US marines kill 4-year-old boy in Afghanistan because "they thought he was the enemy"

US marines based in Helmand province shot a 4-year-old boy because "visibility was poor", "the weather was dusty" and they "thought he was the enemy".

Why the US wants to stay in Afghanistan for at least another ten years

75% of Americans want all troops out of Afghanistan now, but Obama wants to keep several thousand special forces troops, military trainers, CIA personnel, "contractors" and surveillance listening posts there.

John Pilger: The media's act of hypnosis that keeps the crimes of our leaders out of sight

Today liberal democracy is being replaced by a system in which people are accountable to a corporate state - not the other way round as it should be, says John Pilger

Dear George W. Bush: Do you still have no regrets about your war that destroyed Iraq and killed a million of its people?

Ralph Nader tells George W. Bush: You express no remorse, no shame, no compassion and a resistance to admit anything other than that you have done nothing wrong.

How a replay of Iraq war lies took the US and Britain to the brink of war on Syria

There was almost no US media skepticism when the White House stoked war fever by blaming the Syrian government for the Sarin attack but presented zero evidence.

This is what US civilisation looks like in Guantánamo - by prisoner Shaker Aamer

The doctors in Guantánamo are not doctors, they are navy personnel; they follow orders, not their medical ethics. The system is for the system. The torture is for the torture.