Tag Archives: Iraq
Chase Madar> How Dystopian Secrecy Contributes to Clueless Wars
“Al-Qaeda remains a simmering menace, but as an organization hardly the greatest threat to the United States. In fact, if you measure national security in blood and money, as many of us still do, by far the greatest threat to the United States over the past dozen years has been our own clueless foreign policy.” […]
Phyllis Bennis> Syria’s Chemical Weapons…Iraq Redux?
The “democracy” that ten years of US war and occupation left behind in Iraq. Phyllis Bennis Institute for Policy Studies May 3, 2013 Posted by Portside on May 4, 2013 Phyllis Bennis Facebook News from the Middle East is growing more dire by the day. And unfortunately, most of the news from our own officials and influential […]
Sami Rasouli> Ten Years After Shock and Awe
Iraq has become an apartheid state. The division is between Iraq citizens and foreigners. Iraqis continue to have to pass through an exhausting number of checkpoints to get anywhere, but you don’t see U.S. soldiers manning them anymore. Now the checkpoints have an Iraqi face. The U.S. military is, however, pulling the strings. There are […]
The Guardian> James Steele: America’s mystery man in Iraq – Full Documentary
James Steele: America’s mystery man in Iraq A 15-month investigation by the Guardian and BBC Arabic reveals how retired US colonel James Steele, a veteran of American proxy wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua, played a key role in training and overseeing US-funded special police commandos who ran a network of torture centres in Iraq. […]
BBC-Guardian Exposé Uses WikiLeaks to Link Iraq Torture Centers to U.S. Col. Steele & Gen. Petraeus
TRANSCRIPT Democracy Now! A shocking new report by The Guardian and BBC Arabic details how the United States armed and trained Iraqi death squads that ran torture centers. It is a story that stretches from the U.S.-backed death squads in Central America during the 1980s to the imprisoned Army whistleblower Bradley Manning. We play extended excerpts of […]
Polly Mann> Believing in the Power of Love
Believing in the Power of Love By Polly Mann February 2013 worldwidewamm.org I heard Fr. Elias Chacour, speak in the Twin Cities in 1984. He was one of the most moving speakers I have ever heard and yet his message was quite simple. Elias Chacour, who describes himself as Palestinian-Arab-Christian, is a firm believer in […]
Steve Clemens> Return to Iraq
Steve Clemens has returned to Iraq. The last time he visited was 10 years ago. Here are his experiences and impressions. The links to Steve’s blog are below. Rather than publish the articles, I have included links to his blog for the four he has written so far. Photos are included in these articles on Mennonista. […]
Cathy Breen> People Have Changed: A Legacy of the U.S. War in Iraq
People Have Changed: A Legacy of the U.S. War in Iraq ”In Baghdad especially where the violence has been continuous over the last nine years, I am equally aware that the barricades and checkpoints exist because of my country’s war of choice. And the concrete walls are everywhere.” By Cathy Breen November 4, 2012 Voices for Creative […]
U.S. Predator spy drone shot down by Kurd rebels in Turkey, near Iraq
U.S. Predator spy drone shot down by Kurd rebels in Turkey, near Iraq Posted by David Cenciotti in Drones September 20, 2012 Pictures of the wreckage of a U.S. Air Force MQ-1 Predator drone shot down in Turkey were released by the Kurdish Firat News Agency on Sept. 19. The spy robot was shot down by the […]
Tomgram: John Feffer, The Dumbing Down of American Foreign Policy
Tomgram: John Feffer, The Dumbing Down of American Foreign Policy Posted by John Feffer September 6, 2012 TomDispatch.com Think back to the election of 2008. Do you remember how one candidate had it easy? He had eight years of abject failure to run against. Eight years that included the launching of two dismal wars, the creation of […]
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