Author: mike

Under assault by insurgents and unable to rely on U.S. and coalition troops for intelligence or help under duress, private security firms in Iraq have begun to band together in the past 48 hours,...

[Sibel] Edmonds is a 33-year-old former FBI translator whose February allegations to the commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks directly challenge the credibility of the commission’s star witness, national security adviser Condoleezza...

One of the things that most impressed me A Bright Shining Lie was the analysis of the tragicomic situation where Pentagon attempts at “Vietnamization” of the occupation by attempting to train and supply a...

Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf complained that the war in Iraq was drawing resources from the battle against Al-Qaeda leaders and their supporters hiding in Pakistan and Afghanistan … Asked if the US-led Iraq war...

More than 60% of all U.S. companies paid no federal tax at all during the boom years of 1996 to 2000, the General Accounting Office reports. In 2000 alone, 94% of all U.S. corporations...

Senator Joseph Biden … compared the US quandary to a 1920 revolt against British colonial rule. “We are caught in the middle. The greatest concern here is a two-front war like the Brits faced.”...

A United Nations report lists police firing of wooden plugs and shot-filled beanbags at antiwar demonstrators last April alongside the world’s worst cases of government defamation and violence against activists in 2003 … That...

King Bush has lost another confederate: the Mafia-connected Lithuanian president Rolandas Paksas has been impeached. Paksas supported sending Lithuanian troops (90) to Iraq. Earlier here.

The Defense Agency said Tuesday it has decided to keep ground troops in Iraq inside their camp in Samawah in the wake of growing security concerns … The 530-member contingent in Samawah will, for...

It seems that as well as defending US administrative facilties, Blackwater is establishing its own private mercenary base in Iraq. Looks like the fun never ends – Blackwater get live Iraqis for target practice,...