An Institute for Public Accuracy email brought a link to a chilling video, released today by Wikileaks – a “classified U.S. military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad – including two Reuters news staff. Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the […]
This email just in from the BRussells Tribunal: A blogger in Baghdad, Hiba Al-Shamaree, has been arrested by Iraqi security forces. The email included a post from another blogger, Layla Anwar. “Following my previous post here (on the tribunal site), I just received fresh information regarding Hiba Al-Shamaree, the fellow Iraqi woman writer/blogger who has […]
Non-citizen veterans of Vietnam, both Gulf wars and Afghanistan are being “quietly” deported despite U.S. military promises of citizenship in exchange for fighting for the United States. Reportedly there are over 3,000 veterans currently incarcerated and under threat of deportation nation wide. Veterans’ rights activist Jan Ruhman wrote last year on the blog Vetspeak.org: “American […]
Today, as the first of President Obama’s 30,000 additional “surge” troops begin to arrive in Afghanistan, it might be useful to take a look at the Bush surge in Iraq. On Tuesday, a string of bombings killed nine people in two of Iraq’s largest cities, Baghdad and Mosul. Examiner.com posted a slide show from these […]
Iraq is planning to execute up to 126 women by the end of this year. At least 9 may be hanged within the next two weeks. Human rights groups say the only crime committed by many of these women was to serve in the government of Saddam Hussein. Others, according to human rights groups like […]
As we in the news media like to say, violence has “abated” in Iraq. For example, on Monday it was reported that 16 people – including a member of the country’s main Sunni political party and several of his relatives – were killed by gunmen. And a parked car bomb exploded in a market in […]
The recent United Nations report, which condemned both Israel and the Palestinian authorities for war crimes during Israel’s military invasion of Gaza from December 27 to January 18, primarily blasted Israel for “actions amounting to war crimes, possibly crimes against humanity.” That is, perhaps, not surprising in a lopsided 22-day conflict that saw more than […]
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