(Fair) – This week on CounterSpin: Egypt just finished its first round of elections since the uprising earlier this year by democratic activists. So why aren’t the activists overjoyed? We’ll talk about the state of democracy in Egypt and the way US corporate media are covering it, with independent journalist and Democracy Now! Cairo correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous. Read the rest of this entry »

(GlobalResearch) – Despite the “end of combat operations”, American forces stepped in with ground troops and air support in three incidents in different parts of Iraq, when their Iraqi counterparts were so-called “threatened by suicide attackers or well-armed gunmen”, according to U.S. and Iraqi military accounts.[1]

One of those” incidents” occurred in Fallujah on Wednesday 15 September 2010 [following the official withrdrawal of US troops], where 7 civilians were killed and 4 injured. Their names will be added to the endless list of victims of the US aggression against this troubled city. May they never be forgotten. Read the rest of this entry »

(Rense) – New York Car Bomb Incident – Another False Flag? – Stephen Lendman – Read More Here

(Guardian) – Video: Iranian president: We don’t want the bomb

Speaking in New York, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says sanctions are unwelcome but his country is not scared and ‘if we wanted the bomb we would tell the world’ View Video Here

(Telegraph) – Osama bin Laden ‘living in luxury in Iran’

Osama bin Laden, the world’s most wanted man, is living in the lap of luxury in an apartment in Iran and spends his time falconing, according to a new documentary. Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – Colombia: State Terror in the Name of Peace – James Petras

The first casualty of state terror is the corruption of language, the invention of euphemisms, where words mean their opposite and slogans cover great crimes: There is no longer a world consensus that condemns crimes against humanity. This is because mass murder and assassinations secure investor ‘confidence’, because Indians are dispossessed so the mines can be exploited; oil workers disappear so the petroleum will flow; and the international financial press praises the success of el Presidente for “pacifying the country”.

When narco-presidents are embraced by the leaders of North America and Europe, it is evident that criminals have become respectable the respectable have become criminals. Read More Here

(ABC) – Video: Ahmadinejad – They’re finished, the Zionist regime is finished

George Stephanopoulos Interviews Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – Video Link Here

(Uruknet) – British army to be sued for war crimes over its role in Fallujah attacks

Parents of children with birth defects say Britain knew of US chemical weapons use Read More Here

(PoliticalTheatrics) – Obama’s Military Intentions

There’s more war in America’s future — a great deal more, judging by the Obama Administration’s reports, pronouncements and actions in recent months. Read More Here

(Telegraph) – North Korea masses 50,000 troops on border

North Korea has completed deployment of about 50,000 special forces along the border with South Korea, amid high tensions over the sinking of a Seoul warship. Read More Here

(CSMonitor) – NPT 101: Is Iran Violating The Nuclear Treaty?

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Iran had ‘violated’ the treaty ahead of this week’s NPT Review Conference in New York. But the UN nuclear watchdog has never used that term. Who’s right? Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – New Colonialism: Pentagon Carves Africa Into Military Zones – Rick Rozoff

As the first overseas regional military command set up by Washington in this century, the first since the end of the Cold War, and the first in 25 years, the activation of AFRICOM, initially under the wing of U.S. European Command on October 1, 2007, then as an independent entity a year later, emphasizes the geostrategic importance of Africa in U.S. international military, political and economic planning. Read More Here

(AP) – Video: Army Testing New ‘Smart’ Explosive

From bows and arrows to gunpowder to computer chips in explosive rounds: the Army’s testing its latest big advance in weaponry. It’s a gun where soldiers can program in exactly where the round should go and when it should explode. Read the rest of this entry »

(DailyMail) – A high number of children are being born with birth defects in an Iraqi city where U.S. forces may have used chemical weapons during a fierce battle in 2004.

Children in Fallujah are being born with limb, head, heart and nervous system defects. There is even a claim that a baby was born with three heads.

The number of heart defects among newborn babies is said to be 13 times higher than the rate in Europe. Read More Here

(BBC) – Doctors in the Iraqi city of Fallujah are reporting a high level of birth defects, with some blaming weapons used by the US after the Iraq invasion. Video Link Here

The “largest lie,” wrote historian Howard Zinn who died yesterday at age 87, is that “everything the United States does is to be pardoned because we are engaged in a ‘war on terrorism.’” Read the rest of this entry »

If history has taught us anything, it is that we need to beware those populist politicians who claim to be men of peace by nature but men of war by necessity. The most violent wars this planet has ever seen, the most brutal regimes that have ever sought to repress their own citizens, the most genocidal schemes have always been nurtured under the leadership of politicians who offer war, violence and domination as a way of achieving peace. Read the rest of this entry »

Young women in Fallujah in Iraq are terrified of having children because of the increasing number of babies born grotesquely deformed, with no heads, two heads, a single eye in their foreheads, scaly bodies or missing limbs. Read the rest of this entry »

(Yahoo) – An Iraqi doctor has told Sky News the number of babies born with deformities in the heavily-bombed area of Fallujah is still on the increase. Read the rest of this entry »

The Fort Laramie Treaty once guaranteed the Sioux Nation the right to a large area of their original land, which spanned several states and included their sacred Black Hills, where they were to have “the absolute and undisturbed use and occupation” of the land. Read the rest of this entry »

As several of my previous articles for this web site have been outlining, the ongoing attacks by the Maliki government against the Sahwa continue to destabilize the situation in Iraq and allow overall violence to increase with each passing week. Read the rest of this entry »

Last week found Iraq swimming in blood once again. Attacks last Thursday brought the worst violence Iraq has seen in over a year, with at least 96 Iraqis killed and 157 wounded in two massive suicide bombings. Over 35 bombings have rocked Baghdad this month alone. There appears to be no end in sight for the escalating violence. For an Obama administration that plans to keep at least 50,000 US troops in Iraq indefinitely, look no further for a justification in doing so. Read the rest of this entry »

How the United States used chemical warfare indiscriminately in Iraq. Read the rest of this entry »

Planning for the Prosecution of High Level American War Criminals

Since the impeachable installation of George W. Bush as President in January of 2001 by the U.S. Supreme Court’s Gang of Five, the peoples of the world have witnessed a government in the United States that has demonstrated little if any respect for fundamental considerations of international law, human rights, and the United States Constitution. What the world has watched instead is a comprehensive and malicious assault upon the integrity of the international and domestic legal orders by a group of men and women who are thoroughly Machiavellian and Straussian in their perception of international relations and in their conduct of both foreign policy and domestic affairs. Read the rest of this entry »