War in Iraq to Be Given New Name
Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell had no comment on the memo, saying it speaks for itself
Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell had no comment on the memo, saying it speaks for itself
Let’s just say that the other 95 percent of the world is filled with disobedient ingrates who can only be stopped by stuffing the Pentagon’s maw with money we don’t have
Blair has always insisted that the Iraq conflict was never linked to the country’s vast oil reserves
The mandate of the Perdana Tribunal to Criminalise War, is to examine accusations directed against alleged war criminals, including present and past heads of State and heads of government.
According to human rights lawyer John Sifton, the CIA tortured some of its detainees in the War on Terror so severely that it had to take measures to keep them alive so they could continue being tortured.
The fraudulence of the “War on Terror” is clearly revealed by looking at the pattern of actions that preceded and followed its launch.
The American military is a defensive force to be used for our national defense, not for adventurous world policing to enrich the coffers of the industrial and military profit takers.
But perhaps they didn’t need to point this out, after all, as anyone with political acumen has already come to the conclusion that Bush and Obama are like competing brands of cola; both were packaged and sold by elitist corporate interests and both are equally bad for you.
With hardly any debate, a powerful Senate committee Thursday approved President Barack Obama’s $128 billion request for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan for the budget year beginning in October.
Depleted uranium –a radioactive metal twice as dense as lead– has been blamed for a number of health problems, from cancer to birth defects. DU remains radioactive for about 4.5 billion years.
On June 25, Mr. Powell and six other members of his company in the 1092d, sued KBR, the firm in charge of rebuilding the water treatment facility.
Suicides in the US Army are on the rise with 88 suspected cases in the first six months of the year, compared to 67 in the same period in 2008, according to Pentagon figures issued.
What happens to Iraq’s oil will determine the future shape of the world’s energy supply
The future of Pakistan is directly linked to that of the United States, which is why we can not discuss one without discussing the other. The reasons for this coupling vary depending on ones perspective. Some are slanted towards technology, ideology, religion, and even human rights, while others contend that it is simply a racket, one of its main purposes, to decide which parties get to control our dwindling resources.
As of Sunday, July 5, 2009, at least 4,322 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
By Ron Brynaert~Raw Story
“High Value Detainee # 1″ – otherwise known as Saddam Hussein – participated in at least 20 formal interviews and at least 5 “casual conversations†with the FBI after his capture in December of 2003.
Transcriptions of the chats were finally released the last two weeks through Freedom of Information Act requests conducted [...]
~Agence France-Presse
Iraq’s security forces were Monday on high alert in Baghdad as US troops finalised their withdrawal from the conflict-hit nation’s urban areas, an event to be marked by a massive party in the capital.
The US pullout, under a bilateral security accord signed last year, will be completed on Tuesday, which has been declared [...]
By Sherwood Ross~Puppetgov
The Central Intelligence Agency crucified a prisoner in Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, according to a report published in The New Yorker magazine.
“A forensic examiner found that he (the prisoner) had essentially been crucified; he died from asphyxiation after having been hung by his arms, in a hood, and suffering broken ribs,†the [...]
