Secret memos expose link between oil firms and invasion of Iraq
Plans to exploit Iraq’s oil reserves were discussed by government ministers and the world’s largest oil companies the year before Britain took a leading role in invading Iraq, government documents...
View ArticleIsrael used depleted uranium in airstrike on Syria
A senior Syrian official says Israel has used depleted uranium in its recent airstrike against the Jamraya Research Center in the outskirts of Damascus. The official, who was present near the attack...
View ArticlePakistani court declares US drone strikes illegal and a war crime
A Pakistani court has declared that US drone strikes in the country’s tribal belt are illegal and has directed the government to move a resolution against the attacks in the United Nations. In what...
View ArticleUS led drone strike kills 12 Afghan civilians
A US-led airstrike has killed at least 16 Afghans, including eight women and children, in the eastern province of Kunar, officials say. According to the provincial governor, 16 people – 12 of them...
View ArticleNATO airstrike kills 5 civilians in Afghanistan
Afghan men carry the coffin of a civilian, killed in a NATO air strike, on the outskirts of Jalalabad in Nangarhar province on October 5, 2013. Five civilians, three of whom were children, were killed...
View ArticleUS drone strikes declared a ‘war crime’ by judge
Former New Jersey Superior Court Judge Andrew Napolitano has blasted President Obama over the revelations that a drone strike he sanctioned killed hostages being held prisoner by al Qaeda in Pakistan....
View ArticleWhite House: bombing of hospital ‘collateral damage’, not a war crime
The White House has said that the US airstrike against a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, was not a “war crime.” The United States carried out the air strike on the hospital in...
View Article#PrayForSyria: US airstrikes kill 36 civilians in Syrian village
US warplanes attacked the Syrian village of al-Khan today, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, killing at least 36 people, all of them civilians. Over a dozen other civilians are...
View ArticleCivilians killed in latest US air strike on Iraqi banks
US-led coalition airstrikes killed Iraqi civilians in latest hit against an ISIS financial target in Mosul, according to the Pentagon. The coalition said they had been prepared to accept “some”...
View ArticleMurder is the foreign policy of the United States
Washington has a long history of massacring people, for example, the destruction of the Plains Indians by the Union war criminals Sherman and Sheridan and the atomic bombs dropped on Japanese civilian...
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