Israeli state-sponsored terrorism against children.

"Mr Boncore had reasonable grounds to attempt to do what he said to the police he wanted to do," Davison told provincial court Judge Manfred Delong, "and that was to carry out a citizen's arrest of George W Bush," the lawyer said.

By DAVE LINDORFF - March 4, 2010

...Charlie Company’s Lt. William Calley ordered and encouraged his men to rape, maim and slaughter over 400 men, women and children in My Lai in Vietnam back in 1968...Today’s war in Afghanistan also has its My Lai massacres...There was...a massacre recently that...bears the same stench as My Lai. It was the execution-style slaying of eight handcuffed students, aged 11-18, and a 12-year-old neighboring shepherd boy who had been visiting the others, in Kunar Province, on Dec. 26.

By RAY McGOVERN - February 26-28, 2010

The Iranian government is celebrating the capture of Abdolmalek Rigi, the leader of a violent group called Jundullah...which Tehran says is a terrorist organization supported by the United States, Great Britain and Israel...Jundullah is one of several groups that have been conducting bombings and other violent attacks against Iran’s Islamic regime with the aim of knocking it off balance.

By DAVID SWANSON - February 5-7, 2010

Acts that are crimes under national and international law don't cease to be crimes because you engage in them frequently. Assassinating non-Americans is just as illegal as assassinating Americans. The leap here is not to victims of a different citizenship but to the legalization of murder.

By STAN GOFF - February 1, 2010

The Joint Special Operations Command...carries with it a mystique. The press, JSOC's promoters and its critics, as well as the entertainment media, have all contributed to its mystique...Hollywood, pulp fiction, television drama, infotainment "news," and military-veteran boosterism all contribute to the vast ignorance of military matters, by overdramatizing military life and military operations, and by idealizing it.

By Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald - January 23, 2010

Without a care for the consequences, the U.S. first fostered Islamic extremists in the 1980s...Once a person with a cause has been linked to a policy and established in Washington, that person remains forever as the go-to person regardless of their subsequent history. One such example is the Afghan terrorist, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar...

By BRIAN M. DOWNING - January 8-10, 2010

...[I]t is not puzzling as to why Pakistan chooses to protect the Taliban and other insurgent and terrorist groups such as Hizb-i Islami and the Haqqani network. Americans see Afghanistan as part of the war on terror. Pakistan sees it quite differently. While paying lip service to American concerns in the region, Pakistan considers Afghanistan as part of the war on India. And various groups such as the Taliban and Lashkar-i Taiba enjoy government patronage.

By Paul Craig Roberts - 12 January 2010

The "war on terror" is a far greater threat to Americans than all the terrorists in the world combined. This is so because the "war on terror" has destroyed the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. American citizens are now helpless in the event someone in government decides that some constitutionally protected behavior, such as free speech, or a contribution to a children’s hospital in Gaza...constitutes aiding and abetting terrorism.

By Gary Younge - Sunday 3 January 2010

In...a state of perpetual crisis both terrorists and reactionaries thrive. Terrorists successfully create a climate of fear; governments successfully exploit that fear to extend their own powers.

By Alan Hart - December 27, 2009

On the first anniversary of the beginning of Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip...it’s not enough to say that the governments of the Western powers...are complicit in Israel’s on-going collective punishment of 1.5 million Palestinians...What is actually happening...is the continuation by stealth of Zionism’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine...What we are witnessing is...“genocide in slow motion.” And that...is what the governments of the Western powers...are complicit in.

By Seumas Milne - January 08, 2010

Decades of oil-hungry backing for despots...along with the failure of Arab nationalism to complete the decolonisation of the region, fuelled first the rise of Islamism and then the eruption of al-Qaida-style terror more than a decade ago. But, far from addressing the natural hostility to foreign control of the area and its resources at the centre of the conflict, the disastrous US-led response was to expand the western presence still further...

By DAVE LINDORFF - January 4, 2010

...[T]he apparent mass murder of Afghan school children, including one as young as 11 years old, by a US-led group of troops, was pretty much blacked out in the American media. Especially blacked out was word from UN investigators that the students had not just been killed but executed, many of them after having first been rousted from their bedroom and handcuffed.

By PATRICK COCKBURN - December 29, 2009

Yemen is the Afghanistan of the Arab world. It is the poorest Arab country, its government is weak, its people are armed, it already faces a serious rebellion, it is strongly tribal and its mountain ranges are a natural refuge for groups like al-Qa'ida.

By Saleh Al-Naami - 24-30 December 2009

As Palestinians mark the first anniversary of the war, Israelis are revealing the reasons behind their army's savage treatment of Palestinians during the war. An edict by Chief Military Rabbi Brigadier General Avi Ronzki to Israeli troops on the first anniversary of the war called for no mercy or compassion for Palestinians..."[T]he goal of the recent war on Gaza aimed to destroy and annihilate the enemy, not to take prisoners...We fought the gentiles with all our willpower and force."