Plan to oust Saddam drawn up two years before the invasion Secret document signalled support for Iraqi dissidents and promised aid, oil and trade deals in return for regime change By Michael Savage, Political Correspondent, The Independent, Feb. 1, 2010…
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Shocking stories of US torture in Afghanistan
Russia Today, Feb. 2, 2010 An ever increasing number of U.S. troops are fighting for peace in Afghanistan. But an investigative journalist claims to have revealed the shocking truth about surprise night raids by American forces and secret prisons where…
Prosecuting Bush for crimes against humanity
Help put Bush on trial for crimes against humanity by Paul S. Graham, Jan. 31, 2010 Professor Francis A. Boyle of the University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign, U.S.A. has filed a complaint with the Prosecutor for the…
The kidnapping of Haiti
Jan. 20, 2010: A young boy keeps his eyes on soldiers of the U.S. 82 Airborne Division outside the general hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Photo: Nikki Kahn-The Washington Post By John Pilger, Jan. 28, 2010 The theft of Haiti has…
War poisoned Iraq
Iraq littered with high levels of nuclear and dioxin contamination, study finds • Greater rates of cancer and birth defects near sites • Depleted uranium among poisons revealed in report By Martin Chulov, The Guardian, Jan. 22, 2010 Map: Toxic…
U.S.-China Military Tensions Grow
by Rick Rozoff, Global Research, Jan. 20, 2010 Even though the U.S. military budget is almost ten times that of China’s (with a population more than four times as large) and Washington plans a record $708 billion defense budget for…
Gaza – The Cost of War
By Al Jazeera English, Jan. 20, 2010 The Cost of War examines the longer term legacy of Israel’s war on Gaza. By following characters associated with buildings that were targeted in the war, the film explores the humanitarian and economic…
Haiti, hell and hypocrisy
by Paul S. Graham I cringe when I hear folks like Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon use the word “solidarity” in the same breath as “Haiti.” I’m all for solidarity with the Haitian people, but when it is expressed by…
Haiti: An Unwelcome Katrina Redux
by Cynthia McKinney, Global Research, Jan. 19, 2010 President Obama’s response to the tragedy in Haiti has been robust in military deployment and puny in what the Haitians need most: food; first responders and their specialized equipment; doctors and medical…
Footnotes in Gaza
Interview: Joe Sacco By Laila El-Haddad, Al Jazeera English, Jan. 18, 2010 When it comes to the world of cartooning, Joe Sacco is considered a luminary. Sacco, who is hailed as the creator of war-reportage comics, is the author of…