Circumstances surrounding this incident are under investigation.

The U.S. is touted as having a great democracy. Everything good–either real or imagined—is supposedly due to their principles of democracy. Seldom do American politicians or members of the public define or clarify what those principles include.

America’s founding fathers, who were familiar with the democracies of the classical Greeks, distrusted democracy.

How can it be a democracy when shadowy figures control events?

Anyone unmoved by that isn’t human. No one could write it who didn’t experience war’s horrors firsthand, and scream Say NO! Say NO! No More.

Written almost 65 years ago, wars rage daily. Millions more lives expired. Perhaps no one will listen to other Borcherts until no one’s left to hear, if “You do not say NO” now.

FOX news is now reporting an actual timeline for the up coming attack on Iran by Israel. America is backing it.

Panetta concerned Israel months from striking Iran

It is also widely known that Israel sought clearance from Secretary of Defense Gates to bomb Iran in July 2008 and were turned away. Any future attack by Israel will clearly suggest U.S. permission, whether it is given in fact or not. David E. Sanger, “U.S. Rejected Aid for Israeli Raid on Iranian Nuclear Site,” The New York Times, January 11, 2009.

I did an hour of radio this morning with Clay Douglas, Free America Radio. We were cut off. Surprise.

Allen Rolland was the guest on Mike Harris’ radio show today, Republic Broadcasting. They were cut off. Same thing with John Stokes on Orion.

Lee Wanta, whistleblowing former White House Intelligence Coordinator had his phones cut.

Real news today is that we just quit the war in Afghanistan with no notice at all. We cut combat operations to nothing, and are moving to the exits in total violation of our stated policies.

Call it a reelection ploy or a promise kept but it was a bad war, an illegal war, a lost war, a drug war and I don’t want one more life lost in Afghanistan.

The United States has made the surprise announcement that it will end combat operations in Afghanistan earlier than expected. Many believe the Obama Administration has finally given in to political pressure ahead of this year's presidential election.

United States is using illegal weaponry - particularly depleted uranium - during its wars in the Middle East.

An interview with Gareth Porter, investigative journalist:

An Afghan activist reveals the US is still using horrific depleted uranium weapons in Afghanistan, creating graveyards of people who die of cancer and other unusual diseases, Press TV reports.

"These weapons are still used. In fact, a US aircraft called A-10 warthog, normally, even if it doesn't use a uranium projectile in the machine gun, every third projectile is a uranium projectile and that's the working horse of the US army in Afghanistan. They use it left and right," Dr. Mohammad Daud Miraki said in an interview with Press TV.

Defence Secretary Leon Panetta laid out the administration's most explicit portrayal of the US drawdown in Afghanistan, saying on Wednesday that US and other international forces in Afghanistan expect to end their combat role in 2013 and continue a training and advisory role with Afghan forces through 2014.

“Afghan civilians frequently prefer Taliban governance over GIRoA [the Afghan government], usually as a result of government corruption, ethnic bias and lack of connection with local religious and tribal leaders”.

That is a direct quote from a NATO report. This blog has been telling you for six years that the Afghan government rigged its elections, is enormously corrupt, full of warlords and deeply implicated in the heroin trade. That the “Afghan army” is a tribal construct based on the Northern Alliance, and channels weapons to warlords. That no development is really happening. That the government of Afghanistan is comprised of individuals who make money from war and have no interest in peace.

The information in the report comes from interrogations of 4000 arrested Taliban fighters and terrorists. It states that the fighters are often hiding out in areas where NATO soldiers are stationed. As soon as they leave, the Taliban take over, assisted by the Afghan army and police.
According to the report the Taliban are convinced that after the departure of the US-led international force in Afghanistan they will come back to power again.

Active support:
According to the NATO report the influence of the Taliban grows in areas when soldiers of the NATO peacekeeping force ISAF leave. Then, Afghan security forces make no effort to stop the Taliban. In some cases, the Taliban have the active support of the Afghan army and police, the report said.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjNLFQvDHxo

I have seen people die without any physical signs of injuries on their bodies in Afghanistan. There were bizarre scenes of birds melting on trees.”
The United States’ use of radioactive munitions in Afghanistan has destroyed the people’s health and mutilated the genetic future of the country, Press TV reports.

*hyperlinks and video live at source*

Dr. Dahlia Wasfi’s 4-minute speech powerfully communicates what US wars are: criminal Wars of Aggression.

The US mass-murders of millions of our brothers and sisters ends when critical mass of Americans understand and demand the arrests and removal from power of US War Criminals.
The wars of today are all based on lies. The wars of yesterday are all based on lies. They are not close to lawful.

The war of tomorrow in Iran is hyped on lies (here, here) and a history of US War Crimes on Iran (helpful analogy here). It has no basis in law, and likely will be foisted upon Americans under the lie of a false-flag attack.

With its enormously disproportionate power (financed by American taxpayers), Israel has consistently violated international law, UN resolutions, and human rights conventions.

Israel initiated almost all of its wars and is virtually always the instigator of renewed bouts of violence. For example, while many Americans have been led to believe that the 2008-09 Israeli assault on Gaza was defensive, in reality, Israel was the party that first violated the ceasefire.

The Israeli military, which possesses at least 100 nuclear weapons, is rated the 3rd-5th most powerful in the world. It is far more powerful than any other military in the region. Palestinians have little beyond small, minimally armed militias.

by Alison Weir / CNI

Today’s war propagandists have figured out a way to make the issue of American interests, as opposed to Israeli interests, go away, and that is by policing the language of the debate.

Our current leaders have made Israeli Judaism just a post-traumatic syndrome, while they lead us to self-destruction.
One very well informed and courageous Israeli who thinks the answer is “Yes” is Merav Michaeli, a radio and television presenter who also writes for Ha’aretz. She is completely without fear when it comes to telling it like it is.

America's financial contribution to the build-up of Afghanistan's security forces is "unsustainable" and will be cut as foreign forces complete a phased withdrawal from the country, a top US diplomat has said.

The warning came as President Hamid Karzai sought reassurance from David Cameron that Britain would maintain its financial commitment to Afghanistan during a weekend meeting at Chequers.

The pair signed an updated "enduring strategic partnership" agreement that details British contributions to efforts to establish security and stability in Afghanistan.

Despite all the decades that have passed and make up more than half a century, the Cuban fruit has not fallen into Yankee hands.

Current news from Spain, France, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Syria, England, the Malvinas and several other parts of the planet are serious and all foretell political and economic disaster due to the foolhardiness of the United States and its allies.

I have given evidence to parliament that I was told, officially, as a British Ambassador, that Jack Straw had initiated a policy of using intelligence obtained by torture. I also testified before parliament that this was an unacknowledged policy which I was told, officially, should not be discussed in writing. The government has at no stage attempted to deny the truth of my account. The government did not submit evidence to the Parliamentary committee to claim that my account was untrue. The government has nowhere stated that my evidence is untrue; they prefer to rely on private media briefings to claim, untruly, that I am mad and alcoholic.

I shall tell the police that those involved in rendering persons to be Libya to be tortured were doing so in keeping with a War on Terror torture intelligence programme authorised by Jack Straw. It is no secret what I will say; here I am saying it.

For remaining videos 2 - 7 of Murray's testimony:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=craig+murray+torture&oq=cr...

They had to ask? Isn't that the whole name of the liberation game - to break successful regimes down into utter chaos, first by demonizing them, then by pitting neighbour against neighbour? Ordo Ab Chao? Where is the order in Afghanistan after 10 years (Suicide bomber kills 4), Iraq after 8 years (Suicide bomber kills 29 in Baghdad)? Where will it be if Iran - "a cradle of civilization" (VIDEO) - is the next target?

Erasing history; cultural genocide; architecture turned to rubble and streets to rivers of blood; murdering the souls of the surviving children. All orchestrated by the so-called democratic, civilized countries where minds are so disconnected from current reality that outrage is reserved for those who fail to commemorate a genocide that took place 60 years ago.

The Associated Propaganda tube is admitting that there are covert "special" operations going on in these war-ravaged places, pretending it's a new kind of operation. New my foot. Nobody knows who those suicide bombers are; nobody ever did know, except for those "special" dudes. Nothing is so conducive to chaos as your everyday, average, "secret war".

Since September 11, 2001, over two million Soldiers have been deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom, with the exception of the U.S. Army Reserve’s Medical Evacuation (MEDEVAC) units.

The last time a U.S. Army Reserve MEDEVAC deployed was in 1991 during the first Gulf War. Now the MEDEVACs have been deployed in Afghanistan.

This last weekend brought with it some vile manifestations of Jewish politics in its most horrific forms.

United Against the Goyim

Obama

In the USA, the owner and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times, Andrew Adler, suggested that Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu should consider ordering a Mossad hit team to assassinate U.S. President Barack Obama so that his successor will defend Israel against Iran.

Paul Craig Roberts
January 25, 2012

The US government is so full of self-righteousness that it has become a caricature of hypocrisy. Leon Panetta, a former congressman who Obama appointed CIA director and now head of the Pentagon, just told the sailors on the USS Enterprise, an aircraft carrier, that the US is maintaining a fleet of 11 aircraft carriers in order to project sea power against Iran and to convince Iran that “it’s better for them to try to deal with us through diplomacy.”http://ap.stripes.com/dynamic/stories/U/US_PANETTA_AIRCRAFT_CARRIER?SITE=DCSAS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-01-21-19-22-34

A short list of all the false flag events used to justify wars, remove civil liberties, and bolster police states throughout human history.

*hyperlinks live at source*

The laws of war are essential for citizens and legislators to master if humanity is to evolve beyond a violent history of war to enjoy civil communities. To bring these basic laws to life, we’ll review the destruction of war’s history, explain the letter of US war laws, explain the philosophy/spirit of US war laws, and make the obvious conclusion once the laws are clearly understood that current US wars are unlawful orders that our military must refuse. US military is bound by their Oaths to the US Constitution to stop War Crimes and Wars of Aggression/Wars Against Peace, and arrest the US political and media “leaders” who lied us into these wars. This crime mass murdered over a million human beings and 5,000 US soldiers.

The ‘consultation’ on a statutory lobby register may be a window of opportunity

The Queen needs a new royal yacht. But the British government says it can’t afford to buy her one. The £80 million for the project must come from private sources.

Why do we get dragged into these illegal and inhuman expeditions to devastate countries that are no threat to us?

Because a team of Israel-firsters in our midst think it’s smart to promote the ambitions of a foreign power at the expense of our own national interest and everyone else’s.

They have taken command and control of our country by infiltrating the highest levels of government. For example they hold the key jobs in the Foreign Office.

The French government has suspended training for Afghan forces after four of their troops were killed by an Afghan soldier under training. Extraordinarily, that makes eight NATO troops killed by their trainees in 2012 already. It is the most extreme example of the complete failure of the occupation to achieve any of its ostensible aims. It is not even achieving any of its hidden aims, other than the channelling of huge amounts of our money to the arms industry.

Two British soldiers fighting in Afghanistan have been accused of raping two children aged ten in the war-ravaged country, a report has revealed.

Just as we have seen in the criminal, genocidal attack on Libya, NATO forces are providing military and logistical support to their ground-based proxy armies – in this case TTP terrorists

Organizers of the effort to recall Gov. Scott Walker on Tuesday filed more than a million signatures with the Government Accountability Board, nearly twice as many as needed to trigger another election for the embattled leader.

United Wisconsin, the organization formed to recall Walker, turned in a total of 1.9 million signatures, a number than includes 845,000 to recall Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch and more than 21,000 signatures apiece for Republican Sens. Pam Galloway of Wausau, Van Wanggaard of Racine and Terry Moulton of Chippewa Falls.

Earlier in the day, leaders of the effort to recall Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald filed 20,600 signatures with the state elections agency.

And thus began a year-and-a-half journey in my spare time to find out the truth and source of the idea of Separation of Church and State, as well as interviews with half a dozen different religious groups in the area about what and why they believed what they do. The story quickly became as much about what we believe about God as what we believe about the Founders of the United States -- and how we evaluate truth itself.

When I was given a DVD of a protest rally in the small town of King, near where I live, I was shocked by the sight of five thousand people waving Christian Flags and cheering one of the speakers when he said that everyone there should "encourage" those who weren't Christian in the area to move somewhere else.

My first reaction was anger and I told my wife, Susan, we were going to put our house up for sale the next day and move somewhere more tolerant. But the next morning, I decided that I would do something else first. I took my video camera down to the Veteran's Memorial in King's Public Park and started interviewing people.

I learned that the rally had been ignited by a returning Afghanistan Veteran who threatened to sue the town if they didn't remove the Christian Flag from the public Veteran's Memorial.

I was surprised that most residents believed that Separation of Church and State is a myth and that the Founders intended this to be an officially Christian Nation. They quoted so many historical facts from a man named David Barton to back up their claims, that I really wondered if what I'd taken for granted might be incorrect.

Dana Loesch, a CNN contributor, made a statement on her radio show that she would "drop trou and do it too." The act she was talking about was joining US Marines to urinate on dead Afghans. Earlier this week a video of US Marines urinating on dead Afghans went viral and caused pandemonium. Most people condemn the actions of the Marines while others applaud their brutal actions. Rick Sanchez, journalist, author and former CNN host, joins us for more.

According to recent polls, Americans have fallen out of favor with our numerous wars in countries we neither know nor can spell: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Libya, Palestine and Syria.

by Stephen Sniegoski

This article in “Foreign Policy” describes one of Israel’s recent “false flag” operations. A series of CIA memos describes how Israeli Mossad agents posed as American spies to recruit members of the terrorist organization Jundallah to fight their covert war against Iran. This type of “false flag” operation was not directed against the US, but it could provide a model to bring about a US/Iran war. If Iranians could be made to think that the US was behind extreme terrorist attacks in their country, this could force the Iranian government to take belligerent action against the US that would mean war. The Iranian government could not afford to look like a ”paper tiger,” too weak to make any effort to defend its citizens.

*hyperlinks live at source*

US government “leadership” violates all Americans by constantly violating war law won by our families through two world wars. The US was the primary author of current war law, bound by treaty and Constitutional Law under Article 6 as the US’ supreme law. War law states a nation can use their military on other nations only if that nation’s government attacks.

Afghanistan and Iraq’s government did not attack the US on 9/11. Under law and to serve the purpose of the law to protect the world from the “scourge of war,” the UN Security Council quickly aligned for international cooperation for factual discovery and arrests of suspects. Afghanistan agreed.

Soldiers' faces before, during and after serving in Afghanistan (13Pics)

Dana Loesch, a CNN contributor, has come forward and admitted she'd join the troops to urinate on dead Afghans. Earlier this week a video of US Marines urinating on dead Afghans has gone viral and caused uproar around the world. Other members of the media have come forward and confessed that they don't see anything wrong with the Marines disgraceful acts. Some American war Vets disapproved of the actions of the troops. Abby Martin, founder of MediaRoots.Org, joins us to examine the situation.

Way to go Abby. :) :)

* The systematic destruction of a series of nations and their peoples over a period of many decades.

* The murder of more than a million innocent people in a criminal war.

* The ongoing murders of people who do not (and most commonly could not) threaten the U.S., in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, and on and on and on -- in 120 countries around the globe.

* The claim that the U.S. Government has the "right" to murder anyone in the world for whatever reason it chooses -- a "right," I remind you, which the U.S. Government has actualized.

* Pissing on three dead bodies.

*hyperlinks live at source*

An analogy to understand US wars after 9/11 are Orwellian unlawful. Americans, especially US military, are under Oath to refuse and end them. The analogy has US, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran all within the US with populations of 100,000 to compare casualties.

Another SEAL Book, Another Version, Colonel Mustard With A Mallot in the Music Room?
The Murdoch papers are carrying a new version of the bin Laden saga. This one contains much of the fiction of the last 25, leaving out much as well. Nothing is new, just a set of lies with some reason for them to be retold. We know what that reason is, nobody takes a word of it seriously anymore, not the first stories, not the sea burial, not the execution of the world’s most valuable intelligence asset.

Michael Hastings: "Obama has tripled the conflict in Afghanistan"

A video of what appears to be four US marines standing over three dead Afghans has surfaced on the Internet. In the footage, the four US servicemen are mocking the dead and peeing on their bodies. Many believe these actions will cause an uproar in the international community. The US Marine Corp has launched an investigation.

An eye-opening video clip that made it online Wednesday may cause a scandal on par with what erupted with the Abu Ghraib photographs of 2004. Now US Marines have been caught on film - urinating on dead Afghans.

Video at source (RT)
A 40-second excerpt of the clip has managed to made its web to the Web and in it viewers can watch four US Marines on patrol in Afghanistan allegedly urinating on the corpses of deceased Afghan men. It is unclear of the victims’ identities in this incident, but according to a note included with the uploaded file, the US servicemen were members of the Marine Scout Sniper Team 4 and the 3rd Battalion 2nd Marines from Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. The group was dispatched to the northern Helmand Province in Afghanistan during the summer of 2011.

Marc Grossman, a US diplomat for Afghanistan and Pakistan, is expected to meet with the Afghan president in Kabul next week to confirm he would agree to the new talks, the official said.

“If Karzai were to tell [the Obama administration] to go ahead, then we’d start talking again,” the unnamed official told The Washington Post.

The Taliban is reluctant to negotiate directly with the Afghan government, and would prefer a deal to be brokered through the US, the official said.

2011 was a turbulent year for the world. With chained revolutions in the Arab world, mounting financial crisis in Europe and the unprecedented wave of protests and mass demonstrations in the U.S. against the corporate system of the government which has long swallowed the rights of the defenseless majority of the people.

Recently, Dick Morris made this unfounded and idiotic claim on Sean Hannity’s program: “Ron Paul would weaken America so much that no true patriot could be for Ron Paul.” The response, as you might imagine, was instantaneous and vicious from combat veterans who support Ron Paul for President. We have received so many great letters to Dick (which, of course, have been promptly forwarded to his email address) from pissed-off vets that we just had to post a few of them here.
Here is what a few of our veterans had to say.

Before the Russians were defeated in Afghanistan they talked to the Mujahideen.
Before the Americans were defeated in Vietnam, there were talks about the talks with the VietCong in Paris.
The Taliban have not negotiated with the Americans, nor have the Taliban recognized the US puppet Govt of Karzai. In fact the Karzai Govt is withdrawing its Ambassador to Qatar.

(An end of the year lament)

“Violence begets violence. Hatred begets hatred. And terrorism begets terrorism. A white ambassador said that y’all, not a black militant (Ambassador to Iraq, Edward Peck). Not a reverend who preaches about racism. An ambassador whose eyes are wide open and who is trying to get us to wake up and move away from this dangerous precipice upon which we are now poised…”

28-year-old soldier Army Cpl. Jesse Thorsen replied that he didn’t think “nitpicking wars with other countries” was necessarily a good idea. When Thorsen began to get specific, the audio suddenly starting breaking up. Viewers heard “Iran” and “Israel is more than capable”—before Thorsen’s words vanished from the airwaves altogether.

Afghanistan's police have detained two British nationals carrying explosive devices to the capital city of Kabul, officials say.

Link Repaired...

TSA actually found explosives for once . . . then let the "soldier" go?!

9/11 Truth could be the answer to the Israel/Palestine conflict.
by Joshua Blakeney

I think most would agree that without the U.S. government altering its stance vis-à-vis Israel that there is little hope for justice in Palestine. The only conceivable way of the U.S. undertaking a volte-face vis-à-vis Israel is if a sufficient proportion of the citizens of the U.S. become conscious of a) the extent to which Israel and its affluent supporters are distorting U.S. Middle East policy as well as b) the extent to which such pro-Israel forces lack any respect for the U.S. taxpayer.

“Who’s going to object to referring to the Sunni insurgency in post-war Iraq as yet another attack by al-Qaeda?”

The American military and the so called coalition forces raided Iraq in 2003 in a search for the alleged presence of military training camps for the so called al-Qaeda and hidden depots packed with tons of weapons of mass destruction(WMD).

Neither was found … Nevertheless the American & coalition troops dragged their feet before they finally left Iraq.

An Occupy Wall Street press team member explains why members of Congress keep getting richer while the rest of the country has flatlined.

It’s always been about the money. Occupy Wall Street chose to set up its 24-hour outpost of political dissent on the doorstep of the finance industry primarily to underscore the simple fact that money has corrupted our political process so completely that the seat of power in the U.S. isn’t even in Washington, D.C. any more. That said, the Capitol continues collecting its cut, as evidenced in this week’s double-barreled dispatches, in the Washington Post and the New York Times, on the exploding wealth gap between our ever-more affluent representatives in Congress and the financially flat-lined citizens they represent.

I am especially proud of this photo album. However, it may lead to my eventual arrest under the NDAA.

According to Lt. Col. Bailey, Lt. Uthlaut, Cpl. Tillman’s platoon commander, had misunderstood his order to have boots on the ground “by dusk”, which Lt. Uthlaut had misheard as boots on the ground “by dawn”—Boots on the Ground by Dusk (2008). The stunning revelation from our nation’s premiere investigative reporter, Seymour Hersh, that Vice President Dick Cheney was running an “executive assassination ring” directly under his control and outside of the normal chain of command has raised the specter that the Vice President of the United States may have been murdering Americans.

Israel is doing all it can to make Iran the next disastrous ‘war for control’ and the 85% of corrupt US politicians will vote it in when the time comes as seen in the Press TV report below. It is ‘support the war or lose your seat’. This is why, I’ve decided to do a re-run of Jeff Gates’ timely article Sayanim — Israeli Operatives in the U.S. in which he best describes why Israel is successful in the US.
Sayanim — Israeli Operatives in the U.S.

by Jeff Gates

A New York judge has signed a judgment that finds Iran, along with the Taliban and al-Qaeda liable for the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks. Joshua Blakeney of Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Veterans Today from Calgary, Alberta discusses the situation with Press TV.

“Violence begets violence, hatred begets hatred, terrorism begets terrorism,” so rings the prophetic knell of the Reverend Wright to his congregation one of whom happened to be our current President Barack Obama. Would that he had listened, for if any man was ever elected to the office of President to change the world, this was the man and he has failed.

Haunting portraits show Marines before, during and after service in Afghanistan

Outfoxed examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News, have been running a “race to the bottom” in television news.

This film provides an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangers of ever-enlarging corporations taking control of the public’s right to know.

The night raids are designed to destroy the pride of the Afghanis.
Apart from the 100 Blackwater type companies for foreigners
There are also 400,000 Afghani contractors.