Jan 14 2012
For the families of Haditha, this is a matter of honour By Nick Broomfield, Friday 13 January 2012 16.30 EST … It was more than six years ago, but the massacre that took place at Haditha, western Iraq, in November 2005, still resonates in the Middle East. The now notorious war crime, which left 24 …
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Jan 14 2012
The ‘invented people’ stand little chance By Robert Fisk, Saturday 14 January 2012 … Thank goodness we don’t have to hear Newt Gingrich for a while. His statement that the Palestinians were an “invented people” marked about the lowest point in the Republican-Christian Right-Likudist/Israel relationship. So deep has this pact now become that you can …
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Jan 14 2012
This is not about ‘bad apples’. This is the horror of war By Robert Fisk, Friday 13 January 2012 … So now it’s snapshots of US Marines pissing on the Afghan dead. Better, I suppose, than the US soldiers pictured beside the innocent Afghan teenager they fragged back in March of last year. Or the …
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Jan 12 2012
What War With Iran Might Look Like By Philip Giraldi, Thursday, 12 January 2012 16:34 … Back in September 2007 I wrote an article for Antiwar.com called “What World War III May Look Like.” The article, which presumed that an incident involving U.S. troops on the border between Iraq and Iran could easily escalate into …
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Jan 06 2012
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EItk7TuuV0[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EItk7TuuV0 Newt Gingrich: Palestinians are an ‘invented’ people By Natasha Mozgovaya and Reuters, 01:41 10.12.11 … U.S. Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich thrust himself into controversy on Friday by declaring that the Palestinians are an “invented” people who want to destroy Israel. The former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives predictably sided with Israel …
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Jan 06 2012
The shocking truth that killing can be so casual By Robert Fisk, Saturday 07 January 2012 … More horror arrives in the mail. Clive Burrage wrote to me about his brother-in-law, Harry Leeks, pilot of an RAF Mitchell bomber in the last two years of the Second World War, based in Cologne in the first …
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Jan 06 2012
Rebel without a state By Evgeny Lebedev, Saturday 07 January 2012 … From Jerusalem, the drive to Gaza passes tidy fields and shops selling locally-produced honey. For the final stretch, conifers line one side of the road. When they part, you catch sight of the wall that marks Gaza’s northern perimeter, its concrete sides topped …
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