- By Peter Hart How long can media keep printing lies about the Iraq War? Today’s Washington Post (3/22/13) provides one answer, since they printed an 0p-ed by former Bush national security adviser Stephen Hadleywhere he argued this: After Hussein was deposed, we did not find the stockpiles of WMDs that all the world’s major intelligence services, the Clinton […]
The US Invasion of Iraq Was a Crime and Its Perpetrators Are Murderers
March 23, 2013 By
On the criminology of the Iraq War on its tenth anniversary – By Paul Savoy, Common Dreams Ten years after the invasion of Iraq, it is astonishing in a nation dedicated to the rule of law that every aspect of the war has been debated except the relevant law. To be sure, a vast array of articles, […]
A U.S soldier who fought in Iraq explains decision to end his life
March 23, 2013 By
The Last Letter A Message to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney From a Dying Veteran To: George W. Bush and Dick Cheney From: Tomas Young I write this letter on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War on behalf of my fellow Iraq War veterans. I write this letter on behalf of the […]
Iraq War: The Spies Who Fooled the World
March 22, 2013 By
Panorama: On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the Iraq War, Panorama reveals how key aspects of the secret intelligence used to justify the invasion were based on fabrication and lies. Related articles MI6 and CIA were told before invasion that Iraq had no active WMD (alhittin.com) Man whose WMD lies led to 100,000 deaths […]
Guantanamo inmates join growing hunger strike
March 21, 2013 By
- By Reuters, AFP, Al-Akhbar More prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have joined a growing hunger strike that their lawyers say reflects hopelessness about their prospects of ever being freed from the US detention center in Cuba. Twenty-four captives were on a hunger strike as of Tuesday evening and eight of those had lost enough weight […]
10 Years After Iraq Invasion: Continued Myths, Hundreds of Thousands Killed
March 19, 2013 By
- By Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams This week marks ten years since the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The Iraq war, which most today in the U.S. see as a mistake, has cost the U.S. trillions of dollars, billions of which were “wasted.” But the devastation for the people of Iraq is incalculable: hundreds of thousands have been killed, […]
MI6 and CIA were told before invasion that Iraq had no active WMD
March 19, 2013 By
BBC’s Panorama reveals fresh evidence that agencies dismissed intelligence from Iraqi foreign minister and spy chief – By Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian Fresh evidence has been revealed about how MI6 and the CIA were told through secret channels by Saddam Hussein’s foreign minister and his head of intelligence that Iraq had no active weapons of mass destruction. Tony Blair told parliament before the war […]
Iraq: 10 years on
March 14, 2013 By
- By Adnan Khan, Khilafah.com A decade ago in March 2003, 300,000 foreign troops, overwhelmingly from the US began the invasion of Iraq. A million deaths later and after bombing the nation back to the ‘Stone Age’ US policy makers continue to propagate mission accomplished. A dictator has been removed, democracy has been established and […]
A Huge Hunger Strike at Guantánamo
March 11, 2013 By
- By Andy Worthington When is a hunger strike not a hunger strike? Apparently, when the government says it doesn’t exist. At Guantánamo, reports first began to emerge on February 23 about a camp-wide hunger strike, of a scale not seen since before Barack Obama became President. On the “Free Fayiz and Fawzi” page on Facebook, […]
George Bush, Tony Blair and the century’s greatest crime
February 24, 2013 By
What US and Britain did to Iraq is nothing short of state terrorism – By Linda S. Heard, Gulf News It’s been almost 10 years since the US and Britain unleashed ‘Shock and Awe’ on the Iraqi capital Baghdad ostensibly to punish a rogue dictator for hoarding weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in non-compliance with […]
