The threat from Iran is overhyped and there is no evidence to suggest the Islamic Republic is even interested in developing nuclear weapons, according to UN official Hans Blix. Blix was head of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission in...
"The Pentagon sent a US veteran of the 'dirty wars' in Central America to oversee sectarian police commando units in Iraq that set up secret detention and torture centres to get information from insurgents," The Guardian reports. "These units conducted some of the...
The Battle of Waterloo was a decisive defeat for the Emperor Napoleon: his losses forced his abdication, restored King Louis XVIII to France's throne, and sent the former emperor away for the rest of his days in exile on the isle of Saint Helena. In other words, it...
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The controversy, arising out of the drone war, that President Obama has the authority to assassinate US citizens abroad in non-war zones just got even more disgraceful. The Obama administration's Attorney General Eric Holder sent a letter in response to persistent...
US officials did something unprecedented last night, formally denying that they were behind a pair of drone strikes in Pakistan's tribal areas. Officials rarely claim credit in the first place, but to officially deny them is unheard of, especially with the...
News broke this week that Israeli bus company Afikim began running "Palestinian-only" buses to transport West Bank Palestinian workers into Israel, reportedly because Israeli settlers complained about having to ride the bus with Arabs. See Mondoweiss for details on...
US political leaders and media pundits trumpet North Korea's recent testing of missiles and nuclear weapons as a great threat. But the US mass media do not tell the whole story. Without the context of history and current events, the actions of North Korea look insane,...
See here for the background of the UK investigations of "terrifying acts of brutality" by British troops in Iraq. We all know the stories from Abu Ghraib. And see here and here for some of the details about US-sanctioned torture that the WikiLeaks cables revealed.
White House Denounces Dennis Rodman No, seriously, they did. The White House issued a whole statement condemning the Dennis Rodman visit to North Korea, and North Korea for allowing him to visit, insisting "celebrity sporting events" of this kind are unacceptable. The...
