Category: Iraq
A women’s rights advocate and the journalist who threw his shoe at George W. Bush are among the leaders defining Iraq’s political future
Any Iraqi leader will seek to maintain good relations with both Washington and Tehran
The charge against social media today that it reinforces extremism by its algorithms could be equally well laid against elements of the US press throughout history
We’ve seen this Movie and it doesn’t End Well
Cathy Breen: Who Calls Anyone Civilized?Naomi Shihab Nye is a poet and professor of Creative Writing at Texas State. Her father was Palestinian and a refugee journalist. In one of her poems after 9/11, entitled “Blood,” she writes: I call my father, we talk around the news. It is too much for him, neither of his two languages can reach Read more…
Isis is far less important than it was three years ago, even if it can still inspire atrocities geared to produce maximum publicity
As we begin the 16th year of the Iraq war, the American public must come to terms with the scale of the violence and chaos we have unleashed in Iraq
In an exclusive, Reuters reports today that the Trump administration is going into the Iraq reconstruction conference in Kuwait next week with no plans to contribute a dime to the effort. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will attend. Iraqi Prime Minister Haydar al-Abadi estimates that Iraq needs $100 billion to rebuild. The country is still Read more…
Lawrence Wilkerson: On Iran, Trump Following Iraq War PlaybookTrump is following a similar path on Iran — with the main difference being that the outcome now could “be significantly worse”
Donald Trump picking a fight with Iran