BAGHDAD - The U.S. military is resorting to collective punishment tactics in Iraq similar to those used by Israeli troops in the occupied territories of Palestine, residents say. Military bulldozers have mown down palm groves in the rural al-Dora farming area on the...
Saul Landau interviews Princeton professor emeritus Richard Falk, co-author of The Record of the Paper: How the New York Times Reports U.S. Foreign Policy (Verso). Check out Saul's other interviews. Mid Bandwidth (for cable or DSL modems) Low Bandwidth (for dial-up...
Almost exactly 40 years after Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, in recognition of his nonviolent struggle for civil rights in the United States, another Nobel Peace laureate, Shirin Ebadi, said she was ready to be arrested...
The onslaught of Mosul has begun, as occupation forces are launching attacks into Iraq's third-largest city. While there are mass resignations of police and elections polling staff there, yet another new police chief has been awarded control of the 1,000-strong police...
Americans have been betrayed. Sooner or later, Americans will realize that they have been led to defeat in a pointless war by political leaders who they inattentively trusted. They have been misinformed by a sycophantic corporate media too mindful of advertising...
Here's a strange, small tale of our times, as reported from Washington by Guy Dinmore in the sober British Financial Times. According to an anonymous counterinsurgency expert Dinmore evidently interviewed, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has a "brutally accurate"...
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Having watched and observed life from the standpoint of a soldier for 10 years of my life, I always felt there was no higher honor than to serve my country and defend the values that established this country. My family has a history of serving this country dating back...
Besides improving Washington's image in South and Southeast Asia, the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush is hoping to achieve something more concrete from its aid efforts in the aftermath of the Dec. 26 tsunami that killed over 175,000 people along the...
Yes to US Aid, No to USAIDRegarding Ms Mercer's comments about private as opposed to official aid: What she fails to address, and perhaps doesn't know about, is the fact that a significant proportion of USAID aid funds are actually programmed through American NGOs...
