AlterNet
Buried in Appendix M of the Army Field Manual, the Guantanamo virus is spreading, and eradicating it will require all of us to spread the word.
By Jeffrey S. Kaye, AlterNet
Posted on January 7, 2009, Printed on January 7, 2009
In early September 2006, the U.S. Department of Defense, reeling from at least a [...]

BlackListed News
Published on 01-06-2009
Source: New Kerala
India is maintaining politico-diplomatic pressure on Pakistan to comply with its international obligations apropos the Mumbai terror attack of Nov 26. Home Minister P. Chidambaram would visit the US in the course of this week with a detailed dossier that would include “irrefutable evidence” about the involvement of Pakistan-based terrorists in [...]

Noah Shachtman from Danger Room on the latest propaganda efforts from the military:
Bloggers: If you suddenly find Air Force officers leaving barbed comments after one of your posts, don’t be surprised. They’re just following the service’s new “counter-blogging” flow chart. In a twelve-point plan, put together by the emerging technology division of the Air Force’s [...]

Telegraph: Israeli soldiers killed by ‘friendly fire’ in Gaza
Israel has suffered its heaviest loss of life in the campaign so far when three soldiers from its elite Golani Brigade were killed and 24 wounded in northern Gaza when a tank shell hit a building where the infantrymen were resting.

The Raw Story
Ron Brynaert
Friday January 2, 2009
On a senator’s request, the secretary of the Army is considering widening a probe into veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan who have committed violent crimes, according to an article in Friday’s edition of The New York Times.
Reporting on an “Army installation in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains [...]

http://www.globalresearch.ca…
Georgia is moving tanks and armoured vehicles closer to the border with South Ossetia, the republic’s government said on Monday.
“According to intelligence that is coming in, Georgia has moved 28 tanks into the city of Gori, where a tank battalion is deployed. Moreover, Cobra armoured personnel carriers have been detected in the village of Nikozi [...]

Suburban Guerrilla
Glenn Greenwald:
It would be nice if U.S. citizens weren’t connected to and responsible for every Israeli military action, so that we really could and should take the attitude that what the Israeli Government does — or what is done to it — is not our responsibility. That’s how it should be.

http://www.theprovince.com…
GAZA, Dec 27 (Reuters) - Israeli warplanes pounded the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing at least 225 people in one of the bloodiest days for the Palestinians in 60 years of conflict with the Jewish state.

http://www.atimes.com..
Aug 17, 2007
Missing US arms probe goes global
By David Isenberg
WASHINGTON - The issue of missing US weapons in Iraq is getting, as Alice said in Wonderland, curiouser and curiouser. What started out as a mere report documenting improper bookkeeping procedures for assault rifles and pistols given by the Pentagon to [...]

I wonder how many more of these guys are kicking around and we’re just seeing the tip of the iceberg:
Police spent the day searching the house of a decorated, two-tour Iraq war veteran on Tuesday, one day after he was arrested and charged with making explosive devices and attempting to sell them.
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Oklahoma City police took [...]