The growing instability in Afghanistan – a country under virtual military occupation by U.S. and other western forces – has been overshadowed by news of the escalating violence, torture and killings in U.S.-administered Iraq. But analysts who closely monitor...
The Administration, camera-shy over the last few days, was doing heavy-duty damage control Wednesday in Washington and Baghdad. US President George W. Bush went on Arab language satellite television stations on Wednesday to try to quench smoldering international anger...
What's wrong with the mainstream media? "Conservatives" and "liberals" often squeal that the press is biased against their own side, but they're both wrong. Oh, the press certainly is biased, but the direction of the slant is not left or right, but up, toward more...
Editor's Note: Part of the following feature story was first reported by Baghdad correspondent Dahr Jamail back in January, when almost no one was paying attention to stories of the horrifying treatment dealt to Iraqi prisoners by their Western captors. Now that the...
Is Bush correct when he reassures his war fans that torture is not indicative of American values? Or is the US government merely treating Iraqis the same way it treated Randy Weaver’s family at Ruby Ridge, the Branch Davidians at Waco, Texas, and Gordon...
Some 60 former U.S. diplomats and other government officials who served overseas have signed a letter to President George W Bush protesting his support for the Israeli government's position in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The letter was inspired by a similar...
George W. Bush and his media minions told us that we must battle "the terrorists" in Baghdad and Najaf so we won't have to fight them in New York and Baltimore. But should the news that the Iraq war has been transformed into something resembling a gay S&M movie...
Further embarrassment regarding torture at the US military prison at Abu Ghraib, Iraq emerged today, as high-level US civilian officials denied knowledge of torture in Iraq. US officials have stuck to the story that they had no prior knowledge of the torture going on...
HEARING ARTICLE 15-6 INVESTIGATION OF THE 800th MILITARY POLICE BRIGADE SECRET/NO FOREIGN DISSEMINATION TABLE OF CONTENTS References .......................... 3 Background ......................... 6 Assessment of DoD Counter-Terrorism Interrogation and Detention...
QUESTION: Mr. President, thank you for giving us this chance here in Al Arabiya. Regarding the alleged abuse of Iraqi prisoners, six U.S. soldiers are being reprimanded. Do you think that's enough? BUSH: First, I want to tell the people of the Middle East that the...
