By South Front In the year 2019 the world was marked with a number of emerging and developing crises. The threat of terrorism, conflicts in the Middle East, expanding instability in South America, never-ending military, political […]
By Adam Dick This week, amid protests by people upset with United States intervention in Iraq, individuals forced their way into and damaged the US embassy compound in Baghdad. In response, US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper declared on […]
by THOMAS KNAPP As the calendar prepared to flip from 2019 to 2020, protesters stormed the US embassy in Baghdad. As I write this, the action — a response to US airstrikes in Iraq and Syria […]
By Stephen Lendman What’s most likely is more of the same, how the US operates under both right wings of its war party — at war on humanity at home and abroad, its killing machine making […]
The spectacle of Kerry praising Biden as a seasoned leader amounts to one supporter of the Iraq catastrophe attesting to the character and experience of another supporter of the same catastrophe. by: Norman Solomon Then […]
By Tho Bishop Global Research, Today the Washington Post published a bombshell report titled “The Afghanistan Papers,” highlighting the degree to which the American government lied to the public about the ongoing status of the war in […]
The country’s top Shiite cleric called for a change in leadership Friday “to preserve the blood of [Iraq’s] children.” by: Julia Conley, Iraqi protesters during clashes amid a demonstration against state corruption, failing public services, […]
by KIRKPATRICK SALE Photograph Source: A refugee camp north of Goma near the Rwandan border by Julien Harneis – CC BY-SA 2.0 Have you noticed? From Hong Kong to Baghdad, Paris to Tehran, 2019 is shaping up […]
by PATRICK COCKBURN Photograph Source: RAWA – CC BY 3.0 The alleged bid by the British government and army to close down investigations into torture and murder in Iraq and Afghanistan appears to be the latest aspect of a […]