by Mark Dunn Amnesty International, the Nobel Prize-winning human rights group, wants former U.S. president George W. Bush arrested and charged with torture when he visits British Columbia next week. Amnesty officials…
Category: Iraq
The Progressive Perpetuation of Past and Present Evil
By Chris Floyd Five years ago, I wrote several articles about a horrific massacre of Iraqi civilians in Ishaqi. Credible evidence and eyewitness testimony indicated that American soldiers, in the course of…
Ishaqi Again: Another Day, Another Atrocity in the Endless Iraq War
It was just another non-combatant death added to the million or more such deaths caused, by direct or collateral hand, by the illegal American invasion, now in its eighth year. By Chris…
CIA Chief Panetta to Iraq: We’ll Let You Know When You Want Our Occupation to End
By Kenneth J. Theisen On Thursday, June 9th Leon Panetta, the current CIA Chief and incoming Department of War Chief, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that Iraq will request that the…
Image of War’s Pain
From the Rockland Coalition for Peace & Justice The over 8-year war/occupation in Iraq, based on false pretenses, has cost the lives of 4,452 U.S. soldiers and over a million Iraqi civilians. …
Yes, They Lied; Yes, a Million Died; and Yes, They Want It To Go On
By Chris Floyd Why have a million innocent people been killed in Iraq by the cataclysm unleashed by the Anglo-American invasion and occupation? Here’s why: A top military intelligence official has said…
Mosul, Iraq: Protests Continue Against US Occupation, Maliki’s government in Mosul
From Iraq Veterans Against the War Two weeks ago, we reported that a national sit-in movement launched across Iraq. The city of Mosul in northern Iraq seems to have become the epicenter…
Iraqis Launch Sit-ins at US Military Bases Across Iraq this Saturday April 9
Via Iraq Veterans Against the War While there has been wide coverage in US media about the protests in Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, Yemen, Libya, and elsewhere, less has been reported on the…
Death and After in Iraq
An ambulance loaded with injured troops. The less fortunate—those who die—end up in the care of fellow servicemen and -women who have to carry out gruesome work while struggling to hold on…
Women’s Oppression and Stopping these Wars
By Lina Thorne Today, 100 years after the first International Women’s Day, women are STILL oppressed and subjugated, here in the US and around the world. If you have to ask how…