Iraq

The most serious consequences of the disastrous invasion and occupation of Iraq confirm what millions of people around the world warned about 17 years ago. byMedea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies Seventeen years later, the consequences of the Iraq invasion have lived up to the fears of all who opposed it. (Photo: Alisdare Hickson/flickr/cc)While the world is consumed with the terrifying coronavirus pandemic, on March 19 the Trump administration will be marking the 17th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq by ramping up the conflict there. After an Iran-aligned militia allegedly struck a U.S. base near Baghdad on March 11, the U.S. military carried out retaliatory strikes against five of the militia’s weapons factories and announced it is sending two more aircraft carriers to ...

By Stephen Lendman Global Research, Former Obama regime chief of staff/Chicago mayor/earlier and current investment banker Rahm Emanuel once notoriously said: “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. I mean, it’s an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.” Post-9/11, a permanent US state of war became official bipartisan policy — at home on human and civil rights, abroad against sovereign independent states to replace their legitimate governments with pro-Western puppet ones. The objective then and now is all about concentrating greater wealth and power in the hands of privileged interests at the expense of peace, the rule of law, and fundamental rights and welfare of ordinary people everywhere. Michel Chossudovsky exp...

By Nina DeMeo Global Research, Even as coronavirus spreads rapidly across the globe, causing a health crisis of historic proportions, the U.S. military is engaging in new military attacks in the Middle East. The U.S. must cease all military interventions and redirect its military budget to combat the pandemic. *** Amidst the unprecedented crisis that the world is currently facing as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. military is continuing to carry out airstrikes abroad. On March 12th, the U.S. launched several rockets, hitting five targets in southern Iraq, which Iraqi military officials say damaged an unfinished civilian airport and killed three Iraqi soldiers, two police officers, and a civilian worker. The attack was one in a series of retaliations against...

Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem,SR THE STORY YOU NEVER HEARD https://youtu.be/nx44mQdsD1I PRODUCED BY RINGOFFIRERADIO.COM On this day in 2003 the US invaded Iraq. How did this “little” point get lost in the NSA story? The NSA’s JOB is to spy on the communications of our enemies, not to listen to and record your phone calls. Here’s a case where they not only got it massively wrong, it also looks like they remained silent while their “evidence” was used to drive the US into a ruinous war. Did they present false information to the Bush criminals or did they merely sit back and do nothing when that evidence was grossly misrepresented. It hardly matters, does it. Massively wrong in either case.