“It is the basic line grunt that is the victim of the Bush regime’s drive for oil and profits,” said one anonymous soldier on leave from Iraq, interviewed by Jay… Read more »
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Iraq: occupation under siege
The occupiers are in trouble. In early April, the brutal siege of Falluja and the thunderous Iraqi resistance it provoked made it clear that the warmakers are on a slippery… Read more »
Bush and Sharon, partners in occupation
While his Marines were pulverizing the people of Falluja in Iraq, the U.S. commander in chief also waved his imperial wand of misery over the Palestinians. After meeting with his… Read more »
Patriot Act bullying stirs stronger opposition: Courts, activists, and civil libertarians weigh in against police-state measures
In early June of this year, Joe Previtera was arrested outside an Armed Forces Recruitment Center in Boston. He had been standing there silently for about an hour, dressed like… Read more »
CIA puppet installed to pacify Iraqi resistance — but will it work?
Shootings, raids, two-ton bombs, edicts from the U.S. Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), mass detentions, and even torture of detainees: all have failed to bring Iraq to heel. Now, Team Bush… Read more »
An Afghan handmaiden’s tale
Osama, by Afghan filmmaker Siddiq Barmak, provides a stunning and sobering view of life under the harsh fundamentalism of the Taliban. The award-winning movie, the first film to be made… Read more »
Al-Sadr and the Mahdi Army: Iraq’s most abused and desperate stand up to empire
“I left my kids [in Baghdad] and went to fight in Najaf. We are going to fight them until we throw them out of Iraq. Our country is our country.”… Read more »
Farouk Abdel-Muhti 1947-2004
When Palestinian Farouk Abdel-Muhti was finally freed on April 13, 2004 after two years of grisly abuse in nine rat-infested prisons, this newspaper and many others published jubilant articles. One… Read more »
Iraqi women face double jeopardy as victims of occupation and targets of fundamentalism
In the raging headlines about Iraq’s agony, one large question is being ignored. What is happening to women, who are 65 percent of the population? In a telephone interview with… Read more »
Falluja: voices against the new Killing Fields
“I am … watching tragedy engulf my city… After two days of bombing … large portions of it have been destroyed… I broke my Ramadan fast yesterday with the last… Read more »
