In trying to justify his war in Afghanistan, President Obama has told a series of lies about 9/11, al-Qaeda and the Taliban, itemised here by John Pilger. Welcome to the world of George Orwell. |
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Gaza is a maximum security prison, basically a torture chamber under a constant harsh and brutal siege. Gaza one year after Israel's attack, by Noam Chomsky. |
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"The wretched reality endured by 1.5 million people in Gaza should appal anybody with an ounce of humanity," says Amnesty International. |
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Wars don't just hog money that could be spent helping countries adapt to climate change; they are themselves major sources of greenhouse gasses. |
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Barack Obama likes the number 30 billion, for Afghanistan troop surges, military aid for Israel or to help poor countries counter climate change (not). |
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Britain and the US, with their own record of war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, fear that if international law is applied to Israel, it could be catching. |
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A Woman Among the Warlords by Malalai Joya takes a scalpel to many of the illusions surrounding the US invasion of Afghanistan. |
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Peace grannies invade a toy store saying "war is not a game" and create havoc before being ejected by the police and continuing their protest outside the store. |
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Tom Keys was a British soldier killed in Iraq. In this must-see BBC interview, his father Reg Keys explains why Tony Blair should be indicted as a war criminal. |
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If Tony Blair was the "pretty straight sort of a guy" he claims, this is the interview he would have given to the BBC about why he took Britain into an illegal war. |
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The purpose of the Chilcot inquiry is to normalize an epic crime so that the only issue that matters, that of prosecution, is never raised. By John Pilger. |
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