Tariq Aziz: 'Britain and the US Killed Iraq.

I Wish I was Martyred'

By Martin Chulov in Baghdad

"Bush and Blair lied intentionally. They were both pro-Zionist. They wanted to destroy Iraq for the sake of Israel, not for the sake of the US and Britain." Continue

Arab Majority Backs Nuclear Iran

By Benjamin Birnbaum

The 2010 Arab Public Opinion Poll found that 57 percent of respondents not only believe that Iran's nuclear program aims to build a bomb but also view that goal positively -- nearly double the 29 percent who thought so in 2009. Continue

Nothing Short of Nukes Will Work

By Gwynne Dyer

The problem is that there's nothing the US can do to Iran, short of nuking the place, that would really force Tehran to kneel and beg for mercy. Continue

Report: Obama Launches New Program to Help Corporations
"Take Advantage of Low Labor Costs" Abroad

By David Sirota

Now look, I'm all for a robust foreign aid budget - we don't do nearly enough to help the developing world. However, using foreign aid money to specifically help private corporations "take advantage of low labor costs" in the developing world - that's not "aid," that's rank taxpayer subsidization of for-profit exploitation. Continue

And Now for Some Good News

By Johann Hari

We'll never know the names of all the people who paid with their limbs, their lungs, or their lives for the goodies in my home and yours. Continue

Faber: Dow May Plunge to 1,000

By Dan Weil

The implications of Dow 1,000 will be positive for one industry – printing, Faber says. “Does anyone really think that the money printing presses won't run 24 hours a day?” Continue

What Collapsing Empire Looks Like

By Glenn Greenwald

Does anyone doubt that once a society ceases to be able to afford schools, public transit, paved roads, libraries and street lights -- or once it chooses not to be able to afford those things in pursuit of imperial priorities and the maintenance of a vast Surveillance and National Security State -- that a very serious problem has arisen. Continue

In Case You Missed It
The Lies Of Hiroshima Are The Lies Of Today

By John Pilger

On the anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, John Pilger describes the 'progression of lies' from the dust of that detonated city, to the wars of today - and the threatened attack on Iran. Continue

Google-Verizon Deal:
The End of The Internet as We Know It

By Josh Silver

Since its beginnings, the Net was a level playing field that allowed all content to move at the same speed, whether it's ABC News or your uncle's video blog. That's all about to change, and the result couldn't be more bleak for the future of the Internet, for television, radio and independent voices. Continue

Afghans Say NATO Strikes Killed Civilians: NATO officials acknowledged preliminary reports that four to a dozen or more civilians were killed in a coalition airstrike Thursday in Nangarhar Province. Afghan accounts put the civilian deaths as high as 32.

U.S. troops kill Afghan civilians : As many as “a dozen or more” Afghan civilians died during a nighttime raid by U.S. troops hunting for Taliban commanders in eastern Afghanistan, military officials acknowledged Thursday.

NATO helicopter goes down in southern Afghanistan: Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi claimed the insurgent group shot the craft down with a rocket. Johnson said the cause of the incident is being investigated and hostile fire has not been ruled out.

Iraq: 3 policemen killed in drive-by shooting: A drive-by shooting and a bomb hidden in a motorcycle killed three traffic policemen in Baghdad on Friday, taking to eight the number from the city's force killed this week, police and hospital officials said.

Obama's desperate letter to the Iraqi ayatollah: Although the full contents of the letter is not known, what is certain is that it does not contain any specific reference or guidance as to how or in what manner Sistani should intervene

China is a barometer on whether Israel will attack nuclear plants in Iran: China’s defiance irks the US to the point that Americans officials are now openly critical of Beijing. Perhaps the US knows something about Israel’s intentions toward striking Iran that China doesn’t

U.S. Funding for Israeli Missile Defense Programs Reaches New High: The Jerusalem Post reported that under President Barack Obama’s leadership, and with the help of Congressional Democrats and other members of Congress, funding for Israeli missile defense programs is set to reach its highest level ever.

American VIP humiliated at airport: Prof. Donna Shalala, who served as the US Secretary of Health and Human Services, was held for two-and-a-half hours at Ben Gurion Airport during which she underwent a humiliating security debriefing because of her Arab last name – all this despite the fact that her hosts notified the airport ahead of time that she is a VIP.

AP Exclusive: CIA whisked detainees from Gitmo: Four of the nation's most highly valued terrorist prisoners were secretly moved to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2003, years earlier than has been disclosed, then were whisked back into overseas prisons before the Supreme Court could give them access to lawyers,

Study: CIA doctors ‘gave green light to torture’: A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association reveals that physicians with the CIA's Office of Medical Services (OMS) played an even greater role in facilitating the torture of detainees than was previously recognized.

Fact or fiction? : New al-Qaeda leader lived in U.S. for years: A suspected al-Qaeda operative who lived for more than 15 years in the U.S. has become chief of the terror network's global operations, the FBI says, marking the first time a leader so intimately familiar with American society has been placed in charge of planning attack

Hiroshima And Nagasaki (PHOTOS): Never Before Seen Images From LIFE.com

Chinese missile could shift Pacific power balance: U.S. naval planners are scrambling to deal with what analysts say is a game-changing weapon being developed by China — an unprecedented carrier-killing missile called the Dong Feng 21D

Russia's defense spending to rise by 60% by 2013 - paper: The construction of advanced submarines, including Yasen and Borei class subs, and Bulava ballistic missiles, as well as the construction of three new Talwar class frigates, three Improved Kilo class subs and other vessels for the Russian Black Sea Fleet are likely to require the largest part of the planned spending, Makiyenko said.

Morales: Drug Cartels Better Equipped Than Bolivian Army: President Evo Morales confirmed Tuesday that drug traffickers have more technology and modern equipment than Bolivia's police and armed forces, and he asked for help from the international community to address that deficiency.

Bolivia begins military training for civilians: The program is reminiscent of one that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez launched in his country after a failed 2002 coup attempt that he blamed on the United States. Venezuela claims it has 120,000 participants.

UN declares water and sanitation as human right: The resolution on the right to water and sanitation has been accepted at the UN General Assembly recently. This resolution was presented by the Bolivian Prime Minister and 122 countries voted yes and 41 abstained with no countries voting against it.

Canada Backs Colombia's Growing Embrace of US Military: Peasants sent packing to pave way for oil, gas and mining investments.

Gulf oil spill: White House accused of spinning report: Scientists say it is 'just not true' that the vast majority of oil from the BP spill has gone

BP Fires 10,000 Cleanup Workers: New BP CEO Bob Dudley wasn't kidding when he announced last week that it was time for the company to scale back oil-spill cleanup operations. In fact, by the time he'd said that, the responder force had been drawn down by about 25 percent.

BP Scores Stimulus Cash: How the oil spill bad guys are collecting millions in taxpayer bucks to build a new power plant in California.

Fannie Mae Seeks $1.5 Billion From U.S. Treasury After 12th Straight Loss: Including today’s request, Fannie Mae has drawn $86.1 billion in aid. The growing tally has helped spur the Obama administration to solicit proposals to fix the companies, and prompted some lawmakers to demand their closure.

Social Security in the red this year: Social Security will pay out more this year than it gets in payroll taxes, marking the first time since the program will be in the red since it was overhauled in 1983, according to the annual authoritative report released Thursday by the program's actuary.

No money for schools? Governments Go to Extremes as the Downturn Wears On: Plenty of businesses and governments furloughed workers this year, but Hawaii went further — it furloughed its schoolchildren. Public schools across the state closed on 17 Fridays during the past school year to save money, giving students the shortest academic year in the nation

Exotic Deals Put Denver Schools Deeper in Debt: In the spring of 2008, the Denver public school system needed to plug a $400 million hole in its pension fund. Bankers at JPMorgan Chase offered what seemed to be a perfect solution.

Camden Closing Library System: - New Jersey's most impoverished city will close all three branches of its public library at year's end unless a rescue can be pulled off.

Senate leaves without funding black farmers suit: A Republican senator blocked a measure on Thursday that would have compensated black farmers in one of the largest civil rights settlements in U.S. history, again delaying action on a decades-old bias lawsuit.

August 05, 2010

The US Isn't Leaving Iraq, It's Rebranding the Occupation

By Seumas Milne

Obama says withdrawal is on schedule, but renaming or outsourcing combat troops won't give Iraqis back their country. Continue

Tony Blair Must Be Prosecuted

By John Pilger

Blair conspired in and executed an unprovoked war of aggression against a defenseless country, which the Nuremberg judges in 1946 described as the "paramount war crime." This has caused, according to scholarly studies, the deaths of more than a million people, a figure that exceeds the Fordham University estimate of deaths in the Rwandan genocide. Continue

US-led Raid Killed 39 Civilians

By Press TV

President Hamid Karzai's office said late on Wednesday the inquiry shows 39 civilians -- all women and children -- were killed in the attack. Continue

Whose Hands? Whose Blood?
Killing Civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq

By Tom Engelhardt

The men who led us down this path, the presidents who presided over our wars, the military figures and secretaries of defense, the intelligence chiefs and ambassadors who helped make them happen, will have libraries to inaugurate, books to write, awards to accept, speeches to give, honors to receive. Continue

The Lunatic’s Manual

By Bob Herbert

The way to fight a war is to mobilize the country — not just the combat troops — behind an integrated wartime effort. To do that, leaders have to persuade the public that the war is worth fighting, and worth paying for. Continue

The Next War

By Robert Koehler

"I'm going to be killing people. I'm actually joining the Marines and will be doing this in real life." Continue

So Please Tell Me Again: What's The War About?

By William Blum

When facts are inconvenient, when international law, human rights and history get in the way, when war crimes can't easily be justified or explained away, when logic doesn't help much, the current crop of American political leaders turns to what is now the old reliable: 9/11. Continue

NATO And The US: Protectors of Global Corporate Capitalism
"The American Media Empire of Managed News"

By Guns and Butter - with Dr. Peter Phillips.

NATO and the US with all these bases are the protectors of global corporate capitalism, they are the protectors of the world bank, that's the agenda. Those are the oppressors. Continue

The Century of the Self

Must Watch Documentary By Adam Curtis

How politicians and business learned to create and manipulate mass-consumer society. Continue

In Case Missed It
Torture Inc. Americas Brutal Prisons

Must Watch Video Documentary

Savaged by dogs, Electrocuted With Cattle Prods, Burned By Toxic Chemicals, Does such barbaric abuse inside U.S. jails explain the horrors that were committed in Iraq? Continue

Fannie and Freddie's Foreclosure Barons

By Andy Kroll

How the federal housing agencies and bailed-out banks are helping shady lawyers make millions by pushing families out of their homes. Continue

Food Stamp Use Hit Record 40.8m in May

By Bloomberg News

The number of Americans who are receiving food stamps rose to a record 40.8 million in May as the jobless rate hovered near a 27-year high, the government reported yesterday. Continue

Do the Rich Need the Rest of America?

By Robert Frank

Do you think the rest of America matters anymore to the rich? Continue

Joe Bageant,: "I Don't Like Liberals...

Video

An interview with Joe Bageant, author of "Deer Hunting with Jesus" Continue

Hanging A Hammock Between Death And The Abyss
A Götterdämmerung Of Kitsch

By Phil Rockstroh

Does one get the feeling that the more powerless we feel, collectively, about the rising levels of economic exploitation exacted upon us and the accelerating rate of ecocide committed on the planet by corporate oligarchs, the more celebrity "news" and other tropes of empty distraction and denial will froth forth from the idiot imaginings of the pop culture douche-scape? Continue

Child Confronts Israeli Forces Over Father's Detention

Video

Four-year-old child begging Israeli forces to release his father from detention. "I want daddy. Give me my dad," cried Khalid Fadel Al-Ja’bari. Continue

Nine civilians killed in roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan: The civilians were on their way from Khan Nishin district to the provincial capital when their vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb, Daoud Ahmadi said.

Afghanistan: 'At least 6' police killed by suicide bomber: At least six Afghan policemen were killed and 13 people injured Thursday when a suicide bomber attacked a joint convoy of Afghan and Nato forces in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz.

Nato admits killing Afghan civilian: The undetermined number of deaths occurred on Thursday in the Shirzad district of Nangarhar province. Nato's International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) promised in a statement that the families of the victims would be compensated.

Pakistan: 12 more killed, dozens shops torched in Karachi: At least twelve more persons were killed during incidents of violence and firing while four markets were set on fire in Karachi, said police.

Four killed in Iraq violence: Violent incidents in northern Iraq have reportedly taken the lives of four people, including one militant and three government-allied militiamen.

“Belarus has not sold S-300 air defense systems to Iran”: The Belarusian State Military-Industrial Committee denied the information on the delivery of S-300s to Tehran. “Belarus has held no negotiations with Iran, nor has it supplied any S-300s or components for them to that country,” the committee’s spokesman Vladimir Lavrenyuk told Interfax.

Iran pays 25 pct more for gasoline: Sanctions on Iran's fuel imports are forcing the Islamic Republic to pay well above the market rate for its gasoline, figures from the Turkish government seen by Reuters showed on Thursday.

Congress may pull Lebanon military aid: Some members of Congress are threatening to reassess US aid to the Lebanese military following its border clash with Israel on Tuesday. Klein was speaking by phone from Israel, where he happened to be visiting when the incident, which also left two Lebanese soldiers and a journalist dead, took place.

Only we're allowed: After Tuesday's border clash, Israel will continue to ignore UNIFIL and the Lebanese army. Those bastards, the Lebanese, changed the rules. Scandalous. Word is, they have a brigade commander who's determined to protect his country's sovereignty. Scandalous.

Sending a Canadian boat to Gaza is moral thing to do: Does Israel occupy Gaza or doesn't it? The answer cannot be sometimes one and sometimes the other. If Israel occupies Gaza, then it is responsible for the needs of the 1.5 million Palestinians who live there. If it no longer occupies it, then it has no right to block access to it by sea or air, or to restrict the movement of people in and out.

Swedish activists get ready to set sail for Gaza: Solidarity activists at a meeting in Stockholm announced on Wednesday that a major flotilla will attempt to break Israel's illegal blockade of Gaza before the end of the year.

Alleged Israeli Spy, Extradited: An alleged Israeli spy will be extradited from Poland to Germany within 10 days to face charges linked to his suspected involvement in the slaying of a senior Hamas operative in Dubai earlier this year, a Polish appeals court ordered Thursday.

US charges 14 over links to Somalia's al-Shabab: US officials have charged 14 people with providing money, personnel and services to the Somali militant group al-Shabab. The charges stem from four separate indictments in the US states of Minnesota, Alabama and California.

Lawsuit over Awlaki can proceed: The US government has granted two civil rights groups the right to represent the father of a US-born religious scholar who has reportedly been targeted as a result of his alleged al-Qaeda ties.

Pentagon bars staff from visiting WikiLeaks site: Asked if the Pentagon is making the site off-limits, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman told The Times that all four services "have put out such messages."

Pentagon demands WikiLeaks hand over documents ": The Pentagon demanded on Thursday that whistle-blower web site WikiLeaks immediately hand over about 15,000 secret documents it had not yet released over the war in Afghanistan and erase material it had already put online.

Mexican president Felipe Calderon calls for debate on legalisation of drugs: Mexican president, Felipe Calderón has said that he supports a debate on the legalisation of drugs after new figures showed that 28,000 people had been killed in cartel wars.

A flawed system? U.S. boasts highest prison incarceration numbers in world. : With it's harsh drug laws, minimum sentencing guidelines and repeated imprisonment of non-violent offenders, the country has literally thrown the shackles on millions of individuals. In fact, the great superpower has more than 2 million of it's citizens imprisoned at this very moment.

America’s Solitary Confinement Nightmare: Of course we torture, Ridgeway says. Right here in America. In our own prisons. An estimated 80,000 Americans are in solitary confinement.

In Case Missed It: Torture Inc. Americas Brutal Prisons: Video Documentary: Savaged by dogs, Electrocuted With Cattle Prods, Burned By Toxic Chemicals, Does such barbaric abuse inside U.S. jails explain the horrors that were committed in Iraq?

Feds admit storing checkpoint body scan images: The Transportation Security Administration claimed last summer, for instance, that "scanned images cannot be stored or recorded." Now it turns out that some police agencies are storing the controversial images after all.

Lawsuit challenges airport full-body scanners: A privacy advocacy group is suing the Department of Homeland Security to suspend the use of the controversial full-body scanners employed at airports across the country, including at every major checkpoint at Logan International Airport.

Russia bans exports of grain: Russia has banned grain exports for the rest of the year after a severe drought engulfing the country destroyed 20 per cent of its wheat crop.

Argentina Has Colder Winter Than Antartica, Spurring Record Power Imports: Argentina is importing record amounts of energy as the coldest winter in 40 years drives up demand and causes natural-gas shortages, prompting Dow Chemical Co. and steelmaker Siderar SAIC to scale back production.

Scientists Cast Doubt on Claims BP Spill's No Threat to Gulf: Many scientists say they're skeptical of a widely publicized government report Wednesday that concludes much of the oil that gushed from BP's leaking well is gone and poses little threat to the Gulf of Mexico.

"The Crime of the Century: What BP and US Government Don’t Want You to Know"

Bernanke eating crow amid gloomy reports: A day after Ben Bernanke said rising wages would likely spur household spending, a spate of weak economic reports is painting an entirely different picture.

Senate Cuts Food Stamp Funds; Leaves Oil and Gas Subsidies Intact: About half of food stamp users are children and the elderly; about one-quarter are working-age women and 14 percent are working-age men. Most have jobs, but about 90 percent fall below the poverty line.

Iowa Couple Sentenced to Prison for Burning Foreclosed Home: The Associated Press recently reported that a LeClaire couple will spend up to 10 years in prison for burning down the house they lost in foreclosure.

August 04, 2010

Obama Warned Israel May Bomb Iran

By Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity

We write to alert you to the likelihood that Israel will attack Iran as early as this month. This would likely lead to a wider war. Continue

Israel-Lebanon Tensions Flare After Skirmish Leaves Four Dead

By Robert Fisk:

For the Lebanese army to take on the Israelis, with their 264 nuclear missiles, was a tall order. But for the Israeli army to take on the army of one of the smallest countries in the world was surely preposterous. Continue

Obama Drops 2009 Pledge to Withdraw Combat Troops from Iraq

By Gareth Porter

Seventeen months after President Barack Obama pledged to withdraw all combat brigades from Iraq by Sep. 1, 2010, he quietly abandoned that pledge Monday, admitting implicitly that such combat brigades would remain until the end of 2011. Continue

Queen Nancy of the Robber Class
“Metrics”?

By Cindy Sheehan

You, Nancy—you don’t even know the kind of pain you are causing all of the “Metrics” in the world, do you? The mothers in all the parts of the world that we are bombing, or helping other people to bomb don’t even enter into your rarefied society. We wouldn’t want to spoil your dinner parties/DNC fundraisers at your estate in Sonoma County, now, would we? Continue

US Corporate Media Downplays Pentagon’s Special Commando Assassination Unit

By Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff

The New York Times, Washington Post, and most other newspapers in the US are censoring or under-reporting the WikiLeaks documents that show US Task Force 373 (TF 373) is an out-of-control assassination unit responsible for the deaths of many hundreds of civilians in Afghanistan. Continue

Why We Sued to Represent Muslim Cleric Awlaki

By Bill Quigley

Anwar al-Awlaki is a US citizen and Muslim cleric living somewhere in Yemen. The US has put him on our terrorist list and is trying to assassinate him. The Center for Constitutional Rights and the ACLU filed suit so we can be pro bono lawyers for his father, Nasser Awlaki, to stop the government from killing him. Continue

Church to Burn Copies of Koran to Mark 9/11

By staff writers

"We will burn Korans because we think it's time for Christians, for churches, for politicians to stand up and say no; Islam and Sharia law is not welcome in the U.S. Continue

The Avoidable Depression;
"No one believes the U.S. is the land of opportunity anymore"

By Mike Whitney

8 million jobs have been lost since the beginning of the recession, but policymakers on Capital Hill and at the Fed refuse to initiate government programs or provide funding that will put the country back to work. Long-term "structural" unemployment is here to stay. Continue

We’re Hot as Hell and We’re Not Going to Take It Any More
Three Steps to Establish a Politics of Global Warming

By Bill McKibben

Fossil fuel is wrecking the one earth we’ve got. It’s not going to go away because we ask politely. If we want a world that works, we’re going to have to raise our voices. Continue

Tuesday: 42 killed in Iraq, Qaeda plants flag: Twin car bombs in south Iraq killed 33 people on Tuesday while al-Qaeda fighters hoisted their flag having shot dead five police in Baghdad, a day after the US vowed no delays to a major troop pullout.

Rebranded Occupation Relying Heavily on Private Military Contractors?: President Obama said Monday in a speech before the Disabled American Veterans national convention in Atlanta that the US military is on target to withdraw all its combat troops from Iraq by the end of August. We speak with independent journalist Jeremy Scahill, who says this instead marks the beginning of a downsized and rebranded occupation that will rely heavily on private military forces.

Afghan official survives attack, five guards killed in blast: A senior Afghan official Wednesday survived an attack in southern Afghanistan, but another explosion in the region killed five private security guards, officials said.

Tuesday: 20 Taliban Killed in Eastern Afghanistan: Twenty Taliban militants were killed and dozens were wounded in operations conducted by Afghan forces in the eastern Laghman province on Tuesday

First NZ soldier killed in Afghanistan: New Zealand has suffered its first combat fatality in Afghanistan, with a soldier killed in an ambush in the Bamiyan province that left another two NZ troops and an Afghan interpreter wounded

Pakistan police chief among 4 killed in bomb attack: : The bomber detonated explosives on Wednesday at a busy market in the city of Peshawar.

Iran questions Obama's 'change': "The Americans want to relocate their soldiers to Afghanistan. What kind of a change in their military policy is this?" the president asked during a speech in the western Hamadan Province

Iran official: We have obtained the S-300 missile system: Fars news agency says Tehran signs deal with Belarus after Russia reportedly refused to provide Iran with the surface-to-air system over recent UN sanctions.

Russian company: US sanctions bar Iran plane deal: U.S. sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme are preventing a state-connected Russian company from delivering five passenger jets to Iran under a 2007 contract, the head of the company said on Tuesday.

Iran rejects Ahmadinejad attack reports: Iran's presidential office has rejected as false reports of a grenade attack on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the western city of Hamedan.

Ahmadinejad attack 'was firework': A reported attack on the convoy of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's president, was actually a teenager throwing a firework, officials and a witness say.

Turkey summons US diplomat: Turkey has summoned a top US diplomat to protest against Washington's interference in a UN mandate probing Israel's deadly attack on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.

US challenged over Awlaki hit order: Two civil rights groups have accused the US government of blocking their efforts to serve as lawyers for the father of a US-born religious scholar accused of links to al-Qaeda.

Army probing McChrystal staff over Rolling Stone interview: The investigation comes as the Pentagon grapples with how much access the reporter who wrote the piece, Michael Hastings, should have to troops. Hastings was banned from a scheduled embed this September in Afghanistan for being untrustworthy

Congressman says PFC Bradley Manning Should Face Death Penalty for Wikileaks Case: "If they don't charge him with treason, they ought to charge him with murder."

Climate Change, Water, and Risk: Current Water Demands Are Not Sustainable: The study found that more than 1,100 counties -- one-third of all counties in the lower 48 -- will face higher risks of water shortages by mid-century as the result of global warming. More than 400 of these counties will face extremely high risks of water shortages

BP claims success in 'static kill': The eight-hour "static kill" procedure, which involved pumping mud and cement into the blown-out well, had gone as planned although the situation would continue to be monitored, the energy giant said.

Gulf oil flow was 12 times more than feds' original estimate: New estimates released Monday by a government-led team of scientists found that as much as 62,000 barrels of oil were leaking from the well each day at its peak — far beyond the initial estimate of 5,000 barrels a day and more in line with what scientists told McClatchy it was.

BP’s expected oil disaster fine: $17.6 billion. : According to this new estimate, the oil giant liable for the Gulf of Mexico disaster will be responsible for a $17.6 billion fine — $4,300 for each barrel of oil, less the 800,000 barrels directly siphoned from the wellhead.

August 04, 2010

Pakistan No Obedient Ally

By Eric Margolis

WikiLeaks data shows how volatile nation is forced to act against own self interests. Continue

The CIA & The ISI:
More In Common Than We Think?

By Nida Khan

Drones Kill 12 Children Playing Outside' - 'A Family Buries 15' - 'Americans Target the Wrong House Again'. Virtually every morning on the streets of Karachi, Pakistan, these sorts of headlines gleamed across the front pages of major papers, led the evening news broadcasts and drove conversations around dinner tables in both elite and impoverished households alike. Continue

Coming Home

By Camillo “Mac” Bica

As a Marine Corps Officer in Vietnam, - I have accepted, albeit hesitantly and uneasily, responsibility and culpability for my actions and at long last have eventually managed, somewhat, to forgive myself. Or at least to live with what I had done and what I became. Continue

Betrayal
The Lies and Losses of War

By Chris Hedges

Americans “are as capable of perpetuating evil as those who oppose us, and this existential crisis is one that turns those who have the courage to stand up and speak ... into outcasts, pariahs, prophets.” Continue