Let’s hope Biden has learned another history lesson: that the United States should stop invading and attacking other countries. At Bagram air-base, Afghan scrap merchants are already picking through the graveyard of U.S. military equipment that ...
Why the Bouficha Appeal stands for the aspirations of people who want an end to militarized violence on earth. On March 15, 1950, the World Peace Council sent out the Stockholm Appeal, a short text ...
“While the world is consumed with the terrifying coronavirus pandemic, on March 19 the Trump administration will be marking the 17th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq by ramping up the conflict there.” While ...
A stronger, more committed and more determined global peace movement could tame the U.S. war machine. February 15 marked the day, 17 years ago, when global demonstrations against the pending Iraq invasion were so massive ...
“ISIS has already rebuilt its forces and it’s moving to the offensive … only this time militants are better trained, better equipped, and they are no longer interested in engaging the military in frontal attacks ...
The three sites chosen for the news bases, Erbin, Sulimania and Halabja are all extremely close to Iran, with Halabja just eight miles from its border. (By: Alan MacLeod, Mintpress News) Less than a week ...
“We want what all sovereign nations want – to be free from corruption, free from nepotism, free from foreign interventionism and free to decide what our country’s future will look like.” “We want what all ...
The U.S. is adamant that its assassination of Qassem Soleimani and refusal to leave Iraq is about protecting Americans, but a little known Iraqi parliamentary session reveals how China increasingly strong ties to Baghdad may ...
A week after Iranian strikes on U.S. military in Iraq, Ayatollah Khamenei is expected to focus his weekly Friday address on Iran’s great victory and the loss of U.S. life endured in the Iranian attack. ...
“All is well! Missiles launched from Iran at two military bases located in Iraq. Assessment of casualties & damages taking place now. So far, so good! We have the most powerful and well equipped military ...
Only hours after Iran laid the slain body of General Qassem Soleimani, Commander in Chief of Iran’s elite Quds Units, Tehran military command ordered the launch of a barrage of ballistic missiles against all U.S. ...
“Strategically …we are pouring gasoline on a smoldering fire with no structure or strategy for where we’re going to take this thing next.” To the risk of contradicting U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo, Americans are ...
Only two days after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the killing of both General Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s Commander in Chief of the elite Quds Force and Abu Mahdi Al Mohandis, deputy chief of the Popular ...
The recent attack on Kata’ib Hezbollah has actually worked in favor of Iran, turning Iraqi public opinion and Iraqi leaders more solidly against the U.S. military presence. It’s a new year, and the U.S. has found a ...
Today Iran’s “martyrs” are being mourned by millions across the Islamic world – the last men to have fallen to what is being framed as a holy struggle between western imperialism and free men. If ...
Angry supporters of an allegedly Iran-linked militant group in Iraq targeted by U.S. airstrikes on Sunday have surrounded the U.S. embassy in Baghdad. Hours after the Iraqi Shiite-dominated government described deadly U.S. airstrikes on the ...
“We will not stand for the Islamic Republic of Iran to take actions that put American men and women in jeopardy.” At least 25 militants were reportedly killed on Sunday and about 55 others wounded ...
“In the name of Iraq and in the name of Iraqi people, in the name of martyrs, in the name of all those who sacrificed, and in the name of the displaced, the law has ...
The government Iraqis are protesting against today is still led by the same gang of U.S.-backed Iraqi exiles who wove a web of lies to stage-manage the invasion of their own country in 2003. As ...
After many protests, some violent, Iraq is stepping away from under Iran’s shadow to establish its own self-governance. Following an almost irresistible, and admittedly unforeseen, rise to the height of power in the Greater Middle ...
No soldier should be above the law. Nor should those who sent the soldiers into battle. U.S. President Donald Trump sacked his Navy secretary on Twitter. The main reason is that the Navy secretary did ...
In what some are calling a new Arab Spring, popular protests have swept across multiple Arab nations including Iraq, Lebanon, Algeria and now Kuwait. On Thursday, the emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Jaber al-Sabah, ...
Protests in Iraq and Lebanon have turned into anti-Iranian demonstrations, a blame Iran places on the U.S., but are the protests really the result of a U.S.-Iran proxy war? Recent protests in Iraq and Lebanon, ...
In a new wave of nationwide protests in Iraq on Friday, more than 20 Iraqi protesters were reportedly killed and a few thousand others injured. Iraqi riot police clashed with demonstrators in the capital of ...
US troops may be on the move, but instead of returning to the U.S. they are being redeployed to other regions in the Middle East. U.S. President Donald Trump signaled on Monday his country’s plan ...
As corrosive as neoliberalism has been to working people in the U.S., it has been far more destructive wherever the U.S. and its allies have tried to impose it by military force. This season could ...
After four days of protests in Iraq, dozens of protesters are dead and many more wounded sparking calls for the Iraqi government to step down. International media reports said on Friday that the death toll ...
An airstrike Sunday night targeted pro-Iran factions in Syria, while the party responsible is unknown, the strike fits a pattern of recent Israeli strikes on Iranian targets in Syria. The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human ...
Despite announcing the defeat of ISIS in Iraq in 2017, Iraq is still fighting the militant group in pockets of the country. Iraqi forces, supported by U.S. air forces, launched an intensive military campaign on ...
“There is no military solution to this problem.” (By Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams) Iraqi President Barham Salih said Tuesday that the United States has no right to use his country as a launchpad for a ...
“And the continuing detention of individuals not suspected of crimes, in the absence of lawful basis and regular independent judicial review, is not acceptable.” Michelle Bachelet, the chief of the United Nations Commission for Human Rights (UNCHR), ...
Recently, Iraqi national leader Iyad Allawi claimed that Israeli intelligence apparatuses provided the U.S. with images showing launching pads in Gaza for ballistic missiles aimed at Arab Gulf states. All Gaza-based resistance factions strongly condemned ...
In a sign that peace and normalcy are returning to Syria, commercial flights between Iraq and Syria will resume this week. Iraqi authorities decided Thursday to resume air flights with Syria, following an eight-year suspension ...
Citizen Truth has covered the influence of the military industrial complex has on the Pentagon and politicians within the United States. On Saturday the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) stated the Islamic State of Iraq and ...
Cybercrime, ISIS, climate change, tense relations between international countries all top the list of a Pew poll on the greatest threats facing us in 2019. According to a survey released on February 11 by the ...
Eddie Gallagher, a mentally unstable and violent officer guilty of premeditated murder or war hero? New details emerged Wednesday in the war crimes case against Navy Special Warfare Officer Eddie Gallagher painting a picture of ...
Soldiers also engaged in cover-ups by disguising civilians as militants to make operations appear legitimate. The Middle East Eye report revealed how junior officers in the British army were taught to specifically shoot such civilians ...
“All I want to do is be able to watch,” Trump said in an interview regarding his plan to keep troops in Iraq to monitor Iran. On Sunday, U.S. President Donald Trump told CBS that ...
Another scandal rocks the special ops world after Lockheed Martin contractor dies while serving in Iraq. Two Marines and one Navy corpsman are under investigation in the death of a Lockheed Martin contractor in Iraq. ...
In a controversial move, Iraq appointed an education minister with well-known ties to ISIS. A relatively new democracy, Iraq has had over the past decade to overcome more internal crises, roadblocks and threats to its ...
Where are American troops? Amid news that the United States of America is recalling its troops from Syria following a decision by the White House that ISIS had been defeated, thus rendering America’s presence moot, ...
“‘Virginity testing’ has no scientific or clinical basis. There is no examination that can prove a girl or woman has had sex.” “WHO, UN Human Rights and UN Women have today issued a statement calling ...
The Arbaeen pilgrimage is the world’s largest public gathering and held every year in Iraq, but relatively few know anything about it. October 30 marked the culmination of the Arbaeen pilgrimage in Iraq – an ...
Estimates published Wednesday by the U.S. Energy Department show the U.S. is the world’s largest crude oil producer for the first time since 1973. American oil production has doubled over the past decade, with much ...
After 18 days of deliberation, on Wednesday the retrial of former Blackwater Security guard Nicholas Slatten for a 2007 shooting which killed 14 Iraqi civilians in a traffic circle ended in a mistrial as jurors ...
Evolution Of Blockchain The Geon Network works similar to existing cryptocurrencies on the blockchain, allowing users to transfer value between one another using secure protocols. However, Geon is unique in that recipients provide proof-of-location, and ...
In brief, you will find that the illogical direction in which the Pentagon and Department of State have directed this nation’s foreign affairs and military has its roots in the defeat of the United States ...
The 2016 election was the year of fake news, but fake news is not such a new problem in our country. We take a look back at the congressional testimony of a young Kuwaiti ...
Two unrelated demonstrations clashed on Sunday night when a group of far-right Greek militants charged a police barrier and attacked a group of asylum-seeking migrants in Mytilene, capital city of Lesvos island. Unprovoked, these attackers ...
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