British files seen by Declassified-UK reveal details of torture from 1970, when special forces invaded and annexed the Persian Gulf’s most important oil route, Phil Miller reports.
Stealing a Nation: Secret SAS Mission to Capture Mideast Oil Artery
Category: Militarism
Instead of Facing Extradition, Assange Should Have Won the ‘Nobel War Prize’
The work of the imprisoned WikiLeaks founder could have world-changing consequences leading to harmony among nations, writes Karen Sharpe.
Hollywood’s Gun Love Raises Shooting Risks On & Off Set
Prominent placement in high-profile films can result in a significant bump in sales for gun models, write Brad Bushman and Dan Romer.
Assange: A Threat to War Itself
By pulling the realities of war out of its carefully crafted public context, the WikiLeaks founder became a danger to the country’s political status quo, writes Robert Koehler.
26 Years of Blowing Your Mind
If you only watched corporate media coverage of Colin Powell you’d probably think he walked on water.
WATCH: The Belmarsh Tribunal — The War on Terror on Trial
Inspired by the Russell-Sartre Tribunal of 1966, the Belmarsh Tribunal is putting the U.S. in the dock for its War on Terror crimes. Watch the replay.
Creator of Most Effective Anti-War Meme Dead At 84
Any narrative about an empire-targeted nation backed by U.S. officials must be presumed false until it’s been backed by mountains of independently verifiable evidence, Caity Johnstone writes.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: Drone Whistleblower Thrown in Pen With Terrorists
Is society safer with Daniel Hale, who exposed U.S. drone civilian killings, being housed with some of the most dangerous prisoners in America?
JOE LAURIA: Powell & Iraq—How One Resignation May Have Stopped the Disastrous Invasion
An article in the NYT Magazine tells us how the CIA helped cook the evidence to invade Iraq and why Colin Powell should have resigned rather than go along with it.
An English Village’s Dirty Secret
Matt Kennard and Phil Miller’s new film about a BAE factory town features an ex-government adviser on Saudi arms sales speaking on camera with a journalist for the first time.