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Iraq
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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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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.
Iraq Veterans Against the War: Decade-Old Group Grapples With New War, PTSD Epidemic, VA Failures
Celebrating its tenth anniversary, Iraq Veterans Against the War members say it is a bittersweet moment as the US has resumed bombing in Iraq.
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Here’s Everything Wrong With the White House’s War on the Islamic State
The Obama administration's war plans in Iraq and Syria are illegal, ill-conceived, and destined to fail.
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Military Firms Likely to Benefit From Airstrikes in Iraq, Syria
With US and allied aircraft now bombing Islamic State and Al Qaeda positions in Iraq and Syria, many analysts foresee a boost to bottom lines for munitions manufacturers, weapons …
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Ellsberg Sees Vietnam-Like Risks in ISIS War
Daniel Ellsberg, the former Defense Department official who leaked the Pentagon Papers exposing the Vietnam War lies, is alarmed at the many parallels between Vietnam and President Obama's new …
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William Rivers Pitt | Bush, Flying Shoes and Remembering the Truth
The word “shameless” has been burned out completely by stupid people from the Bush Administration with blood on their hands from the mess they made in Iraq, who still …