Allen West’s Butt

Apparently when America’s intelligence spectrum includes Sarah Palin as a former candidate for vice-president (I still can’t believe she was), any moron with one brain cell is smart enough to serve in public office.

Lieutenant-colonel West is proud to have fired his pistol inches away from an Iraqi detainee’s head during his military service in Iraq, in order to extract a confession regarding an alleged eminent attack on “his” soldiers.

Don’t Ask, Just Kill

The resurgence of Lady Gaga’s cause célèbre, and the recent defeat by congressional republicans of a bill seeking to end the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law governing the service of gays in the US armed forces have brought the issue of equality towards homosexuals in the armed forces, and in society at large, back to the headlines.

On Pirates and Pacification

As the US military’s disastrous planning for their occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan has been reveled many people have tried to figure out where to look for inspiration. Vietnam? Not so much. Since the US was “never a colonial power” strategists started looking at other colonial histories. Out of this effort has come the lionization [...]

The Most Humane Military Passes Out T-Shirts Celebrating Civilian Deaths

Israeli soldiers finishing training were given these stylish t-shirts. The shirts make light of shooting pregnant Palestinian mothers and children and include images of dead babies and destroyed mosques. There were other equally offensive designs described in the Haaretz article. After revelations by Israeli soldiers portraying official orders to explicitly target civilians, it makes one [...]

Eleven Thousand Hostages

As Will posted earlier, Israeli arrested/kidnapped more than 10 Palestinians across the West Bank last night, including members of the Palestinian parliament. The reason this isn’t really news is well, because it isn’t. Israel kidnaps tens of Palestinians every single day in the West Bank, taking them to Israeli military bases where they are interrogated [...]

Make that 335 or 460 Palestinians for Shalit

Hamas arrested Shalit in 2006.After negotiations over the release of the Israeli Corporal Gilad Shalit and between 325-450 Palestinians went sour, Israeli forces in the West Bank moved to “arrest” 10 Hamas leaders. Although the New York Times used the more dignified term “arrest,” it seems a lot more like hostage-taking. I guess democracies like [...]

Israel Sweats Hamas May ‘Return (Bombs) to Sender’

The Israeli military is worried. After dropping all those explosives to destroy Gaza, the duds, the bombs that did not go off, fell into the wrong hands. Military sources said Israel is trying to track the whereabouts of at least three unexploded U.S. bombs dropped by the Israel Air Force during the 22-day bombardment of [...]

American Injured in Ni’lin in Intensive Care

Tristan Anderson, the American activist Israel shot with a tear gas canister, is in critical condition. According to witnesses, their were not clashes to provoke this. There were active demonstrations earlier that morning, but no imminent need for tear gas against them. Israeli activist Jonathan Pollack told Ynet that “the firing incident took place inside [...]

A Moving Diatribe to Mobilize the Iraqi Police

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1GrdTakvl8] What an inspirational lecture by an American officer, apparently motivated by the need to discipline the occupied third-worlders he has the (white man’s) burden of protecting. They should be thankful for his interventions, which have been in the interest of the Iraqi people. He should be listened to, after all, he freed them of [...]

KABOBfest, Greeks Prevent Arms Shipment To Israel

KABOBfest put the call out, Greeks responded, and responded, and responded, …and America canceled the arms shipment it had planned for the apartheid state through the Greek port of Astakos: WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US military has to had to cancel a planned shipment of munitions from a Greek port to a US warehouse in [...]