Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Former prime minister of Iraq, Nouri al-Maliki, responded to news that Israel had bombed Shiite militia bases in Iraq with threats that if it continued, Iraq would take strong defensive measures and would carry the fight to Israel itself, forming a multinational coalition and backed by Iran. Al-Maliki has been […]
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Iraq
Caught between Iran, the Sunnis and the US, is Iraq a State without a Nation?
By Tareq A. Ramadan | – (Informed Comment) – The fall of Saddam Hussein’s Ba’athist dictatorship in March of 2003 was a cataclysmic political event for the Iraqi state. Sixteen years later, the fallout continues to shape and re-shape its political, religious, social, cultural, judicial, and economic life. Over the years, and as a result […]
Majority of US Veterans doubt Value of Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria Wars: Pew
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A Pew Research Center opinion poll conducted among 1,284 veterans who had served since 2001 (which also polled 1,087 American civilians as a control), found that a majority of veterans holds that the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars and the intervention against ISIl in Syria were not worth it. The results […]
As Trump heads for Another gotten-up Mideast War, Iraqi Youth stage a 20K-Strong Peace Festival
By Laura Gottesdiener | – (Tomdispatch.com) – There’s a dark joke going around Baghdad these days. Noof Assi, a 30-year-old Iraqi peace activist and humanitarian worker, told it to me by phone. Our conversation takes place in late May just after the Trump administration has announced that it would add 1,500 additional U.S. troops to […]
Mission Accomplished? Could US-Iran Conflict Tear Iraq Apart Again?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The rising tensions between the Trump administration and Iran have the potential to roil the entire Middle East, and no country feels the heat more than Iraq, which has warm relations both with the US and Iran, as Egyptian journalist Islam Muhammad argues in a wideranging report. Iraqi nationalist and […]
Trump had to Sneak into Iraq. Iran’s Rouhani was Welcomed with Open Arms
Dr Mustafa Fetouri | – US President Donald Trump had to sneak in to Iraq, a supposed US ally, arriving at the Ein Al-Assad airbase for an unannounced visit on 26 December. Not a single Iraqi official was there to welcome him. Instead, Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdel-Mahdi angrily snubbed him, refusing to travel to […]
How Bush’s War on Iraq Produced Trumpism, Instability, Refugees and Climate Catastrophe
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – George W. Bush is being rehabilitated in the age of Trump, as the second worst president in American history is burnished by the absolute worst. Much that is wrong with politics in the Trump era, however, was foreshadowed by Bush. It was Bush who practiced the Big Lie to take […]
Grand Ayatollah Sistani Slaps down Trump: You may not use Iraq against its Neighbors
Beirut (al-Akhbar) – Iraq’s supreme Shiite religious authority, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, issued a sharp rebuke to US president Donald Trump during a meeting with the head of the United Nations mission in Iraq, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert. Sistani said that “Iraq aspires to have good and balanced relations with all neighboring countries, avoiding interfering in their internal […]
Baghdad: Calls to Expel US Troops from Iraq after Trump said They spy on Iran
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump’s assertion that he intends to keep US troops in Iraq to spy on Iran has produced a firestorm of protest and controversy in Baghdad. Trump also committed the faux pas of saying the US had constructed an enormous military base in Iraq, which contradicts the Iraqi government’s line that […]
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