Nicolas J.S. Davies
Nicolas J.S. Davies is the author of Blood On Our Hands: the American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq. He also wrote the chapters on "Obama at War" in Grading the 44th President: a Report Card on Barack Obama’s First Term as a Progressive Leader.
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Views Wednesday, April 01, 2020 Could COVID-19 Reshape Global Leadership? As U.S. COVID-19 cases double every few days and the death toll mounts, the U.S. seems to be caught in a “worst of both worlds” predicament: daily life and much of the U.S. economy is shut down, but no real progress has been achieved in its efforts to contain or eradicate the virus. Meanwhile, the... Read more |
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Views Friday, March 27, 2020 Why Is the U.S.So Exceptionally Vulnerable to Covid-19? The United States has become the new center of the global coronavirus pandemic, with over 86,000 cases, more than China or Italy. More than a thousand Americans have already died, but this is surely only the very beginning of this deadly collision between the U.S.' uniquely inadequate public... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, March 17, 2020 12 Ways the US Invasion of Iraq Lives On in Infamy While the world is consumed with the terrifying coronavirus pandemic, on March 19 the Trump administration will be marking the 17th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq by ramping up the conflict there. After an Iran-aligned militia allegedly struck a U.S. base near Baghdad on March 11, the U.S... Read more |
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Views Sunday, February 16, 2020 Afghan Troops Say Taliban are Brothers and War is "Not Really Our Fight" The world is waiting anxiously to see whether the U.S. and Afghan governments and the Taliban will agree to a one-week truce that could set the stage for a "permanent and comprehensive" ceasefire and the withdrawal of U.S. and other foreign occupation forces from Afghanistan. Could the talks be for... Read more |
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Views Thursday, February 13, 2020 Can the World’s Second Superpower Rise From the Ashes of Twenty Years of War? February 15 marks the day, 17 years ago, when global demonstrations against the pending Iraq invasion were so massive that the New York Times called world public opinion “the second superpower.” But the U.S. ignored it and invaded Iraq anyway. So what has become of the momentous hopes of that day?... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, January 28, 2020 The U.S. Is Recycling Its Big Lie About Iraq To Target Iran Sixteen years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, most Americans understand that it was an illegal war based on lies about non-existent “weapons of mass destruction.” But our government is now threatening to drag us into a war on Iran with a nearly identical “big lie” about a non-existent nuclear... Read more |
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Views Friday, January 10, 2020 10 Ways Trump's Actions Against Iran Hurt the US, the Region, and the World The U.S. assassination of General Qassem Soleimani has not yet plunged us into a full-scale war with Iran thanks to the Iranian government’s measured response, which demonstrated its capabilities without actually harming U.S. troops or escalating the conflict. But the danger of a full-blown war... Read more |
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Views Thursday, January 02, 2020 A New Year and a New Trump Foreign Policy Blunder in Iraq It’s a new year, and the U.S. has found a new enemy—an Iraqi militia called Kata’ib Hezbollah. How tragically predictable was that? So who or what is Kata’ib Hezbollah? Why are U.S. forces attacking it? And where will this lead? Kata’ib Hezbollah is one of the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) that... Read more |
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Views Saturday, December 21, 2019 The Real Lesson of Afghanistan Is That Regime Change Does Not Work The trove of U.S. "Lessons Learned" documents on Afghanistan published by the Washington Post portrays, in excruciating detail, the anatomy of a failed policy, scandalously hidden from the public for 18 years. The "Lessons Learned" papers, however, are based on the premise that the U.S. and its... Read more |
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Views Friday, November 29, 2019 Iraqis Rise Up Against 16 Years of "Made in the USA" Corruption As Americans sat down to Thanksgiving dinner, Iraqis were mourning more than 60 protesters killed by police and soldiers on Thursday in Baghdad, Najaf and Nasiriyah. Nearly 400 protesters have been killed since hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets at the beginning of October. Human... Read more |