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Tag: Iraq

How Mesopotamia’s urban and industrial revolution started politics as we know...

Giorgio Buccellati’s At the Origins of Politics takes readers to the early stages of a process that became the structure of modern life.
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The New Yorker publishes 2005 Haditha, Iraq massacre photos Marines ‘didn’t...

The graphic images show dead Iraqi men, women and children, many of them shot in the head at close range.

Shift in strategy: Iran-backed Iraqi militia halts operations against US forces

The Iraqi government has publicly advocated for the withdrawal of U.S. troops, a sentiment that may gain further traction in light of recent events.

Iraq’s climate crisis

America's war for oil and the Great Mesopotamian Dustbowl.

‘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."

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Donald Trump’s greatest ‘triumph’

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Denying coverage with AI: CMS’s new Medicare model

Funneling money to for-profit companies by rewarding them for denying health care coverage through using unproven, manipulable AI models is not the answer.

Nuclear reactors stoke the climate they claim to cool

Heatwaves force European reactors offline while solar keeps the lights on.

What else but seething, punitive MAGA grievance explains its undying loyalty – absent real-world...

Whatever MAGA lives lack, brutalizing the even less powerful won’t resolve their miseries.

‘Unforgivable’: FEMA failure during Texas floods tied to Noem’s contract purge and Trump-era sabotage

More than 80% of survivor calls went unanswered after DHS Secretary Kristi Noem abruptly cut FEMA’s contractor workforce—days after deadly flooding devastated Texas.