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 […]
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 […]
Iraq is planning to execute up to 126 women by the end of this year. At least 9 may be hanged within the next two weeks. Human rights groups say the only crime committed by many of these women was to serve in the government of Saddam Hussein. Others, according to human rights groups like […]
As we in the news media like to say, violence has “abated” in Iraq. For example, on Monday it was reported that 16 people – including a member of the country’s main Sunni political party and several of his relatives – were killed by gunmen. And a parked car bomb exploded in a market in […]
Seattle’s own filmmaker, James Longley, who has kept Iraqis and Palestinians at the forefront of his documentary films, has been awarded one of the prestigious MacArthur Awards for 2009. In addition to an incredible amount of kudos, the award, better known as the “genius award,” includes $500,000. That should fund a lot more people-focused coverage […]
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