By Jason Ditz Despite top Obama Administration officials insisting that the Iraq War is already “over,” combat operations in the nation continue. But at least the “end of 2011″ deadline for a…
Category: Iraq
The Legacy of the Iraq War: Over 100,000 Dead, 20,000 Unidentified
By Andy Worthington As combat operations officially end in Iraq, nearly seven and a half years after the Bush administration’s illegal invasion, it is difficult to know how to summarize succinctly the…
The Peace Laureate’s Prayer: War Without End, Amen
By Chris Floyd The Peace Laureate and his apologists – along with all the well-wadded neoconmen and their strange bedfellows, the liberal interventionists – may like to proclaim that the Iraq War…
Memories of “Collateral Murder” – by Someone who was There
Ethan McCord was a member of the military unit in “Collateral Murder” – the Wikileaks video showing 12 Iraqis being killed from a US helicopter. He rescued the two children severely wounded in the…
Echoes of Mengele: Medical Experiments, Torture and Continuity in the American Gulag
by Chris Floyd This is the language of power – unfiltered, unadorned, dispassionate, professional – discussing how best to inflict tortures on helpless captives without causing "long-term" damage that might be visible…
Shoot the Messenger: U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe
From Al Jazeera A US soldier serving in Iraq has been arrested for allegedly leaking a classified combat video to a whistleblower website, Wikileaks, last year. The video footage from a…
A Sordid Story: Obama’s Afghan Torture Center and the American Psychological Association
By Stephen Soldz A recent pair of articles by Marc Ambinder of the Atlantic has shed new light upon activities in the secret so-called “black jail” on the Bagram Air Base…
Ahmed Abu Ali: – Tortured, Sentenced to Supermax Prison – Guilty of Being Muslim in America
By Stephen Lendman Writing on May 12 in Alternet.org, Mariam Abu Ali headlined, "My Brother Faces a Lifetime of Solitary Confinement on a Spurious Terror Conviction," saying: He "spent the…
The Poetry of Death: Patterns of State Terror
By Chris Floyd The found poetry of state terror continues its strange mutilations of the English language. The bizarre verbal heavings of Donald Rumsfeld, for example, are rightly celebrated as choice examples…
20 Killed in US Drone Attack in Pakistan
This article is taken from the site PressTV At least twenty people have been killed in the latest US missile strike in tribal regions in northwestern Pakistan, local security officials confirm. …