Blackwater Founder Accused of Intent to Kill

Blackwater Founder Accused in Court of Intent to Kill (washingtonpost.com)

McCain pushes back against Cheney, says torture violated law (rawstory.com)

They were buddies and they're buried together.

"If Afghanistan, one of the poorest countries in the world, and really hardly a country at all, is a threat to US national security, so is Malawi, Burundi and Fiji. American national security is not to the slightest degree threatened by the Taliban." (commondreams.org)

Cindy Sheehan Protesting Obama’s Illegal War Of Agression (therobalution.com)

The "art" of rendition and systematic torture

First documents to be released to show the "art" of rendition and the systematic torture that ensues. In a nutshell these documents are sick and prove that the Bush admin. was a sadistic bunch of thugs. (pubrecord.org)

Obama’s continuation of rendition is yet another repudiation of his campaign promises. Foreign Affairs 2007: Obama said he would “eliminate the practice of extreme rendition, where we outsource our torture to other countries.” (wsws.org)

200 Dead Memorial, Sat 22nd Aug, Hull

A gathering was held on Saturday 22nd at Hull's war memorial to remember the 206 dead British soldiers and the tens of thousands of dead of Afghanistan. Jonathan Young, aged 18 from Hull, had been killed two days prior. A call was made to bring the troops home and to stop the killing. Members of Hull Stop the War Coalition and Hull area Green Party, among others, took part.

Judge Orders Fed To Disclose Who Received Bailout Trillions (infowars.com)

The Truth About The Afghan Election

The Truth About The Afghan Election (counterpunch.com)

OCTOBER 24th DEMO: 69% in Britain say troops home now: Demonstrate London Saturday 24 October.

Brazil calls Obama over US bases (news.bbc.co.uk)

UK to share fingerprints with Canada, Australia (news.zdnet.co.uk) !!!!!

Bush’s day of reckoning is inevitable, because as a signatory of the convention against torture Obama will be in violation of International Law by not investigating Bush. (commondreams.org) - Hmm, we'll see...

The Real Boston Tea Party was an Anti-Corporate Revolt (commondreams.org)

CIA Report Into the Bush Administration’s Torture Programs, Finally Released. (timesonline.co.uk)

"200 Dead", 12.30pm, Saturday, War Memorial, Hull

"200 Dead", 12.30pm, Saturday, War Memorial, Hull

There will be a memorial tomorrow, Saturday 22nd Aug, at 12.30pm at the War Memorial, opposite Paragon Station, Hull.

There will be a reading of the names of the dead both British and Afghani.

Hull Stop the War Coalition will attend with a stall and banner.

All other groups and individuals are welcome.

Currently there are 206 British dead.

AFGHANISTAN IN QUOTES

TONY BENN - I think you have to understand the history of this. Britain invaded Afghanistan in 1839, captured Kabul, and was defeated the following year, and 15,000 British troops were killed in the retreat. Britain invaded Afghanistan in 1879. Britain was in Afghanistan in 1919. The Russians were in Afghanistan. I led a delegation to the Russian ambassador in London to protest that. The United States government, President Bush, the first one, funded Osama bin Laden to fight the Russians to get them out of Afghanistan. ... And the situation we’re in now is very straightforward. The United States and NATO, forty countries with 64,000 troops, in eight years have been unable to defeat the Taliban. And this is a Vietnam War for America and for the rest of the—well, for the people involved, soldiers and civilians on both sides, it’s an absolute tragedy.

Marina of RAWA, interviewed by John Pilger - “We, the women of Afghanistan, only became a cause in the west following 11 September 2001, when the Taliban suddenly became the official enemy of America. Yes, they persecuted women, but they were not unique, and we have resented the silence in the west over the atrocious nature of the western-backed warlords, who are no different. They rape and kidnap and terrorise, yet they hold seats in [Hamid] Karzai’s government. In some ways, we were more secure under the Taliban. You could cross Afghanistan by road and feel secure. Now, you take your life into your hands.”

John Pilger - The truth about the “good war” is to be found in compelling evidence that the 2001 invasion, widely supported in the west as a justifiable response to the 11 September attacks, was actually planned two months prior to 9/11 and that the most pressing problem for Washington was not the Taliban’s links with Osama Bin Laden, but the prospect of the Taliban mullahs losing control of Afghanistan to less reliable mujahedin factions.

"To me, I confess, [countries] are pieces on a chessboard upon which is being played out a game for dominion of the world."
Lord Curzon, viceroy of India, speaking about Afghanistan, 1898

Rex Tomb, spokesman, FBI’s public affairs unit - “The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Osama bin Laden’s Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting bin Laden to 9/11.”

Ali al-Megrahi released the following statement

Released on compassionate grounds, the man who probably didn't bomb Pan Am 103, al-Megrahi released the following statement: (news.bbc.co.uk)

UK 'can't find' $13bn in military hardware (abc.net.au)

CIA assassination program had been outsourced to Blackwater, ex-officials say (latimes.com)

It's not just that the CIA wanted to outsource assassinations to Blackwater; it's that they were ready to directly pay the company's executives millions of dollars without a contract in an act of amazing government corruption (trueslant.com)