The S&M War What you are suggesting is not only not farfetched; there are several decades of historical experience to support your conclusion. If you have not read it, Edward Herman's The Real Terror Network, written in the early '80s documents the same sort of...
UK Armed Forces in Iraq have shot and killed Iraqi civilians, including an eight-year-old girl and a guest at a wedding celebration, in situations where there was no apparent threat to themselves or others, says a new report from Amnesty International. The report also...
SPEAKERS: Sen. John W. Warner (R-Va). Chairman Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.) Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) Sen. Wayne Allard (R-Colo.) Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) Sen. Susan M. Collins (R-Maine) Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) Sen. Jim Talent (R-Mo.)...
On a barren hilltop in the Palestinian Jerusalem neighborhood Abu Dis, a gap of several hundred meters interrupts the wall Israel is building in the city. The grey concrete elements come to a stop just before a property with Israeli flags, armed guards and a...
Amid growing evidence of systematic abuse of prisoners held by the U.S. military in Iraq and elsewhere, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) are calling on the Pentagon to open all U.S.-run detention facilities used in the Bush administration's "war on...
President Bush learned about the US torture of Iraqi detainees the same way you did – from TV news – compelling evidence that Bush has been manipulated by VP Cheney, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and the neocon warmongers. And you thought President Bush was in...
The allegations of prisoner torture by our troops in Iraq are disturbing, and clearly drastic action must be taken to ensure such conduct stops immediately. But why are we condemning a small group of low-level reservists when we do not yet know the full story? As...
To understand the impact in the United States of the photos of U.S. military personnel abusing Iraqi prisoners, it is necessary to recall what then-Secretary of State Elihu Root said in 1899, as the country first emerged as a global power in the Spanish-American War....
Where I grew up, the code of the hills says (among many other things) to never talk a bigger game than you are prepared to play. The United States has done this twice in Iraq and now has egg on its face that no amount of Washington spin can clean off. Example No. 1 is...
Kingdoms have risen and fallen in China's Xinjiang region for the past 2000 years. In the early 20th century, foreign archaeologists were surprised and delighted to find Muslim communities built upon Tang dynasty ruins built upon Tibetan villages built upon Han forts...
