Imperialism does massive and fatal damage abroad. The wars in Gaza and Iran are the latest bloodbaths for all to see. Less visible are the wages of imperialism at home -Plans to plunder the planet of its land, labor, and vital resources are afoot.
Poet Lola Haskins offers these pieces about the 2004 Iraq War from her book The Grace to Leave, first to remind us that in that war the body count for Americans reached 4,492, and second, that its shadow has never dissipated.
Why has the Middle East been so consistently wracked by war? Gilbert Achcar explains how oil, US power, and regional rivalries have shaped decades of conflict in the Middle East — and why the confrontation with Iran fits a long imperial pattern.
Would we be here if there were any real repercussions for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, or the continuing genocide in Palestine? We need true accountability for these crimes. And the only way to get it is to wage a struggle against militarism every day.
The biggest lesson from this déjà vu moment? We must resist every one of Washington’s might-makes-right policies, and fight for an entirely different relationship between the US and the rest of the world.
Violate the UN Charter and the laws of war. Create false pretexts. Make no plans for the day after. Fantasize about seizing another country's oil wealth. Under-estimate the potential for destabilization. Lessons not learned are mistakes repeated.
Iraqi American poet Dunya Mikhail offers a bleak assessment of American involvement in the Middle East.
That chasm between language and reality, “the ravine between declared principles and real aims,” obscured both the atrocities of the war and the real motivations for the invasion.
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A federal jury has ordered a U.S. military contractor to pay a $42 million to three Iraqi men who were tortured at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison
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