If You are Not Muslim in Iraq, You are Trash.
A compelling essay co-written by friend and author of American Torture, Mike Otterman.
If You are Not Muslim in Iraq, You are Trash.
A compelling essay co-written by friend and author of American Torture, Mike Otterman.
Robert Fisk in the London Independent on the current crisis in Lebanon:
Another American humiliation. The Shia gunmen who drove past my apartment in west Beirut yesterday afternoon were hooting their horns, making V-signs, leaning out of the windows of SUVs with their rifles in the air, proving to the Muslims of the capital that the elected government of Lebanon has lost. Read more »
It is understandable that the media and community tend to focus on the people killed in action in wars, as well as on the civilian casualties in the war zone. But it does mean that the ongoing impacts on the soldiers who return home can be forgotten – especially those who return apparently unwounded. Read more »
Well... the US wrongfully imprisoned someone and fucked with his head to the extent that he felt a desire to enact some kind of vicious revenge. Is this really a surprise?
A spokesman for US military's Central Command told The Associated Press today that Abdallah Salih al-Ajmi took part in an attack in Mosul. Read more »
Joschka Fischer, Guardian Comment is Free, May 5:
President Bush’s Middle East policy undeniably managed to achieve one thing: it has thoroughly destabilised the region. Otherwise, the results are not at all what the US had hoped to accomplish. A democratic, pro-western Middle East is not in the cards. Read more »
The Islamic Republic may soon be targeted by the Bush administration: Read more »
Noam Chomsky, New Statesman, May 8:
But democracy is even stronger now than it was in 1968. You have to remember that, during Vietnam, there was no opposition at the beginning of the war…The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched. Read more »
My following article appears in today’s ABC Unleashed:
The fifth anniversary in March of the Iraq war should have given the political and media elite time to reflect on their actions since 2003. Virtually ignored by the mainstream media were stories such as life in Fallujah, where citizens remain mired in poverty and resentment. Read more »
After years of propagating lies about Iraq and its alleged threat to the world, the New York Times continues to publish Bush administration talking points, this time outlining the supposed menace of Iran.
Critical thinking? Don’t expect that from the “paper of record.” Read more »
I was recently interviewed by Peshawa Muhammed of the Kurdistani Nwe Newspaper, the publication of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in Iraqi Kurdistan (Noam Chomsky was also interviewed recently.) The article ran on May 4:
Peshawa Muhammed: Five years on, how do you assess the current US policy in Iraq? Which option do you think can finally put an end to the ongoing fiasco; partition or keeping Iraq united? Read more »
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