Apr 05 2013
True costs of Iraq War whitewashed by fuzzy maths By Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, Apr 5, 2013 ‘So many’, wrote TS Eliot, reflecting on the waste land left by the First World War. “I had not thought death had undone so many.” This notion is unlikely to cross the minds of those surveying the devastation …
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Apr 02 2013
Israeli cruelty reached a point of no return in the 2008-09 Gaza war By Gideon Levy, Mar.31, 2013 She was standing there screaming, the veins in her neck seeming about to burst. “What’s happened to you − have all of you gone crazy? Who knows what he had in his house, maybe there were …
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Mar 31 2013
Dawkins, Harris, Hitchens: New Atheists flirt with Islamophobia By Nathan Lean, Saturday, Mar 30, 2013 02:00 PM CDT Richard Dawkins, the preppy septuagenarian and professional atheist whose work in the field of evolutionary biology informs his godless worldview, has always been a prickly fellow. The British scientist and former Oxford University professor has expended …
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Mar 30 2013
The Neocons Won By Gary Leupp, Weekend Edition March 29-31, 2013 Reading an assortment of commentaries (“retrospectives”) on the tenth anniversary of the U.S. war on Iraq, and onset of the horrific occupation, I find most center their discussion on the now almost universally conceded fact that the war was based on false pretexts. …
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Mar 24 2013
Iraq: ‘You didn’t fall… we pushed you’ By Alia Brahimi, 21 Mar 2013 11:06 “Are you here to work or… work?” a Basra airport security guard asked sympathetically. I was standing on a small wooden platform behind a flimsy curtain, as she waved her hand-held metal detector across my body. She had guessed my …
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Mar 24 2013
Iraq and the reinvention of reality By Sarah Kendzior, 24 Mar 2013 10:35 The worst thing about the Iraq war was not that people got away with lying. It was that they did not – and it did not matter. The 10th anniversary of the American invasion of Iraq was a week of media …
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Mar 23 2013
What America Learned in Iraq By John A. Nagl, March 19, 2013 The costs of the second Iraq war, which began 10 years ago this week, are staggering: nearly 4,500 Americans killed and more than 30,000 wounded, many grievously; tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis wounded or killed; more than $2 trillion in direct …
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