Tag Archive for 'war'
Italian blood, because we are at war (65 million per year)
Yesterday, two Italians were killed in Afghanistan . Blown up while trying to defuse an explosive device placed at the edge of a road. Two days before Wikileaks has published a voluminous dossier in which, among other things, it is said (source: U.S. Army) that most of the explosive devices used by Taliban were made using anti-vehicle mines of Italian production readjusted. Nobody will ever say if these two boys killed in Afghanistan (and others killed in previous years) were affected by the Made in Italy. From what we read, at least one of our Lynx was shot by Italian mines.
Baghdad and Kabul, two wars and only one winner: China
Must be that no one in the United States taken seriously, George W. Bush when in May 2003 increased the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln declared the Iraqi mission was accomplished. Be that after seven years with the Marines and ready to go home the big American investors assess Iraq a very insecure place, politically unstable and poisonous slave of corruption that strangles economic initiative. Maybe, but not everyone thinks so and China, among all, is the country that most Americans are taking advantage of indecision.
Petraeus throws the mask heavy hand in Afghanistan
Prohibiting the use of air strikes and heavy artillery to reduce "collateral damage"? It should be removed because the lives of Afghan civilians is important, but the American soldiers it is more. The date of July 2011 as the beginning of the withdrawal? "Just take a good dance for the Afghans: in fact the occupation will continue beyond that term." A trial on the command of General McChrystal in Iraq (where his men tortured prisoners to death)? Was "outstanding leadership." David Petraeus' threw the mask, "writes" PeaceReporter ", rejecting the general 'from the face of good and reassuring smile just appointed by Obama."
Gaza and Turkey, moved to Israel to strike Iran
Israel is now ready to attack Iran soon, under an Obama presidency and with the acquiescence of Russia and China. They say all the recent moves made mediorienale and global scenario: the attack on the convoy Freedom Flotilla to "warn" Turkey, contrary to Brazil with sanctions against Tehran, the stop of Russian supplies to defend Iran's announcement explicit in Tel Aviv to Beijing: Israel prepares to strike militarily the regime of the ayatollahs. A crisis rather than announced, although no one wants to see. And no, it seems, can stop the.
Karzai returns to Afghanistan, Massoud's killers?
While out of the quagmire of Afghanistan, the U.S. would be ready to leave the ' Afghanistan in the hands of the Taliban and Pakistan. After renouncing to launch the offensive in Kandahar, the Obama administration - despite the skepticism of the facade - would in fact support the negotiations between Karzai and the Taliban, openly mediated by senior Pakistani military. The staff of the army and the ISI, the intelligence services of Pakistan, are making shuttling between Islamabad and Kabul to promote a political agreement between Karzai and the Taliban's notorious Haqqani network, which heads the Afghan resistance in the south-east the country.
Afghanistan, conducted in Obama strategist arrives in Baghdad
General David Petraeus, the strategist of the season post-war Iraq, instead of the "rebel" Stanley McChrystal, intolerant to the limitations imposed by the White House to the point of contact insults to Barack Obama through the now famous interview published by Rolling Stone "in which the commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan has accused Washington of incompetence. A few days before the evolution of the crisis - and the inevitable liquidation of McChrystal by Obama - General Fabio Mini, the former head of the international mission in Kosovo, stated to " PeaceReporter "solution coming: the rough road McChrystal, to make room for Petraeus, generally more suited to the type of management, tactics and elastic, that ' Afghanistan and require that Washington hopes.
Erri De Luca in the mountains, to detach from the ground
That makes us one of Naples in the mountains? Well, there 'adds his piece of inheritance. I had this gift, the mountains, my father - who was also a Neapolitan, enlisted in the body of the mountain. And during the war has passed the time of ruin in the mountains, the mountains of Albania. Did not bring back anything of those stories, could not tell nothing but the mountains, those mountains, has been able to tell: that the mountains have saved the time of ruin.
Cut the war: counter-maneuver 24 billion
Hard sacrifices? Let them pay the war , not to the weaker. While the CGIL announced a general strike against the proposed rescue maneuver by Giulio Tremonti to put the ' Italy to shelter from financial difficulties triggered by the crisis in global and particularly the crack of Greece, from the province of Venice comes a unique counter-proposal: my operation? Simple: cut off the war . " Hermes Drigo, star of the environmental conversion of Portogruaro ago accounts in your pocket to defense by withdrawing troops' Afghanistan and filing some entries from armaments, just save 24 billion euros, what the government is about to squeeze by the Italians.
Cyber-war if the U.S. militarized network
America gears up for cyber warfare : the NSA, the Agency for National Security (Big Brother spying on electronic communications of the population) will become a dedicated military command to the Joint War cybernetics. Gen. Keith Alexander, the Secretary of Defense Robert Gates put in charge of the nascent Cyber Command, will give the U.S. a new combat capability, not only air and sea but also on the new land policy networks. Objective: To defend against hacker attacks and, if necessary, to conduct "military operations spread spectrum" to ban the 'freedom of action in cyberspace' opponents.
Use declining empire total lame challenge
The dream of the "end of history" has vanished. The U.S. has tried, under Bush, one last brutal attempt to maintain its unchallenged supremacy: the draft " war infinite ", which was to annihilate like a steamroller all possible enemies and competitors, but have stalled on the first two rocks encountered, namely Afghanistan and Iraq. The world order today is "semi-unipolar, with Washington still hegemonic power, but more for the care of his rivals for their power and authority. The crisis of 2008 financial game by U.S. and sent shards that order partial economic
Turkey uranium in Tehran: the alibi collapses-war
With the agreement made with Turkey, with the mediation of President Lula, Iran has undertaken to manage the cycle of uranium enrichment abroad necessary for the operation of its future power plants. The Agreement displaces and disarm the United States and Israel , which now are no arguments, and especially so useful without the "Iranian threat", dusted off continuously despite the wishes of Tehran not to offer excuses to start a war . Exemplary in this sense the title of the New York Times, essentially regretted the agreement that disarms the hawks of the crisis : "Iran agrees to ship the uranium, complicating talks on the sanctions."
Butcher Afghanistan, another Italian blood from the front
More deaths in Afghanistan between the Italian soldiers: May 17 is touched two young mountain, torn by the explosion of a bomb that ripped apart the armored vehicle "Lynx" which they were traveling, the head of an ISAF convoy in Bala Murghab direct, toward the main theater of combat northern Italian troops. Alpine riflemen and paratroopers are committed to one year in a slow advance northward against Taliban forces that control the arid valleys near the Turkmen border, in a war that is now too afraid to U.S. : population, parliamentarians and even the military have always more critical.
