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24Mar

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Iraq

From Iraq Into the Abyss?

by: EDITOR Dennis Kucinich: From Iraq Into the Abyss? Iraq Plus 20 Part II By Dennis Kucinich / Substack When the hijacked planes hit the twin towers of the World Trade Center, pierced the Pentagon and buried into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, most of our thoughts were about the cruel, horrific shattering of family bonds, the forever severing of deep friendships, the senseless destruction of human life. More than that America was under threat and fear prevailed. The never-ending heartache of loss was on display in photos with messages that ringed the fence of a church near ground zero in New York: “Have you seen him?” “Please, any information, call…” “Please help us find our wife and mother.” Hundreds of messages. N...

UK war crimes probe launches with call for evidence

22Mar

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Afghanistan, Iraq, United Kingdom

UK war crimes probe launches with call for evidence

The investigation into extrajudicial killings by British troops in Afghanistan was announced last year © Getty Images / Jonathan Brady An independent inquiry into alleged illegal killings by the British military in Afghanistan officially opened with a call for evidence on Wednesday. Investigation chairman Lord Justice Haddon-Cave promised to “do everything in our power” to “get to the bottom” of the scandal. “I would urge anyone, who has got any information or material, which they think may be relevant to the inquiry, to please get in touch with the inquiry team as soon as possible,” Haddon-Cave said in a statement on Wednesday accompanying the launch of a public website devoted to the inquiry. Allegations surfaced last year that UK Special Air Services (S...

UK lied about zero civilian deaths in Iraq

21Mar

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Iraq, United Kingdom

UK lied about zero civilian deaths in Iraq

A joint media and NGO probe found at least two, and as many as 26, civilian victims of British airstrikes FILE PHOTO. An Iraqi family fleeing Mosul on July 5, 2017, during the offensive by Iraqi government troops against Islamic State (IS) terrorists. © AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP The Royal Air Force did in fact kill civilians during the bombing of Iraq aimed against Islamic State terrorists, according to an investigation by the Guardian and the nonprofit Airwars, published on Wednesday. The British government continues to insist it did not kill any noncombatants. The UK joined the US-led coalition against Islamic State (IS, also known as ISIS) in 2014, and carried out multiple airstrikes in Iraq and Syria through 2020, dropping more than 4,000 bombs. The ...

Iraq War Costs Could Hit Nearly $3 Trillion by 2050

17Mar

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Iraq, USA

Iraq War Costs Could Hit Nearly $3 Trillion by 2050

U.S. troops pass in tanks through the Hands of Victory monument in Baghdad on November 13, 2003. (Photo: Technical Sgt. John L. Houghton Jr./United States Air Force) The Costs of War Project said the U.S.-led invasion and occupation "caused massive death, destruction, and political instability," killing hundreds of thousands of people while displacing millions more. BRETT WILKINS As the 20th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion and occupation of Iraq approaches, a leading research institute on Wednesday said that "the total costs of the war in Iraq and Syria are expected to exceed half a million human lives and $2.89 trillion" by 2050. The Costs of War Project at Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs said that "this budgetary figure i...

Reparations Demanded 20 Years After US Launched ‘War-for-Profit’ in Iraq

16Mar

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Iraq, USA

Reparations Demanded 20 Years After US Launched ‘War-for-Profit’ in Iraq

Posted by: John Phoenix Detainees stand in the Abu Ghraib prison yard while waiting to be released on June 27, 2006 in Baghdad, Iraq. (Photo: Ali Jasim-Pool/Getty Images) "We should not let the difficulty of securing justice deter us from seeking it—for Iraqis and for all others harmed by U.S. imperialism, exploitation, and genocide," said the Center for Constitutional Rights. JESSICA CORBETT Ahead of the 20th anniversary of the George W. Bush administration's illegal invasion of Iraq this weekend, the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights on Wednesday renewed its call for reparations "for those harmed as a result of the U.S.'s unlawful act of aggression in its cruel, senseless, and baseless war-for-profit." "Ten years ago, we ...

Lessons and legacy of the two-million strong Iraq antiwar protest

9Mar

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Europe, Iraq, Middle East, USA

Lessons and legacy of the two-million strong Iraq antiwar protest

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 biggest demonstration ever seen in the streets of Britain palpably failed to achieve its declared aim, or anything approaching it. The question no one seems to be asking is: why? https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1468827586%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-4vPBgmRt2bj&color=%23ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true The two-million-strong demonstration against the Iraq war 20 years ago today was not a success of the antiwar movement, but a symptom of its rottenness and failure. That demonstration’s total impotence was a clear sign ...

19Feb

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Europe, Human Rights, Iraq, USA

Lessons and legacy of the two-million strong Iraq antiwar protest

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 biggest demonstration ever seen in the streets of Britain palably failed to achieve its declared aim, or anything approaching it. The question no one seems to be asking is: why? The two-million-strong demonstration against the Iraq war 20 years ago today was not a success of the antiwar movement, but a symptom of its rottenness and failure. That demonstration’s total impotence was a clear sign that a so-called ‘antiwar movement’ led by servants of the imperialist Labour party was never going to be able to stop any wars – it wouldn’t even be able to explain to wo...

Colin Powell’s anthrax vial taught the US a valuable lesson – that it can get away with any lie it wants

10Feb

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Iraq, USA

Colin Powell’s anthrax vial taught the US a valuable lesson – that it can get away with any lie it wants

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 Marine Corps intelligence officer and author of 'Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika: Arms Control and the End of the Soviet Union.' He served in the Soviet Union as an inspector implementing the INF Treaty, in General Schwarzkopf’s staff during the Gulf War, and from 1991-1998 as a UN weapons inspector. @RealScottRitter@ScottRitter US Secretary of State Colin Powell holds up a vial that he said was the size that could be used to hold anthrax as he addresses the United Nations Security Council 5 February, 2003 at the UN in New York. © Timothy A. CLARY / A...

22Jan

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Iraq, USA, ZIO-NAZI

Tehran warns US against triggering war

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 Navy via Getty Images Iranian diplomats have warned that American military action against their country would risk starting an open war, according to Newsweek. There has been speculation surrounding Washington’s possible involvement in a recent drone attack on an Iranian military factory. “The use of the military option at any level means US entry into the war,” Tehran’s Permanent Mission to the UN told Newsweek on Monday. Iran currently considers such a possibility to be “weak,” according to the statement...

Iran and the Western manufactured Hijab protests

11Jan

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Iraq, USA, ZIO-NAZI

Iran and the Western manufactured Hijab protests

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 they are trying to hang this deceitful web of lies on is the story of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman. The known facts – of the sad death of this young woman – are as follows: during a shopping trip to Tehran with her family, she had emerged from a metro station and entered Talaqani Park, where she was walking with three female and two male relatives, including her brother Ashkan. The group was approached by members of the ‘morality police’ who said she was in breach of the Islamic dress code. Two of the women were given warnings but Amini, d...