Archive for the ‘Iraq’ Category

Straight Talk

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Straight Talk

By Layla Anwar

09/01/08 “ICH” — – Americans still pretend they brought Democracy to Iraq.

Keep on deluding yourselves folks. Had I been in charge of your Education, I would grant you free PHD’s in Deceit, Duplicity and Denial.

And for the most “brilliant” amongst you and there are many – I shall grant you an Honoris Causa in Mediocrity.

The 3 D Doctorates and the added M – a bonus from me to you with loving appreciation for your “intellectual” endeavors.

There is a theory in botany, that analyses the lifespan of a fungus. It says that fungus (mushroom is a fungus by the way) only thrives in darkness and humidity and is basically fed on excrements.

That is the most propitious environment for it.

The myth of sectarianism

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Dahr Jamail explains the how US foments sectarian division in Iraq as a tool of divide and conquer, and as an excuse for perpetual military presence.

The myth of sectarianism

IF THE U.S. leaves Iraq, the violent sectarianism between the Sunni and Shia will worsen. This is what Republicans and Democrats alike will have us believe. This key piece of rhetoric is used to justify the continuance of the occupation of Iraq.This propaganda, like others of its ilk, gains ground, substance, and reality due largely to the ignorance of those ingesting it. The snow job by the corporate media on the issue of sectarianism in Iraq has ensured that the public buys into the line that the Sunni and Shia will dice one another up into little pieces if the occupation ends.

It may be worthwhile to consider that prior to the Anglo-American invasion and occupation of Iraq there had never been open warfare between the two groups and certainly not a civil war.

Lest We Forget

Saturday, November 17th, 2007

Lest We Forget
By John Pilger

11/15/07 “ICH” — – On Remembrance Day 2007 – Veterans Day in America – the great and the good bowed their heads at the Cenotaph. Generals, politicians, newsreaders, football managers and stock-market traders wore their poppies. Hypocrisy was a presence. No one mentioned Iraq. No one uttered the slightest remorse for the fallen of that country. No one read the forbidden list.

The forbidden list documents, without favor, the part the British state and its court have played in the destruction of Iraq. Here it is:

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YouTube – Dr. Dahlia Wasfi speaks at Iraq forum

Monday, May 21st, 2007

YouTube – Dr. Dahlia Wasfi speaks at Iraq forum

This woman explains the plain facts, that USA is destroying Iraq for the looting of their oil.

This is the kind of simply explained truth that our National news-media does not but should show.

Zbigniew Brzezinski Calls Iraq War a Calamity

Monday, February 5th, 2007

The Washington Note
Zbigniew Brzezinski Calls Iraq War a Historic, Strategic and Moral Calamity & Says Stop the Trappings of Colonial Tutelage

Letter from a U.S. citizen “addressed to the world”

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

Letter from a U.S. citizen “addressed to the world”

Saddam Hussein Hanged for the Wrong Reason

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

Saddam Hussein Hanged for the Wrong Reason

It was not the Iraqi government but its American masters that chose to execute Saddam Hussein in a great rush as soon as the first sentence was confirmed, thus canceling all the other trials on far graver charges that awaited him. The current Iraqi government had nothing to hide if those trials went ahead; the United States government did.

The president’s real goal in Iraq

Saturday, November 18th, 2006

I was reading this article thinking how precisely it describes the situation in Iraq, when suddenly it dawned on me that this article was written in 2002 prior to the invasion…

To think that this whole sham was so obvious even back then, and blinded by mainstream-media we never saw it!
The president’s real goal in Iraq

…For example, why does the administration seem unconcerned about an exit strategy from Iraq once Saddam is toppled?Because we won’t be leaving. Having conquered Iraq, the United States will create permanent military bases in that country from which to dominate the Middle East, including neighboring Iran…

Bush U.S. Must Stay In Iraq To Control Oil

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

A long term strategy to stay on the offense in the middle east.

USA has no motive to withdraw from Iraq, and it is not their plan.

They are building superbases in Iraq, and their plan is to stay.

Fomenting instability in Iraq, and overall in the oil-region serves as a self-created excuse to maintain military presence.

This is logic.

Bush U.S. Must Stay In Iraq To Control Oil

“On the one hand we’ve got a plan to make sure we protect you from immediate attack, and on the other hand we’ve got a long-term strategy to deal with these threats, and part of that strategy is to stay on the offense,” Bush continued.

Allen L Roland’s Radio Weblog

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

Allen L Roland’s Radio Weblog

Excerpt: ” Britain and America not only used DU in this year’s Iraq war, they dramatically increased its use-from a minimum of 320 tons in the previous war to at minimum of 1500 tons in this one. And this time the use of DU wasn’t limited to anti-tank weapons-as it had largely been in the previous Gulf war-but was extended to the guided missiles, large bunker busters and big 2000-pound bombs used in Iraq’s cities …. In 1997, while citing experiments, by others, in which 84 percent of dogs exposed to inhaled uranium died of cancer of the lungs, Dr. Asaf Durakovic, then Professor of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at Georgetown University in Washington was quoted as saying, ‘The [US government's] Veterans Administration asked me to lie about the risks of incorporating depleted uranium in the human body.’ He concluded, ‘uranium does cause cancer, uranium does cause mutation, and uranium does kill. If we continue with the irresponsible contamination of the biosphere, and denial of the fact that human life is endangered by the deadly isotope uranium, then we are doing disservice to ourselves, disservice to the truth, disservice to God and to all generations who follow.’ “

Collaborators of Catastrophe: Inside the Ministry of Truth

Friday, October 27th, 2006

A veeery long one.

Collaborators of Catastrophe: Inside the Ministry of Truth
Storytellers of the American Narrative

By Manuel Valenzuela

10/26/06 “Information Clearing House” — – The creators of American reality, those propagators of charades and mirages who dwell inside the hallways of the Ministry of Truth – otherwise known as the Corporate Media – continue their dance of deception and whitewash, festering in their offices of propaganda, directing the narratives and the epics hundreds of millions of Americans consider truth. Much like the disappearance of warmth giving way to the crispness of cold arrives with each annual changing of leaves, so the remarketing of American reality is altered by the changing faces of circumstance. Today, this change is the complete disaster that is the occupation of Iraq, an endeavor whose initial fruition could not have taken shape without the blitzkrieg marketed incessantly into every home and mind in America by the Department of Propaganda, the Ministry of Truth and its army of pseudo-journalists….

Latuff2’s deviantART Gallery

Friday, October 27th, 2006

Carlos Latuff is a political artist. The link is to his gallery with many different drawings. I chose one example relevant to this particular blog.
Latuff2’s deviantART Gallery


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Accelerating the collapse of Iraq

Wednesday, October 25th, 2006

Accelerating the collapse of Iraq
By Abbas J. Ali

Before the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the neoconservatives thought that incapacitating Iraqi’s social and political institutions would facilitate the termination of Iraq’s cultural and national identity. It was believed that this would ease occupation and ensure the total submission to the neoconservative’s design for Iraq and the entire Middle East…

the DOSSIER

Monday, September 25th, 2006

Video – the DOSSIER

Here you will find streaming/downloadable films, lectures and documentaries.
These are split into six categories:

  1. September 11th
  2. Iraq War
  3. the CIA
  4. drugs & money
  5. the Elite & secret societies
  6. cover-ups

US Israeli attack on Lebanon

Monday, August 21st, 2006

Interview wih Wayne Madsen.

US Israeli attack on Lebanon

Why Lebanon? Why now?Another violent US/Israeli
power grab in the Middle East

Press the play button to start the video

Analysis by Wayne Madsen

Over 1,000 Lebanese, including many children, killed…35,000 homes and places of business destroyed… 1,000,000 forced to flee their homes…

400 miles of Lebanon’s roads ruined…150 bridges and interchanges destroyed…billions of dollars in infrastructure damage to manufacturing and transportation facilities

All because Hezbollah “kidnapped” two Israeli soldiers?

How can anyone but a child be expected to believe the goverment-media story?

George Galloway – Hizbollah Is Not A Terrorist Organization

Monday, August 7th, 2006

WOW! This guy Galloway is smoking!

He lambasts the TV-host for spreading misinformation – and he is right!

He states – to wich I agree – that the Israeli problem is really quite simple:

“No justice: No peace. Israel must leave the occupied territories, and allow the creation of a *real* Palestinian state”

Video: George Galloway – Hizbollah Is Not A Terrorist Organization

One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter
George Galloway has spoken out in support of Lebanon, saying he believes Hizbollah is justified in defending Lebanon against Israeli attacks . The Respect MP also lambasted media coverage of the war and said the UN resolution means nothing.
08/06/06 Runtime 9Minutes

Video link: ichgalloway100.wmv

Here are more links to videos with Galloway:

Galloway is also described at wikipedia

Prof. Michel Chossudovsky War on Terror – The Pirate Bay

Friday, August 4th, 2006

I found this very strong speech on the bittorrent server thepiratebay.org.

Chossudovsky in no uncertain terms states that

  • USA has embarqued on global war
  • Iran is the next major target
  • The pretext ‘War on Terror’ is a fabrication
  • The primary goal is control of oil ressources
  • Israel will play an active role in bombing the middle east
  • Nuclear weapons has been decategorized as conventional weapons

Prof. Michael Chossudovsky War on Terror – The Pirate Bay
Prof. Michael Chossudovsky War on Terror Speech given in Kuala Lumpur 2006

You can also download it right here from this server:

michael.chossudovsky-war.on.terror.wmv (384*288, 37.6 MB)

michael.chossudovsky-war.on.terror.m4v (320*240, 111 MB for iPod)

And/or watch it right here:

Depleted Uranium Situation Worsens

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

More information on the use of depleted Uranium in Iraq, but now also Lebanon.
Depleted Uranium Situation Worsens Requiring Immediate Action By President Bush, Prime Minister Blair, and Prime Minister Olmert :: from www.uruknet.info :: news from occupied Iraq

www.uruknet.info :: information from occupied iraq

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

www.uruknet.info

I came across this site – I don’t really know where it registers, besides they DON’T like Israel!

But anyway, it seems to be info from another angle.

Confident U.S. generals commit war crimes

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

San Francisco Bay View – National Black Newspaper of the Year

This 4-year-old Iraqi boy is suffering from a tumor growing in his eye.
Photo: BBC

Confident U.S. generals commit war crimes

Uranium as a force multiplier

by Bob Nichols

…A leading scientist, Leuren Moret, speaking out on the use of depleted uranium today, says flatly, “Iraq is uninhabitable,” due to widespread radiation poisoning

Valley of The Wolves Iraq Offical Site

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

A Turkish action-movie crtitical of the American occupation of Iraq.

I guess I wont be seeing this one in a theater near me any time soon…

Valley of The Wolves Iraq Offical Site

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Operation Saddam

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

Operation Saddam – America’s Propaganda War (2003)

Documentary focusing on the tactics used by the U.S and it’s allies in the build up to,and during, the Iraq War, featuring Ray Mcgovern and Seymour Hersh amongst others. Originally broadcast on SBS (Australian T.V) Language is English, 50 mins

SIR, NO SIR!

Thursday, June 15th, 2006

This is a strong Flash animation with a pumping rap-sound-track.

sirnosir.jpg

The message is that Young Americans should avoid getting drafted.

This one bites! It is really well done.
SIR, NO SIR!

The sirnosir site itself as apparently disappeared but www.stoplying.ca managed to salvage it. I am happy I found it again!

On the ‘Iraq Veterans Against War’ site there is an explanation that this is actually a DVD!

The War They Wanted, The Lies They Needed

Tuesday, June 13th, 2006

This one is looong. I haven’t read it – I just liked the title-

The War They Wanted, The Lies They Needed

The Bush administration invaded Iraq claiming Saddam Hussein had tried to buy yellowcake uranium in Niger. As much of Washington knew, and the world soon learned, the charge was false. Worse, it appears to have been the cornerstone of a highly successful “black propaganda” campaign with links to the White House

By Craig Unger

Baghdad Burning

Saturday, June 10th, 2006

A blog from Baghdad:

Baghdad Burning

More about Zarqawi

Saturday, June 10th, 2006

RobertFisk:
Zarqawi’s end is not a famous victory, nor will it bring Iraq any nearer to peace

By Danny Schechter:
Dissecting the Zargawi Spectacle

Hubub in Hibhib: The Timely Death of al-Zarqawi

Friday, June 9th, 2006

A refreshing view on the ostensible death of Al-Zarqawi.

Chris Floyd – Empire Burlesque – High Crimes and Low Comedy in the Bush Imperium – Hubub in Hibhib: The Timely Death of al-Zarqawi
Abu Musab Saddam Osama al-Zarqawi, the extremely elusive if not entirely mythical terrorist mastermind responsible for every single insurgent action in Iraq except for the ones caused by the red-tailed devils in Iran or the stripey-tailed devils in Syria, has reportedly been killed in an airstrike in Hibhib, an area north of Baghdad, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki announced today.

‘Information’ som talerør for den amerikanske krigs-retorik

Monday, June 5th, 2006

Dagbladet Information havde en leder, som jeg ikke var helt tilfreds med. Derfor skrev jeg en kommentar på deres webside:

Sig ja, Iran!
Tema: Iran: Bombemagt eller bombemål?

[LEDER]
HOLD VEJRET! – som man siger på engelsk. Vær tålmodig! Intet er afgjort endnu. Trods skepsis og forståelig pessimisme kan man ikke komme udenom, at USA’s tilbud om at sætte sig ned og tale med Iran er et lyspunkt, der slår ned midt i en proces, som indtil nu syntes at accelerere mod en uafvendelig konflikt mellem de to lande. Nu er det lykkedes at få stoppet lavinen. Det giver unægtelig diplomatiet en chance for at tage over og holde USA og Iran fast på, at dialog er at foretrække frem for konfrontation.

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Robert Newmans History of Oil – Google Video

Monday, June 5th, 2006

Newman, a british sort of stand up comedian, is funny and educative. I learned some stuff about the British role in events dating back as far as WW1.

Robert Newmans History of Oil – Google Video

As shown on Ch4 and repeated several times on More4, available at IndyBay on the web and many other places, now on google video (not great … all » video quality) Robert’s stand-up act examines the history of the last 100 years or so but putting oil center-stage. Brilliant!

SHAM US PROPOSAL TO IRAN EVOKES MEMORIES OF PAST SIMILAR ONES

Monday, June 5th, 2006

SHAM US PROPOSAL TO IRAN EVOKES MEMORIES OF PAST SIMILAR ONES

Why it’s over for America

Friday, June 2nd, 2006

Why it’s over for America
This is an edited extract from Failed States by Noam Chomsky (Hamish Hamilton)

Iraq: The Hidden War

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

A movie about the situation for journalism in Iraq, in unmistakable British ‘neutral’ voice.
The main point is that in Iraq today, it is impossible for western Journalist to operate outside the green-zone.
In other words western journalists are completely cut off from investigating real life in Iraq, and must instead rely on videotapes from local Iraqi journalists, or just relay the gospel from the US military.
Another point is that daily life in Iraq is much more bloody than the sanitized version shown in western media.

Iraq: The Hidden War

Iraq: The Hidden Story shows the footage used by TV news broadcasts, and compares it with the devastatingly powerful uncensored footage of the aftermath of the carnage that is becoming a part of the fabric of life in Iraq.Prod/ Dir: Christian Trumble; Exec Prod: Stephen Phelps; Prod Co: Zenith Entertainment Ltd – 2006

05/29/06 Runtime 49 Minutes

Images of Iraq dominate our TV news bulletins every night but in this film, Channel4 news presenter Jon Snow, questions whether these reports are sugar-coating the bloody reality of war under the US-led occupation

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Soldiers reporting from Iraq

Friday, May 26th, 2006

The Jessie Macbeth interview may turn out to have been a hoax.

I and many others distributed the piece, maybe a bit to naively.

I did feel slightly suspicious about Jessies piece after having wathced it, mostly because his story was too ‘abstract’. It didn’t really convey the emotion of him having actually been there doing all the killing he told about. But the story was so powerful that it was too tempting as bait.

So I will have learned a little about being sceptical about the information I encounter.

On the other hand, this blog is my personal record of the information I have encountered and found interesting, so as such Jessies story belongs here, and I dont’ see it as my duty to stand as a filter between the potential lies out there and the readers of this blog – You must enable your own filtering.
As a counterweight to Jessies superficial story, here I have a video from Democracy now with an interview of an Iraq-ex-soldier, who turned in his gun, and subsequently worked at abu graib.

While his story doesn’t have nearly the same sensationalist impact it is nonetheless still a strong story about the violence and cynicism rampant among the American troops in Iraq.

And this guy – Aidan Delgado seems much more convincing than jessie Macbeth.

URL: http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/2004/dec/video/dnB20041217a.rm&start=11:01

Confessions Of An Iraqi War Veteran (HOAX?)

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006

WARNING!!! the validity of this story has been challenged.

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A strong Video of a young man telling how he slaughtered women and children Iraq – by his hand alone he estimates 200!

He is now strongly against the war and against the Bush government, and he strongly advices other young men to NOT join the war.

This video should give you a good impression of what the war in Iraq is about, in case you thought it was a nice clean benevolent action to liberate the people.
Confessions Of An Iraqi War Veteran

“What we are doing over there is wrong”Confessions Of An Iraqi War Veteran

Jessie Macbeth – Former Army Ranger and Iraq War Veteran, Tell it like it is
“She was begging me, begging me to save her and to save her kids, but, I didn’t you know. I wanted to be , ah, I killed them. You know?

This 20 minute video will change your life.. A PepperSpray Production

Jessie is a member of IVAW – Iraq Veterans Against the War

Video: A Message From The Iraq Resistance

Friday, May 19th, 2006

I think that if I was living in a country that was occupied and being destroyed by the oil-hungry empire, then I would probably also say something to the effect of what the Iraqis are saying in this video.
Video: A Message From The Iraq Resistance

Also it is noteworthy how they point to the real conflict as being between USA versus Europe and China. This fits nicely with the “oil-bourse converting from Dollars to Euros begets you bombs – quickly” theory.
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Putin proposes creation of ruble-denominated oil, gas exchange

Thursday, May 18th, 2006

Putin proposes creation of ruble-denominated oil, gas exchange

When Iraq converted their oiltrade to Euros they were anihilated 6 months later by USA.

Now Iran Is planning to convert their oiltrade to the Euro.

And now also Russia seeking to get away from the Dollar.

Maybe this is the essential global dissent that we need in order to oppose USA.

Why don’t Europe itself also convert their oiltrade to the Euro???

ConceptionMedia

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

ConceptionMedia

Makers of films such as:

  • Caught in the Crossfire (about Falluja) [Watch Video]
  • The Road to Falluja

Reshuffling the cards in Iraq

Thursday, May 11th, 2006

Reshuffling the cards in Iraq

  • Democracy in Iraq is a falsity serving as a smokescreen for american destruction and looting of Iraq
  • USA want to control Iraq the same way it controls the Phillipines.

In his chronicle of America’s past criminal attacks against defenceless nations, Stephen Kinzer sees the parallels between the U.S. invasion of the Philippines and U.S. invasion of Iraq were identical. In Overthrow (Times Books, 2006), Kinzer writes: “Early in the twenty-first century, ten decades after the United States invaded the Philippines and a few years after it invaded Iraq, those two countries were among the most volatile and unstable in all of Asia.” Both nations remain poor, exploited and undemocratic. Indeed, the Bush administration is in the process of ruling Iraq based on the Philippines model.

Peter Dale Scott: Poetry and Political Writings

Monday, May 8th, 2006

Peter Dale Scott: Poetry and Political Writings

His prose books include The War Conspiracy (1972), The Assassinations: Dallas and Beyond (in collaboration, 1976), Crime and Cover-Up: The CIA, the Mafia, and the Dallas-Watergate Connection (1977), The Iran-Contra Connection (in collaboration, 1987), Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America (in collaboration, 1991, 1998), Deep Politics and the Death of JFK (1993, 1996), Deep Politics Two (from JFKLancer, 1995), and Drugs Oil and War (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, March 2003) Click here to read the Preface to this book. (I am often asked about the availability of my out-of-print War Conspiracy; the five most relevant chapters are reprinted in this book.)

Peter Dale Scott on Al-Qaeda, 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, United States

John le Carré: The United States of America Has Gone Mad

Monday, May 8th, 2006

The United States of America Has Gone Mad

Published on Wednesday, January 15, 2003 by the Times/UK
The United States of America Has Gone Mad
by John le CarréAmerica has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam War…

John le Carré appears to be refreshingly blunt, about the Iraq war being about OIL and power.