Timothy McVeigh.

The journalist “advised that a source within the Saudi Arabian Intelligence Service advised that the Oklahoma City bombing was sponsored by the Iraqi Special Services who contracted seven (7) former Afghani Freedom Fighters out of Pakistan,” an April 17, 1996 FBI memo states, recounting the then-ABC journalist’s interview with FBI agents a year earlier on the evening of the April 19, 1995 bombing....

TruthisTreason.net – Kevin Hayden

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TruthisTreason.net – Kevin Hayden

Source: TruthOffering.com, by Matt Gordon

Only powerful, prosperous nations have ever become dominant military powers. Of course, this is because you must have the means to create a strong military and complimentary technology. Without those means, a nation would be incapable of becoming a dominant militaristic force. Since the early 1900s, the United States has had the means and has used them in greater and greater measure, exploding during and after WWII.

Today, the United States is the pinnacle of militaristic world dominance, eclipsing even the most outlandish desires of the Roman empire. The US has military bases in nearly every country in the world; almost 130 countries, actually. And we spend almost as much on our military as all other nations in the world combined [1]. And when our military is not proactively attacking someone — almost always against our wishes — they’re the world’s SWAT team… the last line of defense. 

But our ability to be that is in decline. We’ve over-extended ourselves, unable to fund the malignant military’s never-ending war waging. If we looked at our military for what it is — a prosperity-consuming monster — we could stop it....

TruthisTreason.net – Kevin Hayden

Source: Associated Press

U.S. and British ships and submarines launched the first phase of a missile assault on Libyan air defenses, firing 112 Tomahawk cruise missiles Saturday at more than 20 coastal targets to clear the way for air patrols to ground Libya’s air force.

Hayden’s Note:

Former President George Bush bombed Iraq to remove their leader on March 19th, 2003.  President Barack Obama bombed Libya to remove their leader on March 19th, 2011.

Change we can believe in?

In announcing the mission during a visit to Brazil, President Barack Obama said he was reluctant to resort to force but was convinced it was necessary to save the lives of civilians. He reiterated that he would not send American ground troops to Libya.

“We cannot stand idly by when a tyrant tells his people there will be no mercy,” he said in Brasilia.

It was clear the U.S. intended to limit its role in the Libya intervention, focusing first on disabling or otherwise silencing Libyan air defenses, and then leaving it to European and perhaps Arab countries to enforce a no-fly zone over the North African nation....

Source: Press TV

A senior Afghan official says the US-led forces have long been violating basic human rights by conducting night raids and killing civilians in the war-ravaged country. Atta Mohammad Noor, the Governor of Balkh Province, says the foreign forces frequently enter residents’ homes and arrest people. “These actions by foreign forces are inhumane and illegal under the Afghan law,” he told reporters in Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of Balkh Province on Thursday.

Hayden’s Note:

I’m sure they still “hate us for our freedoms…”   Right?  Give me a break.  With Hillary recently espousing her rhetoric in support of the protesting Egyptians yet brutalizing and arresting a former CIA worker who dared to stand during her speech in defiance, and the State Dept. trying to stir the pot in other middle eastern countries via Twitter, it amazes me that we wake up each day and allow this un-American tragedy to continue.  What if a foreign military was in Dallas, going house to house arresting Americans and using drones to flatten neighborhoods? 

Better yet, why can we not abide by the rules and laws that we helped Afghanistan set up in their constitution?  We are terrorists in the eyes of many Middle Easterners and I have great sympathy for them.  We attend rallies and “protests” trying to address our own Constitutional issues and yet many of these same “freedom lovers” condemn other parts of the world to a life of death and destruction while supporting the very political-hacks that they “rally” against.  It’s one big circle....

Source: Service Contractor

“…more than 2,000 contractors have died in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. “Contractor deaths now represent over 25 percent of all U.S. fatalities” in those conflicts, write Steven Schooner and Collin Swan of the George Washington University Law School.”

In Iraq in both 2009 and 2010, and in Afghanistan in 2010, contractors were running ahead of the U.S. military in losses, the article indicates.

Hayden’s Note:

More than likely, the term ‘contractor’ refers to security contractors engaged in hostile firefights, convoys and trucking from corporations such as Blackwater (now Xe), DynCorp, Triple Canopy, etc.

Read the entire article here – ...

Source: Breit Bart

WikiLeaks said Monday it was planning to publish nearly three million more secret documents in its next mass release of confidential material, according to its Twitter feed.

WikiLeaks did not say when the release would be, nor on what subject, but the number of documents would be seven times larger than its release last month when it posted some 400,000 secret documents about the war in Iraq on its site.

“Next release is 7x the size of the Iraq War Logs. intense pressure over it for months. Keep us strong,” WikiLeaks said on its Twitter feed, adding a link to a donations website.

It would be WikiLeaks’ third mass release of classified documents after it published 77,000 secret US files on the Afghan conflict in July.

WikiLeaks argues the release of the documents, US-soldier authored incident reports from 2004 to 2009, has shed light on the wars, including allegations of torture by Iraqi forces and reports that suggested 15,000 additional civilian deaths in Iraq.

WikiLeaks’ announcement comes just days after Sweden issued an international arrest warrant for the website’s head, Australian Julian Assange, wanted for questioning related to rape and sexual molestation accusations....

Source: Raw Story

Fewer than one in 10 Afghans are aware of the 9/11 attacks and their precipitation of the war in Afghanistan, says a study from an international think tank.

A report (PDF) from the International Council on Security and Development (ICOS) shows that 92 percent of those surveyed had never heard of the coordinated multiple attacks on US soil on September 11, 2001. It also shows that four in 10 Afghans believe the US is on their soil in order to “destroy Islam or occupy Afghanistan.”

To be sure, the survey can’t claim to be definitive: It only canvassed men, and relied primarily on respondents from Helmand and Kandahar, the two most war-torn provinces in the country. But the results nonetheless show that Western forces fighting insurgents in Afghanistan have largely failed to connect with the local population.

“We need to explain to the Afghan people why we are here, and both show and convince them that their future is better with us than with the Taliban,” ICOS lead field researcher Norine MacDonald said in a statement.

Hayden’s Note:

Sure, with only 10% of the population even understanding the military’s supposed intention in their country, forcing the rule of law and democracy upon them will surely open their eyes to the wonders and benefits of American Capitalism, right?  Right?  I mean, it’s worked so well for us… might as well open up a Goldman Sachs investment house in Helmand Province.  There’s plenty of capital in the form of fresh opium. 

We need to simply apologize, assist in rebuilding their economy from afar through business and diplomacy, along with the Taliban and get out of Afghanistan.  Too many patriotic Afghans have died and most have no clue why they’re even fighting.  They simply know that an occupying force is on their soil kicking in their doors, murdering their neighbors and getting high on their heroin while claiming moral superiority.  I’d be an insurgent if that was happening in MY neighborhood, too!  I’m not saying everyone over there is a victim – but if most of the citizenry don’t understand why America is rolling in with up-armored M1 Abrams and flying Predator drones over their rooftops every hour – can you blame them?  And even if America DID have a legitimate reason for occupying the country, along with Pakistan, Yemen and Iraq, it surely is lost after the 10 years of fighting and politics. 

I could have sworn, if my memory serves me correctly, that we went into Afghanistan for about 120 cave dwellers whose leader was on dialysis and about to die and whose funding came directly from Pakistani intelligence and our own deep pockets from the 1990′s…?  Hmmm, I don’t remember Saddam Hussein having anything to do with 9/11.  If any military force were used, it should have been to uproot those embedded, rogue intel operatives within the CIA and Pakistani ISI.  We pay triple the costs to rebuild bridges that we blew up in Afghanistan while American bankers get richer; American Congressmen get richer; and the American People continue falling down the blackhole of debt zombies....

Source: Press TV

American forces decapitated an Iraqi last year on the order of their higher-up, show recently-exposed US military documents.

The troops operated under the command of an unnamed US major, who had been involved in the rape of an Iraqi female, showed one such document posted on the whistleblower website WikiLeaks.

The incident took place after the victim, the brother of the raped female, reportedly killed a military official in reprisal for the indecent assault.

To enable the May incident in the city of Haditha of the western Iraq province of Al Anbar, the major said he was undertaking the transfer of two prisoners, including the victim.

WikiLeaks has released around 400,000 documents on the 2003-present US-led invasion of Iraq. The founder of the website, Julian Assange, has hailed the disclosure as one “about the truth” behind the war.

The site has also exposed documents on the similar US-led war in Afghanistan and is expected to disclose additional related details.

The following is the body of the original document .

___ DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF EVENT: ON 25MAY09, MAJOR ___ (SWAT CDR) AND COL (___) TOLD -___ LEADERSHIP THAT THEY WERE GOING TO DELIVER TWO DETAINEES TO ___ IN THE NORTH BECAUSE THERE WAS MORE INCRIMINATING EVIDENCE ON THE TWO DETAINEES IN ___ THAN IN HADITHAH....

Source: WikiLeaks

At 5pm EST Friday, October 22nd, WikiLeaks released the largest classified military leak in history. The 391,832 reports (‘The Iraq War Logs’), document the war and occupation in Iraq, from 1st January 2004 to 31st December 2009 (except for the months of May 2004 and March 2009) as told by soldiers in the United States Army. Each is a ‘SIGACT’ or Significant Action in the war. They detail events as seen and heard by the US military troops on the ground in Iraq and are the first real glimpse into the secret history of the war that the United States government has been privy to throughout.

The reports detail 109,032 deaths in Iraq, comprised of 66,081 ‘civilians’; 23,984 ‘enemy’ (those labeled as insurgents); 15,196 ‘host nation’ (Iraqi government forces) and 3,771 ‘friendly’ (coalition forces). The majority of the deaths (66,000, over 60%) of these are civilian deaths.That is 31 civilians dying every day during the six year period. For comparison, the ‘Afghan War Diaries’, previously released by WikiLeaks, covering the same period, detail the deaths of some 20,000 people....

Kevin Hayden

TruthisTreason.net

Iraq: 12 Die as Gunmen Storm Baghdad Gold Shops

At least 12 people died when [Blackwater?] gunmen invaded a row of gold shops in the Mansour District of western Baghdad on Sunday and ended up in a gunfight with security forces, police and military officials said. The gunmen used hand grenades and small arms to kill three shop owners. When they emerged, two gunmen, two police officers, a soldier and four civilians were killed in the shootout.

Hayden’s Note:

I think we might start seeing this in America as the price of gold continues to climb.  Conventional burglars and robbers will soon start targeting these metals in shops and homes as the economy continues to sink.  Today’s drop in precious metals is simply in response to China bumping their interest rates up a bit, but gold and silver will continue their steady climb towards $1,425 and $26 respectively by year’s end. 

I do find it highly suspicious that this occurred in Western Baghdad, where thousands of Blackwater agents are stationed.  This screams of “professional operation by highly trained individuals” and not some random group of rag-tag insurgents.  The insurgents have their opium fields, bribery payoffs and road blocks which fund their operations.  They certainly don’t need to go around knocking off gold shops in Baghdad.  No, that’s American greed right there… not Arab....

Source: Reuters

Thirteen companies have qualified to bid in Iraq’s Oct. 20 auction for three gas fields and no others will be allowed to take part, a senior oil official said on Monday.

Hayden’s Note:
Mission Accomplished! ….right? Uhhh.

Iraq will tender gas fields at Akkas in the western desert, Iraq’s Sunni heartland and once an al Qaeda stronghold, Mansuriyah near the Iranian border in volatile Diyala province, and Siba in the relatively peaceful southern oil hub of Basra.

The three fields together have estimated reserves of around 11.23 trillion cubic feet of gas.

The bidding round has been delayed twice to give companies more time to study contract terms. [nLDE68I02T]

“Thirteen companies will take part in the gas auction and no more firms will be allowed,” Abdul-Mahdy al-Ameedi, head of the Iraqi oil ministry’s licensing and contracting office, told Reuters....

Source: Break.com

We’re stuck in Iraq.  We’re stuck in Afghanistan.  Soon to be Pakistan.

We need to get out of these countries…but obviously, we need to work on things one step at a time.

Like getting out of a canal, first.  Geeeez.

And apparently, our soldiers have too much free time on their hands…

Soldiers use grenade launcher to blow up fuel tanker by the side of the road.

And these two geniuses…wow. Straight to special forces. Makes ya feel safe, huh? LoL

...

Source: Raw Story

US soldier in custody after fatal shootings of 2 American personnel in Iraq.

An American serviceman is being held in Iraq in connection with the fatal shootings of two soldiers and the wounding of another following an apparent argument, the U.S. military said Tuesday.

A statement by U.S. forces said Spc. Neftaly Platero was in custody during the investigation into last week’s slayings in Fallujah, a former insurgent stronghold 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad.

Col. Barry Johnson, a U.S. military spokesman, said a “verbal altercation” broke out among four soldiers last Thursday and the suspect “allegedly took his weapon and began shooting the other soldiers.”

Hayden’s Note:

Ya know what’s sad about this whole situation?  Twice as many US soldiers have been arrested for murder in the last 7 days than combat casualities for the month of September in the so-called ‘Operation New Dawn’.  That’s kind of scary, don’t ya think?  When they come back home they’ll be hired by your local police dept. and begin patrolling your streets, responding to your house and pulling you over for speeding with all that PTSD, anger and depression built up inside.  Good luck!

...

Source: Wired

via Cryptogon.com

Scanning prisoners’ irises is just Step 1. In Afghanistan, local and NATO forces are amassing biometric dossiers on hundreds of thousands of cops, crooks, soldiers, insurgents and ordinary citizens. And now, with NATO’s backing, the Kabul government is putting together a plan to issue biometrically backed identification cards to 1.65 million Afghans by next May.

The idea is to hinder militant movement around the country, and to keep Taliban infiltrators out of the army, NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan commander Lt. Gen. William Caldwell tells Danger Room. “The system allows the Afghans to thoroughly screen applicants and recruits for any potential negative past history or criminal linkages, while at the same time it provides an additional measure of security at checkpoints and major facilities to prevent possible entrance and access by malign actors in Afghanistan,” Caldwell e-mails.

It’s a high-tech upgrade to a classic counterinsurgency move — simultaneously taking a census of the population, culling security forces of double agents and cutting off guerrilla routes. (Plus, bombs and weapons can be swabbed for fingerprints to build files on insurgent suspects.) Gen....

Source: Lew Rockwell

by Karen Kwiatkowski, Ph.D., Retired USAF Lieutenant Colonel

Legend has it that one evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, “My son, the battle is between two wolves inside us all. One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith.”

The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather: “Which wolf wins?” The old Cherokee replied, “The one you feed.”

As guidance for individual lives, it works. In philosophy or religion, this story has a sure place. But when it is applied to government, there may be a completely different lesson to be learned. And Americans are going to learn it soon, ready or not.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mullen rightly understands that the national debt is the biggest single risk to the enterprise to which he has devoted his entire adult life, the military industrial complex....

Source: Global Research

Exemplified by the furor over the so-called “Ground Zero mosque” in New York, and rumors of a new Al-Qaeda “mastermind”, 9/11 “war on terrorism” propaganda has been ramped up to deafening levels by various political factions.

Nearly a decade since Bush/Cheney’s 9/11 false flag deception, a fearful, self-destructive American mass public remains fully brainwashed by “war on terrorism”  deception— ignorant of history, and militantly oblivious to facts.

“Ground Zero mosque”: the art of missing the point

The ludicrous uproar over plans to build a Muslim community center in New York, the so-called “Ground Zero mosque” has dominated mainstream corporate news headlines. Political players from all sides, including President Barack Obama have joined the fray, attempting to prove themselves the superior “anti-terrorist”, or the better “commemorator of 9/11, when 3,000 people were killed by Muslim terrorists”. The right-wing is going berserk, gleefully.

Heated arguments have exploded around religion, tolerance, democracy, etc.—everything except the only fact that matters: 9/11 was a false flag operation, courtesy of the Bush-Cheney administration, carried out by an elite consensus, in order to justify the “war on terrorism”, and everything that came with it....

Source: Washington Post

Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), co-author of a bipartisan bill to protect reporters and their confidential sources, said all parties responsible for gathering, distributing and publishing documents released by Wikileaks.org about the Afghanistan war ought to be “thoroughly investigated.”

Hayden’s Note:

Isn’t that a bit of an oxymoron?  He sponsored a bill to protect reporters during federal investigations and in the same breath, calls for WikiLeaks reporters to be “thoroughly investigated.”  What a jack@$$.

Pence said the revelations in the documents do not change his view of the conflict, nor does he expect a shift in public opinion. “Back home in Indiana, people still remember where the attacks on 9/11 came from,” said Pence, the third-ranking House Republican. [Hayden's Note - That would be a joint operation between Langley, Virginia, Israel and the Pakistani ISI] “I don’t believe this release will have a signficant bearing on the sense of my constituents about the justness of this war or the imperative of its successful completion.”

Pence did not specify what type of action should be taken against the individuals and organizations involved in the disclosure....

Source: BlackListed News

An archive of classified U.S. military logs spanning six years, more than 91,000 documents, and 200,000 pages, was today made available by WikiLeaks. The papers show a picture of the war in Afghanistan that is far more grim, and far less hopeful, than previously portrayed.

Hayden’s Note:

I have a hard time believing that a Private First Class had access to and the ability to deliver the “largest intelligence leak in history.”  But, we shall see as more people dive into the data. 

Editorial from Cryptogon.com

People often ask me if I think this source or that source is disinfo…

My response is always: TREAT EVERY SOURCE AS DISINFO.

You’ll avoid disappointment when the thing starts serving up rat poison—which, unfortunately, happens a lot.

I haven’t shared this before, but in early 2008, someone from WikiLeaks wrote to me. This person wondered why I hadn’t mentioned WikiLeaks on Cryptogon. He wondered if maybe I hadn’t heard of it, or had concerns that it was a front of some sort.

I simply wrote back that I was aware of WikiLeaks, and that I was hopeful and skeptical at the same time....

Source: Global Research

via Cryptogon

The Iraqi city of Fallujah continues to suffer the ghastly consequences of a US military onslaught in late 2004.

According to the authors of a new study, “Cancer, Infant Mortality and Birth Sex-Ratio in Fallujah, Iraq 2005–2009,” the people of Fallujah are experiencing higher rates of cancer, leukemia, infant mortality, and sexual mutations than those recorded among survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the years after those Japanese cities were incinerated by US atomic bomb strikes in 1945.

Hayden’s Note:

This is the first warning I have ever issued on this website.  I have included some pictures of what depleted uranium does to babies.  These babies are born with mutated parts, monsterous faces and some are barely recognizable as human.  This is so sad and some readers might not want to view them, so I will post them at the END of this article. 

If the babies being born right now are this deformed and cancer rates are exponentially higher than surrounding areas, imagine what the babies of many US soldiers will look like after 3 or 4 tours in Iraq. 

Depleted Uranium is essentially spent nuclear reactor fuel.  Instead of disposing of it in a safe manner, the powers that be have decided that they can not only profit from the waste, but they can get rid of it by creating ammunition with it.  With countless rounds being fired each year in the multiple theater war that’s going on, if you alloy just a small amount of toxic waste to each munition, eventually your soldiers get rid of it for you each time they fire!  It’s also much more deadly as the round becomes much, much denser than typical lead, therefore being used as an armor piercer.  Depleted uranium also reacts to air, so it is literally on fire as it cuts through armor, sending particulates of radiation everywhere upon impact.  Imagine a miniature dirty bomb, because that’s exactly what this is. 

How many rounds have hit homes, schools, hospitals or are simply lying on the ground?  This uranium is constantly giving off radiation and the people of Iraq have to live with it. 

The soldiers get to go back to the “green zone.”

The epidemiological study, published in the International Journal of Environmental Studies and Public Health (IJERPH), also finds the prevalence of these conditions in Fallujah to be many times greater than in nearby nations....

Source: Independent.uk

 Tony Blair’s evidence to the Chilcot Inquiry that toppling Saddam Hussein helped make Britain safe from terrorists was dramatically undermined by the former head of MI5 yesterday.

Giving evidence to the same inquiry, Eliza Manningham-Buller revealed that there was such a surge of warnings of home-grown terrorist threats after the invasion of Iraq that MI5 asked for – and got – a 100 per cent increase in its budget. Baroness Manningham-Buller, who was director general of MI5 in 2002-07, told the Chilcot panel that MI5 started receiving a “substantially” higher volume of reports that young British Muslims being drawn to al-Qa’ida.

She told the inquiry: “Our involvement in Iraq radicalised, for want of a better word, a whole generation of young people – a few among a generation – who saw our involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan as being an attack on Islam.”

She added: “Arguably we gave Osama bin Laden his Iraqi jihad so that he was able to move into Iraq in a way that he was not before.”

Her words are in stark contrast to the claim that Mr Blair made in front of the same inquiry on 29 January....

Source: USA TODAY

Soldiers killed themselves at the rate of one per day in June making it the worst month on record for Army suicides, the service said Thursday.

There were 32 confirmed or suspected suicides among soldiers in June, including 21 among active-duty troops and 11 among National Guard or Reserve forces, according to Army statistics.

Seven soldiers killed themselves while in combat in Iraq or Afghanistan in June, according to the statistics. Of the total suicides, 22 soldiers had been in combat, including 10 who had deployed two to four times.

“The hypothesis is the same that many have heard me say before: continued stress on the force, said Army Col. Christopher Philbrick, director of the Army Suicide Prevention Task Force. He pointed out that the Army has been fighting for nine years in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Last year was the Army’s worst for suicides with 244 confirmed or suspected cases.

 The increase was a setback for the service, which has been pushing troops to seek counseling. Through May of this year, the Army had seen a decline in suicides among active-duty soldiers this year compared with the same period in 2009....