Truthout
Iraq
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Time for Americans to Accept Responsibility for Our Military Interventions
The United States must accept responsibility for the damage its military actions have caused and recognize there are alternatives for the future.
Iraq’s Female Citizens: Prisoners of War
Iraqi woman human rights defender Yanar Mohammed spoke about grassroots responses to the atrocities women are facing under ISIS.
Military Contractors Belie Myth of US Leaving Afghanistan and Iraq
If the presence of private military contractors in Afghanistan and Iraq is obscured, how is the public supposed to know if we are truly “out?”
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Gradual Injustice
How did the US government get from there to a “Homeland Security Department” that trains local police to consider protesters to be terrorists?
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Dahr Jamail | Report Shows US Invasion, Occupation of Iraq Left 1 Million Dead
The study estimates at least 1.3 million people have died as a result of US policy in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan since 2001.
Twelve Years Later, We Know the Winner in Iraq: Iran
We can credit US clumsiness for the new Iranian ascendancy.
Air Force F-15 Wing Commander to Subordinates: USA Is “Doing the Lord’s Work” in the Middle East
What in the hell is going through the mind of the most senior commanding officer at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base anyway?
“Inside Baghdad’s Brutal Battle Against ISIS”: In Chaos of Post-Invasion Iraq, Militias Take Hold
Journalist Matthieu Aikins talks about the rise of militias in Iraq and its return to the sectarian warfare that ravaged the country in the years after the 2003 US …
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On March 21, Be in Washington, Be in the Street
A rally at the White House will protest ongoing US military intervention in the Middle East, which is expected to cause the deaths and displacement of millions.
Obama’s Admission Not Enough: US Spin on Middle East Violence Must Change
President Obama's call to address the root causes of violence was a step in the right direction, but still miles away from taking the least responsibility for the mayhem …