Although Obama is trying to prevent their release, photos of U.S. abuse of Iraqi prisoners reportedly show graphic scenes of rape and brutality. Including sexual assaults on prisoners with truncheons and phosphorescent tubes
Press TV talks to Washington journalist Wayne Madsen about photos that have recently surfaced showing rape and sexual abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. soldiers
As President Bush prepares to send more troops to Iraq, Christopher Bollyn uncovers a web of Zionist inspired intrigue that spreads from White House press breifings, to Paul Bremer’s Coalition Provisional Authority and Baghdad’s bloody backstreets
A secret deal being negotiated in Baghdad will give the U.S. up to 50 permanent military bases in Iraq, control of Iraqi airspace and as we’ve reported elsewhere, the option to launch military strikes from Iraqi soil on any nation it chooses
And it won’t be “A time of our choosing”
The Blair government has become adept at burying the truth, writes the former British envoy to Uzbekistan. As a rule of thumb, if Blair’s spin doctors want you to know it, it probably isn’t true
The Bush team knows they’re losing ground; and fast. That’s why they dispatched poor Rummy to 4 TV talk shows on one morning alone. Rumsfeld was reduced to repeating the same lines he’s uttered for years, only this time, no one is buying
Mike Whitney asks: are we are engaged in a noble effort to liberate and democratize the Iraqi people, or complicit in the deliberate murder of innocent civilians?
A new study contends Iraqi casualty figures are far higher than officially acknowledged
Last month was the bloodiest month in modern Baghdad’s history with an unprecedented number of dead brought to the city’s morgue. Nearly four times the number prior to the invasion and most of them unrecorded and unreported
“The Americans won’t be out in less than ten years”, says one Iraqi. If you could see the bases they are planning to build – if you could see what already has been built – you’d know that they are going to be here for quite a while
She stood surrounded by minions,writes Riverbend. The photograhers lights flashed against her as her cruel lips curled into a grimace. It was meant to be a smile but it wouldn’t reach her cold, lifeless eyes. It was the leer of the undead before a feeding