Recent Posts Tagged With 'gulf war ii'

• That Oil is Ours Dammit!

  Posted on Saturday October 24th, 2009 at 07:59 in oil, United States, iraq, corporate malfeasance, gulf war ii

  Oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens told Congress on Wednesday that U.S. energy companies are “entitled” to some of Iraq’s crude because of the large number of American troops that lost their lives fighting in the country and the U.S. taxpa...

• The Palestinian Tragedy

  Posted on Thursday October 22nd, 2009 at 09:08 in human rights, iraq, palestine, jordan, kuwait, lebanon, refugees, hussein, gulf war i, gulf war ii

  The fact that the divided Palestinian political leadership is silent about the mistreatment of the refugees by Arab states does not make such behaviour any less reprehensible – or less dangerous. Some 250,000 Palestinians were chased out of Kuw...

• Coverup

  Posted on Wednesday October 14th, 2009 at 07:01 in iraq, great britain, gulf war ii

  The British military’s chain of command has instructed the country’s top investigators not to examine hundreds of incidents involving Iraqi deaths and serious injury, a former British military police officer told the BBC Sunday. (full art...

• The Cost of U.S. Propaganda

  Posted on Friday September 18th, 2009 at 16:50 in United States, iraq, propaganda, us congress, gulf war ii

  Alhurra, set up under former President George W. Bush to broadcast an American perspective of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, was the subject of a joint investigation last year by ProPublica and CBS’ 60 Minutes. The investigation and a ...

• Why He Threw the Shoe

  Posted on Friday September 18th, 2009 at 13:51 in bush, iraq, protest, military occupation, gulf war ii

  I am not a hero. But I have a point of view. I have a stance. It humiliated me to see my country humiliated; and to see my Baghdad burned, my people killed. Thousands of tragic pictures remained in my head, pushing me towards the path of confrontatio...

• Outsourcing Atrocity

  Posted on Sunday September 13th, 2009 at 21:02 in iraq, justice, private security, gulf war ii

  Private security guards who worked for Blackwater repeatedly shot wildly into the streets of Baghdad without regard for civilians long before they were involved in a 2007 shooting episode that left at least 14 Iraqis dead, federal prosecutors charge ...

• How To Kill an International Student Program

  Posted on Wednesday September 9th, 2009 at 07:28 in protest, cheney, torture, Academia, Wyoming, gulf war ii

  A decision by the University of Wyoming to name a new center for international students for former Vice President Dick Cheney is drawing criticism from people who say Cheney’s support for the Iraq war and harsh interrogation techniques should d...

• The Shoe Felt ‘Round the World

  Posted on Tuesday September 8th, 2009 at 20:41 in bush, iraq, protest, gulf war ii

  Zaidi’s actions during the former US president’s swansong visit to Iraq last December have not stopped reverberating in the nine months since. Next Monday, when the journalist walks out of prison, his 10 raging seconds, which came to defi...