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…
Category: Iraq
Sending “Advisors”…We Know What That Means
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…
Blackwater’s Nisour Square Massacre, a Glimpse of U.S. Mass Murder in Iraq
Larry Everest | April 27, 2015 These contractors were not “rogue” operatives; they are a key part of how the U.S. wages war Monday, April 13, four Blackwater contract killers were sentenced…
Suggested Tweets on the Anniversary of the Invasion of Iraq
World Can’t Wait | March 19, 2015 This weekend, as we gather to protest the new wave of bombs dropped on Iraq and Syria, and the possibility of sending ground troops —…
Debra Sweet and Cindy Sheehan Discuss Plans for An Antiwar Spring Rising
Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox | February 22, 2015 Debra Sweet, director of World Can’t Wait, sat down with Cindy Sheehan to talk about plans for next month’s Spring Rising – a series of…
Humanizing and Glorifying a Mass Murderer for the Empire
Larry Everest | February 2, 2015 I saw Clint Eastwood’s movie American Sniper the other night. It is the story of U.S. Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle, based on his autobiography. Kyle…
Depleted Uranium & Other Demented U.S. Weapons
Debra Sweet | November 4, 2014 Because antiwar activists and medical humanitarians are pushing the issue, the United Nations will be discussing the U.S. use of depleted uranium in weapons, particularly in…
Unnecessary Suffering: The Legacy of Depleted Uranium
Carol Dudek | November, 2014 Iraq was the fertile crescent of antiquity, the vast area that fed the entire Middle East and Mediterranean, and introduced grains to the world. It was Mesopotamia,…
Epidemic of Birth Defects in Iraq
Carol Dudek | October 18, 2014 On Tuesday, Oct. 14, Columbia University’s School of Public Health hosted a presentation by two prominent researchers who have been documenting the shocking increase of birth…
Does Reactionary U.S. Imperialist Intervention Actually Stop Islamic Fundamentalist Extremism?
Jill McLaughlin | September 5, 2014 As news of a second journalist killed by ISIS spills onto the headlines this week, Obama and his administration were quick to promise retribution. Defense Secretary…