Peoples Dispatch On May 6, US president Donald Trump granted a pardon to former US soldier Michael Behenna, who was found guilty of murdering an unarmed Iraqi detainee in 2008. The decision was strongly condemned by activists and human rights groups. Behenna was convicted in 2009 by a military jury at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, for…
Category: IRAQ
Notre Dame of Gaza: Our Mosques and Churches are Also Burning
Ramzy Baroud Palestinian boys look at the rubble of al-Qassam mosque, hit by an Israeli airstrike, as they stand in the bedroom of their destroyed family home in Nusseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Aug. 10, 2014. Adel Hana | AP As the 300-foot spire of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris…
The Global US Squeeze on Iran Begins: Europe is Looking for Alternatives
Elijah J. Magnier | @ejmalrai Today the harshest and highest level economic and energy sanctions that can be imposed on any country are being imposed unilaterally on Iran. The US establishment will try its best to bring the Islamic Republic to its knees and Tehran will do its best to cross the US minefield. Whatever the…
Imperial Road to Conquest: Peace and Disarmament Agreements
James Petras Internationalist 360° Introduction In recent years US imperial strategy has sought to lessen the cost of defeating and overthrowing independent countries. The means and method are fairly straight forward. World-wide propaganda campaigns which demonize the adversary; the enlistment and collaboration of European and regional allies (England, France, Saudi Arabia and Israel); the recruitment,…
America’s Renegade Warfare
Claiming the right to launch preemptive wars and fighting an ill-defined “global war on terror,” the U.S. government has slaughtered vast numbers of civilians in defiance of international law. Nicolas J S Davies Seventy-seven million people in North and South Korea find themselves directly in the line of fire from the threat of a Second…
Know Your Enemy
Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban I once asked Mr. Michel Edde, “What is your favorite newspaper?” He replied, “Haaretz,” because I begin my day by reading it. He added that reading what the enemy writes is essential for understanding what they plan and thus in preparing our response to confront it. He pointed out that he has…
