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Iraq's government has lost control of vast areas to powerful local factions and the country is on the verge of collapse and fragmentation, a leading British think tank said on Thursday.

The struggle over Iraqi oil has been going on for a long, long time. One could date it back to 1980 when President Jimmy Carter -- before his Habitat for Humanity days -- declared that Persian Gulf oil was "vital" to American national interests, argues Michael Schwartz.

Transcript of a debate between James Pertas and Norman Finkelstein on Radio Intifada discussing the relationship between Israel and the United States.

Hundreds of thousands of Shia protesters have burnt and trampled on US flags in the Iraqi city of Najaf during an anti-American rally called by Muqtada al-Sadr, a prominent Shia leader.

On Monday, March 26, 2007 in Northern Gaza a river of raw sewage and debris overflowed from a collapsed earth embankment into a refugee camp driving 3,000 Palestinians from their homes.  Five residents drowned, 25 were injured and scores of houses were destroyed.

Our "free" media is so eager to accept the official British explanation of why their sailors/Marines wound up in Iranian custody that most Western "news" accounts are ignoring all evidence to the contrary, such as the trenchant observation of former British diplomat Craig Murray:

For four years, Britain and the US have aimed to encourage sectarianism, but ultimately they will fail to divide the country