HARPER’S WEEKLY REVIEW JULY (0)
7/29/10 •
Wikileaks released thousands of military field reports
from six years of the war in Afghanistan, including
several asserting that representatives of Pakistan’s
Inter-Services Intelligence met with Taliban leaders to
coordinate attacks against American troops and plan
assassinations of Afghan leaders, and that the Taliban has
been using heat-seeking missiles provided to the
mujahideen by the United States during Afghanistan’s
Soviet occupation. The reports [...]
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Afghan War Leaks Expose Costly, Deceitful March of Folly (7)
7/29/10 •
by Ray McGovern
The brutality and fecklessness of the US-led war in Afghanistan have been laid bare in an indisputable way just days before the House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on whether to throw $33.5 billion more into the Afghan quagmire, when that money is badly needed at home.
On Sunday, the web site WikiLeaks [...]
Military Judges Defy Congressionally Ordered Access to Guantanamo Proceedings (0)
7/28/10 •
by: Deb Weinstein, t r u t h o u t | Report
Ever-shifting rules, minders and a cloaked public record are some of the barriers Miami Herald reporter Carol Rosenberg said await those hoping to cover the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Speaking at the National Press Club Tuesday night at an event titled [...]
A Fracking War: Industry Tries – and Fails – to Debunk “Gasland” Film (0)
7/26/10 •
by: Mike Ludwig, t r u t h o u t | Report
The information war over the natural gas drilling practice commonly called “fracking” is heating up as filmmaker Josh Fox responds to an industry attempt to debunk his hit film “Gasland.”
“Gasland” won a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival and gave new [...]
What happens next? (0)
7/24/10 •
Story by Dahr Jamail
Photography by Erika Blumenfeld
Recently we met with Captain Louis Skrmetta who runs Ship Island Excursions out of Gulfport, Mississippi. His father Pete came to the US from Croatia in 1904, and began working as an oyster fisherman, now an endangered endeavor. From that background arose the family business of ferrying people out [...]
