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Ramadani: Carnage and corruption in Iraq
Znet Article, October, 29 2009
Sami Ramadani
Ramadani's ZSpace page
Ignored by the west, Iraqis continue to suffer as the US's 'exit strategy' begins to unravel
Brecher: Ehren Watada: Free at Last
Znet Article, October, 28 2009
Jeremy Brecher
Brecher's ZSpace page
On June 7, 2006, a 28-year-old Army lieutenant named Ehren Watada released a video press statement announcing that he was refusing to deploy to Iraq because the Iraq War was illegal and his "participation would make me party to war crimes." After ...
Cockburn: A Dysfunctional State
Znet Article, October, 27 2009
Patrick Cockburn
Cockburn's ZSpace page
Bombs Will Go Off in Baghdad, Whether the US is There or Not
Nasser: Security, Reconciliation in Iraq Are Irreconcilable
Znet Article, October, 16 2009
Nicola Nasser
Nasser's ZSpace page
Insecurity in Iraq is in – built in the U.S. – conceived sectarian and “federal†constitution drafted after the U.S. – led invasion in 2003, in the political process engineered by the U.S. occupying power on sectarian and federal “cons...
Pilger: The Lying Game: How Are Prepared For Another War Of Aggression
Commentary, October, 01 2009
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
In 2001, the Observer in London published a series of reports that claimed an "Iraqi connection" to al-Qaeda, even describing the base in Iraq where the training of terrorists took place and a facility where anthrax was being manufactured as a wea...
Fenton: Canada's Halliburton? SNC-Lavalin war profiteering in Iraq, Afghanistan
Znet Article, September, 18 2009
Anthony Fenton
Fenton's ZSpace page
Way back in September 2004, the story broke that the Canadian engineering and construction firm SNC-Lavalin would be manufacturing 300-500 million bullets for the U.S. military through its subsidiary SNC-TEC.
Fenton: Hostile takeover
Znet Article, September, 11 2009
Anthony Fenton
Fenton's ZSpace page
In fact, Canada has been involved with the Iraq conflict in many ways - political, economic, military - some subtle, some overt.
Gollinger: Washington’s Global War on Terror
Znet Article, September, 08 2009
Eva Gollinger
Gollinger's ZSpace page
Interview with Josh Simpson and Benji Lewis, two ex US soldiers who fought in combat in Iraq and now publicly oppose Washington’s Global War on Terror
James: Postcard From...Damascus
Znet Article, August, 26 2009
Thomas James
James's ZSpace page
At the UN compound in Douma, a neighborhood in northern Damascus, men, women, and children sit in crowded warehouse-like buildings. These refugees from Iraq wait for the UNHCR food rations that will keep them from starving. Despite its occasional ...
Cockburn: The Truth About The Afghan Election
Znet Article, August, 23 2009
Patrick Cockburn
Cockburn's ZSpace page
In Iraq and Afghanistan American and British forces became participants in civil wars which their own presence has exacerbated and prolonged. The US and UK governments persistently ignore the extent to which foreign military occupation has destabi...
Sinclair: Book review: Ministry of Defeat. The British War in Iraq 2003-2009 by Richard North
Znet Article, August, 21 2009
Ian Sinclair
Sinclair's ZSpace page
Book review of Ministry of Defeat. The British War in Iraq 2003-2009 by Richard North
Scahill: CIA Hired Private Military Firm Blackwater for Secret Assassination Program
Znet Article, August, 20 2009
Jeremy Scahill
Scahill's ZSpace page
We begin today's show with an explosive new report about the private military contractor Blackwater. The New York Times is reporting the CIA hired contractors from Blackwater in 2004 as part of a secret program to locate and assassinate top operat...
Scahill: Blackwater Still Armed in Iraq
Znet Article, August, 18 2009
Jeremy Scahill
Scahill's ZSpace page
Despite the Iraqi government's announcement earlier this year that it had canceled Blackwater's operating license, the US State Department continues to allow Blackwater operatives in Iraq to remain armed. A State Department official told The Natio...
Stoner: Mercenaries and murder in Iraq
Znet Article, August, 17 2009
Eric Stoner
Stoner's ZSpace page
As private security firms take on more responsibility in Iraq, no amount of regulation can stop tragedies from happening It would be nice to celebrate the recent withdrawal of the remaining British troops from Iraq as the end of the UK's direct in...
Engelhardt: Biking Out of Iraq
Znet Article, August, 14 2009
Tom Engelhardt
Engelhardt's ZSpace page
On Troops That Don't Depart, Experts Who Never Leave the Scene, an Air Force That Suddenly Wasn't There, and a War That No Longer Needs a Justification
Shone: Media Lens's errors on Iraq Body Count
Znet Article, August, 14 2009
Robert Shone
Shone's ZSpace page
David Edwards and David Cromwell (editors of Media Lens
Schenwar: Postponing Iraqi Public Opinion
Znet Article, August, 06 2009
Maya Schenwar
Schenwar's ZSpace page
When Iraq's Parliament ratified its security pact with the US last year, allowing the presence of US troops until the end of 2011, it built in a provision for a public referendum vote to take place. This would let the Iraqi people decide the ultim...
Hayden: How many civilian deaths are acceptable?
Znet Article, August, 04 2009
Tom Hayden
Hayden's ZSpace page
Civilian casualties are frequently defined as little more than a massive public relations headache. Such casualties cause the US allies in Afghanistan and Pakistan to constantly complain, indicating the depth of popular resentment. In June, Kai Ei...
Porter: Behind Detainee Release
Znet Article, July, 17 2009
Gareth Porter
Porter's ZSpace page
The release Friday of five Iranians held by the U.S. military in Iraq for two and a half years highlights the long-simmering conflict between the U.S. and Iraqi views of Iranian policy in Iraq and of the role of its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Cor...
Chalabi: Iraqi Oil: The influence of the 1st Bid Round on the Future of Iraq's National Oil and Gas industries
Znet Article, July, 16 2009
Munir Chalabi
Chalabi's ZSpace page
Iraq has opened up its oil industry to foreign bids
