6 October 2019 — Moon of Alabama
The current unrest in Iraq began a week ago after a prominent general was removed from his post:
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“Terrified” Israel escalates attacks across region
26 August 2019 — The Electronic Intifada
By Ali Abunimah
Israel is escalating its attacks across the region, with bombing and drone raids in recent days in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq.
What the latest secret government file tells us about UK Middle East policy
20 July 2019 — True Publica
By Mark Curtis: The British government is refusing to release a 1941 file on Palestine, as it might “undermine the security” of Britain and its citizens. Why would a 78-year-old document be seen as so sensitive in 2019?
Depleted Uranium: An Iraqi Scientist Speaks Out on the Lingering Effects of Radioactive Weapons By Edward Fox
5 July 2019 — Global Research – Al-Fanar Media 2 July 2019
Souad Naji al-Azzawi, an Iraqi environmental scientist (and longtime contributor to Global Research), has devoted much of her professional life to studying one of the thorniest problems remaining from the years of war in her home country—the effect of depleted uranium weapons on the Iraqi environment and on human health.
16 Years After Iraq, the US Has Become a Nation of Passive Neocons by Whitney Webb
20 March 2019 — Mint Press
After Iraq, the neocons began waging another war, one for America’s soul.
WASHINGTON (Opinion) — Sixteen years have passed and the memory of the Iraq War is distant for many, save for the millions of people — Iraqi and American alike — who saw their lives destroyed by one of the greatest lies ever sold to the American public.
Video: The Mysterious Death of Dr. David Kelly By Norman Baker and Richard Galustian
23 March 2019 — Global Research
Introduction by Richard Galustian
As we contemplate the 16th anniversary this week of the start of the Iraq war, we are forced to ponder on the insanity of that decision by the US and UK in anticipation very soon of a similar disaster developing, again no doubt for oil, this time though in Venezuela.
What is NATO’s New Mission in Iraq? By Salman Rafi Sheikh
20 January 2019 — New Eastern Outlook
The newly launched ‘NATO Mission in Iraq’ has a clear geo-political underpinning to it which aims to disturb the delicate edifice of peace that Russia, Turkey and Iran have been building for last two years or so. Although the new mission has been announced at a time when the US president has already announced a potential withdrawal of US troops from Syria, the new mission rather explains the counter-narrative of ‘no policy change’ that the various US officials have been building ever since Trump’s announcement of troop withdrawal. The new NATO Mission in Iraq is thus a plan according to which the US is going to shift its base of regional geo-politics from Syria, where the Russians, Turks and Iranians have already established their own stronghold, to Iraq, a country that has still not recovered from the damages inflicted on it first by the US invasion and then by ISIS. Iraq, accordingly, is going to become the new theatre of regional geo-politics.
Is Trump Starting His Own War, Finally? By Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR
12 January 2019 — Strategic Culture Foundation
At the end of last year, on December 5, Baghdad was the venue of an intriguing conference when the recently established NATO Mission in Iraq (NMI) conducted an “introduction Event” at the Iraqi Ministry of Defence. According to the press release issued by the NATO’s Allied Joint Force Command in Naples, the conference was attended by “key leaders from across the Iraqi Security and Defence sector, including the Iraqi Chief of Staff, General Othman Al-Ghanimi” and by representatives coming from various international partner missions, organizations and entities such as the Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve, the European Union Advise Mission in Iraq, the United Nations Assistance Mission Iraq, and the Office of Security Cooperation-Iraq and Diplomatic Missions.
The Secret Logistics of America’s Global Deep State By Eric Zuesse
10 January 2019 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Why is America’s Baghdad Embassy the world’s largest embassy — and the largest by far?
Trump’s Syrian Gambit Again Exposes Australian Foreign Policy Bankruptcy By James O’Neill
30 December 2018 — New Eastern Outlook
The decision by US President Donald Trump to withdraw US troops from Syria clearly caught Australian political, military and intelligence leaders by surprise. Despite claims of former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull that Australia and the US were “joined at the hip” the link is clearly metaphorical and does not extend to actual consultation.
Trump stages visit to Iraq amid mounting crisis over Syria troop withdrawal By Bill Van Auken
27 December 2018 — WSWS
US President Donald Trump staged a surprise visit to an American airbase in western Iraq Wednesday in what appeared to be an attempt to both mollify intense criticism within the military-intelligence apparatus of his decision to pull troops out of Syria, and to reassert his commitment to continued US military operations in the Middle East.
'Shock and Awe' Celebrates Reporters Who Got It Right By Gunar Olsen
28 July 2018 — FAIR
It’s now conventional for corporate media pundits and centrist politicians to acknowledge that their support for the US invasion of Iraq was misguided. Most excuse their pro-war record on the grounds that there was no available alternate narrative to the Bush administration’s claim that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. How could they have known any better?
But as FAIR has long noted (Extra!, 3–4/03), this “we were all wrong” narrative doesn’t hold up. There were, in fact, a few corporate journalists who got it right when everyone else was getting it wrong.
