A military judge today ordered that the Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage must shave off his beard or have it forcibly shaved. “I am ordering the accused to be clean-shaven for all subsequent pretrial… Read More ›
By DAVID STRINGER LONDON (AP) — Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Desmond Tutu called Sunday for Tony Blair and George Bush to face prosecution at the International Criminal Court for their role in the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq Tutu, the… Read More ›
No Justice for Martyred Internationalist On 28 August 2012, an Israeli court in Haifa rejected charges that the Israeli Defense Forces or Israel’s Ministry of Defense were in any way responsible for the killing of American internationalist and solidarity activist… Read More ›
An assault on a Palestinian teenager has shone a spotlight on a cauldron of prejudice that runs through the Israeli establishment, explains Hadas Thier. DOZENS OF Jewish teens in Jerusalem’s Zion Square beat a Palestinian youth, 17-year-old Jamal Julani, nearly… Read More ›
Gone are the days of the all-American army hero. These days, the US military is more like a sanctuary for racists, gang members and the chronically unfit by Matt Kennard My journey into the dark underworld of the US military… Read More ›
By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) — The Rev. Sun Myung Moon — a controversial religious and political figure who founded the Unification Church, a major institution in East Asia and beyond that gained fame decades ago for its mass… Read More ›
Scientific analysis shows signs of a powerful underwater explosion By Oh Cheol-woo, science correspondent An article has been published in an international academic journal arguing that the explosion that sank the South Korean Cheonan warship in March 2010 may not… Read More ›
Honest reporting from Afghanistan would tell us there is no prospect of victory for the West, and less and less prospect of an orderly withdrawal leaving a stable state behind. by Lindsey German YOU COULDN’T make it up. Or perhaps… Read More ›
Record suicides prove our right to refuse to fight By Michael Prysner The author is a former corporal in the U.S. Army and a veteran of the Iraq war. The U.S. Army revealed that July yielded the highest number of… Read More ›
Appearing before court, 15-year-old suspected of assaulting Arab youth in Jerusalem lashes out at victim, says ‘If I catch him, I’ll beat him. He should die’ Noam (Dabul) Dvir One of the suspects in the Jerusalem lynch case appeared at… Read More ›
A firsthand account of the assassination raid against the former Al-Qaeda head challenges the official US narrative, claiming bin Laden was shot as he peeked out of his bedroom, unarmed. He did not have a weapon or resist, as was… Read More ›
No Criminal Charges for Burners, Officials Say by Jason Ditz The investigation into February’s huge scandal in which US soldiers burned copies of the Quran at the Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan has come to an end, with officials… Read More ›
27 August 2012 Republican candidate states: “Philosophically, I am A National Socialist” Illinois Republican Congressional candidate, Arthur Jones, openly asserts his allegiance to Nazi/fascism and asserts that the genocide of European Jews during World War II is a Jewish “extortion… Read More ›
by George Wilson Everyone reading this knows what it’s like to be unemployed or to have their hours cut. Everyone knows unemployment and bad hours is a problem but little do people realize what causes the problem. Everyone has their… Read More ›
By Gareth Porter, Truthout Editors Note: “The New America Foundation (NAF) pages showing purported numbers for civilian drone casualties that are linked to and discussed in this article were previously public (see cached version). As of August 22, a few… Read More ›
The Red Phoenix 