Iraq withdrawal: Amid heat and broken promises, only the ice man cometh
On a pot-holed backstreet in eastern Baghdad, Saad Turki is sweltering under a corrugated tin roof, manning a giant pulley. The grime of yet another merciless summer day has stained his shirt ochre and he is parched from the rigour of a Ramadan fast.But Turki – unlike the stream of ...
AP IMPACT: US wasted billions in rebuilding Iraq
KHAN BANI SAAD, Iraq – A $40 million prison sits in the desert north of Baghdad, empty. A $165 million children's hospital goes unused in the south. A $100 million waste water treatment system in Fallujah has cost three times more than projected, yet sewage still runs through the streets.As ...
The truth about the 'end of combat operations'
Early in the month, on Aug. 7, Army Specialist Faith Hinkley dove for cover from a rocket propelled grenade while on her base in Iraq. She was hit with shrapnel from the explosion, and bled to death in Baghdad. She was 23 years old.A week later, on Aug. 15, Army ...
Afghanistan war: Kandahar offensive is now in the slow lane
Kandahar, Afghanistan — Although it's just beginning, the U.S.-led effort to pacify Kandahar – the Taliban's spiritual capital in southern Afghanistan – already appears to be faltering.Key military operations have been delayed until the fall, efforts to improve local government are having little impact, and a Taliban assassination campaign has ...
Iraq War Vet: "We Were Told to Just Shoot People, and the Officers Would Take Care of Us"
On Monday, April 5, Wikileaks.org posted video footage from Iraq, taken from a US military Apache helicopter in July 2007 as soldiers aboard it killed 12 people and wounded two children. The dead included two employees of the Reuters news agency: photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen and driver Saeed Chmagh. The US ...
Disturbing story of Fallujah's birth defects
Six years after the intense fighting began in the Iraqi town of Fallujah between US forces and Sunni insurgents, there is a disturbingly large number of cases of birth defects in the town.Fallujah is less than 40 miles (65km) from Baghdad, but it can still be dangerous to get to. ...
Iraq sees alarming rise in cancers, deformed babies
BAGHDAD, Dec 1 (Reuters) - The guns are gradually falling silent in Iraq as a fragile stability takes hold, turning the spotlight on a stealthier killer likely to stalk Iraqis for years to come. Incidences of cancer, deformed babies and other health problems have risen sharply, Iraqi officials say, and ...
In his approach to National Security Agency surveillance, as well as CIA renditions, drone assassinations, and military detention, President Obama has to a surprising extent embraced the expanded executive powers championed by his conservative predecessor, George W. Bush. This bipartisan affirmation of the imperial executive could "reverberate for generations," warns ...
US faces smaller, smarter enemy in Afghanistan
By Lara Jakes / Associated Press NOW ZAD, Afghanistan – After three tours in Iraq, U.S. Marine Sgt. Andre Leon was used to brutal shootouts with enemy fighters and expected more of the same in Afghanistan. Instead, what he's seen so far are anonymous attacks in the form of mines ...
Casualties of War, Part I: The hell of war comes home
By Dave Phillips / Colorado Springs GazetteBefore the murders started, Anthony Marquez’s mom dialed his sergeant at Fort Carson to warn that her son was poised to kill. It was February 2006, and the 21-year-old soldier had not been the same since being wounded and coming home from Iraq eight ...
U.S. soldier captured by insurgents in Afghanistan; American Marines launch major offensive in area
By Brian Kates and Stephanie Gaskell / New York Daily News U.S. troops are scouring eastern Afghanistan for an American soldier captured by insurgents, military officials said. A Taliban spokesman said the terror group had the missing soldier - and vowed to release a video of him with their demands. ...
The Return of the Resistance ...by Dahr Jamail
TruthOut At least 20 US soldiers have been killed in Iraq in May, the most since last September, along with more than 50 wounded. Iraqi casualties are, as usual - and in both categories - at least ten times that number. Attacks against US forces are once again on the ...
Woman in Air Force killed in Afghanistan
By Henry Cuningham / Fayetteville ObserverSenior Airman Ashton L.M. Goodman, who loved animals and driving big, noisy trucks, was killed by a homemade bomb Tuesday in Afghanistan. The 21-year-old airman from Indianapolis was the first woman from Pope Air Force Base to die in a combat zone. Goodman also was ...
Iraq car bomb blast kills five, including US soldier
BAGHDAD (AFP) — A roadside car bomb blast targeting a US patrol killed five people, including an American soldier, west of the Iraqi capital on Wednesday, an interior ministry official and the US military said. Ten other civilians were wounded in the explosion as the US patrol passed in the ...
Former ICC chairman killed in Iraq
Associated Press CHICAGO - Former Illinois Commerce Commission Chairman Terry Barnich was killed Monday by a roadside bomb while traveling in a U.S. convoy in western Iraq, according to the State Department. The blast also killed a U.S. soldier and a civilian contractor working for the Defense Department, the military ...
Former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld has always answered his detractors by claiming that history will one day judge him kindly. But as he waits for that day, a new group of critics—his administration peers—are suddenly speaking out for the first time. What they're saying? It isn't pretty By Robert Draper ...
Concerns white phosphorus used in Afghan battle
By Jason Straziuso and Rahim Faiez / Associated Press KABUL – Doctors voiced concern over "unusual" burns on Afghan villagers wounded in an already controversial U.S.-Taliban battle, and the country's top human rights groups said Sunday it is investigating the possibility white phosphorus was used. The American military denied using ...
Shells hit Baghdad's Green Zone after 3-month lull
By Brian Murphy / Associated Press BAGHDAD -- Suspected militants shelled Baghdad's protected Green Zone on Saturday in the first such bombardment in more than three months. The back-to-back strikes reverberated across the Tigris River to a popular promenade, sending families packing up from fish restaurants and abruptly halting a ...
Iraq war video game ignites a firestorm
By David Ranii / McClatchy RALEIGH, N.C. | A North Carolina company that plans to release a video game about one of the Iraq war’s bloodiest battles is running into a buzzsaw of criticism. The game, “Six Days in Fallujah,” is being made with the help of Marines who fought ...
Iraq air raids hit mostly women and children
Report urges review of military strategy when targeting urban areas By Kim Sengupta / Independent Air strikes and artillery barrages have taken a heavy toll among the most vulnerable of the Iraqi people, with children and women forming a disproportionate number of the dead. Analysis carried out for the research ...
The War is Not a Game ...by Gold Star Families Speak Out
Gold Star Families Speak Out Expresses Outrageat Video Game Based on Deadly Battle in Iraq Nationwide -- Members of Gold Star Families Speaks Out (GSFSO), family members of those killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, are expressing outrage at two companies that plan to release a video game that graphically recreates ...
Obama Says Iraqis Should 'Take Responsibility for Their Country'
President Makes First Trip to Iraq as Commander in Chief By Ernesto Londono, Michael D. Shear and William Branigin / Washington Post BAGHDAD, April 7 -- President Obama made a previously unannounced trip to Iraq on Tuesday, his first as commander in chief, and drew wild cheers from U.S. troops ...
The Growing Storm ...by Dahr Jamail
TruthoutLast weekend, the Iraqi government arrested an Awakening Group leader of a Baghdad neighborhood, then moved into the area. With the help of US occupation forces, they disarmed the militiamen under his control, but only after fighting broke out between US-backed Iraqi government security forces and the US-formed Sunni Awakening ...
Freed Iraqi detainee vows to keep fighting Americans
By Leila Fadel / McClatchy Newspapers "Are my people aware of what's happening to me? "Ask the river, does it still remember me? "And the people, do they still hold their noses high? "Are they sleeping in comfort and in peace? "With an unembarrassed smile upon their lips, "Tell them ...
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June 5th, 2013
Here's How We Built a Movie Theater for the People – and Why the MPAA Says It's #1 in the World
This past week, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the main federation of Hollywood's six major studios, posted on their web site a list of what they believe ...
March 23rd, 2013
This evening is going be a big moment in turning our country around on the issue of gun violence. That's why I desperately want you ...
March 21st, 2013
I am hosting a nationwide series of house parties this Saturday night where tens of thousands of people will gather together in living rooms to ...
March 15th, 2013
The response to my Newtown letter this week has been overwhelming. It is so very clear to everyone that the majority of Americans have had ...
March 13th, 2013
America, You Must Not Look Away (How to Finish Off the NRA)
The year was 1955. Emmett Till was a young African American boy from Chicago visiting relatives in Mississippi. One day Emmett was seen "flirting" with ...
February 26th, 2013
My Final Word on Buzzfeed and Emad Burnat's Detention at LAX
Thanks to everyone for bearing with me as I spend so much time on what happened to Emad Burnat. It's important to me because he's ...
February 26th, 2013
Michael Moore Responds to Buzzfeed Story on '5 Broken Cameras' Co-Director Emad Burnat
On Tuesday, February 19th, Emad Burnat, the Palestianian co-director of the Oscar-nominated documentary '5 Broken Cameras,' was detained with his wife and son at Los ...
September 11th, 2010
If the 'Mosque' Isn't Built, This Is No Longer America
OpenMike 9/11/10 Michael Moore's daily blog I am opposed to the building of the "mosque" two blocks from Ground Zero. I want it built on ...
December 14th, 2010
Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange
Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that ...
May 12th, 2011
Some Final Thoughts on the Death of Osama bin Laden
"The Nazis killed tens of MILLIONS. They got a trial. Why? Because we're not like them. We're Americans. We roll different." – Michael Moore in ...
November 22nd, 2011
Where Does Occupy Wall Street Go From Here?
This past weekend I participated in a four-hour meeting of Occupy Wall Street activists whose job it is to come up with the vision and ...
September 22nd, 2011
A STATEMENT FROM MICHAEL MOORE ON THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS
I encourage everyone I know to never travel to Georgia, never buy anything made in Georgia, to never do business in Georgia. I will ask ...
December 16th, 2010
Dear Swedish Government: Hi there -- or as you all say, Hallå! You know, all of us here in the U.S. love your country. Your ...
November 2nd, 2010
This letter contains (almost) no criticisms of how the Democrats have brought this day of reckoning upon themselves. That -- and where to go from ...
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