Tag: Iraq
‘Enough is enough’: Australian PM throws support behind movement to free...
A growing number of politicians are calling on the United States to drop its case against WikiLeaks founder and Australian citizen Julian Assange.
Bush’s ‘Mission Accomplished,’ 20 years later
The more difficult truths to plow through have to do with why the mission should never have been attempted in the first place.
12 ways the US invasion of Iraq lives on in infamy
“Today, it is we Americans who live in infamy.”
Trump tells Iraq order US troops out and I’ll freeze your...
it must be stated that Trump’s latest threat is simply another blatant example—this time a fiscal bomb rather than an actual one—of American imperialism and rogue nation behavior.
Two Iraqi peace activists confront a Trumpian world
As the Trump administration weighs war, Iraqis prepare a carnival for peace.
U.S.-led coalition admission of 1,300 civilian deaths in Iraq and Syria
"The Coalition has so far failed to carry out investigations on the ground or provide reasons for the civilian casualties."
IHCHR: 11,800 civilians killed in US-led air strikes in Syria, Iraq
“We have massively destroyed the infrastructure and given the population a disgusting image of what may be a Western-style liberation, leaving behind the seeds of an imminent resurgence of a new adversary.”
Costs of war: 17 years after 9/11, nearly half a million...
The cost of the global so-called war on terror will soon surpass $6 trillion.
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Artificial intelligence: profit versus freedom
As with previous technological breakthroughs, AI places on society’s agenda both new issues and old contentious ones.
A telling tale of two press lords
Rupert Murdoch made the world safe for grand fortune. E.W. Scripps had a better idea.
Wildlife living in cities exemplify ‘urban trait syndrome,’ study says
What can city dwellers do to help create and nurture a healthier environment for urban wildlife?
Writers reach tentative deal with Hollywood studios after nearly 150 days on strike
"It is the leverage generated by your strike, in concert with the extraordinary support of our union siblings, that finally brought the companies back to the table to make a deal."
Biden is the latest president to tout the Vietnam War as proud history
Efforts to portray the U.S. government’s military actions as well-meaning and virtuous are incessant. The pretenses that falsify the past are foreshadowing excuses for future warfare.