Israel leveled More than 23.000 Homes Since 1967

Jan. 06, 2010 – IMEMC
The Palestinian Ministry of Information issued a report stating that Israel leveled more than 23.000 homes in the occupied territories since its occupied the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem in the 1967 six-day war.
The Israeli Authorities leveled more than 700 homes and buildings owned by the Palestinians in [...]

Afghans hold anti-US rally over killing of civilians

Jan. 07, 2010 – Press TV
Thousands of people in eastern Afghanistan have taken to the streets to protest the death of four children in an explosion they blame on US forces.
Afghan protesters in the city of Jalalabad shouted Death to America and burned an effigy of President Barack Obama.
Protesters strongly condemned the killing and warned [...]

Gaza and the path to accountability

by Sunera Thobani
Published: Jan. 05, 2010 – The Electronic Intifada
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs David Milliband acted swiftly to withdraw the warrant for the arrest of former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, one of the architects of last winter’s Israeli attack on Gaza. A British magistrate issued the [...]

Blasts kill 4 US, one UK soldiers in Afghanistan

Jan. 04, 2010 – Press TV
Four American soldiers and one British soldier have been killed in two separate explosions in southern Afghanistan.
The dead soldiers, who were serving under NATO’s International Security Assistance Force, were killed on Sunday, NATO said in a statement Monday.
The US soldiers died following an improvised explosive device strike, the statement said [...]

‘They kept pumping bullets into us’

The Iraqi government is under increasing pressure to aggressively pursue the prosecution of American military personnel accused of killing Iraqis.
The recent decision by Ricardo Urbina, a district judge, to dismiss charges against five security contractors accused of gunning down 17 Iraqis, including women and children, in September 2007 has re-ignited deep discord among Iraqis, and [...]

Tony Blair’s £1m-a-year paymaster seeks giant Iraqi oil deal

Jan. 02, 2010 – A Middle Eastern investment fund that pays Tony Blair about £1m a year as an international adviser is in talks to develop one of Iraq’s biggest oilfields.
Mubadala, a United Arab Emirates investment firm, is in negotiations to join a consortium of western oil companies developing the Zubair oilfield in southern Iraq. [...]

Afghan Civilians Handcuffed And Killed By US Occupation Forces: Report

Western troops accused of executing 10 Afghan civilians, including children
Dec. 31, 2009 – American-led troops were accused yesterday of dragging innocent children from their beds and shooting them during a night raid that left ten people dead.
Afghan government investigators said that eight schoolchildren were killed, all but one of them from the same family. Locals [...]

Afghanistan, Drugs & Bank Bailouts

Published: Dec. 15, 2009 – RedBedHead
EVER WONDER WHERE SOME OF THE BANK BAILOUT MONEY CAME FROM? According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, it came from the Afghan opium trade. Foreign Policy in Focus has a fascinating article analyzing the recent UNODC study on the drug trade, entitled “Addiction, Crime, and Insurgency: [...]

Democracy in the New Iraq Equals Death and Repression

Maliki’s election platform: 900 Iraqi prisoners face summary execution
First Published: Dec. 13, 2009 – The Brussells Tribunal
The machine of repression and death in Iraq continues unabated. The Presidential Council of Iraq has reportedly ratified the death sentences of some 900 detainees who languish on death row. Some 17 of them are confirmed to be women.
None [...]

It’s Time to Leave Afghanistan

Statement before the House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee on December 10, 2009.
by Rep. Ron Paul
Published: Dec. 12, 2009 – Antiwar.com
Mr. Speaker thank you for holding these important hearings on US policy in Afghanistan. I would like to welcome the witnesses, Ambassador Karl W. Eikenberry and General Stanley A. McChrystal, and thank them for appearing [...]

Afghanistan massacre on eve of Obama’s surge

by Bill Van Auken
Published: Dec. 10, 2009 – WSWS
With the first elements of 30,000 additional US troops set to arrive in Afghanistan next week, the massacre of as many as 15 civilians in a US raid has heightened fears that the Obama administration’s so-called surge will spell a dramatic rise in bloodletting.

The Great Wall of Israel (With Videos)

by Ellen Cantarow and Tom Engelhardt
Published: Dec. 09, 2009 – Antiwar.com
Try to imagine this: An American president visits Israel and in a speech given close to the vast “separation wall” Israel continues to build in part through Palestinian territory, says: “Mr. Netanyahu, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for Israel and the region, [...]

Toxic munitions cause of baby deaths and deformities in Fallujah

by David Randall
First Published: Dec. 07, 2009 – View Zone
In September this year, say campaigners, 170 children were born at Fallujah General Hospital, 24 per cent of whom died within seven days. Three-quarters of these exhibited deformities, including “children born with two heads, no heads, a single eye in their foreheads, or missing limbs”. The [...]

118 killed, 197 injured in Baghdad blasts

Dec. 08, 2009 – Press TV
At least 118 people have been killed and 197 others sustained injuries as multiple bomb-rigged cars exploded in quick succession ripped through Iraqi capital of Baghdad.
Three bomb-rigged cars exploded in quick succession on Tuesday, striking the Labor Ministry, a court complex and the new site of Iraq’s Finance Ministry whose [...]

Who Wants More War?

by Rep. Ron Paul
Published: Dec. 08, 2009 – Antiwar.com
If anyone still doubted that this administration’s foreign policy would bring any kind of change, this week’s debate on Afghanistan should remove all doubt. The president’s stated justifications for sending more troops to Afghanistan and escalating the war amount to little more than recycling all the false reasons [...]

How many Afghans will die in Obama’s war?

by Patrick Martin
Published: Dec. 07, 2009 – WSWS
In the media coverage of Barack Obama’s decision to escalate the war in Afghanistan, one question goes unasked and unanswered: how many thousands, tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of Afghan civilians will die as a result of US military aggression?