"The allegation ... of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) is an excuse [the US uses] when we have it out for other countries", Jon Wolfsthal, deputy director of the Non-Proliferation Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International
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Even as the administration of US President George Bush was waging war with Iraq in order to "disarm" its regime of as-yet-discovered chemical and biological weapons, Washington continued to implement a US$6 billion-plus expansion of
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While US government officials, from President George Bush down, have publicly denied that the US-led invasion of Iraq has anything to do with seizing control of Iraq's oil vast reserves, the orders given to the invading US troops
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On April 15, 13 Iraqi civilians were killed and 29 wounded by US troops in the northern city of Mosul. The next day, US troops shot dead a further four Iraqis and wounded 10 others. Both atrocities occurred at anti-US protests
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The strains on Washington's close, seven-decade relationship with Saudi Arabia burst into the open last August when the Washington Post revealed that US war secretary Donald Rumsfeld's Defense Policy Board (DPB) on July 10 had
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At an April 8 press conference in Havana, Cuban foreign minister Felipe Perez Roque presented vouchers, bank receipts and photos demonstrating the truth behind the charges against 75 dissidents found guilty of conspiring with
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TORONTO — The Canadian state, at all levels, has responded to anti-war demonstrations and direct actions with an escalation of its campaign of harassment and criminalisation of activists. In Toronto, two large anti-war actions
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The United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) on April 15 condemned Israel for its mass killing of Palestinians and its construction of illegal settlements in the occupied territories. The United States government was the only
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Conservative estimates by Wilma Meeus and David Sanders at the University of the Western Cape's School of Public Health show that rich Western countries have saved billions by enticing African medical professionals to leave their
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After several weeks of accusations from the White House and the Pentagon against the Syrian government of President Bashar al Assad — ominously similar to those used by Washington to justify its invasion of Iraq — on April 17 US
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The rift between the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) over privatisation has deepened substantially since January, when Pretoria launched the full sale of the
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BY NORM DIXON & BARRY SHEPPARD Even as the world's corporate media was declaring the end of the Iraq war, on April 12 as many as 2 million people mobilised across the globe to oppose the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. In