The UK riots and the criminality of Jack Straw: What’s Worse, Looting or Invading?
Wiki Commons Image Robin Beste Stop the War Coalition Jack Straw, former foreign secretary in Tony Blair’s government, was quick to his feet, following David…
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Lessons of two wars: We will lose in Iraq and Afghanistan
Wiki Commons Image Stephen M. Walt Foreign Policy One of the things that gets in the way of conducting good national security policy is a…
Ex-US soldier loses appeal of Iraq rape, murders
© Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office AFP CHICAGO (AFP) – A former US soldier serving a life sentence for the gang rape and murder of an…
US says would consider staying in Iraq beyond 2011
Wiki Image AFP CANNON FALLS, Minnesota (AFP) – The White House said Monday it would “consider” any Iraqi request for a US troop presence past…
Iraq VP says US pullout will improve security
Iraqi Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi at a press conference in Baghdad in May © AFP Ali al-Saadi AFP BAGHDAD (AFP) – The year-end pullout of…
APNewsBreak: Abu Ghraib abuse ringleader released
AP Photo/LM Otero / source Associated Press The convicted ringleader of detainee abuses at Abu Ghraib was released Saturday from a military prison, an Army…
Top US officer pushes for troop decision in Iraq
US soldiers patrol the outskirts of Iskandariya, in the southern Iraqi province of Babil Province © AFP/Getty Images/File Spencer Platt AFP BAGHDAD (AFP) – Iraq…
The Missing Security Tapes For The World Trade Center
Susan Lindauer, Contributing Writer Activist Post Late on the night of August 23, 2001, at about 3 a.m. security cameras in the parking garage of…
U.S. report justifies keeping troops in Iraq, points fingers at Iran
Stuart W. Bowen, Jr. Inspector General for Iraq Madison Ruppert, Contributing Writer Activist Post A conveniently timed report has emerged, months before the United States…
Wired Exclusive: U.S. Blocks Oversight of Its Mercenary Army in Iraq
photo: DoD / Wired Spencer Ackerman Wired By January 2012, the State Department will do something it’s never done before: command a mercenary army the…
Children of War: American arms pacified Fallujah—and poisoned a generation
An M1A1 Abrams fires into a building during the siege of Fallujah in 2004 – Wiki Image Kelley Beaucar Vlahos UTNE In this year’s State…
US builders indicted in Iraq kickback scheme
Electrical wires leading to various apartment buildings in the Iraqi capital Baghdad © AFP/File Sabah Arar AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – Three former US army engineers…
Obama’s Secret Wars: How Our Shady Counter-Terrorism Policies Are More Dangerous Than Terrorism
Obama should be held accountable for vastly expanding the military establishment’s worldwide license to kill. Photo Credit – Alternet Fred Branfman AlterNet Although President’s Obama’s…
Panetta makes 9/11 gaffe in Iraq
US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta © AFP/POOL Paul J. Richards AFP BAGHDAD (AFP) – Newly appointed US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta told American troops…