Afghanistan See You Again In 2014

U.S. and Western troops will stay in Afghanistan until 2014 when Afghan forces will take full control over security in the country: this is the final decision of the international conference held in Kabul on Tuesday, July 20th. The…

Toxic legacy of US assault on Fallujah worse than Hiroshima

Dramatic increases in infant mortality, cancer and leukaemia in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, which was bombarded by US Marines in 2004, exceed those reported by survivors of the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945,…

Now Afghanistan too shows the limits of American power

The catastrophic illusions and acts of official betrayal at the heart of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are being progressively exposed, one after another. In London, the former head of MI5 Eliza Manningham-Buller confirmed to the Iraq inquiry this…