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War – what is it good for? Certainly, in an ideal world, it would be justifiable to mount a strenuous defence against a determined external invasion. However, this is not the world we live in, nor is it the circumstance of the regional conflict in which we find ourselves embroiled. Must there be a pretext in every generation to send the best of our youth off to war’s grindhouse, to ship billions in tax dollars to weapons manufacturers, to psychologically damage a new crop of parents and continue the cycle of violence anew? Apparently so – we keep falling for this scam, we wear our yellow ribbons, we dress up sharp in suits of green and we’re placed upon the war machine. As former US President Eisenhower warned in his last official speech, “the potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist… only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defence with our peaceful methods and goals…” Who among us can seriously believe that we are today ‘alert and knowledgeable’ enough to hold the state accountable for the bloody sham of regime change in Afghanistan? Who among us could claim we’re informed enough to support the hail of depleted uranium munitions and drone strikes on the nomadic tribes of the AfPak border? Would you pull the trigger? Or would you rather go back to watching Canadian Idol, a passive participant, content to let the killing in the name of your flag and your country continue? This is the lesson of war – we’re too anxious to follow our peers over the cliff. Like lemmings, we’re only too willing to exterminate ourselves and our neighbours once some authority points the finger. After some 9,000 years of civilization you’d think we would have figured this one out.
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The Lies that Led to WarÂÂÂ
Archive (Most recent headlines first)
2010ÂÂÂ
North Korea threatens to bolster nuclear capability | North Korea rejects talks with UN Command on sinking of warship | Israel Vows To Tighten Gaza Blockade — Media Reports Blockade Eased | US officials back away from July 2011 Afghan withdrawal deadline | Blackwater/Xe Awarded New Contract as More Afghan Civilians Said to Be Killed in an Airstrike | Iran Threatens to Stop Western Ships if Subjected to Cargo Inspection | Israel to allow limited imports to Gaza, economic siege to remain in place | Prepare for tough summer in Afghanistan, Canadian commander warns | UN Security Council imposes fourth round of sanctions on Iran | How Somalia’s civil war became new front in battle against al-Qaida | Karzai’s Afghan peace conference ends with agreement on Taliban amnesty | Afghan deployment past 2011 possible: MPs | Al Qaeda Number 3 Killed… Again | Options studied for a possible Pakistan strike by US | US acknowledges mistaken attack on Afghan civilians | North Korea reacts angrily as Seoul’s navy holds military exercises off coast | Obama starts massive US Air-Sea-Marine build-up opposite Iran | US claims Security Council backing for Iran sanctions | US drone attack ‘kills Pakistan insurgents’ | Taliban behind Times Square plot, says US AG Holder | ‘Vast’ biometric database prompts troops to open fire on vehicle, 4 unarmed Afghans killed | U.S. Troops Apologize For Wikileaks Massacre Video | Pakistan air strike ‘kills 71 civilians’ | US special forces ‘tried to cover-up’ botched Khataba raid in Afghanistan | WikiLeaks releases video of alleged U.S. helicopter attack on Reuters reporters | Afghan tension mounts as NATO offensive looms | British military intelligence ‘ran renegade torture unit in Iraq’ | Defence Department official used private contractors for spy network in AfPak | Canada wanted Afghan prisoners tortured: lawyer | The curse of Fallujah: Women warned not to have babies because of rise in birth defects since U.S. assault | 1 in 3 Killed by U.S. Drone Attacks In Pakistan Are Civilians | Finklestein: This Time We Went Too Far — Truth and Consequences in the Gaza Invasion | Israeli preparations for war with Iran troubling | NATO prepares for major Kandahar offensive, refugee camps | Afghan ministers voice anger as civilians killed in Nato air strike | White House welcomes Afghan Taliban No. 2 capture | Five civilians killed in Nato rocket attack in Afghanistan | NATO’s novel battle tactic spawns opposite effects as 12 civilians killed | NATO, Afghan troops launch largest air assault of Afghan war | Report: ‘US to expand military centers in Pakistan’ | Yemen reaches ceasefire with rebels | Marjah, Afghanistan: Countdown To A Battle | Obama threatens actions against Iran over nuclear program | UN sanctions urged over Iran’s uranium plans | U.S. deploys land and sea-based missile shield in the Gulf to deter attack from Iran | Israel denies Gaza war crimes in report to UN | UN agency calls for global cyberwarfare treaty, ‘driver’s license’ for Web users | UK: Tony Blair attempts to shift focus to Iran as ‘global threat’ at Iraq war inquiry | Blair defends decision to join U.S. in Iraq | UN in secret peace talks with Taliban | Pentagon to Send More Special Forces Troops to Yemen | Military probes beating of Afghan prisoner | Afghanistan conference agrees on exit timetable, Taliban bailout | Obama’s War for Oil in Colombia | British and US troops to launch new Afghanistan offensive | General McChrystal indicates talks with Taliban to be discussed | No new Taliban crackdowns for 6 months, Pakistan says | Congressman Ron Paul: After ‘CIA coup,’ agency ‘runs military’ | War resister released from U.S. prison | Yemen forces ‘kill Al-Qaeda chief’ | North Korea calls for peace treaty with US | ‘No intention’ to invade Yemen: Obama | American cash gives Yemen a reason to join the hunt for al-Qaeda | Canada no longer a haven for war resisters | Suspected US drone ‘kills 12′ in Pakistan | Britain, U.S. to fund Yemen anti-terror unitÂÂÂ
2009ÂÂÂ
US plots retaliatory strikes against al-Qaida in Yemen over plane bomber | Obama vows to step up terror fight | U.S. quietly takes terror war to Yemen | Sri Lankan guards ’sexually abused girls’ in Tamil concentration camp | Iraq security forces involved in bombings: PM | U.S. prods Pakistan to expand offensive | Pakistan anti-Taliban offensive in South Waziristan ‘over’ | Blackwater’s Erik Prince: Tycoon, Contractor, Soldier, Spy | U.S. Military Joins CIA’s Drone War in Pakistan | Another 7,000 NATO troops going to Afghanistan | Obama sends 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan | U.S. ‘missed chance’ to capture bin Laden in 2001 | Colvin’s testimony true: former Afghan MP | Condi set sights on Iraq as 9/11 unfolded: UK diplomat | German army chief resigns over Afghanistan air strike | Nato will send 5,000 more troops to Afghanistan, says Brown | Report: Blackwater approved plan to pay off Iraqi officials | UK soldier testifies comrades beat Iraqi to death | Ex-diplomat says Afghanistan in ‘civil war,’ calls for US withdrawal | UN: Drone attacks may violate international law | Bomb kills dozens in Pakistan as Hillary Clinton arrives | Pakistani Army working with ‘Good Taliban’ | Israel rules out Gaza probe | Refugee flood reveals human cost of South Waziristan’s invisible war | ‘Taliban’ resist Pakistan onslaught | Pakistani troops assault ‘Taliban’ stronghold | UN body endorses Gaza war crimes report | Rape case to force defence contractors Halliburton/KBR into the open | UN body debates Gaza war crimes report | UK to send more troops to Afghanistan, hints Obama to follow suit | Pakistan launches air strikes before offensive | Obama rules out Afghanistan troop cuts | Another War in the Works | US military could strike Iran, but at what cost? | Obama considers new strategies for Afghanistan and Pakistan | Canada, at war, to urge peace for everyone else during Olympics | Obama scales back missile defence shield in Europe | Israel ‘will attack Iran this year’ if West does not cripple Tehran with sanctions | ‘Regrettable’ if Canada quits Afghanistan: Chertoff | Top US commander signals troop increase in Afghanistan | Canada sees worsening security in Afghanistan | UN condemns ‘war crimes’ in Gaza | Canadian media watched closely in Afghanistan | In wake of 9/11, ‘War on Terror’ spawned more terrorism | NATO pledges probe of deadly Afghan air strike; civilians killed | UK: Brown defends Afghan campaign in wake of aide’s resignation | Afghanistan Drug Raid Snares Border Police Commander | Afghanistan’s Hidden Heroin Addicts | Ex-employees claim Blackwater pimped out young Iraqi girls | Selling Canada on Afghanistan | Canada should stay in Afghanistan: NATO head | ‘Coalition of the willing’ comes to end in Iraq | U.S. military seeks ’second surge’ for Afghan mission | Britain and US prepared to open talks with the Taliban | Israeli soldiers allege abuses against Palestinians | Tamils languish in Sri Lankan camps | UK PM Gordon Brown plans troops surge in Afghanistan | Western Governments Funding Taliban & Al-Qaeda To Kill U.S. Troops, Destabilize Countries | Taliban flee new U.S. drive in Afghanistan | Iraq Marks Withdrawal of U.S. Troops From Cities | Brookings Publication mentions possibility of ‘Horrific Provocation’ to Trigger Iran Invasion | Pakistan remains silent as U.S. air attack kills 80 | North Korea threatens to ‘wipe out’ U.S. | North Korea threatens merciless attack if it is provoked | New Afghan mission commander vows to protect civilians | Sri Lanka has ‘nothing to hide’ yet detains, deports Bob Rae enroute to observe camps | Pakistan army backs citizens fighting Taliban | The Main Result of the “War on Terror”: The Destabilization of Pakistan | Homing chips are CIA’s latest weapon against ‘al-Qaida’ targets hiding in Pakistan’s tribal belt | Abu Ghraib abuse photos ’show rape’ | State Of War Between Two Koreas After Armistice Ended | Skepticism greets launch of Afghan detainee inquiry | UN chief flies into Sri Lanka as Tamils herded into camps | Pakistani troops battle Taliban in key Swat Valley city | Canada eyes arms sales to Pakistan | Quarter of a million Sri Lankans face two years in camps | Tamil Tiger leader killed, insurgency crushed: officials | MacKay to discuss security concerns with Pakistan | New US brigade ‘bringing in plenty of firepower’ to Afghanistan | Caught in the crossfire — the Swat valley’s fleeing families | Medics helpless, ’safe zone’ hospital shelled 2nd time in Sri Lanka | CIA: Our Drones are Killing Terrorists. Promise. | ‘More than 1,000 civilians killed’ in attacks on Sri Lanka safe zone | 500,000 fleeing Pakistani airstrikes, fighting, UN reports | US air strikes kill dozens of Afghan civilians | Pakistan’s army: as inept as it is corrupt | UN satellite imagery attests to shelling of Tamil ’safe zone’ | U.S. troops will have big impact on Afghan mission: Canadian commander | British soldiers ‘tortured and murdered 20 Iraqis, then covered it up with firefight claim’ | Killer robots and a revolution in warfare | Tamil civilians slaughtered as army shells ‘no-fire zone’ | NATO denies air strike killed Afghan civilians | NATO agrees to Afghan troop increase | Canadian Parliament votes again to let U.S. war resisters stay | Obama’s Blackwater? Chicago Mercenary Firm Gets Millions for Private “Security” in Israel and Iraq | Netanyahu: We may be forced to attack Iran | Israeli parliament approves Netanyahu’s new government | Obama adds another brigade to Afghanistan troop surge | War resister Kimberly Rivera gets 11th hour stay from deportation | Pentagon exploring robot killers that can fire on their own | Intelligence made it clear Saddam was not a threat, diplomat tells MPs | Israeli military whistleblowers: troops fired on children | US military may escalate ‘war on terror’ by striking deeper into Pakistan | Dismay at Obama plan to leave 50,000 US troops in Iraq after 2010 | Cost of Afghan mission jumps to $11.3-billion | New Canadian commander in Afghanistan welcomes U.S. troop influx | Report: CIA runs secret bases in Pakistan | Obama eyes 3 more brigades for Afghanistan | U.S. war resister gets temporary stay of removal | Israel pulls land forces from Gaza, gunboats continue shelling coast | Israel admits troops used phosphorus shells in Gaza | Israel steps up Gaza withdrawal after ceasefire | Hamas joins fragile Israeli ceasefire | Israel declares ceasefire | Video shows proof of phosphorous bombs in Gaza | Aid destroyed as UN’s Gaza HQ hit by Israeli fire | Israel ignores ceasefire plea, pounds Gaza | UN relief agency halts aid to Gaza, citing Israeli attacks on staff | Rockets fired from Lebanon hit northern Israel | U.S. war resister, mother of 3 must leave Canada | Israeli shelling kills dozens at UN school in Gaza | They hate us for our bombs | Israeli army set for invasionÂÂÂ
2008ÂÂÂ
Food, medicine, fuel needed in Gaza, agencies warn | Gaza relief boat carrying former Congresswoman rammed by Israelis | ‘Abusive’ coalition raids stoking anger in Afghanistan: report | Canada ‘not onboard’ with U.S. plan to arm Afghan militias | Top U.S. general boosts troop pledge to Afghanistan | Brown: British military to withdraw from Iraq, to ’share burden’ in Afghanistan | George Bush shoe-thrower ‘too severely beaten’ for court appearance | Khadr, interred in rubble, couldn’t have thrown grenade in firefight: Evidence | Afghan war boosts recruiting | Former ISI Chief: Mumbai And 9/11 Both “Inside Jobs” | Blackwater Guards facing Charges in Case of 17 Dead Iraqi Citizens | Indian Intelligence Provided SIM Cards to Mumbai Gunmen | 3 new deaths in Afghanistan push Canadian toll to 101 | Neo-cons still preparing for Iran attack | Afghan government sacks Kandahar governor | Obama’s planned troop surge in Afghanistan could lead to more violence: ISAF | Military to probe response to sex charges | US General David Petraeus to take CENTCOM helm for Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan | ‘Reconstruction’ efforts in Khandahar not apparent to Afghanis | Peace activists demand Canada leave Afghanistan | NATO to let troops fight Afghan drug lords | US faces downward spiral in Afghan war, says leaked intelligence report | Afghan mission cost: up to $18B | Delta Force Officer: We Weren’t Allowed to Kill Osama Bin Laden | Victory impossible in Afghanistan: senior British commander | Defiant military watchdog widens detainee hearings | ‘Some’ Troops to stay in Afghanistan past 2011: McKay | CSIS faces review in Khadr case | Blackwater-linked firm to train Canadian troops | Canadian troops continue gearing up, to receive US counter-insurgency training | Asia’s new ‘great game’ is all about pipelines | MacKay dismisses Taliban threat as ‘propaganda’ | Controversial Kandahar governor replaced | America to assume command in Afghanistan | Canadian military acquiring new helicopters, drones | Low Level Driver Convicted Of Terror Charges While Bin Laden’s Senior Body Guard Was Let Go | Afghani Narco-state Continues to Blossom under Puppet President | Protesters push for Omar Khadr’s release | Obama promises 10,000 more troops for Afghanistan | Afghanistan suggests Pakistan responsible for embassy bombing | Canadian, NATO forces stood down during Afghan jailbreak | Canadian military silent on Afghan civilian deaths: UN investigator | US Counterinsurgency Manual Leaked, Calls for False Flag Operations, Suspension of Human Rights | Report: U.S. Gave Green Light For Taliban Prison Attack | Don’t look, don’t tell, troops told in response to Afghani child abuse | Post-traumatic stress disorder’s hidden scars | Over 100 complaints about access to govt. info on Afghan mission: report | Canada sets up new military spy unit | Bid to Block Afghan Detainee Inquiry Slammed | Army begins using $150,000 artillery shells | FBI documents contradict 9/11 Commission report | Truth or Terrorism? The Real Story Behind Five Years of High Alerts | 9/11 widows call for new investigation after revelations of White House, commission ties | Director of 9/11 commission “secretly spoke with Rove, White House” | Eight U.S. State Department Veterans Challenge the Official Account of 9/11 | Twenty-five U.S. Military Officers Challenge Official Account of 9/11ÂÂÂ
2007ÂÂÂ
Ex-Italian President: Intel Agencies Know 9/11 An Inside Job | Afghan poll not as clear as it seems | 9/11 — the big cover-up? | New Bin Laden Video: 100% Forgery | What Ottawa doesn’t want you to know: Government was told detainees faced ‘extrajudicial executions, disappearances, torture and detention without trial’ | The Lies that Led to WarÂÂÂ
2006ÂÂÂ
U.S. Government Caught Red-Handed Releasing Staged Al-Qaeda VideosÂÂÂ
2001ÂÂÂ
US Allowed Taliban, Al-Qaeda Airlift EvacuationÂÂÂ
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