Phillip Smith, Drug War Chronicle. December 19, 2011.
Amnesty International has called on Iran to stop executing people for drug offenses, saying the Islamic Republic has embarked on "a killing spree of staggering proportions."
Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch.com. September 15, 2011.
America's rise to supremacy was fueled by control over the world's oil supply. Now, the decline of the U.S. coincides with the decline of oil as a major energy source.
Iraq continues its drift toward a failed state, and the strategic winner from the invasion looks to be Iran. So why is Washington celebrating Gen. Petraeus?
Pakistan is strategically at the center of too many plans for it to rely on the US -- with pipeline plans, Iran and China as neighbors and a planet hungry for natural gas.
Two decades ago, U.S. history could have taken a very different course if Gates and his cohorts had faced real accountability and their secrets had been exposed.
Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!. June 3, 2011.
Seymour Hersh says the US might attack Iran based on distorted estimates of Iran's nuclear and military threat -- just like it did with Saddam in Iraq.
Sohrab Behdad, Farhad Nomani, Tehran Bureau. April 22, 2011.
By 1981, all the independent unions and councils from during and after the Revolution had been forcefully taken over by pro-government workers and other supporters of the regime.
