Newly Released Memo by Donald Rumsfeld Proves Iraq War Started On False Pretenses

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- By George Washington, Zero Hedge Everyone knew that Iraq didn’t have weapons of mass destruction. Indeed, Secretary of State Colin Powell’s chief of staff – Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson – just said that Powell knew that there were no WMDs: I wonder what will happen when we put 500,000 troops into Iraq and comb the country […]

Failure in Afghanistan – Revisiting America’s Longest War

A soldier in Gereshk, Afghanistan. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA Wire

- By Brian J. Trautman The U.S.-led war in Afghanistan – the longest war in U.S. history – entered its 12th year last month (October). The war was launched ostensibly to bring those responsible for the attacks of 9/11 to justice and to prevent future acts of terror on American soil. To achieve these ends, […]

Tamer Mehanna and Gareth Peirce on Tarek Mehanna and his Case

Ten years after the 9/11 attacks, detention policies in the United States are facing increasing scrutiny both here and abroad. American citizen Tarek Mehanna is set to stand trial this month on charges of “conspiring to support terrorism” and “providing material support to terrorists.” Mehanna is accused of trying to serve in al-Qaeda’s “media wing.” […]

Osama crippled the American century

Jounalist Jim Lobe, analyzes the effects of 9/11 attacks on the Unites States, and the events that followed: A decade after its spectacular Sep. 11, 2001 attacks on New York City’s twin World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon and despite the killing earlier this year of its charismatic leader, Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeda […]

FBI’s paid Informants inside America’s Muslim communities

“A year-long investigation by Mother Jones and the Investigative Reporting Program at UC-Berkeley explores the network of thousands of informants the FBI employs in its domestic counter-terrorism program, operating in gray area where the snitches don’t merely observe and report, but actively push their targets (in many cases hapless losers who never would have acted […]

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