NOVANEWS ‘If this is heeded, it will add to the crimes committed by the US against Iraqis’ – Sarah Lazare Joe Biden welcomes Nouri al-Maliki to the vice-president’s residence on Wednesday. (Photo: Cliff Owen/AP)As Iraqi […]
NOVANEWS by ALEXANDER REID ROSS In a recent article entitled, “How We Won in Iraq,” David Petraeus laments the impending failure of the US’s long-term strategy in the region. Of course, for Petraeus, this failure […]
NOVANEWS by W.T. WHITNEY Argentinean political commentator Juan Gelman thinks the Iraq war has “entered into perfect forgetfulness,” at least in the United States. He implies U.S. leaders enjoy impunity, despite having lied to rationalize their invasion […]
NOVANEWS Iraq has just experienced its deadliest month in five years with over 1,000 killed amid spiraling violence, a topic that will rank high in talks between Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and President Barack […]
NOVANEWS Head of the Diyala Province’s Foundation of Martyrs said the Mujahedin-e Khalq organization (MKO, a.k.a. MEK) was the first perpetrator of terrorist acts in Iraq after the fall of Saddam. “After Saddam’s downfall, leaders […]
NOVANEWS by PATRICK COCKBURN An additional half million Iraqis died because of war and occupation between 2003 and 2011 according a new survey based on more rigorous research than those carried out in the past. […]
NOVANEWS Four private military contractors reindicted for their role in 2007 Nisour Square massacre that left fourteen Iraq civilians dead – Jon Queally The Justice Department on Thursday announced new manslaughter charges against four Blackwater […]
NOVANEWS by Michael Reagan (Photo: Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images)On Saturday a car bomb in Baghdad exploded in a crowded commercial street. Kamal Mahmoud, a school teacher, witnessed the blast. He told the New York Times, “I felt the […]
NOVANEWS Ex-UN, WHO officials reveal political interference to suppress scientific evidence of postwar environmental health catastrophe. Spc Travis Hunter loads armor-piercing depleted uranium-tipped 25mm shells during the second Iraq war Photograph: John Moore/AP Last month, […]
NOVANEWS The war in Iraq is far from over, but you wouldn’t know that if you were paying attention the mainstream media ALI AYUN, IRAQ – JUNE 11: Iraqi soldiers prepare for a village clearance […]