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TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - Eleven members of an Iraqi family were killed in a U.S. raid on Wednesday, police and witnesses said. The U.S. military said two women and a child died during the bid to seize an al Qaeda militant from a house.
Television pictures showed 11 bodies in the Tikrit morgue — five children, two men and four women. A freelance photographer later saw the bodies being buried in Ishaqi, the town 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad where the raid took place.
The U.S. (…)

Published on Tuesday, November 5, 2002 in the Times/UK
by Stephen Farrell, Robert Thomson and Danielle Haas
ISRAEL’S Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has called on the international community to target Iran as soon as the imminent conflict with Iraq is complete.
In an interview with The Times , Mr Sharon insisted that Tehran - one of the “axis of evil” powers identified by President Bush - should be put under pressure “the day after” action against Baghdad ends because of its role as a (…)

Z Magazine
Review by Edward S. Herman
This important and valuable book complements perfectly the superb volumes on Yugoslavia by Diana Johnstone (Fools’ Crusade) and Michael Mandel (How America Gets Away With Murder). Johnstone provides essential history and context to the Balkan wars, analyzing the indigenous participants, their backgrounds, motivations and strategies, and the very important role played there by external interveners (the Croatian and Bosnian Muslim diaspora and PR (…)

by Jake Hess
January 30, 2006 Globalresearch.ca
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The coming ’final status talks’ on Serbia’s southern autonomous province will complete the Western conquest of the Balkans
A decade ago this month [Nov 2005] , a US-sponsored conference to end the Bosnian war opened in Dayton, Ohio. The peace treaty that resulted effectively concluded the first round of the Western-fueled breakup of Yugoslavia [1], the south Slav federation that lead (…)

by Stephen M. Osborn
March 14, 2006 GlobalResearch.ca
The latest information I have had from the followers of Bush is that he has demanded and received permission to use nuclear “bunker busters” in Iran in a preemptive strike. As a nuclear veteran (Operation Redwing, Bikini, 1956) I can affirm that this is absolute madness. The “bunker buster” is a cute sounding name for a nuclear horror. Air bursts are horrible enough, doing incredible destruction through heat, shock and (…)

by Rosalind Peterson
March 11, 2006 Venus Project
U.S. Senate Bill 517 and U.S. House Bill 2995, a bill that would allow experimental weather modification by artificial methods and implement a national weather modification policy, does not include agriculture or public oversight, is on the “fast track” to be passed early in 2006.
This bill is designed to implement experimental weather modification. The appointed Board of Directors established by this bill does not include any (…)

The Show Trial That Went Wrong
"It’s hard not to feel that by dying in his cell, Slobodan Milosevic finally succeeded in his determined effort to cheat justice."
Thus the opening sentence of a New York Times editorial, Tuesday March 14. The editorial cited without comment Carla Del Ponte, the chief prosecutor of the United Nations tribunal, who told an Italian interviewer that "the death of Milosevic represents for me a total defeat."
The editorial ended with words of praise for the (…)

Published on Tuesday, March 14, 2006 by the Independent / UK
by Steve Connor
Sea ice in the Arctic has failed to re-form for the second consecutive winter, raising fears that global warming may have tipped the polar regions in to irreversible climate change far sooner than predicted.
Satellite measurements of the area of the Arctic covered by sea ice show that for every month this winter, the ice failed to return even to its long-term average rate of decline. It is the second (…)

Published on Tuesday, March 14, 2006 by the Boston Globe
Budget seeks millions to test new technologies
by Bryan Bender WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is asking Congress for hundreds of millions of dollars to test weapons in space, marking the biggest step toward creating a space battlefield since President Reagan’s long-defunct ’’star wars" project during the Cold War, according to federal budget documents.
The Defense Department’s budget proposal for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1 (…)

Published on Tuesday, March 14, 2006 by the Independent / UK
A burst pipeline in Alaska’s North Slope has caused the Arctic region’s worst oil spill, spreading more than 250,000 gallons of crude oil over an area used by caribou herds and prompting environmentalists again to question the Bush administration’s drive for more oil exploration there.
The leak was first spotted by a British Petroleum worker 11 days ago, and was reported to have been plugged a few days later. Initial hopes (…)