Weak states already close to collapse at the end of 2006 moved closer to the brink last year, even before the latest explosion of food and fuel prices that are certain to feed instability in vulnerable countries, according to the latest edition of the annual...
Updated at 11:30 p.m. EDT, June 24, 2008In Sadr City, a bomb blast in a council building killed four Americans and wounded another. A dual Italian-Iraqi national and a number of Iraqis were also among the casualties. Overall, at least 22 Iraqis were killed and 107...
Scott McClellan, President Bush's former press secretary turned mini-nemesis, was back in the news, testifying before the House Judiciary Committee, once again breaking omerta and urging the Bush White House to be more open about the Valerie Plame affair and other...
[Note for TomDispatch readers: It's worth mentioning that the missing Iraqi oil story – see below – wasn't missing online, and certainly not at TomDispatch. This site's newest book, The World According to TomDispatch: America in the New Age of Empire, has a...
When the Marines came into the house they just started shooting, going from room to room, killing all where they found them. When they were done, they went on to the next house in the Iraqi village of Haditha, which they attacked with hand grenades, methodically...
Updated at 12:15 a.m. EDT, June 24, 2008Two American soldiers was killed and three were wounded during an incident near Baghdad. Also, at least 17 Iraqis were killed and 43 more were wounded in violent attacks across Iraq. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki...
Updated at 11:29 p.m. EDT, June 22, 2008At least 46 Iraqis were killed and another 79 were wounded in the latest attack. A female suicide bomber attacked a government center in Baquba at the end of the work day, leaving behind dozens of casualties. No Coalition deaths...
According to the Washington Post, David Albright – a man their sycophantic reporter inexplicably considers to be "a prominent nuclear weapons expert" – has charged that an "international smuggling ring," having already "sold...
An informal truce between Israel and Hamas went into effect early Thursday morning, temporarily suspending a year of fighting that has left more than 600 Palestinians – many of them civilians – and 18 Israelis dead. The guns fell silent at 6 a.m. amid...
Updated at 8:28 p.m. EDT, June 21,2008At least six Iraqis were killed and 10 more were injured on a day of very light violence. No Coalition deaths were reported. Meanwhile, little news is coming out of Maysan province where a security crackdown is moving into it's...
