Tag Archives: General David Petraeus
Charles McDermid> US ‘shock and audit’ over Iraq expenses
US ‘shock and audit’ over Iraq expenses Unsparing analysis of $60bn spent ‘rebuilding’ Iraq lays bare the waste trail that may lead all the way to Afghanistan. At least $8bn in Iraq reconstruction funds is still unaccounted for and presumed ‘wasted’, a report says [Reuters] Charles McDermid Last Modified: 27 Mar 2013 AlJazeera.com The final breakdown of […]
The Guardian> James Steele: America’s mystery man in Iraq – Full Documentary
James Steele: America’s mystery man in Iraq A 15-month investigation by the Guardian and BBC Arabic reveals how retired US colonel James Steele, a veteran of American proxy wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua, played a key role in training and overseeing US-funded special police commandos who ran a network of torture centres in Iraq. […]
BBC-Guardian Exposé Uses WikiLeaks to Link Iraq Torture Centers to U.S. Col. Steele & Gen. Petraeus
TRANSCRIPT Democracy Now! A shocking new report by The Guardian and BBC Arabic details how the United States armed and trained Iraqi death squads that ran torture centers. It is a story that stretches from the U.S.-backed death squads in Central America during the 1980s to the imprisoned Army whistleblower Bradley Manning. We play extended excerpts of […]
Glenn Greenwald> America’s drone sickness
America’s drone sickness BY GLENN GREENWALD April 19, 2012 Salon.com This headline and first paragraph from today’s Washington Post scoop by Greg Miller speaks volumes about so many things: General David Petraeus in Kabul, Afghanistan on July 18, 2011 (Credit: REUTERS/Ahmad Masood) There are many evils in the world, but extinguishing people’s lives with targeted, extra-judicial killings, when you […]
Andrew Bacevich> Scoring the Global War on Terror> From Liberation to Assassination in Three Quick Rounds
Scoring the Global War on Terror From Liberation to Assassination in Three Quick Rounds A war that once occupied center stage in national politics has now slipped to the periphery, with legal and moral questions raised by the war left dangling in midair. Andrew Bacevich February 19, 2012 TomDispatch.com With the United […]
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