Posts tagged: Iraq

Popular uprisings all over the Middle East a death knell for U.S. credibility

WRITTEN BY TOMI LAINE CLARK COMMENTARY (To read more of Tomi’s writing, go to her bog: Disenchanted Princess, Peace through truth)   The U.S. has lost all credibility, as well as the opportunity to be relevant, in the region. Popular uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, and Jordan have been the main topic of news media of [...]

Saturday February 5th, 2011 in , , , , , , , | No Comments »

KEXP (Seattle) interview on Afghanistan, Iraq, journalism, etc.

I’m just catching up to this interview done in August. Forgot it was available as an embed. Thanks to Mike McCormick, who does a great job for KEXP and the Seattle community.

Thursday November 25th, 2010 in , , , , | No Comments »

UN passes new resolution on depleted uranium

Good news from the International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons: The United Nations First Committee has voted, by an overwhelming margin, for state users of depleted uranium weapons to release data on where the weapons have been used to governments of states affected by their use. 136 states last night voted in favor of a [...]

Friday October 29th, 2010 in , , , , , , | No Comments »

Guest blog by Hans von Sponeck: An open letter to Tony Blair

Hans von Sponeck is a former UN assistant secretary general and was UN humanitarian co-ordinator for Iraq from 1998 until he resigned in protest in March 2000. Dear Mr. Blair, You do not know me. Why should you? Or maybe you should have known me and the many other UN officials who struggled in Iraq [...]

Monday October 18th, 2010 in , , | No Comments »

Iraq’s deadly legacy

Seven years after the invasion of Baghdad, the Iraqi people are experiencing a devastating legacy. Babies are being born with severe deformities and the cancer rate is skyrocketing. The following video from Australian Special Broadcasting Service’s Dateline program offers a visually disturbing look at this legacy. Please be warned, journalist Fouad Hady, an Iraqi who [...]

Monday August 30th, 2010 in , , , , | No Comments »

Guest blog: What you will not hear about Iraq by Adil E. Shamoo

The following is from the Media with Conscience news site and is used with permission of the author: Iraq has between 25 and 50 percent unemployment, a dysfunctional parliament, rampant disease, an epidemic of mental illness, and sprawling slums. The killing of innocent people has become part of daily life. What a havoc the United [...]

Monday August 23rd, 2010 in , , | No Comments »

‘Wikileaks’ releases classified U.S. military video showing indiscriminate slayings in Iraq

An Institute for Public Accuracy email brought a link to a chilling video, released today by Wikileaks – a “classified U.S. military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad – including two Reuters news staff. Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the [...]

Monday April 5th, 2010 in , , | 1 Comment »

Torture is feared in arrest of Iraqi woman blogger in Baghdad

This email just in from the BRussells Tribunal: A blogger in Baghdad, Hiba Al-Shamaree, has been arrested by Iraqi security forces. The email included a post from another blogger, Layla Anwar. “Following my previous post here (on the tribunal site), I just received fresh information regarding Hiba Al-Shamaree, the fellow Iraqi woman writer/blogger who has [...]

Friday February 5th, 2010 in , , | No Comments »

Non-citizen veterans facing deportation despite service to U.S.

Non-citizen veterans of Vietnam, both Gulf wars and Afghanistan are being “quietly” deported despite U.S. military promises of citizenship in exchange for fighting for the United States. Reportedly there are over 3,000 veterans currently incarcerated and under threat of deportation nation wide. Veterans’ rights activist Jan Ruhman wrote last year on the blog Vetspeak.org: “American [...]

Friday January 15th, 2010 in , , , | 3 Comments »

Bombings continue in Iraq despite surge policy

Today, as the first of President Obama’s 30,000 additional “surge” troops begin to arrive in Afghanistan, it might be useful to take a look at the Bush surge in Iraq. On Tuesday, a string of bombings killed nine people in two of Iraq’s largest cities, Baghdad and Mosul. Examiner.com posted a slide show from these [...]

Wednesday December 16th, 2009 in , , , | No Comments »