By Mustafa Barghouthi, Ma’an News Agency, April 6, 2010 After decades of military rule over Palestinians and theft of our land, Israeli leaders are increasingly seeing the writing on the wall. They are at least acknowledging reality, if not yet…
Murder from above
On April 5, 2010 WikiLeaks released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate murder of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad — including two Reuters news staff. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter…
America’s war crimes
A boy weeps as others survey the damage caused by a US air strike on Fallujah in September 2004. Picture:AFP The United States takes the matter of three-headed babies very seriously. By William Blum, Anti-Empire Report, April 5, 2010 When…
McChrystal: “We have shot an amazing number of people . . .”
Tighter Rules Fail to Stem Deaths of Innocent Afghans at Checkpoint By Richard A. Oppel Jr., New York Times, March 26, 2010 KABUL, Afghanistan — American and NATO troops firing from passing convoys and military checkpoints have killed 30 Afghans…
Canada out of Afghanistan? Don’t kid yourself!
By Paul S. Graham, March 31, 2010 A CBC online poll is asking “Should Canadian combat forces remain in Afghanistan past 2011?” At the moment, 74 per cent have answered “No.” While encouraging, this is somewhat higher than what we’ve…
How the media spins the Afghan war
U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan are committing atrocities, lying, and getting away with it By Jerome Starkey, Nieman Watchdog, March 22, 2010 “Tied up, gagged and killed” was how NATO described the “gruesome discovery” of three women’s bodies during a night…