Category: International

How the media spins the Afghan war

U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan are committing atrocities, lying, and getting away with it By Jerome Starkey, Nieman Watchdog, March 22, 2010 “Tied up, gagged and killed” was how NATO described the “gruesome discovery” of three women’s bodies during a night…

UN rights body censures Israel

By Al Jazeera English, March 24, 2010 The United Nations Human Rights Council has passed three resolutions condemning Israel over its policies in occupied Palestinian and Syrian territories. However, the United States voted against them all. Another resolution, calling for…

Miss Landmine

By AlJazeeraEnglish, March 22, 2010 Miss Landmine is a challenge to normal concepts of beauty. It is a beauty pageant held in Angola, a country ravaged by war and its aftermath, for women who have lost limbs from landmines.

Fallujah’s birth defects

By AlJazeeraEnglish, March 11, 2010 On this episode of the Riz Khan show we ask if US weapons are behind the sharp rise in birth defects in Falluja. Residents of the Iraqi city blame the surge in chronic deformities on…

Free war resister Joe Glenton

On the same day that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown — whose war polices have killed thousands — insisted that the illegal Iraq war was the “right” thing to do, Lance Corporal Joe Glenton was sentenced to nine months imprisonment…

Setting the stage for World War

U.S. Tightens Missile Shield Encirclement Of China And Russia by Rick Rozoff, Global Research, March 4, 2010 So far this year the United States has succeeded in inflaming tensions with China and indefinitely holding up a new strategic arms reduction…