A Compendium of reports on the current War on Islam
Is Britain guilty of systemic torture in Iraq? The Guardian High court to hear shocking testimonies alleging sexual abuse and torture of Iraqi prisoners and their families by British armed forces between 2003 and 2008 – By Ed Vulliamy In the Lebanese capital of Beirut, far from the theatre of war in Iraq and his office in Birmingham, […]
- By Donna Mulhearn I’ve never seen a face as sad as a mother watching her new baby die. I saw it several times in the week I spent in Iraq’s Fallujah Hospital recently, but the most heart-breaking was the round, brown face of the woman in the pink dress. I entered the room in […]
- By Tom Mcnamara “Whatever grievances a nation may have, however objectionable it finds the status quo, aggressive warfare is an illegal means for settling those grievances or for altering those conditions” Statement by US Justice Robert Jackson at the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, Germany. Rennes, France. It is alleged that on the evening of […]
- By Kevin Gosztola A lawsuit brought by the teenager’s grandfather provides details. He was born in Denver, Colorado on August 26, 1995. The American teen grew up in the United States. In 2002, he moved to Yemen with his family. He was in his first year of high school in Sana’a, where he lived […]
67 years years ago, on 6th August 1945, the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were devastated by the atomic bomb “Little Boy”, dropped by the United States of America. 70,000 people were killed instantly, and 100,000 injured. “This is the story of the only people to have survived a nuclear attack.”
As deformities spike in the Iraqi city, we ask if the US has been honest about weaponry used during the 2004 assaults. – By Shihab Rattansi, Al Jazeera English | Report and Video New research is underway on the alarming increase in birth defects in the Iraqi city of Fallujah. In November 2004, the US […]
- By By David Walsh On Wednesday, the Los Angeles Times published horrific photographs of American troops in Afghanistan posing with dead and dismembered insurgents. The grisly images expose Washington’s claim that the occupation of the country is aimed at liberating the Afghan people. They reflect the savage reality of the US-led operation, intended to crush popular […]
From AlJazeera: Over the past decade, the US military has shifted the way it fights its wars, deploying more unmanned systems in the battlefield than ever before. Today there are more than 7,000 drones and 12,000 ground robots in use by all branches of the military. These systems mean less American deaths. They also mean […]
By Fadhil al-Badrani (Reuters) – Ali al-Falluji’s building lies with its ceiling collapsed, debris spilled over the Falluja city roadside just as the Iraqi businessman left it seven years ago when American bombs punctured its roof. The last U.S. soldiers are finally leaving Iraq. But Falluji says he will never rebuild his business: It must […]
By Daily Mail December 06, 2011 “Daily Mail’ -Former U.S. President George W. Bush has cancelled a visit to Switzerland over fears he could have been arrested on torture charges. Mr Bush was due to be the keynote speaker at a Jewish charity gala in Geneva on February 12. But pressure has been building on […]
