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Obama: Afghan War Will Worsen Before It Improves
AP The war in Afghanistan will get worse before it gets better, President Barack Obama warned on Wednesday, but he declared his plan to begin withdrawing U.S. forces next year remains on track. Standing
Read More »Car bomb kills 7 in Baghdad’s Sadr City
A car bomb kills seven people and injures 22 others outside a cafe in a Shia neighborhood of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. The explosion occurred in Sadr City Wednesday evening, in an area
Read More »A History of War Crimes
By Peter Dyer | On June 13, 1899 one of the largest battles of the Philippine-American war took place on the southern outskirts of Manila. After several hours of fierce fighting at the Zapote
Read More »Human Rights Watch Goes to War
The Middle East has always been a difficult challenge for Western human rights organizations, particularly those seeking influence or funding in the United States. The pressure to go soft on US allies is in
Read More »ICC examines Gaza war crimes
THE prosecutor of the International Criminal Court was conducting a “preliminary analysis” of alleged crimes committed by Israelis during the recent offensive in the Gaza Strip, his office said today. Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has
Read More »Obama, Bush & The War Crimes
By Ari Melber | Many Washington Republicans and Democrats agree on one maxim for President-elect Barack Obama: This is no time to look back at the past administration’s rocky record on executive power and the
Read More »100 Nations to Ban Cluster Bombs – But not the biggest user, the USA
By Angus Crawford On 3 December, more than 100 countries, including the UK, will sign a treaty banning cluster bombs. As a result Britain, by law, will have to destroy more than 30 million
Read More »Jon Snow: “Editors sold their souls” to MoD
Media Workers Against the War | Jon Snow, Channel 4 news anchor, reveals his anger on Radio 4 at the news blackout on Prince Harry’s deployment to Afghanistan. On a programme stacked with pro-war journalists,
Read More »Robert Fisk: Horrors of War Our Leaders Never Have to Confront
Just outside Andrew Holden’s office at the Christchurch Press off Cathedral Square – and, believe me, New Zealand’s prettiest city is as colonial as they come, a Potemkin town of mock-Tudor government buildings, Scottish
Read More »US generals planning for resource wars
ANALYSIS: The US military sees the next 30 to 40 years as involving a state of continuous war against ideologically-motivated terrorists and competing with Russia and China for natural resources and markets, writes Tom
Read More »200 Years of Standing Up to U.S. War Lies
By David Swanson | Murray Polner and Thomas E. Woods, Jr., have edited a new collection of writings called “We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now.”
Read More »Living in a Lying Nation
By Sean M. Madden | The following lead from Monday’s BBC Radio 4 Today program says it all, well, sort of: Leaders of the European Union are meeting to decide what can be done
Read More »CIVILIANS PAY THE PRICE FOR IMPERIAL RIVALRIES IN GEORGIA
SchNews | Despite the Olympics, you had probably noticed there’s another war on, this time in the mountainous region of the Caucuses, in a previously little mentioned place called South Ossetia. Whether or not
Read More »Is Perpetual War Our Future? Learning the Wrong Lessons from the Bush Era
TomDispatch | To the problem of an overstretched, over-toured military, there is but one answer in Washington. Both presidential candidates (along with just about every other politician in our nation’s capital) are on record
Read More »War in Georgia: The Israeli connection
For past seven years, Israeli companies have been helping Gerogian army to preparer for war against Russia through arms deals, training of infantry units and security advice By Arie Egozi | The fighting which
Read More »U.S. forces apologize for civilian death
Thi-Qar | The U.S. forces offered an official apology for the Thi-Qar province police over the killing of a civilian in an airdrop operation on Friday, a security official said. “The apology, offered
Read More »Whistleblower Says Pentagon Putting KBR Above Soldiers
By DAVID IVANOVICH | The Pentagon’s oversight of Houston-based KBR’s work in Iraq and Afghanistan has been “irregular and highly out of the ordinary,” a former Army contracting official told Senate Democrats Wednesday. Charles
Read More »New Law is Urged on War Powers
Los Angeles Times | A bipartisan commission Tuesday called for a new law to require the next president to ask Congress for formal approval of any decision to go to war and force the
Read More »AMERICA’S CULTURE OF WAR NOT AN ISSUE THIS ELECTION
By Sherwood Ross | One issue the American people likely are not going to hear about in this presidential campaign is how to stop the millitary-industrial complex(MIC) from destroying this country, from bankrupting it
Read More »New War Brewing: US, Israel Take Dangerous Steps
By Eric Margolis | GENEVA – The U.S., Israel and Iran are playing a very dangerous game of chicken that soon could result in a new Mideast war. U.S. intelligence has concluded that Iran
Read More »Pretending That Bush is Not a Tyrant
Consortium News | All over the world down through history, political leaders who have engaged in torture and other grotesque crimes of state have justified their actions as necessary to protect their governments or their
Read More »Welcome Home, Soldier: Now Shut Up
By Paul Rockwell | There are two kinds of courage in war – physical courage and moral courage. Physical courage is very common on the battlefield. Men and women on both sides risk their
Read More »“Blood and Oil” an Important Film to See and Share
ADS | “Blood and Oil” is a very, very well made film that will show you something new even if you already know that – as Dubya admits – the United States is addicted
Read More »NATO: 6,000 troops urgently needed in Afghanistan
BERLIN (Reuters) | Up to 6,000 additional troops are urgently needed in Afghanistan and a failure to deploy them will only prolong the presence of Western forces in the country, a German NATO general said
Read More »Blackwater is Still in Charge, Deadly, Above the Law and Out of Control
On June 3, Jeremy Scahill’s bestselling Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army was released in fully revised and updated paperback form. The new edition includes reporting on the now-famous Nisour
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