Category Anti-war

Above the law in Iraq

Private security contractors have been involved in scores of shootings in Iraq, but none have been prosecuted despite findings in at least one fatal case that the men had not followed proper procedures, according to interviews and documents obtained by…

CIA torture flights

CIA operated 400-plus secret flights in Germany: report   The German government reportedly has a list of at least 437 flights operated by the US Central Intelligence Agency in German airspace. These would be plane flights carrying prisoners to be…

Lamest excuse of the week

A key U.S. Senator says the military bought advertisements in Iraqi newspapers to promote the U.S.-led coalition’s work in Iraq, but that some had been published without the disclaimer that they had been funded by the military. So THAT’s what…

Those darned tricksters

The FBI has reopened an inquiry into one of the most intriguing aspects of the pre-Iraq war intelligence fiasco: how the Bush administration came to rely on forged documents linking Iraq to nuclear weapons materials as part of its justification…

US bombs still kill in Laos

Three decades after the Vietnam War, Laos, remains littered with millions of unexploded U.S. bombs, which kill at least 200 people a year. How many civilians will die in Iraq over how many decades for the same reason? Nor does…