By Robert Scheer - March 10, 2010

...[M]embers of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences finally found a movie about the Iraq war they liked because it is “apolitical.” Actually, The Hurt Locker is just the opposite; it’s an endorsement of the politically chauvinistic view that the world is a stage upon which Americans get to deal with their demons no matter the consequence for others.

By John Pilger - December 11, 2009

As Iraq desk officer at the Foreign Office, [Mark Higson] had drafted letters...reassuring MPs and the public that the British Government was not arming Saddam Hussein. "This was a downright lie"...Giving evidence before the arms-to-Iraq enquiry, Higson was the only British official commended...for telling the truth. The price he paid was the loss of his health and marriage and constant surveillance by spooks. He ended up living on [welfare] benefits in a Birmingham bedsitter where he suffered a seizure, struck his head and died alone. Whistleblowers are often heroes; he was one.

By Nicola Nasser - October 17, 2009

...U.S. strategy remains the real problem...This strategy has pursued five self-defeating goals, namely to empower a pro-U.S. regime that has proved powerless in fending off the overwhelming rejection of the U.S. occupation...to establish a "democratic" political process that "constitutionally" negates the democratic rights of the country's Arab majority...and to save a semblance of the territorial unity of the country while empowering "mini-states" that would sooner or later doom any such unity.

By EAMONN McCANN - October 12, 2009

The families of 14 men killed by British paratroopers in Derry in Northern Ireland on January 20 1972 - “Bloody Sunday” - have been paying close attention to a ruling of the High Court in London in the case of Khunder al-Sweady...Mr. al-Sweady is one of six Iraqis who claim that soldiers of the Princess of Wales Royal Regiment tortured and murdered a number of civilians in southern Iraq in May 2004...The al-Sweady case demonstrates that there are few lengths to which the British ruling class won’t go to hide evidence of its army’s criminality.

By MUTADHAR al-ZAIDI - September 15, 2009

What compelled me to confront is the injustice that befell my people, and how the occupation wanted to humiliate my homeland by putting it under its boot...And how it wanted to crush the skulls of (the homeland's) sons under its boots...And during the past few years, more than a million martyrs fell by the bullets of the occupation and the country is now filled with more than 5 million orphans, a million widows and hundreds of thousands of maimed.

By Anthony Fenton - September 1, 2009

...Canada has been involved with the Iraq conflict in many ways—political, economic, military—some subtle, some overt...[T]he notion that Canada “didn’t go to Iraq” is, at best, wishful thinking. And though the war has slipped off the front page of the newspaper, Canada’s involvement in Iraq hasn’t decreased—in fact, today we’re in it deeper than ever.

Martin Sandbu - Financial Times

Norway was a country about as different as it was possible to imagine from Farouk al-Kasim's home, the Iraqi port city of Basra.

By PATRICK COCKBURN - August 4, 2009

The abduction of the British computer expert Peter Moore and his four bodyguards was carried out partly in revenge for deadly bomb attacks in south-west Iran which Iranian officials blamed on Britain, according to a well-placed source in Baghdad.

By Ramzy Baroud - July 09, 2009

"It's not over yet," [US Vice-President Joe] Biden said. Ironically, he is right, since that could only mean the complete withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, the end of foreign meddling in the country's affairs, and the removal of corrupt politicians that have destroyed the country's national identity in favour of sectarian camps endlessly fighting for dominance and privilege. Indeed, it's anything but over.

By Joshua Frank - June 22, 2009

Despite Obama's historic (albeit rhetoric filled) speech in Cairo, the new Commander in Chief is still not about to radically change, let alone reform, the US's long-standing role in the Middle East. A master of his craft, Obama is simply candy coating the delivery of US imperialism in the region. Given the lack of opposition to Obama's policies back home, it is becoming clear that he may well be more dangerous than his predecessor when it comes to the US's motivations internationally.

By Dahr Jamail - Znet

Most of the Sioux's land has been taken, and what remains has been laid waste by radioactive pollution..."It's pure genocide for us. We are all dying from cancer. We are trying not to become extinct, not to let the Great Sioux Nation become extinct"...The exploitative approach to the planet's resources and peoples that led to these environmental and health disasters collides with [Indigenous] values: "I always say that you have to learn to live with the earth, and not in domination of the earth."

By Dahr Jamail - June 03, 2009

At least 20 US soldiers have been killed in Iraq in May, the most since last September, along with more than 50 wounded. Iraqi casualties are, as usual...at least ten times that number...This is the slaughter and suffering that is being caused by the US occupation of Iraq. This is the death and suffering that is causing the Iraqi Resistance to once again form, gain strength, and prepare to resume full operations.

By Alex Spillius - 27 May 2009

The Pentagon is prepared to remain in Iraq for as long as a decade despite an agreement between Washington and Baghdad that would bring all American troops home by 2012, according to the US army chief of staff...Gen George Casey said the world remained “dangerous and unpredictable”, and the Pentagon must plan for extended US combat and stability operations in both Iraq and Afghanistan that could deploy 50,000 US military personnel for a decade.

By Doug Ireland - Znet

As the murder campaign targeting Iraqi gays intensifies, a leading Arabic television network last week revealed the use of a horrifying new form of lethal torture against Iraqi gay men -- anti-gay Shiite death squads are sealing their anuses with a powerful glue, then inducing diarrhea, which leads to a painful and agonizing death.