Iraq war
Queen of Chicken Hawks: Victoria Nuland Had A Hand in Every...
As the Senate prepares to confirm Nuland for Under Secretary for Political Affairs, a reflection of her last 30 years in government shows how...
Will the Senate Confirm Coup Plotter Nuland?
By Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies and Marcy Winograd, World BEYOND War, January 15, 2020
Who is Victoria Nuland? Most Americans have never heard...
Can Burns Change the CIA?
The hope is that diplomat William Burns, tapped for CIA director by Joe Biden, will be able to change the culture at Langley and...
US pardons Blackwater guards: An ‘affront to justice’
30 December 2020
Five independent UN experts condemned United States President Donald Trump’s pardoning of private security contractors, convicted in 2015 for war crimes in...
Middle East: Again on the brink. Israel and “intra-imperialist” games
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
January 2nd, 2020
"To understand the situation, figure out that now, in Washington, the main obstacle to war is a man called Mad...
Iraq today is a nightmare that Americans largely sleep through
by Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
December 29, 2020
What does it look like when you “liberate” a country that hasn’t asked for it, when you unleash a...
The Secret History of the Push to Strike Iran
Hawks in Israel and America have spent more than a decade agitating for war against the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program. Will Trump finally deliver?
By...
The “anti-War” Trump pardons war criminals
Trump pardons Blackwater contractors jailed for massacre of Iraq civilians
Four guards fired on unarmed crowd in Baghdad in 2007, killing 14 and sparking outrage...
The ICC refuses to prosecute UK war crimes in Iraq despite...
By Jean Shaoul
Dec, 17, 2020
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has abandoned its inquiry into war crimes committed by British troops in Iraq between 2003...
Confusing Order in Order to Order
By William Mallinson
Dec. 8, 2020
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Spc. Hubert Delany III | US Army
Introduction
There is currently a great deal of speculation, some of it emotional and dramatic,...