by John Glaser The current price tag is already at $2 trillion The US war in Iraq has cost $1.7 trillion with an additional $490 billion in benefits owed to war veterans. But the cost could grow to more than $6 trillion over the… Read More ›
Imperialist War
Yale will train US Special Forces in interrogation techniques using immigrants as guinea pigs
Yale University is planning to train US Special Forces to detect lies by practicing on immigrants. The program strives to provide soldiers with such interview tactics by practicing on “someone they can’t necessarily identify with”. Starting as early as April,… Read More ›
Huge Drop in Workers at City-Sized US Embassy in Baghdad
Cost-Cutting to See 10,000 Withdraw This Year by Jason Ditz A Vatican-sized fortress along the Tigris River, the US Embassy to Iraq is the stuff of legends, a $730 million testament to the runaway overspending of the occupation era. Ten years after… Read More ›
Israel’s Peres urges Arab intervention in Syria
By Martine Pauwels (AFP) STRASBOURG, France — Israel’s Shimon Peres called Tuesday for Arab intervention “to stop the massacre” in Syria as he delivered the first speech by an Israeli head of state to the European Parliament in almost three… Read More ›
Over 100 Guantanamo inmates ‘on hunger strike,’ possibly in grave condition
Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay inmates have claimed “all but a few men” are on a hunger strike over their Qurans being taken away. The condition of the strikers “appears to be rapidly deteriorating and reaching a potentially critical level,” they… Read More ›
Libyan Women Face Islamist Rise Since Gaddafi Fall
By MAGGIE MICHAEL On her way back from her job as a lecturer at a university near Tripoli, Libyan poet Aicha Almagrabi was stopped by a group of bearded militiamen. They kicked her car, beat up her driver and threatened… Read More ›
Syrian Rebels Angry Over US Aid: ‘Only Thing We Want Is Weapons’
Non-Lethal Aid Doesn’t Conquer Countries, Gen. Idris Insists by Jason Ditz General Salim Idris, the Chief of Staff of the Syrian rebels’ Supreme Military Council, reacted with anger toward the US announcement of additional aid for his forces, insisting that the promise… Read More ›
UN demands prosecution of Bush-era CIA crimes
A United Nations investigator has demanded that the US publish classified documents regarding the CIA’s human rights violations under former President George W. Bush, with hopes that the documents will lead to the prosecution of public officials. Documents about the… Read More ›
Kerry pledges $60 million in aid to Syrian opposition forces
Secretary of State John Kerry announced the Obama administration will provide an additional $60 million in aid and will for the first time provide food and medical supplies to rebels battling to oust President Bashar Assad. By Henry Chu and… Read More ›
Officials: US to Provide Syrian Rebels With Direct Military Aid, Armored Vehicles
The US is looking to dramatically broaden the definition of “non-lethal support” as it relates to Syria’s rebel factions, according to European officials familiar with recent private meetings with Secretary of State John Kerry. Expanding the definition, the US is poised… Read More ›
The dirty dozen: Israel’s racist ringleaders
Israelis chant “Sudanese Back To Sudan” during a right-wing demonstration against African refugees in south Tel Aviv, 30 May 2012. (Oren Ziv / ActiveStills) David Sheen Does Israel refuse to grant equal rights to Palestinian citizens of the state because it is… Read More ›
British have invaded nine out of ten countries – so look out Luxembourg
By Jasper Copping Every schoolboy used to know that at the height of the empire, almost a quarter of the atlas was coloured pink, showing the extent of British rule. But that oft recited fact dramatically understates the remarkable global reach… Read More ›
‘New race for colonies begins in Africa’
Earlier this week, France sent its special forces to Cameroon in search of seven French tourists who were kidnapped in the north of the country on Tuesday. Paris accused the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram of being behind the abduction…. Read More ›
The Red Phoenix 