Salon’s Glenn Greenwald on the mainstream media’s refusal to take responsibility for the carnage in Iraq.
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Finding arms deals in the strangest of places
A fascinating and murky tale of alleged arms dealer Viktor Bout who clearly was the best friend of anybody who paid, not least the US: Accused of a 15-year run as one of the world’s biggest arms traffickers, Viktor Bout is thought to be a consummate deal maker. Now his future may hang on whether…
Daddy, how much money have we wasted in Iraq?
Seven years in Iraq. One million deaths. Mass destruction. US liberation: The shell of a prison that will never be used rises from the desert on the edge of this dusty town north of Baghdad, a hulking monument to the wasted promise of America’s massive, $53-billion reconstruction effort in Iraq. Construction began in May 2004…
More wars and Glenn Beck do not equal respect or honour
Because Fox News, Glenn Beck, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and God are what America needs to “restore honour“:
Yet another legacy of America’s war on Iraq
The Iraq war isn’t over; it’s resulted in a mass influx of young Iraqi women to Syria who become sex slaves or prostitutes.
America says; democracy in the Mid-East is for pussies
Akiva Eldar in Haaretz on Washington’s desperate attempt to continue to maintain “democratic” Israel in the Middle East and US-backed dictatorships in the rear: Despite the fact that they occurred almost simultaneously, any connection between the withdrawal of American combat troops from Iraq and Washington’s invitation of the leaders of Jordan and Egypt to a…
Pull out of Afghanistan now, says new Australian MP
An Australian politician who actually thinks before he speaks on Afghanistan (unlike the parrots in the major parties): Andrew Wilkie has said the justification given by both parties for keeping Australian troops in Afghanistan is a “great lie”. Mr Wilkie has argued that both parties lied during the election campaign about the relevance of the…
Jews who see war through the eyes of Tel Aviv
Tony Karon @ Tom Dispatch attempts to stop the Zionist push for military action against Iran. The fact that the same frauds who pushed us into war against Iraq are now trying similar tactics against Tehran – “Iran is a grave threat etc” – should worry us all.
Devastating Iraq and Palestine in one cruel move
What the US sanctions on Iraq tell us about the siege of Gaza.