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Photos Reportedly Show Marines Burning Bodies in Iraq

WARNING: Video contains graphic images.

(MOSCOW RT) - TMZ released 41 shocking new photos on Wednesday that they say show US Marines burning the bodies of dead Iraqi insurgents in Fallujah in 2004. TMZ did not reveal its source, and also said that some of the pictures were too gruesome to release.

"The actions depicted in these photos are not what we expect from our service members, nor do they represent the honorable and professional service of the more than 2.5 million Americans who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan." a US Defense Department spokesman said in a statement.

Violence Threatens to Thwart Iraqi Oil Resurgence

The clashes kick off 2014 in much the same way as 2013 ended – a return to violence in a country that had seen important security gains in recent years.

(LONDON OilPrices.com) - A wave of violence has swept parts of Iraq at the start of 2014 as the central government fights back against Al-Qaeda aligned militants in Anbar Province.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) reportedly took control of Ramadi and Fallujah, bombing police headquarters and killing dozens. On New Year's Day Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki sent in reinforcements to take back control of AnbarProvince's two largest cities.

Are US Policy Makers Really that Stupid, or are they Evil?

Is it a surprise that in a world poll this week the US was voted the biggest threat to peace in the world?

(JAMESTOWN, RI) - Are US policy makers really stupid or do they have a natural talent for creating violence and hatred? The latest world poll shows the US is considered the biggest threat to world peace and our government’s daily actions and decisions assure us of a continued “number one”.

Iraq for example, just suffered its worst year of violence since 2008 with almost 9,000 deaths in a country that is a failed state wracked with civil wars, sectarian strife, and infested with large Al Qaeda groups, all trying to impose their will and agenda on a devastated nation.

Al Qaeda Does Not Exist and Never Has

The basic truth is that Al Qaeda does not exist and never has. Al Qaeda is a manufactured enemy who was created by the Bush Administration in order to have an excuse to wage a war for the control of the world’s oil resources.

(MOSCOW Pravda) - Did an American even hear the words “Al Qaeda” before 9-11?

Or were we told that its alleged leader Osama Bin Laden has family who themselves have personal business relationships with George W. Bush’s family and that both families had financially profited considerably from the “War on Terror”?

BREAKING: U.S. to Move 3000 Terrorists to Romania

"Mojahedin-e Khalq" is an Iranian Islamist terrorist organization in exile, which advocates the overthrow of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

(SOFIA, Bulgaria) - As it became known from the Romanian Foreign Ministry employees dialogue in a social network "Wordpress", currently the U.S. and the Romanian government are negotiating the deployment about 3 thousand representatives of the terrorist organization "Mojahedin-e Khalq"(MEK) on the territory of Romania. It is assumed that in the case of the Romanian leadership consent members of the group will be compactly settled near the city of Craiova.

It is assumed that in the case of the Romanian leadership consent members of the group will be compactly settled near the city of Craiova.

Archeology and the Atom

There are other ways to make electricity, namely solar, wind, geothermal, and hydro dams, and there is always conservation.

(ASHLAND, WI) - We have all heard of the city of Idu. Right? Thousands of families living there, carrying out their normal lives, government housed in lavish buildings, written documents, trade, religion, etc.

Well, it was lost. A whole city lost. Idu flourished in the 13th century B.C. We knew it had existed from some ancient Assyrian records, but had no idea where it was. Archeologists finally found it last year, buried in northern Iraq.

Fallujah Birth Defects and More...
Listen to Tim King on the Barry Chamish Show

American and Israeli journalist discuss political and military realities on the day of the year targeted for human rights...

(ST AUGUSTINE) - Tim King was a featured guest on the Barry Chamish Radio Program last Tuesday, 04 December 2013. The program was unique and interesting and didn't take long to move into very controversial territory.

An Israeli military vet, Barry Chamish has been called Israel's top investigative reporter and he has spent years researching and revealing some of Israel's most unpleasant truths. Tim King, a former U.S. Marine, as a news editor, covers human rights violations in places like Palestine, Sri Lanka and Burma on Salem-News.com.

Prove What You Don`t Have

Those who insisted that Iraq prove that it didn't have what it said it didn't have simply rejected Iraq's denial, which cost a million and a half lives and trillions of dollars.

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - Prove that you don't have what I believe you have! That was an exact demand made on Saddam Hussein. He scoffed. That brought "shock and awe", and Saddam was hanged on the mother of all ropes.

Prove that you don't have weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). The neocons sold the logic of that empty demand and the American public bought it.

`Damning Evidence` Becomes `No Clear Evidence`: Much-Delayed Report On Congenital Birth Defects In Iraq

"All studies done by the Ministry of Health prove with damning evidence that there has been a rise in birth defects and cancer, since the substances in question cause birth defects if the mother was exposed to them, or cancer, or in some cases, both." - senior MOH official in Baghdad

(LONDON) - In a 2010 alert, 'Beyond Hiroshima – The Non-Reporting Of Fallujah's Cancer Catastrophe', we noted the almost non-existent media response to the publication of a new study that had found high rates of infant mortality, cancer and leukemia in the Iraqi city.

The dramatic increases in these rates exceeded even those found in survivors of the atomic bombs dropped by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

Al Jazeera: `No Clear Evidence` for Rise in Iraqi Birth Defects

A March finding of 'damning evidence' in the increase in cancers and other health issues was reversed by a new report.

(DETROIT) - A short and anonymous report just appeared on the World Health Organization (WHO) website. It is titled "Summary of prevalence of reported congenital birth defects in 18 selected districts in Iraq." Previously, this report was referred to on the WHO website as a "joint study" with the Iraqi Ministry of Health (MoH) which began in May-June 2012.

It was to examine the prevalence of congenital birth defects in a number of geographically dispersed areas of Iraq which were exposed to bombardment or heavy fighting, or were unexposed.