Posts Tagged ‘Iraq’
Posted by smeddum on September 25, 2008
A bailout and a new world AsianTimes
By Pepe Escobar
WASHINGTON and SAO PAULO – The George W Bush administration’s US$700 billion no-accountability scheme, globally, informally dubbed “cash for trash”, is making all the headlines. Simultaneously, there’s the small matter of the United Nations General Assembly sanctioning the troubled birth of a new, multipolar world. As a 21st-century counterpart to the Dadaist Manifesto, this chain of events is priceless. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on September 1, 2008
Anbar handover to Iraqis finalized
Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:22:13 GMT Press TV
Al-Anbar province
Iraqi forces have finalized their preparations to take over responsibility for security in the western Anbar province from the US troops. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on August 29, 2008
China Nabs Gold In Iraq Oil Race Forbes
Tina Wang, 08.28.08, 6:40 PM ET
In the race among global oil majors to re-enter Iraq, China scored the first win.
While Western oil firms have been trying to access the world’s third-largest oil reserves since the 2003 U.S. invasion, state-run China National Petroleum Corp. secured the post-Saddam government’s first major oil contract. The $3 billion oil services deal, signed Wednesday, revised the terms of a 1997 agreement to pump oil from the Adhab oil field. The contract replaces a production-sharing arrangement with set-fee technical services. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on August 6, 2008
We are seeing some remarkable, unexpected and positive developments: the Iraqi government is throwing off it’s subordination to the occupation, making deals with the various strands of the resistance and leaving the occupiers out in the cold. This development is another illustration of the advanced phase of imperial collapse we have now entered.
By Ahmed Ali and Dahr Jamail
Asia Times
7th August
BAQUBA – A massive military operation in Diyala province has underscored the military and political gains by the Sahwa militia, despite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s earlier attempts to thwart them. Maliki has now apparently come around to involving the Sahwa rather than opposing them.
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Posted by smeddum on August 6, 2008
Iraq Mines Nightmare
Afif Sarhan, IOL Correspondent Uruknet
Children easily mistake small bombs for toys or step over unexploded ordinances. (Photo coutesy UN) Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on July 18, 2008
A day conference
Saturday 19 July, London
United Reformed Church
Buck Street, Camden (close to Camden Town tube)
London NW1 8NJ
Programme
10:30–11:00: Registration
11:00–13:00: Why we need justice for Iraq
- Sami Ramadani, Iraqi Democrats Against the Occupation
- Hans von Sponeck, former UN Humanitarian Co-ordinator for Iraq
- Haifa Zangana, Iraqi writer and columnist
- Liz Davies, Iraq Occupation Focus
13:00–13:45: Lunch
13:45–15:15: Workshops
Workshop 1: Stopping the corporate carve-up
- Greg Muttitt, Platform
- Kamil Mahdi, University of Exeter
Workshop 2: The humanitarian crisis
- Milan Rai, Justice Not Vengeance/Peace News
- Marion Birch, Medact
- Sarah Parker, Coalition to Stop Deportations to Iraq
Workshop 3: War crimes: ending impunity
- Jehangir Jilani, Public Interest Lawyers
- John Hilary, War on Want
- Mazin Younis, Iraqi League
15:15–15:30: Break
15:30–17:00: The way forward: Iraq solidarity for the long-term
- John McDonnell MP
- John Hilary, War on Want
- Kamil Mahdi, University of Exeter
- Carole Turner, Stop the War Coalition
17:00: Ends
Entry by donation (suggested amount: £7/£5 unwaged)
For more information download the event leaflet or visit the Justice for Iraq blog at: www.justiceforiraq.net.
Justice for Iraq Facebook group >>
Event page on Facebook >>Organised by Iraq Occupation Focus
Contact: iraqfocus@riseup.net
Justice for Iraq is a call to action – a campaign that demands a complete policy reversal of those countries who have invaded and occupied Iraq since 2003. Ending the military occupation remains the most urgent priority. But Iraq will remain a broken nation without urgent measures aimed at delivering lasting peace and justice for its people and healing some of the wounds caused by this disastrous war.
Justice for Iraq will pressure Iraq’s occupiers to:
- withdraw their troops and privatised security forces;
- restore Iraq’s full economic, legal and political sovereignty;
- dismantle the Green Zone and the other occupation walls;
- clean up toxic and unexploded weapons of war;
- release and compensate detainees;
- assist refugees and displaced persons;
- help Iraq to relieve dire shortages in food, water, energy and medical supplies;
- agree to pay reparations for waging a war of aggression;
- ensure that war criminals face justice.
These demands do not represent a complete or final list. This campaign is in the process of emerging and we are reaching out to build a network of organisations and individuals who share a similar goal. Join us on 19th July to be a part of debating, building and launching this campaign. |
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Posted by smeddum on July 12, 2008
Asian Times
By Gareth Porter
WASHINGTON – Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s demand for a timetable for complete United States military withdrawal from Iraq, confirmed on Tuesday by his National Security Adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie, has signaled the almost certain defeat of the George W Bush administration’s aim of establishing a long-term military presence in the country. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on July 11, 2008
Mchael Evans, Defence Editor Times Online
The Ministry of Defence faces a series of huge compensation claims for alleged abuse by troops in Iraq after agreeing a settlement of £2.8 million over the death of a civilian in custody.
Lawyers acting for the father of Baha Musa, a 26-year-old Iraqi hotel receptionist who died after suffering 93 injuries at a detention centre in Basra in 2003, said that the deal would “give confidence” to others to come forward with mistreatment claims. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on July 8, 2008
The Daily Star
By Dominique Moisi
Commentary by
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
It is tempting to compare NATO and the European Union to the French and Italian football teams in this year’s Euro 2008 competition. What unites them, above all, is a process of “competitive decadence.” The EU and NATO may see themselves as potential rivals or complementary partners in the field of defense. But what their leaders say in private reveals a sense of common frustration.
“We fail to translate military presence into political influence,” says the NATO person, who sounds very much like EU representatives commenting on the union’s role in the Middle East. “We have failed to transform economic aid into political influence,” they lament. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on June 26, 2008
(Thecatsdream)
The British Medical Journal published a few days ago “Fifty years of violent war deaths from Vietnam to Bosnia: analysis of data from the world health survey programme”
In the study’s abstract, the conclusions read: “War causes more deaths than previously estimated, and there is no evidence to support a recent decline in war deaths.” Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on June 25, 2008
June 25, 2008 Antiwar.com
Despite Riamondo’s endorsement of the oxymoronic puritanical capitalism known as ‘libertarianism’, this article is a biting critique of the War party
The idea that warfare helps the economy is a prime example of Bizarro logic, which has pervaded our collective consciousness since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, ideological fallout from the explosion of national hysteria that followed. In Bizarro World, as we all know, the laws of nature and logic are inverted, so that up is down, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength. In the post-9/11 era, as I have often pointed out, we have finally arrived in a world where two plus two can and indeed often does equal five – if it suits the purposes of the War Party to deem it so. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Drive to Global War | Tagged: dollar collapse, economic collapse, Iran, Iraq | 1 Comment »
In These New Times 