Iraq
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“We won! It’s over — America!” A young man whoops and hollers in what could be a cry from the crowd at a sports game. In fact, it was the ill-judged, hubristic “victory’” shout of a soldier rolling over the Kuwaiti border in his armored truck, as supposedly the last U.S. combat brigade left Iraq after seven grueling years....
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This is the moment to open a campaign to reawaken and mobilize a movement that
can end the wars on Afghanistan and Iraq. The New York Times in the
U.S., the Guardian in Britain and Der Spiegel in Germany have published their
spins on 92,000 classified cables released by Wikileaks, cables with messages
between U.S. officials regarding the occupation of Afghanistan and the war
against the Afghan resistance....
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Iraqi women have been among the most liberated of their gender in the
Middle East. They have a long history of political activism and social
participation since the 19th century, having taken part in the struggle against
colonial domination and in the fight for national unity, social justice and
legal equality throughout the 20th century. In fact, UNICEF reported in 1993
that “rarely do women in the Arab world enjoy as much power and support
as they do in Iraq.”...
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A 22 year old U.S. soldier, Bradley Manning, has been arrested on suspicion of leaking classified combat video footage and secret documents to a whistle-blower website. SPC Manning, from Potomac, Maryland, is assigned to the 2nd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division and was stationed at Forward Operating Base Hammer, located east of Baghdad. SPC Manning was arrested in Iraq and is currently being held in Kuwait pending further investigations. The WikiLeaks website posted a video which shows U.S. occupation forces shooting civilians on a Baghdad street during 2007....
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The government of the Spanish state has sabotaged an international conference in the Asturias autonomous region of Spain. By doing so, Spain joined the U.S. in supporting the occupation regime in Baghdad....
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In the first action of its type during the current U.S. wars in Iraq,
Afghanistan and Pakistan, the Berkeley, Calif., City Council on March 9 passed
a resolution entitled, “Universal and Unconditional Amnesty for Iraq,
Afghanistan, and Pakistan War Military Resisters and Veterans Who Acted In
Opposition to the War for Matters of Conscience,” according to a report
from Courage to Resist....
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It is an absolutely chilling demonstration of cold-blooded murder. A U.S. Apache gunship circles a Baghdad neighborhood looking for “targets” — people to kill. A military video shows the intended targets through superimposed crosshairs: a group of men dressed in civilian clothes, no masks, no apparent weapons, casually sauntering along a street and into a small square....
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The Bail Out the People Movement, meeting in New York on Feb. 24, voted to endorse and help to mobilize for the March 20 National March on Washington. The demonstration, called by the Answer Coalition, raises the slogans: U.S. out of Afghanistan and Iraq, Free Palestine, Reparations for Haiti, and Money for Healthcare, Jobs and Education. The endorsement, proposed by the International Action Center, had unanimous support and was followed by a concrete discussion of outreach, transportation and material to take to Washington....
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As the March 7 national election approaches in Iraq, the number of U.S.
troops occupying the country has slipped below 100,000 for the first time since
the U.S.-led invasion seven years ago. The Pentagon plans to change the name of
its Iraq effort on Sept. 1, from “Operation Iraqi Freedom” to
“Operation New Dawn” when 50,000 troops remain....
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Among the most important corporate media censored news stories of the past
decade, one must be that over one million people have died because of the United
States military invasion and occupation of Iraq. This, of course, does not include
the number of deaths from the first Gulf War nor the ensuing sanctions placed
upon the country of Iraq that, combined, caused close to an additional one million
Iraqi deaths....
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Why is the largest military machine on the planet unable to defeat the
resistance in Afghanistan, in a war that has lasted longer than World War II or
Vietnam? Afghanistan ranks among the poorest and most underdeveloped countries in the
world today. It has one of the shortest life expectancy rates, highest infant
mortality rates and lowest rates of literacy.The total U.S. military budget has more than doubled from the beginning of
this war in 2001 to the $680 billion budget signed by President Barack Obama
Oct. 28. The U.S. military budget today is larger than the military budgets of
the rest of the world combined. The U.S. arsenal has the most advanced
high-tech weapons....
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n Oct. 28, President Barack Obama signed the 2010 Defense Authorization
Act, the largest military budget in U.S. history....
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Mutadhar al-Zaidi, is an Iraqi journalist who was
jailed on Dec. 14, 2008, after he threw his shoes at then-U.S. President George
W. Bush, at a Baghdad press conference, with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal
al-Maliki. His actions which were hailed worldwide, protested the U.S.-led war
and occupation of Iraq. Following al-Zaidi’s release on Sept. 15, 2009,
he gave this speech....
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The conflict in Iran that opened up with the June presidential elections
there has had an impact on the progressive and anti-imperialist movement
worldwide, including in the United States. Misunderstanding the events has
created some confusion in anti-war ranks. This is especially dangerous after
Vice President Joe Biden on July 5 gave a virtual green light to an Israeli attack on Iran. The anti-war movement must stay alert to protest any move in that direction....
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"There is no way I will deploy to Afghanistan. The occupation is immoral
and unjust. It does not make the American people any safer. It has the opposite
effect," said Army Specialist Victor Agosto, who has already served one
tour in Iraq in almost four years in the Army. He spoke on May 7 with Alice
Embree of "The Rag Blog," publication of the Austin Movement for a
Democratic Society....
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On the sixth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, support is growing for war
resisters in the United States and Canada in the wake of new deportations and
repression....
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It is becoming clear that the stimulus packages and bail out proposals coming from Wall Street and Washington won't even make a dent in the growing number of layoffs and foreclosures. Working people must organize independently to demand a bail out for the people, not the banks. It's time to march on Wall Street!
The stock markets are crashing, the world economy is headed into a depression, and the U.S. government and its top bankers are giving trillions of dollars to bailout the richest 1 percent of the people while doing nothing to rescue ordinary working and poor people....
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The Troops Out Now Coalition condemns the announcement today that
Washington plans to keep an occupying force of 50,000 troops in Iraq
indefinitely....
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The Pentagon reported in January that “Suicides among soldiers rose
for the fourth straight year, exceeding the rate for civilians for the first
time in decades.” ...
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Iraq war resisters Cliff Cornell and Chris Teske were deported from Canada last week. Teske crossed the British Columbia-Washington state border unassisted on Jan. 22 at an undisclosed location. Cornell planned to do the same on Jan. 23....
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The Pakistani government warned Gen. David Petraeus, now head of the U.S.
Central Command running the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, that frequent missile
strikes on its territory risk inflaming anti-American sentiment. (AP, Nov.
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U.S. imperialism's every effort to assert itself and reverse its declining global domination confirms its weakened position....
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Anti-war activists need to address the latest phase of the war - the war against working people here!...
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John McCain spoke of combating "threats to peace and liberty" as he accepted the Republican presidential nomination Sept. 4. Meanwhile, thousands of demonstrators braved waves of riot-police attacks to charge that U.S. imperialism is the greatest threat to peace and liberty facing the world....
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The undersigned, friends of Iraq from France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the United States of America, Egypt, Sweden and Iraq, organized in the International Anti-Occupation Network (IAON) and gathered in Le Feyt, France, from 25 to 27 August 2008, have adopted the following position and declaration reflecting our commitment to a true end to the occupation and to a lasting, sustainable peace in Iraq....
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The following relation has
being created by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the
Sovereignty of Iraq (CEOSI,) with the information provided by direct Iraqi university sources and international and Arab media. ...
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Three years ago, The Daily News ran a story about reservists returning from Iraq in 2004 from the same unit who were suffering from what euphemistically has been called "Gulf War Syndrome." It turned out that they all had been exposed to radioactive dust during their tour of duty in Iraq. The short term and long term effects of this exposure are slowly emerging into public consciousness....
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NATO held a three-day meeting in Bucharest, Romania, on April 2 to 4, attended by George W. Bush and other heads of state. It was a stormy affair. This alliance of imperialist military powers, long dominated by the U.S., was divided on several proposals being pushed by Washington....
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Anti-war activists in northern New York State are joining with the organizers of the Different Drummer cafe in Watertown and members of Iraq
Veterans Against the War (IVAW) for a new kind of war protest this May 17,
dubbed Armed Forces Day....
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On the eve of the NATO summit, Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chair of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, said an additional 7,500 soldiers and 3,000 military trainers
needed to be sent immediately to Afghanistan....
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Hundreds of military veterans of the Bush administration&'s so-called war on terror attended the Winter Soldier 2008 hearings held here March 13-16 at the National Labor College, an AFL-CIO affiliate just outside Washington.
The four-day event was organized by Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW)....
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As the fifth anniversary of the criminal U.S. occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan neared, tens of thousands hit the streets on Mar. 15 calling for an
end to the war. In Los Angeles marchers targeted CNN at the corner of Sunset and Cahuenga chanting, "CNN, can't you see? Put the peace march on TV!"...
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In this time of economic crisis, thousands of homes are being foreclosed, workers are being laid off in record numbers, and our education system and social programs are severely underfunded. Meanwhile, the raging wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are costing human lives on both sides as well as U.S. tax dollars. The population of the U.S. has proven that we are against these imperialist wars; and yet our tax dollars are going to these occupations, as opposed to our needs....
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Speakers include: Ramsey Clark, Najam Ud Din, Ryan Hancock, Sara Flounders, and Omer Khwaja. Special screening of "Missing in Pakistan," a 24-minute independently produced documentary about the abduction and illegal detention of Pakistani citizens by Pakistani intelligence agencies....
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wo organizations that analyze the media have counted 935 false statements made by the Bush gang between Sept. 11, 2001, and March 19, 2003, that greased the way for the invasion of Iraq. This useful information exposes almost by itself the responsibility of the entire U.S. ruling class for the conspiracy to wage war....
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The Iraqi sectarian Government established under the US occupation is about to agree with the occupying power to transfer all Iraqi prisoners
of war (POW) and detainees held in the Baghdad International Airport prison
from US authority to its authority. This information was confirmed by the
American airport prison authority who informed
the defense lawyers of Iraqi POW that beginning with 31 March 2008 it will relinquish the responsibility of their safety during their visits to the prison. This means that the handover is imminent, and a new carnage place, similar to that when president Saddam Hussein and his comrades were handed over to the same sectarian Government and its Militias. ...
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The Bush administration released on Feb. 1 a vile four-page summary of a longer classified report on Iraq called the National Intelligence Estimate. Prepared by 16 U.S. intelligence agencies active there, the summary described the situation in Iraq as going from bad to worse. ...
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One of the most underreported stories from the Vietnam War is the role played by the disintegration of military discipline as the war dragged on. While the situation in Iraq has not reached the same point yet, revolutionaries
understand that the fact that the bosses are forced to rely on workers in uniform to wage their wars raises the possibility that the troops will say, "No."...
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The financing of U.S. president George W. Bush's wars is now just about accomplished for 2008. By a large majority, briefly before Dec. 25 the House of Representatives and Senate granted an additional $70 billion for the occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan. A large number of Democrats again voted for continuing the funding. What made it easier for this bill to pass was that in the U.S. there was a changed perception of the war in occupied Iraq....
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Three years ago today, on May 1, 2003, U.S. President George Bush made his famous landing on the aircraft carrier USS Lincoln in a secret flight and sent his congratulations to the sailors and pilots while standing under a banner that read: "Mission Accomplished." At that same time, when Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld still believed he could "shock and awe" all of
Iraq into accepting these plans, the U.S. leaders might have believed they could set up a single weak and submissive Iraqi puppet government....
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To conclude I would like to denounce the total lack of interest in human lives by the occupying forces and the Western mainstream press. There is obviously a lot of racism involved in the way this occupation is handled
by the MNF-I and covered by the media. Some of the academics assassinated were among the finest scientists not only in the Middle East, but worldwide. Nevertheless, none of these murders have been investigated, and very few commemorations appeared in the Western press when these famous academics were killed. And that is another crime....
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As was agreed upon in the meeting of Iraq activists in Madrid during the
International Seminar about the assassination of Iraqi academics and health workers, the International Anti-Occupation Network has been established....
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Representatives from anti-war groups in eight countries met here the weekend of April 21 to 23, 2007, to discuss a grim emergency: the assassinations and disappearances of hundreds of Iraqi scientists, doctors, teachers and other intellectuals under the U.S.-UK occupation. They heard firsthand the plight of Iraqi academics and medical professionals who struggle to live amid constant threats, physical violence,
kidnappings and the operation of death squads....
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"Defender a los docentes y profesionales de la sanidad iraquies forma parte indisociable de la solidaridad global con el pueblo iraqui y su movimiento de liberacion
nacional contra la ocupacion." / "Defending Iraqi academics and health professionals is not separate from the necessity of being in solidarity with the Iraqi people and their national anti-occupation movement."...
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The United States-led occupation of Iraq is a dead end, politically, militarily, morally and economically The national popular resistance in Iraq is the sole legal and legitimate representative of the Iraqi people and the Republic of Iraq....
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The International Anti-Occupation Network
(IAON), along with the Palestinian, Arab and Spanish delegations, condemns and
rejects the interference of the Spanish Foreign Ministry and the Madrid Social Forum (FSM) and its cowardice in the face of attempts by Israel to impose Zionist forces on the civil society "Forum for a Just Peace in the Middle East". These forces cannot and do not subscribe to the Forum's Reference Document that affirms the inviolability of international law....
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The U.S. Marine Corps launched another offensive this May--this one not a landing on some foreign beach but a legal attack on its own anti-war Iraq veterans. Given the results of the first skirmish in Kansas City, Mo., on June 4, 2007, the USMC already seems to be deciding that it might retreat rather than find itself fighting another losing battle with a popular army....
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Poison DUst tells the story of three young men from New York who could not get answers for their mysterious ailments after their National Guard unit's 2003 tour of duty in Iraq. A mother reveals her fears about the extent of her child's birth defects and the growing disability of her young husband -- a vet. ...
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I am Bud Deraps, an 82 year old WW2 Navy veteran and member of Veterans For Peace and Military Families Speak Out. I now spend all of my time researching, writing and speaking on the subject of Depleted Uranium under the title, "What Are We Doing To Our Own Loved Ones?" ...
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For one week, activists from across the U.S. maintained a 24-hour encampment directly in front of the Capitol to demand "Cut the War Funding - Stop the War at Home and Abroad!"...
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If the full dimensions of the horror the U.S. occupation has created in Iraq were exposed and confronted, world outrage would reach such a pitch that the occupation could not continue. A huge number of reports that are largely ignored or given only passing mention in the corporate media confirm an unprecedented level of destruction of essential infrastructure, loss of life and massive displacement of people....
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We urge our fellow trade unionists to join us on Sept. 29th and to participate in an encampment in front of the Capitol from Sept. 22-29 to
demand no war funding....
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41 Organizing Centers in 23 States! Over 60 Buses planned! Over 1000 endorsers...
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Hundreds of Endorsers - More than 40 Organizing Centers - It's time to Shut Down Washington! Stop the War at Home & Abroad!...
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MARCH ON WASHINGTON D.C. & WORLDWIDE PROTEST SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 2007 - 4th Anniversary of the U.S. Invasion and Occupation of Iraq...
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Two demonstrations were held in Detroit today against the rising tide of United States militarism in Iraq and Somalia....
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