Akiva Eldar in Haaretz on Washington’s desperate attempt to continue to maintain “democratic” Israel in the Middle East and US-backed dictatorships in the rear: Despite the fact that they occurred almost simultaneously, any connection between the withdrawal of American combat troops from Iraq and Washington’s invitation of the leaders of Jordan and Egypt to a…
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Pull out of Afghanistan now, says new Australian MP
An Australian politician who actually thinks before he speaks on Afghanistan (unlike the parrots in the major parties): Andrew Wilkie has said the justification given by both parties for keeping Australian troops in Afghanistan is a “great lie”. Mr Wilkie has argued that both parties lied during the election campaign about the relevance of the…
Jews who see war through the eyes of Tel Aviv
Tony Karon @ Tom Dispatch attempts to stop the Zionist push for military action against Iran. The fact that the same frauds who pushed us into war against Iraq are now trying similar tactics against Tehran – “Iran is a grave threat etc” – should worry us all.
Devastating Iraq and Palestine in one cruel move
What the US sanctions on Iraq tell us about the siege of Gaza.
What seven years of occupation does
The legacy: Iraq has between 25 and 50 percent unemployment, a dysfunctional parliament, rampant disease, an epidemic of mental illness, and sprawling slums. The killing of innocent people has become part of daily life. What a havoc the United States has wreaked in Iraq. UN-HABITAT, an agency of the United Nations, recently published a 218-page…
Nobody in the Middle East believes that Iraq is no longer occupied
A typically informative Al-Jazeera program, this time on Iraq, featuring John Pilger in discussion on America’s “withdrawal” (where troops will stay well beyond 2011):
Colbert: Iraq will now always be remembered as the war that ended early
The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Fisk on America’s great loss in Iraq
Robert Fisk writes on the legacy the US has left Iraq: …The millions of American soldiers who have passed through Iraq have brought the Iraqis a plague. From Afghanistan – in which they showed as much interest after 2001 as they will show when they start “leaving” that country next year – they brought the…
American “freedom” means endless colonisation
The New York Sun wishes the US occupation of Iraq (and anywhere, really) could last forever: We don’t make any predictions about what the Congress is going to do now that President Obama has withdrawn the last combat brigade from a country where, during his campaign, he insisted we never should have fought a war.…
