I did try to sit through the Blair show. An unfortunate combination of Asiatic high emotion and feminine fragility made me feeble. I had to walk away, knocking over a large goblet of dark red wine, the colour of blood. It stained the beautiful wooden floor. From TB, then, the... » read this article

"No matter how skilfully he ducked and dived today, Tony Blair's legacy will forever be that of the illegal, immoral Iraq war.” - Angus Robertson of the SNP The ineffectual Chilcot Inquiry was never designed to account Tony Blair; rather it appears to have served as a lesson for future... » read this article

“For wicked men are found among my people; they lurk like fowlers lying in wait. They set a trap; they catch men” - Jeremiah 5:26-29, Hebrew Old Testament “Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once... » read this article

Watt A Hero?   Does the name of Army Pfc Justin Watt ring a bell?   I doubt it.  But even if your bells start ringing I bet the word “hero” doesn't come to mind. Lets try this drill with a brave woman: Nancy Lindborg.  No bells ringing yet? How about... » read this article

January 6, 2010 American military personnel are continuing to take their own lives in unprecedented numbers, as the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq wars drag on. By late November, at least 334 members of the armed forces had committed suicide in 2009, more than the 319 who were killed in... » read this article

RT’s Anastasia Churkina sits down for an exclusive interview with journalist and film-maker Nir Rosen, who spends months ever year in the Middle East. Rosen talks about the truth behind Al Qaeda, Afghanistan and Iraq, and the real reasons for America’s military involvement there. Dandelion Salad YouTube  ... » read this article

4 January 2010 A federal judge dropped charges Thursday against five former Blackwater security contractors in connection with the September 2007 shooting deaths of unarmed Iraqis in Baghdad. The ruling makes it almost certain that the security guards, Blackwater management, and the US State Department officials that employed the guards... » read this article

In a New York Times op-ed this week that advocates bombing Iran, the author, Alan J. Kuperman, director of the Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Program at the University of Texas at Austin, begins by suggesting that President Barack Obama should “sigh in relief that Iran has rejected his nuclear deal”. In... » read this article

In spite of our disagreement with Ray McGovern's clearly pronounced respect for the Obama administration's foreign policies, we still find this Interview with Ray McGovern well worth posting because of his incisive analysis of the true reasons for the insane escalation of the war in Afghanistan, of the ridiculously false... » read this article

Editor's Note: The utterly blind arrogance and abysmal ignorance of U.S. military trainers in Iraq are demonstrated in this trainer's attempt to humiliate and subjugate and convince the Iraqi police to kill their own people. He talks to these men as though they are brain-dead marines at Parris Island, South... » read this article

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Editor's Note: The following two-part film by Everywoman was released in 2007 and sent to us for publication by Axis of Logic correspondent, Nesreen Melek. Nesreen's essays and poetry tells us that if the plight of Iraqi women has changed since 2007, it has only been for the worse. - Les Blough,... » read this article

I will place a note in the box expressing my gratitude to all of you for helping me pass through the hard times since my country was invaded. I will wrap the box with white ribbons, the color of peace, and will remember a special friend who keeps telling me... » read this article

Nowhere it is more obvious than in Iraq that the existence of an election law, elections themselves and the constitution they are based on are not indicators of democracy or legitimacy, because these mechanisms are merely symbols of the antithesis of the mechanisms of democracy as practiced back home by... » read this article

12 December 2009 Reports that mercenaries employed by the notorious Blackwater-Xe military contracting firm participated in CIA assassinations in Iraq and Afghanistan have further exposed the real character of so-called “good war” that is being escalated by the Obama administration. Citing former employees of the firm and US intelligence agents,... » read this article

30 November 2009 Changes made last Monday to Iraq’s election law have inflamed the sectarian and ethnic animosities fomented by the US occupation since the 2003 invasion. The dominant Shiite-based and Kurdish nationalist parties used their majority in the parliament to ram through legislation that increases the number of seats... » read this article

Early on during the U.S. occupation of Iraq, a 14-year-old named Hadiya began blogging from Mosul about her daily life. Her pieces were, by turns, informative, harrowing and emotional in their glimpse into daily life under occupation. A new book IraqiGirl: Diary of a Teenage Girl in Iraq, published by... » read this article

26 November 2009 Documents obtained by the Sunday Telegraph provide further proof of the criminal character of the US-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003. They confirm that then-Prime Minister Tony Blair lied to the British public when he repeatedly denied that he and US President George W. Bush had... » read this article

Just how powerful is the U.S. military today? Why is the largest military machine on the planet unable to defeat the resistance in Afghanistan, in a war that has lasted longer than World War II or Vietnam? Afghanistan ranks among the poorest and most underdeveloped countries in the world today.... » read this article

MADRID: Today the Spanish Senate, acting to confirm a decision already taken under pressure from powerful governments accused of grave crimes, will limit Spain’s laws of universal jurisdiction. Yesterday, ahead of the change of law, a legal case was filed at the Audiencia Nacional against four United States presidents and... » read this article