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 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 |
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Views Thursday, November 14, 2019 Why Aren't People in the US Rising Up Like Those Elsewhere in the World? The waves of protests breaking out in country after country around the world beg the question: Why aren’t Americans rising up in peaceful protest like our neighbors? We live at the very heart of this neoliberal system that is force-feeding the systemic injustice and inequality of 19th century... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, November 06, 2019 Neoliberalism’s Children Rise Up to Demand Justice in Chile and the World Uprisings against the corrupt, generation-long dominance of neoliberal “center-right” and “center-left” governments that benefit the wealthy and multinational corporations at the expense of working people are sweeping country after country all over the world. In this Autumn of Discontent, people... Read more |
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Views Friday, October 18, 2019 Trump’s Fake Withdrawal From Endless War On Monday, October 7th, the U.S. withdrew 50 to 100 troops from positions near Syria's border with Turkey, and two days later Turkey invaded Rojava, the de facto autonomous Kurdish region of northeast Syria. Trump is now taking credit for a temporary, tenuous ceasefire. In a blizzard of tweets and... Read more |
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Views Thursday, October 10, 2019 Crises in Iraq and Haiti Expose the Failure of Militarized Neoliberalism This season could be called the Autumn of Discontent, as people from the Middle East to Latin America and the Caribbean have been rising up against corrupt neoliberal governments. Two of the countries in crisis, Haiti and Iraq, are on opposite ends of the earth but have something important in... Read more |