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News media in post-Saddam Iraq face challenges

The U.S. government pumped an estimated half a billion dollars into revitalizing Iraq's news media after Saddam Hussein was ousted in 2003.

US Should Put Money Where Its Interests Lie

The US gives approximately $110?billion a year for the Afghan war and about $3.2?billion for military and economic aid to Pakistan .

WikiLeaks’ Most Terrifying Revelation: Just How Much Our Government Lies to Us

"Try as I may I can not escape the sound of suffering. Perhaps as an old man I will accept suffering with insouciance. But not now; men in their prime,

Egypt a Big Challenge for the Obama Administration

Juan Cole, a Professor of History at the University of Michigan, has stressed that Egypt, after decades of being unproblematic for the US, may be on the verge of becoming

The Use of Torture – WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks is releasing a great deal of information, including cables about torture, verifying the well-founded suspicions of many people. But unless something is done, the efforts of the Wiki-leakers will

Another Look at Wikileaks – America the Indispensable?

The revelations of Wikileaks has had little impact on US policy or diplomacy, despite all the analysis and headlines. Only a handful of the cables actually contain information that reveals

Chickens come home to roost: US technology goes to North Korea via Israel and China

Paul J. Balles views the latest breed of chickens that may come home to roost in the USA: American military technology given to Israel courtesy of US tax dollars, sold

Mubarak Denies Tipping Bush on Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction

Egypt rebuffed recent allegations by former US President George Bush who maintained that the Egyptian president had encouraged him to invade Iraq in 2003 on the grounds that it possessed

Bring me the head of Silvino Herrera

Against the background of the leaking of the USA’s secret Iraq war crimes files by the whistleblower website WikiLeaks, Daniel Patrick Welch peers beneath the West's self-proclaimed cultural and moral

Wikileaks for dummies: exposing the Iraq war crimes files

Mamoon Alabbasi views some of the disinformation and spin propagated by the mainstream media regarding the leaking of the US’s secret Iraq war files by the whistleblower website Wikileaks.