A newly released WikiLeaks document on Iraq and the new political alignment between Moqtada al-Sadr and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki both provide fresh evidence that Gen. David Petraeus's war against Shi'ite militias in 2007-2008 was a futile exercise. The...
The Pentagon’s Mad Men
More Iraqi Prison Abuses Exposed on WikiLeaks
The publication of a mother lode of secret field reports from the Iraq War is shining a bright light on heretofore unknown or underreported suspicions about the power of private security contractors and the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by their fellow Iraqis, often with...
Monday: 1 Iraqi Killed, 17 Wounded
Frago 242
The biggest US security breach in our history, carried off by WikiLeaks, reveals a wealth of information – hundreds of thousands of field reports, the raw material collected by the US military on the ground in Iraq. It will be quite a while before the...
An Award for WikiLeaks
You are not likely to learn this from the “mainstream media," but WikiLeaks and its leader Julian Assange have received the 2010 Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence (SAAII) award for their resourcefulness in making available secret U.S. military...
Sunday: 6 Iraqis Killed, 21 Wounded
Saturday: 10 Iraqis Killed, 33 Wounded
At the Crossroads
Gaza’s Historical Treasures Under Seige
GAZA CITY -- Few outside of Gaza would consider its history much beyond the decades of Israeli occupation. But Gaza is a historical treasure house. Many of those treasures are now in Israeli museums, and those that remain are becoming difficult to preserve due to the...