As many of you know, I’ve been a regular contributor to TomDispatch.com since December 2004. Tom Englehart, who runs this fantastic site, has just authored an incredibly telling piece about the current situation, statistically, in Iraq. Here’s a taste of what he writes:
Beyond the Green Zone – Book Tour
Hello Middle East Dispatches Subscribers– Haymarket Books is pleased to announce the planning of a national speaking tour featuring Dahr Jamail, to coincide with the release of his forthcoming book Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq. The first phase of the book tour will begin Oct. 15th and roughly
The Bases Are Loaded – A Film by Alternate Focus
Will the U.S. ever leave Iraq? Official policy promises an eventual departure, while warning of the dire consequences of a “premature” withdrawal. But while Washington equivocates, facts on the ground tell another story. Independent journalist Dahr Jamail, and author Chalmers Johnson, are discovering that military bases in Iraq are being consolidated from over a hundred
Incendiary Weapons Are No ‘Allegation’
Times corrects a minor error, ignores the big one A report by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting Reviewing the London-based anti-Iraq War play Fallujah, New York Times reporter Jane Perlez wrote (5/29/07), “The denunciations of the United States are severe, particularly in the scenes that deal with the use of napalm in Fallujah, an allegation
“Baghdad is a smashed city…”
Below is an email I have just received from my close friend and translator Abu Talat. While he has fled Baghdad with his family and is now a refugee in Syria, he recently had to return to Baghdad in order to try to salvage what is left of his former life (his car, belongings from
Tomgram: Dahr Jamail, Into the Iraqi Diaspora
Last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) released new figures on the disintegrating health situation in Iraq where, according to the group, 100 people a day die, on average, and countless more are wounded. Of the injured who manage to make it to an emergency room, 70% face a chance of dying there. Many don’t
Lt. Ehren Watada
I would like to bring your attention to a story I covered last August about 1st Lt. Ehren Watada. The story covered his decision not to deploy to Iraq and a speech he gave at the Veteran’s for Peace National Convention in Seattle last August. The full text of his speech can be read here
U.S. Army Tries to Force Sarah Olson and Dahr Jamail to Testify Against Ehren Watada
Lt. Ehren Watada, for those who don’t already know, became the first commissioned officer to publicly refuse deployment to the unlawful war and occupation in Iraq. While doing this on June 22, 2006, Watada said, “As the order to take part in an illegal act is ultimately unlawful as well, I must refuse that order.”
“Today Is Better than Tomorrow”
Tomgram: Jamail, Emails from the Front Lines of Iraqi Daily Life Right now, we have on the table a “possible exit strategy” from Iraq — James A. Baker’s Iraq Study Group report — that, once you do the figures, doesn’t get the U.S. even close to halfway out the door by sometime in 2008; and
Collectively Punishing Lebanon
An acquaintance of mine in Lebanon just sent me this email: “A friend of mine just called and told me of a massacre: civilian building destroyed in Tyre by Israeli aggression. There, Zouhair Edde’s mother has been killed. Rayaan Qudsi has been killed along with her two daughters. This is a conservative number of martyrs