We always maintained Bush and his gang want high oil prices, not low. But Greg Palast, as usual, is long on hype and short on information and analysis. He won’t even quote the full sentance of his leaked document before… Read moreGreg Palast: Bush’s Iraq mission “accomplished” —high oil prices
From AP, March 23: BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S. and British troops Thursday freed three Christian peace activists in a rural area of Iraq without firing a shot, ending a four-month hostage drama in which an American among the group was… Read moreIraq: three CPT hostages freed
March 16, the first day that Iraq’s fragile new parliament formally met, was met not only with a new US offensive in the Samarra area that the Arab press is already comparing to Fallujah (Khajeel Times, UAE, March 19) but,… Read moreIraq: It hits the fan in Kurdistan
From UPI, March 16: One of America’s most respected elder national security statesmen called for a full pull-out from Iraq Thursday. Delivering the keynote address at the Center for American Progress’ “Iraq; Next Steps for U.S. Policy,” Zbigniew Brzezinski, the… Read moreZbigniew Brzezinski: Bring the troops home!
From the New York Times, March 16: The U.S. military has sent about 800 troops from Kuwait to Iraq for extra security to coincide with an expected surge of pilgrims to Muslim shrines in coming days, officials said in Baghdad… Read moreIraq: 800 US troops sent in ahead of Arabeen celebrations
Just in case you thought it was still the 20th century. From the technology news site The Inquirer, March 15: Robots break Asimov’s first law And so it begins By Nick Farrell THE US Army is deploying armed robots in… Read moreKiller robots fight in Iraq
From the UK Telegraph, March 12: An SAS soldier has refused to fight in Iraq and has left the Army over the “illegal” tactics of United States troops and the policies of coalition forces. After three months in Baghdad, Ben… Read moreSAS soldier quits over “illegal” US tactics in Iraq
From Bloomberg, March 5: U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Peter Pace said Iraq isn’t on the brink of civil war and that there isn’t any deadline for withdrawing American and coalition troops from the country. While acknowledging that Iraq… Read moreGen. Pace: no civil war in Iraq —but US troops not going anywhere
We recently noted that Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has blamed the US and Israel for the Samarra mosque attack. Now, right on cue, the Iranian armed opposition group Mujadedeen Khalq issues a statement (in the name of its ostensibly civilian… Read morePropaganda and the Samarra blast
Amazing! Finally the light bulb goes on! Why, this man should be director of national intelligence! Oops, he already is! Of course we were warning before Bush went into Iraq that destabilization of the country could spark regional or even… Read moreNegroponte: Iraq could spark regional war
Japanese Anti-War Movement Hosts Iraqi Civil Resistance by Bill Weinberg Japan is one of the minor members of Bush’s “coalition of the willing” in terms of troop commitment, but the Asian superpower’s anti-war movement has made more progress than any… Read moreFROM BAGHDAD TO TOKYO
Continue ReadingFROM BAGHDAD TO TOKYOFrom a late-breaking AP account, Feb. 22. A day after the bombing of a Shiite market in Baghdad’s Dora district, killing 22, comes the destruction of one of Shia’s most sacred shrines in Samarra. Somebody is apparently hell-bent on plunging… Read moreIraq: Samarra’s al-Askari dome destroyed
