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Dahr Jamail: Ramadi - Fallujah Redux
Tuesday, 13 June 2006, 1:37 pm | Dahr Jamail
Fearful residents are now pouring out of Ramadi after the US military has been assaulting the city for months with tactics like cutting water, electricity and medical aid, imposing curfews, and attacking by means of snipers and random air strikes. This ... More >>
Jamail and Pflueger: Propaganda and Haditha
Monday, 12 June 2006, 3:25 pm | Dahr Jamail
Propaganda is when the Western corporate media tries to influence public opinion in favor of the Iraq War by consistently tampering with truth and distorting reality. It is to be expected. And it is to be recognized for what it is. On occasions when ... More >>
Dahr Jamail: Countless My Lai Massacres in Iraq
Wednesday, 31 May 2006, 12:15 am | Dahr Jamail
The media feeding frenzy around what has been referred to as "Iraq's My Lai" has become frenetic. Focus on US Marines slaughtering at least 20 civilians in Haditha last November is reminiscent of the media spasm around the "scandal" of Abu Ghraib ... More >>
Dahr Jamail: Easily Dispensable - Iraq's Children
Tuesday, 23 May 2006, 1:06 pm | Dahr Jamail
If, as I would like to believe, the above quote suggests all children and not merely those born in Western democracies, I am no longer certain that we live in a civilized society. More >>
Dahr Jamail: Support Our Troops, Anybody?
Thursday, 18 May 2006, 10:25 am | Dahr Jamail
As the violence in Iraq continues to escalate, at least 2,450 US soldiers have been killed, with roughly ten times that number seriously wounded since the beginning of the Invasion in March 2003. If current trends continue, May will be one of the ... More >>
Dahr Jamail: All of Us Participate in a New Iraq
Thursday, 11 May 2006, 11:38 am | Dahr Jamail
Last Friday I was at the University of Texas, Austin, giving a presentation on Iraq. After dumping an hour's worth of horrible "real news" about Iraq, I was asked the question I have by now learnt to expect: "Is there anything good happening there ... More >>
Dahr Jamail: "Reason for Their Death Is Known"
Thursday, 4 May 2006, 11:40 am | Dahr Jamail
Death in Iraq. It is relentless and incessant. Know what it is like when scores of your fellow citizens are being killed every single day while the world proceeds unheedingly on? As a journalist I've had but a taste of that poison during my eight ... More >>
Dahr Jamail: Subject to the Penalty of Death
Wednesday, 26 April 2006, 12:52 am | Dahr Jamail
This weekend I received an email from a friend in Iraq. It read, "Salam Dahr, I was in Ramadi today to ask about the situation. I was stunned for the news of a father and his three sons executed in cold blood by US soldiers, then they blasted the house. ... More >>
Dahr Jamail: The Ongoing War on Truth in Iraq
Wednesday, 19 April 2006, 1:26 pm | Dahr Jamail
On Monday, April 17, my sources in Baghdad reported fierce fighting in the al-Adhamiya neighborhood of the capital city, as well as fighting in the al-Dora neighborhood. One source, who lives in the predominantly Sunni area of Adhamiya, had been telling ... More >>
Dahr Jamail: How Massacres Become the Norm
Wednesday, 5 April 2006, 11:25 am | Dahr Jamail
US soldiers killing innocent civilians in Iraq is not news. Just as it was not news that US soldiers slaughtered countless innocent civilians in Vietnam. However, when some rare reportage of this non news from Iraq does seep through the cracks of the ... More >>
Dahr Jamail: An "Alliance" of Violence
Thursday, 30 March 2006, 10:25 am | Dahr Jamail
A disturbing trend noticeable in Iraq for quite some time now is that each aggressive Israeli military operation in the occupied territories results in a corresponding increase in the number of attacks on US forces in Iraq. More >>
Dahr Jamail: Operation Swarm of Lies
Wednesday, 22 March 2006, 9:55 am | Dahr Jamail
The stated mission of Operation Swarmer, launched late last week in an area just northeast of Samarra, in Iraq, was to "break up a center of insurgent resistance" and to disrupt "terrorist activity," according to the US military. More >>
Dahr Jamail: Iraq - Permanent US Colony
Tuesday, 14 March 2006, 10:43 am | Dahr Jamail
Why does the Bush Administration refuse to discuss withdrawing occupation forces from Iraq? Why is Halliburton, who landed the no-bid contracts to construct and maintain US military bases in Iraq, posting higher profits than ever before in its 86-year ... More >>
Dahr Jamail: See Dick Loot
Thursday, 9 March 2006, 11:45 am | Dahr Jamail
Halliburton and its subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) have been making hay in the burning Iraqi sun for years now. It is, of course, no coincidence that the man sitting as vice president played a key role with his influence in obtaining the ... More >>
Dahr Jamail: Negroponte's 'Serious Setback'
Monday, 6 March 2006, 1:04 pm | Dahr Jamail
John Negroponte, the US National Intelligence Director, provided testimony on Tuesday at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on "global threats." Negroponte, who was the US ambassador to Iraq from June 2004 to April 2005, was immediately promoted ... More >>
Dahr Jamail's Iraq Dispatches: Who Benefits?
Monday, 27 February 2006, 11:01 am | Dahr Jamail
The most important question to ask regarding the bombings of the Golden Mosque in Samarra on the 22nd is: who benefits? Prior to asking this question, let us note the timing of the bombing. The last weeks in Iraq have been a PR disaster for the ... More >>
Dahr Jamail: US Propaganda vs. Iraqi Reality
Monday, 9 January 2006, 3:20 pm | Dahr Jamail
It appears as though the Cheney administration will soon “redeploy” thousands of US troops out of Iraq. While several permanent US military bases are under construction there as I type this, the Capital Hill Cabal, desperate to paint the Iraq disaster ... More >>
Dahr Jamail: An Increasingly Aerial Occupation
Monday, 19 December 2005, 4:32 pm | Dahr Jamail
The American media continues to ignore the increasingly devastating air war being waged in Iraq against an ever more belligerent Iraqi resistance - and, as usual, Iraqi civilians continue to bear the largely unreported brunt of the bombing. More >>
Dahr Jamail: Fallujah Revisited
Wednesday, 16 November 2005, 10:37 am | Dahr Jamail
Nearly a year after they occurred, a few of the war crimes committed in Fallujah by members of the US military have gained the attention of some major media outlets (excluding, of course, any of the corporate media outlets in the US). More >>
Dahr Jamail: Meanwhile, in Iraq...
Monday, 19 September 2005, 1:41 pm | Dahr Jamail
For the last several days at least 6,000 US soldiers along with approximately 4,000 Iraqi soldiers (read - members of the Kurdish Peshmerga and Shia Badr Army) were laying siege to the city of Tal-Afar, near Mosul in northern Iraq. It is estimated ... More >>
