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World-class set of independent Syria experts pull Britain's latest folly apart
investigative reports: Interview with Mehrnaz Shahabi, an Iranian Bristolian, on Syria: Roland Dumas and his claim the British started the Syrian civil war on French TV, Wikileaks documents, and regime change in Syria – witnesses in Syria say Jihadis in crowd at early demonstrations were shooting at demonstrators and police. Interview with Dan Glazebrook, author of 'Divide and Ruin, about Syria:...
Posted: Fri, Dec 11, 2015 5:27pm PST
Panorama investigates claims that as much as $23bn may have been lost, stolen or not properly accounted for in Iraq [58'31"]...
Posted: Wed, Jun 11, 2008 12:11pm PDT
24 year old former Corporal Matthew Childers originally hails from Ona, West Virginia. Childers served Iraq with the United States 1st Marines, 1st Marines Divi...
Posted: Sat, Apr 12, 2008 4:06pm PDT
“Pentagon Papers” leaker Daniel Ellsberg spoke on the illegality of the Iraq war and the planned attack on Iran, in which he expects the US to use tactical nuclear weapons. War and Law League sponsored his appearance at the Unitarian Universalist church in SF on Sunday March 30th 2008. Audio: 1 hr 8 min....
Posted: Thu, Apr 3, 2008 10:45pm PDT
Independent experiment on depleted uranium testing with blood samples from five veterans of the first Gulf War [45 minutes]...
Posted: Thu, Mar 27, 2008 4:05pm PDT
Chevron is the third largest company in the US…seventh largest in the world. Last year, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company- also known as Conoco Phillips- made over $18 billion in profits – the highest amount ever made in it's nearly 130 year history. According to the Dept of Energy, Chevron has been refining oil from Iraq at its Richmond refinery since the war began. On Saturday, activists blockaded a Chevron refinery in Northern California, the first MOVE in a week of actions designed to "br...
Posted: Mon, Mar 17, 2008 3:13pm PDT
Several recent books, written not by brass but by low level non commissioned officers, tells a story that will never make it to CNN, to the networks, or to the daily press.
That's because these reports, written by line soldiers, are striking in their absence of political jargon, and the illusions usually presented as war reporting.
No politician, right or left, will describe them as modern day Nazis, riding roughshod over the Iraqi people, and indeed, creating a resistance that di...
Posted: Tue, Dec 11, 2007 10:26pm PST
On April 12, 2006, Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein, part of the AP’s 2005 Pulitzer winning team of photojournalists in Iraq, was seized inside his Rimadi apartment and taken into custody by the US military. As of today, 19 months afterwards, Hussein is still being held in detention without being charged with a crime....
Posted: Sat, Dec 1, 2007 9:27am PST
Planeloads of South Asian persons have been basically kidnapped and forced to work in dangerous and fatal conditions to build the new 104 acre complex....
Posted: Thu, May 17, 2007 3:54pm PDT
Soldiers speaking against war...
Posted: Wed, Apr 18, 2007 5:10pm PDT
The first film in this week's Dispatches 'Iraq: Legacy of Hate' season gives voice to the hidden world of Iraqi youth who have experienced first-hand the brutalisation and psychological trauma of living under military occupation....
Posted: Mon, Nov 6, 2006 2:02pm PST
Democracy Now features testimony by the mother of a U.S. soldier who went AWOL when the military first refused to punish the male "soldiers" who harassed or raped her, then moved to send her back to Iraq....
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2006 11:17pm PDT
An audio essay in which the Downing Street debacle is used as a springboard for larger reflections on the nature and meaning of US Empire.
[56mins]...
Posted: Sat, Jul 1, 2006 6:24am PDT
Jamal Dajani & Jess Ghannam of “Arab Talk” on KPOO discuss the killing of Abu Muss’ab Al Zarqawi with Professor A’sad Abu Khalil, the "Angry Arab" Blogger....
Posted: Fri, Jun 9, 2006 8:16am PDT
Second part of the interview. 18 minutes in length....
Posted: Mon, Apr 24, 2006 12:24pm PDT
First part of the interview. 20 minutes in length....
Posted: Mon, Apr 24, 2006 12:22pm PDT
Interview with Christopher Gorman, Religious Conscientious Objector stationed at FOB Kalsu with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division...
Posted: Mon, Apr 24, 2006 12:21pm PDT
Iraqi Bloggers Faiza Al Araji and her son, Raed Jarrar Spoke at the Louden Nelson Center on 04-07-06 about their experiences in Iraq.
Hosted by Mediawatch...
Posted: Tue, Apr 11, 2006 7:20am PDT
Bert Sacks (Citizens Committee for Responsible Journalism) on "False Headlines and Empty Sound Bites: How the Media is Failing Us and Why." Seattle, 10 Nov 2004...
Posted: Mon, Apr 10, 2006 7:43am PDT