America, You Crushed My Country and Now It Has No Future
By Dahr Jamail - March 26, 2013
Today...Iraq is a failed state, teetering on the brink of another sectarian bloodbath, and beset by chronic political deadlock and economic disaster. Its social fabric has been all but shredded by nearly a decade of brutal occupation by the U.S. military and now by the rule of an Iraqi government rife with sectarian infighting.
The Myth of Canada’s Foreign Policy
By Yves Engler - March 28th, 2013
When a US-led coalition invaded Iraq the forward-looking Canadian government stayed out of the war. And if you believe that I have a bridge for sale in Moose Jaw at an excellent price...[I]t’s completely false to say Canada did not participate in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Washington Escalates War on Syria
Ousting Assad was planned years ago. At issue is replacing him with a pro-Western puppet.
The CIA War Against Syria
By Johannes Stern - 26 March 2013
After US President Barack Obama’s so-called “peace” trip to Israel last week, on the tenth anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, Washington is escalating its bloody intervention in the Middle East...After threatening Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his main ally, oil-rich Iran, in a speech in Jerusalem, Obama is intensifying the US proxy war against Syria.
Iraq: The Occupation and the Resistance
By ASHLEY SMITH - March 22-24, 2013
The dominant explanations for why the resistance forces grew are simply wrong...[T]he truth is that the Iraqi people, like any other oppressed people in history, from colonial America under the English king to Vietnam in the 1960s, were going to rise up against occupation...[The] plan to occupy and transform Iraq into a servile state actually sharpened the Iraqi resistances.
Obama Talks "Peace" in Israel While Preparing War
By Bill Van Auken - 22 March 2013
In a speech delivered in Jerusalem on Thursday, US President Barack Obama identified US interests unconditionally with Israel while reiterating war threats against both Syria and Iran...Both the Israeli press and Palestinian analysts described Obama’s address...as the most enthusiastic embrace of the ideology of Zionism by any president in US history. One Israeli newspaper urged Obama to emigrate to Israel and run for office.
America's Genocidal Iraq War
March 19 marks its 10th anniversary. Permanent occupation is policy. Killing, destruction, toxic pollution, and human misery remain unabated. Pre-2003 Iraq no longer exists. America's Iraq war is one of history's greatest crimes. It followed Gulf War devastation and punishing sanctions.
U.S. & NATO Prepare Syria Intervention
By Bill Van Auken - 20 March 2013
The top US commander in Europe told a Senate hearing Tuesday that the US military and NATO are drawing up plans for direct military intervention in Syria...[Adm. James] Stavridis told the panel that “the option of assisting the opposition forces in Syria in ways that would break the deadlock are being actively explored by NATO members...”
A Message to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney from a Dying Iraq War Veteran
By Tomas Young - March 19, 2013
I want to make it clear that I, and hundreds of thousands of my fellow veterans, along with millions of my fellow citizens, along with hundreds of millions more in Iraq and the Middle East, know fully who you are and what you have done. You may evade justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally, of murder, including the murder of thousands of young Americans...whose future you stole.
The West's War on the Muslim World: Killing is Winning
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS - March 19, 2013
By its gratuitous murder of Muslims in seven or eight countries, Washington has ignited a Muslim response: bitter hatred of the United States. This response is termed “terrorism” by Washington and the war against terrorism serves as a source of endless profits for the military complex and for a police state to “protect” Americans from terrorism, but not from the terrorism of their own government.
Escalating Syria's War
Syria is Washington's war. It was planned years ago. At issue is regime change. America tolerates no independent governments. It wants pro-Western puppet ones replacing them.
America's Dirty War in Iraq
On March 6, London's Guardian discussed the Pentagon's link to Iraqi torture centers. General David Petraeus was directly involved.
Guardian/BBC Report Lays Out U.S. Policy of Torture and Murder in Iraq
By Naomi Spencer - 12 March 2013
[A BBC/Guardian] investigative report....links top US officials to atrocities carried out by Iraqi police forces after the 2003 US invasion of Iraq. General David Petraeus and Bush-era Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, among others, worked directly with US officials overseeing death squads, secret prisons, and torture practices in US-occupied Iraq. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis died and millions were displaced as a result of the chaos that the atrocities produced.
The Battle Still Rages Over What Vietnam Means
By JOHN GRANT - March 07, 2013
Asking bright, strong young men...to fight wars like Iraq and Afghanistan — and Vietnam before that — can be like luring an unsuspecting animal into a trap. The bait is the powerful call to do something good for your country, to sacrifice for a larger purpose. The trap, of course, is the fact wars like Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam are never what the drumbeat of homefront-oriented propaganda says they are.
Syrian Death Squad Invaders Seize UN Peacekeepers
They're not rebels. They're Western-recruited hired guns. They're heavily armed, trained, funded and directed. They're proxy US assassins. They're death squads. They're cold-blooded killers. They're imported from abroad.