Top Obama Advisor: Homeland is “Primary” Focus of Counterterrorism
“Liberty Upended” – Anthony Freda Activist Post The Huffington Post is reporting that the White House is set to release their new counterterrorism strategy on…
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US refocuses on home-grown terror threat
President Barack Obama’s top counterterrorism aide, John Brennan, vowed to pursue the “utter destruction” of Al-Qaeda © AFP/File Saul Loeb AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – The…
Obama vows to keep pressure on crippled Al-Qaeda
US President Barack Obama vowed to keep pressure on the Al-Qaeda terror group following the death of Osama bin Laden © AFP Saul Loeb AFP…
Pakistan tells US to leave ‘drone’ attack base
A Predator surveillance drone equipped with Hellfire missiles © AFP/General Atomics/File AFP ISLAMABAD (AFP) – Pakistan told the United States to leave a remote desert…
US ‘strongly condemns’ Kabul hotel attack
The Inter-Continental hotel in seen in the dark as tracer bullets are shot during an attack in Kabu © AFP Massoud Hossaini AFP WASHINGTON (AFP)…
Key US Senate panel backs limited Libya conflict
Libyan rebels capture a network of bunkers in the desert around 25 kilometres (15 miles) from the hilltown of Zintan © AFP Florent Marcie AFP…
Obama aide defends handling of Libya
An aide to US President Barack Obama insisted he does not need congressional authorization to support Libyan rebels © AFP Patrick Baz AFP WASHINGTON (AFP)…
Are US wars and economic disaster well-intended mistakes? What we know from facts
image source Carl Herman, Contributing Writer Activist Post The American public struggles with political rhetoric and US corporate media to discern fact from spin. “As…
Banging the Drums of War: Iran and the Neo-cons
Dees Illustration Robert Bonomo, Contributing Writer Activist Post All the Usual Suspects In the last few years Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic, Norman Podhoretz of…
“After you Brother!” Qadaffi stays and Obama leaves?
Dees Illustration Franklin Lamb LLM, PhD Activist Post Tripoli, Libya — The 6/27/11 International Criminal Courts (ICC) arrest warrants issued for Muammar Gadhafi, his son Seif…
Arab Spring Brings Corporate Locust
Egypt’s next step to “freedom.” Tony Cartalucci, Contributing Writer Activist Post Bangkok, Thailand June 25, 2011 – As terrifying as any Biblical plague, the very…
Blackwater guard jailed over Afghan shooting
The Kabul skyline © AFP/File Dmitry Kostyukov AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – A US federal judge sentenced a former Blackwater security guard on Monday to 30…
‘Shade It Black’: The Bodybaggers of Iraq
War is disgusting and horrific. It never leaves the people who were involved in it. The damage is far greater than the lists of casualties…
The Lie Behind the Afghan War
Afghanistan’s 29 Provinces – Wiki Image Robert Parry Consortium News In Official Washington, there’s one “fact” about the Afghan War that nearly everyone “knows”: In…