A decade after Saddam Hussein was tried, convicted and executed, Iraq is struggling to defeat Islamic State and cope with sectarian strife and other consequences of the US-led invasion. Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti ruled Iraq from July 1979 to April 2003, as leader of the Arab Socialist Ba’ath (“Resurrection”) Party. He was put on Read More…
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George W. Bush May Stand Trial For War Crimes In Iraq
Judges in California will hear oral arguments in the case tomorrow morning. For centuries, the US has committed war crimes around the world and rarely suffered negative consequences as a result. Some of the US most notable war criminals, such as Henry Kissinger and Barack Obama, have received numerous accolades, including the Nobel Peace Prize, Read More…
After Mosul, What Is The Fate Of Iraqi Christians?
Iraq is historically one of the most enlightened countries in the world, where mankind first began to read, to write, to create proper cities; where Sumerians seem to have been the first to harness the wheel, to use irrigation and to weave textile. It is where it was decided that a circle would be made Read More…
Uncovered Document Instructs ISIS Not To Attack US Coalition Aircraft In Iraq
A local militia recently uncovered ISIS documents near Mosul that instructing jihadists not to attack US coalition aircraft in Mosul or the surrounding area. During US election season, WikiLeaks confirmed what many already suspected, that the US government, or at least certain members of it, were implicitly aiding ISIS with some politicians even accepting millions from the very same Read More…
5 Times Corporate Media Got Caught Publishing Fake News Causing the Death & Suffering of Millions
A now-notorious list of ostensibly “fake” news sites — created by a liberal professor, seemingly out of thin air — spread like wildfire online in the past two days and was eagerly reprinted by corporate media presstitutes hoping to vindicate their own failed reporting on the 2016 election. But branding perfectly legitimate outlets with the Read More…
Remember When the Media Sold Us the Iraq WMD Lies? It’s Happening Again
Months before President George W. Bush’s speech on September 11, 2002, the New York Times reported at the time, White House officials confirmed the Bush administration had already been “[planning its Iraq strategy] long before President Bush’s vacation in Texas” in August of that same year. The strategy was to persuade the public and Congress Read More…