Kurdish PKK guerillas claimed responsibility for an Aug. 5 blast near Refahiye, in eastern Turkey’s Erzincan province, that shut down the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline. “Attacks on economic interests have a deterring effect… As long as the Turkish state insists on… Read morePKK blow up Baku-Ceyhan pipeline
Suicide bombers struck Shi’ite pilgrims in Baghdad and a Kurdish rally in Kirkuk July 28, killing at least 57 people and wounding nearly 300, police said. Three female bombers detonated their explosive vests in the middle of a group of… Read moreIraq: more Shi’ite pilgrims killed; more terror in Kirkuk
It is axiomatic that the closer Obama gets to the White House, the more beholden to oil interests and imperial designs he will become—and therefore the more equivocal his opposition to the Iraq occupation. Watch this process in action. Andrew… Read moreObama website deletes criticism of Iraq surge
In a piece entitled “Bush & Cheney Always Saw Iraq as a Sweetheart Oil Deal,” Noam Chomsky writes that “US war planners want an obedient client state that will house major US military bases, right at the heart of the… Read moreWestern oil cartel recolonizes Iraq
US war resister Corey Glass, an Iraq war veteran who served with the National Guard, won a stay of removal from a Canadian federal court July 9. Glass, who came to Canada in 2006, was scheduled to be deported the… Read moreBi-national mobilization for Iraq war resisters in Canada
Yet more evidence (as if we needed any) that the media are making us stupid. From a June 23 New York Times story entitled, “Correspondents Say Networks Put Wars on the Back Burner”: According to data compiled by Andrew Tyndall,… Read moreMedia de-emphasize Iraq war: surprise!
What a telling medley of articles in the New York Times June 19. First this, from the front page: Deals With Iraq Are Set to Bring Oil Giants Back BAGHDAD — Four Western oil companies are in the final stages… Read moreExxon back in Iraq —ANWR next?
From the Iraq Freedom Congress, June 16: On the US-Iraqi Treaty The US administration plans to tie Iraq to a treaty that will guarantee a US military presence and political interference with absolute control of the wealth and resources of… Read moreIraq’s civil resistance rejects security treaty
A car bombing that killed 63 June 17 at a bus-stop in Baghdad’s predominantly Shi’ite Hurriya area may have been carried out by a militant trying to incite Shi’ite violence against Sunnis, the US military said. Lt. Col. Steve Stover… Read moreIran-backed Shi’ite provocation behind Baghdad’s Hurriya blast: US
A statement from the Iraq Freedom Congress, June 7: IFC Members Find and Arrest the Killers of Dr. Mohammed Jassim, Sana TV Program Director In coordination with IFC safety force and police, the leadership of Iraq Freedom Congress (Wasit Chapter… Read moreIraq: arrests in killing of Sana TV reporter
A statement from the General Federation of Workers Councils and Unions in Iraq, via the Iraq Freedom Congress, June 7: The Ministry of Industry and Minerals Privatizes Its Companies Brothers and sisters in the working class: Amid chaos and lawlessness,… Read moreIraqi labor protests privatization
Patrick Cockburn claims in The Independent June 5 that a “secret deal being negotiated in Baghdad would perpetuate the American military occupation of Iraq indefinitely, regardless of the outcome of the US presidential election in November.” Speaking to several anonymous… Read morePat Cockburn: secret deal for US bases in Iraq
