A very strong new video by Tamil MIA, Born Free, shocks the senses. And rightly so: If singer/rapper M.I.A.’s purpose was to get people talking about her new single “Born Free,” she succeeded. The Sri Lankan-born artist debuted the graphic video on Monday. Immediately, fans took to social media to debate its scenes of military…
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Miliband deserves more than political punishment over Iraq
Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Miliband, in an interview with the Guardian, doesn’t seem to get it. Voters are angry with the major parties because of years of arrogance. And comments like these simply add insult to injury: I met some guy in Soho yesterday, when we were launching the Labour lesbian and gay manifesto. And…
Spending billions on a cause that remains unclear
The price of an endless “war on terror”: Over the past five years, the U.S. government has spent a combined $80 billion on contractors to support its operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. And that has U.S. military leaders concerned: On Friday, the top U.S. general in Afghanistan suggested that the coalition had become too dependent…
We are truly sorry, say US troops from Iraq
Following the recent Wikileaks revelation of a video that showed the cold-blooded murder by American forces of Iraq civilians, now this: Two former soldiers from the Army unit responsible for the Wikileaks “Collateral Murder” incident have written an open-letter of “Reconciliation and Responsibility” to those injured in the July 2007 attack, in which U.S. forces…
The “idealism” of Iraq and Afghanistan
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman reminds his readers what the “war on terror” is all about: Unlike Afghanistan, the war in Iraq was, at its core, always driven more by idealism than realism.
Noble wars of liberation cost a fortune
How many in the US know this? If you’re an average American taxpayer, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have, since 2001, cost you personally $7,334, according to the… “cost of war” counter created by the… National Priorities Project (NPP).… They have cost all Americans collectively more than $980,000,000,000.… As a country, we’ll pass the trillion dollar…
Washington’s aim has always been to terrorise Iraqis
Dahr Jamail reminds us that American violence against Iraqis isn’t an abberation; it’s part of the rules of engagement: Vincent Emanuele, a Marine rifleman who spent a year in the al-Qaim area of Iraq near the Syrian border, told of emptying magazines of bullets into the city without identifying targets, running over corpses with Humvees…
Wikileaks releases deadly video from Iraq that corporate hacks have not
Yet another scoop from Wikileaks, one of the most important websites in the world: WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad — including two Reuters news staff. Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom…
Help overthrow Saddam, love Iran and thrive in today’s Iraq
The ever-widening influence of Iraqi Ahmed Chalabi.
Murdoch hates the web but wants your money, anyway
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is now a an online-only newspaper, surviving and seemingly thriving in a new age. But its ability to report deeply on various issues has been reduced due to a lack of senior staff. Non-professional journalists have been asked to provide stories. Meanwhile, Rupert Murdoch is about to enter a brave a new…