Iraq
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Iraq, Massacre of a Country: “A War on Terror” when you are the Terrorist
9 April 2018 — Global Research Iraq, Massacre of a Country: “A War on Terror” when you are the Terrorist By Felicity Arbuthnot, April 09, 2018 “How can you make a war on terror when you are actually the terrorist?” (Unknown.) America’s 2003 assault on Iraq, already devastated by thirteen years of sanctions, infrastructure destruction consequently Continue reading
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Plagiarism and Iraq’s WMDs: British Intelligence Iraq Dossier Relied on Recycled Academic Article By Glen Rangwala
Text presented by Dr. Rangwala to the House of Commons Select Committee on Foreign Affairs. It was presented in June 2003, in the wake of the invasion and occupation of Iraq Continue reading
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“The Sloppy Dossier”: Plagiarism and “Fake Intelligence” Used to Justify the War on Iraq: Copied and Pasted from the Internet into an “Official” British Intel Report By Glen Rangwala and Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Damning evidence refuting Colin Powell’s official intelligence report was revealed by Cambridge Lecturer Dr. Glen Rangwala on Britain’s Channel 4 TV on February 6, 2003, on the day following Secretary of State Colin Powell’s historic Iraq WMD presentation to the UN Security Council Continue reading
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Cost of UK air and drone strikes in Iraq and Syria reach £1.75 billion By Chris Cole
Analysis of figures released in response to Freedom of Information requests by Drone Wars UK indicate that the UK has spent £1.75bn on armed air missions against ISIS in Iraq and Syria since August 2014. It should be noted that the overall cost of UK military operations in Iraq and Syria will be much higher. Continue reading
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The Russian meddling fraud: Weapons of mass destruction revisited
In what was the climax of the Bush administration’s campaign to justify war, Powell held up a model vial of anthrax, showed aerial photographs and presented detailed slides purporting to show the layout of Iraq’s “mobile production facilities.” There was only one problem with Powell’s presentation: it was a lie from beginning to end. Continue reading
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Syria: Kurdish SDF and ISIS-Daesh, An Unholy Alliance Consecrated by the U.S. By Sarah Abed
After six years of death and destruction which resulted from a carefully calculated and executed invasion and staged war against the sovereign country of Syria, a sense of normalcy is returning to most parts of the country. Many civilians have returned to their homes in government-held areas, and are living as normal a life as… Continue reading
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Lest we forget: yesterday alone, 44 airstrikes were conducted by US-led coalition military forces
29 September 2017 — Drone Wars Airwars is a collaborative, not-for-personal-profit project tracking and archiving the international air war against so-called Islamic State and other groups in Iraq, Syria and Libya. As nine Coalition nations are bombing in Syria alone – along with the air forces of Russia, Iran, Israel and the Assad regime – Continue reading
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Kurdistan Referendum: “Ethnic Cleansing” or Total Independence? Selected Articles
26 September 2017 — Global Research The Myth of the Kurds in Syria YPG’s Moral Excellence By Stephen Gowans, September 26, 2017 Kurdish forces are not only “retaking” Christian and Muslim Arab towns in Syria, but are doing the same in the Nineveh province of Iraq—areas “which were never Kurdish in the first place. Kurds now regard Continue reading
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Mosul’s “Liberation” Amidst Death and Destruction: Selected Articles
23 July 2017 — Global Research In less than a year, the US-led siege in Mosul has not only resulted to a horrendous shedding of blood and countless of properties tranasformed into rubble; more than the physical damages are the psychological effects it has wrought in the lives of those who survived the US-led bombings. Question Continue reading
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War crimes: Mosul families count their dead as US airstrikes kill thousands of civilians
Award-winning journalist Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent of The Independent, writes from Mosul, recording accusations by local people who assert the US-led coalition has ‘massively’ overused force. They allege that the intensity of the bombardment from the air was out of all proportion to the number of Isis fighters on the ground Continue reading
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The Engineered Destruction and Political Fragmentation of Iraq By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
First published by GR on June 14, 2014, updated August 2014, this article reveals how the US and its allies facilitated the incursion of Islamic State (ISIS) convoys into Iraq in June 2014 prior to the onset of the counter-terrorism bombing campaign launched by Obama in August 2014. Continue reading
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The ISIS Described by the US Media as a “Sunni Muslim Militia” is “Made in America”. It has Nothing to Do with Sunni Islam By Prof. Henry Francis B. Espiritu
As a lifetime student of classical mainline Islamic jurisprudential school of thought called “Sunni fiqh”, I feel saddened to note how the Western mainstream media succumbed to the Islamophobic propaganda of affixing the epithet “Sunni” to the militia of the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Continue reading
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From Pol Pot to ISIS: “Anything that Flies on Everything that Moves” By John Pilger
In transmitting President Richard Nixon’s orders for a “massive” bombing of Cambodia in 1969, Henry Kissinger said, “Anything that flies on everything that moves”. As Barack Obama ignites his seventh war against the Muslim world since he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the orchestrated hysteria and lies make one almost nostalgic for Kissinger’s murderous… Continue reading
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British PM David Cameron: “Non-Violent Extremists” Including “9/11 Truthers” and “Conspiracy Theorists” are Just as Dangerous as ISIL Terrorists By Peter Drew
I write this open letter to you in response to your recent speech at the United Nations calling for military intervention in Iraq and Syria over the threat of ISIL. In particular I would like to make mention of your reference to the so called threat to society of what you have termed ‘non-violent extremists’,… Continue reading
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Iraq News Links for 26 September 2014
26 September 2014 — williambowles.info FAIR TV: Climate Blackout, Bombing Syria & Human Rights RhetoricFox News ‘salutes’ UAE’s first female fighter pilot bombing ISIS positions as ‘boobs on the ground’ Continue reading
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Media Lens: The Purpose And The Pretence – Bombing Isis By David Edwards
Traditionally, claims that an Official Enemy is uniquely Evil rise to a deafening crescendo just prior to an attack on that enemy. In late 2002, a former intelligence officer told John Pilger that the flood of government terror warnings at the time were ‘a softening up process’ ahead of an attack on Iraq and ‘a… Continue reading
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Who’s Your Daddy, ISIS? By BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Let us be clear, if that is possible, about President Obama’s plan to deal with ISIS, the boogeyman of America’s own making. The president last week swore that he would “degrade and destroy” the Islamic State, after having spent three years providing weapons and money to jihadists fighters, including ISIS, in hopes that they would… Continue reading
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Someone’s Already Fighting ISIS: The Syrian Arab Army By Tony Cartalucci
Since 2011, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has waged a relentless war within Syrian territory against what it has said from the very beginning was an invasion of heavily armed, foreign-backed sectarian extremists. In retrospect, the transparently ludicrous nature of articles like the Guardian’s “Syria’s rebels unite to oust Assad and push for democracy” is… Continue reading
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Who is Behind the Islamic State (ISIL) Beheadings? Probing the SITE Intelligence Group By James F. Tracy
Since mid-August 2014 major news organizations have conveyed videos allegedly found online by the SITE Intelligence Group. Unsurprisingly the same media have failed to closely interrogate what the private company actually is and whether the material it promotes should be accepted as genuine. Continue reading
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Iraq News Links 16-17 July 2014
17 July 2014 12:48:01 — williambowles.info Cheney reaction: Interview blackout as protester waves handcuffs at ‘war criminal’ (RT) The imperialist debacle in Iraq and the struggle against war (WSWS) Buildup of Saudi Troops on Iraq Border as ISIS Threat Looms (antiwar.com) Continue reading
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