Iraq
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Waterboarding Approved Specifically To Justify Iraq War By Craig Murray
Only torture could yield ‘intelligence’ of such links to provide a justification of the invasion of Iraq. There could be no clearer indication that these evil people wished to launch an illegal war of aggression for their other reasons. Continue reading
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Media Lens 24 April, 2009: Protesting War – An Exchange With The BBC’s Diplomatic Editor, Mark Urban
You would have us believe that this original, grubby motivation can be separated from the effort “to bring about a successful outcome in southern Iraq”. It cannot. ‘Success’ in Iraq has always meant securing control of the country and its oil resources – the welfare of the Iraqi people was, of necessity, always subordinated to… Continue reading
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Human Body Parts by Dahr Jamail
The Sahwa, which were to be incorporated into the government security apparatus, have instead been suffering attacks by that same apparatus for several months – attacks that are now occurring daily. And they are reacting in kind. Continue reading
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No Coincidences in Iraq by Dahr Jamail
Following George W. Bush’s example of keeping war funding off the books, President Barack Obama is seeking $83.4 billion in additional “emergency” funding for the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which, if approved, would bring the 2009 funding to around $150 billion and the overall costs of the two wars to nearly $1 trillion. Continue reading
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Iraq in Fragments by Dahr Jamail
Upon returning home, I experienced the disconnect between that reality, lived by roughly 25 million Iraqis, and the surreal experience of living in the United States — where most media pretend the occupation of Iraq is either not happening, or uses the yardstick of decreased U.S. military personnel deaths in Iraq as a measure of… Continue reading
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Will Obama Vacate Iraq? By Nasir Khan
The United States should be held accountable to pay reparations for the damage it caused and pay compensation to the victims of aggression. We should demand that the International Criminal Court takes steps to indict the alleged war criminals. Continue reading
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“Demonstration in Baghdad against US Occupation”
Thousands of supporters of Shi’i leader Muqtada al-Sadr demonstrated in Baghdad to demand an end to the ‘US occupation,’ on the sixth anniversary of the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime. Continue reading
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Video Part One: Baghdad, City of Walls By Ghaith Abdul-Ahad and Teresa Smith
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad is an award-winning photographer and journalist from Iraq. He began documenting life on the streets of Baghdad in 2001 and, when the Iraq war started two years later, he reported for The Guardian newspaper on those parts of the Iraqi capital that were simply too dangerous for outsiders to cover. But growing violence… Continue reading
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Video Part Two: Baghdad, City of Walls By Ghaith Abdul-Ahad and Teresa Smith
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad is an award-winning photographer and journalist from Iraq. He began documenting life on the streets of Baghdad in 2001 and, when the Iraq war started two years later, he reported for The Guardian newspaper on those parts of the Iraqi capital that were simply too dangerous for outsiders to cover. But growing violence… Continue reading
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Video Part Three: Baghdad, City of Walls By Ghaith Abdul-Ahad and Teresa Smith
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad is an award-winning photographer and journalist from Iraq. He began documenting life on the streets of Baghdad in 2001 and, when the Iraq war started two years later, he reported for The Guardian newspaper on those parts of the Iraqi capital that were simply too dangerous for outsiders to cover. But growing violence… Continue reading
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Video Part Four: Baghdad, City of Walls By Ghaith Abdul-Ahad and Teresa Smith
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad is an award-winning photographer and journalist from Iraq. He began documenting life on the streets of Baghdad in 2001 and, when the Iraq war started two years later, he reported for The Guardian newspaper on those parts of the Iraqi capital that were simply too dangerous for outsiders to cover. But growing violence… Continue reading
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The Growing Storm | Dahr Jamail – Independent Reporting from Iraq and the Middle East
The US policy that has led to this recent violence has been long in the making, as it has only been a matter of time before the tenuous truce between the groups came unglued. Continue reading
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The Ongoing Occupation of Iraqi Artists by Dahr Jamail
“The mind needs art and education. I come here because the lamp needs electricity. The lamp of my mind, like that in all of us, needs to discuss and review life continually. That feeds me. When I come here I feel like a teenager again. All that I need, the old culture along with the… Continue reading
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War Comes Home to Britain By John Pilger
There is so much more that the erosion of liberal freedoms is symptomatic of an evolved criminal state. The haven for Russian oligarchs, together with corruption of the tax and banking systems and of once-admired public services such as the Post Office, is one side of the coin; the other is the invisible carnage of… Continue reading
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Wikileaks releases major RAND study into Iraq, Afghan intelligence, counterinsugency: Pentagon Papers II?
This major November, 2008 RAND Corporation study on intelligence operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, conducted 300 interviews at all levels with US, UK and Dutch intelligence officers and diplomats. Continue reading
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Iraqi Doctors in Hiding Treat as They Can By Dahr Jamail
In early 2008, the Iraqi Health Ministry said that 628 medical personnel have been killed since 2003. Many believe the real figure is far higher, and that there is additionally a very large number of doctors who have been kidnapped and tortured. Continue reading
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Security in Iraq: Relatively Speaking by Dahr Jamail
Today, we barely have one American soldier being killed every other day and only a score injured weekly. Casualties among Iraqi security forces are just ten times that number. Continue reading
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Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues: Jingle Bells and all that Stuff…
Meanwhile in Iraq, 5 million orphans have no stuff. They live in streets and run down orphanages. They are sold, bought, trafficked, molested, raped, turned into sex slaves and beggars… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 