Category: Iraq

David Swanson | December 28, 2018 {jathumbnailoff} You’ve got 5,000 armed foreign troops stationed in your country. You don’t say a word until the idiot foreign emperor stages a surprise visit. Then…

World Can’t Wait | March 25, 2017 14 years after a coalition of Western forces invaded and occupied the sovereign state of Iraq, the world is still waiting for withdrawal of U.S….

World Can’t Wait | December 10, 2016 13 years after a coalition of Western forces invaded and occupied the sovereign state of Iraq, the world is still waiting for U.S. withdrawal of…

Nicolas J S Davies | April 26, 2015 USA Today reported on April 19 that U.S. air forces bombing Syria and Iraq have been operating under new, looser rules of engagement since last…

Debra Sweet | April 5, 2016 April 5 — six years ago yesterday — was when the videoCollateral Murder was shared with the world by Wikileaks, exposed from US military files by Chelsea…

William Blum | Feburary 5, 2016 The modern, educated, advanced nation of Iraq was reduced to a virtual failed state … the United States, beginning in 1991, bombed for much of the…

Debra Sweet | June 17, 2015 We are outraged, to say the least, that George W. Bush, godfather of the war on Iraq, is being named “Father of the Year” today at…

Revolution Newspaper | June 16, 2015 Some people—including people who have actively opposed crimes of the U.S. and its ally, Israel, in the Middle East—frequently express frustration that the Obama administration doesn’t…

Revolution Newspaper | June 16, 2015 U.S. Out of Iraq! Humanity Needs Another Way On June 10, Barack Obama announced he was sending “450 additional U.S. military personnel to train, advise, and…

Debra Sweet | June 12, 2015 Obama on sending 450 MORE “advisors” to Iraq: “These new advisers will work to build capacity of Iraqi forces, including local tribal fighters, to improve their…