The Lingering Effects of Iraq War Lies admin, April 5, 2024August 8, 2024 [The Progressive March 27, 2023] Twenty years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the country remains unstable, with one of the most corrupt and dysfunctional governments in the world… Continue Reading
The Pentagon Doesn’t Care About Civilian Casualties admin, November 26, 2021August 15, 2024 In August 2019, thousands of refugees, prisoners, and families of ISIS fighters crowded into an encampment in the border town of Baghuz in eastern Syria, one of the last territories controlled by the so-called Islamic State. The United States, supported on the ground by an allied Kurdish and Arab militia, launched a massive air assault on the enclave. Continue Reading
Trump’s Middle East Policy: The Ironies of Hawkishness admin, March 8, 2018August 14, 2024 Al Jazeera Report March 8, 2024: Despite broken campaign promises, Trump has pursued reckless and militaristic policies, deepening U.S. military involvement, backing the Israeli colonization and annexation of the occupied Palestinian territories, deepening ties to Arab autocrats, and threatening war with Iran. [source] Continue Reading
Sharp Attack Unwarranted admin, June 27, 2008January 21, 2025 Gene Sharp, an 80-year-old scholar of strategic nonviolent action and veteran of radical pacifist causes, is under attack by a number of foreign governments that claim that he and his small research institute are key players in a Bush administration plot against them…. Continue Reading
Letter to My Daughter admin, March 14, 2008 Dear Kalila, It has been five years since you, as a 12-year old 7th grader, joined your classmates in a walk-out at your school in protest of the impending invasion of Iraq…. Continue Reading
Five Years Later, We Can’t Forgive or Forget admin, October 11, 2007 This week marks the fifth anniversary of the congressional vote granting President George W. Bush unprecedented war-making authority to invade Iraq at the time and circumstances of his own choosing. Had a majority of either the Republican-controlled House or the Democratic-controlled Senate voted against the resolution or had they passed an alternative resolution conditioning such authority on an authorization from the United Nations Security Council, all the tragic events that have unfolded as a consequence of the March 2003 invasion would have never occurred…. Continue Reading