Global Research | October 21, 2015 SELECTED ARTICLES: Tony Blair’s “Deal In Blood” with George W. Bush To Attack Iraq One Year Before the March 2003 Invasion. By Felicity Arbuthnot, October 19 2015 In what The Mail on Sunday (1) has described as a “bombshell White House memo”, leaked classified correspondence from then Secretary of…
Daily Mail | October 18, 2015 A bombshell White House memo has revealed for the first time details of the ‘deal in blood’ forged by Tony Blair and George Bush over the Iraq War. The sensational leak shows that Blair had given an unqualified pledge to sign up to the conflict a year before the…
Telesur | 15 Oct 2015 American special operations analysts were gathering intelligence on the facility because they believed it was being used by a Pakistani operative to coordinate Taliban activity. U.S. authorities knew they were attacking a hospital facility in Afghanistan days before they conducted the operation on Oct. 3, the Associated Press reported on…
Truthout | 15 Oct 2015 The aftermath of a Saudi-led airstrike in Sanaa, Yemen, September 5, 2015. The United States, Britain and France, bowing to pressure from Saudi Arabia, dropped plans for an international investigation into the war in Yemen, to the dismay of human rights groups. (Tyler Hicks / The New York Times) The…
CNN | October 3, 2015 Airstrikes killed nine staff workers of medical aid group Doctors Without Borders in the Afghan city of Kunduz, the charity said. U.S. forces said they conducted airstrikes in the area. At least 37 people were injured in the aerial bombings early Saturday, including 24 of the medical aid organization’s staff,…
RT | 24 Aug 2015 In the latest atrocity in Yemen, Saudi warplanes bombed a residential area, killing at least 65 people. Most of the victims are reported to be civilians from the Salah district of Taiz, Yemen’s third largest city. The apparent war crime committed has tragically become an almost daily occurrence during five…
The Independent | 13 Aug 2015 Tony Blair should be “dragged in shackles” to court as a war criminal, according to the father of a son who was killed in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Reg Keys is one of a number of relatives of soldiers killed in the Iraq War who have threatened to…
Haaretz | 7 Aug 2015 Itay Mack, a Jerusalem-based human rights lawyer and activist, seeks greater transparency and public oversight of Israel’s military exports. Israel is known to be a powerhouse in military exports, but what does “military exports” actually mean? It’s a very broad term, encompassing arms and security equipment, as well as know-how,…
The Nation | 8 Aug 2015 Seventy years after the bombing, will Americans face the brutal truth? Visitors to the National Air and Space Museum—America’s shrine to the technological leading edge of the military industrial complex—hear a familiar narrative from the tour guides in front of the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped an atomic…
Jacobin | 9 March 2015 Seventy years ago today, the United States needlessly killed almost 100,000 people in a single air raid. oday marks the seventieth anniversary of the American firebombing of Tokyo, World War II’s deadliest day. More people died that night from napalm bombs than in the atomic strikes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But few in…