The Anti-Empire Report "Most people don't understand what they have been part of here," said Command Sgt. Major Ron Kelley as he and other American troops prepared to leave Iraq in mid-December. "We have done a great thing as a nation. We freed a people and gave their country back... » read this article

November 6, 2011 By Al-Rai satellite television hosted Dr. Khodeir al-Murshidi,  official spokesperson of the Arab Ba'ath Socialist Party of Iraq, asking for him to comment on a variety of news items concerning the latest developments in Iraq. Foremost among the news items is announcement of the imminent withdrawal of... » read this article

24 October 2011 US President Barack Obama announced Friday that the remaining US troops in Iraq would be withdrawn from the country before the end of December, following the collapse of talks with the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on extending the US presence into 2012. Obama, in a... » read this article

Editor's update: Axis of Logic reader and friend, "The Dream," found the first copy of this powerful John Pilger film documentary for publication on Axis of Logic. After only one month, the film was removed by our source, Vimeo in an act of brazen censorship (see copy of the removed... » read this article

Editor's Comment: Yeah, I know (sigh), it's just that old, has-been hippie music again, Woodstock and times past. But when many hear it today they hear Vietnam all over again in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Palestine and whoever is next in Washington's crosshairs. The question is whether or not new... » read this article

Editor's Note: John Pilger's full length movie, "The War You Don't See" is played periodically on Venezuela's VTV (click on Señal en vivo) on right side of screen). The film exposes how the alliance between the governments in the U.S. and Europe lie and hide the truth about their wars in Afghanistan,... » read this article

War Is A Crime, February 17, 2011 As we approach the 8th anniversary of a U.S. invasion of Iraq, and having just passed the 20th anniversary of another, it's worth reflecting on what's been accomplished through two wars and the intervening sanctions that former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright so... » read this article

When the Iraqi army fell before invading US and British troops in 2003, the mission of the invaders seemed to have been accomplished. But nearly eight years after the start of a war intended to shock and awe a whole population into submission, the Iraqi people continue to stand tall.... » read this article

Tom Hayden: People need to know that a complete pull out of Iraq is not planned (2 of 3) The Real News... » read this article

The public needs to know the truth about wars. So why have journalists colluded with governments to hoodwink us?   In the US Army manual on counterinsurgency, the American commander General David Petraeus describes Afghanistan as a "war of perception . . . conducted continuously using the news media". What... » read this article

WASHINGTON — In a setback for President Barack Obama, Democrats still controlling the House have approved legislation to prevent Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other detainees at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay from being transferred to the U.S. for trials in criminal courts. The Guantanamo ban was included in a... » read this article

There is a war underway. I'm not talking about Washington’s bloody misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq, but a war within our own borders. It’s a war fought on the airwaves, on television and radio and over the Internet, a war of words and images, of half-truth, innuendo, and raging lies.... » read this article

The title from this issue of Foreign Affairs (Remaking the Middle East) struck me as rather odd, in particular the subtitle “New Challenges Call for New Policies. Are the U.S. and Israel Ready to Change Course?” (September/October 2010) The U.S. has been trying to remake the Middle East for quite some... » read this article

 ‘We are all victims of America and Britain. They Killed Our Country’. - Tariq Aziz, former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister These are the words of Mr Tariq Aziz, Iraq’s former foreign minister and a deputy prime minister, who has been sentenced to death by a kangaroo court in the U.S.... » read this article

2 November 2010 On October 22, the web-based whistle-blower organization WikiLeaks released nearly 400,000 internal US military reports that provide damning evidence of war crimes committed by the US government against the people of Iraq. The “Iraq War Logs”—the largest leak of classified military material in history—consist of Significant Action... » read this article

Statement from IPC: October 30, 2010 Comrade Tariq Aziz We all are stunned and saddened by the abrupt announcement that Tariq Aziz has been condemned to hang. He was found guilty on bogus charges by the illegitimate court in Baghdad that tried various Ba’ath Party officials, including President Saddam Hussein.... » read this article

Source: United National Peace Conference (Media Sanctuary)... » read this article

Editor's Note: We first published the following article on May 9, 2008, at the time when Washington's puppet regime in Iraq was about to put Tariq Aziz on trial. Mr. Aziz was Foreign Minister from 1983 until the U.S. bombed Iraq in 1991, under the George Bush Sr. After the... » read this article

26 October 2010 The nearly 400,000 documents released by WikiLeaks give some indication of the barbaric reality of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq. The military reports contain ample evidence of war crimes, for which the highest levels of the US military and political establishment are responsible. The major... » read this article

Insurgent suspects are led away by US forces. Some of those held in Iraqi custody suffered appalling abuse, the war logs reveal. Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian A grim picture of the US and Britain's legacy in Iraq has been revealed in a massive leak of American military documents that... » read this article