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September 18 2019
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Ruling comes after a eight-year battle over secret surveillance of the popular website after 9/11.
In a major victory for Antiwar.com, free speech and journalism, a federal appeals court has ruled that the FBI must expunge surveillance memos that agents had drafted about the website’s co-founders Eric Garris and Justin Raimondo in the early years following the 9/11 attacks.
“It’s been a long fight and I’m glad we had an outcome that could might affect future FBI behavior,” said Garris, who runs Antiwar.com, based in the San Francisco Bay area. “I just wish Justin was still here to know that this has happened.”
— By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
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On Sunday, President Trump was suggesting that a US response to the drone strikes in Saudi Arabia were pending Saudi Arabia’s determination of who was responsible. By Monday, US officials were instructing Saudi Arabia to determine Iran was to blame.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was already blaming Iran by Sunday morning, and others are talking up using this as a pretext for military action. Blaming Iran was only a matter of time, whether the Saudis blamed Iran to try to lure them into a war, or were instructed to do so.
— By Jason Ditz
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The 'Gated Communities' of Afghanistan: An All-American Euphemism
When they saw Afghanistan, all they could think of was Iraq. Indeed, most military thinkers are perennially driven by the tunnel-vision of personal experience; rarely a good thing. Indeed, the generals and colonels managing the foolish, politically driven 2009-12 Obama "surge" into Afghanistan – what he’d absurdly labeled the "good war" – had few fresh ideas. Convinced, and feeling vindicated, by the myth that Baby Bush’s 2007-09 Iraq surge had "worked," most commanders knew just what to do and sought to replicate these tactics in the utterly dissimilar war in Afghanistan. That meant the temporary infusion of some 30,000 extra troops, walling off warring neighborhoods, and plopping small American units among the populace.
— By Maj. Danny Sjursen, USA (ret.)
The recent attacks on Saudi oil facilities by Yemeni Houthi forces demonstrate once again that an aggressive foreign policy often brings unintended consequences and can result in blowback. In 2015 Saudi Arabia attacked its neighbor, Yemen, because a coup in that country ousted the Saudi-backed dictator. Four years later Yemen is in ruins, with nearly 100,000 Yemenis killed and millions more facing death by starvation. It has been rightly called the worst humanitarian catastrophe on the planet.
— By Ron Paul
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President Trump announced on Sunday that the US is “locked and loaded” and ready to respond to the weekend attack on Saudi oil refineries, but is waiting on the Saudis to determine who is to blame. He also suggested he was willing for military action.
On Saturday, drones attacked and caused fires at a pair of Saudi oil refineries. The fires are believed to be going to cause a decline in oil production, though the Saudis expressed hope at starting to restore service by Monday.
— By Jason Ditz
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