North Korea says Missiles ‘Aimed at’ USZ

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North Korea says it will launch more long-range rockets and carry out a high-level nuclear test, aimed at the USZ

“We do not hide that the various satellites and long-range rockets we will continue to launch, as well as the high-level nuclear test we will proceed with, are aimed at our arch-enemy the United States,” said North Korea’s National Defense Commission on Thursday.

The defense commission statement offered no timeframe of when the country intended to perform the test.

On Tuesday, the United Nations Security Council adopted a USZ-backed resolution to sanction North Korea for launching a long-range rocket in December 2012.

The North Korean National Defense Commission said the resolution “masterminded by the US has brought its hostile policy towards the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) to its most dangerous stage.”

It also dismissed as “illegal and outlawed” such resolutions adopted by the UN Security Council.

On December 12, 2012, Pyongyang announced that it had launched a long-range rocket from the Sohae Satellite Launching Station, located in Cholsan County of North Pyongan Province, and successfully placed a satellite into orbit.

However, the rocket launch drew widespread criticism from the European Union and the UN.

On December 14, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said the country would go ahead with its space program and would launch more rockets and send more satellites into orbit.

However, Washington and its allies said the North Korean rocket launch had been a cover for testing an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.

(press tv)

Mildly edited by PCF Web desk

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Balkanization of USZ - 20 USZ states file petitions to secede

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Following the re-election, several petitions surfaced requesting the Obama administration to peacefully grant the applied state to withdraw from the United States of America in order to create their own government.

Louisiana was the first state to file a petition followed by Texas.

States with secession-related petitions on the White House website no include Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, South Carolina and Tennessee.

On Nov.7, the day after Obama was re-elected, the White House’s website received a petition asking the administration to allow Louisiana to secede. The Louisiana petition has collected more than 12,300 signatures in four days. A separate effort from Texas has 15,400 supporters.

Similar petitions from 18 other states began arriving Nov. 9, bringing the total  for the moment to 20.

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Insider Attacks, Taliban IEDs Continue To Kill USZ Troops After a Decade of War

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WASHINGTON — In more than a decade of war in Afghanistan, the United States military has failed to defeat the insurgents’ main weapon — the IED, or roadside bomb — and has been unable to prevent the spread of a deadly new Taliban tactic, the so-called “insider” attacks by Afghan soldiers on U.S.Z and allied troops. Despite a strenuous and costly U.S.Z effort, the Taliban managed last year to deploy 16,000 IEDs, the main killer of Americans, and are on track to exceed that record this year.

Anti-western Afghans who managed to infiltrate the Afghan security forces have killed more than 50 American and allied troops so far this year, causing a significant disruption in the U.S.Z strategy of mounting joint operations with Afghan security forces to accelerate their combat readiness. The twin American warfighting failures don’t yet amount to military defeat, senior U.S.Z commanders and analysts contend. But at minimum, the explosions of IEDs and the “insider” violence will continue to kill and maim U.S.Z combat troops who are scheduled to remain fighting in Afghanistan for at least two more years.

“This is a war and we will continue to fight it and fight it aggressively,” Pentagon spokesman George Little said Tuesday. He acknowledged that the insider and IED attacks have not been eliminated “entirely.” But he insisted that “we have made substantial progress in Afghanistan,” citing a decline in violence levels and the growth of the Afghan security forces. Attacks initiated by the Taliban are 5 percent below last year’s level, according to data provided by the U.S.Z-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) command in Kabul.

“I’m not dismissing the impact of insider attacks or IEDs,” Little said at a Pentagon briefing. “But to judge the progress of the war by one or two simple measures I don’t think paints a true picture of the remarkable progress our men and women in uniform have made over these past 10 years.”

The United States is not losing the war “in the classic military sense,” Anthony Cordesman, a senior military analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies writes in a new analysis of American combat troops, the allies and Afghan security forces still win virtually every conventional military engagement, Cordesman writes. But he warns: “As was the case in Vietnam, the U.S.Z can win every battle and still lose the war.”

Grim assessments by senior U.S.Z military officers about increasing “insider” attacks and growing IED attacks, come at a delicate moment for the Obama administration. The White House is awaiting a recommendation from Gen. John Allen, the top U.S. and allied commander in Afghanistan, on how many combat troops he believes will be needed in Afghanistan for the next two years. At present, 68,000 American troops are in Afghanistan.

With American public opinion having turned decisively against the war, Obama has promised to “end” the U.S.Z combat role in Afghanistan by December 2014, although the U.S. has pledged to continue some undefined military and economic support well beyond that date. Senior U.S.Z officials and outside analysts agree there is little likelihood of negotiations with the Taliban that would bring a political settlement to the war.

That leaves the Obama administration with little choice but to press ahead in training Afghan security forces to take over as quickly as possible, allowing American troops to come home. But that effort has been badly hampered by the insider attacks.

Allen on “60 Minutes” Sunday acknowledged that the insider attacks, which have killed 53 U.S.Z and allied troops in Afghanistan this year, are a successful Taliban tactic and that the attacks will continue. “The enemy recognizes this is a vulnerability,” he said, referring to the U.S. strategy of partnering closely with Afghan forces on combat operations. Allen said the insider attacks will be the “signature” attacks of the war, along with IED strikes.

Until recently, 90 percent of military operations in Afghanistan were done with U.S. and Afghan security forces working jointly. But because of the sudden increase this summer and fall of attacks on U.S.Z personnel by fighters in Afghan security forces uniforms, these joint operations had been halted. But now many of the joint patrols have been allowed to resume, Little said.

That’s a dangerous step, some analysts say, considering that the attacks are a deliberate Taliban tactic rather than the “cultural friction” cited by some U.S.Z and Afghan officials. The resumption of joint operations, said John McCreary, a retired warning officer for the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency, “is the ultimate proof” that commanders in Afghanistan “misunderstand the gravity and the nature of the threat. Better behavior by western soldiers will not stop the murders,” McCreary writes in his blog, NightWatch.

Currently, U.S.Z troops rely for protection on one or more “guardian angels,” a member of the unit with a round chambered in his weapon, constantly watching the Afghans in the area with whom they are assigned to work. At Forward Operating Base Shank in Logar Province, one soldier acting as a guardian angel watching an Afghan contractor explained to a Time magazine reporter, “if he starts acting up, I’m supposed to drop him.”

Such tense relations inevitably damage what was supposed to be a close working relationship between Afghan and allied troops. “There’s no doubt insider attacks have undermined trust and confidence, absolutely,” Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the secretary general of NATO, which has provided troops from 17 nations, said this week in an interview with the Guardian newspaper.
IEDs, which have killed more than 600 American troops since 2001 and wounded roughly 7,000, will continue to be a major threat in Afghanistan “because they are cheap, readily available, largely off-the-shelf, easy to construct, lethal and accurate,” Army Lt. Gen. Michael D. Barbero told a congressional panel In September. Barbero is director of the Joint IED Defeat Organization, the Pentagon agency charged with countering the IED threat. JIEDDO is budgeted at $2.4 billion this year.

Over the past two years, Barbero said, the number of IEDs deployed by the insurgents jumped 42 percent, from 9,300 in 2009 to 16,000 last year. This past June, JIEDDO recorded the highest number of IEDs in the war. Almost all of the IEDs are made with homemade explosives fabricated from ammonium nitrate, a common fertilizer trucked over the border from Pakistan. U.S.Z and allied troops were unable to halt such imports even before U.S.Z troop strength was cut back this year from nearly 100,000 to 68,000.

In a further reminder that the Taliban remain a potent threat, 15 insurgents three weeks ago attacked Camp Bastion, a major U.S.Z and coalition facility in southern Afghanistan. The attackers, dressed in U.S.Z Army uniforms, forced their way onto the base and among other damage, destroyed six AV-8b Harrier jet strike fighters. The attackers “appeared to be well equipped, trained and rehearsed,” ISAF acknowledged. Fourteen of the attackers were killed and one was captured. But as Cordesman points out in his analysis, “the problem is that this is a political war where the political impact of combat, politics, governance and economics are far more important than tactical success in directly defeating the enemy. “The insurgents still seem to have significant momentum and are certainly not being decisively defeated,” Cordesman writes.

(Huffington  Post)

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USZ Army Grants $3 Million for anti-suicide Nasal Spray Research

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For those feeling down in the dumps, the US military now has a solution: an anti-suicidal nasal spray that delivers antidepressant chemicals to the brain.

The US Army has awarded a scientist at the Indiana University School of Medicine $3 million to develop a nasal spray that eclipses suicidal thoughts. Dr. Michael Kubek and his research team will have three years to ascertain whether the nasal spray is a safe and effective method of preventing suicides.

The research grant comes after the Army lost 38 of its soldiers to suspected suicide in July, setting a record high. So far in 2012, the Army has confirmed 66 active duty suicides and is investigating 50 more, making a total of 116 cases.

The Army’s suicide rate is at the highest level in history, with more American soldiers taking their own lives than being killed by the Taliban. The Pentagon reported in June that suicides among soldiers averaged one per day this year, surpassing the rate of combat fatalities.

But the naturally occurring neurochemical thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) could slow the rising suicide rate. The chemical has a euphoric, calming, antidepressant effect. TRH has been shown to decrease suicidal ideas, depression and bipolar disorders.

“We’ve known since the 1970s that TRH has antidepressant effects, and it works quite rapidly,” Kubek told The Daily.“The bottom-line problem has been figuring out how to get it into the brain.”

Until now, doctors have only been able to transmit TRH through injections into the spinal cord. Pills and blood injections do not allow TRH to enter the brain.

But with new technology, Kubek’s team of research scientists has found the nasal cavity can safely carry TRH across the blood-brain barrier.

“This is far from a soldiers-only solution,” Kubek said. “Potentially, if this works, we have an entirely new type of pharmacology.”

If the nasal spray is proven effective, soldiers in crisis or those taking other antidepressants would also be given TRH.

“The phase directly after starting an antidepressant is a very vulnerable time frame in a patient’s life,” Dr. Ken Duckworth, medical director for the National Alliance on Mental Illness, told The Daily. “The nasal spray would stabilize them right away, while they wait for the [antidepressants] to do their job.”

While the suicide rate is increasing in the military, it is also an increasing concern in the US civilian population.

Suicide is the fourth leading cause of death for adults between the ages of 18 and 65 years. Every day, more than 100 Americans take their own life.

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Venezuela Training a 'Guerrilla Army' Against USZ Invasion

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Venezuela is training a "guerrilla army" aiming to be a million strong by 2013 to fight off a possible US invasion, an opposition lawmaker said Sunday.

"Plan Sucre" -- apparently crafted with input from close ally and fellow US foe Cuba -- covers the legal, logistical and other angles necessary to "transform a professional army into a guerrilla army," Representative Maria Corina Machado told El Universal newspaper.

The former presidential candidate said she had obtained a copy of the plan, printed by an institution affiliated with the national army.

"The strategic objective is to build a new Bolivarian military doctrine" that would prepare Venezuela to be successful in a prolonged popular war against "the empire," or the United States, Machado said, citing the document.
"This is clearly a proposal with Cuban inspiration and advice."

She said the military plan also provides for strengthening the guerrilla force at the expense of the regular army.

The plan calls for "strengthening the territorial militias, in order to ensure the necessary strength for the overall defense of the nation, targeting recruitment levels of one million by 2013 and two million by 2019," Machado said, citing the document.

Venezuela's militia corps, described by firebrand leftist President Hugo Chavez as "an army of the public," was created in 2005 to protect the country against possible "imperialist" aggression. They are considered a part of the military but report directly to the president.

Chavez, 58, is a vocal critic of Washington. The United States and Venezuela have had troubled relations for years, and have not had ambassadors in each other's country since 2010.

The Venezuelan president, who took power in 1999, is seeking re-election in October after declaring himself free of the cancer he has battled for a year.

He has often denounced "American imperialism" and accused the United States
of seeking to destabilize his government.

Machado was one of several candidates aiming to challenge Chavez in the upcoming October vote, but she was defeated in February's primary by former Miranda state governor Henrique Capriles.

Most polls give Chavez leads of up to 35 percent to win the election.

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Reality of the 'Champions of Peace and Humanity' exposed! - USZ Army butchers humanity

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In the above picture, Local people gather outside the houses where 16 civilians were shot dead by a U.S. soldier in Zangabad village of Panjwayi district in Kandahar province, south Afghanistan, on March 11, 2012. A total of 16 civilians, including women and children, were killed in the wee hours Sunday when a U.S. soldier with the NATO- led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) walked out from a military base and begun shooting in the village. (Xinhua/Arghand)


Civilian shooting:
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, March 11 (Xinhua) -- At least 16 civilians were killed and five others were injured on Sunday in two incidents in southern Afghan province of Kandahar.

A total of 16 civilians, including women and children, were killed in the wee hours Sunday when a U.S. soldier with the NATO- led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) walked out from a military base and begun shooting on civilians in Najibyan village of Kandahar's Panjwayi district, according to a witness namely Halim Sadozai. Full story
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Burning of Holy Qur'an:
KABUL, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- At least eight people were injured on Wednesday when thousands of Afghan people staged protest demonstration for the second day over a report that foreign soldiers improperly disposed and burned copies of the Muslim holy book Koran.

Protest demonstration held Wednesday morning in capital city of Kabul and Jalalabad, the capital city of eastern Nangarhar province. At least five demonstrators were injured in Hodkhil neighborhood in eastern part of Kabul city as seen by Xinhua reporter.
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Physical abuse and torture:

GENEVA, May 8 (Xinhua) -- The United States admitted on Monday that "some U.S. individuals" had mistreated detainees held in Iraq and at Guantanamo Bay, but said it was investigating those abuses and acting to make things better.

"Some individuals have committed abuses against detainees being held as a result of our current armed conflict in Iraq and against al-Qaida and its affiliates," said a U.S. delegation present at a public session of the UN Committee against Torture. Full story
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Bodies insulting:

In January, a video surfaced showing four U.S. marines urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban fighters. The deed was regarded as blasphemy by Afghans and triggered outrage in the country.

The incidents show that some U.S. servicemen harbor resentment against the Afghan people, are insensitive to Afghans' religious beliefs, culture and customs, and lack basic respect toward their human dignity. Full story
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Raping cases in Japan and other countries:

TOKYO, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) -- A U.S. Marine's alleged raping of an Okinawan minor girl on Sunday aroused anger and condemnation of local residents in the southern Japanese island in the past two days.

The assembly of Naha, the capital of Okinawa Prefecture, unanimously passed a resolution of protest on Tuesday, demanding that U.S. army officials, U.S. ambassador to Japan and Japanese prime minister find out the fact, apologize to the victim and her family members, and take action to prevent U.S. soldiers from committing crimes. Full story
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Besides all the above mentioned heinous crimes committed by the so called champions of Democracy, peace and humanity, especial mention needs to the HAARP technology being used by the USZ military frequently on  other countries of the world in the decade. The aim is to cripple the country economically, geographically, politically in particular and to bring the country to its knees for American Aid in general. The attack on the Salalah Check post, violating the Pakistani Sovereignty and killing number of finest Pakistani Armed Soldiers was also an incident of its kind! It's about time that the World identifies the true terrorists and peace makers! In reality the so called flag bearers of peace and humanity are the worse enemies of peace and humanity!  

(Report by Xinhua News)

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110,000 active USZ troops are on drugs

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USZ frustrated soldiers seeking drugs

Thousands of USZ soldiers are going into battle fueled by all sorts of prescription medications, be they amphetamines, antidepressants, sedatives or others. Largely unmonitored consumption of drugs can lead to aberrant behavior and mental disorders. Over 110,000 American service personnel took prescribed medications in 2011 to battle through everyday military routine. 

The Times recently disclosed that nearly 8 per cent of active-duty American servicemen and women take sedatives and over 6 per cent are on antidepressants, a tremendous eightfold increase since 2005, when two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were in full swing. Routine military service, combat stress, and sometimes lack of sleep force American troops to go to work medicated. It mirrors the general situation in American society that uses prescription drugs on a daily basis at levels unseen before.


In the Army, though, those who opt to modulate their lives with drugs are facing challenges of a non-civil nature that supposes an absolutely different level of responsibility. These men and women are well-armed, after all. As a rule, troops are sent to deployment with 180-day medication supply. But soldiers can always trade favorite pills with their friends. The habit of ending a hard day with a handful of various tablets is apparently nothing extraordinary.

"We have never medicated our troops to the extent we are doing now…. And I don't believe the current increase in suicides and homicides in the military is a coincidence," said Bart Billings, a former military psychologist who hosts an annual conference on combat stress, informed The Los Angeles Times. Painkillers of narcotic nature pose a threat of addiction to those injured who have to take them, too.


One could only guess whether the suicide rate surge in the USZ Army in the recent decade has any connections with army psychologists prescribing pills to personnel left, right and center. An appalling 80 per cent increase in suicides among US service personnel has been registered between 2004 and 2008. On the other hand, when every 10th USZ serviceman deployed in Iraq or Afghanistan suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, there must be a calculated risk in prescribing these medications to keep soldiers in service.


But the main problem among deployed troops remains mental fatigue of those who have been deployed several times in a row. As many as 80 per cent of on-duty personnel have gone through three or more deployments. Worn-out personnel have problems with sleep and accurate assessment of ongoing events. The recent notorious case of Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, accused of murdering 17 civilians in a bloody rampage in Afghanistan, again raised the question of drug-related incidents in the US military.  After it was announced the defendant does not remember what he did, his attorneys requested a list of the medication the soldier was taking during his deployment in Afghanistan.

(RT)

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