Tomas Young’s ‘Last Letter’
Tomas Young quickly became one of the most prominent Iraq veterans to oppose the war after he was shot in the spine and paralyzed in 2004 outside Sadr City. With years of antiwar activism behind him, and a body that continues to deteriorate, Young has decided...
On Iraq, Americans Are To Blame Too
Over at the indispensable LobeLog, James A. Russell writes on this reflective tenth anniversary of the Iraq War that it isn't just the fault of the Bush administration and the obedient Congress. Americans are to blame too. While it is true that we got led down the...
1963: The year the Israel Lobby Transcended US Law
Fifty years ago this May, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee opened a series of unprecedented hearings investigating the clandestine activities of foreign agents active in the United States. The investigation focused most intensively on the operatives and...
Kelley Valhos on RT Talking Iraq War
Report: ‘No More Drones for CIA’ – But Don’t Celebrate Just Yet
According to an exclusive report from Daniel Klaidman at The Daily Beast, President Obama "is poised to sign off on a plan to shift the CIA’s lethal targeting program to the Defense Department." Officials anticipate a phased-in transition in which the CIA’s drone...
Viewing State Action the Same as Individual Action
It is a curious phenomenon that misery, death and widespread destruction of property is mourned when it comes as the result of a natural disaster, or at the hands of a tyrannical foreign government, yet is callously disregarded when undertaken as part of the military...
John Glaser Talking Iraq War on RT
War Without End
Ten years ago, in March of 2003, Iraqis braced themselves for the anticipated "Shock and Awe" attacks that the U.S. was planning to launch against them. The media buildup for the attack assured Iraqis that barbarous assaults were looming. I was living in Baghdad at...
Mainstream Lookback at Iraq: Yes, You Can Scream Now
Twitter has been on fire today with myriad quips, snarks, I told you sos and above all, honest lamentations on the 10th anniversary of the American invasion of Iraq. There's also something else -- blowback on the mainstream punditocracy and media sheeplesphere, not so...
