President Obama has accumulated his own massive list of high crimes and misdemeanors | By David Swanson

“[CEO Rick George] also declared a force majeure its natural gas operation in Syria during the quarter to comply with international and Canadian sanctions against the country. George reiterated the Libyan and Syrian assets were not for sale “at this time.”

Gerald Caplan | The Globe and Mail

The Onus is on Washington, as Usual | By Vijay Prashad | Counterpunch

What exactly is “deplorable,” or “inappropriate”? Urinating on the dead bodies of people we killed in a criminal war, or the killing (i.e. war) itself?

Ashley Smith looks at the nightmarish conditions that the U.S. has left behind after the withdrawal of military forces from Iraq late last year. | Socialist Worker

“For almost three years, from 2008 to 2010, Canada’s leading engineering company played a role developing the Libyan Corps of Engineers, a military and civilian unit that fell under Mr. Gadhafi’s personal supervision. In their discussions with Mr. Gadhafi, the Canadian firm described its services as a defence contractor, documents show, touting the experience of former military officers such as Vice-Admiral Ron Buck, former head of Canada’s navy. … Canada’s own export controls include restrictions on “instruction, skills, training, working knowledge, [and] consulting services,” for foreign militaries, and any such services exported should appear in the government’s regular updates on military exports. The $1-million SNC consulting job is not listed in the 2007-2009 report, which shows that no Canadian companies gave any such assistance to Libya during that period. This may indicate that SNC did not report its activity, never performed the work, or received an informal ruling from Canadian bureaucrats that the job didn’t fall under the regulations.”

“The 400 pages of interrogations, once closely guarded as secrets of war, were supposed to have been destroyed as the last American troops prepare to leave Iraq. Instead, they were discovered along with reams of other classified documents, including military maps showing helicopter routes and radar capabilities, by a reporter for The New York Times at a junkyard outside Baghdad. An attendant was burning them as fuel to cook a dinner of smoked carp.” (NYTimes.com)

by Diana Johnstone | Counterpunch | The promoters of the “Right to Protect” doctrine believe they have scored themselves another victory.

by Robert Fisk | The Independent

Maher Arar updates his case and discusses the struggle in Syria | The Real News

Israel subjecting Palestinian people to apartheid, as defined under international law

In a tireless round of regional diplomatic summits last week, Venezuela led a surge of political momentum in favor of the integration of Latin America into a “zone of peace” that solves its problems without foreign or domestic military action, as part of the construction of a multi-polar world that is independent of major superpowers.

Firoze Manji: US sends 100 troops to support Uganda’s fight against LRA | The Real News

by Roger Annis | Socialist Project | “The champagne corks were popping in Halifax and Vancouver on October 19 when the Canadian government announced that two shipyards there have been chosen to build a new, multi-billion dollar generation of warships and coast guard vessels.”

Muammar el-Qaddafi was a tyrant despised by the mass of Libyans–but the U.S. helped to overthrow him for very different reasons, write Alan Maass and Lance Selfa. | Socialist Worker

By Anthony Dimaggio | Znet | The blatant hypocrisy of “democratic intervention” in Libya, coupled with U.S. support for brutal dictatorships throughout the rest of the world, is generally not considered a legitimate issue of discussion in U.S. political culture.

All US troops will be pulled out of Iraq by the end of the year, President Barack Obama has announced. | BBC

NTC military chief says toppled leader died of wounds following capture near his hometown of Sirte. | Al Jazeera

Antonia Juhasz: From oil production to pipelines, energy is a major factor why the US won’t leave Afghanistan anytime soon | The Real News

by Malalai Joya

By Derrick O’Keefe | A pre-emptive strike against the no doubt one-sided and superficial media treatment of this week’s 10th anniversary.