"Eight years after the US invasion, life in Iraq is actually getting worse for women and minorities, while journalists and detainees face significant rights violations" Human Rights Watch: (Beirut) – The rights of Iraq’s…
Category: Iraq
March 17-19 Iraq War Protests
‘Obey or Die’ by Christopher Brown more at Peace Vigil Paintings By Debra Sweet I’m listening to an MLK speech from 1967, where King says that the United States, at that point,…
A World in Flames: the Endless Echoes of America’s Atrocities
By Chris Floyd For years, I have been writing about the American use of chemical weapons in the savage assault on the Iraqi city of Fallujah in late 2004. The results of…
Nine Years of War and Occupation: Horrifying Amorality, 150,000 US/NATO Troops in Afghanistan
By libbyliberal Eric Margolis writes on what he calls "the over-militarization of US foreign policy" and the political opportunism of generals and political leaders shamelessly and callously continuing to risk countless lives…
Down a Path of Infamy
By William Rivers Pitt I’ve been writing about the war in Iraq for going on ten years now. My first words on the subject were published eight months before the invasion was…
Pentagon Hides Iraq War Deaths
By Rory O’Connor In July, the United States military issued its largest release of raw data ever on deaths during the Iraq war. The Pentagon’s tally of the number of Iraqis killed…
The Petraeus Bait And Switch Maneuver
By Gareth Porter In interviews in recent weeks, Gen. David Petraeus has been taking a line on what will happen in mid-2011 that challenges President Barack Obama’s intention to begin a troop…
US ‘Non-Combat’ Mission in Iraq: Heavily Armed US Troops Clash with Insurgents
By Jason Ditz US troops, which officials are forever reminding us are in Iraq purely in a non-combat role, engaged in heavy combat again yesterday, underscoring the realities of a war that…
Turning Iraq Into a “Good War”
By Gareth Porter In an interview on the PBS NewsHour last Wednesday, Joe Biden was unwilling to contradict the official narrative of the Iraq War that Gen. David Petraeus and the Bush…
Obama Officials: US Will ‘Almost Certainly’ Keep Troops in Iraq Past 2011
By Jason Ditz Despite top Obama Administration officials insisting that the Iraq War is already “over,” combat operations in the nation continue. But at least the “end of 2011″ deadline for a…