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…
Israeli Military Analyst: “Israel Is Chaos Agent of the West”
ScheerPost Staff In a striking conversation on Katie Halper’s program, Israeli historian and anti-Zionist scholar Haim Bresheeth-Zabner delivers one of the bluntest assessments yet of how Israeli power is being…
‘The Situation Is Scary’: Global Economic Chaos as Trump’s Iran War Sends Markets Diving
Brad Reed for Common Dreams President Donald Trump’s unprovoked and unconstitutional war against Iran is sending shockwaves across the global economy in the form of skyrocketing oil prices and diving…
Marco Rubio’s Cecil Rhodes Moment
The U.S. secretary of state is reviving the language and intent of 19th century colonialism to deter what he sees as “the forces of civilizational erasure that today menace both…
We Tolerated Their Violence Abroad. Now We See Its Victims Here
Posted by Joshua Scheer I wanted to post this stand‑alone tweet from Chris Hedges for those who wanted to have his thoughts on what’s going on — as the streets…
Top 5 Mistakes Bush made in Iraq that Trump is making in Venezuela
By Juan Cole for Informed Comment 1. Violation of the UN Charter and the International laws of war The Trump administration attacked Venezuela and abducted of dictator Nicolas Maduro without…
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…
Trump’s Military Escalation Against Venezuela Repeats the Iraq War Blueprint
With the suspension of dialogue between the US and Venezuela, the sighting of US B-52 bombers in Venezuelan airspace, and the further lethal US strikes in the Caribbean, the US…
Juan Cole: Iraqi Shiites Demand Expulsion of US Troops after Israel Attacks Iran
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli-Iranian War of 2025 has put Iraq in an extremely difficult situation. The country’s Shiite majority sympathizes with…
‘Lots of Psychotic Murderers’: Ex-Elite UK Troops Break Silence on Iraq, Afghanistan War Crimes
"They handcuffed a young boy and shot him," said one Special Air Service veteran.
Iraqi MP Files Lawsuit Against Syrian President Over ‘Terrorist’ Past
Iraq extended an invitation for the former Al-Qaeda leader to attend the Arab League Summit in Baghdad next month.
Pentagon Admits It’s Been Lying About the Number of Troops in Both Iraq and Syria
The US has said it has 2,500 troops in Iraq, but the Pentagon says the actual number is higher.
Glenn Greenwald: CNN Reporter Rescues Syrian Prisoner—Is It Propaganda?
Glenn Greenwald breaks down the recent CNN segment depicting the alleged rescue of an alleged prisoner of the Assad regime.
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."
Iraq Denounces ‘False Pretexts’ Used by Western Media To ‘Justify Attacks’ Against Nation
As Israel awaits the Iranian response to its escalation in the regional war, US officials are demanding Baghdad 'exert control' over local resistance factions.