At least 86 Iraqis were killed and 128 more were wounded in a second day of violence. Dozens more who were killed injured during an aerial attack in Suleiman Bek and clashes in Baiji remain uncounted.
read moreThe Russians Warned Us – Why Didn’t We Listen?
How did the FBI fail to keep track of Tamerlan Tsarnaev after the Russians warned us about him? This is a mystery our lawmakers are passionately interested in. The FBI blames the Russians for not providing more information after their own efforts failed to turn up...
Drones, Sanctions and the Prison Industrial Complex
Editor's note: Brian Terrell was arrested in April of last year for protesting drone warfare at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri and wrote the following from Yankton Federal Prison Camp, where he is nearing the end of a six month sentence. In the final weeks of a...
Government Response to Terrorism Needs to Be Dialed Down
The bomb attack on innocent civilians and subsequent shooting of two law enforcement officials was a reprehensible act of terrorism, but the saturation media coverage and resulting societal frenzy is unwarranted and actually harmful. Apparently, the lone surviving...
Filling the Empty Battlefield
Chalmers Johnson’s book Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire was published in March 2000 -- and just about no one noticed. Until then, blowback had been an obscure term of CIA tradecraft, which Johnson defined as “the...
Protest Clashes and Random Attacks Leave 111 Killed, 233 Wounded Across Iraq
Security personnel fought demonstrators at sit-in camps in at least two predominantly Sunni cities. The highest number of casualties occurred in Hawija. The clashes led to several curfews and road closures across the country. They also encouraged two ministers to quit their posts. Overall, at least 111 people were killed and 233 more were wounded.
read more‘Boston Strong’: Marching in Lockstep with the Police State
"Of all the tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive." -C.S. Lewis Caught up in the televised drama of a military-style manhunt for the suspects in the Boston Marathon explosion, most Americans fail to realize that...
People Vanishing from Iraq War History
Ten years and the scripted media narrative of the Iraq War -- now receding into the rear-view of our embarrassingly short American memory -- is about as satisfying as the obligatory drum solo at your standard 1980’s rock concert. In other words, a milquetoast,...
Israel’s Ill-Treatment of Detained Palestinian Children ‘Widespread’
“Three interrogators questioned me for three hours. I was handcuffed. They beat me, slapped me, kicked me, boxed me, accused me of throwing stones; played a video of a demonstration. I denied I was there. So again, they beat me up,” recounts Zein Abu-Mariya, 17,...
Soldier Killed in a Clash in Northern Iraq
Clashes in Mosul left one soldier dead and another wounded. Three soldiers were wounded in a bombing. An explosion wounded a member of the Bani Saad council. In Baghdad, a bomb wounded three people. A blast near a mosque in Sadr City wounded one person. In Mahaweel, a...
