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 11 2012
Guantánamo at 10: the defeat of liberty by fear By Michael Ratner, Wednesday 11 January 2012 09.00 ES … On 11 January 2002, the United States began showing major signs of what I call “Guantánamo syndrome”, after one of the ailment’s first and most enduring symptoms. That was the day when the Bush administration transferred …
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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 02 2012
On third anniversary of Gaza war, we will remember By Amira Hass, 03:53 02.01.12 … On the third anniversary of the Cast Lead onslaught, we remember the anonymous soldiers who fired on a red car, in which a father, Mohammed Shurrab, and his two sons were returning home from their farm lands. It is not …
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