Articles
Sept. 3 - Antonio Graceffo takes a look at health conditions amongst the Shan people of Burma and at the limited medical care they have access to.
The Plight of the Shan People of Burma
Aug. 29 - Genocide, Torture, and Ignorance: The Shan are dying and the world takes no notice.
NIST Releases Long-Awaited Report on WTC7
Report says fire brought down 47-story building on 9/11
Aug. 22 - NIST has finally released the long-awaited report explaining the collapse of WTC 7. While rejecting the theory that explosives were used to implode the building, it also confirms a number of arguments used by conspiracy theorists.
Main headlined at OpEdNews
"[A] great article" -- OpEdNews
U.S. Allegations Against Pakistani Intelligence Represent Shift in Policy
Aug. 2 - The US has publicly alleged that intercepts show that Pakistani intelligence was responsible for the July 7 bombing of India's embassy in Afghanistan, representing a shift in policy designed to pressure the democratically elected Pakistani government to fall in line and take marching orders from Washington.
Main headlined at OpEdNews and Novakeo
"[A] great article" -- OpEdNews
US "War on Terror" Destabilizing Afghanistan, Pakistan
July 7 - US policies since the Soviet-Afghan war and continuing through the "war on terror" are a destabilizing influence on Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Featured at Novakeo
The Washington Post on Habeas Corpus
June 28 - The debate as presented in the Washington Post is thus not whether the government should have the power to strip prisoners of basic legal rights or not, but rather whether the best way to strip them of those rights is for the Executive or the Legislative branch to do so.
Featured at Counterpunch, Atlantic Free Press, and Novakeo
Threats of War Against Iran Continue to Escalate
June 12 - The threat of military attack against Iran has continued to escalate as the European Union this week conceded to pressure from the US to implement stricter sanctions against Iran for refusing to cease from enriching uranium for its nuclear program. Earlier this week, Israeli transport minister Shaul Mofaz threatened, "If Iran continues with its programme for developing nuclear weapons, we will attack it. The sanctions are ineffective. Attacking Iran, in order to stop its nuclear plans, will be unavoidable."
Featured at Counterpunch, Atlantic Free Press,, Novakeo, and OpEdNews
Bush Didn't Lie? If Only It Weren't That Simple
June 10 - The definition of the verb to "lie", according to Webster's dictionary, is "making untrue statements with intent to deceive" or "creating a false or misleading impression". That Bush and others in his administration lied isn't an "article of faith", but a demonstrable fact. And by the same standard, neither the members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence nor Fred Hiatt are being too honest, either.
Main headlined at OpEdNews
"a great article" -- OpEdNews
The Persistent Myth of "Intelligence Failure", Phase II
June 8 - In sum, the notion of an "intelligence failure" is a convenient myth for all who propagate it.
Main headlined at OpEdNews
"[A] great article" -- OpEdNews
Connecting the Dots on Rising Oil Prices
June 8 - There is continuing talk that the cause of ever-increasing oil prices is the result of a speculative investment "bubble". But it's a dubious assumption. Certainly, it might play some role in driving prices higher, but it's doubtful to be all that significant a factor when there's a much simpler and more obvious explanation--indeed, it's hard to miss, the proverbial elephant in the room.
Featured at OpEdNews
The IAEA Report on Iran's Nuclear Program
June 5 - As the IAEA Secretary General Mohammed El Baradei noted at the World Economic Forum the week before the delivery of the May report to the UN, "We haven't seen indications or any concrete evidence that Iran is building a nuclear weapon and I've been saying that consistently for the last five years." One must be forgiven if one had arrived at a different conclusion based on contrary impressions delivered to the public by the US media.
Featured at OpEdNews
"[R]anked number one in its column for the day" -- OpEdNews
"This is a good investigative report that can rarely been found in US media." -- http://reportiran.blogspot.com
Pakistan in the US "war on terrorism"
Dec. 6 - There’s no silver-bullet solution and the task of building peace, stability, and democracy in Pakistan is certain to be a long and arduous one. The most elementary step towards a solution would be to stop engaging in policies that have largely caused and which continue to escalate the problem.
Featured at OpEdNews
The Reasons for Regime Change in Iraq
Sept. 6 - In the end, there is really no need to speculate about the reasons for the Iraq war, as policy-makers have quite openly and explicitly stated their reasons for desiring regime change since the end of the first Gulf War in public documents. The war was not fought to suit Israel's interests, but to suit the interests of the U.S. as perceived by policy-makers in Washington. Israeli and U.S. interests may coincide at times, but the ultimate objective, repeatedly declared, is U.S. global hegemony, which necessitates military preeminence and guaranteeing access, by force if necessary, to Middle Eastern oil.
The Path Towards War With Iran
Aug. 21 - Ramifications of the proposal to add the Revolutionary Guard to the list of terrorist organizations This month saw yet another escalation of the U.S. policy of isolating and pressuring Iran as the White House announced its intention to add Iran's Revolutionary Guard to the State Department's list of terrorist organizations. There is something to be learned from this about the nature of U.S. foreign policy if we care to examine the implications; and the ramifications of such a decision could be quite serious and potentially deadly, so it warrants a look.
Featured at Information Clearing House, Atlantic Free Press, Dissident Voice,, and Novakeo
The Framework for Debate on Iran
Aug. 5 - U.S. Policy and its peaceful alternative The tragic consequences of our present course of action are predictable. They are also avoidable, but only if we discard the existing framework for discussion and adopt a framework more conducive to reason and to achieving the stated policy objective of ensuring peace and stability in the world.
Featured at Atlantic Free Press, Dissident Voice,, OpEdNews, Online Journal and Novakeo
"Brilliant, well researched, and very thoughtful article." -- Publisher, Atlantic Free Press
July 12 - Elite Propaganda and U.S. Policy in the Middle East The U.S. not only has done nothing to deserve the hatred of others, but they only hate us because we are so good, and so we should therefore take pride in the fact that we are so unloved by so many people in so much of the world.
Featured at Atlantic Free Press, Dissident Voice,, OpEdNews, and Novakeo
Lessons From the U.S. Stance on Iran
July 8 - That the discussion coming from the government and media could continue as long as it has under this basic framework, the incredible hypocrisy as the proverbial elephant in the room, speaks volumes about American society and the willingness of people on such a massive scale to deceive themselves about their own role and the role of their own government in the world.
Featured at Dissident Voice, Online Journal,, OpEdNews, Novakeo, Infowars, and Prison Planet
Truth and Lies in Media Reports on Iran
March 27 - The moral is that consumers of media, particularly the U.S. media, need to be aware of the institutionalized system of propaganda that exists and learn to recognize the difference between news and misinformation, which begins with a healthy skepticism, particularly when the topic is U.S. foreign policy. But one striking example is presented here.
Featured at OpEdNews
The US Propaganda Campaign Against Iran
Feb. 15 - Aside from claims of Iranian support for attacks on US troops in Iraq, the government has also charged that Iran is intent on producing nuclear weapons and the President has declared that “all options are on the table” for dealing with the alleged threat, including the use of military force, presumably in the form of air strikes against targets inside Iran.
Featured at Atlantic Free Press, Online Journal, Dissident Voice,, OpEdNews, World News Trust, Novakeo, Information Liberation, and Spinwatch
Iran and the Violation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
Responses to "An Open Letter to Senator Carl Levin"
Questioning the Logic of Occupation in Iraq
An Open Letter to Senator Carl Levin on Iraq
The "Option" of Military Force
Testing the Definition of "Terrorist": Luis Posada Carriles and the U.S.
Iraq: An Unpredicted "Disaster"?
Escalating Terrorism U.S. policy and the Israel-Hezbollah war
A Few (Irrelevant) Observations on Bush's Speech to the UN
The New York Times: Top Ten Ways to Prevent Another 9/11
Questioning Israel's "Right to Exist"
Charlie Sheen and the Questioning of 9/11
9/11 and the Pakistan Connection
Denial and Deception: Iraq's Aluminum Tubes and the Case for War
Iraq's Anthrax and the Myth of "Intelligence Failure"
by Bill Benders
The "Legitimate" Use of Napalm and Phosphorus in Iraq
The U.S. "intelligence failure" and Iraq's UAVs
Proposed Pretexts for War: Operation Northwoods
Polk's War: Taking Nothing by Conquest
Iraq and the Politics of the "Conspiracy Theory"
Negligence in the '93 World Trade Center Bombing
Connecting the Dots: The 9/11 Commission's "Failure of Imagination"
Applying the U.S. Standard: State Sponsors of Terrorism
Depleted Uranium: Lessons in "Humanitarian" and Other Warfare
What's so great about democracy?
America, Babylon and the Ten Commandments
Alberto Gonzales and the Rule of Lawlessness
Disregarding International Humanitarian Law
Lessons Disregarded: The U.S. and Cluster Munitions
The Selective Application of the Geneva Conventions
An analysis of the Justice Department January 9, 2002 draft memorandum to the Department of Defense on the applicability of International Humanitarian Law to the "war on terrorism"
The Pros and Cons of the Geneva Conventions
An analysis of Secretary of State Colin Powell's follow-up memorandum regarding the State Department's January 25, 2002 draft memorandum on the applicability of the International Humanitarian Law to the "war on terrorism"
The "Constraints" of International Humanitarian Law
An analysis of the Justice Department's memo to George W. Bush regarding the applicability of International Humanitarian Law in the "war on terrorism"
An analysis of the Justice Department's memo to the Department of Defense regarding the applicability of International Humanitarian Law in the "war on terrorism"
Inconvenient Facts and "Conspiracy Theories": A second glimpse at the neocons and the case for war
The Status Quo: Bush discourages "change" in China-Taiwan relations
Israel, "America's Next Battle" That Will Never Be
Pearl Harbor, An Intelligence Success
"Come now and let us reason together..."
The FBI cover-up of the anthrax investigation
Lessons from East Timor and Kuwait: Oil is Thicker than Blood
COINTELPRO, The FBI and Martin Luther King
Will the Real Osama Please Stand Up?
George W. Bush's Response to 911
Weekend Update, September 29, 2002
