By Juan Cole From TomDispatch | Original Article America’s War for Oil and the Great Mesopotamian Dustbowl It was one of the fabled rivers of history and the Marines needed to cross…
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9/8/23 Elliot Abrams Was a CIA Agent According to Daughter of CIA-Mafia Liaison
‘ By Jeremy Kuzmarov From Covert Action Magazine | Original Article [Source: bnn.network] Appointment of Abrams to Public Diplomacy Commission Shows President Biden’s Close Ties to the CIA In September 1998, Desiree…
8/18/23 Judge Throws Out Confession of Bombing Suspect as Derived From Torture
By Carol Rosenberg From The New York Times | Original Article The Saudi defendant, accused of orchestrating the attack on the U.S.S. Cole in 2000, was waterboarded and subjected to other forms…
8/11/23 Destroying Eastern Ukraine to Save It
By Matthew Hoh From Peace and Planet News | Original Article Regardless of which side we support, the reality is that war is a force outside of human control, one that will…
8/8/23 A New, Chilling Secret About the Manhattan Project Has Just Been Made Public
By Fred Kaplan From Slate | Original Article Turns out Oppenheimer’s boss lied, repeatedly, about radiation poisoning. Newly declassified documents reveal that Gen. Leslie Groves—director of the Manhattan Project, the top-secret operation…
8/7/23 Judge Sides With Abu Ghraib Torture Survivors, Refuses to Dismiss Historic Case Against U.S. Military Contractor CACI
From Center for Constitutional Rights A federal judge has rejected the latest attempts by CACI Premier Technology, Inc. to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Iraqis who endured torture at the infamous…
8/4/23 Rapid Dragon: the US military game-changer that could affect conventional and nuclear strategy and arms control negotiations
This new development means that any aircraft that has a rear loading dock that allows a skid to be pushed out the back door and that aircraft becomes a delivery vehicle for nuclear…
7/20/23 Declassified Documents Shed A Light on U.S. Drone Warfare in Pakistan
By Burkely Hermann From Unredacted | Original Article A fully armed MQ-9 Reaper taxis down a runway in Afghanistan in November 2007. Reapers and Predators were the two types of drones used…
7/15/23 Three steps being taken to possibly prepare to attack Russia, and perhaps China
From Robert Anderson of Stop the War Machine In mid-July three items of troubling military deployment and movements have come to light. Individually they are routine but in the context of Biden…
7/14/23 The crimes and dangers of Elliott Abrams
By Ariel Gold and Rev. Graylan Scott Hagler From Fellowship Magazine | Original Article To honor those who have died and suffered from the fires Biden nominee Elliott Abrams lit and fanned abroad,…
6/30/23 U.S. Depleted Uranium to Make Ukraine War Dirtier
By John LaForge From Counterpunch | Original Article The Biden administration is expected to supply Ukraine with highly controversial depleted-uranium munitions which are to be fired from the Abrams battle tanks the…
6/26/23 Conditions at Guantánamo Are Cruel and Inhuman, U.N. Investigation Finds
By Carol Rosenberg From The New York Times | Original Article The report was the result of the first visit by an independent human rights investigator to the prison in its two-decade…
6/8/23 I Crashed Henry Kissinger’s 100th-Birthday Party
By Jonathan Guyer From New York Magazine | Original Article See original for photos. The elite love him but for some reason won’t say why. On Monday evening at the New York…
6/5/23 Biden Appoints Strong Candidate For Nuremberg-Style War Crimes Tribunal As New Head of Joint Chiefs of Staff
By Jeremy Kuzmarov From Covert Action Magazine | Original Article [Source: bbc.com] Charles “CQ” Brown, Jr., Oversaw Secret Bombing Campaigns in Iraq and Syria that Killed Many Civilians and Has Been Deeply…
6/4/23 U.N. Body Condemns Torture of Guantánamo Prisoner Awaiting Capital Trial
By Carol Rosenberg From The New York Times | Original Article The News A United Nations human rights panel has issued a damning report that blames the United States and seven other…