By PATRICK COCKBURN - July 27, 2010

Dramatic increases in infant mortality, cancer and leukemia in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, which was bombarded by US Marines in 2004, exceed those reported by survivors of the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, according to a new study.

By Yifat Susskind - July 29, 2010

In its bid to maintain its occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, the Israeli government has launched a new offensive, this one against its own citizens. A bill that is currently before the Knesset would allow Israelis who support boycotts against Israel to be sued for damages. The bill is part of a government backlash against a small but growing number of Israelis who have taken up the tactic of boycott, sanctions and divestment (BDS) to bring about an end to their government’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.

By CONN HALLINAN - July 29, 2010

Winning “hearts and minds” is just a tactic aimed at insuring our paramount interests...Be nice to the locals unless the locals decide that they don’t much like long-term occupation...Then “hearts and minds” turns nasty. U.S. Special Operations Forces carry out as many as five “kill and capture” raids a day in Afghanistan and have assassinated or jailed more than 500 Afghans in the past few months. Thousands of others languish in prisons.

It's been interesting to watch the discourse around the Afghan War Diary in the Canadian corporate press, and to see what they're talking about, and what they're not...On Sunday, Wikileaks released 91,731 documents about the war in Afghanistan. This is the biggest leak in US history. It'll take some time for analysts to comb through it all, but some reporting trends are already emerging.

A powerful indictment of all wars.

By Rick Salutin - July 23, 2010

Since the Second World War, the U.S. economy has been built around what you might call the fear sector: its military-industrial complex, its crime-prison complex and its homeland-terror complex. We're now seeing the first attempt by a Canadian government to follow this model.

Attacking Iran will inflame the whole Middle East.

By John Pilger - July 08, 2010

The Pentagon...spends $4.7 billion on public relations: that is, winning the hearts and minds not of recalcitrant Afghan tribesmen but of Americans. This is known as “information dominance” and PR people are “information warriors”.

More evidence of Israeli oppression.

By BRIAN CLOUGHLEY - July 23-25, 2010

A person who believes that it is “a hell of a hoot” to kill people is seriously demented. The fact that such a person has been appointed to a major US military command is alarming, to put it mildly. But a country gets the military leaders it deserves. It’s a pity that some are psychotic morons.

By Krystalline Kraus - July 23, 2010

Jeremy Hinzman has won the right to appeal his deportation order, setting the stage for a new immigration review process for all those American soldiers who came to Canada as conscientious objectors.

By ANTHONY DiMAGGIO - July 23-25, 2010

Critical evidence from the British government and other sources suggest that the “War on Terror” has actually destabilized the Middle East and increased the terror threat throughout the globe...[T]he terror threat has grown in the wake of the Iraq invasion, despite the fact that Iraq posed no real national security threat to the West...[T]he invasion of Iraq has actually served as one of the best recruiters for Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda, and loosely affiliated Islamist terror groups.

By BRUCE E. LEVINE - July 22, 2010

While U.S. military psychiatrists are prescribing increasing amounts of chill pills, America’s psychologists are teaching soldiers how to think more positively about their tours in Afghanistan, Iraq, and wherever else they are next ordered to kill the bad guys and win the hearts and minds of everyone else...“We’re after creating an indomitable Army.”

By Noam Chomsky - July 2010

"[The US is] gearing up totally for the destruction of Iran...US bombers and long range missiles are ready today to destroy 10,000 targets in Iran in a few hours...The firepower of US forces has quadrupled since 2003..."

- Dan Plesch, Director of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, University of London

Western children can't imagine what Palestinian one's endure daily.