Monthly Archives: May 2009

The Return of the Resistance

By Dahr Jamail | T r u t h o u t | Published: May 31, 2009

At least 20 US soldiers have been killed in Iraq in May, the most since last September, along with more than 50 wounded. Iraqi casualties are, as usual – and in both categories – at least ten times that number. Attacks against US forces are once again on the rise in places like Baghdad and [...]

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Colonizing Culture

By Dahr Jamail | T r u t h o u t | Published: May 27, 2009

Transgress The geo-strategic expansion of the American empire is an accepted fact of contemporary history. I have been writing in these columns about the impact of the US occupation on the people of Iraq in the wake of the “hard” colonization via F-16s, tanks, 2,000-pound bombs, white phosphorous and cluster bombs. Here I offer a [...]

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“There’s No Way I’m Going to Deploy to Afghanistan”

By Dahr Jamail | Inter Press Service | Published: May 26, 2009

MARFA, Texas — “It’s a matter of what I’m willing to live with,” Specialist Victor Agosto of the U.S. Army, who is refusing orders to deploy to Afghanistan, explained to IPS. “I’m not willing to participate in this occupation, knowing it is completely wrong.” Agosto, who returned from a 13-month deployment to Iraq in November [...]

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Provoking the Inevitable

By Dahr Jamail | T r u t h o u t | Published: May 23, 2009

On Monday, Iraqi government security forces arrested two prominent Sunni leaders in Iraq’s volatile Diyala Province. One of them, Sheikh Riyadh al-Mujami, not coincidentally, is a prominent leader in the local Sahwa (Sons of Iraq), the 100,000-strong Sunni militia that was set up by the US military to quell attacks against occupation forces and launch [...]

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