Anwar al-Aulaqi Added To CIA Target List: US Citizen Is First American On List Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has authorized the killing of a radical Muslim cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki,…
Category: Iraq
US Admits Troops Killed Afghan Civilians At Baby Shower
Afghan Investigators Say U.S. Troops Tried to Cover Up Evidence in Botched Raid By Richard A. Oppel, Jr. and Abdul Waheed Wafa NY Times KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan officials investigating the deaths…
Wikileaks reveals video showing US air crew shooting down Iraqi civilians
More on this story from Democracy Now! 4/6/10: Massacre Caught on Tape: U.S. Military Confirms Authenticity of Their Own Chilling Video Showing Killing of Journalists Footage of July 2007 attack made public as…
Obama: Continuing Bush’s War Crimes with Drone Bombing Campaign
by Craig Considine When Obama was campaigning on ‘Hope and Change’ in 2008, many Americans thought he was committed to implementing future foreign policies that would drift drastically away from the ’war on terror’ initiatives directed…
‘Suspected Militants’
By Craig Considine Why does it seem these days that every bomb dropped and every missile strike kills ’suspected militants’? It is either a great coincidence that the targets are real militants or governments, like the US and…
BRussells Tribunal: U.S. Destruction of Iraqi Schools is a War Crime
By Dirk Adriaensens, "The Education system in Iraq, prior to 1991, was one of the best in the region; with over 100% Gross Enrolment Rate for primary schooling and high levels of…
Afghanistan: Another Raid, Another U. S. Atrocity, Another Coverup
By Dave Lindorff Another night-time raid on a housing compound in Afghanistan. Another bunch of innocent Afghans killed. Another round of lies by the US-led forces of the so-called International Security…
U.S. Brings Democracy to Iraq? Hardly.
by Craig Considine Skeptics have reason to be weary of democracy in Iraq. For starters, up to 500 candidates were banned a few weeks before the recent election by the Commission of Accountability and Justice as part its ’de-Baathification’…
Over 1,000,000 Dead Iraqis from 2003 U.S. Led Invasion
By Craig Considine George W. Bush and his cronies are not ashamed of themselves, but they certainly should be. They should also be held in front of the International Criminal Court for their gross…
2009 Toll of Nato Air Strikes: 131 Dead Children
By Craig Considine After an air strike that killed many kids in the beginning of 2010, shouts of ‘Death to America’ and to ‘the Afghan government’ could be heard throughout Afghan villages…