Friday, January 24, 2025

Tag: Iraq

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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."

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.”

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Private prisons poised to reap billions as Laken Riley Act passes Congress

Corporate interests dominate immigration policy under new legislation.

Trump attacks Bishop for plea of mercy, calling for LGBTQ+ and immigrant compassion in...

“In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now.”

Trump rescinds Biden’s executive order on drug prices, halting efforts to lower costs

Trump reverses progress on drug affordability, halting Medicare and Medicaid cost-saving initiatives.

Should climate activists target fossil fuel subsidies?

It’s hard to imagine Sanders and Musk actually agreeing on much, but the message from Sanders got me wondering about another area of wild government overspending: fossil fuel subsidies.

States are doing a terrible job enforcing laws meant to protect farmed animals

Lack of law enforcement leads to needless suffering for sentient beings.