Worse Than Imagined: Consequences of the Iraq War
César Chelala In 2003, several weeks before the start of the Iraq war, I wrote an article on the impending war in which I warned against the terrible humanitarian consequences that a war against that...
View ArticleThe Suffering of Fallujah
Robert C. Koehler Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Fallujah . . .And so it turns out that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, though not until we arrived and started using them. read more
View ArticleUS Grows Isolated on Aggressive War
Though the U.S. political/media establishment remains in denial, an international consensus is building that the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq was a crime -- a profound and catastrophic violation of...
View ArticleWikileaks and War Crimes
Jeremy Scahill Four months before WikiLeaks rocketed to international notoriety, the Robin Hoods of the Internet quietly published a confidential CIA document labeled "NOFORN" (for "no foreign...
View ArticleReporter: CNN Refused to Air Footage of US War Crime in Iraq
A prominent Australian war correspondent has revealed the news giant CNN refused to air footage of an apparent war crime by US troops in Iraq. In an interview with the Australian network ABC, Michael...
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Israel's Investigations of Gaza Conflict Inadequate, Say UN Experts
Both Israel and Hamas were instructed to conduct internal inquiries after the UN Human Rights Commission adopted a report by Richard Goldstone, a retired South African judge, accusing both of war...
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US Army to Hold First Hearing on Grisly Afghan Killings
WASHINGTON - The US Army holds its first hearing Monday in a grisly war crimes case that charges five soldiers with killing Afghan civilians for sport and plotting a cover-up.Authorities say the troops...
View ArticleThe US Searches for War Criminals
Glenn Greenwald It doesn't happen often, but sometimes, something you read is so magnificent on its own that there is nothing to say about it. This USA Today article, proudly touting the increased...
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Israel Convicts Troops of Using Human Shield in Gaza
JERUSALEM — An Israeli military court on Sunday convicted two soldiers of using a Palestinian child as a human shield by forcing him to check for booby traps during the 2008-2009 Gaza war.A transcript...
View ArticleGeorge Bush's "All-Time Low"
Mehdi Hasan It's been nearly two years since he left the White House with the lowest domestic and global approval ratings of any US president in living memory. But, it seems, we still can't get enough...
View ArticleWaterboarding Is No Basis for Truth
George W Bush has resorted to the most obvious and, he apparently believes, convincing, defence of torture - namely, that it has saved lives. And what is better than claiming it has saved the lives of...
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Why George W. Bush Should Still Worry
Bill Quigley In his memoir (which some wise people have already moved in bookstores to the CRIME section) George W. Bush admitted that he authorized that detainees be waterboarded, tortured, a crime...
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Bush's Waterboarding Admission Prompts Calls For Criminal Probe
Dan Froomkin WASHINGTON -- The American Civil Liberties Union on Thursday joined a growing chorus in the human rights community calling for a special prosecutor to investigate whether former president...
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Protesters Say George Bush Library Should be a Pile of Rubble
Medea Benjamin Several thousand people lined up to see George Bush, Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice shovel dirt into a hole at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, the site slated to become the...
View ArticleTime To Call It Torture
Laura Flanders The New York Times is finally calling it torture—when someone else has admitted to it.“At least someone is owning up to the awful legacy of Mr. Bush’s illegal detention policies,” their...
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