Deadly US "interventions" World wide

[Ocean Breeze]

Murder Inc - Licensed to Kill
US Assassination Drones & Targeted Killings​

By Press TV​

November 09, 2011 "Information Clearing House" The CIA and the U.S. military have used unmanned aerial vehicles known as drones to target and kill “suspected militants” in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia and Libya. Drone operations have become a hallmark of the Obama administration's "counterterrorism campaign." He ordered the first drone strike of his presidency just 72 hours after he took office.



The United Nations has identified the U.S. as the world's number one user of "targeted killings" largely due to its drone attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Human rights lawyers also deem the drone strikes as "extrajudicial killings" charging that there is no legal basis for the attacks. Although there is no exact record of CIA drone-inflicted civilian deaths, various independent organizations and human rights activists have put the figure at several hundreds.

* Murder Inc - Licensed to Kill* :US Assassination Drones & Targeted Killings:** Information Clearing House



US military adds armed robotic helicopters to fleet

• This undated US Navy image shows the MQ-8B Fire Scout drone helicopter. The US military …

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The US military plans to add a lethal new drone to its fleet -- a robotic helicopter for the US Navy equipped with laser-guided rockets, defense giant Northrop Grumman said Wednesday.
The armed Fire Scouts will mark a new era in naval warfare, offering an alternative to pilots flying attack helicopters or fighter jets off warships and reflecting a broader shift to robotic technology across the US military in recent years.
An unarmed version of the MQ-8B Fire Scout is already flying surveillance and reconnaissance missions for the US Navy, using cameras and sensors inside a cone on the aircraft's nose.
Northrop Grumman won a contract in September worth $17 million to outfit the choppers with 70 mm rockets, with racks capable of carrying eight or 14 of the weapons on an aircraft, the company said.

US military adds armed robotic helicopters to fleet - Yahoo! News

 

[DaSleeper]

I move that all your hate blogs that you keep bumping up every day be merged..........

 

[Ocean Breeze]

The Passing of the Postwar Era

Sometimes, just when you least expect it, symbolism steps right up and coldcocks you. So how about this headline for — in the spirit of our last president — ushering America’s withdrawal from Iraq right over the nearest symbolic cliff: “U.S. empties biggest Iraq base, takes Saddam’s toilet.” They’re talking about Victory Base, formerly — again in the spirit of thoroughly malevolent symbolism — Camp Victory, the enormous American military base that sits at the edge of Baghdad International Airport and that we were never going to leave.
If you want to measure the size of American pretensions in Iraq once upon a time, just consider this: that base, once meant — as its name implied — to be Washington’s triumphalist and eternal military command post in the oil heartlands of the planet, is encircled by 27 miles of blast walls and razor wire. (By comparison, the island I live on, Manhattan Island to be exact, is just 13.4 miles long.) So that’s big. It was, in fact, the biggest of the 505 bases the U.S. built in Iraq.

The Passing of the Postwar Era by Tom Engelhardt -- Antiwar.com

 

[Ocean Breeze]

The Pentagon’s global military design is one of world conquest. The military deployment of US-NATO forces is occurring in several regions of the World simultaneously. Militarization at the global level is instrumented through the US military's Unified Command structure: the entire planet is divided up into geographic Combatant Commands under the control of the Pentagon. According to (former) NATO Commander General Wesley Clark, the Pentagon’s military road-map consists of a sequence of war theaters: “[The] five-year campaign plan [includes]... a total of seven countries, beginning with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia and Sudan.”

How to Reverse the Tide of Global Warfare

We are dealing with a diabolical military agenda, which in a very real sense threatens the future of humanity.

Central to an understanding of war, is the media campaign which grants it legitimacy in the eyes of public opinion. A good versus evil dichotomy prevails. The perpetrators of war are presented as the victims. Public opinion is misled: “We must fight against evil in all its forms as a means to preserving the Western way of life.” Breaking the "big lie" which upholds war as a humanitarian undertaking, means breaking a criminal project of global destruction, in which the quest for profit is the overriding force. This profit-driven military agenda destroys human values and transforms people into unconscious zombies.

The holding of mass demonstrations and antiwar protests is not enough. What is required is the development of a broad and well organized grassroots antiwar network, across the land, nationally and internationally, which challenges the structures of power and authority. People must mobilize not only against the military agenda, the authority of the state and its officials must also be challenged.

This war can be prevented if people forcefully confront their governments, pressure their elected representatives, organize at the local level in towns, villages and municipalities, spread the word, inform their fellow citizens as to the implications of a global war, initiate debate and discussion within the armed forces.

Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, November 20, 2011

Towards a World War III Scenario: Reverse the Tide. Say NO to Global Warfare

Asia-Pacific: US Ramps Up Global War Agenda

Asia-Pacific: US Ramps Up Global War Agenda

 

[Ocean Breeze]

'World fears US as a war-hungry drunk'

November 23, 2011 -- The US is like a drunkard who charges to war with anyone who might pose a threat, ex-Senator and former US presidential candidate Mike Gravel says.

­“I like the US. But at the same time I think my country is an imperial country that is going downhill, and our leadership does not even acknowledge the problem,” confesses Gravel.

  'World fears US as a war-hungry drunk' - ex-Senator  :  Information Clearing House

Lots of truth there. The empire has gone rogue.

 

[Ocean Breeze]

What Endless War looks like

What Endless War looks like - Salon.com


.....terrorism is the gift that keeps on giving. The "elite" and powerful have their wars (and profit that goes with it) while the sheeple follow along out of fear of this "gift" due to the fearmongering.......both obvious and subtle and psychological / so for the controlling elite it is a win win situation. Added powers in the name of security, more wars justified on terrorism...., therefore causing more anger that turns into terrorism......and the vicious cycle continues.

what these warmongering elite don't say is that there is NO WIN against an ideology of terrorism. So they can continue to war under that excuse while fullfilling their own unspoken agenda.

IF the empire is still trying to avenge 9-11 (loss of about 4000) how will Iraq and other targets avenge for losing so many MORE of their populations?? If the empire was dissed at the 9-11 attack......one can imagine how the invaded nations feel about being militarily attacked on the basis of lies.

Needless to say the cycle of violence continues......so what is the bottm line?? Who benefits.?? Not the populations that have had their country destroyed .

anyone prone to terrorism & terrorists benefits. Their stated objective is to bring the empire into financial ruin & maintain a chronic , perpetual war state , which destabilizes one nation after another. rendering potential chaos , and therefore rendering an excuse for militant control.

 

[DaSleeper]

*****

 

[Ocean Breeze]

Global Warfare: Targeting Iran: Preparing for World War III

The military deployment of US-NATO forces is occurring in several regions of the World simultaneously.

Militarization at the global level is instrumented through the US military's Unified Command structure: the entire planet is divided up into geographic Combatant Commands under the control of the Pentagon. According to (former) NATO Commander General Wesley Clark, the Pentagon’s military road-map consists of a sequence of war theaters: “[The] five-year campaign plan [includes]... a total of seven countries, beginning with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia and Sudan.”

The Pentagon’s global military design is one of world conquest.

A War on Iran has been on the drawing board of The Pentagon since 2004.

Iran's alleged nuclear weapons programme is the pretext and the justification. Tehran is also identified as a "State sponsor of terrorism", for allegedly supporting the Al Qaeda network.

In recent developments, what is unfolding is an integrated attack plan on Iran led by the US, with the participation of the United Kingdom and Israel.

While the media has presented Israeli and British military planning pertaining to Iran as separate initiatives, what we are dealing with is an integrated and coordinated US led military endeavor.

In

Global Warfare: Targeting Iran: Preparing for World War III

 

[ironsides]

You really think Iran is that important, what a foolish thought. Iran can and will be stopped and not by anything even close to a WW III. Why because WW thinking has become obsolete, we (all the major powers including UN and its members) are starting to think as one world.

 

[Ocean Breeze]

Remember the folks asking" why do they (folks in the middle east) "hate" us so much?? (even though they should have had it figured out)

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U.S. Intervention in the Middle East

U.S. Intervention in the Middle East

"Why do people in the Middle East hate the United States," people are asking, in the wake of the events of September 11.

This partial chronology of U.S. intervention in the Middle East illustrates the lengths to which the U.S. power structure has gone to gain and maintain U.S. domination of the Middle East--a region considered key to the U.S.'s standing as an imperialist world power. This is not a complete list of the invasions, bombings, assassinations, coups and other interventions by the U.S. government, its allies, or its client states, nor does it fully document the U.S.'s economic domination and exploitation of the region's people and resources.

Let the facts speak for themselves. And they ain't pretty. (nor are they what many "believe" )

 

[ironsides]

As Achmed would say.


Jeff Dunham Achmed's "Jingle Bombs" - YouTube

 

[Ocean Breeze]

Casualties in Afghanistan Soar in Last Two Years
Most of the American and Afghan killed wounded have occurred after Obama's surge strategy, with little to show for it

by John Glaser, December 03, 2011

In over a decade of war in Afghanistan, about half of all Americans killed in action and two thirds of those wounded have done so in 2010 and 2011, according to a Congressional Research Service report.

Casualties in Afghanistan Soar in Last Two Years -- News from Antiwar.com


seems the empire's wars (OF CHOICE)do have a self destructive aspect to them...

 

[pgs]

Casualties in Afghanistan Soar in Last Two Years
Most of the American and Afghan killed wounded have occurred after Obama's surge strategy, with little to show for it

by John Glaser, December 03, 2011

In over a decade of war in Afghanistan, about half of all Americans killed in action and two thirds of those wounded have done so in 2010 and 2011, according to a Congressional Research Service report.

Casualties in Afghanistan Soar in Last Two Years -- News from Antiwar.com


seems the empire's wars (OF CHOICE)do have a self destructive aspect to them...

Why would you care? You hate Americans don't you?

 

[Ocean Breeze]

The Price of Empire
Have US policymakers gone crazy?

....(a resounding YES!!!!)

Is there a single region of the world where the United States government isn’t scheming to grab more control, more influence, and have more of a military presence??

The Price of Empire by Justin Raimondo -- Antiwar.com

 

[Nuggler]

What Endless War looks like

What Endless War looks like - Salon.com


.....terrorism is the gift that keeps on giving. The "elite" and powerful have their wars (and profit that goes with it) while the sheeple follow along out of fear of this "gift" due to the fearmongering.......both obvious and subtle and psychological / so for the controlling elite it is a win win situation. Added powers in the name of security, more wars justified on terrorism...., therefore causing more anger that turns into terrorism......and the vicious cycle continues.

what these warmongering elite don't say is that there is NO WIN against an ideology of terrorism. So they can continue to war under that excuse while fullfilling their own unspoken agenda.

IF the empire is still trying to avenge 9-11 (loss of about 4000) how will Iraq and other targets avenge for losing so many MORE of their populations?? If the empire was dissed at the 9-11 attack......one can imagine how the invaded nations feel about being militarily attacked on the basis of lies.

Needless to say the cycle of violence continues......so what is the bottm line?? Who benefits.?? Not the populations that have had their country destroyed .

anyone prone to terrorism & terrorists benefits. Their stated objective is to bring the empire into financial ruin & maintain a chronic , perpetual war state , which destabilizes one nation after another. rendering potential chaos , and therefore rendering an excuse for militant control.

Sounds like they read "1984" , liked it, and decided to use it as a model for governing.

 

[ironsides]

The Price of Empire
Have US policymakers gone crazy?

....(a resounding YES!!!!)

Is there a single region of the world where the United States government isn’t scheming to grab more control, more influence, and have more of a military presence??

The Price of Empire by Justin Raimondo -- Antiwar.com

Guess you got us, we want it all. After it always was ours by devine right. :roll: ;-)

 

[Ocean Breeze]

Washington’s Secret Wars
by Philip Giraldi, December 08, 2011

Following the widely reported Iranian government plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington and alarming new reports of civilian deaths in Syria, the White House has issued several findings to the intelligence community authorizing stepped-up covert action against both Damascus and Tehran. A “finding” is top-level approval for secret operations considered to be particularly politically sensitive. Taken together, the recent findings, combined with the evidence of major intelligence operations being run in Lebanon, amount to a secret war against Iran and its allies in the Mideast

Washington’s Secret Wars by Philip Giraldi -- Antiwar.com

 

[damngrumpy]

In my opinion we don't have to have US or anyone else taking action in all the
Middle Eastern Nations, but we should be using a strike first policy for terrorists.
Come to think of it none of the Middle Eastern Countries do a very good job in
keeping their terrorist elements in line. I have no problem using drones and air
power to take out these living pieces of human trash that would use any and
every excuse to kill for their vision of God.

 

[ironsides]

Elite Marine Role in Afghanistan key to US Exit


Elite Marine Role in Afghanistan key to US Exit

 

[Ocean Breeze]

US Escalating Drone War in Yemen

US Escalating Drone War in Yemen by Jim Lobe -- Antiwar.com

makes one ask: is the US war machine coming to your neighborhood??