Despite the Cold War, Russia and Europe traded commodities entirely reliably and since abandonment of Russia’s command economy with its dogmas a broad movement for closer economic links has developed.

How a secret order given by the Pentagon could have led to the death of a detainee who the US knew was being tortured.

US military legal adviser told helicopter crew that Iraqi men were valid targets as they could not surrender to aircraft.

The tragic story of Nabiha Jassim, a pregnant woman who was killed by US troops as she rushed to hospital to give birth.

Jonathan Pollard did more damage to the United States than any spy in history. And it was genuine damage, not just a mass of documents that had been routinely classified.

So...it turns out President Eisenhower wasn't making up all that stuff about the military-industrial complex.

Rick Rozoff views the United States’ growing arms exports to Middle East countries, which will spend an estimated 100 billion dollars on arms from the US by 2014, and the

Wikileaks has said it plans to release a video of a US air strike in Afghanistan which allegedly killed many children. Photograph: public domain The whistleblowing website WikiLeaks says it

Christopher King argues that it is likely that the American CIA – or Israel acting on its behalf – is responsible for recent atrocities in Iraq, in order to extend

Amnesty International has called for an independent, thorough and impartial investigation into the 12 July 2007 helicopter attacks portrayed in a leaked classified US military video in which up to