Tag: Iraq
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.
Insider attacks
Seen in this light, it’s hard not to believe that more anti-U.S. “insider” attacks aren’t on the way. The question is only where and when, not if.
Summer of discontent: Iraq explodes in protest
Few countries have suffered as much in recent years and Iraqis of all faiths and ethnicities deserve not just freedom from the horrific violence that has become far too normal there.
How the last superpower was unchained
Clueless is not a word Americans ordinarily apply to themselves as a country, a people, or a government. Yet how applicable it is.
Scapegoating Iran
"What good would come from destabilizing Iran? What would America get out of that?”
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ICE at the gates: Rights groups warn Trump airport deployment risks civil liberties crisis
Civil liberties advocates, unions, and lawmakers raise alarm over use of immigration agents in airport security amid shutdown-driven staffing crisis.
California’s herbicide spill ignites growing movement to ban paraquat nationwide
The spill, which closed a major highway and sent at least ten people to seek medical attention for respiratory symptoms, became a catalyst for a renewed political battle over the chemical's future in California.
Why Donald Trump just can’t stop going to war
When imperial America offers help, it just might get you killed.
The Age of Arrogant Amateurism – as ‘know-it-all’ opportunists seize power to control, not...
To win big in this brave new world, forget tested skill-sets and the wisdom of experience: chutzpah and risk-taking, even gambling, are paramount, then the facile ability to learn on the job how to cling to power.
Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the...
The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.