The US Perpetrates a Boston Bombing Weekly in Pakistan, Yemen & Afghanistan

By Sean A. McElwee

Sadaullah Khan lost both legs and one eye in a 2009 drone strike on his house (Reuters)

April 25, 2013 "Information Clearing House" -"Antiwar" - 

The Boston Bombings left three dead and more than 100 injured and some have suggested circumventing the rule of law to prosecute the perpetrator. 

Yet, in Pakistan the unconstitutional drone war continues to kill innocents. 

On April 14, between 4 and 6 Pakistanis died in drone strike and numerous civilians were injured. Another strike three days later killed 5 more and injured several. Yet there are no protests in America to capture the responsible party, nor will there ever be justice. The people of Waziristan live in constant fear, and face bombings like that of Boston almost weekly.

The two April strikes both involved significant amounts of terror, with drones “hovering over the area” for long periods of time, according to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. 

These drone strikes, contrary to administration claims, rarely target “high-level” members of terrorist organizations, and often “militants” include young boys aged 10-16.

Only recently have we begun to learn of the shady covert drone war. Mark Mazzeti’s recent The Way of the Knife, details the beginning: the United States became the lapdog of the Pakistani government, performing a drone strike to kill Nek Muhammed in exchange for access to the airspace.

While the government acknowledges that trials would be preferable for the rule of law, this heavily redacted report gives the true reason for the targeted killing program: it’s cleaner, simpler and less embarrassing to just off the suspected terrorists. 

The government uses mafia logic – why waste time and energy risking the rule of law when you can just swoop in and launch a smart bomb?

Farea al-Muslimini testified this week to United State Senate about the “psychological fear and terror” that his village faces daily after a recent drone strike. He argues that while the strike may be cleaner for the United States government, on the ground it leaves significant psychological scarring. 

He said,“ The drone strike [in my village] and its impact tore my heart, much as the tragic bombings in Boston last week tore your hearts and also mine.”

While we mourn the horrific events in Boston, we must remember that our government perpetrates a Boston bombing weekly in Pakistan, Yemen and Afghanistan.

Sean McElwee has previously written for The Day and The Norwich Bulletin and on WashingtonMonthly.com and Reason.com. He is a writer for The Moderate Voice.

Orwell Does America

By Pepe Escobar
April 25, 2013 "Information Clearing House" -"Asia Times" - 

Welcome to the sweet abyss of an Orwellian vortex.    
2013 increasingly looks like 1984.

In two previous articles, for RT and for Asia Times Online I have looked into the superimposed levels of blowback implied by the Boston bombing.

With still so many unanswered questions regarding what took place on the ground in Boston after the bombing, it's time to look at an extra, possible Top Ten list of lingering absurdities. 

And this without sidestepping other unanswered crucial questions, such as why a bomb drill - organized by Craft - was going on during the marathon at which the bombing took place; and why it was vehemently denied that a bomb drill was going on. 

For this current set of questions, I'm grateful for the help of Asia Times Online's Bostonian readers. . . 

Continue to read the complete article

 

Pepe Escobar is the author of Globalistan: How the Globalized World is Dissolving into Liquid War (Nimble Books, 2007), Red Zone Blues: a snapshot of Baghdad during the surge (Nimble Books, 2007), and Obama does Globalistan (Nimble Books, 2009). He may be reached at pepeasia@yahoo.com.

  

US Unveils Iraq WMD "Curveball-Style" Lies Vs. Syria

By Tony Cartalucci 

April 25, 2013 "Information Clearing House" -"LD" -

As NATO terror front collapses in Syria, US attempts to justify intervention by drumming up familiar WMD lies. . . 

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Comprehensive Report Finds Evidence of US Torture at Guantánamo

By Nathaniel Rojas

“[Guantánamo] was a major testing ground for the government’s policy of engaging in highly coercive interrogation techniques, practices designed to visit torment on detainees"     Continue

The Same Motive for Anti-US 'Terrorism' is Cited Over and Over

Ignoring the role played by US actions is dangerously self-flattering and self-delusional

By Glenn Greenwald 

April 24, 2013 "Information Clearing House" -"The Guardian" -

. . . Being targeted with violence is a major cost of war and aggression. It's a reason not do it. If one consciously decides to incur that cost, then that's one thing. But pretending that this is all due to some primitive and irrational religious response and not our own actions is dangerously self-flattering and self-delusional.

 Just listen to what the people who are doing these attacks are saying about why they are doing them. Or listen to the people who live in the places devastated by US violence about the results. None of it is unclear, and it's long past time that we stop pretending that all this evidence does not exist. . .  Continue

277 Million Boston Bombings

By Robert Scheer

President Obama made clear that “anytime bombs are used to target innocent civilians, it is an act of terror.” But are we as a society prepared to be judged by that standard? Continue

Is Anybody Listening?
U.S. Intel Chief Says Iran Isn't Building Nukes.

By Nima Shirazi.   

 In testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, the Director of National Intelligence reaffirmed what the U.S. intelligence community has been saying for years: Iran has no nuclear weapons program, is not building a nuclear weapon and has not even made a decision to do so.

http://www.wideasleepinamerica.com/2013/03/us-intel-chief-says-iran-isnt-building-nukes.html