Winter 2008 Iraq – Five Years On
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Cihan Aksan
On Iraq: An Interview with Dahr Jamail“Every single citizen of the United States failed in their civic duty, as members of a democracy, to stop their unelected government from launching an illegal war of aggression against a sovereign country.”
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“Contrary to its rhetoric and its international legal obligations, the Bush Administration has refused to protect women’s rights in Iraq. In fact, it has decisively traded women’s rights for cooperation from the Islamists it has empowered.”
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“Strategies against gender-based violence in the Middle East need to also combat the violence of US foreign policy.”
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Ron Jacobs
Onward through the Fog Washington in Iraq Five Years on“The increasing tribalization of Iraq has made it almost impossible for any organized national threat to counter Washington’s dominance. Even the organized resistance groups in Iraq are waging a defensive fight aimed only at ridding their nation of the occupier.”
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Gideon Polya
US State Terrorism and the Iraqi Genocide“The ignoring, denial and obfuscation by mainstream media and politicians in the Western Murdochracies has continued as the estimates have steadily risen to a current estimate of 1.5-2 million post-invasion excess deaths.”
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Jon Bailes & Cihan Aksan
Israel and Resistance: An Interview with Jacqueline Rose“The Zionist mythology of making the desert bloom and a land without people for a people without a land was so powerful in terms of the imaginative conditions under which Zionism could justify to itself its own ruthlessness, that to challenge that would provoke a kind of generalised melancholia.”
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J A Miller
Palestine Park and the Weight of History“That the West ‘wants a Jewish state’ – whether consciously or not – is what enables the continuing criminal bloodshed and injustice in Palestine and elsewhere.”
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Steve Davis
It’s Time We Had a Definition of Life“If the biological definition of life is cooperation among molecules, then surely a useful general definition is that life is just simply cooperation. No adjectives, no conditions, life is cooperation.”
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Reza Fiyouzat
Boeing or EADS? Don’t Give a Damn!“Why should anybody give a damn which company produces these enablers of weapons that only serve to further the goals of a gang of mass murderers? We should be livid that these things are produced at all.”
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Roland Boer
On Free Speech: Some Reflections on Religion, Politics and Twelve Cartoons“Some have pointed out that the rising tide of Islamophobia, where one can say and do things against Muslims purely because of their religious beliefs and ethnic background, is comparable to the rise of anti-Semitism in nineteenth and twentieth century Europe.”
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Little Big Pine
Uncle Sam Loves All the Smells of War (Poetry) -
Farzana Versey
I, Brown Woman (Poetry)
