Gunmen in Abu Ghraib killed a Sahwa member and his mother. One brother was killed in the attack. Another brother was also wounded. Two policemen were killed and third was wounded in a bombing near Mosul. In town, gunmen killed a civilian. A bomb in Sharqat killed a...
Many Americans – except perhaps the very small percentage nowadays who actually have served in the American armed forces – have a stereotypic image of "military efficiency" and thus assume that any cuts to the defense budget will make the nation less secure....
America’s post-9/11 conflicts have been wars of corruption, a point surprisingly seldom made in the mainstream media. Keep in mind that George W. Bush’s administration was a monster of privatization. It had its own set of crony corporations,...
While North Korea's rhetoric is routinely over-the-top, the propagandists of the ruling Korean Workers Party have really outdone themselves this time. Declaring that the North is now in "a state of war" with the South, they have produced a video supposedly depicting...
There was a flood of articles and analyses on the tenth anniversary of invasion of Iraq on March 19, most of which focused on the lies, exaggerations, and half-truths that the War Party told the American people and the world in the run up to the war. Hundreds of...
The video (warning: contains graphic images of lethal violence), caught randomly on a warehouse security camera, is chilling.Five young men walk down a quiet street in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. A big black SUV pulls up, followed by a second vehicle. Two masked men with...
On the eve of its second round of talks with Iran on curbing its nuclear programme in Almaty, Kazakhstan, the so-called P5+1 (U.S., Britain, France, China, and Russia plus Germany) is showing signs of growing disunity, according to the European Union’s former top...
In Baghdad, a bomb hidden in agricultural waste exploded in the Radwaniya district, killing two civilians and wounding five more. In Mosul, an I.E.D. killed one policeman and wounded four others. A civilian was shot to death. Two policemen were wounded in clashes....
Donna Mulhearn in Fallujah While the media was gearing up last month for the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War, Donna Mulhearn was getting off a plane, the memory of six Iraqi cities still clinging to her like dust and ashes. You see, among the din of talking heads and...
