How to make a difference in Iraq

L to R: Rafat, Dr. Salam and Raed Raed Jarrar, his family and girlfriend Niki began a project some five months ago to purchase and distribute medicines in Iraq. They thought that being Iraqi (except Niki, who's Iranian), they'd know the best places to distribute the...

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Iraqi Victims of American Delusions

Since a murderous, violent resistance movement (which antiwar people predicted) rules much of Iraq rather than the liberation cakewalk and democratic utopia (that prowar people predicted), an inevitable class of victims of the American invasion of Iraq has emerged...

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Recommended reading

Jonathan Schwarz has a great interview with Chris Floyd posted. Just so you know what you're missing if you don't go over there and read this interview, here's Chris Floyd on Matt Taibbi (who I vote for as the subject for Jonathan's next interview, if he can't get JD...

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“Buds of Democracy” in Iraq

Any guerrilla war has lulls, slowdowns, little coffee breaks that last a week, a month, sometimes years. It doesn't mean the war's over. The VC used to go home when it was time to harvest the rice crop; every time they did, the Saigon PR office would declare that the...

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Rumsfeld lectures Iraqi Parliament

All those recently elected Iraqis who've been screwing around like forming a government is no big deal, have had the riot act read to them by Rumsfeld. Rumsfeld’s message was made extremely loudly and clearly in his indomitable style when he told the interim Iraqi...

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All-New Fallujah Brigades?

64 Sunni clerics of the Association of Muslim Scholars and the Iraqi Islamic Party gave a fatwa calling for Iraqi Sunnis to join the military and police. Juan Cole comments that , "Unlike Sistani's this ruling does potentially change things," which is rather an...

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