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Hope of Healing: for Sundus Shaker Saleh, Iraqi Mother, with my love
When the US invaded Iraq in 2003 Sundus Shaker Saleh, an Iraqi single mother of three, lost her home and her property, and was forced to flee to Jordan. Sundus Shaker Saleh with her family. (Photo:...
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Reflections of an Iraqi in Palestine
Nessma Bashi at the wall in Bethlehem that has destroyed countless Palestinian homes. (Photo: Elena Habersky) “Where was your father born?” he suspiciously asks. “Iraq” I reply. Born lost, I have found...
View ArticleThink back to 2003. . . the year the U.S. didn’t invade Iraq
Here is how history might have unfolded in an alternate universe in which the U.S. never invaded Iraq. Historians would later record how Secretary of State Colin Powell prevailed in a key Cabinet...
View ArticleThe world was right about Iraq– though Israel got its ‘Clean Break’
We protesters against the Iraq war were wrong: we did not see just how bad it would be. But Israel's American neocon boosters got exactly what they wanted-- a "clean break" from the historic power...
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Fire Thomas Friedman
Friedman Enough is enough. Thomas Friedman has just published his first column since the catastrophe in Iraq, and it is marked by so much dishonest evasion, pedestrian analysis, and poor writing that...
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Palestinian refugees displaced again as they flee Islamic State in Iraq
Palestinian Ambassador Nazmi Hazouri to Kurdistan speaks to Palestinian residents of Iraq and Kurdistan about the current situations in Gaza and Iraq. (Photo: Abed Al Qaisi) Qasi Mustafa Abu Khalil and...
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Hamas is ISIS for dummies
As you are surely aware, the gruesome murders of American journalists by the Islamic state group in Iraq and Syria have been seized on by demagogues to argue that the US must go to war in the Middle...
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I misremember Iraq
Everyone misremembers something. We mostly draw our lives’ meaning from the private world, so we tend to misremember sex: doing it better than we did, with somebody sexier than they were. Many of my...
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Photo essay: Continually displaced, Palestinian refugees spend Nakba day in...
Baharka IDP camp, Iraq, holds over 1,000 displaced Iraqi families. However in one small section, 18 Palestinian refugee families currently reside. Their displacement began 67 years ago with the Nakba,...
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Sheesh: A response to the US/Israel relationship
(The following was written by a friend who wishes to remain anonymous. This piece has my byline because I agree, and I’ll steal anything that isn’t nailed down.) The Israeli newssite Ynet carried an...
View ArticleJeffrey Goldberg has never faced ‘pundit reckoning’ for pushing Iraq war
Ken Silverstein has a pro-Hezbollah piece up at the Observer. Yeah, you read that right. The world is changing. The piece contains an excellent discussion of the achievements of Jeffrey Goldberg, the...
View ArticleNadler says his vote against Iraq war caused some to question his ‘commitment...
Congressman Jerrold Nadler’s very-welcome statement in support of the Iran Deal today includes many references to his Jewishness and his devotion to Israel. He seems most worried that he will be seen...
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A guide to the worst refugee crisis since WWII
The world is witnessing the largest refugee crisis since the horrors of World War II. Today there are close to 60 million war refugees, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)—“an...
View ArticleSaddam was just a ‘neighborhood bully,’ Netanyahu says– 13 years after saying...
There was a standing ovation for Benjamin Netanyahu at the American Enterprise Institute last night! Then he had a dialogue with Danielle Pletka in which he completely contradicted his testimony to the...
View ArticleBritish Parliamentarians pay homage to Dick Cheney during debate over ISIS
On 3rd December 2015 at the United States Capitol in Washington a statue was unveiled in honor of Richard “Dick” Cheney, former vice President to George W. Bush. In line with all other past...
View ArticleWoman and child killed in Iraq as US adopts Israeli ‘knocker’ bombs and...
American forces have adopted Israeli military tactics employed in Gaza of dropping cautionary leaflets and knocker bombs intended to warn civilians of incoming attacks. The method was used outside of...
View Article‘Fake news’ isn’t news or new: Remembering the 2003 US invasion of Iraq
We are seeing signs of a world turned upside down in the era of the Trump Administration bent on creating its own brand of news and marketing it to the exclusion of anything that isn’t compatible with...
View ArticleTrump dines, Arabs die
President Donald Trump's admission on Fox that he ordered the launch of 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles on Syria between bites of "the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake" makes it the second time he...
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Dangerous signs that Trump, Netanyahu and the Saudi Crown Prince are planning...
Béchir Ben Yahmed, at age 89, is probably the most experienced journalist in the world today. He is warning that he has inside information that an alliance of Saudi Arabia and Benjamin Netanyahu, urged...
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