23 July, 2005
Illegal War - Final World War?
Iraq, America And China
By Bill Henderson
Humanity's Bottleneck condition promises fierce competition for resources. In this context the Bush Administration sent a signal to the world in invading Iraq. The world is a much more dangerous place for everybody because the Bush Administration chose a resource war path, a path for all of us toward a nuclear World War Three
Al Qaeda or Al Fayda- Roots of Global Terror
By Ram Puniyani
Lured by the oil wealth of the region US-UK axis has violated every possible international law and have removed all roadblocks to its pursuits for profit (Fayda). This axis also attacked Afghanistan and Iraq telling the World that this is the only way to make their countries safer for themselves
22 July, 2005
Orwellian Media Won't Report
UK-US State Terrorism
By Gideon Polya
In relation to "terrorism" there is a huge gulf between mainstream media reportage and actual reality - a huge media lie encapsulated in the dishonest and semantically absurd phrase "War on Terror"
Understanding Suicide Attacks
By Subhash Gatade
It is high time that the civilised world while mourning for the 50 plus innocents who died on 7/7 also gets ready to mourn the innocents who are getting killed daily on the streets of Iraq, Afghanistan or for that matter Palestine
Resort To Fear
By Noam Chomsky
The resort to fear by systems of power to discipline the domestic population has left a long and terrible trail of bloodshed and suffering which we ignore at our peril. Recent history provides many shocking illustrations
London: Another Casualty Of The "War on Terror"
By William Blum
In the period leading up to the US invasion of Iraq, from many quarters came the warnings of the great chaos and violence this would lead to in various parts of the world, the many new anti-Americans -- terrorists and otherwise -- who would be produced. But I think it can be said now that the consequences have been even worse than predicted
21July, 2005
The Cost Of Israel And US Wars
By Gideon Polya
In the post-war era the US has economically and militarily dominated the people and resource utilization of the World and is accordingly complicit in the associated horrendous global avoidable mortality (currently about 20 million per year). The post-1950 avoidable mortality (excess mortality) has been 1.3 billion (for the World)
Predicting The Inevitable
By Brita Rose
How many more predictable and inevitable revenge attacks do we have to witness or suffer before our politicians are either voted out, or get the message that this foreign policy is not working and there needs to be a drastic change of strategy? Too many more, I fear
01June, 2005
Seymour M Hersh From My Lai To Abu Ghraib
By Seymour M Hersh, Andrew Burgin & Matthew Cookson
I read the transcripts of the Pentagons briefings. The first year of Rumsfeld was a real love-in. Someone would say, Sy Hersh is at it again and there would be laughter.It troubles me that theres not a bigger anti-war movement in the US. People in the US are just sleeping, for whatever reason. But Im doing stuff. Ive got more stuff to do
19 May, 2005
Newsweek Retracts Guantánamo Abuse Story
By Bill Van Auken
Caving in to pressure from the Pentagon and the White House, Newsweek magazine Monday retracted a story on anti-Muslim abuse of detainees held in the Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, detention camp.The article sparked anti-US upheavals that swept Afghanistan last week claiming at least 17 lives and spreading to other parts of the Muslim world
Newsweek Probably Got it Right
By Calgacus
White House campaign to manage the news may win the day, but charges of Koran desecration appear in numerous previous reports
An Open Letter To The Troops:
"Fight For True Freedom Now!"
By Chuck Richardson
I am writing to let you know I support you, as a human being, with all my heart; but cant support your military service to the United States because it is enabling a criminal enterprise. Mafia hit men are never acquitted because theyre just following orders.
15 May, 2005
The True Purpose Of Torture
By Naomi Klein
Guantánamo is there to terrorise - both inmates and the wider world
29 April, 2005
Arrogant Nation
By Doug Soderstrom
A psycho-social analysis of United States
26 April, 2005
Indo - US Military To Military Relations:
Who Will Benefit?
By Admiral vishnu Bhagwat
We now have a situation where the US Armed forces , a hitherto highly professional institution has turned itself deliberately and openly into a killing machine to impress the world with diabolical cruelty. What must be squarely faced , is whether military to military relations, will generate a similar psyche in the Indian Armed Forces?
23 April, 2005
The Dumbing Down Of The American Mind
By Doug Soderstrom
There is a very dangerous phenomenon that seems to be occurring in the United States of America; something that I refer to as the dumbing-down of the American mind, a nearly willful tendency for Americans to forgo reality in favor of believing what they want to believe
12 April, 2005
Imperial Reach
By Michael T. Klare
Of the dozen or so locations mentioned in Pentagon or media accounts of new basing locations, a majority--including Algeria, Azerbaijan, Cameroon, Gabon, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Qatar, Romania, São Tomé and Príncipe, Tunisia--either possess oil themselves or abut major pipelines and supply routes
11 April, 2005
"The Only Good Indian Is A Dead Indian"
By Owatica
If the human race is to survive at all, we absolutely must understand how we, the people of the world, are being manipulated into war by others who wish to enrich themselves through our blood. They prey on our fears and prejudices to manipulate us
09 April, 2005
Oil For Dollars, And Dollars For US Deficit
By Richard Benson
As the price of oil goes up, extra money floods into the Gulf kingdoms. With the US secretary of defense putting troops all over the ground in the Middle East, and those nimble aircraft carriers nearby and ready to deliver the "shock and awe of sudden democracy" to the Gulf monarchs, it's a sure bet that America's OPEC buddies will stash their newly found Asian lucky bucks into good old American Treasury notes
06 April, 2005
Oil-For-Food Scandal: Washingtons
Preemptive Strike On The UN
By Peter Symonds
The stench of hypocrisy and cynicism that surrounds the oil-for-food inquiry underscores the fact that it has little to do with allegations of corruption against Annan and other UN officials. Like other multilateral international institutions, the UN has become a battleground where the US is seeking to assert its unchallenged supremacy over its imperialist rivals
05 April, 2005
USA, Whose Hostage?
By Ghali Hassan
There is little doubt that the current US Government and its ideologues will continue to inflict harms not only on defenceless people outside the US, but also on the US and on the Americans people for the next few decades. The challenge is not whether the US will decline as an imperial power but whether the American people can prevent their country from becoming a permanent hostage of a foreign power and slow its decline
02 April, 2005
Whitewashing War Based On Lies
By Bill Van Auken
Like those earlier investigations, the WMD panels document serves up recommendations promoting an intensification of militarism abroad and police-state measures at home
01 April, 2005
Despots, East And West
By Satya Sagar
Western Despots(WDs) kill because they love people, Eastern Despots kill (EDs) because they hate them: A comparative analysis between WDs and EDs
30 March, 2005
Sleepwalking To Disaster In Iran
By Scott Ritter
Based upon history, precedent, and personalities, the intent of the United States regarding Iran is crystal clear: the Bush administration intends to bomb Iran. Whether this attack takes place in June 2005, when the Pentagon has been instructed to be ready, or at a later date, once all other preparations have been made, is really the only question that remains to be answered
US Scatters Bases To Control Eurasia
By Ramtanu Maitra
The United States is beefing up its military presence in Afghanistan, at the same time encircling Iran. Washington will set up nine new bases in Afghanistan in the provinces of Helmand, Herat, Nimrouz, Balkh, Khost and Paktia
23 March, 2005
Schiavo Case Quantitates Genocidal US Racism
By Gideon Polya
The Schiavo Case continues to excite the US and indeed the World. The US Congress, Senate and President are setting a new, radical, high level of respect for human life, but only if this new respect were to be applied to everyone! But in the US-conquered Afghanistan a life is at about 20,000 times cheaper than that of a brain-damaged, white American woman
Cuba And Venezuela Face The US And Colombia
By James Petras
The US strategy against Cuba involves a joint US-Colombian attack of Venezuela backed by internal terrorists and the ruling class
11 March, 2005
Democracy In The Middle East? Where?
By Ted Bohne
There certainly isn't one in Afghanistan. Karzai might be president in his house depending on his wife's mood, but past that, it's business as usual. What about Iraq? Why there's still a shooting war going on there. Threatening Syria makes little sense
Homecoming
By Richard Oxman
By any standard of measurement, the numbers of unnecessary, unconscionable deaths we have caused --through bombing, banking and betrayal-- far exceeds Hitlers wildest dreams of devastation
06 March, 2005
Promoting Democracy In Middle East
By Noam Chomsky
'Where democracy appears to fit in well with US security and economic interests, the United States promotes democracy. Where democracy clashes with other significant interests, it is downplayed or even ignored.'
The Next Crusades
By Uri Avnery
The US government's posturings to bring democracy and freedom to Lebanon , disregarding its complexities and history can only push that country into civil war and with it the whole of Middle East
Target: Al Jazeera
By Christopher Brauchli
It's easy to get crosswise with the United States. Just ask Qatar. In 1988 it was Stinger missiles-today it's Al Jazeera
03 March, 2005
The Oil Factor In Bush's 'War On Tyranny'
By F William Engdahl
A world oil price of US$150 a barrel or more in the next few years would be joined by chokepoint control of the supply by one power if Washington has its way
23 February, 2005
End Of Empire, End Of Civilization?
By Kirkpatrick Sale
All empires collapse eventually! The present American empire also will end for sure, but will that be the end of civilization too?
19 February, 2005
Negroponte Becomes The Spy Chief
By Bill Van Auken
Bush names John Negroponte, a veteran of US subversion and dirty wars, as national intelligence director
Learning Lies
By John Pilger
How many more innocent people have to die before those who filter the past and the present wake up to their moral responsibility to protect our memory and the lives of human beings?
16 February, 2005
The Republican War
By Am Johal
George W. Bush and his Republican administration should have to wear the war in Iraq when it's all over. He has divided the nation and the world in a way that has not been seen since Vietnam
Halliburton Contracts Illegal -
Bush & Cheney Say So What
By Evelyn Pringle
After millions of tax dollars were spent investigating how Halliburton ended up being awarded billions of dollar worth of no-bid contracts in Iraq, the Government Accounting Office determined that the company should never have been awarded the contracts in the first place. In response to those findings, Cheney and Bush both, as much as thumbed their noses at tax payers as if to say "so what, what are you going to do about it?"
02 February, 2005
The Violence Of Hypocrisy
By T. Patrick Donovan
If we are to ever move beyond the violence that permeates America, and with which America is attempting to recreate the world in its own image, then we must take a long, hard look at the sticky web of hypocrisy that holds this country in thrall
The US And Iran: Questions That
Still Need To Be Answered
By Am Johl
With the Bush Administration's penchant for unilateralism, there will no doubt be an escalation of tensions between the US and Iran over the next eighteen months
19 January, 2005
Condy Rice Names 'Outposts Of Tyranny'
By BBC
Condoleezza Rice, President George W Bush's nominee as secretary of state, has identified "outposts of tyranny" where the US must help bring freedom. They are Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Zimbabwe, Burma and Belarus
18 January, 2005
US 'Making Secret Plans To Attack Iran'
By Rupert Cornwell
Seymour Hersh, the journalist who uncovered the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, reports in The New Yorker magazine that the Pentagon has been conducting secret reconnaissance of potential target sites inside Iran
14 January, 2005
A global Gulag For You
By Jonathan Steele
Bush is now thinking of building jails abroad to hold suspects for life
07 December, 2004
Nader Attacks The Liberals
By Julian Borger
"We called them viral liberals - liberals whose brain closes down to any kind of tactics, strategies and alternative ways of defeating Bush other than letting the Democrats decide. It was an absolute brain-closing - a state of being a political zombie."
06 December, 2004
America's Imperial Wizard Visits Canada
By John Chuckman
In Ottawa, thousands of demonstrators outside were kept away from Bush's sight, a practice followed wherever the Imperial Wizard travels
23 November, 2004
SHOUT OUT, "NO MORE!"
By Ted Bohne
How many more BILLIONS of dollars will we give to a feckless thug and his mob before we SHOUT OUT, "NO MORE!" Or will we continue to mumble and write because we want someone else to do it
19 November, 2004
The Sanitation Of War
By Frank Thomas
The language of technology, the action movie campaign names like Shock and Awe, are used to set the terrain to conceive warfare as a smooth business-like transaction, a routine project with few casualties and little destruction.One of the big lies to have gone down is this sanitation of war
US Profits From Jihadist Terrorism
By Gideon Polya
The post-9/11 "extra" profits to the US War Economy total some US$400 billion - the sum of extra US military budget funding of $250 billion since 9/11 and additional funding for the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars of about $150 billion
America's Radioactive War
By Brita May Rose
There has been virtually no mention of the use of depleted uranium (DU) in this latest Gulf War, yet the US military has scattered this radioactive substance all over the desert in even larger quantities than it did in the Gulf War of 1991
Religion, The Election, And The Politics Of Fear
By Todd May
Those who argue about whether it is terrorism or gay marriage that sunk the Kerry campaign miss the point. They are two aspects of the same consciousness. And they are at the heart of the Bush administration's politics of fear
13 November, 2004
God Bless America
By John Chuckman
Some have characterized the Bush victory as marking the beginning of a third Great Awakening. America's fundamentalists want to escape the social consequences of such inevitable developments as gay marriage, abortion, and scientific research that begins to peel back the mysteries of Creation
12 November, 2004
Suspicions Stir Belief That
US Presidential Election Was Hijacked
By Greg Guma
Could sophisticated CIA-style "cyber-warfare" have helped George W. Bush change a three percent defeat, as measured by exit polls, into a victory of about the same margin? Yes, at least in theory
11 November, 2004
Confessions Of An Economic Hit Man
By John Perkins & Amy Goodman
"This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that"
08 November, 2004
Electronic Prophets
By Greg Guma
Religious Right broadcasters long ago learned an important lesson: Repeat almost anything often enough and many people will believe you -- even if it leads them to act against their own interests. A 1996 article which is even more relevant now
07 November, 2004
How Bush Tapped Into A Well Of Faith
By Paul Harris
There has been a new dawn in America's politics and it is shining on a political landscape shaped - not by war or jobs or healthcare - but by the role of faith in government and so-called cultural values on abortion and gay marriage. It is this landscape that will shape the United States in the next four years
04 November, 2004
The Nightmare Goes On
By Jonathan Freedland
Once it looked like an aberration. Now it is an era. George W Bush's tenure seemed to be the accidental presidency, one that would stand out in the history books as a freak event. Yesterday that changed, changed utterly
Bad News For Fallujah
By Paul McGeough
As Republicans prepare for a second term, the world is braced for more violence
Sleep Tight America!
By Am Johal
It was a big, giant "fuck you all" to the critics of America. It was an affirmation of the Bush White House and his handling of the wars, the economy, his leadership and his cabal of right wing ideologues
02 November, 2004
The World Is Counting On The USA
By Norman Solomon
"Should Bush be punished for going to war or not? If you say yes, then you have to punish him, and the best way to punish him is to remove him from office.
My Vote - My Gamble
By Andrea Dworkin
Given the choice between two dud candidates, Andrea Dworkin doesn't usually bother to vote. But this time, with a heavy heart, she's going for Kerry
The New Black Tokenism And American Empire
By Dennis Childs
If we do not want more re-runs of Vietnam, progressives and radicals will have to work to dismantle structural white supremacy even while struggling against corporate globalization, patriarchy, environmental destruction, and homophobia
01 November, 2004
Osama's Endorsement
By John Chuckman
Osama and the boys chose a critical moment to endorse Bush because they know four more years of his violent, incompetent arrogance does more damage to western interests than any attack they could hope to mount
29 October, 2004
Will There Be A War Against The World?
By John Pilger
What will happen if the nightmare in Iraq goes on? Perhaps those millions of worried Americans, who are currently paralysed by wanting to get rid of Bush at any price, will shake off their ambivalence, regardless of who wins on 2 November
27 October, 2004
Three Weddings And Lots Of Funerals
By Brian Clougley
"Three Weddings and Lots of Funerals" is different. The story line in what I write here is strong enough, but there are no laughs whatever. It concerns the willful massacre of over a hundred innocent people by US aircraft at two wedding gatherings in Iraq and one in Afghanistan in the past 15 months
26 October, 2004
Our War On Terrorism
By Howard Zinn
I am calling it "our" war on terrorism because I want to distinguish it from Bush's war on terrorism, and from Sharon's, and from Putin's
24 October, 2004
The Government You Deserve
By John Chuckman
There is no national debate in America on almost anything of genuine importance. The most narrow self-interest continues relentlessly under all the superficial noise and cheap tricks that pass for politics, and, so long as that remains the case, America will continue to kill and maim and overthrow
15 October, 2004
Political Roots Of American Insecurity
By Mohamed El-Moctar El-Shinqiti
"Understanding and resolving differences between Americans and Muslims" is one of the challenging issues facing the US policymakers today
11 October, 2004
Paradise Cleansed
By John Pilger
To understand the catastrophe of Iraq, and all the other Iraqs along imperial history's trail of blood and tears, one need look no further than Diego Garcia
If You Had Seen What I Have Seen
By Scott Ritter
The inspection process was rigged to create uncertainty over WMD to bolster the US and UK's case for war
10 October, 2004
Speak Now Or ......?
By Jeff Berg
"If we all do not start bailing with all of our collective might right now civilizations ship will surely capsize and we all will remember back upon this and many other 'I told you so's' with despair when we look into the questioning eyes of your children and grandchildren"
30 September, 2004
Even To Empire Rules Apply
By Jeff Berg
The unilateral invasion of Iraq marks a turning point in America's place in the world. It has brought to the fore in a way that not even the death of millions in Indo-China could the fact of U.S. financial and ecological mismanagement of the planets limited resources
Huntington's Paranoia
By Zawahir Siddique
Book review of Samuel P. Huntington's book "Who Are We? The Challenges to Americas National Identity" in which Huntington trains his guns on the Hispanics and African Americans
24 September, 2004
The Hypocrisy Over Beslan
By Joe Lauria
Terrorists who attack Russia have a reason grounded in political grievances while those who strike the United States do not
22 September, 2004
Still No Votes In Leipzig
By Jonathan Freedland
US policy now affects every citizen on the planet. So we should all have a say in who gets to the White House
18 September, 2004
The Resort To Force
By Noam Chomsky
Clinton's 1998 bombings of Sudan and Afghanistan created bin Laden as a symbol, forged close relations between him and the Taliban, and led to a sharp increase in support, recruitment, and financing for Al Qaeda, which until then was virtually unknown
17 September, 2004
Enough Already
By Dr. Trudy Bond
Enough already. Ive decided there are no new editorials for me to read. Nothing to help me understand why the American people are standing by and watching the total chaos and destruction of the American government
12 September, 2004
We Should Not Have Allowed 19 Murderers
To Change Our World
By Robert Fisk
Any cop, confronted by any crime, looks for a motive. But confronted by an international crime against humanity, we were not to be allowed to seek the motive
09 September, 2004
The Bush Crusade
By James Carroll
"Crusade. I remember a momentary feeling of vertigo at the President's use of that word, the outrageous ineptitude of it. The vertigo lifted, and what I felt then was fear, sensing not ineptitude but exactitude. "
02 September, 2004
Bush Reloaded
By Satya Sagar
Weep, buddy, weep. Im gonna vote Bush and I hope he comes and bombs your ass
01 September, 2004
Jewish Voters: Bush's Secret Weapon?
By Ciro Scotti
George Bush's strong Israel tilt has won him surprising support from a small but significant bloc. It could even be the margin in Florida
Imperial America
By Gore Vidal
This article is excerpted from Gore Vidal's latest book, Imperial America
24 August, 2004
The Warlords Of America
By John Pilger
Most of the US's recent wars were launched by Democratic presidents. Why expect better of Kerry? The debate between US liberals and conservatives is a fake; Bush may be the lesser evil
Public Power In The Age Of Empire
By Arundhati Roy
Transcript of full speech by Arundhati Roy in San Francisco, California on August 16th, 2004
21 August, 2004
The Trouble With Electing Caesar
By John Chuckman
America's campaign for Emperor is becoming nasty
18 August, 2004
Dehumanisation Of The Other
By Ghali Hassan
Whether in the US, Britain or in Australia, the common enemy is the same kind of human who must be despised and excluded. Today it is the Arabs; at other times it is the Vietnamese. Negative images of the others are fuel for Western colonial war machine
17 August, 2004
The Bad or The Terrible?
By George Monbiot
Those who insist Nader supporters should vote Kerry are holding back US democratisation
11 August, 2004
Hiroshima Cover-up
By Amy Goodman and David Goodman
Or how the War Department's Timesman Won a Pulitzer
10 August, 2004
Oil Profits Behind West's Tears For Darfur
By Norm Dixon
While US and European governments' goal is renewed access by their countries oil corporations to Sudan's oil wealth, Washington's latest threats against Sudan are part of a carrot and stick approach that it has pursued with Khartoum since the 9/11 attacks
07 August, 2004
Fear, Not Fortitude, Propels American Empire
By Franz Schurmann
Why is democracy failing? A simple explanation is that Jews, Christians and Muslims used to have only one primary fear, and that was fear of God. Instead, all three now fear each other, or fear their own peoples. To work, democracy has to be optimistic. But fear is the antithesis of optimism
06 August, 2004
Israel The Real Winner
By Mohamed Elmasry
If we rank those countries which have benefited most, and are still benefiting, from the U.S.-led invasion and occupation of Iraq, Israel heads the list
04 August, 2004
The Oil War Moves To Sudan
By Doug Lorimer
In July 1998 the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported that a Chevron representative estimated Sudan had more oil than Iran and Saudi Arabia together
More Stories From Guantánamo Bay
By Vikram Dodd and Tania Branigan
Questioned at gunpoint, shackled, forced to pose naked. British detainees tell their stories of Guantánamo Bay
01 August, 2004
An Empire Of Torture
By Pelayo Mella
The pictures of American soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners made me relive what I, and many thousands of other Chileans suffered under the Pinochets dictatorship. What they did and do with Iraqis is exactly the same as they did with Chileans, Argentineans, and its is the same that occupying Zionists do with the Palestinians
31 July, 2004
The Pathology Of George Bush
By Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro answers President Bush's accusation that Cuba promotes sexual tourism and child pornography
30 July, 2004
Wither The Empire: The Rise
Of Global Resistance
By Omar Barghouti
The rest of the world truly hopes that Americans may themselves rise up to the occasion and renounce the empire from within; that they may opt for the status of relatively less privileged citizens of a more just and peaceful world, rather than the loathed masters of a bludgeoned, bullied, and oppressed world
Oil And Gas In Abundance In Washington
By Eli Clifton
According to a recent report by a Washington-based group, the Center for Public Integrity, the oil and gas industry has spent more than 440 million dollars since 1998 on campaign contributions and lobbying
29 July, 2004
Bush Floats War Against Iran
By Ted Rall
Failing to stamp passports is commonplace. Yet the Bush Administration, operating on the assumption that most Americans don't know that, is floating the possibility of war against Iran based on that innocuous practice
26 July, 2004
Torture Gets The Silence Treatment
By James A. Lucas
The torture revelations in Iraq is not an isolated occurrence. This report shows that for many years the U.S. government has had a pattern of using torture against people in other nations
Iran New U.S. Whipping Boy
By Eric Margolis
Those who deceived America into attacking Iraq may be at it again
25 July, 2004
What's At Stake In Venezuela
By Claudia Jardim and Jonah Gindin
An Interview with Tariq Ali
24 July, 2004
Two Sides Of The Same Coin
By Roger H. Lieberman
The imposition of a pro-American client regime in Baghdad through direct foreign aggression was an act as illegitimate as the Soviet take-over of Afghanistan in 1979
21 July, 2004
This Empire Too Will Fall
By Ali Al-Saeed
Just like the Romans before them and the Ottomans, the Americans are now busy with their empire-building, both in the territorial and power accumulating sense. But this empire too will fall
08 July, 2004
Privatizing War
By Greg Guma
The use of mercenaries was once a dirty, little secret most governments were loath to acknowledge. But today they're called private military contractors and perform almost every function essential to military operations
06 July, 2004
Nuke Nightmare: Bush's Drive To Armageddon
By Joel Wendland
A reelected Bush administration will try to push the NPT into extinction. The only feasible alternative scenario is replacing the Bush administration with an administration that is committed to NPT's original goals
29 June, 2004
US Supreme Court For Human Rights
By James Vicini
In one ruling the US Supreme Court court said the hundreds of foreign terror suspects at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba could turn to American courts to challenge their confinement. In another ruling it said an American held in his nation is entitled to procedural protections to contest his detention
28 June, 2004
'Fahrenheit 9/11' a No. 1 Hit Across America
By Dean Goodman
Bush-bashing became America's favorite spectator sport over the weekend as Michael Moore's red-hot documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" earned more in its first three days of release across North America than his previous record-breaking movie did in its entire run
24 June, 2004
Prisoner Abuse: US Backs Down
Over Immunity For Soldiers
By Rupert Cornwell
The US has bowed to international outrage over prisoner abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan by abandoning its bid to secure a United Nations exemption for its soldiers from prosecution by the new International Criminal Court
23 June, 2004
Flurry Of Suicide Attempts At Guantanamo
By Associated Press
There was a flurry of Suicide Attempts at Guantanamo after Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller took over as commander in November 2002. Miller is now in charge of all military-run U.S. prisons in Iraq
US Tortured Afghanistan Detainees
By Duncan Campbell and Suzanne Goldenberg
Detainees held in Afghanistan by US troops have been routinely tortured and humiliated and five detainees have died in custody, three of them in suspicious circumstances, and survivors have told stories of beatings, strippings, hoodings and sleep deprivation
22 June, 2004
A Crusade Of Torture
By Joel Wendland
The pattern of abuse at Abu Ghraib did not result from the acts of individual soldiers who broke the rules. It resulted from decisions made by the Bush administration to bend, ignore, or cast rules aside. Administration policies created the climate for Abu Ghraib
20 June, 2004
Passion Of The Christ In Abu Ghraib
By Walter A. Davis
The past year has witnessed two important Events. (1) a film, The Passion of the Christ by Mel Gibson; (2) a body of photographs from Abu Ghraib. The two events are united by the secret they share: that of their psychological identity and what that fact reveals about what has happened to the American Psyche since 9-11
18 June, 2004
Agent Blue And The Business Of Killing Rice
By Gerard Greenfield
Companies that were involved in the US military's rice-killing operations are now telling us that they hold in their hands the future of rice. 'Rice is Life' -- that is why the US government dedicated so much money and military power to killing it in Vietnam. And that is why US corporations are targeting rice today, because taking over rice means taking over life
17 June, 2004
9/11 Commission: No Link Between
Al-Qaida And Saddam
By Andrew Buncombe
The Bush administration's credibility was dealt a devastating blow when the commission investigating the attacks of 11 September said there was no credible evidence that Saddam Hussein's regime had assisted al-Qa'ida - something repeatedly suggested by the President and his senior officials and held up as a reason for the invasion of Iraq
13 June, 2004
The Fallacy of Righteous America
By Ghali Hassan
My advice to Americans is to take a hard look in the mirror, and ask yourselves why your country is committing horrendous terrorist acts on the soils of other countries
10 June, 2004
Bush Still Screwing Iraq And America
By Sam Hamod
Not only did Bush succeed in putting his puppets back into the governance of Iraq, he also stabbed Brahimi and the UN in the backall to the detriment of Iraq
09 June, 2004
America's Ignorance Is A Threat To Humanity
By Jeffrey D. Sachs
In the case of a superpower, ignorance is not bliss; it is a threat to Americans and to humanity
08 June, 2004
Who Is To Run The World, And How?
By Noam Chomsky
We have just passed the first anniversary of the President's declaration of victory in Iraq. I won't speak about what is happening on the ground. There is more than enough information about that, and we can draw our own conclusions. I will just mention one aspect of it: What has happened to Iraqis?
06 June, 2004
Scouting For Foot Soldiers In Dhaka
By Anu Muhammad
US Defense Secretary, Donald H Rumsfeld, arrived in Dhaka in search of foot soldiers for the US war machine in either Iraq or Afghanistan
05 June, 2004
Pope Lectures Bush On America's Duties
By Peter Popham
Pope John Paul II read President George Bush a stiff public lecture on America's duties in the world during an audience at the Vatican. Mr Bush listened to the Pope's words with eyebrows raised and an expression of frozen geniality on his face
The Price Of Failure In Iraq
By David Hirst
The US Iraqi enterprise was meant to transform the entire Middle East to the benefit of the Americans. Ironically, it is the US failure now that threatens to spread elsewhere
03 June, 2004
Neo-Con Collapse In Washington And Baghdad
By Jim Lobe
Fourteen months after reaching the zenith of their influence on U.S. foreign policy with the invasion of Iraq, neo-conservatives appear to have fallen entirely out of favor, both within the administration of President George W Bush and in Baghdad itself
01 June, 2004
USA: An Empire Of Denial
By George Monbiot
"Many parts of the world," he claims, "would benefit from a period of American rule." The US should stop messing about with "informal empire", and assert "direct rule" over countries which "require the imposition of some kind of external authority". But it is held back by "the absence of a will to power".
Meet The New Zionist's
By Matthew Engel
The members of the Christian Coalition of America are some of the most passionate defenders of Israel in the United States. There's just one catch: they want to convert all Jews to Christianity
25 May, 2004
America's Brutal Culture Of Unseen Oppression
By Robert Chesshyre
The maltreatment of Iraqi detainees and Muslim "terrorists" dehumanises not just those who man the cages and take the callous photos, but also the society in whose name the cages were built and the guards recruited
15 May, 2004
The Crash Of Civilizations
By Satya Sagar
Between the torture, rape, murder of Iraqi prisoners by the US army and the gruesome beheading of an American hostage by Al Qaeda what we have is the very CRASH of Civilizations
13 May, 2004
Addicted To Oil And Violence
By Kurt Vonnegut
Heres what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what were hooked on
29 April, 2004
The Military-Academic Complex
By Nicholas Turse
In 2003 Pentagon's prime contract awards to just two schools, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Johns Hopkins University which, together, raked in a combined total of $842,437,294
28 April, 2004
US: Procuring The World's Oil
By Michael Klare
In its pursuit of petroleum, the US is intruding in the affairs of the oil-supplying nations.This reality has already influenced US relations with the major oil-producing nations and is sure to have an even greater impact in the future
21 April, 2004
Waiting For The Apocalypse
By George Monbiot
US policy towards the Middle East is driven by a rarefied form of madness. Its time we took it seriously
19 April, 2004
Dangerous Times
By Nick Pretzlik
The world is too terrible a place to live in, not because of the bad things that happen, but because of the good people who stand by and do nothing. -- Albert Einstein
02 April, 2004
Africa, Oil, & US Military
By Ritt Goldstein
Over the past several months, the US has been in the process of dispatching Special Forces troops to the countries of Africa's Sahel - Mauritania, Chad, Mali and Niger
30 March, 2004
'He Is Not Guilty And He Is Not Innocent'
By Oliver Burkeman
Captain James Yee, the only muslim chaplain at Guantánamo was arrested allegedly with secret documents about the prison, he was threatened with execution and branded a traitor. So why after 200 days in jail was he only charged with adultery and quietly released?
26 March, 2004
The Intelligence Business
By Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat
It is the politics of the decision to invade Iraq and execute a regime change, through use of military force that needs to be justified. The indiscriminate and disastrous use of 'Depleted Uranium munitions', the 'Silent WMDs' in Afghanistan and Iraq has not evoked the opposition that its use deserves, yet
19 March, 2004
Shifting American Strategy In The Gulf
By Yoginder Sikand
America is reconsidering its close alliance with the Saudi regime, and look for other partners in the region
18 March, 2004
The Burden of Empire
By Laurence M. Vance
According to the Department of Defense, the United States has troops in 135 countries. Here is the list
16 March, 2004
The American Elections,
And The Lessons Of Spain
By Gabriel Kolko
We are now experiencing fundamental changes in the international system whose implications and consequences may ultimately be as far-reaching as the dissolution of the Soviet bloc
15 March, 2004
'Public Diplomacy' In The Islamic World:
America's Propaganda Offensive
By Yoginder Sikand
In the absence of any meaningful and fundamental changes in American foreign policy, the much-touted American 'public diplomacy' exercise in the Muslim world will continue to resonate as hypocritical, insincere propaganda
13 March, 2004
My Hell In Camp X-Ray
By Rosa Prince and Gary Jones
A British captive freed from Guantanamo Bay today tells the world of its full horror - and reveals how prostitutes were taken into the camp to degrade Muslim inmates
03 March, 2004
The Accomplished Destruction Of Aristide,
The Planned Destruction Of Hugo Chavez
By Heinz Dieterich
The drama of Haiti and of the Aristide administration implies many dangers for Cuba and Venezuela. It is the final outcome of Washingtons Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) against popular governments in Latin America: namely, subversion-destruction