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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
Klare: Will Iraq Be a Global Gas Pump?
Znet Article, July, 15 2009
Michael t. Klare
Klare's ZSpace page
Is Iraq finally fated to become what it was going to be anyway, even before the chaos and catastrophe set in: a giant gas pump for an energy-starved planet?
Baroud: Forget the Headlines: Iraqi Freedom Deferred
Znet Article, July, 08 2009
Ramzy Baroud
Baroud's ZSpace page
As US combat troops redeployed to the outskirts of Iraqi cities on June 30, well-staged celebrations commenced. The pro-US Iraqi government declared "independence day" as police vehicles roamed the streets of war-weary Iraq in an unpersuasive show...
Dimaggio: A Perilous Path?
Znet Article, July, 07 2009
Anthony Dimaggio
Dimaggio's ZSpace page
The de-escalation of U.S. troops in Iraq has been accompanied by celebrations of American humanitarianism. This week’s withdrawal of troops from Iraq’s urban areas is part of the larger agreement made by the Bush administration to remove all ...
Schenwar: Iraq Vote Could Oust US Troops Early
Znet Article, July, 02 2009
Maya Schenwar
Schenwar's ZSpace page
As US combat troops retreated from Iraqi urban centers on Tuesday, signs of an incomplete withdrawal abounded. Some soldiers remained in cities, their labels changed from "combat troops" to "trainers" or "advisers," while others relocated to bases...
Rahnema: Electoral Coup in Iran: How Ahmadinejad won
Znet Article, June, 20 2009
Saeed Rahnema
Rahnema's ZSpace page
Shock, disbelief, despair, anger, street riots, tire burning and confrontations with police brutality have engulfed Iran, following the presidential elections that reinstalled Ahmadinejad through a claimed landslide victory.
