Demonstrations are dead-end get-togethers without the leadership of a vanguard revolutionary party. Iraq, Occupy – where are you now? Joti Brar Subscribe to our channel The two-million-strong demonstration against the Iraq war 20 years ago today was not […]
It’s been 20 years since the Secretary of State made his UN Security Council address, fake anthrax vial in hand, which led to the Iraq war and millions of deaths Scott Ritter is a former US […]
Any military action against Iran by Washington would be considered as the initiation of broader hostilities, diplomats told Newsweek FILE PHOTO. The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln transits the Strait of Hormuz. © Stephanie Contreras / US […]
The Western media are harping on relentlessly about great anti-hijab protests happening all over Iran, with ever more violent repression being meted out to those protesting by a ‘vicious and violent regime’. The nail that […]
BY PATRICK COCKBURN View of downtown Baghdad, March 2017. Photograph Source: MohammadHuzam – CC BY-SA 4.0 I used to consider myself something of a specialist on corruption in Iraq, so I was not too surprised when I […]
Iran claims heavy damage on Kurds by Jason Ditz After weeks of relative calm on the border, Iran has once again struck Peshmerga in Iraqi Kurdistan, claiming them to be separatist elements. One Peshmerga was confirmed […]
BYC.J. Polychroniou, Truthout This week marks the 20th anniversary of the U.S. congressional vote to authorize the deadly war on Iraq, which according to some estimates, killed between 800,000 and 1.3 million people. In the exclusive interview for Truthout that […]
Supporters of Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr chant slogans as they gather outside the local government headquarters in the city of Nasiriyah in Iraq’s southern Dhi Qar province on August 29, 2022 [ASAAD NIAZI/AFP via […]
Those who, in the words of John Quincy Adams, go “abroad in search of monsters to destroy” very often create new monsters that cause even greater harm. By Doug Bandow Republican politicians have worked assiduously to […]
By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth Palestinians and Israelis watched last week’s referendum of Iraq’s Kurds with special interest. Israeli officials and many ordinary Palestinians were delighted – for very different reasons – to see an overwhelming vote […]