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Cancer – USA’s legacy to Iraq

Cancer is spreading like wildfire in Iraq. Thousands of infants are being born with deformities. Doctors say they are struggling to cope with the rise of cancer and birth defects,

The Useless Logic of Round Numbers

Did Gazans starve less after 100 days of Obama's presidency? Do Palestinians care much for round numbers? I doubt it. Nor do Iraqis, Afghanis, and, now, Yemenis. Misery is misery,

Chutzpah: Thy Name is Zionism

One might think that with over a million people dead and almost five million others displaced in Iraq—and not a weapon of mass destruction to be found—that Netanyahu might be

An Illegal War is State-Terrorism

What aggression did Iraq commit against the US and the UK that could have justified the war? How did the people of Iraq ever cause any harm to the people

US: Sectarianism not only cause for Christian problems in Egypt, Iraq

ABC news quoted Professor Hilal Kashan, a professor of political science at the American University in Beirut (AUB), as saying that the tension has not risen between Muslims and Christians

Operation Breakfast Redux

he CIA’s escalating drone war in the Pakistani tribal borderlands and Richard Nixon’s secret bombing campaign against the Cambodian equivalent, argues Pratap Chatterjee.

30-Second Warnings

For sheer prescience when it came to American foreign policy, nothing has beaten 'Kenyan Runner', a Super Bowl commercial that ran just before Team W led us to eight losing

Is Obama a Peacemaker or a Warmonger?

War is not cheap. Although the federal government obscures so much about its defense spending that accurate figures are difficult to procure, we do know that military spending is between

Homegrown Radicals: Complacency is not an Option

An army major at Fort Hood guns down fellow soldiers, five young men arrested after traveling to Pakistan to join radical elements, a coffee vendor charged in a New York

When Scholars Join the Slaughter

Anthropology has been referred to throughout history as the 'handmaiden of colonialism', thus putting anthropologists (today), at least those with a moral conscience, on guard against anything that smells like