The avalanche of funeral hagiography drowned any possible discussion of what Bush did to the Middle East. As’ad AbuKhalil writes that he rallied despots against Iraq and established a new, tyrannical security order in the region. Sequel to ‘British…Read more →
Suffering from leukemia, 5 year-old Sahira lies in her bed as her mother weeps at the Saddam Children’s Hospital in Baghdad Tuesday, Jan. 12, 1999. The U.S. sanctions regime placed on Iraq made food and medical supplies a rare luxury, causing an estimated 400,000 children to die. (AP/Murad Sezer)
From the Archive: The quarter-century anniversary of an early U.S. war crime in Iraq passed largely unnoticed this week, the bombing of a civilian air-raid shelter in Baghdad during President George H.W. Bush’s Persian Gulf War, an atrocity that killed more than 400 women and children, as Ray McGovern recalled in 2011. By Ray McGovern (Updated from…
By Robert Parry | Consortium News | May 11, 2015 By recently releasing a redacted version of top secret “talking points” that Secretary of State Alexander Haig used to brief President Ronald Reagan about Mideast developments in spring 1981, the U.S. government has inadvertently revealed what it still wants to hide from the public some 34 […]
