Category Archives: The use of force

Aviation terrorism by U.S. over Lebanese airspace

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 26. July 2020 by

Iran’s parliament speaker on international affairs, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, said on Friday that severe consequences await the US military’s act of provocation. “The harassment of an Iranian passenger plane by American fighter jets once again proved that the presence of foreigners in the region is a serious threat to peace and security,” he said in a post on his Twitter account. “US illegally occupies territory of another State and then harasses a scheduled civil airliner—endangering innocent civilian passengers ostensibly to protect its occupation forces,” the Iranian foreign minister said.

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The physical destruction of Iraq’s infrastructure in the “Gulf War”

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 21. January 2019 by

U.S. Secretary of State James Baker apparently warned Iraqi deputy prime-minister Tariq Aziz at their meeting of 9 January 1991 in Geneva, that is before the U.S. began bombarding Iraq, that Iraq would be brought back to the pre-industrial stage if it did not withdraw from Kuwait. The systematic bombing of Iraqi infrastructure and economic facilities corroborates this story.

Translating this warning into acts, the U.S. military forces targeted, disabled, destroyed or damaged major civilian infrastructure over the whole territory of Iraq, including most power plants and transmissions facilities, multipurpose dams, refineries, food-processing plants, food-and-seed storage warehouses, flour mills, a dairy-products plant, sugar refineries, a syringe factory, telecommunications systems, irrigation facilities, municipal water-treatment and sewage plants, a veterinary-vaccine manufacturing facility, civilian vehicles, roads, railways, airports, bridges and numerous industrial, commercial, educational, religious and cultural facilities. This act of barbarism by the United States awaits remedial.

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Hillary Laughed ‘I Came He Died’

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 19. October 2016 by

As the news of murder of Libya’s revolutionary leader, Chairman of the African Union and defender of Africa from European neocolonial murderous exploitation was still fresh, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shared a laugh with a television news reporter moments after hearing the Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi had been killed.
“We came, we saw, he died,” she joked when told of news reports of Qaddafi’s death by an aide in between formal interviews.”

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Is media just another word for control?

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 4. April 2014 by

A recent poll asked people in Britain how many Iraqis had been killed as a result of the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The answers they gave were shocking. A majority said that fewer than 10,000 had been killed. Scientific studies report that up to a million Iraqi men, women and children died in an inferno lit by the British government and its ally in Washington. That’s the equivalent of the genocide in Rwanda. And the carnage goes on. Relentlessly.

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No-fly zone: Clouding words of war

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 29. March 2011 by

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/03/201132881618969257.html   No-fly zone: Clouding words of war   The West has used euphemism to deny a state of war against Gaddafi under the guise of a humanitarian mission.   Tarak Barkawi, 28 Mar 2011 13:41   The cost of using … Read more . . .

Kellogg-Briand Pact 1928

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 14. November 2008 by

Treaty between the United States and other Powers providing for the renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy. Signed at Paris, August 27, 1928; ratification advised by the Senate, January 16, 1929; ratified by the President, January 17, … Read more . . .

The Secret Downing Street Memo

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 2. July 2007 by

The Secret Downing Street Memo —– SECRET AND STRICTLY PERSONAL – UK EYES ONLY DAVID MANNING From: Matthew Rycroft Date: 23 July 2002 S 195 /02 cc: Defence Secretary, Foreign Secretary, Attorney-General, Sir Richard Wilson, John Scarlett, Francis Richards, CDS, … Read more . . .

Defence of ‘necessity’

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 28. November 2006 by

(This ruling appears to establish a defence of necessity to breaches of the Official Secrets Act, although it does not find that Shayler can rely on that defence.) Case No: 2001/02869/S4  IN THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE COURT OF APPEAL … Read more . . .