Welcome to Boston, Mr. Rumsfeld. You Are Under Arrest

by Ralph Lopez Global Research, September 20, 2011 Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has been stripped of legal immunity for acts of torture against US citizens authorized while he was in office. The 7th Circuit made the ruling in the case of two American contractors who were tortured by the US military in Iraq [...]

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April Fools

A World View Interview with Benjamin Netanyahu Uploaded by israelnews on Mar 31, 2011 Channel 2 and YouTube bring you a special interview with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, in which citizens ask questions about the peace process, unrest in the Middle East, and more. Hogwash, how about the question about Israel funding of mercenaries? This [...]

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American hero Bradley Manning

By Marjorie Cohn , ZNet,  September 29, 2010 Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is accused of leaking military secrets to the public.  [His] supporters are holding rallies in 21 cities, seeking Manning’s release from military custody. Manning is in the brig for allegedly disclosing a classified video depicting U.S. troops shooting civilians from an Apache helicopter in [...]

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US soldier admits gruesome killing of Afghan civilians

M&G News, Sep 27, 2010 Washington – One of five US soldiers charged with premeditated murder described his unit leader as ordering the gruesome death of unarmed Afghan civilians in a military interrogation video obtained by US media on Monday. Corporal Jeremy Morlock, who faced a pretrial military hearing Monday in Washington state, admitted in [...]

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America: Celebrating The War Criminal Henry Kissinger

Future historians will marvel at how U.S. leaders failed to learn from their horrific crimes in Indochina, and are instead repeating many of them today. By Fred Branfman, AlterNet, September 28, 2010   Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger addresses a keynote on the theme of power shifts and security at the opening day [...]

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US soldiers ‘killed Afghan civilians for sport and collected fingers as trophies’

Soldiers face charges over secret ‘kill team’ which allegedly murdered at random and collected fingers as trophies of war Chris McGreal in Washington, The Guardian/UK,  Sep 9, 2010 Andrew Holmes, Michael Wagnon, Jeremy Morlock and Adam Winfield are four of the five Stryker soldiers who face murder charges. Photograph: Public Domain Twelve American soldiers face [...]

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Blair’s “Journey” — Where it Ought to End, but Won’t!

Tony Blair will be signing copies of his forthcoming book, “My Journey”, in Waterstones (big British bookshop chain like Barnes and Noble), Piccadilly, on 8th September. Might even show up myself to kick up a stink! Blair has vowed to give the advance of £4.6 million to the Royal British Legion, an act which will result [...]

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British soldiers viewed all Iraqis as ‘scum’, Baha Mousa inquiry hears

Intelligence officer says officers did not know rules on treatment of prisoners and one tried to mount ‘arse-covering exercise’ after Baha Mousa’s death Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian/UK, April 27, 2010 Baha Mousa, a Basra hotel worker, was beaten to death in 2003 while in the custody of 1 Battalion Queen’s Lancashire Regiment. Photograph: Liberty/PA An [...]

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Prosecuting Bush for War Crimes

Charlotte Dennett and Vincent Bugliosi Want Bush in the Dock By Russell Mokhiber, Counterpunch.org,  Feb 25, 2010 In 2008, Charlotte Dennett ran for Attorney General in Vermont. Dennett’s key campaign pledge – if elected, she would appoint Vincent Bugliosi as a special prosecutor to seek a murder indictment against George W. Bush for the deaths [...]

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Tony Blair: Gaza’s Great Betrayer

It’s more than a year since Israel launched its immoral attack on Gaza and Palestinians are still living on the verge of a humanitarian disaster. So what has Tony Blair done to further peace in the region? Virtually nothing, argues the historian Avi Shlaim Avi Shlaim The Guardian/UK, February 3, 2010 Tony Blair in June [...]

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