At least 200 people were killed across Iraq in recent violence. A mass grave was discovered in Ramadi, while dozens of suicide bombers attacked nearby Baghdadi.

There is a lot more than meets the eye in the newly revealed Joint Chiefs of Staff intelligence briefing of Sept. 5, 2002, which showed there was a lack of evidence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction (WMD) – just as President George W. Bush’s administration was...

Originally posted at TomDispatch. It was the grisliest of stories: a decade and a half ago a former KGB man, Alexander Litvinenko, defected to England and turned on the powers-that-be in his own country, accusing its leader of both acts of assassination and, among...

Saudi Arabia has engaged in war crimes, and the United States is aiding and abetting them by providing the Saudis with military assistance. In September 2015, Saudi aircraft killed 135 wedding celebrants in Yemen. The air strikes have killed 2,800 civilians, including...

The New York Times reports that the “government” of Libya is hiding in a hotel room in Tunis: “Officials said there was agreement that the United States and its allies needed to find ways of shoring up Libya’s new government of national accord – established just this...

At least 162 people were killed in Iraq. There are rumors of US military activities near Tikrit. The US has denied similar rumors in recent weeks.

In the Republican and Democratic presidential debates, President Barack Obama's ultimate rejection of using force against Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, for using chemical weapons against his own people, keeps being raised as an issue. In all cases, the debate...

For all the fearmongering about Iran’s alleged danger to civilization, they are guilty merely of what should be called “Contempt of Empire.”  I say “merely” with a slight caveat: the penalty for “contempt of Empire” mirrors the punishment dealt by many cops who deem...

At least 167 were killed across Iraq. Forty of the victims were found in a mass grave.