Archive for the 'Iraq' Category

(DTRH) – March 25th, 2013 – Read the rest of this entry »

(VeteransToday) – This week, the Guardian released the feature film, James Steele, America’s Mystery Man in Iraq.  The video below is an excerpt from that film, the culmination of a fifteen month investigation into America’s war crimes in Iraq. Read the rest of this entry »

(FederalJack) – March 30th, 2013 – On this edition of DTRH Popeye starts part one of a three part min-series that was put together for the 10 year anniversary of the Iraq War. Starting off he asks the big question: Was the war worth it? The answer is of course HELL NO! Next up Popeye plays audio from a video titled “THE VIDEO THE PENTAGON DOESN’T WANT YOU TO SEE!”, and after hearing it you will understand the title in it’s full context (WARNING, AUDIO NOT FOR CHILDREN). Next up Popeye plays a piece of audio he has aired before titled “JUST WHO WERE WE FIGHTING IN IRAQ?”, and guaranteed after hearing it you will ask yourself the same thing. Read the rest of this entry »

(GlobalResearch) – The corporate media in the U.S. play a powerful role in preparation for imperialist war. They play an even more insidious role in rewriting the history of U.S. wars and obstructing the purpose of U.S. wars. Read the rest of this entry »

The high price of forgetting Iraq

(AustinChronicle) – Ten years later, what more is there to say about the U.S. War on Iraq?

(RawStory) – A Fox News military analyst who has previously justified the U.S. invasion in Iraq by asserting that Russia conspired to hide Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction (WMD) now says that there is a “very high probability” that those WMDs are in Syria. Read the rest of this entry »

(RepPress) – Tomas Young says he’ll commit suicide & called out WAR CRIMINALS Bush ‬&‪ Cheney “I did not join the Army to go to Iraq, a country that had no part in the September 2001 attacks and did not pose a threat to its neighbors, much less to the United States. … I especially did not join the Army to carry out pre-emptive war. Pre-emptive war is illegal under international law. … I hope you will be put on trial.” Read the rest of this entry »

(AVTM) – March 19th, 2013 – Read the rest of this entry »

(AJC) – March 19, 2013. Ten years ago today the Bush regime invaded Iraq. It is known that the justification for the invasion was a packet of lies orchestrated by the neoconservative Bush regime in order to deceive the United Nations and the American people. Read the rest of this entry »

(AJC) – March 19, 2013. Ten years ago today the Bush regime invaded Iraq. It is known that the justification for the invasion was a packet of lies orchestrated by the neoconservative Bush regime in order to deceive the United Nations and the American people. Read the rest of this entry »

(BreakingTheSet) – Abby Martin takes a short look back at the events leading up the US led invasion of Iraq, calling out the lies told by the government and the corporate media’s complicity in perpetuating these falsehoods. Read the rest of this entry »

(CNN) – CNN’s Arwa Damon speaks to children who spend their days scouring dumps looking for things to sell. Video Link Here

See Also: (AlJazeera) – Western oil firms remain as US exits Iraq

The end of the US military occupation does not mean Iraqis have full control of their oil.

While the US military has formally ended its occupation of Iraq, some of the largest western oil companies, ExxonMobil, BP and Shell, remain. Read the rest of this entry »

(NNN) – March 14th, 2013 – Read the rest of this entry »

(Guardian) – George Bush sold the war as quick and cheap; it was long and costly. Even now, the US is paying billions to private contractors Read the rest of this entry »

(RepPress) – Shot Dead at Gun Range, American Sniper author Chris Kyle was reportedly murdered by Iraq War veteran suffering PTSD. Proof that will send Bush to Prison: Read the rest of this entry »

(IraqOilReport) – Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region has begun exporting crude oil to Turkey, receiving limited diesel and kerosene to feed power plants in a significant barter exchange, breaching Baghdad’s claim to export sovereignty.

The independent fuel trade violates the central government’s claims of sole authority over crude exports, and represents an escalation in the ongoing conflict between Kurdistan and Baghdad over how to balance the powers of the state. Read More Here

(IND) – New study links increase with military action by Western forces Read the rest of this entry »

(HigginsBlog) – On the anniversary of the Anthrax attacks used to justify the Iraq war are now known to have been an inside job and the corporate media blackout continues. Read the rest of this entry »

(OccupyCorporatism) – The IAEA has been provided with new intelligence from Israel claiming Iran is years closer to developing nuclear weapons than previously thought. Read the rest of this entry »

(PressTV) – Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair could face trial in Scotland for his war crimes in Iraq after the proposal was backed by Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs). Read the rest of this entry »

(KurtNimmo) – On Tuesday, the New York Times cited a claim by American officials that Iran is shipping military equipment to Syria over Iraqi airspace. Read the rest of this entry »

(LRCBlog) – Why is everyone, including the Romuluns, dissing Clint Eastwood this morning? First, because his segment was the only interesting moment during the entire Republican convention. And second, because he said this to the invisible Obama by his side: Read the rest of this entry »

(HigginsBlog) – The man behind fabricating intelligence reports to invade Iraq says the war was one of it not the greatest decision of the 21st century. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – As the US deficit continues to spiral out of control ahead of a huge fiscal cliff that will cause massive cuts nationwide US taxpayer money continues to be wasted by the Pentagon. Read the rest of this entry »

(RealNews) – A decade after the Downing Street memo revealed intelligence reports fabricated the pretense to invade Iraq history is repeating itself with Iran. Read the rest of this entry »

(AsianTribune) – In March 2006 four US soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division gang raped a 14 year old Iraqi girl and murdered her and her family —including a 5 year old child. An additional soldier was involved in the cover-up.

One of the killers, Steven Green, was found guilty on May 07, 2009 in the US District Court of Paducah and is now awaiting sentencing. Read the rest of this entry »

I went down to the market where all the women shop;
I pulled out my machete and I begin to chop;
I went down to the park where all the children play;
I pulled out my machine gun and I begin to spray.

(LRC) – According to Josh Stieber, who was granted conscientious objector status upon his return from Iraq.

At Camp Pendleton: “One, two, three, four. Every night we pray for war. Five, six, seven, eight. Rape. Kill. Mutilate.” (LA Times, Jan. 3, 1989). – Source: LRC

(BusinessInsider) – When Tom Vanden Brook and his editor Ray Locker researched a story about the astronomical sums being spent by military propaganda campaigns, one of their first stops was the Pentagon.

Published in February, their story outlines a massive propaganda effort costing U.S. taxpayers hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars a year that produced dubious returns in Iraq and Afghanistan. Read the rest of this entry »

(AJC) – Alex discusses “Curveball”, the Iraqi defector who fabricated claims about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. Read the rest of this entry »

(Ind) – A man whose lies helped to make the case for invading Iraq – starting a nine-year war costing more than 100,000 lives and hundreds of billions of pounds – will come clean in his first British television interview tomorrow.

(AJC) – Angelia Jolie openly works for the UN and CFR pushing globalist wars under the cover of humanitarian intervention.

Drunk on the blood of Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan and scores of other nations Jolie is now pushing military invasion to “help” Africa. She and her masters know full well that they are carrying out destabilization operations in the 3rd world so population can be reduced and resources stolen. Read the rest of this entry »

Unimaginable Treason at the Highest Levels of US Governance

(LandDestroyer) – In an unbelievable act of high treason and overt criminality, the US State Department, headed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has finalized arrangements to move the US State Department-listed foreign terror organization, Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK), into the former US military base “Camp Liberty’ in Iraq. Read the rest of this entry »

(ARSONomics) – What does the turmoil in the middle east and terrorism have in common? Both are being caused and propagated by Elites to further their own FINANCIAL and POLITICAL interests. Whether Obama, Bush, or Clinton, they are ALL working together. Is this what constitutes “American Interests” in the middle east: pipelines? Read the rest of this entry »

(Infowars) – Editor’s Note: Although this article can be seen as a standard piece of consensus reality propaganda coming out of Washington, it contains some real truths about how the US arm of the New World Order will be conducting its overseas affairs in the event of a large troop draw-down. The US will have left a considerable ‘stay behind operation’ in both Iraq, and later in Afghanistan. Read the rest of this entry »

(AsiaTimes) – A Greek choir of the “disgusted” and the “outraged” predictably greeted BRICS members Russia and China double veto to the United Nations Security Council resolution imposing regime change in Syria. The resolution was backed by that haven of democracy, the GCC League, the organization controlled by the six monarchies/emirates of the Gulf Cooperation Council formerly known as the Arab League. Read the rest of this entry »

(AlJazeera) – Despite promises made for improvements, Iraq’s economy and infrastructure are still a disaster.

As a daily drumbeat of violence continues to reverberate across Iraq, people here continue to struggle to find some sense of normality, a task made increasingly difficult due to ongoing violence and the lack of both water and electricity. Read the rest of this entry »

(AlJazeera) – While the US military has formally ended its occupation of Iraq, some of the largest western oil companies, ExxonMobil, BP and Shell, remain.

On November 27, 38 months after Royal Dutch Shell announced its pursuit of a massive gas deal in southern Iraq, the oil giant had its contract signed for a $17bn flared gas deal. Read the rest of this entry »

(MediaRoots) – “On the Dark Side in Al Doura: A Soldier in the Shadows” tells the story of U.S. Army Ranger John Needham’s experiences in Iraq witnessing war crimes and other grim atrocities by the U.S. Military. He tried to blow the whistle and, in the process, endured great suffering and is now deceased. Read the rest of this entry »

(LandDestroyer) – Even as US troops symbolically withdraw from Iraq, a superficial indicator that many may interpret as the return of Iraqi sovereignty, it is the flow of foreign-investment into the country that marks the true chains of foreign-rule being laid out. Read the rest of this entry »

(AJC) – Henningsen reports on how the west is again using terrorists in a geopolitical chess game. Read the rest of this entry »

(GlobalResearch) – US Marine Ross Caputi reflects on Fallujah in Iraq, where he was deployed in the 2004 attack that killed thousands, displaced hundreds of thousands more and poisoned the city with chemical weapons Read the rest of this entry »

See Also: (GlobalResearch) – Bradley Manning: Who Are The Real Traitors? – Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – The end of U.S. military involvement in Iraq coincided with Bradley Manning’s military hearing to determine whether he will face court-martial for exposing U.S. war crimes by leaking hundreds of thousands of pages of classified documents to Wikileaks. In fact, there is a connection between the leaks and U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq. Read the rest of this entry »

US State Department now races to find a new home for US State Department-listed terrorist organization

(LandDestroyer) – In a move that almost defies belief, is so brazen and hypocritical many will not believe it no matter how many State Department officials confirm it, the US has been guarding a terrorist training camp inside Iraq with US troops and is planning to relocate them, possibly to a freshly abandoned US military base in Iraq while D.C. lobbyists work feverishly to have them de-listed, armed, and sent to conduct terrorist operations in Iran. Read the rest of this entry »

(WarIsACrime) – Every American should read this letter: Read the rest of this entry »

See Also: (PSLWeb) – Colonial Iraq: The Reality behind “the End of the Iraq War” – Read More Here

(GRTV) – Announcing the Iraq war was ended, Barack Obama told US troops on 14 December 2011, “The United States military is the finest fighting force in the history of the world.”

What he didn’t say is that since 1945 the US military has been directly responsible for the deaths of over 10 million people and that America has in that time overthrown 50 governments, including democracies, and intervened in at least 30 more.

John Pilger has something to say about that. Read the rest of this entry »

(Spoiler alert: this is the alternate remix of a New York Times original.)

(AsiaTimes) – The Pentagon officially pronounced its US$3 trillion-and-counting, “war on terror”-related invasion, occupation and decimation of the Iraqi nation dead on Thursday even as the country prepared for a low-intensity Sunni-Shi’ite civil war and the Muslim world wondered whatever happened to the George W Bush administration’s Greater Middle East. Read the rest of this entry »

(IPS) – Defence Secretary Leon Panetta’s suggestion that the end of the U.S. troop presence in Iraq is part of a U.S. military success story ignores the fact that the George W. Bush administration and the U.S. military had planned to maintain a semi-permanent military presence in Iraq.

The real story behind the U.S. withdrawal is how a clever strategy of deception and diplomacy adopted by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in cooperation with Iran outmanoeuvered Bush and the U.S. military leadership and got the United States to sign the U.S.-Iraq withdrawal agreement. Read the rest of this entry »

(WarIsACrime) – Yesterday, December 16, 2011, 40 supporters of Bradley Manning saw him in person in the military courtroom at Fort Meade, Maryland and another 60 saw him on a video feed from the court, the first time Manning has been seen by the public in 19 months.  Over 100 other supporters, including 50 from Occupy Wall Street who had bused down from New York City, were at the front gates of Fort Meade in solidarity with Manning. Read the rest of this entry »

(KurtNimmo) – Leon Panetta, Obama’s man at the CIA and now defense secretary, says the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Iraqis and the destruction of what was once the envy of the Middle East was a price worth paying. Read the rest of this entry »

(EmpireBurlesque) – In March 2003, the United States of America launched an entirely unprovoked act of military aggression against a nation which had not attacked it and posed no threat to it. This act led directly to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent people. It drove millions more from their homes, and plunged the entire conquered nation into suffering, fear, hatred and deprivation. Read the rest of this entry »