Middle East
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WikiLeaks and Assange Honored (Ray McGovern)
Oct. 25, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- You are not likely to learn this from the “mainstream media,” but WikiLeaks and its leader Julian Assange have received the 2010 Sam Adams Associates ...
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The Shaming of America (Robert Fisk)
Robert Fisk delivers a searing dispatch after the WikiLeaks revelations that expose in detail the brutality of the war in Iraq -- and the astonishing, disgraceful deceit of the United States Oct. ...
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Torture, Killing, Children Shot: How the US Tried to Keep it all Quiet (Emily Dugan, Nina Lakhani, David Randall, Victoria Richards and Rachel Shields)
The largest leak in history reveals the true extent of the bloodshed unleashed by the decision to go to war in Iraq -- and adds at least 15,000 to its death toll Oct. 24, 2010 (The Independent) -- ...
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Iraq War Logs: Secret Files Show How US Ignored Torture (Nick Davies, Jonathan Steele and David Leigh)
Massive leak reveals serial detainee abuse. 15,000 unknown civilian deaths in war Oct. 22, 2010 (the Guardian/UK) -- A grim picture of the U.S. and Britain's legacy in Iraq has been revealed in a ...
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Injustice in the Age of Obama (Cindy Sheehan)
Barack Obama, a former law professor, should have a healthy respect for civil liberties, but his actions suggest not Oct. 20, 2010 (Al-Jazeera) -- Since being the defendant in about six trials after ...
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The Violence Debate: Teaching the Oppressed How to Fight Oppression (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Oct. 21, 2010 -- An American activist once gave me a book she wrote detailing her experiences in Palestine. The largely visual volume documented her journey of the ...
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Cancer 'Is Purely Man-Made' Say Scientists After Finding Almost No Trace Of Disease In Egyptian Mummies -- Fiona Macrae, Daily Mail
Oct. 15, 2010 (Daily Mail) -- Cancer is a man-made disease fuelled by the excesses of modern life, a study of ancient remains has found. Tumors were rare until recent times when pollution and poor ...
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The War On Terror (Paul Craig Roberts)
Oct. 15, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- Does anyone remember the “cakewalk war” that would last six weeks, cost $50 billion-$60 billion, and be paid for out of Iraqi oil revenues? Does anyone ...
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John le Carré: Calling Out the Traitors (Amy Goodman)
Oct. 12, 2010 (TruthDig) -- John le Carré, the former British spy turned spy novelist, has some grave words for Tony Blair. More than seven years after the invasion of Iraq, the former British prime ...
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BOOKS: Empire for Liberty. By Richard H. Immerman (Jim Miles)
Empire for Liberty. Richard H. Immerman. Princeton University Press, 2010. Oct. 15, 2010 (Palestine Chronicle) -- History takes on an interesting life when written as well as Richard Immerman’s new ...
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Leakers, Beware the Corporate Media (Ray McGovern)
Oct. 14, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- The following is a Code-Orange Advisory to patriotic truth-tellers, sometimes called whistleblowers or leakers: It is anachronistically naïve to expect ...
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