Moscow’s warned Washington against striking Iran. Russia’s chief-of-staff revealed on Wednesday the U.S. could attack Iran after wrapping up its campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. He claimed his American counterpart had told him about the possibility. In an exclusive interview to RT, General Nikolai Makarov outlined Moscow’s concerns.

The speech Obama hated. Given at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London, October 2009. For some reason the IISS had removed all references to McChrystal from their website for several days. I put this up just in case it disappears again.

Pakistan Daily / John Pilger (2010-01-17) Obama’s lies over the Afghanistan war remind us of the lessons of Nineteen Eighty-Four In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell described a superstate, Oceania, whose language of war inverted lies that “passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls [...]

Last Tuesday, the United Kingdom began “the most thorough investigation yet into the decisions that led up to the war and governed Britain’s involvement” through a series of Iraq war hearings in which numerous high-level British officials — including key war supporter and Bush ally ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair — are expected to testify about their role in bringing their country to war.

Daily Mail / Nicola Boden (2009-11-27) Tony Blair and George W. Bush ‘signed in blood’ their agreement to oust Saddam Hussein in secret talks almost a year before the start of the war in Iraq, Britain’s former ambassador to the U.S. suggested today. Sir Christopher Meyer recounted how the two leaders spent hours speaking in [...]

Helsingin Sanomat / STT (2009-10-13) Yhdysvaltain presidentti Barack Obama paisuttaa kaikessa hiljaisuudessa amerikkalaisjoukkojen määrää Afganistanissa, kirjoittaa Washington Post -lehti. Lehden mukaan Yhdysvallat on lähettämässä Afganistaniin 13 000 sotilasta enemmän kuin mitä julkisesti on ilmoitettu. Obama kertoi maaliskuussa vahvistavansa Afganistanissa olevia joukkoja 21 000 sotilaalla. Sen lisäksi presidentti on kuitenkin hyväksynyt 13 000 lisäjoukon lähettämisen Afganistaniin.