Graphic: Syria Status of Forces
04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Proliferation, 09 Terrorism4th Media: Iraq’s Unending Tragedy
04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities
A documentary film by John Pilger
Sanctions enforced by the UN on Iraq since the Gulf War have killed more people than the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945, including over half a million children – many of whom weren’t even born when the Gulf War began.\
Broadcast 03/06/2000 ITV Runtime 75 Minutes
Bombings, Invasion, Misery: Fallujah, Symbol of Iraq’s Unending Tragedy
“It Wasn’t a War, It Was a Massacre”
4th Media: We Do Not Make This Stuff Up!
04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, Government, MilitarySyrian Rebels Get Arms and Advice Through Secret Command Centre in Amman
EXTRACT:
“The command centre has been good for us, it has helped a lot, but we’d like more commitment from them. They don’t really share intelligence information with us, they don’t give us enough weapons to do the job,” said an FSA commander.
“We all think they want to keep Assad stronger than us, they want to keep a balance – we get enough to keep going but not to win,” he said.
. . . . . . .
“It gets very complicated, everyone lies to each other, everyone is trying to control everyone else,” said an FSA commander.
Chuck Spinney: Re-Assessing the Conflict in Syria and Egypt
04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Proliferation, 08 Wild Cards
The War Continues
2013: Assessing the Conflict in Syria and Egypt
by RAMZY BAROUD
Counterpunch, DECEMBER 26, 2013
2013 has expectedly been a terrible year for several Arab nations. It has been terrible because the promise of greater freedoms and political reforms has been reversed, most violently in some instances, by taking a few countries down the path of anarchy and complete chaos. Syria and Egypt are two cases in point.
Syria has been hit the hardest. For months, the United Nations has maintained that over 100,000 people have been killed in the 33 months of conflict. More recently, the pro-opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights concluded that at least 125,835, of which more than third of them are civilians, have been killed.
The UN’s humanitarian agency (OCHA) says that millions of Syrians living in perpetual suffering are in need of aid, and this number will reach 9.3 million by the end of next year.
NIGHTWATCH: Sub-Sahara Subversion
01 Poverty, 03 Environmental Degradation, 04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Terrorism, 10 Transnational Crime, IO Deeds of War
Special comment: For reasons that are not clear, many of the governments in Sub-Saharan Africa have been destabilized a year or so after the catastrophe of the Arab Spring uprisings. Countries in stress include Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Central African Republic, Nigeria, Congo Brazzaville, Congo Kinshasa, South Sudan and Somalia. These readily come to mind, but there are others, no doubt.
Sub-Saharan African has not experienced this extent of violent internal unrest since 1960.
Mini-Me: USG Yard Sale in Afghanistan — Billions of Taxpayer Dollars Down the Drain
03 Economy, 04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Security, 11 Society, Corruption, Director of National Intelligence et al (IC), DoD, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, Military
Huh?
The US Is Hosting A Giant Military Yard Sale In Afghanistan
It is a January sale with a difference. The American military is auctioning off millions of pounds of tankers, accommodation blocks, tents, generators and other “white goods” in Afghanistan ahead of next year’s deadline for the end of combat operations.
In a tender document published on Friday, buyers are invited to offer a percentage of the equipment’s original value by January 10 when sealed bids will be opened.
Chuck Spinney: Staying in Afghanistan Is a Recipe for More Terrorism
04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Terrorism, Drones & UAVs, Government, Ineptitude, IO Deeds of War, MilitaryStaying in Afghanistan Is a Recipe for More Terrorism
Anthony W. Orlando – Huffington Post – 12/12/13
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Barack Obama is daring the terrorists. He's standing in their front yard. He's calling them out.
Of course, that's not how it's reported. “U.S. ‘nowhere near' decision to pull all troops out of Afghanistan,” was the understated Reuters headline. Under negotiation is an agreement keeping 8,000 to 10,000 American troops in Afghanistan “through 2024 and beyond.” Also on the table are night raids and drone strikes that Afghan President Hamid Karzai refuses to allow.
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