The Story of Seven Countries: A Review of US Aggression in West Asia and North Africa

Ali Karbalaei In the 21st century, the U.S. learnt the hard way of its catastrophic foreign military policy in West Asia: From boots on the ground to so-called precision strikes. Washington’s success in destabilizing a continent with terror and destruction over two decades came at the expense of mass civilian casualties?, dead U.S. soldiers, expensive…

Multipolarity Was Triggered by the 2003 US Invasion of Iraq

Karin Kneissl Twenty years after the unlawful and destabilizing US-led invasion of Iraq, Washington must face the ultimate consequence of that war: UNSC powers China and Russia laying the foundation for a genuine, UN Charter-based system of multipolarism. On the night of 19-20 March, 2003, the US air force began bombing the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. The…

Press Conference: Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya on the 20th Anniversary of the US Invasion of Iraq

Press Conference by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia on the 20th anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq Vassily Nebenzia: Good afternoon everyone. As you might have noticed, initially in today’s program of work we had briefing on 1591 Committee and briefing and consultations on UNITAMS. Then there came a request from Western delegations to schedule…

Iraq Invasion 20th Anniversary: 5 Million Dead in Iraqi Holocaust

Dr Gideon Polya The 20th anniversary of the war criminal US, UK and Australian invasion of Iraq in 2003 will fall on about 20 March 2023. On this occasion mendacious and racist Western media will at best remember the Iraq War as a US policy mistake. However decent people will remember the carnage. From 1990…

Biden Led the Charge to Invade Iraq

Simes Dimitri Interviews Scott Ritter Joe Biden led the charge to push the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, according to Scott Ritter, who served as the United Nations chief weapons inspector in the country from 1991 to 1998. In the lead up to the war, then-Senator Biden used his position as chair of the influential…

No Amount of Truth Can Stop the World’s Most Powerful War Machine Fueled by the Lies of its President

Scott Ritter In fulfillment of his solemn, constitutionally-enshrined obligation, the 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush, on January 28, 2003, stood before the rostrum in the chambers of the United States Congress and addressed the American people. “Mr. Speaker,” the President began, “Vice President Cheney, members of Congress, distinguished citizens and fellow citizens, every year, by law…

Political Crisis in Iraq: Assault on the Iraqi Parliament and Impossibility of Forming a National Government

Yoselina Guevara López Protesters try to remove concrete barriers and cross the bridge towards the Green Zone area in Baghdad, Iraq. 30 July, 2022. | Image: The Cradle This Saturday, July 30, for the second time in the same week, hundreds of followers of the Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr stormed the Iraqi Parliament confronting…

Staged Incidents as the Western Approach to Doing Politics

Sergey Lavrov The staged incidents, no matter how long they go on, will not work. It is time for fair play based on the international law rather than cheating. The sooner everyone realises that there are no alternatives to objective historical processes where a multipolar world is formed based on respect for the principle of…

From Iran, Syria and Afghanistan to Ukraine: U.S. Empire Sows Violence and Chaos Yet Again

Dan Kovalik [Source: English.almayadeen.net] Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer Things fall apart The center cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world… –William Butler Yeats As I wrote four years ago in 2018 after visiting Iran, there is a battle for civilization taking place. And note how…

Whenever There’s Militants, There’s Turkey

Vladimir Platov Turkey has recently been receiving a considerable amount of attention in the publications of various media outlets. However, much of the reporting revolves around the attitude of Ankara and the Turkish president himself towards various armed conflicts, where Turkey still plays a major role. One example of this is the Turkish leader’s offer…

General Soleimani’s Assassination: Between Failed Imperialist Obsession and Deterrence

Yoselina Guevara Two years ago, on January 3, 2020, in Baghdad, the Americans perpetrated the assassination of the legendary general of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Qassem Soleimani, also losing his life Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, former deputy chief of the Iraqi Hashd Shaabi. The reasons that led Washington to commit this…

President Nicolas Maduro: “We Will Not Abandon Palestine”

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro said in an interview for Al Mayadeen, that the Venezuelan people resisted fierce attacks launched by US imperialism and its allies, and discusses relations with some countries, including Iran and Syria. In an exclusive interview with Al Mayadeen, Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro noted that 2021 was the first year in which…

Guernica, Lidice, My Lai … and Now Talon Anvil

Patrick Martin US MQ-9 Reaper Drone (Image credit: U.S. Air Force/Paul Ridgeway public domain) On Sunday, the New York Times published a detailed report chronicling the systematic, years-long mass murder of civilians by the United States in Iraq and Syria, carried out by a death squad called Talon Anvil. The unit directed air strikes and…

Iraq Announces End of US Combat Mission, but US Says Troops Not Leaving

Peoples Dispatch (Photo: Fazel Hawramy/Rudaw) The change in the nature of the US mission in Iraq first announced in July this year has been rejected by the Iraqi militias who are demanding a complete withdrawal of all foreign troops from the country Iraqi groups expressed dissatisfaction and opposition to the official announcement of the end…

Parliamentary Elections Will Not Address Major Concerns Raised by Popular Protests in Iraq

Abdul Rahman Iraqi security personnel voted in the special voting process conducted for them on October 8, two days prior to the national voting day on October 10. (Photo: Iraqi News Agency) The elections are taking place one year ahead of schedule following popular protests that broke out in October 2019 against the failure of…

Why are Iraq’s Communists Boycotting the Upcoming Parliamentary Elections?

Peoples Dispatch(Photo: Tareeqashaab) The Iraqi Communist Party, which was part of the leading alliance in the last elections in 2018, announced in July that it will not participate in the upcoming national elections in October due to the lack of a conducive political atmosphere Parliamentary elections in Iraq are scheduled for October 10 but a…

Want Regime Change with Plausible Deniability? Call Creative Associates International

Mnar Adley and Alan MacLeod After organizing coups, overthrowing democratically-elected heads of state, and arming death squads all around the world in the 1960s and 1970s, it was clear that the CIA had an image problem. The Reagan administration, therefore, began constructing a network of outsourced private organizations that would do the dirty work of…

Facts about the U.S. Bombardment on the Syria-Iraq Border

Instituto Samuel Robinson The round of airstrikes carried out by the United States on the Iraqi-Syrian border last Sunday constitute a new aggression against international law, Middle East peace and lay bare the supposed “return to multilateralism” of the first 100 days of the Biden administration. Context: The airstrikes, according to the official Pentagon statement…