The Runit Dome in the Marshall Islands is a hulking legacy of years of US nuclear testing. Now locals and scientists are warning that rising … This dome in the Pacific houses tons of radioactive waste – and it’s leakingRead more
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Posted inAfghanistan / Military / ToMl / USA Empire
Rejecting U.S. Claims, MSF Details Horrific Bombing of Afghan Hospital
Doctors Without Borders continues to demand an independent war crimes probe of the U.S. bombing of its hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, after releasing its own … Rejecting U.S. Claims, MSF Details Horrific Bombing of Afghan HospitalRead more
Posted inMiddle East / ToMl / USA Empire
What ISIS wants
Lydia Wilson talking: firstly, I’d like to point out that these were Iraqi local boys, Sunni-Arab Iraqis who were operating a sleeper cell in Kirkuk. … What ISIS wantsRead more
Posted inToMl / USA Empire
The Last Days of Tomas Young
Tomas Young was shot and paralyzed below his waist in Iraq in April 2004 when he and about 20 other U.S. soldiers were ambushed while … The Last Days of Tomas YoungRead more
Posted inMiddle East / ToMl / USA Empire
A personal revenge
Abdel Bari Atwan talking: Saudi Arabia is the origin of radicalism, Islamic radicalism, in the Middle East and the whole world and the whole Islamic … A personal revengeRead more
Posted inAfrica / China / Military / ToMl / USA Empire
China, America, and a New Cold War in Africa
Nick Turse talking: if you travel anywhere on the African continent, you’ll see that the Chinese have moved in, in a very big way, over … China, America, and a New Cold War in AfricaRead more
Posted inSyria / ToMl / USA Empire
There are two ways to end a war
The U.S. deployment of a team of special operations forces to Syria comes after the first U.S. combat casualty in Iraq in four years. Just … There are two ways to end a warRead more
Posted inIraq / Politics / ToMl / USA Empire
Unjustified invasion of Iraq
Viggo Mortensen talking: this book, Twilight of Empire: Responses to Occupation, is a book that was published at the moment that we were invading and … Unjustified invasion of IraqRead more
Posted inSyria / ToMl / USA Empire
The Endless War Grows
The White House has announced a team of special operations forces numbering less than 50 will be sent to Syria. This marks the first sustained … The Endless War GrowsRead more
Posted inChina / Human right / Japan / ToMl
Hanaoka Massacre of Chinese Forced Laborers
When U.S. occupation forces liberated Allied POW camps in the Akita area in northern Japan in the early fall 1945, they came across piles of … Hanaoka Massacre of Chinese Forced LaborersRead more