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There's got to be some irony in the US transference of control to Iraqi security forces while the Israelis pound Gaza. Why? Because, despite the hoopla in the US press and its Iraqi clones, the...
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Everyone wondered, when Obama won the election, if he would hold to his pledge to withdraw from Iraq. The Pentagon and its political allies had other plans, and were already seeking to reverse the...
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The Green Party urges the release of the Baghdad shoe-thrower, and condemns his torture and prosecution
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The top ten myths...
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Obama's plan for an 'Afghan surge', with historical comparisons between Afghanistan and Vietnam and Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The plot, so unexpectedly, thickened in Iraq on a Sunday like no other. The two main actors - US President George W. Bush, and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki - took to the stage to perform...
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IT was shoes, not feet, that went a-flying at a press conference in Baghdadâs Green Zone last week, courtesy of a journalist who had decided it would make more sense to hurl answers rather...
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The New York Times failed spectacularly in its coverage of Iraqâs alleged weapons of mass destruction, helping lead the country into war and only much later publishing a half-hearted mea culpa...
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The young journalist who took on Bush has become a unifying Iraqi symbol, a national hero
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Iraqi journalist throws shoe at Bush...
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Official press conferences of any kind seldom produce real news, but the worst are usually those given by foreign leaders on trips abroad in which they and their local ally suggest that they are in...
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This is the question now raised in Iraq: If they throw shoes at your face are you a combat troop or a noncombat troop? The answer may be important in helping to guide President Elect Obama's...
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On November 27 the Iraqi parliament voted by a large majority in favor of a security agreement with the US under which the 150,000 American troops in Iraq will withdraw from cities, towns and...
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Obama was elected on the back of revulsion at Bush's war, but greater pressure will be needed to force a full withdrawal
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Recently The New York Times reported an alleged evolution in President-Elect Obamaâs position on the invasion of Iraq. Having run for the president partly on a vow to âend the warâ...
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The New York Times is reporting an "apparent evolution" in president-elect Barack Obama's thinking on Iraq, citing recent statements about his plan to keep a "residual force" in the country and his...
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World media rashly celebrated the "historic" security pact that allows for US troops to stay in Iraq for three more years after the Iraqi parliament ratified the agreement on Thursday, 27 November....
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Lawrence Wilkerson's Lessons of War and Truth, from Vietnam to Iraq
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It's the ultimate argument, the final bastion against withdrawal, and over these last years, the Bush administration has made sure it would have plenty of heft.
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Despite subtle and unsubtle pressures to compromise on his withdrawal plan, however, Obama is likely to pass over Gates and stand firm on his campaign pledge on military withdrawal from Iraq,...
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President-elect Barack Obama, in one of the first policy statements of his transition, demanded that the Bush administration either submit the proposed U.S.-Iraq “status-of-forces agreement” to...
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So the count-down begins. 'Blessed Good Boy', the literal Arabic translation of 'Barak Hussein' Obama is inspiring working class, and his key demographic 'the middle class', voters with his...
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The next president and the Global War on Terror
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Whatever the U.S.-Iraqi "agreement" ends up looking like, it is unlikely to have much of an effect on the occupation.
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An interview with documentary film director Alex Gibney.
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What the Good News from Iraq Really Means
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I should be used to it by now, but I'm not. When I read statements from US policymakers telling the world that Iraq is still not capable of defending itself without US help, I am still angered and...
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The final draft of the U.S.-Iraq Status of Forces agreement on the U.S. military presence represents an even more crushing defeat for the policy of the George W. Bush administration than previously...
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An analysis of the US/Iraqi Strategic Framework Agreement and the positions of the various Iraqi forces.
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New evidence from former U.S. officials reveals that the George W. Bush administration failed to adopt any plan to block the retreat of Osama bin Laden and other al Qaeda leaders from Afghanistan...
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Reasons for the present crisis go well beyond economics and finance. They have to do with the West's bankruptcy - moral, political and economic.
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Pakistan should not be surprised at being lumped with more than its fair share of blame for the Afghan mess: blaming its victims' neighbours is an old American ploy.
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