Year: 2023
Six years after the intense fighting began in the Iraqi town of Fallujah between US forces and Sunni insurgents, there is a disturbingly large number of cases of birth defects in the town. Fallujah is less than 40 miles (65km) from Baghdad, but it can still be dangerous to get […]
The report, by the Washington-based New America Foundation, will fuel growing criticism of the use of unmanned drones in the fight against al-Qaeda and Taliban militants, who use Pakistan as a base for attacks on Nato forces in Afghanistan. Critics say their use not only takes innocent lives, but amounts […]
We owe Ralph Nader and Cynthia McKinney an apology. They were right about Barack Obama. They were right about the corporate state. They had the courage of their convictions and they stood fast despite wholesale defections and ridicule by liberals and progressives. Obama lies as cravenly, if not as crudely, […]
Pentagon shooting suspect in custody, second person suspected In the United States, the suspect in the Pentagon shooting has died from his wounds. The suspect, an American, opened fire on two police officers at the subway entrance to the Defense Department. He was critically wounded by the officers. Law enforcement […]
Alan Hart warns that unless President Barack Obama finds the courage “to require Israel to be serious about peace” with the Palestinians and its Arab neighbours, then we could face the real prospect of the Zionist state ethnically cleansing its Arab citizens, expelling the Palestinians from the occupied West Bank […]
Universities in over 40 cities across the world have begun to observe Israeli Apartheid Week in condemnation of the Zionist regime’s suppression of the Palestinians. During Israeli Apartheid Week, which kicked off on Monday, the universities will hold protests and host related speeches, cultural performances, and movie screenings. The people […]
Russia Today (rt.com), Untimely thoughts (blog), By Peter Lavelle In my work presenting RT’s CrossTalk discussion program, I am often dismissed as part of a Kremlin propaganda project – sometimes by people who have never even watched the channel. My employer and my work are evidently an affront to the […]
George Monbiot guardian.co.uk, Monday 1 March 2010 20.00 GMT https://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/mar/01/solar-panel-feed-in-tariff Plans for the grid feed-in tariff suggest we live in southern California. And at £8.6bn, this is a pricey conceit with little benefit Those who hate environmentalism have spent years looking for the definitive example of a great green rip-off. […]