23 June 2014 — WSWS
The Obama administration is responding to the uprising in Iraq led by the Sunni extremist Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) with intrigues and provocations that can lead only to yet more death and destruction in both Iraq and Syria, and risk triggering open war with Iran.
21 June 2014 — Global Research
Is Iraq being suddenly invaded by waves of “terrorists”? Or has Iraq been deliberately sabotaged, sacrificed, and destroyed?
18 June 2014 — BRussells Tribunal
Dr. Sheikh Mohammed Bashar al-Faidhi, spokesman of the Association of Muslim Scholars, said that what is happening in Iraq today is a popular revolution against the policy of oppression, marginalization and exclusion pursued by successive governments under the brutal occupation, including the current Maliki government.
Sheikh Bashar Al-Faidhi, Spokesperson of the Association of Muslim Scholars (right)
15 February 2012 — Global Research: IRAQ UNDER US MILITARY OCCUPATION: Maliki Proxy Government orders Execution of former PM Tariq Aziz
Ms Navanethem Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations, Geneva.
Dear Ms Navanethem Pillay and Colleagues,
I am forwarding this self explanatory alert, as is.
Iraq has been illegally invaded, occupied and decimated. Surely the UN cannot sit by as these terrible executions – pogroms – go ahead. Death sentences for no other reason than that Mr Aziz and his colleagues were part of the legitimate, sovereign government of Iraq – a ‘sovereignty and territorial integrity’ which was guaranteed by the UN itself, prior to the invasion.
22 December 2011 — Information Clearing House
Pakistan Needs to Declare Its Independence
By Yasmeen Ali
Pakistan lies ravaged, with her economy destroyed, thanks to the country’s deep involvement in the “War on Terror.” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30055.htm
21 December 2011 — Information Clearing House
Engineering Consent For Attack On Iran
Iran Could Get Nuclear Bomb Within a Year
By Haaretz
Panetta said, “There are no options off the table,” and added that a nuclear Iran is “unacceptable”.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30041.htm
17 December 2011 — Information Clearing House
Obama’s “Mission Accomplished”
Troops and Prisons Move, Wars and Torture Never Ends
By Ted Rall
War is an addiction. If we wanted to, we could quit any time. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30023.htm
23 May 2009 – t r u t h o u t | Perspective
On Monday, Iraqi government security forces arrested two prominent Sunni leaders in Iraq’s volatile Diyala Province. One of them, Sheikh Riyadh al-Mujami, not coincidentally, is a prominent leader in the local Sahwa (Sons of Iraq), the 100,000-strong Sunni militia that was set up by the US military to quell attacks against occupation forces and launch an effort to battle al-Qaeda in Iraq. Both of those objectives were accomplished, but these efforts are being erased by ongoing missions by Iraqi government security forces, sometimes backed by the US military, to kill or capture both Sahwa leadership and fighters. The results of these attacks against the Sahwa are already evident in an escalation in violence that has taken two forms – a dramatic increase in spectacular attacks against Iraqi civilians and increasing attacks against occupation forces.
The Sahwa played a critical role in the reduction of overall violence in Iraq. When the US decided to pay off the resistance (to the tune of $300 per month per fighter) that was effectively shredding occupation forces from late 2003 until mid-2006, the number of US military personnel being killed began to decline, and has, until recently, continued to decline. The Sahwa were also effective in finding and eliminating al-Qaeda in Iraq, so the fact that we are now seeing a renewing of horrific attacks against the Shia should not come as a surprise as the Sahwa continue to leave their security posts around the country.
The New Dark Age 