Yeah, Bush Lied–So What Do We Do About It? by Bill Weinberg Two years and counting after the invasion, a year after the official transfer to Iraqi “sovereignty,” and two months after the formation of an elected government, Iraq remains… Read moreIRAQ: MEMOGATE AND THE COMFORTS OF VINDICATION
Continue ReadingIRAQ: MEMOGATE AND THE COMFORTS OF VINDICATIONA particularly chilling story from Iraq. From the UN news agency IRIN, and available on the website of the Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom (WILPF), July 4: IRAQ: Acid attacks on “immodest” women on the rise For Sumeya… Read moreIraq: acid attacks on “immodest” women
It seems Baghdad’s occupiers are emulating those of Palestine. The city now has a “security fence” cordoning off the Green Zone, mirroring Israel’s “Apartheid Wall.” An excerpt from a story carried by the July 5 New York Times: Iraqis call… Read moreBaghdad gets “Apartheid Wall”
Rumsfeld’s visit to Norway reveals that Iraqi officers are being trained by NATO in this Nordic country. Who knew? This from the Pentagon news site Defenselink: NATO’s Iraqi, ISAF Training Site in Norway Hosts Rumsfeld Visit STAVANGER, Norway, June 8,… Read moreIraqi troops train in Norway
An audiotape attributed to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the most wanted man in Iraq, has surfaced on an Islamist website claiming that he is only “lightly wounded.” The tape emerged after a week of speculation about the health of the man… Read moreAl-Zarqawi: I’m alive
U.S. Navy conscientious objecotr Pablo Paredes was sentenced to three months hard labor May 13 for refusing deployment to the Persian Gulf. He was also demoted from petty officer third class to seaman recruit, the lowest rank in the Navy…. Read moreConscientious objector gets hard labor—but no jail time
Navy Petty Officer Pablo Paredes, a Bronx native who refused to board the USS Bonhomme Richard as it was preparing to sail from San Diego in December, was convicted by a Navy judge on a charge of missing his deployment… Read moreConscientious objectors face court martial
(And Can the U.S. Anti-War Movement Help?) by Bill Weinberg The anti-war movement in the U.S. is at its lowest ebb since the March 2003 invasion of Iraq. Two broad, mutually hostile tendencies have emerged: one increasingly supportive of the… Read moreCAN IRAQ AVOID CIVIL WAR?
Continue ReadingCAN IRAQ AVOID CIVIL WAR?From the San Francisco Chronicle, April 18: A car bomb attack near Baghdad has killed a well-known activist from Northern California who entered war zones to record civilian deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan and secure aid for those caught in… Read moreTrue freedom fighter killed in Iraq
A children’s story some adults could stand to readby Padraic O’Neil THE LIBRARIAN OF BASRAA True Story from IraqWritten and illustrated by Jeanette WinterHarcourt Books, 2005 With bold, vibrant colors framing dramatic images, and in language direct and unadorned, Jeanette… Read moreSAVING BASRA’S BOOKS FROM THE WRECKAGE OF WAR
Continue ReadingSAVING BASRA’S BOOKS FROM THE WRECKAGE OF WARWell, all the lefties and Bush-haters are gloating again—this time at the new report from a presidential commission finding that the intelligence the White House received aboout weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was "dead wrong." (AP, March 31) Will… Read moreWMD report: worse than a whitewash
Italians are demanding answers in the case of US troops opening fire at a checkpoint on a car containing an Italian secret serviceman and an Italian journalist recently freed from Iraqi abductors. The secret serviceman, Nicola Caripari, was killed, and… Read moreDid U.S. target Italian journalist?
