Iraq

America's exceptional amnesia

Apr 21, 2022 06:01

Needless to say, the US government has killed many people in its military interventions abroad, most recently in West Asia and Africa.
Madeleine Albright: A war refugee who created countless war refugees

Mar 28, 2022 13:38

Madeleine Albright, the first woman to serve as the US secretary of state, died on Wednesday (Mar. 23) at the age of 84.
C.I.A. black sites are state secrets, the Supreme Court rules

Mar 07, 2022 15:44

The Supreme Court on Thursday (Mar. 03) shut down efforts by a detainee at Guantánamo Bay to obtain information from two former C.I.A. contractors involved in torturing him, ruling that the inquiry would impermissibly expose state secrets.
Ukraine crisis highlights West’s hypocrisy over Israeli regime’s land theft

Mar 05, 2022 20:15

The sudden concern for international law regarding Ukraine is nowhere to be found when it comes to Israeli regime’s illegal occupation and annexation of Palestinian and Syrian land, and its imposition of an apartheid regime on the entire Palestinian people – a crime against humanity.
So this is what it looks like when the corporate media opposes a war

Mar 03, 2022 18:25

Major American media outlets oppose military aggression...unless the United States is doing it.
Massive folly: Biden’s 2023 defense budget could top $800 billion

Feb 20, 2022 09:59

Sources in the Pentagon have told Reuters that the Biden administration is poised to propose a budget for national defense that could top $800 billion for FY 2023, an enormous sum that far exceeds the levels reached at the peaks of the Korean and Vietnam wars or during the Reagan buildup of the 1980s.
60 years of war-making may yet result in the destruction of US democracy (1)

Feb 18, 2022 08:37

All those trillions of dollars consumed in wasteful wars have helped foster a creeping pessimism in Americans—a pessimism spawned by corporate elites increasingly consumed by greed.
US sanctions caused mass civilian deaths in Iraq. Afghan civilians are up next (1)

Feb 11, 2022 08:48

The Biden administration is ignoring desperate pleas from humanitarian organizations and UN human rights bodies, choosing instead to maintain policies virtually guaranteed to cause mass starvation and death of civilians, especially children.
$778 billion and counting: Who's paying for all this Pentagon waste? (2)

Feb 07, 2022 14:32

It can't be emphasized enough just how many taxpayer dollars are now being showered on the Pentagon.
US trying to resuscitate Takfiri terrorism

Jan 24, 2022 15:57

The US hand is fully evident in the upsurge of Takfiri terrorism in Syria and Iraq, and could be called a clumsy bid to perpetuate insecurity in the two countries. Washington is evil incarnate.