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Iraq War
Truthout Interviews William Rivers Pitt on Chemical Weapons in Iraq
US soldiers did find chemical weapons in Iraq, but they weren't the weapons we were told about.
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Jeremy Scahill: Blackwater Executives Remain Free as Guards Convicted for Killing 14 Iraqis in Massacre
A federal jury has returned guilty verdicts against four Blackwater operatives involved in the 2007 massacre at Baghdad's Nisoor Square.
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William Rivers Pitt | George W. Bush: The Gift That Keeps on Giving
If US troops found thousands of chemical shells, which they dealt with at their peril, why didn't the Bush administration bellow the fact to the heavens?
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The Missing Context: “Islamic State” Sectarianism Is Not Coincidental
Iraqis turned against one another, as US troops mostly watched the chaotic scene from behind the well-fortified Green Zone.
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Investing in Junk Armies: Why US Efforts to Create Foreign Armies Fail
The foreign armies that the US invests so much money, time, and effort in training and equipping don't act as if the US' enemies are their enemies.
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How Much Moral High Ground Does the US Have Over ISIS?
The United States' war on sexual violence, mass murder and religious persecution should begin at home.
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ISIS in Washington: The United States’ Soundtrack of Hysteria
“Amid the waves of fear and continual headlines about terror plots, we, the people, have now largely been relegated to the role of frightened spectators.”
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The Late Triumph of the Bush-Bin Laden Dance
Osama Bin Laden explicitly described his terror tactics as drawing the US, and the West generally, into an endless war.
Turkey Joins the War Campaign Against the Islamic State
Scholar Edmund Ghareeb explains how the authorization for military force against Islamic State by the Turkish parliament will affect peace negotiations with the Kurds.
Jeremy Scahill on Obama’s Orwellian War in Iraq: We Created the Very Threat We Claim to Be Fighting
Author Jeremy Scahill talks about how the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 helped create the threat now posed by the Islamic State.