Monthly Archives: March 2010

Santa Fe, NM

By Dahr Jamail | Published: March 27, 2010

WELCOME TO HELL Life Under Siege in Gaza MOHAMMED OMER Award-winning independent journalist from the Gaza Strip, and author of the Rafah Today blog Followed by a conversation with DAHR JAMAIL Journalist,author and co-recipient with Mohammed of the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism Unitarian Congregation 107 West Barcelona Rd Santa Fe, NM Suggested Donation [...]

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Soldier of Conscience Granted Clemency, Released

By Dahr Jamail | T r u t h o u t | Published: March 26, 2010

Last August, Travis Bishop refused to serve in Afghanistan. Having filed for Conscientious Objector (CO) status, Bishop, based at Fort Hood, Texas, in the US Army’s 57th Expeditionary Signal Battalion, was court-martialed and sentenced to 12 months in a military brig. He was released from the brig today. Bishop served his time in Northwest Joint [...]

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Operation Enduring Occupation

By Dahr Jamail | T r u t h o u t | Published: March 18, 2010

Plain Speak The 2008 National Defense Strategy reads: US interests include protecting the nation and our allies from attack or coercion, promoting international security to reduce conflict and foster economic growth, and securing the global commons and with them access to world markets and resources. To pursue these interests, the US has developed military capabilities [...]

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The New ‘Forgotten’ War

By Dahr Jamail | Extra! The Magazine of FAIR | Published: March 15, 2010

Iraq occupation falls into media shadows   “The Western world that slaughtered Iraq and Iraqis, through 13 years of sanctions and seven years of occupation, is now turning its back on the victims. What has remained of Iraq is still being devastated by bombings, assassinations, corruption, millions of evictions and continued infrastructure destruction. Yet the [...]

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