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Posts Tagged ‘Iraq War’
How Do You Become a ‘Suspected Militant’?
Posted: 27 September 2010 by Sayyid in Af-Pak War, International Affairs, Political ScienceTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, airstrikes, Bush Administration, CIA, drones, extrajudicial assassination, Iraq War, ISAF, Jason Ditz, libertarian, NATO, Newspeak, NWFP, Obama Administration, Pakistan, War on Terror, Warfare and Conflict, Zardari
One Law for the Lion, One Law for the Lamb
Posted: 21 September 2010 by Kevin Carson in Philosophy, Political ScienceTags: Af-Pak War, anarchism, anti-Statism, Bradley Manning, history, Iraq War, Kevin Carson, law, libertarian, Mike Rogers, morality, Philosophy, US, war crimes, Warfare and Conflict
Daily Briefing—15th-16th Sept 2010
Posted: 16 September 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, airstrikes, al-Qaeda, Amnesty International, Andy Worthington, Anwar al-Awlaki, AQAP, Ayman al-Zawahiri, bailout, Blackwater, Boeing, BP, copyright, drones, drug war, extrajudicial assassination, Gareth Porter, GE, general strike, global economic crisis, GOP, Greece, Gulf oil spill, India, intellectual property, Iraq, Iraq War, Israel, JSOC, Kashmir, Kevin Carson, Khmer Rouge, Lehman Brothers, Matthew Cassel, Middle East peace process, military industrial complex, Myanmar, national debt, night raids, Pervez Musharraf, TARP, Warfare and Conflict, Wikileaks, WTO, Xe, Yemen
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Report: U.S. Troops ‘Still Killing Civilians’ in Iraq
Posted: 15 September 2010 by Little Alex in International AffairsTags: Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, civilian casualties, counterterrorism, CT, Iraq, Iraq War, Middle East, Newspeak, Nouri al-Maliki, Obama Administration, Operation New Dawn, US, War
A U.S.-Iraqi night raid results in the deaths of eight civilians weeks after U.S. combat operations were announced as over.
Report: U.S. Troops See Combat in Iraq… Again
Posted: 13 September 2010 by Little Alex in International AffairsTags: Abd al-Qadr Muhammed Jassim al-Obaidi, Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, AQI, Bush Administration, COIN, Hudaiay, Iraq, Iraq War, Iraq withdrawal, Iraqi security forces, Isam Shakar Mizher, Jason Ditz, Middle East, Obama Administration, SOFA, Timothy Williams, War on Terror
Weeks after Obama announced the end of combat operations in the Iraq War, ‘residual troops’ engaged in lethal combat reportedly for the second time over the weekend.
Daily Briefing—8th Sept 2010
Posted: 8 September 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, Africa, airport body scanners, airstrikes, al-Qaeda, Aleksander Kwasniewski, AMISOM, banking, black sites, Blake Hounshell, BP, Bush tax cuts, Charles Hugh Smith, China, CIA, cognitive science, counterterrorism, credit unions, Deepwater Horizon, DR Congo, drones, drug war, experimental philosophy, extrajudicial assassination, for-profit universities, France, free press, Gareth Porter, general strike, gold, Goldman Sachs, Gulf oil spill, Halliburton, Hillary Clinton, IDF, IFEX, India, Iran, Iraq War, ISAF, Israel, Israel-Lebanon War, Joe Biden, Kabul Bank, Kandahar Surge, Kashmir, Kevin Carson, land grabbing, Lebanon, Liz Pulliam Weston, Macondo oil spill, Mahmood Karzai, Mexico, military industrial complex, missile defense, Mullah Omar, NATO, neoliberalism, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philosophy, Poland, PTSD, Robert Fisk, Rwanda, secret prisons, Somalia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Stephen Walt, student loans, Sudan, suicide bombings, Taiwan, Taliban, Transocean, TSA, Uganda, UN, Yemen
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Chomsky’s Lectern: China and the New World Order
Posted: 2 September 2010 by Noam Chomsky in Chomsky's Lectern, International Affairs, Political ScienceTags: Af-Pak War, American Empire, Andrew Bacevich, Bush Administration, China, Clinton Administration, imperialism, Iraq War, NATO, Noam Chomsky, South Korea, US, war games, war spending
Noam Chomsky discusses U.S. political class ‘fears’ relating to China as an emerging superpower.
Daily Briefing—31st Aug 2010
Posted: 31 August 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: 1964 Civil Rights Act, ACLU, Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, airstrikes, Ali Abunimah, anarchism, AntiWar radio, banking, biometrics, CCR, Charles johnson, China, Colorado, Cuba, David Brooks, DPRK, drones, espionage, Fidel Castro, Gareth Porter, George Soros, gold, gold audit, Ground Zero Mosque, Hamas, Haneen Zuabi, Hebron, India, Iran, Iraq War, Iraq withdrawal, Iraqi Kurdistan, Jesse Walker, JPMorgan Chase, Julian Assange, Kelley Vlahos, Kochtopus, Libertarian Party, Likudniks, Michael Corcoran, Middle East, Mohammad Bazzi, Mossad, Muqtada al-sadr, Netanyahu, North Korea, Pakistan, Palestine-Israel, Patrick Cockburn, Paul Wolfowitz, Philip Giraldi, police state, Rand Paul, Ron Paul, Rwanda genocide, Salam Fayyad, Scott Horton, Stefan Molyneux, Stephen Walt, Taliban, torture, Volcker Rule, Wall Street, Warfare and Conflict, Wikileaks, William Fisher
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Media Manipulates ‘End’ of Iraq War
Posted: 31 August 2010 by Editors in International Affairs, Political ScienceTags: Barack Obama, Blackwater, Bush Administration, CNN, combat troops, corporatism, Dick Cheney, FAIR, FOX News, Halliburton, Iraq, Iraq War, Iraqi oil, Jeremy Scahill, media, mercenary firms, Michael Corcoran, Middle East, military industrial complex, MSNBC, New York Times, Newspeak, Obama Administration, oil, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation New Dawn, PSCs, Rachel Maddow, residual forces, War, War on Terror, Washington Post, Xe
Michael Corcoran: Just as the media lied to help us get into a war, they are now lying us out of one.
Worst U.S. Enemy Turned ‘Kingmaker’ as Leader of ‘Only Grassoots Movement in Iraq’ (mp3)
Posted: 30 August 2010 by Editors in International Affairs, Political ScienceTags: al-Qaeda, AntiWar radio, AQI, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Baghdad International Zone, Dawa Party, Green Zone, Iraq, Iraq War, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraqi National Alliance, Islamic State of Iraq, Iyad Allawi, Middle East, Muqtada al-sadr, Nouri al-Maliki, Osama bin Laden, Patrick Cockburn, Sadrist Movement, Scott Horton, SOFA, Sons of Iraq, State of Law bloc, Sunni Awakening
At AntiWar Radio, Patrick Cockburn discusses the power Muqtada al-Sadr holds in still unresolved March election in Iraq, ‘Al Qaeda in Iraq’ and its distinction from Osama bin Laden’s network, the violent sectarian conditions that remain in post-Surge Iraq, the improbability of a military coup in Baghdad or another full-scale civil war and the devil’s playground of foreign powers created by the cynical political squabbles (16:56):
Little Alex in Wonderland 