The Peace Movement Plans for the Future
Date: July, 2003 Author(s): Mark LeVine As the Bush administration struggles with occupying Iraq, the anti-war movement is in the midst of intense self-evaluation. For all of the movement’s success in...
View Article"Free People Will Set the Course of History"
Subtitle: Intellectuals, Democracy and American Empire Date: March, 2003 Author(s): Robert BlecherAs the Bush administration struggled to find a justification for launching an attack on Iraq,...
View ArticleOf "Instructors" and Interests in Iraq
Date: August 22, 2011 Author(s): Reidar Visser The Obama administration repeatedly declares that it is “on track” to withdraw all US military forces from Iraq by the end of 2011, in keeping with...
View ArticleA Year After Tahrir
Author(s): Chris ToensingDate published: January 30, 2012 Published In: Foreign Policy in Focusread more
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In Between, Fragmented and Disoriented
MER263 Subtitle: Art Making in Iraq Author(s): Nada Shabout It is argued that the celebrated Arab protest movements have changed the path of visual arts in the region. Headlines predict that art...
View ArticleFrom the Editors
MER266 Author(s): The Editors“The Iraq war is largely about oil,” wrote Alan Greenspan in his memoir The Age of Turbulence (2007). “I’m saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what...
View ArticleIraq: What Remains
MER266 Author(s): Joost Hiltermann American soldiers are gone from Iraq, along with much of Washington’s influence. The Obama administration, which came to office opposed to the entire enterprise but...
View ArticleRewiring a State
MER266 Subtitle: The Techno-Politics of Electricity in the CPA's Iraq Author(s): Nida Alahmad The Coalition Provisional Authority, the US-British body that briefly ruled in Baghdad from May 2003 to...
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Iraqi Christians: A Primer
MER267 Author(s): Amanda Ufheil-SomersMedia coverage in the West can overstate the degree to which Christians are “disappearing” from the Middle East. But one place where such characterizations have...
View ArticleDeath and Taxes
Author(s): Amanda Ufheil-SomersLast year 27 cents of every income tax dollar in the United States went to the military. Even so, that proportion has not generated enough revenue to pay for the...
View ArticleModernizing Memorial Day
Author(s): Amanda Ufheil-SomersDate published: May 28, 2014 Published In: Lake Worth Herald (Lake Worth, FL)Press-Enterprise (Bloomsburg, PA) Small-town newspapers (via IPS OtherWords)Whoever made the...
View ArticlePetraeus’ Real Failure
Author(s): Laleh KhaliliOn the sidelines of the catastrophic failure of the Iraqi army to hold back the militias of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (or ISIS, as it is usually known), and the...
View ArticleNot Much Better Than Bush
Author(s): Amanda Ufheil-SomersDate published: July 23, 2014 Published In: Foreign Policy in Focus Common DreamsRecord-Journal (Meriden, CT) Small-town newspapers via IPS OtherWordsPresident Barack...
View ArticleThe Next Round of an Unwinnable War Beckons
Author(s): Amanda Ufheil-SomersDate published: September 17, 2014 Published In: Times (Pawtucket, RI)Alliance Review (Alliance, OH) Small-town newspapers (via IPS OtherWords)Once again, a U.S....
View ArticleSome Initial Thoughts on the Chilcot Report
On July 6, an independent inquiry into British involvement in Iraq from the summer of 2001 to July 2009 released its report. Chaired by Sir John Chilcot, a veteran Whitehall mandarin, the inquiry was...
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