As we approach the April 4 anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s
great 1967 "Beyond Vietnam" speech in New York City's Riverside Church,
the War Resisters League reiterates King's urgent cry for nonviolenceand
nonviolent resistance. The parallels between the war in Afghanistan and
the U.S. war against Vietnam fill us with foreboding. While we adamantly
oppose continued U.S.
BASRA - The Americans knew that it would be tough taking over from the British in Basra but they never knew how tough: weird-tasting sausages, no wi-fi, rationed shower water and no Pizza Hut.
GARMA, Iraq — Mohammed walked in disbelief through the rich green grass that carpets the farm behind his modest family home. For more than three years, he'd seen no green, no hanging branches in the orchards near his home in Garma, in Anbar province in western Iraq.
For more than three years, he'd worn a yellow jumpsuit in the U.S. detention center of Bucca in the hot desert outside Basra, hundreds of miles from home. He waited for his family's rare visits, and his heart lifted.
WASHINGTON - Despite President Barack Obama's statement at Camp LeJeune, North Carolina Feb. 27 that he had "chosen a timeline that will remove our combat brigades over the next 18 months," a number of Brigade Combat Teams (BCTs), which have been the basic U.S. Army combat unit in Iraq for six years, will remain in Iraq after that date under a new non-combat label.
What happens on the immense battlefield for the control of Eurasia will
provide the ultimate plot line in the tumultuous rush towards a new,
polycentric world order, also known as the New Great Game.
As Iraq enters into the sixth year of war and occupation, there's been varied analysis from many different perspectives. I have been in Iraq every year since late 2002 until the present time working with Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT), an international human rights and violence reduction organization based in Chicago and Toronto. CPT lived outside of the Green Zone in Baghdad until 2006 when virtually no other foreign independent human rights group existed in the country.
A large number of secret documents detailing government blunders over Iraq remain buried in Whitehall, a Foreign Office whistle-blower said yesterday as he called for a full public inquiry into the war.
On March 12, just one week before the sixth anniversary of the
war in Iraq, Iraqi journalist Muntadar al-Zaidi was sentenced to three
years in prison for throwing his shoe at George W. Bush. CODEPINK
co-founder Medea Benjamin talked about the incident with Hero Anwar
Brzw, a Kurdish Iraqi woman who is getting her master's degree in
conflict transformation at the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding,
Eastern Mennonite University.
FAIRBANKS - Today marks the sixth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
And as they have done periodically since even before the war began, the Alaska Peace Center and the Fairbanks Coalition for Peace and Justice met in Veterans Memorial Park to protest the war.
About a dozen people braved single digit temperatures to erect a banner that read simply, "END THE OCCUPATION."
Today marks six years since the start of the Iraq War and six years and
five months since troops invaded Afghanistan. These wars were
presumably started in response to 9/11 in the attempt to stop terrorism
and protect us from Saddam's caches of WMD.
So, how are we doing? Let's take a look.
Over the past six years in Iraq we have buried 4,261Americans and 317
coalition troops and seen 31,102 Americans wounded
(www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties).
