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BOOKS : Iraq Occupation Through Eyes of U.S. Soldiers
‘I remember one woman walking by… She had been trying to bring us food and we blew her to pieces’By Dahr Jamail / September 17, 2008 MARFA, Texas – Aside from the Iraqi people, nobody knows what the U.S. military … Continue reading
Honoring the Dead : ‘Eyes Wide Open’
Photo of Eyes Wide Open on the Mall in Washington DC by AFSC.Boots on the ground in Austin this weekendBy Susan Van Haitsma / The Rag Blog / September 10, 2008 In February 2005, the display of combat boots and … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Exhibitions, GI's, Iraq Veterans, Iraq War, Peace Movement, Texas, War Fatalities
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FILM : ‘WHY WE FIGHT’ — The Dominant Role of the Military in American Life
WHY WE FIGHT: ‘We must understand the underlying disease itself’By William Michael Hanks / The Rag Blog / September 5, 2008 One may scarcely witness the cascading events of the last decade without feeling a sense that something is going … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Film, Imperialism, Independent Film, Iraq Occupation, Iraq War, Military Industrial Complex, U.S. Military
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Iraq Report: The Surge Didn’t Do What John and Sarah Think
Excerpt from Rambo and the Mean GirlBy Juan Cole / September 5, 2008 A crucial element in the fall of violence from the catastrophic levels of summer, 2006, was the ethnic cleansing of Baghdad of its Sunnis. I wrote in … Continue reading
Jim Hightower : The Price of Autocratic Arrogance
A mass arrest under way at an antiwar protest in Manhattan on April 7, 2003. Convictions: zero. Cost: $2 million. Photo by Dawn Reel / NYT.Running a police state is expensiveBy Jim Hightower / September 2, 2008 To your list … Continue reading
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Tagged Iraq War, Jim Hightower, New York City, Peace Movement, Police State, Political Protest, Protest
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Because the Empire Is Never, Ever Wrong
Jose Nazario (right) with lawyersEx-Marine Acquitted in Killing of IraqisBy Chelsea J. Carter / August 29, 2008 RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Jurors wept and embraced former Marine Jose Luis Nazario Jr. after acquitting him of voluntary manslaughter in the killings of … Continue reading
Iraq Lies: Will Anyone Ever Be Held to Account?
White Paper Justifying Iraq War Written Three Months before Intel Report Arrivedby Michael Collins / August 25, 2008 The National Security Archive released a report Friday Aug. 22, 2008 that sheds even more light on the premeditated lying and deception … Continue reading
BOOKS : But Is That All He Should Be Charged With?
The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder is currently number 10 on the New York Times bestseller list. Thanks to Susie Madrak at Suburban Guerilla for pointing that out. Richard Jehn / The Rag Blog A review of Bugliosi’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Criminal Justice, George W. Bush, Iraq War, Vincent Bugliosi, War Crimes
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Iraq Report: Still Very Tense in Kirkuk
The aftermath of a suicide attack on Kurdish demonstrators three weeks ago.Photo: Benjamin Lowy/VII NetworkKurdish Control of Kirkuk Creates a Powder KegBy Richard A. Oppel Jr. / August 18, 2008 KIRKUK, Iraq — The phone rang, and it was answered … Continue reading
Tom Hayden : Same Social Expectations Amid a Very Different War
‘The similarities between the movements for RFK and Barack Obama (the fervor and the interracial character) have been often noted. If anything, the Obama constituency is larger because of the mobilization of so many more young people’By Tom Hayden / … Continue reading
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Tagged Cold War, Iraq War, Obama, Peace Movement, Robert Kennedy, SDS, Sixties, Social Change, Tom Hayden, Vietnam
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Charges Likely Against Blackwater Guards in Shooting of Iraqi Citizens
An Iraqi policeman inspects a car that was destroyed when Blackwater security guards opened fire in Baghdad, killing 17 civilians. Photo by Khalid Mohammed / AP.‘An Iraqi government investigation concluded that the security contractors fired without provocation’By Del Quentin Wilber … Continue reading
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Tagged Blackwater, Criminal Justice, Defense Contractors, Iraq Occupation, Iraq War, Justice Department
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Iraq Report: This Does Not Look Like "Victory"
John Tirman questions the GOP’s victory narrative about Iraq. It is a measure of the Orwellian state of the US media and politics that he should have to bother. I mean, the place is a burned out hulk where hundreds … Continue reading
