Dennis Loo | September 5, 2014 Dennis Loo interviewed Revolution writer Larry Everest about Iraq, ISIS, US plans for the region, and the implications for those of us seeking to mobilize opposition…
Category: Iraq
How to Make Sense of U.S. Threats on Iraq and Syria
Debra Sweet | August 27, 2014 If you want to shake your head and give up on the situation as beyond understanding — don’t! Dangerous arguments and actions came this week from…
U.S. Bombs Won’t Save Iraqi Lives
Debra Sweet | August 8, 2014 Daddy George H.W. Bush; Bill Clinton; W. Bush and now Barack Obama have an unbroken streak of bombing Iraq. Let us say as strongly as we…
Unthinkable Thoughts in the Debate About ISIS in Iraq
Ross Caputi | June 15, 2014 This week Iraq emerged from the recesses of American memory and became a hot topic of conversation. Alarming headlines about ISIS’s “takeover” of Mosul and their…
Iraqis Are Not ‘Abstractions’
Ray McGovern | June 21, 2014 When I saw the Washington Post’s banner headline, “U.S. sees risk in Iraq airstrikes,” I thought, “doesn’t that say it all.” The Post apparently didn’t deem it newsworthy…
The Iraqi People are our Sisters and Brothers
Stephanie Tang | June 21, 2014 As we speak and protest today about the looming threats of renewed U.S. aggression and intervention in Iraq, let’s look at reality, not a fragment of…
24 Years of US War on Iraq – No Bombing Now!
Debra Sweet | June 16, 2014 It’s time to be in the streets in protest, demanding NO further war on Iraq. Within days or hours, the U.S. may be bombing Iraq again. …
Public Hearing: David Petraeus & His Legacy in Iraq & Afghanistan
Cat Watters | April 3, 2014 Last fall, CUNY’s Board of Trustees hired ex-general Petraeus to teach a course titled “Are We On The Threshold of a North American Decade?” at the…
Iraqi Government Killing Civilians in Fallujah
Dahr Jamail | March 3, 2014 Doctors, residents and NGO workers in Fallujah are accusing the Iraqi government of “war crimes” and “crimes against humanity” that have occurred as a result of…
US War Crimes: The Continuing Deterioration of Women’s Rights in Iraq
Haifa Zangana | March 8, 2014 “The regression in women’s situation is so devastating that she has reached the bottom of human needs. Just to survive.” The following text published by the…