“Joseph Salerno talks to Lew Rockwell about our enemies, and practical ways to fight them.”
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2012/10/19/315-war-terror-and-banking/
“According to unnamed US officials, it was American intelligence agencies that were behind Turkey’s decision to force down a Syrian passenger plane last week, to follow up on US suspicions that the plane had Russian military hardware aboard. Russian officials insist all that was on board were ‘dual use’ radar parts. Officials now concede that they have been talking with Turkey about the idea of attacking Syria to impose a ‘no-fly zone.’ No decision has been made, and such a move would be an act of war, one likely to spark a major reaction from Russia and China, two close allies of Syria.”
http://news.antiwar.com/2012/10/19/us-behind-turkish-downing-of-syrian-passenger-plane/
“CIA Director David Petraeus is urging the White House to expand the agency’s drone fleet, insisting it will allow the agency to carry on with its missions in Pakistan, Yemen and North Africa. The Pentagon is also planning to increase its inventory by 35% in the future. So in total the US has 791 operational drone right now and is planning to buy another 732. Are those military machines really necessary? Lieutenant Col. Anthony Schaffer of Advanced Defense Studies joins RT’s Meghan Lopez.”
“The Mail on Sunday today reveals shocking new evidence of the full horrific impact of US drone attacks in Pakistan. A damning dossier assembled from exhaustive research into the strikes’ targets sets out in heartbreaking detail the deaths of teachers, students and Pakistani policemen. It also describes how bereaved relatives are forced to gather their loved ones’ dismembered body parts in the aftermath of strikes. It is set to trigger a formal murder investigation by police into the roles of two US officials said to have ordered the strikes. They are Jonathan Banks, former head of the CIA’s Islamabad station, and John A. Rizzo, the CIA’s former chief lawyer.”
“If a private person undertook such a ‘plot,’ but called it off without carrying it out and then announced ‘I meant it only as a joke,’ wouldn’t he face criminal prosecution nonetheless? Shouldn’t the FBI agents involved in this make-believe ‘plot’ also be charged with a conspiracy to blow up a federal building? They were not only participants in the scheme, but its very instigators!”
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/123426.html
“The Occupy Wall Street movement kicked into gear last September, and since its creation police across the US have been caught brutalizing non-violent protesters. In some cities, Anarchists have joined the movement and have become the targets for FBI raids in the Pacific-Northwest for alleged involvement in the violent protests in the US. RT’s Web Producer, Andrew Blake gives us his take on the most recent cases and explains why these individuals are being targeted.”
“Muslim attacks worldwide and against all targets, failed and successful, add up to 18,000 since 2001. This number is bound to be controversial and subject to error. If this involved 18,000 Muslims, that’s a little over one-thousandth of one percent of Muslims who engaged in a terrorist or violent attempted attack or attack anywhere in the world. How many Muslims have American forces killed since 2001? I’ve found a low-end estimate for 1990 to 2009, and it’s 288,000. How many of these were Muslim terrorists? I can’t find a tally so far. The number is very, very small relative to 288,000. The tally for drone strikes is 2-3,000 with a high proportion being innocent people.”
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/123220.html
“More than 3,500 US personnel will take part in the drill, about 1,000 of them in Israel, putting a total price tag on the exercise at $60 million. The weapons will include US Patriot missile batteries and an AEGIS ballistic missile defense ship, along with the multi-tiered missile defense system that Israel has been developing. All but one of the launches will be simulated. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been pushing the United States to set Iran an ultimatum or risk seeing Israel launch unilateral strikes.”
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/us_israel_to_hold_major_missile_5IldcPKQZxKLTeiwocthrM
“Turn on the TV or flip open the newspaper on any given day, and you will find yourself accosted by reports of government corruption, corporate malfeasance, militarized police and marauding SWAT teams. Yet even more dangerous than these violations of our basic rights is the language they are couched in—the language of fear. And, as John Whitehead says in this week’s vodcast, the only thing which will improve our present condition is the taming of our fear.”
“Human rights activists hoped a democratic government would bring reform to Egypt’s prison system, but two years after the revolution, they are still calling for an end to torture.”