Iraq

The elite versus the public: the struggle over UK foreign policy

The elite versus the public: the struggle over UK foreign policy by Ian Sinclair Peace News August 2020 After interviewing more than 36 senior officials in the Johnson and Nixon administrations for The War Within, his 1994 book about the movement against the Vietnam War, US historian Tom Wells concluded that ‘the movement played a major […]

Hymn for a Broken Empire: Republican National Security Officials for Biden

Binoy Kampmark If fodder is needed for the argument that a Deep State is running wild and determined to depose President Donald J. Trump, this will surely help. In a statement by self-titled “former Republican National Security Officials”, a hand-on-heart allegiance is made to Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. The authors are intent on moving …

US-led Coalition Withdraws Troops From Iraq’s Taji Military Base Amid Constant Rocket Attacks

By Ilya Tsukanov – Sputnik – 23.08.2020

Iraq’s parliament ordered US forces to withdraw from the country in January, following the drone strike assassination of a senior Iranian commander in Baghdad. On Thursday, in a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, US President Donald Trump promised that US forces would be leaving the country “shortly.”

Send in the Clowns for the Circus Is in Town

Edward Curtin Don’t bother, they’re here, already performing in the center ring under the big top owned and operated by The Umbrella People. Trump, Biden, Pence, Harris, and their clownish sidekicks, Pompeo, Michelle Obama, et al., are performing daily under the umbrella’s shadowy protection. For The Umbrella People run a three-ring circus, and although their …

1987: My USA Today Oped Calling for U.S. Military Withdrawal from Middle East

U.S. government policy in the Middle East has been consistently idiotic for more than a third of a century.  Here’s  the first article I wrote calling for U.S. military withdrawal from that area – an “opposing view” to a USA Today editorial board position.  Some Reagan administration officials had the bright idea of placing U.S. […]

On Fox, The Grayzone’s Anya Parampil rips ‘criminal neocons’ in Biden & Trump camps

The Grayzone’s Anya Parampil joins Tucker Carlson Tonight to address the revival of Iraq war neocons and militarists by both the Biden campaign and Trump White House.
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