A Quicksand Feeling: How Iraq Has Been Roiled By The Israel-US War on Iran
Alex Poppe for Informed Comment I taught at an international school in Erbil, Kurdistan, Iraq from 2011 to 2013. I returned to the Kurdish region to teach at a university…
Armed Struggle Liberates Iraq After 23 Years Of Occupation
Nate Bear Do Not Panic Substack After weeks of attacks by Iraqi resistance groups, the US and NATO yesterday began evacuating all of their military personnel from Victoria Base in…
Trump set off a Bomb in the Cockpit of the World Economy; Does Global Recession Loom?
Juan Cole for Informed Comment Oil prices hit $120 early Monday morning in Asia, for the first time since the initial shock of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.…
The Last Thing Iraq Needs: US Sanctions Threaten a Nation Trying to Heal
Tigris River, Baghdad, Iraq By Nancy Mancias shared by Codepink I arrived at the Taj Hotel in Baghdad’s Jadriyah neighborhood at 6 a.m., worn thin by the long flight from…
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Hillary Clinton Condemns “All Suffering”—Except the One We Pay For
By: Joshua Scheer, Columnist Hillary Clinton doubles down on “misinformed youth” remarks at Doha Forum At the Doha Forum today, Hillary Clinton reiterated comments from last week’s Israel Hayom Summit,…
No Quarter: The White House’s New ‘War’ Lets the President Kill First — and Pardon Drug Lords Later
By: Joshua Scheer With the president claiming that we are in an armed conflict with the cartels — and with the AP reporting from a memo it obtained from the…
Donald Trump Not Invited to Dick Cheney’s Funeral But Look Who Did Show Up
By Joshua Scheer Can you think of no greater honor than to be snubed by this family and this man? For me, the moment Kamala Harris embraced Dick Cheney was…
War Criminal Dick Cheney Dead at 84
“He should have died in The Hague,” said one journalist.
John Kiriakou: Iraqi Abu Ghraib Torture Victims Win $42 Million in Lawsuit Against US Contractor
They were tortured by CACI employees over a period of several weeks using techniques including electric shock, stress positions, starvation, attack dogs, and humiliation through forced nudity.
Jury Finds US Military Contractor CACI Guilty of Abu Ghraib Torture
The verdict marked the first time that any U.S. military contractor was held liable for torture during the "war on terrorism."
‘This Is What the US Military Was Doing in Iraq’: Photos of 2005 Haditha Massacre Finally Published
"I watched them shoot my grandfather, first in the chest and then in the head. Then they killed my granny," said one survivor who was just 8 years old during…
Iraq’s Climate Crisis
America's War for Oil and the Great Mesopotamian Dustbowl.
20 Years of Iraq Denialism: The New York Times Continues to Get it Wrong on US Empire
By Anthony DiMaggio / CounterPunch Marking the twentieth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, The New York Times ran a feature-length article titled, “20 Years On, a Question Lingers…
20 Years On, What Did the Iraq War Truly Cost?
The war claimed more than lives and treasure — it claimed a future’s worth of lost opportunities. Now, younger generations are demanding them back.
Dennis Kucinich: From Iraq Into the Abyss?
Iraq Plus 20 Part II