My Lai Probe Hid Policy that Led to Massacre

3-16-2008 • by Gareth Porter

The troops who entered My Lai village had been led to believe that everyone in the village should be killed. Testimony before the Peers inquiry showed platoon leaders involved in the operation had been given that same message by 2 company commanders.

Petraeus: Iraqi Leaders Not Making 'Sufficient Progress'

03-16-2008 • Washington Post

BAGHDAD -- Iraqi leaders have failed to take advantage of a reduction in violence to make adequate progress toward resolving their political differences, Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said Thursday. (FAILED SURGE???)

US seeks legal basis for Iraq presence

3-12-2008 • PressTV

US State Department and Iraqi foreign ministry officials opened negotiations Tuesday over formal arrangements for a long-term relationship in the political, economic and security fields.

Hated Saddam-era spies back at work in Iraq

3-11-2008 • USA Today

Iraq's government has been quietly bringing back into service Saddam-era intelligence agents who have experience spying on Iranians. Most Saddam-era intelligence agents fled after the U.S.-led invasion. Were the primary means of repressing the po

Exhaustive review finds no link between Saddam and al Qaida

3-11-2008 • McClatchy News

An exhaustive review of more than 600,000 Iraqi documents captured after the US invasion found no evidence that Saddam Hussein's regime had any operational links with Osama bin Laden's al Qaida terrorist network. The Pentagon-sponsored study

We Can't Kill Our Way to Peace<br>by Ron Paul

3-8-2008 • U.S. House

I rise in opposition to H. Res. 951, a resolution to condemn Palestinian rocket attacks on Israeli civilians. As one who is consistently against war and violence, I obviously do not support the firing of rockets indiscriminately into civilian populat

Ending the War<br>by Laurence M. Vance

3-8-2008 • LewRockwell

Can this war be stopped? Can anyone stop this war? Since we can’t rely on Congress or political candidates or the typical American or even Christians who supposedly follow the "Prince of Peace," there is only one way I see to end this war.

Ex-Defense Official Assails Colleagues Over Run-Up to War

3-8-2008 • Washington Post

Douglas J. Feith, in a massive score-settling work ["don't blame me"], portrays an intelligence community and a State Department that repeatedly undermined plans he developed as undersecretary of defense for policy and conspired to unde

US fails a fourth time to hit al-Qa'ida suspect in Somalia

3-8-2008 • The Independent

A US missile strike in Somalia, aimed at a man described by the Pentagon as a "known al-Qa'ida terrorist", succeeded only in hurting six civilians and killing three cows and a calf, the IoS has learned. [We're good at that.]

Iraq Costs US $12B Per Month

3-8-2008 • AP

The flow of blood may be ebbing, but the flood of money into the Iraq war is steadily rising, new analyses show. In 2008, its sixth year, the war will costs $12 billion a month, triple the "burn" rate of its earliest years, Nobel Prize-winn

Arrested Arms Dealer's Planes Flew U.S. Missions in Iraq

03-07-2007 • ABC News Blog

Viktor Bout was arrested in Bangkok yesterday on allegations he supplied Colombian rebels with arms and explosives. This is the same man who's planes flew supplies missions for the US in Iraq, as well as the US giving his pilots millions of doll

Troop depression on rise in Afghanistan

3-6-2008 • AP

U.S. troop morale improved in Iraq last year, but soldiers fighting in Afghanistan suffered more depression as violence there worsened, an Army mental health report says.

U.S. launches missile strike in Somalia

3-3-2008 • Reuters

Two U.S. missiles hit a house in southern Somalia on Monday, according to local officials, in an attack Washington said was directed at "known terrorists". It was the fourth U.S. strike in 14 months on Somalia, where Washington believes loc

Economist Stiglitz Says Iraq War Costs May Reach $5 Trillion

3-2-2008 • Bloomberg

Nobel economics laureate Joseph Stiglitz, author of a new book that claims the Iraq war will cost the U.S. more than $3 trillion, said the final tally is likely to climb much higher than that. "It's much more like five trillion. We were tryi

Rove: Iraq Redeployment Would Cause Oil Prices To Skyrocket To $200 A Barrel

3-2-2008 • THinkProgress

If we were to give up Iraq with the third largest oil reserves in the world to the control of an Al Qaida regime or to the control of Iran, don’t you think $200 a barrel oil would have a cost to the American economy?

Tensions Rise Between 'Awakening' and Iraqi Govt Forces

3-2-2008 • Antiwar

US backed Sahwa forces threaten to destabilize US-backed Iraqi government forces in Iraq's volatile Diyala province. The "Awakening Councils," known locally as the Sahwa, have left their centers in cities and districts around the capita

War at Any Cost?<br>by Rep. Ron Paul

3-2-2008 • Antiwar

In recent months the undeclared war in Iraq seems not to have been on the minds of most Americans. News of the violence and deprivation which ordinary Iraqis are forced to deal with on a daily basis rarely makes it to the front pages. Instead, we rea

Many Troops Would Stay In Iraq if a Democrat Wins

3-2-2008 • Wall Street Journal

Despite the rhetoric of the Democratic presidential candidates, significant numbers of U.S. troops will remain in Iraq regardless who wins in November. In their final push to win the nomination, Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are repeating th

The Calm Before the Conflagration

2-28-2008 • TruthDig

The United States is funding and in many cases arming the three ethnic factions in Iraq—the Kurds, the Shiites and the Sunni Arabs. These factions rule over partitioned patches of Iraqi territory and brutally purge rival ethnic groups

Automated killer robots 'threat to humanity'

2-27-2008 • AFP

Increasingly autonomous, gun-totting robots developed for warfare could easily fall into the hands of terrorists and may one day unleash a robot arms race, a top expert on artificial intelligence told AFP. "They pose a threat to humanity,"