
by Pepe Escobar, Brazilian Investigative Journalist, Senior Analyst and Author May 14, 2012 (TSR) - Former United States president George W Bush issued an ultimatum to Saddam Hussein before bombing and invading Iraq. Nine years later, US President Barack Obama has issued an ultimatum to the leadership in Tehran before … setting optimal conditions for an [...]

KUALA LUMPUR, 11 May 2012 (TSR) – The five-panel tribunal unanimously delivered a guilty verdict against former United States President George W. Bush and his associates at the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal hearing that had started on Monday. On the charge of Crime of Torture and War Crimes, the tribunal finds the accused persons [...]

KUALA LUMPUR, 10 May 2012 (TSR) – The fourth day of the trial began with the submission of the amicus curiae who submitted that international law changed after World War II and again after 9/11. He said that Torture is not a crime under international law and customary international law and jus cogens is no longer [...]

KUALA LUMPUR, 9 May 2012 (TSR) - The third day of the Kuala Lumpur war crimes tribunal hearing saw the prosecution present its submission to establish that the accused parties are indeed guilty as charged for the Crime of Torture and Crimes Against Humanity. The Charge Crime of Torture and War Crimes against former U.S. President George [...]

KUALA LUMPUR, 8 May 2012 – The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal heard the testimony of the prosecution’s third witness Jameelah Abbas Hameedi, who used to be the Head Chief of the Cooperation Unions in Kirkuk. The 57-year-old Iraqi told of her torture in the Baghdad Airport and Abu Ghraib prisons in 2004. She told the [...]

by Seymour Hersh, Pulitzer-prize winning investigative journalist May 7, 2012 (TSR) - From the air, the terrain of the Department of Energy’s Nevada National Security Site, with its arid high plains and remote mountain peaks, has the look of northwest Iran. The site, some sixty-five miles northwest of Las Vegas, was once used for nuclear testing, and [...]

by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, Chairman of The Institute for Political Economy and Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy under Reagan Administration April 30, 2012 (TSR) - Andy Worthington is a superb reporter who has specialized in providing the facts of the US government’s illegal abuse of “detainees,” against whom no evidence exists. ( http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/ ) [...]

by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, Chairman of The Institute for Political Economy and Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy under Reagan Administration April 26, 2012 (TSR) - Great empires, such as the Roman and British, were extractive. The empires succeeded, because the value of the resources and wealth extracted from conquered lands exceeded the [...]

March 22, 2012 (TSR) - Everyone in the world seems to recognize the obvious crimes perpetrated by the Bush/Cheney regime. Their overwhelming negative status in the world has now confined them to personal prisons where they can no longer travel abroad for public events. It appears they’re only welcome in heavily-secured private dragon lairs for the rest [...]

March 13, 2012 (TSR) - In his book titled, “Freedom Next Time: Resisting the Empire,” John Pilger discussed Afghanistan, saying: “Through all the humanitarian crises in living memory, no country has been abused and suffered more, and none has been helped less than Afghanistan.” He described what looked more like a moonscape than a functioning nation. [...]