Iran Honduras elections

Article by Ed Herman and David Peterson that compares media coverage of elections in Honduras and Iran.

Private prison companies

Private prison companies lobbied for and helped draft Arizona's immigration law.

Afghan warlords training in Australia

Afghan militias that will fight with Australian troops in Afghanistan are training in Australia.

Afghan elections warlords

The elections in Afghanistan have produced a new crop of younger warlords in parliament, pushing aside some of the older mujahideen who had fought the Russians. Those who increased their hold on power are this new crop of strongmen who have benefited greatly from US/NATO contracts and support, making much money out of that.

Iran covert operations

Article tracing the long series of covert operations organized by the US against Iran.

Nir Rosen

An interview with Nir Rosen about Iraq and Afghanistan.

Mexico drugs

Good article from NPR which argues with good data that the Mexican government and military are siding with the Sinaloa cartel in the drug war.

Suicide terrorism

Robert Pape's study says that suicide terrorism arises in response to foreign occupations, not because of religious motives.

Marijuana war on drugs

Very good article on the war on drugs on marijuana, which targets mostly blacks and hispanics.There are links to reports by Harry Levine.

Iraq wikileaks

Some articles about the Wikileaks release of 400,000 documents on the Iraq war:

Patrick Cockburn on some of the conflicts that took place in Iraq since 2003.

Drugs Afghanistan

Russia's drug control chief, Viktor Ivanov, makes the mistake of saying that the Taliban capture only 0.2% of drug money in Afghanistan because he uses the $65 billion figure which is the total revenues of sales worldwide, but that's irrelevant for Afghanistan.

Murdoch taxes

Rupert Murdoch's enterprises only pay about 6% tax on their astronomical profits.

US bases in Afghanistan

US military base construction in Afghanistan is proceeding apace, raising doubts about Obama's announced intent to withdraw in July 2011...

Citizens United

The Citizens United decision by the Roberts court has considered that corporations have the same free speech rights as natural persons. The result is a flood of corporate money in electoral races as in Colorado.

wastewater in palestine

Video on how Israeli settlers dump their wastewater on Palestinian lands:

Iraq unions

Iraqi unions have suffered since Saddam's overthrow (and before).

Iraqi coalition politics

Jason Ditz summarizes the choices of foreign powers in Iraq:
Any majority coalition government in Iraq required the participation of two of the three major blocs, and each side had its foreign advocate, with the Obama Administration supporting the Maliki-Allawi pairing, Syria supporting an Allawi-Sadr pairing, and Iran supporting the Maliki-Sadr pairing that ultimately won out. Maliki may risk a lot in forming a coalition overtly opposed by the US, which is still occupying the nation, but he might be risking even more to expel Sadr after a deal has been made for a coalition which would strengthen the Shi’ite clergy, a move that is supported both by his key allies in Iran and by a large portion of Maliki’s own constituency.

Greenwald suicide terrorism

Glenn Greenwald had a good post on the causes of terrorism and suicide terrorism discussing reports that say they are related to occupations.

China pipelines

Pepe Escobar's article on China's quest for energy through pipelines etc.

US financial wars

A Counterpunch special report on the world economy and the new financial war conducted by the US.

UK jail racism

A new report about Equality in Britain found 7 times more blacks in jail than their proportion of the population, as opposed to 4 times in the US.

Iran china

Chomsky on the rise of China around the world and in the Middle East, which is displacing the US.

And South Korea, after agreeing to apply sanctions on Iran, quietly found another way to maintain its trade with Iran.

US-Korea FTA

Article from FPIF on the US-Korea FTA that says that the deal is a bad thing, it's just to boost corporate power.

Colombia bases

Colombia's Constitutional Court has blocked the US-Colombia agreement to make 7 military bases available to US forces in Colombia.

Nuclear North Korea

Excellent article on US nuclear plans against North Korea throughout the postwar period.

Pantano murders

Pantano is running for Congress but he murdered two unarmed civilians in Iraq in 2005.

Afghanistan

Thomas Ruttig attacks Blackwill's idea of dividing Afghanistan into a Pashtun land and a non-Pashtun land.

Iraq war

The National Security Archive has released a three-part report on the preparations for the Iraq War. Here is a summary by John Prados.

Blackwater contract state department

Blackwater just got another fat contract from the State Department.

Iran media

Iran will only give subsidies to media that are favorable to the establishment.

Wali Karzai CIA

Ahmed Wali Karzai has been on the CIA payroll since before 9-11 according to Bob Woodward's new book.

Iran sanctions

The US is imposing sanctions on certain companies that do business with Iran but not on others if they come from Russia or China, with whom the US does not want to/cannot pick up a fight.