Inside G.I. Resistance: An interview with two former soldiers who describe how they helped prevent their unit from deploying to a war zone By Sarah Lazare, Counterpunch, August 5, 2009 What do you do if you are a soldier being…
Tag: Iraq war
Blood and Oil
Synopsis: From bloodandoilmovie.com The notion that oil motivates America’s military engagements in the Middle East has long been dismissed as nonsense or mere conspiracy theory. Blood and Oil, a new documentary based on the critically-acclaimed work of Nation magazine defense…
Iraq a failed imperialist venture
by Haroon Siddiqui, Toronto Star, July 2, 2009 American troops were not welcomed with flowers in Iraq but their departure from cities and towns has been. Iraqis celebrated National Sovereignty Day Tuesday as U.S. troops were yanked out of populated…
Anti-war dissent grows in the US military
A Secret History of Dissent in the All-Volunteer Military By Dahr Jamail, Tomgram, June 30, 2009 The All-Volunteer Force (AVF) exists for a reason captured in a study by Colonel Robert D. Heinl, Jr., author of the “definitive history of…
Colonizing Culture in Iraq
by Dahr Jamail, May 27, 2009 The geo-strategic expansion of the American empire is an accepted fact of contemporary history. I have been writing in these columns about the impact of the US occupation on the people of Iraq in…
A toxic war
Iraq’s Wrecked Environment By Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua Frank, Counterpunch, May 1, 2009 The ecological effects of war, like its horrific toll on human life, are exponential. When the Bush administration (parts one and two) and its congressional allies…
Obama’s Unwinnable Wars
Al Jazeera’s Washington-based current affairs program, Empire, examines the war path from Iraq to Afghanistan and Pakistan. This 47 minute special looks at recent developments in each country and features a discussion involving host Marwan Bashiri and a panel of…
Iraq: The U.S. withdrawal starts when?
Photo: Maya Alleruzzo/Associated Press Exceptions to Iraq Deadline Are Proposed By Rod Nordland, The New York Times, April 26, 2009 BAGHDAD — The United States and Iraq will begin negotiating possible exceptions to the June 30 deadline for withdrawing American…
Seven years in Iraq
President Obama spoke to Marines at Camp Lejeune, N.C., where President Bush in 2003 rallied support for the war. (Jim Young/Reuters) The War is Not Over By JOHN ROSS, Counterpunch, March 12, 2009 The day we human shields rolled into…
Senior US soldiers investigated over missing Iraq reconstruction billions
Illustration: Studio Bendlib A ‘fraud’ bigger than Madoff By Patrick Cockburn in Sulaimaniyah, Northern Iraq The Independent, UK. Feb. 16, 2009 In what could turn out to be the greatest fraud in US history, American authorities have started to investigate…