U can’t wait to see Abu Ghraib prison reduced to rubble by the Americans–at the request of the new Iraqi government, of…
First, our enemies created the suicide bomber. Now, we have our own digital suicide bomber, the camera. Just look at the way…
Less than six month before the outbreak of the First World War, my grandmother, Margaret Fisk, gave my father William a 360-page…
The pictures are appalling, the words devastating. As a wounded Iraqi crawls from beneath a burning truck, an American helicopter pilot tells…
Why are we surprised at their racism, their brutality, their sheer callousness towards Arabs? Those American soldiers in Saddam’s old prison at…
Behold Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, would-be graduation commencement speaker at Emory University in…
So President George Bush tears up the Israeli-Palestinian peace plan and that’s okay. Israeli settlements for Jews and Jews only on the…
April 13 2004: “The Star” Baghdad – At least 80 foreign mercenaries – security guards recruited from the United States, Europe and…
April 13 2004: “The Star” Baghdad – At least 80 foreign mercenaries – security guards recruited from the United States, Europe and…
Just shut up. That’s the new foreign policy line of our masters. When Senator Edward Kennedy dubbed Iraq “George Bush’s Vietnam”, US…
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