Bush's Time Horizon in Iraq
Allen McDuffee : George W. Bush
Everyone was baffled by the President's use of the term "time horizon" for withdrawal from Iraq. But when you consider the term's origin on Wall Street, it makes perfect, cynical sense.
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Blackwater's Not Going Anywhere
Jeremy Scahill : Blackwater
Anyone who thinks Blackwater is in serious trouble is dead wrong. Business has never been better for Blackwater and its future looks bright.
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The Wedding Crashers
Tom Engelhardt : George W. Bush Administration
In Bush's wars, the singer dies, the bride does not get a chance to run away, and the event might be relabeled my big, fat, collateral damage wedding.
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The Iraqi Oil Ministry's New Fave Five
Nick Turse : Oil
Mainstream media should consider these leads as they change gears from no-comment to hot-pursuit when it comes to the story of Iraq's most sought after commodity.
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The Year of the Prisoner
Alexander Cockburn
Will Bush make America the ultimate POW by launching an attack on Iran?
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Can Obama Resurrect Real Conservatism?
Susannah Vila : Politics
A conversation with Andrew Bacevich about what conservatives and progressives can hope for in the post-Bush era.
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Iraq's Iranian Lovefest
Robert Scheer : Media Analysis
Ahmadinejad's triumphal visit to Baghdad highlights the abject failure of the Bush doctrine. But US media yawned.
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The Dot Matrix
Laila Lalami : Fiction
In I'jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody, novelist Sinan Antoon explores themes of love, loss, identity and resistance in the face of political oppression.
2007
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State of the World 2008
Barbara Crossette : US Foreign Policy
The United Nations' chief troubleshooter and mediator, Lakhdar Brahimi, considers what should come next in Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan and how US foreign foreign policy went so far astray.
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Muqtada al-Sadr's Power Grab
Mohamad Bazzi : US Foreign Policy
The bad boy of Iraqi politics is going back to school. al-Sadr's plan to become an ayatollah has enormous implications for Iraqis and the United States.
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Iraq's Civil Resistance
Bill Weinberg : Activism & Organizing
The secular left brings together unionists, women's organizations and students.
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Who Lost Pakistan?
How often can the Bush Administration be caught off guard by the consequences of its own actions? Endlessly, it seems.
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The New American Imperium
The Democrats appear to be anti-Iraq War. But they surely are not acting like opponents of imperial overreach.
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Whose Genocide Counts?
The House Foreign Affairs Committee bravely declares the 1915 slaughter of Armenians in Turkey genocide. Why not put the same label on themselves, for their role in the Iraq catastrophe?
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Iraq: The Other Surge
Across the political spectrum in Iraq, a nationalistic bloc is emerging to challenge the Kurdish and Shiite separatists who have held sway under US tutelage.
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An Inconvenient Truth
Andrew Cockburn : Saddam Hussein
In 1988 US officials helped disguise Saddam's chemical attack on Halabja. But when it came time to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq, they acted outraged.
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Iraq's Founding Mother
A biography of Gertrude Bell investigates the woman who created Iraq out of the ruins of the Ottoman Empire.
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Persian Ghosts
Chris Toensing : Islam & Muslims
The complex historical tensions between Sunnis and Shiites are not enough to explain the current crisis in the Middle East.
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A Permanent Military Empire
Tom Engelhardt : US Foreign Policy
To mainstream media, the Bush Administration's full-scale garrisoning of Planet Earth is simply not a news story. But in Iraq beyond, America's empire of permanent bases grows at an alarming pace.
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Iraq: The New Korea
Bush's proposal to model America's presence in Iraq is as outlandish as it is alarming.
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Training Iraq's Death Squads
Spencer Ackerman : Nation Building
The Army's plan to professionalize Iraq's police could backfire, as militia-infiltrated squads become more effective killers.
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'Democracy' Is Hell
Katha Pollitt : Feminism & Women
In a gruesome marriage of technology and medieval barbarity, an Internet video records the stoning death of a 17-year-old Kurdish girl. Welcome to the new Iraq.
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How to Stop a Showdown With Iran
There's no way of knowing if the White House is planning war in Iran. But stopping Bush from sparking intentional or accidental war requires the promotion of democracy--this time at home--in a way that allows public opinion to shape policy.
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Saddam's Last Laugh
Robert Scheer : George W. Bush
A majority of Iraqis now say it's OK to attack American troops. Thanks, George.
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Who Will Get the Oil?
War and corruption have decimated Iraq's oil supply, and Western companies are angling for a cut of what's left.
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Targeting Tehran
As the Bush Administration steps up its campaign against Iran, opponents have a dual responsibility: to contest the strategic context for escalation and to bar specific acts of aggression.
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A New Paradigm for Peace in Iraq
Who says the Iraq debacle is unsolvable? There are decisive, meaningful steps that can be taken to stop the bloodletting and promote stability in the region.
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Sold to Mr. Gordon, Another Bridge!
Alexander Cockburn : Media Analysis
The New York Times's credulous reporting of flimsy "evidence" regarding Iranian weapons in Iraq is enabling Bush's anti-Iran propaganda drive.
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War Drums on Iran
: Iran
Congress and the media must challenge unsourced White House allegations of Iran's involvement in Iraq or risk a disastrous, widening war.
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Thelma and Louise Imperialism
Are Bush and Cheney so wedded to their delusions that they might gun the car and head directly over the cliff in a confrontation with Iran?
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Feith-Libby Lies Exposed
A new Pentagon report documents how the Bush Administration fooled us once with lies about Iraq's Al Qaeda ties. Will that keep them from fooling us again on Iran?
2006
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Questionable Verdict
Even the most naive American voter cannot be expected to see the morally, legally and politically questionable death sentence given to Saddam Hussein a milestone in the Bush Administration's illegal war in Iraq. As the milestones pile up, so do the bodies.
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On the Intelligence Report Finding That the War in Iraq Has Produced a New Generation of Jihadists and Increased Terrorism
Calvin Trillin : War on Terrorism
Yes, there is indeed a link between Iraq and Bush's "war on terror."
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Iraq and Reality
Throughout the Iraq debacle, intelligence and analysis have not mattered to the Bush Administration. The White House will continue to duck reality all the way to election day.
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Blackwater Shot Down in Federal Court
A federal appeals court has ruled a wrongful death lawsuit can proceed against Blackwater USA: Families claim the firm cut corners in pursuit of profit in Iraq, leading to the brutal deaths of four employees in Fallujah in 2004.
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Iraq Is Dying
As an array of Iraqi leaders met with American peace activists this week in Amman, Jordan, a grim picture emerged of what the future will be, regardless of whether US troops stay or depart.
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Reading Less Bad News From Iraq
Calvin Trillin : Media Analysis
The papers simply cannot find the space.
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Why Haditha Matters
The Haditha massacre cannot be blamed solely on soldiers gone berserk. The Marine Corps cover-up suggests that moral damage from the Iraq War has affected more than a single debased unit.
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Heckuva Job
Robert Scheer : George W. Bush
Desperate to report progress in Iraq Bush boasts that the newest Iraqi leader has taken his phone call twice. Wow. And it only cost $200 billion and thousands of dead and maimed Americans.
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Making the Case for Impeachment
Michael Ratner : George W. Bush
The idea of impeaching the President is not such an unlikely notion after all.
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One More Insider Denounces Bush
Robert Scheer : Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Former CIA official Tyler Drumheller joins the parade of insiders denouncing how the Iraq war has been sold and fought.
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Bush Blunders Go Nuclear
Robert Scheer : Nuclear Arms & Proliferation
Bush's nutty nuclear braggadocio on Iran is a sign of weakness, not strength, proof that his five-year Administration is an abysmal failure.
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If This Isn't War
A musical answer to a bellicose question, with apologies to Yip Harburg and Burton Lane.
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Letter From Baghdad: The Growing Sectarian Divide
Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army now confronts both the US Army and the Sunni insurgents.
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Improvised Explosive Delusions
Robert Scheer : George W. Bush
As Bush continues to insist the US is bringing peace and freedom to Iraq, his latest plan to quell the insurgency spends billions more to stem the use of improvised explosive devices.
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In Your Dreams, Condi
Robert Scheer : Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice's myopic optimism mirrors that of the delusional Dick Cheney: Witness her refusal to be alarmed by rise of Moqtada al Sadr.
2005
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Waist Deep in Big Oil
While political pressure is mounting for a pullout from Iraq, the subject of total withdrawal remains unbroachable within the political establishment. Control of the Iraq's oil reserves, from the beginning, was the Bush Administration's real reason for this war.
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The War With No Name
For twenty-five years, Kurdish guerrillas have battled the forces of the Turkish state. For a while, things began to settle down, but the US occupation of Iraq changed all that.
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Postcards From the Abyss
Chris Toensing : Journalists & Journalism
Anthony Shadid's Night Draws Near is a moving account of life in Iraq before and after the US occupation. Liberal hawk George Packer's The Assasins' Gate delves into the history behind humanitarian intervention.
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Deadline for Saddam
Saddam Hussein went to trial on Wednesday declaring he was still the president of Iraq. A decade-old series of odes to Hussein's dictatorial days show the tyrant was always out of touch with reality.
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What Iraqis Really Think About the Occupation
Tom Hayden : Media Coverage of the War on Terrorism
From the beginning, the Iraq War has been driven by perceptions. Why do mainstream media continue to avoid reporting that a majority of Iraqis want US occupation forces to leave?
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Prelude to an Exit Strategy
As a handful of maverick lawmakers hold unofficial hearings on an Iraq exit strategy, how long will it take Democrats and Republicans on the Hill to recognize the growing distaste for this war?
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The Fear of the Liberals
Corey Robin : Progressives, Liberals, & The American Left
How could liberals believe the most reactionary President since William McKinley could and would export democracy to Iraq?
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Iraq's Fig-Leaf Constitution
Robert Scheer : US Foreign Policy
Bush may crow about a new constitution, but he can't deny that autocrats, theocrats and terrorists are clearly in control.
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Iraq's Dangerous New Friend
Robert Scheer : George W. Bush Administration
Is it surprising to find the Iraqi government looking for help from powerful Iran?
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Letter From Ground Zero
When the truth comes out in Iraq, America's grotesque misadventure there will be brought to a close.
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Bush Threw Us a 'Curveball'
Robert Scheer : George W. Bush
A presidential commission's report shines a light on a "crazy" Iraqi informant.
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Annals of Outrage
Katrina vanden Heuvel : George W. Bush
The Bush Adminstration's ten biggest scandals.
2004
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The Right's Assault on Kofi Annan
How the neocons created a "scandal" to punish a critic of US foreign policies.
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Carlyle Covers Up
Naomi Klein : George W. Bush Administration
Have James Baker's business interests compromised his performance as debt envoy in Iraq?
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You Can't Bomb Beliefs
Naomi Klein : Journalists & Journalism
Progressives should oppose the US attack on Sadr, because it is an attack not on one man but on the possibility of Iraq's democratic future.
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Election Matters
David Corn : Presidential Election 2004
The hypothetical is the only thing Kerry and his advisers can offer.
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Chalabi's Long, Costly Charade
Robert Scheer : Iraqi Reconstruction/ Occupation
Now we can watch a familiar drama unfold as the United States turns on a lout whom it tried to sell as Iraq's George Washington.
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Mutiny in Iraq
Who will follow the Bush clan off this precipice, and who will refuse to jump?
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Bush's New Iraq Viceroy
These days Negroponte's tenure in Honduras is old news.
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Iran and America
Iran and America are following a negative policy of not alienating each other.
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Outsourcing the Friedman
Naomi Klein : Outsourcing and Offshoring
Economic development will not come to Palestine via call centers but through liberation.
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Give Iraqis the Election They Want
Despite Bush's rhetoric, the US is opposing true democratic voting.
2003
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We Got Him...Now What?
Robert Scheer : Saddam Hussein
The capture of Saddam Hussein is being treated as a celebratory occasion, but it is one that the Bush Administration might come to regret.
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The Mess in Mesopotamia
Most Americans are not that far ahead of their chief executive in general knowledge about Iraq.
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Are We Safer?
Stephen F. Cohen : War on Terrorism
Has the Iraq war increased America's national security?
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Letter From Baghdad
Steve Negus : Iraqi Reconstruction/ Occupation
The failure to provide for postwar needs has deepened distrust of US intentions.
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Looting and Conquest
US troops transformed the ancient site of Ur into a base, even digging trenches into the ground.
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Did Bush Deceive Us in His Rush to War?
Robert Scheer : George W. Bush Administration
Now that the war has been won, is it permissible to suggest that our emperor has no clothes?
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Are We Safer?
Stephen F. Cohen : War on Terrorism
Has the Iraq war increased America's national security?
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Privatization in Disguise
By the time the Iraqi people have a say in choosing a government, the key economic decisions will have been made by their occupiers.
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Inside Baghdad
Iraqis, exhausted by years of sanctions and oppression, just want it all to end.
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Letter From Iraq
Resigned to war, even government opponents say they'll fight their attackers.
2002
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The Moral Quandary
Michael Massing : Progressives, Liberals, & The American Left
The moral case for intervening in Iraq is very strong, but not strong enough.
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Oil, Iraq and America
It is the prospect of uncontested access to the world's second-largest oil reserves that excites popular imagination in the United States.
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Oiling the Wheels of War
Michael T. Klare : Saudi Arabia
This could prove to be the biggest oil grab in modern history.
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Weighing a Just War, or Settling an Old Score?
Robert Scheer : George W. Bush
In a column from 2002, Robert Scheer takes a look back at the Bush Administrations's real motivation to go to war.
2001
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A Hard Look at Iraq Sanctions
David Cortright : Human Rights
Changing American policy in Iraq is an urgent priority, both for humanitarian reasons and as a means of addressing an intensely felt political grievance against the US.
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