Category: Iraq

By Kenneth J. Theisen Many people in this country are aware of the atrocious conditions and treatment of adult prisoners in the U.S. war of terror. These prisoners have been held at…

By Debra Sweet   The U.S. government’s case against Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani who holds an advanced degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will go to the jury Monday in…

Night Raids, Hidden Detention Centers, the “Black Jail,” and the Dogs of War in Afghanistan  By Anand Gopal [The research for this story was supported by the Fund for Investigative Journalism.] One quiet, wintry…

 By Glenn Greenwald   Cass Sunstein has long been one of Barack Obama’s closest confidants.  Often mentioned as a likely Obama nominee to the Supreme Court, Sunstein is currently Obama’s head of the Office…

 From Agence France Press     Five Afghan civilians were shot and wounded by US and Afghan troops outside a military base in a restive area of the country that was the scene…

by Margaret Kimberley   The U.S. assigns to itself the right to slaughter civilians and children wherever it chooses on the planet, yet howls in outrage when its protégés on the other…

 By Douglas Valentine    On Dec. 31, I listened in dismay as an NPR “terrorism” expert condemned the suicide bombing that killed seven CIA employees in Afghanistan as especially hideous because the…

 by Jason Ditz On January 1, 2009, a US drone strike killed two senior al-Qaeda leaders, the first in what then President-elect Barack Obama had said would be a dramatic escalation of…

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  "But There Has Been No Third World War"   OK, someone might argue, the U.S. has done bad things, but what Obama said is true: "there has been no Third World…