31 December, 2006
Saddam Becomes A Martyr Of Imperialist Resistance
By Karthika ThampanIf Saddam's execution was a warning sent out to the empire, what the empire got was a martyr who perhaps could inspire thousands of youngsters to rise up and act. And when they act, will that be the way the empire expect?
Saddam At The End Of A Rope
By Tariq AliSaddam's hanging might send a shiver through the collective, if artificial, spine of the Arab ruling elites. If Saddam can be hanged, so can Mubarak, or the Hashemite joker in Amman or the Saudi royals, as long as those who topple them are happy to play ball with Washington
The Execution Of Saddam Hussein
By World Socialist WebThe execution of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein serves not justice, but the political purposes of the Bush administration and its Iraqi stooges. The manner in which the execution was carried out—hurriedly, secretively, in the dark of night, in a mockery of any semblance of legal process—only underscores the lawless and reactionary character of the entire American enterprise in Iraq
A dictator Created Then Destroyed By America
By Robert FiskBut history will record that the Arabs and other Muslims and, indeed, many millions in the West, will ask another question this weekend, a question that will not be posed in other Western newspapers because it is not the narrative laid down for us by our presidents and prime ministers - what about the other guilty men
Storm Rages Over Trial, Sentence
By Olivia WardHuman rights advocates say process that saw three lawyers murdered amounted to a travesty of justice
Saddam Hussein - R.I.P.
By David CaputoSaddam Hussein is dead, along with another sixty six other Iraqis, six American GIs, and a Brit from the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment. And that's just today. What do we do tomorrow? I've got a suggestion... Leave
30 December, 2006
End Of Another Year
By Baghdad BurningHere we come to the end of 2006 and I am sad. Not simply sad for the state of the country, but for the state of our humanity, as Iraqis. We've all lost some of the compassion and civility that I felt made us special four years ago
More Troops But Less Control In Iraq
By Dahr Jamail & Ali Al-FadhilyThrough the occupation, each time the U.S. has increased troop levels, there has been a corresponding increase in attacks on the forces, and consequently an increase in civilian casualties. Or, troop levels have been increased in response to rising attacks. By either pattern, next year could get much worse
28 December, 2006
Is There a Sunni Majority In Iraq?
By Dal LaMagnaIn the two articles below Dal LaMagna, the founder of Progressive Government, and Faruq Ziada, a former Iraqi Ambassador, raise the question of whether there is really a Sunni majority population in Iraq
When Iraqis Gave Up On Government
By Dahr Jamail & Ali Al-FadhilyThe Iraqi government headed by Prime Minister Noori al-Maliki, like earlier governments assigned by U.S. occupation authorities in Iraq, appears to have killed Iraqi dreams of a brighter future
Children Pick Their Christmas Toys
By Dahr Jamail and Ali Al-FadhilyAhmed Ghazi has little reason to stock Christmas toys at his shop in Fallujah. He knows what children want these days."It is best for us to import toys such as guns and tanks because they are most saleable in Iraq to little boys," Ghazi told IPS. "Children try to imitate what they see out of their windows."
27 December, 2006
The Great Game On A Razor's Edge
By M K BhadrakumarThe accidental killing of Alexander Ivanov, a Kyrgyz fuel-truck driver, by Corporal Zachary Hatfield, a US serviceman, at the Manas Air Base on the outskirts of the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek in December is threatening to snowball into a first-rate crisis for the United States' regional policy in Central Asia
26 December, 2006
When It Became Their Fault
By Joseph GrossoOne of the more vulgar turns discourse over Iraq has taken over the past year is the bi-partisan, self-righteous way the bloody debacle is blamed almost entirely on the Iraqi people. The near universal sentiment, from California democrat Barbara Boxer to neocon Charles Krauthammer, is one of ungrateful, incapable Iraqis spurning generous American assistance
24 December, 2006
Iraqi Hopes Dim Through
Worst Year Of Occupation
By Dahr Jamail & Ali Al-FadhilyDespite promises from Iraqi and U.S. leaders that 2006 would bring improvement, Iraqis have suffered through the worst year in living memory, facing violence, fragmentation and a disintegrated economy
21 December, 2006
Iraqi Women's Bodies Are
Battlefields For War Vendettas
By Kavita N. RamdasAlmost four years into the Bush Administration's ill fated adventure in Iraq, Iraqi women are worse off than they were under the Baathist regime in a country where, for decades, the freedoms and rights enjoyed by Iraqi women were the envy of women in most other countries of the Middle East
20 December, 2006
It's Either Occupation Or Education
By Dahr Jamail & Ali al-FadhilyTwo in three children in Iraq have simply stopped going to school, according to a government report.Iraq's Ministry of Education says attendance rates for the new school year, which started Sep. 20, are at an all-time low
19 December, 2006
Configuring The Iraq’s Occupation
By Ghali HassanTo cover up the daily suffering and massacres of innocent Iraqi civilians, the U.S. is embarking on a campaign of pacifying the public. In the recent report (The Way forward) prepared by the Iraq Study Group (ISG), a group of American ruling elites chaired by James Baker and Lee Hamilton, the Iraqi people had neither been consulted nor treated as anything except as a moral pretext. It is a coup prepared specifically for U.S. domestic consumption
The Baker- Hamilton Study:Pluses And Minuses
By William R. Polk“. . . in the quest for a short-term solution to America’s Iraqi dilemma, Baker-Hamilton may have opted for long-term catastrophe” by emphasizing Iraqi military strength over the strength of civil society
Bush Administration Elaborates
Plans For Bloodbath In Iraq
By Bill Van AukenReports on the Bush administration’s discussions on a change of course in Iraq indicate that Washington is preparing a major new bloodbath as part of a desperate attempt to salvage its nearly four-year-old bid to conquer the oil-rich country
08 December, 2006
Iraq Report Sees "Grave And Deteriorating" Crisis
By Arshad Mohammed & Steve HollandU.S. troops should begin withdrawing from combat and Washington should launch a diplomatic and political push to halt a "grave and deteriorating" crisis in Iraq,Iraq Study Group report said on Wednesday
Widows Become The Silent Tragedy
By Dahr Jamail & Ali Al-FadhilyHundreds of thousands of widows are becoming the silent tragedy of a country sliding deeper into chaos by the day.Widows are the flip side of violence that has meant more than a million men dead, detained or disabled, Iraqi NGOs estimate. These men's wives or mothers now carry the burden of running the families
07 December, 2006
Death Toll Rises As Iraq War Grinds On
By James CoganWith Iraqi deaths already estimated at around 650,000 and the American death toll moving toward 3,000, the US ruling elite’s actions will necessarily intensify the violence in Iraq, resulting in even greater casualties
It's Hard Being A Woman
By Dahr Jamail & Ali Al-FadhilyOnce one of the best countries for women's rights in the Middle East, Iraq has now become a place where women fear for their lives in an increasingly fundamentalist environment
"Out Of Iraq"
By Kevin ZeeseWhen U.S. Occupation in Iraq Ends the Violence is More Likely to Subside Half Measures Seem Less Dangerous, But Are Often More so. An Interview with William Polk, Author of "Out of Iraq"
06 December, 2006
Shias Too Lose Faith In Iraqi Govt
By Dahr Jamail & Ali al-FadhilyThe noisy demonstration that greeted Iraqi Prime Minister Noori al-Maliki on his visit to Sadr City last week was more than just a protest. It meant that the leader of a Shia-dominated government was being rejected by an angry and influential group of Shias
04 December, 2006
Iraq’s Death Squads: An Instrument
Of The Occupation
By Ghali HassanThe longer the U.S. forces stayed in Iraq, the more violence they generate. Only full and immediate withdrawal of U.S. forces and mercenaries will contribute to the end of violence and ongoing suffering of the Iraqi people
02 December, 2006
Bush-Maliki Summit: White House Rejects
Any Withdrawal From Iraq
By Patrick MartinThe location of the summit was itself of symbolic significance: the chief of state of the world’s strongest military power could not visit the country he targeted for invasion and occupation, more than three years after his notorious boasting of “Mission Accomplished.” Bush dared not risk even a few hours’ stay inside the heavily protected Green Zone in downtown Baghdad
Iraq: Business Becomes A Big Casualty
By Dahr Jamail & Ali al-FadhilyThe business and economic morass Iraq finds itself in today is evident in the market places across the capital city."There is no Iraqi brand any more. Iraqi products flourished during the quarter century before occupation, but now we only sell imported products of the lowest quality, and people have to buy them because there is no alternative."
28 November, 2006
Slaughter House Iraq
By Patrick CockburnIraq is rending itself apart. The signs of collapse are everywhere. In Baghdad, the police often pick up more than 100 tortured and mutilated bodies in a single day. Government ministries make war on each other
Cut And Run, The Only Brave Thing To Do ...
By Michael MooreWe demand the Democrats listen to us and get out of Iraq now
27 November, 2006
The Lives And Deaths Of Iraqi Gays
By Peter TatchellAnother five gay men were abducted at gun-point by Iraqi police in Baghdad on 9 November. Nothing has been heard of them since then. It is feared that they may have been murdered.These disappearances are the latest "sexual cleansing" operation mounted by Islamist death squads who have infiltrated the police. They are systematically targeting gays and lesbians for extra-judicial execution, as part of their so-called moral purification campaign
25 November, 2006
UN Report Documents Huge
October Death Toll In Iraq
By James CoganThe human rights report released on Wednesday by the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) describes a nation that has been plunged into barbarism since the US-led invasion in March 2003. The Bush administration’s illegal war for oil and world power, cynically code-named “Operation Iraqi Freedom,” has turned Iraq into a slaughterhouse and mass graveyard
24 November, 2006
Iraq:Death Toll Rises And Rises
By Mohammed A. SalihMore than 150 people died in the Shia Sadr area of Baghdad in a spate of car bombings and mortar attacks Thursday morning
Iraq:Medical System Becomes Sickening
By Dahr Jamail & Ali Al-FadhilyAfter three and a half years of occupation, Iraq's medical system has sunk to levels lower than seen during the economic sanctions imposed after the first Gulf war in 1990
Iraq's Fate Hanging On A New Axis
By Kaveh L AfrasiabiWhile the US is actively exploring alternative options to salvage its intervention in Iraq, regional realities are dictating their own dynamic, not necessarily in tune with the United States' objectives. Slowly but surely, a new realignment is shaping up that is making Washington nervous - a Tehran-Baghdad-Damascus axis
23 November, 2006
Sectarian Rifts In Iraqi Government Intensify
By James CoganThe kidnapping on November 14 of dozens of Sunni Arab employees at Iraq’s higher education ministry and government threats to arrest a leading Sunni cleric have sparked another bloody escalation in sectarian violence across the country. Sunni political parties are under pressure to walk out of the “national unity” cabinet of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Baghdad
22 November, 2006
Iraq: “At A Minimum Negligence In
The Commission Of A Fraud”
By Kevin ZeeseInterview with Michael Isikoff co-author of Hubris
21 November, 2006
Saddam Trial Fundamentally Flawed: HRW
By Human Rights WatchThe trial of Saddam Hussein and seven other defendants before the Iraqi High Tribunal for crimes against humanity was marred by so many procedural and substantive flaws that the verdict is unsound, Human Rights Watch said in a 97-page report
Support Gathers For Sunni Leader
By Dahr Jamail & Ali Al-FadhilyThe arrest warrant issued last week by the Iraqi government for Sunni leader Dr. Harith al-Dhari has sent shockwaves through the government, and galvanised much of the Sunni population
20 November, 2006
Education Under Siege
By Dahr Jamail & Ali Al-FadhilyThe recent kidnapping of scores of academics in Baghdad highlights the desperate situation of the educational system in occupied Iraq
18 November, 2006
Massacre In Ramadi
By Dahr Jamail & Ali al-FadhilyU.S. military tank fire killed scores of civilians in Ramadi, capital of Al-Anbar province, late Monday night, according to witnesses and doctors. Anger and frustration were evident at the hospitals and during the funerals in the following days
Farmers In Dire Straights
By Dahr Jamail & Ali al-FadhilyDespite the Iraqi prime minister's optimism for the agricultural sector, the farmers who are struggling to survive tell another story
14 November, 2006
Bechtel Departure Removes More Illusions
By Dahr Jamail & Ali al-FadhilyThe decision of the giant engineering company Bechtel to withdraw from Iraq has left many Iraqis feeling betrayed. In its departure they see the end of remaining hopes for the reconstruction of Iraq
10 November, 2006
Saddam’s Trial In Context: Episode Of Victors’ Injustice
By Nicola NasserAmerican and European official and public opinion reactions to Saddam Hussein’s guilty verdict on Sunday artificially removed both the trial and the death sentence out of context and focused instead on “flaws” in the legal technicalities of a fair trial and on death penalty as a punishment
09 November, 2006
Protecting Neither Facilities Nor People
By Dahr Jamail & Ali al-FadhilyThe Facilities Protection Service (FPS) created after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 has become the principal set of death squads in Iraq
A Trial Giving Kangaroos A Bad Name
By Stephen LendmanThis proceeding should only have taken place in the sole independent venue constituted for this purpose - the International Criminal Court. Saddam wasn't sent there because allowing him a legitimate trial might have exposed the culpability of US administrations and the West in his crimes and would also have denied the Bush administration the ability to have the show trial it wanted and not a fair one according to international laws and norms
The Bigger Thugs To Hang The Smaller Thug
By Javed I. ChaudryWhy Saddam Hussain trial was not taken to the Hague? The answer to the question is self evident. The proceedings of an international court could mean the exposure of the involvement of well known, powerful international forces. The complicity of these forces would no doubt bring Washington to the fore front
08 November, 2006
Saddam Verdict Could TearIraqis Apart
By Dahr Jamail & Ali al-FadhilyThe death sentence for former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein could deepen a divide that threatens to tear Iraqis apart.Iraq is being ripped apart by sectarian violence between Sunnis and Shias, and many fear that if Saddam Hussein is executed Iraq could slide into civil war
Saddam's Unindicted Co-Conspirator:
Donald Rumsfeld
By Norman SolomonSaddam Hussein has received a death sentence for crimes he committed more than a year before Donald Rumsfeld shook his hand in Baghdad. Let's reach back into history and extract these facts
Victor's Justice: The Trial Of Saddam
By Paul WolfThe Iraqi high tribunal has just announced the death sentence of Saddam Hussein. This should surprise no one. In fact, no other outcome was ever possible. From the moment he was captured in his underground hideout, Saddam's fate was sealed
07 November, 2006
Saddam's Death Sentence: A Note From Baghdad
By RiverbendIt’s not about the man- presidents come and go, governments come and go. It’s the frustration of feeling like the whole country and every single Iraqi inside and outside of Iraq is at the mercy of American politics. It is the rage of feeling like a mere chess piece to be moved back and forth at will
This Was A Guilty Verdict On America As Well
By Robert FiskIf Saddam's immorality and wickedness are to be the yardstick against which all our iniquities are judged, what does that say about us? We only sexually abused prisoners and killed a few of them and murdered some suspects and carried out a few rapes and illegally invaded a country which cost Iraq a mere 600,000 lives. We can't be put on trial. We can't be hanged
Saddam Hussein’s Death Sentence:
A Travesty Of Justice
By James CoganThe entire process has been a shameless show trial. The Iraq Special Tribunal was established by an edict issued by US proconsul Paul Bremmer in 2003. Its judges and prosecutors were selected by American officials and instructed by American advisors
06 November, 2006
NATO Fighting The Wrong Battle In Afghanistan
By M K BhadrakumarThe pre-dawn attack on the Zia-ul-Uloom madrassa in Pakistan's Bajour tribal region on Monday killing 80 people, mostly students, is bound to impact on the course of the Afghan war. No matter the repeated assertions by Islamabad to the contrary, widespread suspicions of US involvement in the attack have arisen
05 November, 2006
Saddam Hussein Sentenced To Hang
By AljazeeraSaddam Hussein, the former president of Iraq, has been sentenced to death by a Baghdad court after being found guilty of crimes against humanity
Amnesty International Deplores Death Sentences
In Saddam Hussein Trial
By Amnesty InternationalAmnesty International deplores the decision of the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal (SICT) to impose the death sentence on Saddam Hussein and two of his seven co-accused after a trial which was deeply flawed and unfair
03 November, 2006
U.S. Military Adopts Desperate Tactics
By Dahr Jamail & Ali al-FadhilyIncreased violence is being countered by harsh new measures across the Sunni-dominated al-Anabar province west of Baghdad
Iraq: The Program Of Liberation And Independence
By Ibrahim EbeidTo arrive to an honorable solution for an exit from Iraq, as stated by the Program, the United States must accept serious, honest and constructive negotiations with the Resistance leadership or with any one representing the Resistance based on the rights and the non-negotiable principles of the homeland and liberation, in order to reach an agreement of the total liberation and independence
Relations Between US And Iraq
Government At Breaking Point
By James Cogan & Peter SymondsTensions between the US and Iraqi governments further intensified this week. In an unprecedented action, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki issued a press release on Tuesday afternoon stating that he had “ordered” the US military to end the cordon it had maintained around Sadr City for close to seven days
02 November, 2006
Baghdad Is Under Siege
By Patrick CockburnSunni insurgents have cut the roads linking the city to the rest of Iraq. The country is being partitioned as militiamen fight bloody battles for control of towns and villages north and south of the capital
01 November, 2006
Iraq Is Burning? Enjoy The show!
By Gabriele ZampariniNumbers and winners of the so-called Iraq war
30 October, 2006
Genocide And denial
By Gabriele ZampariniAs soon as the British medical journal the Lancet published a new scientific study estimating 655,000 excess Iraqi deaths as a consequence of the war, the propaganda machine started to work full time to discredit it as it did with the other Lancet study published in 2004
Halliburton Motto - Its Cost Plus Baby
By Evelyn PringleHalliburton's contracts for work in Iraq are what's known as costs plus contracts, meaning that after all the costs for labor, materials and other expenses are added together, the company makes its profit based on a percentage of that total.It certainly does not take a financial genius to figure out that under the terms of such a contract, a company has every motive in the world to increase the costs of every project to increase profits
27 October, 2006
The Case For Iraqi Genocide
By Ghali HassanFor nearly sixteen years, U.S. and British forces have been killing Iraqis with impunity. The number of Iraqis killed is increasing rapidly and could easily reach 3 millions if the U.S. refuses to end the Occupation
Active-Duty US Troops Voice
Opposition To The Iraq War
By Joanne LaurierMore than 100 serving members of the US military have to date sent “Appeals for Redress” to members of Congress, urging “the prompt withdrawal of all American military forces and bases from Iraq.”
23 October, 2006
1.6m Iraqis Have Fled Since The War
By Patrick CockburnOut of the population of 26 million, 1.6 million Iraqis have fled the country and a further 1.5 million are displaced within Iraq, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. In Jordan alone there are 500,000 Iraqi refugees and a further 450,000 in Syria. In Syria alone they are arriving at the rate of 40,000 a month
The Lancet Study...
By Baghdad BurningThe latest horror is the study published in the Lancet Journal concluding that over 600,000 Iraqis have been killed since the war. Reading about it left me with mixed feelings. On the one hand, it sounded like a reasonable figure. It wasn't at all surprising. On the other hand, I so wanted it to be wrong. But... who to believe? Who to believe....?
21 October, 2006
Medics Beg For Help As Iraqis Die Needlessly
By Jeremy LauranceThe disintegration of Iraq's health service is leaving its civilians defenceless in the continuing violence that is rocking the country. As many as half of the civilian deaths, calculated at 655,000 since the 2003 invasion, might have been avoided if proper medical care had been provided to the victims
Govt. Death Squads Ravaging Baghdad
By Ali Al-Fadhily & Dahr JamailDeath squads from the Ministry of Interior posing as Iraqi police are killing more people than ever in the capital, emerging evidence shows
Hospitals Now A Battleground
In The Bloody Civil War
By Patrick CockburnIraqi hospitals are dangerous places. Policemen and soldiers carry their wounded comrades into operating theatres and demand immediate treatment, forcing doctors at gunpoint to abandon operations on civilians before they are completed
20 October, 2006
US Military And Iraqi Deaths Soar Amidst
Preparations For Major Offensive
By Joe KayTen US troops died on Tuesday in Iraq and at least one more on Wednesday, bringing the monthly death toll for October up to 70. At the current rate, US casualties for the month will be the highest since November 2004, and the third highest since the invasion in March 2003. The latest surge in casualties brings the total US death toll to at least 2,786
The Killing Fields Of Iraq
By Robert ScheerAn occupation initially advertised as a “cakewalk” war to disarm a tyrant is now, according to our politically desperate president, a fight for the soul of the world—good versus evil, democracy versus tyranny.But the carnage we have visited upon Iraq represents nothing of the sort. We are not building democracy, we are creating mayhem
14 October, 2006
This Terrible Misadventure Has
Killed One In 40 Iraqis
By Richard HortonThe best hope we can have from our terrible misadventure in Iraq is that a new political and social movement will grow to overturn this politics of humiliation. We are one human family. Let's act like it
Excess Death In Iraq
By Dahr JamailIn the context of the horror stories that have reached us over the three-plus years of the occupation, this latest figure is not nearly as shocking as when the first Lancet report was published in October of 2004. It has been abundantly clear since then that the number of Iraqis being killed by and because of the occupation has continued to increase exponentially
Resistance Growing Up At School
By Ali Al-Fadhily & Dahr Jamail"How can we teach them forgiveness when they see Americans killing their family members every day," the teacher in the classroom who gave her name as Shyamaa told IPS. "Words cannot cover the stream of blood and these signs of destruction, and words cannot hide the daily raids they see."
12 October, 2006
654,000 Deaths Tied To Iraq War
By Jonathan BorIn an update of a two-year-old survey that sparked wide disagreement, Johns Hopkins researchers now estimate that more than a half-million Iraqis have died as a result of the U.S.-led invasion and its bloody aftermath
Provocative US Attack On Shiite Militia In Iraq
By James CoganAn attack over the weekend in Diwaniyah, a city to the south of Baghdad, signals a major intensification in the operations of US forces in Iraq against the Mahdi Army, the armed wing of the Shiite fundamentalist movement nominally headed by the cleric Moqtada al-Sadr
Iraqi Journalists Stare Death In The Face
By Firas Al-AtraqchiIraq's translators, journalists and cameramen are living on borrowed time as they repeatedly come under attack in the war-ravaged nation
11 October, 2006
Baquba: An Unknown City Erupts
By Ali Al-Fadhily & Dahr JamailThe little known city of Baquba is emerging as one of the hotbeds of resistance in Iraq, with clashes breaking out every day
07 October, 2006
The Two Faces Of Iraq
By Sami MoubayedAs head of state, though, Maliki (and his rebel ally Muqtada) should be blamed and punished for the chaos in Iraq, rather than supported by the encouraging words of Rice
The US Occupation Of Iraq:
Casualties Not Counted
By Dahr JamailCivilian contractors in Iraq, though they are paid handsomely for their time there, are easily lost in a legal no-man's-land if tragedy strikes. Their families are then left in the lurch as well. With an estimated 100,000-125,000 American contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, we can safely assume there are thousands of stories similar to Tim's and still counting. To each story is attached an individual and a family
04 October, 2006
New Militias Push Govt Back Further
By Ali Al-Fadhily & Dahr JamailReports of the setting up of U.S.-backed Sunni militias have brought new uncertainty to deepening chaos within Iraq.The occupation forces now back both Shia and Sunni militias in different areas of the country
02 October, 2006
Iraq: The Breaking Point
By Mike WhitneyWhatever transpires, the first phase of the Iraqi fiasco is nearly over. The Bush administration will be compelled to protect its interests while limiting the exposure of its troops. They may choose to minimize their activities to bombing raids and counter-insurgency operations, further destroying the threadbare fabric of Iraqi society
28 September, 2006
A Broken, De-Humanized Military In Iraq
By Dahr JamailWhile the deranged chicken-hawks who "lead" the US continue their efforts to wage another unprovoked war of aggression, this time against Iran, what's left of their already overstretched military continues to be bled in Iraq
Giving Terrorism A Reason To Exist
By Camilo MejiaAccording to a report by 16 U.S. Spy agencies leaked to The New York Times, the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq has helped create more global terrorism and energize jihadist ideology throughout the world since the 9/11 attacks
Resistance And Liberation
By Ghali HassanLet us be very straight. The promotion of “al-Qaeda” as the face of the Iraqi legitimate Resistance is a fraud. Nor was the U.S. invaded Iraq to “liberate” the Iraqi people and “build democracy” true. Equally fraud is the argument that U.S. troops are in Iraq to “prevent civil war” and fight “terrorism”
27 September, 2006
Overstretched Army Bring Bush New Grief
By Jim LobeWith the U.S. intelligence community agreed that the invasion and occupation of Iraq have made this country less safe from terrorist threats, President George W. Bush appears now to be facing a growing revolt among top military commanders who say U.S. ground forces are stretched close to the breaking point
25 September, 2006
Where Iraqis Live In Virtual Self-Exile
By Ali Shaker AliAs US and Iraqi security forces hint at a series of trenches, moats and berms to cordon off the capital Baghdad in hopes of stemming the daily violence, many Iraqis are shrugging the measures off. Security measures come and go, they say, but the daily death rates continue to increase
A Doctor's Day In Baghdad
By Dr. AnonIt is not a miserable life. If there is a grade more than miserable, then it will be ours!
24 September, 2006
Torture And civilian Deaths Reach
Record Levels In Iraq
By Peter SymondsThe latest UN findings on Iraq provide a devastating picture of torture, escalating civilian deaths and lawlessness that represents a damning indictment of US-led occupation
23 September, 2006
AP Propaganda About Iraq
By Dahr JamailIt is important to note that the board of directors of AP is composed of 22 newspaper and media executives that include the CEOs and presidents of ABC, McClatchy, Hearst, Tribune and the Washington Post. Two of the directors are members of very conservative policy councils that include the Hoover Institute. The Hoover Institute is a Republican policy research center that has been referred to as "Bush's brain trust." Its fellows include Condoleezza Rice and Newt Gingrich, a Distinguished Visiting Fellow, along with George Shultz
22 September, 2006
Bush Wants A Bloodbath In Baghdad
By Bill Van AukenIncreasingly desperate over the deteriorating situation in Iraq, the Bush administration is demanding that the US-installed government in Baghdad support a savage intensification of repression or give way to a dictatorial regime that will
Home Raids Provoke Increased Unrest
By Dahr Jamail & Ali al-FadhilyRenewed raids at Iraqi homes by joint U.S.-Iraqi security forces are angering Iraqis -- while failing to improve the worsening security situation
19 September, 2006
US Resorting To 'Collective Punishment' In Iraq
By Dahr Jamail & Ali al-FadhilyU.S. forces are taking to collective punishment of civilians in several cities across the al-Anbar province west of Baghdad, residents and officials say
18 September, 2006
Kirkuk: The Potential Spark For Civil War
By Ahmed JanabiKirkuk, Iraq's oil-rich northern city, is probably the most critical area for the future of Iraq, but the least covered by international media
16 September, 2006
US Defense And Oil Company Executives
Reap Windfalls From Iraq War
By Naomi SpencerThe US oil industry has conspicuously benefited from the war in Iraq, at the expense of the lives tens of thousands of Iraqis and the livelihoods of millions. Within the US, ordinary workers are struggling with drastically higher retail gasoline and residential fuel prices. Meanwhile, chief executives at the fifteen largest American oil companies have received record pay in the years since the “war on terror” was declared
15 September, 2006
In Iraq, Iran’s Arab Credentials Are Made
By Nicola NasserIraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s latest visit to Tehran was just another occasion to highlight that Iran is compromising its Arab credentials in Iraq, and to raise more questions about whether Tehran and Washington are in collusion or in collision in Baghdad
08 September, 2006
Pentagon Report On Iraq Reveals
A Deepening Catastrophe
By James CoganThe Pentagon report to the US Congress on August 29 provided a frank assessment of the sectarian and communal divisions that have been fomented since the 2003 US invasion
06 September, 2006
U.S. Losing Control Fast
By Dahr Jamail & Ali Al-FadhilyThe U.S. military has lost control over the volatile al-Anbar province, Iraqi police and residents say. The area to the west of Baghdad includes Fallujah, Ramadi and other towns that have seen the worst of military occupation, and the strongest resistance
31 August, 2006
US Military Escalates Confrontation
With Shiite Militia In Iraq
By Peter SymondsTwo days of fierce fighting in the Iraqi city of Diwaniyah is one more sign that the US military is preparing for a bloody showdown with the militia forces of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. The target of any new offensive will be not just Sadr’s Mahdi Army, but the Shiite urban poor who are overwhelmingly hostile to the US occupation
25 August, 2006
'I Can't Go To Iraq. I Can't Kill Those Children'
By Cahal MilmoJason Chelsea,the 19-year-old infantryman, from Wigan had even told his parents that he had been warned by his commanders that he could be ordered to fire on child suicide bombers.It was a fear that he never confronted. Within 48 hours of confessing his concerns to his family, Pte Chelsea was dead after taking an overdose of painkillers and slashing his wrists
22 August, 2006
"I Was a Propaganda Intern In Iraq"
By Willem Marx & Amy Goodman"I Was a Propaganda Intern in Iraq" - Fmr. Lincoln Group Intern Describes Paying Iraqi Press to Plant Pro-American Articles Secretly Written by U.S. Military
19 August, 2006
'Misunderestimating' Bush's Iraq
By Sami MoubayedIn July, the number of Iraqis killed in sectarian violence - and what else can one call it? - was a staggering 3,438 - two times the number of Lebanese civilians killed during the 30 days of daily air raids by Israel, and more than 100 deaths a day
07 August, 2006
Iraq:Shias Going Their Own Way
By Mohammed A. SalihAmid failed moves for a peace deal between the government and insurgents through a national reconciliation plan, the Shia majority in Iraq are pushing ahead for creating a federal region for themselves in the southern part of Iraq
05 August, 2006
Iraq Faces Civil War And Sectarian Partition
By Julie HylandIraq is sliding into civil war and sectarian partition. That is the view of leading personnel in the British foreign service, the US military and the government of Iraq itself
Summer Of Goodbyes...
By Baghdad BurningI sometimes wonder if we’ll ever know just how many hundreds of thousands of Iraqis left the country this bleak summer. I wonder how many of them will actually return. Where will they go? What will they do with themselves? Is it time to follow? Is it time to wash our hands of the country and try to find a stable life somewhere else?
01 August, 2006
Iraq’s Destiny
By Ghali HassanWhile most people have reached a (false) conclusion that the U.S. has “failed” to shape Iraq according to its planned agenda, it is not hard to see that the U.S. is carrying out its original plan to destroy Iraq and colonise its people and national resources
21 July, 2006
The Iraq War Is A Huge Success
By Aseem SrivastavaIs there reason to believe that the war, far from being a disaster, has actually proceeded quite well from Washington’s point of view? That the view that the war has been a fiasco is merely a convenient smokescreen of innocence helpful to keep in check public perceptions of the monstrous crimes of leaders in Washington and London?
13 July, 2006
Another Face, Another Raid
By Dahr Jamail and Ali FadhilSinan Abdul-Ilah al-Mashadani, who was a student at al-Mustansiriya University and the sole supporter of his mother and younger brother and sister, was killed in the raid, apparently by a special operations team supported by the U.S. military, according to witnesses. "They are a special force of Americans that assassinates more people than it arrests."
Atrocities...
By Baghdad BurningRape. The latest of American atrocities. Though it's not really the latest- it's just the one that's being publicized the most. The poor girl Abeer was neither the first to be raped by American troops, nor will she be the last
12 July, 2006
Iraq: Raped
By Raed JarrarWhat is happening in Iraq is a rape of a nation, not just a rape of a 12-year-old girl, and it has to be stopped as soon as possible
11 July, 2006
Iraq Civilians: 50,000 Dead-But Who's Counting?
By Juliana Lara ResendeAfter famously telling reporters that they "don't do body counts," Pentagon officials now say that they have in fact been keeping a record of civilian casualties in Iraq for one year. And while that number remains classified, independent estimates suggest that at least 50,000 people have died in the country since the 2003 invasion
Iraq's Civil War Turns More Violent
By Joshua FrankNo matter how many troops the US and its allies shovel at the ever-growing sectarian flames, the fighting is sure to spread. The US military is only fueling the fire. And if there were ever a reason why the troops should be brought home immediately, this would be it
"Packing It In"
By Dahr JamailSo while Iraqis are being killed or fearing death as they suffer through the daily hell that is the US occupation, Cheney, the real force behind this "administration," tells CNN, "No matter how you carve it - you can call it anything you want - but basically, it is packing it in, going home, persuading and convincing and validating the theory that the Americans don't have the stomach for this fight."
12 May, 2006
Re-shuffling The Cards In Iraq
By Ghali HassanUnless the U.S. is forced to withdraw from Iraq immediately, no re-shuffling of the same cards will change the situation on the ground in Iraq. The only option remains for people around the world is to provide moral support for the Iraqi people Resistance to self-determination and national independence
09 May, 2006
Is US Provoking Civil War In Iraq?
By Robert FiskThe Americans are trying to provoke an Iraqi civil war so that Sunni Muslim insurgents spend their energies killing their Shia co-religionists rather than soldiers of the Western occupation forces
"Reason For Their Death Is Known"
By Dahr JamailThe numbers are being hidden … and the Badr, operating out of the Ministry of Interior, which is funded by the US, are making sure the numbers remain shrouded.Yet on Tuesday of this week, a spokesman at that same hospital, speaking on condition of anonymity of course, announced that in the last 48 hours alone Yarmouk Hospital had received 65 bodies, most of them slaughtered by death squads in execution-style murders. That day they had received 40 bodies, and Monday, 25
25 April, 2006
Baghdad Slipping Into Civil War
By Dahr Jamail and Arkan HamedThe new clashes between Shia militiamen dressed in Iraqi military and police uniforms and resistance fighters and residents from the Sunni Adhamiya district of Baghdad have convinced many that what Baghdad is witnessing is no less than a civil war
22 April, 2006
Shiite Leader Bows To US Demands As
Iraq Slides Further Into Civil War
By James CoganShiite leader Ibrahim al-Jaafari has bowed to the campaign against him led by the Bush administration and announced that he is prepared to step aside as the prime ministerial candidate of the largest bloc in the Iraqi parliament
20 April, 2006
The Billion-Dollar Baghdad Embassy
By Leigh SaavedraThat's the estimate, though only half of it has been appropriated so far, a billion dollars to build a new embassy in Iraq. It will be the largest on the globe, the largest the world has ever seen, the size of Vatican City in Italy
19 April, 2006
Civil War In Iraq?
By Dahr JamailThe armed wing of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, the Badr Organization, and Muqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army have been launching ongoing attacks against fighters in the neighborhood. There is a shorter version of this description. Civil war
05 April, 2006
How Massacres Become The Norm
By Dahr JamailUS soldiers killing innocent civilians in Iraq is not news. Just as it was not news that US soldiers slaughtered countless innocent civilians in Vietnam. However, when some rare reportage of this non news from Iraq does seep through the cracks of the corporate media, albeit briefly, the American public seems shocked
04 April, 2006
US-British Diktat Makes Mockery Of
“Democracy” In Iraq
By Peter SymondsThe unannounced trip by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw to Iraq over the past two days has again underscored who is calling the shots in Iraq. For all of the Bush administration’s empty rhetoric about “democracy” in Iraq, it is the White House rather than the votes of Iraqis that will decide the shape of the next government in Baghdad
03 April, 2006
Thought Control
By Ghali HassanLike all imperialist forces, the US is heavily relaying on misinformation propaganda campaign to promote and enhance its imperialist ideology. The mass murder of Iraqi civilians by US forces is normalised and welcomed with deafening silence. The purpose is thought control
01 April, 2006
Iraq Is Not In Civil War (Yet) -
Iraq Is Under Occupation
By Laith Al-SudThe inability to talk about Iraq in an appropriate context has been one of the greatest setbacks to the anti-war movement here in the United States of America, and to describe Iraq solely in terms of being in civil war contributes to this problem. Iraq is under occupation and the current rivalry between what are indeed Iraqi factions has to be interpreted within this context
31 March, 2006
Cheney And Halliburton Hold Title -
Top Earners In Iraq
By Evelyn PringleA study released in June 2005, originating from the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA), revealed that overall, Halliburton had received roughly 52% of the $25.4 billion that has been paid out to private contractors since the war in Iraq began
30 March, 2006
An "Alliance" Of Violence
By Dahr JamailA disturbing trend noticeable in Iraq for quite some time now is that each aggressive Israeli military operation in the occupied territories results in a corresponding increase in the number of attacks on US forces in Iraq
Another Day, Another Sorrow
By Fayrouz In BeaumontTwo years ago, my friend and fellow Iraqi blogger Al-Baghdadi packed his bags and moved his family to Jordan. The least he knew at the time is that sadness will follow him to Jordan. Last June, thugs roaming streets of Baghdad kidnapped and later killed his younger brother. Yet, that wasn't the end of his sorrows
29 March, 2006
Uncertainty In Iraq
By Baghdad Burning“The Ministry of Defense requests that civilians do not comply with the orders of the army or police on nightly patrols unless they are accompanied by coalition forces working in that area.”That’s how messed up the country is at this point
Mosque Massacre Deepens Occupation’s Crisis
By Bill Van AukenThe massacre of as many as 40 unarmed worshipers in a northeast Baghdad mosque Sunday has triggered a political crisis that threatens to accelerate Iraq’s descent into civil war while sharply intensifying the hatred of millions of Iraqis for the three-year-old US occupation of their country
28 March, 2006
Iraq Told To Rebuild Itself
By William FisherLast week’s announcement that Iraq will now have to pay for its own reconstruction has left some observers wondering whether the yet-to-be-formed government there will be up to the task
25 March, 2006
Iraq A Move Toward Open Dictatorship
By James CoganThe announcement on March 19 that steps are being taken to form an extra-parliamentary “National Security Council” (NSC) is a warning that the Bush administration is moving toward an openly dictatorial regime in Iraq
Bush Didn't Bungle Iraq, You Fools
By Greg PalastOn the third anniversary of invasion, we can say the attack and occupation is, indeed, a Mission Accomplished. However, it wasn't America's mission, nor the Iraqis'. It was a Mission Accomplished for OPEC and Big Oil
It's Criminal
By Scott RitterImpeachment is the only recourse that can bring a halt to the madness in Iraq, and the insanity being planned in Iran and elsewhere
22 March, 2006
Bush Says US Troops To Remain In Iraq Indefinitely
By Jerry WhiteAt a White House press conference Tuesday morning President George W. Bush suggested that the US would continue the occupation of Iraq for years, if not decades, to come
Operation Swarm Of Lies
By Dahr JamailOperation Swarm of Lies is part of yet another Cheney administration media blitz to put a happy face on this horrendously failed misadventure in Iraq. All too aware of the plummeting US public support for the war effort, and with approval ratings for the so-called president at an all time low, Bush had been sent out on the campaign trail to apply fresh gloss to the tattered sheen of the US occupation of Iraq
The Iraq War: Three Years On
By Robert FiskEven today the occupation powers tell awesome lies. Democracy is taking hold when the "Iraqi" government controls only a few acres of Baghdad greensward. The insurgency is being crushed when 40,000 armed Iraqis are ripping into the greatest army on Earth; freedom is taking hold when thousands of Iraqis are dying each month
20 March, 2006
Three Years Of Occupation And Bloodshed
By Baghdad BurningThree years later and the nightmares of bombings and of shock and awe have evolved into another sort of nightmare. The difference between now and then was that three years ago, we were still worrying about material things- possessions, houses, cars, electricity, water, fuel… It’s difficult to define what worries us most now
Death Squad Democracy
By Mike WhitneyThe notion that Iraq is now consumed by civil war depends on a number of assumptions that are inherently false
15 March, 2006
Accepting Reality: America Lost The War In Iraq
By Remi KanaziAmerica has lost the war in Iraq. The chance for victory vanished long ago with the hearts, minds, arms, legs and lives of the Iraqi people. The insurgence hasn't won; rather the American government never obtained the formula to win
Remembering A Valiant Journalist: Atwar Bahjat
By Ramzy BaroudAccording to Reporters Without Borders, a total of 82 journalists and media assistants have been killed since the start of US war on Iraq and the subsequent invasion and occupation in March 2003. Seven of those were killed this year alone. One of the seven is Al-Arabiya correspondent, Atwar Bahjat, a young Iraqi journalist and most certainly one of the best
14 March, 2006
Iraq: Permanent US Colony
By Dahr JamailUS policymakers have replaced the Cold War with the Long War for Global Empire and Unchallenged Military Hegemony. This is the lens through which we must view Iraq to better understand why there are permanent US bases there
13 March, 2006
The British Companies Making
A Fortune Out Of Iraq
By Robert VerkaikBritish businesses have profited by at least £1.1bn since coalition forces toppled Saddam Hussein three years ago, the first comprehensive investigation into UK corporate investment in Iraq has found
Iraq: A Cluster Of Torture Prisons
By Ghali HassanThe $20 billion initially appropriated by the US administration to “reconstruct” Iraq were a gift to US corporations and the Bush cronies. The only visible construction in Iraq today is the rise in the construction of prisons
10 March, 2006
See Dick Loot
By Dahr JamailHalliburton and its subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) have been making hay in the burning Iraqi sun for years now. It is, of course, no coincidence that the man sitting as vice president played a key role with his influence in obtaining the lion's share of contracts in Iraq for the company he was CEO of prior to his self-appointed position. Yet none of this is news
03 March, 2006
Somebody Is Trying To Provoke A Civil War In Iraq
By Robert Fisk & Tony JonesI'd like to know what the Americans are doing to get at the people who are trying to provoke the civil war. It seems to me not very much. We don't hear of any suicide bombers being stopped before they blow themselves up. We don't hear of anybody stopping a mosque getting blown up. We're not hearing of death squads all being arrested. Something is going very, very wrong in Baghdad. Something is going wrong with the Administration
02 March, 2006
Iraq: A Solution To Nothing
By Scott RitterAs the United States and Iraq approach the third anniversary of the invasion and occupation of Iraq, it might do all Americans well to take some time out and reflect on how we got where we are, as well as where we are going in Iraq and the Middle East as a whole
Caught In The Crossfire
By Mike WhitneyIt’s going to be "militia-rule" for quite a while in the new Iraq. America can either withdraw now or prepare to get caught in the crossfire
United Iraqi Protests Against US
Divide And Rule Policy
By Dahr Jamail and Simon AssafThe recent killings in Iraq are not due to entrenched divisions between Sunni and Shia. Dahr Jamail and Simon Assaf explain what’s fuelling hatred – and the battle for unity
Atwar Bahjat: A believer In Iraq
By May Ying WelshA tribute to Atwar Bahjat, the Al-Arabiya correspondent who was shot and killed in Samarra the day al-Askari shrine in Samarra was destroyed
01 March, 2006
Iraqi Blogs Tell Of Violence, Hope
By Firas Al-AtraqchiA new force in Iraq news coverage is coming of age – the Iraqi blogosphere
Iraq: The Wages Of Chaos
By Mark LeVineAs Iraq spirals deeper into chaos and perhaps civil war in the wake of the attack on the Golden Mosque, critics of the US-led invasion and occupation will no doubt refocus attention on the role of Israel in the march to war and the conduct of the occupation
27 February, 2006
Mosque Outrage Also Brings Solidarity
By Dahr Jamail And Arkan HamedWidespread sectarian violence generated by the recent bombing of the Shia Golden Mosque in Samarra has also brought widespread demonstrations of solidarity between Sunnis and Shias across Iraq
Political Motives Behind Attacks Surface
By Brian Conley And Isam RashidThe political motivations behind the bombing of the Shia shrine in Samarra have begun to surface through several accounts
Volatile Days...
By Baghdad BurningIt does not feel like civil war because Sunnis and Shia have been showing solidarity these last few days in a big way. I don’t mean the clerics or the religious zealots or the politicians- but the average person
The Neo-Conned And Neo-Conned Again
By Ibrahim EbeidA book in two Volumes "Neo-Conned and Neo-Conned Again" have come out exposing the neocon complicity in the war on Iraq
25 February, 2006
Sectarian Violence Engulfs Iraq
By James CoganThe bombing of the Al-Askariya mosque in the city of Samarra on Wednesday is a deliberate provocation that has immediately unleashed widespread sectarian violence and threatens to take US-occupied Iraq to a new level of savagery and barbarism
Payback Time In Iraq
By Sami MoubayedWith violence escalating in the wake of Wednesday's explosives attack on the Shi'ite Golden Mosque in Samarra, the situation in Iraq is as close to civil war as it has been since the downfall of Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003
24 February, 2006
Human Rights First Report Documents Deaths
Of Iraqis And Afghans In US Custody
By Tom Carter and Barry GreyA report issued Wednesday by Human Rights First (HRF) documents the deaths of 98 people while in US custody in Iraq and Afghanistan. The report gives details of some of the killings, putting names and faces on the victims of US imperialism. The HRF report, coming on the heels of the newly released Abu Ghraib photos, provides a devastating exposure of systematic torture, abuse and murder
Death-Squad “Democracy” In Iraq
By Eric RuderIn mid-February, Iraq’s Interior Ministry announced that it was launching an official investigation into reports that death squads targeting Sunni Muslims are operating from within its own police forces
21 February, 2006
IMF Measures Wreak Havoc On Iraqi People
By James CoganThe disastrous social conditions that exist for the Iraqi people after decades of war and nearly three years of US occupation are being dramatically worsened as a result of International Monetary Fund (IMF)-dictated economic restructuring
Crime Becomes Another Occupation
By Brian Conley and Isam RashidIraqis live amidst the excesses of the occupation, death squads, shooting and terrorist bombing — but that is not all. They have learnt to live increasingly with crime that often enters homes without anyone to check it
20 February, 2006
Shias Pick Kingpin
By Nermeen Al-MuftiThe nomination of Al-Jaafari came about through a democratic vote among the Shias, but will it be acceptable to other parliamentarian blocks?
18 February, 2006
Abu Ghraib Photos- Interview With SBS Reporter
By Amy Goodman & Olivia RoussetThe Australian news program Dateline aired a report earlier this week that showed new photographs of Iraqi detainees being tortured inside Abu Ghraib.Here is an interview with the reporter who obtained these photographs
Salon.com Runs Abu Ghraib Torture Photos
Leaked from Internal Army Source
By Amy Goodman & Mark BenjaminSalon.com published even more torture photographs from Abu Ghraib a day after the Australian report aired on SBS public broadcasting. The online publication obtained photos, video and other electronic documents from an internal Army investigation. We speak with salon.com reporter Mark Benjamin, who obtained the files and other electronic documents
17 February, 2006
Outrage Spreads over New Images
By Dahr Jamail and Arkan HamedNew footage of British soldiers beating up young Iraqi men in Amarah city in 2003, and the release of more photographs of atrocities by U.S. soldiers against Iraqi detainees in Abu Ghraib prison has spread outrage across Iraq
Eyes Wide Open
By Chris FloydSalon.com has obtained a cache of torture photos and videos from Abu Ghraib, along with previously unreleased investigation reports which detail "a total of 1,325 images of suspected detainee abuse, 93 video files of suspected detainee abuse, 660 images of adult pornography, 546 images of suspected dead Iraqi detainees, 29 images of soldiers in simulated sexual acts, 20 images of a soldier with a Swastika drawn between his eyes, 37 images of Military Working dogs being used in abuse of detainees and 125 images of questionable acts."
16 February, 2006
More Photos; More War Crimes
By Mike WhitneyThe photographs illustrate in excruciating detail the commitment to physical coercion that the Bush administration has vigorously defended in its legal memoranda and justified in terms of its war on terrorism. The battered faces and hooded victims of American brutality attest to the shocking inhumanity of the present campaign
Australian TV Airs More Photos Of
US Torture At Abu Ghraib
By Bill Van AukenThese photographs and videotapes are evidence of a grave crime against humanity. Murder, rape, the sodomizing of children, sexual torture, the use of dogs to tear the flesh of prisoners, all of this was carried out as a matter of state policy
Goodbye Iraq, Hello Afghanistan
By Pepe EscobarWashington neo-conservatives, from Cheney to former deputy defense secretary Paul Wolfowitz, may have dreamed of unlimited strategic power by controlling Iraq. What they got instead is a loose Iran/Iraq alliance. And they still could get something even more nightmarish
15 February, 2006
Who Will Possess Iraq’s Oilfields?
By Karen ButtonThe modern investment model being promoted in Iraq during these secret meetings is production sharing agreements, or PSAs. Mostly political in nature, PSAs maintain the technicality—and just as importantly, the appearance—of keeping oil ownership in government hands, yet the majority of profits goes to private companies
Iraqis Learn To Live With Abductions
By Maki Al-NazzalWhile the world focuses on high-profile kidnappings, Iraqis face the daily threat of abductions for ransom
Siniyah Isolated And Simmering
By Brian Conley and Isam RashidTwice now, an IPS correspondent has been refused entry to this town that has become a prison for its inhabitants. Contact with residents of the town came only at the checkpoint
13 February, 2006
Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind
By Dahr JamailIf one watches corporate media or listens to Cheney Administration propaganda, one is either not getting information about Iraq at all, or hearing that things are looking up as the U.S. approaches another “phase” in the occupation
11 February, 2006
The Raid...
By Baghdad BurningWho do you call to protect you from the New Iraq’s security forces?
09 February, 2006
The Corporate Plunder Of Iraq
By Dave WhyteThe largest part of the money spent by the US-British occupation was not US or international donor funds, but oil revenue that belongs to the Iraqi people. During the period of direct rule the US spent, or committed to spend, around £11.3 billion, most of which was disbursed to US corporations
An Appeal From A Women's Organisation From Iraq
There is an organization in north of iraq in a city which is called Irbil and we want to know the other organizations in the world .This is the first organization in north of iraq .we want to defend iraqi women rights if u can or u know any organizations that can come here to visit ours we will be very happy
03 February, 2006
Shias Head For Uncertain Govt
By Dahr JamailSix weeks after parliamentary elections, occupied Iraq is still struggling for a viable government, as violence and instability worsen
Election Results...
By Baghdad BurningI try not to dwell on the results too much- the fact that Shia religious fundamentalists are currently in power- because when I do, I’m filled with this sort of chill that leaves in its wake a feeling of quiet terror
27 January, 2006
Iraqi Journalist Murdered By US Troops
By Truth About IraqisYesterday, news emerged that an Iraqi journalist was killed by US troops in Ramadi. The journalist's body was riddled with bullets - some 20 of them
26 January, 2006
Killing The Messenger: The Silencing
Of Journalism In Iraq
By Ghali HassanThe Occupation has many ways to silence independent journalists, distort the images of the Iraqi Resistance, and tarnish the name of Islam. In the unprovoked U.S. aggression against Iraq, truth continues to be the deliberate casualty
25 January, 2006
Destruction Easier Than Reconstruction
By Brian Conley And Isam RashidWhile politicians deliberate over Iraq’s future, Iraqis are dealing with the reality of the present. They are looking at the debris of a country where reconstruction has come to a standstill
21 January, 2006
A Town Becomes A Prison
By Dahr Jamail and Arkan Hamed"Our city has become a battlefield," 35 year-old engineer Fuad Al-Mohandis told IPS at a checkpoint on the outskirts of the city. "So many of our houses have been destroyed, and the Americans are placing landmines in areas where they think there might be fighters, even though most of the time it is near the homes of innocent civilians."
19 January, 2006
A Tribute To Iraqi Ingenuity...
By Baghdad BurningNow, nearly three years after this war, the buildings are still piles of debris. Electricity is terrible. Water is cut off for days at a time. Telephone lines come and go. Oil production isn’t even at pre-war levels… and Iraqis hear about the billions upon billions that come and go
12 January, 2005
Thank You For The Music...
By Baghdad BurningAll I knew was that a journalist had been abducted and that her Iraqi interpreter had been killed. Theysay he didn't die immediately. It is said he lived long enough to talk to police and then he died. I found out very recently that the interpreter killed was a good friend- Alan, of Alan's Melody, and I've spent the last two days crying
“Freedom in action”
By Dahr JamailIn the shady, smoke and mirror filled world of Mr. Bush where violence is progress and Iraq inches ever closer to their elusive “democracy,” truth remains ever distant from the rhetoric of his speech writers. Mr. Bush referred to “a good deal of political turmoil” in Iraq as “freedom in action.”
11 January, 2006
“Violent Insurgency”
By Ghali HassanThe 2003 U.S. aggression against Iraq has taken Western “progressive” élites, particularly those on the Left by surprise, not because of the violent and criminal nature of U.S.-orchestrated terror against the Iraqi people, but because of the instant rise of the Iraqi Resistance against the unprovoked military and economic against Iraq
'Democracy' Brings Bleak Days
By Dahr Jamail and Arkan HamedMany Iraqis see dismal days ahead in the face of rising violence and the decision by the U.S. administration not to seek any further funds for reconstruction
10 January, 2006
US Propaganda vs. Iraqi Reality
By Dahr JamailThe reality in Iraq is the opposite of that generated by the Cheney administration as the carnage and chaos in Iraq worsens each day
One Morning In Baghdad...
By Sabah AliBaghdad streets, and Iraq highways, are private properties now of the American troops. to pass, you need their permission, which is not easy at all
07 January, 2006
2006...
By Baghdad BurningI guess the Iraqis who thought the US was going to turn Iraq into another America weren’t really far from the mark- we too now enjoy inane leaders, shady elections, a shaky economy, large-scale unemployment and soaring gas prices
06 January, 2006
Terror And Resistance
By Ghali HassanSince the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, there have been three elections and one “transfer of sovereignty”. However, the situation on the ground in Iraq has further deteriorated. What have changed are the pretexts for ongoing terror and occupation
03 January, 2006
The Guerilla War For Iraq’s Oil
By Mike WhitneyA war is raging in Iraq that will determine the outcome of the present occupation as well as the shape of future conflicts. It is the war for control of Iraqi oil
Open Letter From Baghdad
By An Iraqi citizenA letter from an Iraqi citizen who lives in Baghdad. It is written as an open letter to Mr. Bush
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