Update On War Crime Those Laboratory Mice Were Children By Karlos Zurutuza April 15, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — FALLUJAH, Iraq, Apr 13, 2012 (IPS) – At Fallujah hospital they cannot offer any statistics on children born with birth defects – there are just too many. Parents don’t want to talk. “Families bury their [...]
“Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred.” - Daniel De Leon “We have a world to conquer…one person at a time…starting with ourselves.”- Nikki [...]
Iraq plans to increase its oil production capacity up to 12 million barrels per day by 2017 [Al Jazeera] Baghdad, Iraq - While the US military has formally ended its occupation of Iraq, some of the largest western oil companies, ExxonMobil, BP and Shell, remain. On November 27, 38 months after Royal Dutch Shell announced its [...]
In Sadr City, Bahgdad, the streets are cracked, filled with potholes, and strewn with refuse [Dahr Jamail/Al Jazeera] We in Australia should never forget our role in this tragedy, we must remember how simple it was for a politician infected with lies who was only too willing to pass the disease on to the nation to lead [...]
Staff Sergeant Prince House with the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division smiles as his Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle nears the Kuwaiti border as part of the last US military convoy to leave Iraq December 18, 2011.(Reuters/Lucas Jackson) By Reuters It has always been almost impossible to accurately the loss of life in [...]
Farewell to C.H. by ALEXANDER COCKBURN I can’t count the times, down the years, that after some new outrage friends would call me and ask, “What happened to Christopher Hitchens?” – the inquiry premised on some supposed change in Hitchens, often presumed to have started in the period he tried to put his [...]
Symbolic trial convicts Bush, Blair for Iraq war KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – A tribunal formed by Malaysia’s former leader has convicted former President George W. Bush and Britain’s ex-prime minister Tony Blair at a symbolic trial for “crimes against peace” in Iraq. Malaysia’s outspoken former leader Mahathir Mohamad founded a peace organization that set up [...]
As the troops come home, it’s time to count the cost. By Eric S. Margolis | November 21, 2011 In October, 2002 I wrote in the first issue of The American Conservative an analysis of the impending Iraq War entitled “The Road to Folly.” I observed, “A war that fails to achieve clear political objectives is [...]
Bachmann Wants Iraqis To Pay ‘Several Million Dollars Per Life’ For Every American Who Died In Iraq By Ian Millhiser on Nov 13, 2011 at 12:05 pm In an interview this morning with Meet the Press’ David Gregory, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) repeated her claim that the Iraq should pay America for the privilege of [...]
Westerners are taught to believe that torture is not a practice of a ‘civilised’ government and therefore does not take place within their military and security establishments [GALLO/GETTY] Following the fall of the Gaddafi regime in Libya, new allegations have emerged about the complicity of British and US officials in torture. Senior members of the [...]
Empire and Hegemony Chomsky in various publications deals with the position of the global imperial project and the role that the hegemons play in that sphere of action. There really is no point or there may be no point in discussing whether the one concept includes the other once you [...]
‘The tide of war is receding,’ said Obama. (Zoriah – zoriah.net) By Ramzy Baroud In a White House Statement on October 21, US President Barack Obama pledged that his country would finally withdraw forces from Iraq. “After nearly nine years, America’s war in Iraq will be over,” he said. Providing some context to Obama’s announcement, [...]
WASHINGTON — With just over three months until the last U.S. troops are currently due to leave Iraq, the Department of Defense is engaged in a mad dash to give away things that cost U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars to buy and build. The giveaways include enormous, elaborate military bases and vast amounts of military equipment [...]
Man of Faith: Crusader Blair’s Vision: Eternal War: Iran and Syria Next? Parts 1 and 2 by Felicity Arbuthnot Image by eddiedangerous via Flickr Posted on September 18, 2011 by dandelionsalad by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad London, England 15 September 2011 “Since 1990 upper estimates are of three million Iraqi deaths between sanctions, bombings and invasion, [...]
Colin Powell, the former US secretary of state, has said he regrets providing misleading intelligence that led the US to invade Iraq, believing it had weapons of mass destruction. Powell, the first secretary of state in the administration of George W. Bush, the former US president, which declared war on Iraq [...]
In the 9/11 decade, funding for the security has been dramatically increased in many liberal democracies [Al Jazeera] The 9/11 state of mind Ten years later, 9/11 continues to condition our thinking, being, behaviour, and identity. Larbi Sadiki Last Modified: 11 Sep 2011 11:05 Nothing compares to 9/11 – two odd numbers that resonate endlessly. [...]
Michael Moore: I was the most hated man in America Michael Moore. Photograph: Scott McDermott In his 2003 Oscar acceptance speech, Michael Moore denounced President Bush and the invasion of Iraq. Overnight he became the most hated man in America. In an exclusive extract from his new book, Here Comes Trouble, he tells of [...]
Libyan papers show UK worked with Gaddafi in rendition operation Documents found in Tripoli suggest that MI6 enjoyed a close relationship with Gaddafi’s intelligence services. Photograph: Martin Argles for the Guardian A secret CIA document shows that British and Libyans worked together to arrange the removal of a terror suspect to Tripoli reddit this Ian Cobain, and Martin [...]
Cheney’s Kettle Logic By David Swanson http://www.democrats.com/cheneys-kettle-logic Sigmund Freud once mentioned the defense offered by a man who was accused by his neighbor of having returned a kettle in a damaged condition. In the first place, he had returned the kettle undamaged; in the second place it already had holes in it when he borrowed [...]
Deceit of Shakespearean Proportions AP / Ed Zurga Former Vice President Dick Cheney gestures as he speaks to troops at a rally in 2006. One may smile, and smile, and be a villain! WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet Perhaps that applies to Cheney ikners.com By Robert Scheer Behold this unctuous knave, a disgrace to his nation as few [...]
Blair and Bush planned Iraq war without second UN vote, letter shows Five months before invasion, pair agreed to go ahead if weapons breach was revealed, according to newly released letter George Bush and Tony Blair in April 2003. A letter shows they had agreed five months before to invade Iraq without a second UN [...]
The UK riots and the criminality of Jack Straw By Robin Beste, Stop the War Coalition, WarIsACrime.org http://warisacrime.org/content/uk-riots-and-criminality-jack-straw Brothers in war crimes: Jack Straw, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Cartoon by Leon Kuhn Jack Straw, former foreign secretary in Tony Blair’s government, was quick to his feet, following David Cameron’s speech on the UK riots [...]
Ishaqi Again: Another Day, Another Atrocity in the Endless Iraq War WRITTEN BY CHRIS FLOYD TUESDAY, 09 AUGUST 2011 10:58 There was a raid in Ishaqi last week. Armed men crept upon the sleeping houses in the dead of night. Armed men stirring in the darkness, in a land still open, like a flayed [...]
Thousands Rally in Baghdad Against US Presence June 16, 2011 Agence France-Presse Thousands of followers of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr staged a mass rally in Baghdad on Thursday against US forces, as Iraqi leaders consider asking for an extended American troop presence. The demonstration comes with just months to go before US forces must withdraw [...]
Whatever attitude you adopt it is hard to go past the fact that the US was with Iraq and our co-criminal involvement was all about oil as a resource as well as about controlling oil reserves in the Middle East. Of course that spreads to and includes other countries with estimated massive reserves of gas [...]
Neocons Spin Two ‘Lost’ Wars Exclusive: The looming U.S. defeats in Iraq and Afghanistan represent a threat to the political fortunes of America’s neocons — if they get blamed for the disasters. However, if they can hang the failures around President Obama’s neck, the two lost wars might help bring the neocons back to power as early as 2013, writes [...]
Wikleaks: US anger at Gordon Brown’s Iraq withdrawal ADVERTISEMENT Published Date: 05 June 2011 By Kenny Farquharson A DAMNING verdict on Gordon Brown’s handling of the war in Iraq is revealed in secret US diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks and seen by Scotland on Sunday. The cables accuse the former Prime Minister of pulling British [...]
Defense Intelligence Staff chief blows British cover for Iraq War Submitted by NicolasDavies on Fri, 2011-05-13 01:13 Iraq Paul Pillar, a senior CIA analyst who worked on the 25-page “summary of intelligence” presented to Congress in 2002, later told PBS, “The purpose was to strengthen the case for going to war…I regret having had a [...]
Suicide bomber kills 8, wounds 19 in Northern Iraq Share this inShare Digg Email Print Related News Morocco counts cost of bombing at tourist hotspot Fri, Apr 29 2011 Bomb attack in Morocco tourist cafe kills 15 Thu, Apr 28 2011 Suicide bomber kills 8, wounds 17 in Iraq mosque Thu, Apr 28 2011 Bomb [...]
High Stakes for US in Syria The US position regarding the turmoil in Syria is unclear. (Aljazeera) By Ramzy Baroud, Special to Gulf News Although now largely governed by a military leadership, Egypt, the most populous and influential country in the Arab world, has, for now, escaped the US sphere of influence. It is also [...]
When it come to first rate analysis it is hard to go past former CIA employee Ray McGovern. His knowledge of the inside workings of the US and the CIA is extensive to say the least. As a protester and activist he has been dealt with at a recent protest by being bashed and taken [...]
The British and the French are concealing lots of diferent motives in Libya. most of alltheir is the issue of oil. As Pepe Escobar so often says you follwo the pipelines. George ikners ikners.com a WordPress site The Energy Vampires Why Britain and France are so gung-ho to attack Libya by Justin Raimondo, April 20, [...]
By Paul Bignell Tuesday, 19 April 2011 Normal Large Extra Large Reuters A British Army soldier investigates a large fire near Basra‘s Shuiba refinery enlarge Sponsored Links Plans to exploit Iraq’s oil reserves were discussed by government ministers and the world’s largest oil companies the year before Britain took a leading role [...]
