Tag: The “Liberation” of Mosul

NOVANEWS By Felicity Arbuthnot   “In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli.” – (Howard Zinn, 1922-2010.) When the US, UK and their fellow destroyers of nations embarked, in October last year, on erasing Iraq’s ancient Mosul in order to save it, did they reflect on the enormity of the cost to humanity and history of their actions now and that of their genocidal, illegal invasion and fourteen year occupation – and counting? (Not forgetting the bombing of the country 1991-2003.) There was a quasi pull out in 2009, but a reported 16,000 mercenaries remained in the US Embassy compound. Mosul, situated on the Tigris River, was first mentioned in name by the Greek writer Xenophon in 401 BC, although...