Iraq

Top U.S. General Resists Trump Administration’s Efforts To Provoke War With Iran

March 29, 2020 James North, Mondoweiss. Resist! Iran, Iraq, Pentagon, Trump

A brave U.S. army lieutenant general may be risking his career to resist Trump administration efforts to provoke war with Iran. Robert P. White, who commands American forces in Iraq, last week wrote what the New York Times called a “blunt memo,” in which he opposed a new plan by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and others to attack Iranian-allied militias inside Iraq. Most of the world is concentrating on fighting the coronavirus pandemic. But a small group of powerful men are taking advantage of the huge distraction to try and instigate Iran into a war, apparently hoping against all logic that a conflict will prompt regime change there that will neutralize Teheran’s influence in the Mideast. This warmongering group includes Pompeo; Robert O’Brien, the U.S. national security adviser; some top Israelis, including Benjamin Netanyahu; elements of the Israel lobby inside the U.S., and Saudi Arabia’s de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

12 Ways The US Invasion Of Iraq Lives On In Infamy

March 21, 2020 By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, Mronline.org Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Iraq, Middle East, US Imperialism

While the world is consumed with the terrifying coronavirus pandemic, on March 19 the Trump administration will be marking the 17th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq by ramping up the conflict there. After an Iran-aligned militia allegedly struck a U.S. base near Baghdad on March 11, the U.S. military carried out retaliatory strikes against five of the militia’s weapons factories and announced it is sending two more aircraft carriers to the region...

Iraq’s Resistance Reveals How U.S. Troops Will Be Removed From Its Country

March 18, 2020 Staff, Moonofalabama.org Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Iraq, Middle East, US military

Yesterday the U.S. attacked five sites in Iraq and killed 3 Iraqi soldiers of the 19th Division, two policeman and a civilian. The strikes came after some 10+ rockets, fired by unknown people, had hit the joint base Camp Tali and had killed 2 U.S. and one British soldiers. Today the U.S. received the revenge for its strikes.

U.S. Uneasy As Iraq Gets New Prime Minister

February 17, 2020 M.K. Bhadrakumar, Indian Punchline and Globetrotter, a project of the Independent Media Institute. Educate! Electoral Politics, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Iraq, Middle East

In happier times, Washington and Tehran might well have zeroed in on Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi as their consensus candidate for the post of Iraq’s prime minister. Why not? He was opposed to Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship—although, unlike most Shia politicians who fled from Saddam’s tyranny, he never lived in Iran but chose the United Kingdom.

Did Washington Use A False Pretext For Its Recent Escalation In Iraq?

February 10, 2020 Staff, Justworldnews.org Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Iraq, Middle East

In a key piece of actual extensive, on-the-ground reporting, the New York Times’s Alissa Rubin has raised serious questions about the official US account of who it was that attacked the K-1 base near Kirkuk, in eastern Iraq, on December 27. The United States almost immediately accused the Iran-backed Ketaib Hizbullah (KH) militia of responsibility.

US Announces Three New Bases In Iraq After Iraqis Demand Full Withdrawal

February 1, 2020 By Alan Macleod, Mintpressnews.com Educate! Iraq, Middle East, Military bases

The three sites chosen for the news bases, Erbin, Sulimania and Halabja are all extremely close to Iran, with Halabja just eight miles from its border. Less than a week after millions of Iraqis took to the streets demanding the U.S. military leave for good, the United States announced that is planning to build three new military bases in Iraq, according to military news service Breaking Defense. The three sites chosen – Erbin, Sulimania and Halabja...

U.S. Demands Iraq Either Join U.S. War Against Iran Or Be Destroyed

January 31, 2020 Eric Zuesse, Thesaker.is Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Iran, Iraq, Middle East, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

U.S. officials have now made clear that if U.S. forces become removed from Iraq as Iraq’s Parliament unanimously demanded and Iraq’s Prime Minister affirmed on January 5th, then the U.S. will try to break Iraq up into separate Sunni and Shia nations, and will also definitely impose sanctions against Iraq or (if Iraq becomes successfully broken up) against the Shia-governed portion of Iraq, in order to destroy Iraq (or the Shiite regions in Iraq) totally.

The U.S. Is Recycling Its Big Lie About Iraq To Target Iran

January 30, 2020 By Nicolas J S Davies, Commondreams.org Educate! Iran, Iraq, Middle East, US Imperialism

This has led to an illegal regime of brutal sanctions, under which thousands of children are dying from preventable diseases and malnutrition, and to threats of another illegal U.S. war that would engulf the Middle East and the world in even greater chaos than the one the CIA engineered against Iraq. Sixteen years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, most Americans understand that it was an illegal war based on lies about non-existent “weapons of mass destruction.”

The Long Planned U.S. Assassinations In Iraq Will Increase Its Political Chaos

January 15, 2020 Staff, Moonofalabama.org Educate! Assassination, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Iraq

The Trump administration has given various justification for its assassination of Major General Qassem Soleimani and commander Abu Mahdi al Muhandis. It claimed that there was an 'imminent threat' of an incident, even while not knowing what, where or when it would happen, that made the assassination necessary. Trump later said the threat was a planned bombing of four U.S. embassies. His defense secretary denied that.

The US Is Bringing War On Itself By Refusing To Leave Iraq

January 14, 2020 By Elijah Magnier from his website Educate! Iraq, Wars and Militarism

Sources at Iraqi Prime minister Adel Abdel Mahdi’s office in Baghdad believe “the US is unwilling to listen to reason, to the Iraqi government or the parliament. It has the intention of bringing war upon itself and transforming Iraq into a battlefield, by refusing to respect the law and withdraw its forces. The US will be faced with strong and legitimate popular armed resistance, even if some Iraqis (in Kurdistan) will break the law and will accept the US presence in their region, though without a heavy price.”

The Deeper Story Behind The Assassination Of Soleimani

January 12, 2020 Federico Pieraccini, Strategic Culture. Educate! China, Iran, Iraq, Oil, Trump, US Imperialism

Days after the assassination of General Qasem Soleimani, new and important information is coming to light from a speech given by the Iraqi prime minister. The story behind Soleimani’s assassination seems to go much deeper than what has thus far been reported, involving Saudi Arabia and China as well the U.S. dollar’s role as the global reserve currency. The Iraqi prime minister, Adil Abdul-Mahdi, has revealed details of his interactions with Trump in the weeks leading up to Soleimani’s assassination in a speech to the Iraqi parliament. He tried to explain several times on live television how Washington had been browbeating him and other Iraqi members of parliament to toe the American line, even threatening to engage in false-flag sniper shootings of both protesters and security personnel in order to inflame the situation...

Iran Warned US Of Missile Attack, Troops Had Three Hours To Evacuate

January 12, 2020 Emily Crane, Daily Mail. Educate! Iran, Iraq, Trump, Wars and Militarism

The United States had three hours warning of the missile strikes after Iran tipped them off via a European embassy and ensured their plans of an attack were easily detectable, U.S. officials claim. The Iranians prepared for the missile strikes on two Iraqi airbases housing American troops by intentionally making sure U.S. intelligence could detect the plans via satellites and eavesdropping, the officials told TIME magazine. Intelligence managed to pick up the threat of strikes about three hours before they actually took place, according to the U.S. officials. One official said the hours-long warning enabled a U.S. military officer to visit one of the bases in Iraq and warn them of when and where the missiles were expected to strike. The revelations are in stark contrast to remarks made by the top U.S. military officer on Wednesday just hours after President Donald Trump on Wednesday suggested Iran was 'standing down'.

Iraqi Prime Minister Tells Pompeo To Remove US Troops, Pompeo Refuses

January 10, 2020 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance Educate! Iran, Iraq, Wars and Militarism

Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi told Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to start working out a road map for a US troop withdrawal from Iraq. The US State Department flatly dismissed the request. US forces are risking a drawn-out, bloody and unsuccessful stay in the Middle East and "they must leave the region," further, according to the state-affiliated Fars news agency. "If they do not leave the region, they will face another Vietnam."

Ajamu Baraka: Countering The Amateurism Of US Foreign Policy

January 10, 2020 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance. Educate! Iran, Iraq, National Security, Trump

The morning after Trump's assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandes in Iraq, Clearing the FOG co-hosts spoke with Ajamu Baraka, the national coordinator of the Black Alliance for Peace about how people should understand what happened in the larger context of US imperialism and what the action means for the broader peace movement. Baraka also talks about the almost three-year-old Black Alliance for Peace and its current focus on the law enforcement surge domestically in seven US cities, four of which are predominantly black, known as Operation Relentless Pursuit. For the full program, which includes a discussion of the most recent antics by Juan Guaido in Venezuela and what has been learned about the situation in Iran and Iraq, click here to listen to or read the transcript of the show.

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