Was Life for Iraqi Women Better Under Saddam?
Rania Khalek* | 19 Mar 2013
Photo credit: CreativeCommons/U.S. Army In March 2004, President George W. Bush gave a speech to an audience of 250 women from around the world to commemorate International Women’s Day. His speech focused on the women of Iraq and Afghanistan who he proudly proclaimed were “learning the blessings of freedom” thanks to the United States. “Every woman in...Exclusive Investigation Reveals Pentagon Directly Involved in Iraqi Torture Centers
Livia Bergmeijer | 10 Mar 2013
This week the Guardian and BBC Arabic published an exclusive report detailing the findings of a fifteen-month long investigation of Pentagon involvement in Iraqi torture centers. The investigation followed the publication by WikiLeaks of hundreds of secret military files, which revealed US complicity in torturing Iraqi prisoners. In 2004, Donald Rumsfeld, then...The War of Words Against Iran’s MEK
Anonymous* | 22 Jun 2012
Members of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq For the last several months, articles about the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK), an Iranian dissident group, have spread like wildfire through the mainstream U.S. press. The firestorm began in early February 2012 after anonymous White House officials accused the group of assassinating several Iranian nuclear scientists with the help of...Iraq: The Cradle of Civilization & Graveyard of Imperialism
Roqayah Chamseddine* | 19 Mar 2013
Family members mourn the death of three male relatives, in Baghdad, Iraq Thursday, April 10, 2003. The three – a father, his teenage son, and another male relative – were shot and killed by U.S. Marines...Tony Blair – Ten Years After the Iraq War, More of the Same
Livia Bergmeijer | 3 Mar 2013
As the ten-year anniversary of the Iraq invasion approaches, Tony Blair is once again under intense scrutiny from civil society members, politicians, and journalists. In a recent BBC interview, however, Blair...
