US company helps fuel Congo war, charges UN reporthttp://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/diplomacy/091202/us-company-fuels-congo-war-un-report

An unpublished UN report claims a US company’s purchase of minerals looted from eastern Congo is helping to finance a decade-long war that has claimed the lives of millions of civilians. Niotan is the first US company to be identified as a buyer of conflict minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The illegal trade of the region’s vast mineral resources, including gold, has kept the war going by enriching both rebels and Congolese army units. Many of the rare minerals are needed to make mobile phones and other electronic devices. Also benefiting from the looted minerals are businessmen in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and the United Arab Emirates, as well as weapons suppliers from Sudan and North Korea, whose arms are purchased by rebels with the proceeds of mineral sales in violation of a U.N. arms embargo. Mobile phones and gold jewelry sold in the U.S. have helped finance a war in which 200,000 women have been raped.

C.I.A. Authorized to Expand Drone Attacks in Pakistanhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/world/asia/04drones.html

Imposing idiot sanctions on Iran is a direct route to warhttp://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16392

Public Menace-Private Profit: America's Biowarfare Alliancehttp://uruknet.com/index.php?p=m60753&hd=&size=1&l=e

As Antifascist Calling previously reported, with "biodefense" as a cover, the U.S. National Security State has spent tens of billions of dollars ($56.9 billion since 2001, according to the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation) on secretive programs investigating the deadliest pathogens known to nature, or ginning up new chimeric monsters in any number of privately-run labs.