Julian Assange was freed on June 26 under a plea deal with the U.S. government where he pleaded guilty to one charge of violating the U.S. Espionage Act and was sentenced to time served while in the British jail. Assange is the founder of WikiLeaks, an internet site...
Iraq is environmentally devastated. Due to years of punishing sanctions by the U.S. following the Iran-Iraq war in the 1990s and the 40 years since then of conflicts, most notably the 2003 U.S. invasion and war, the country’s people face the devastation of their...
Fallujah, Iraq, a city of just over a quarter million people, was the site of two major military attacks by the U.S. army. The city faced collective punishment in 2004 after four military contractors were captured and killed in the city square. The U.S. army made two...
The world just marked the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but there is also another anniversary — 20 years since the U.S. invaded and occupied Iraq. While the opposition and condemnation of Russia’s brutal war on Ukraine is completely...
Several weeks ago at his presidential library in Dallas, Texas, George W. Bush possibly told us directly about how he really saw his invasion of Iraq. In a speech denouncing Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Bush let a “Freudian slip” sneak through during his speech. In...
