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Rumsfeld's dirty war on terror -- Seymour Hersh, The Guardian, 9/13/04

 

 

 

 

An Iraqi boy weeps as people survey the damage following a U.S. air strike in Fallujah on 9/7/04.  Despair in Iraq Over the Forgotten Victims of US Invasion -- Patrick Cockburn, The Independent

 

 

 

Paying the Price: The Mounting Costs of the Iraq War--Phyllis Bennis, IPSFPF

 

 

 

 

Deaths of scores of mercenaries not reported -- Robert Fisk & Patrick Cockburn, The Independent, 4/13/04

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Iraqi Marchers Break Through US Roadblocks in Bid to Relieve Falluja, 4/8/04

 

 

 

 

 

Colorado residents march forpeace: Protests mark year since Iraq invasion -- Annette  Espinoza & Eileen Kelley, The Denver Post, 3/21/04

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our Troops and Theirs -- Suvrat Raju, Znet, 12/30/03

 

2004


12/10/04: 5,500 U.S. Servicemen Have Deserted -- CBS News

12/10/04: US Attacks UN -- Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies

12/9/04: Fallujah Pictures -- Dahr Jamail in Baghdad

12/9/04: Ask Not Who Bankrolled Fallujah -- Greg Moses, Counterpunch.org

12/9/04: “Somebody has to do it.” -- Dahr Jamail in Baghdad

12/9/04: AUDIO  Intel Agent Strapped to Gurney and Flown Out of Iraq by U.S. Army After Reporting Torture of Detainees -- Democracy Now!

12/8/04: Relief--Dahr Jamail in Baghdad

12/8/04: Fallujah Did Not Break the Back of the Insurgency--P. Cockburn & A. Buncombe, The Independent (UK)

12/8/04: Killed Unarmed Iraqis, Ex-Marine Tells Hearing:  U.S. deserter was right to flee his post, immigration and refugee board told -- Marina Jiménez, Toronto Globe & Mail

12/8/04: War Crime--Paul Craig Roberts, CounterPunch

12/8/04: In Fallujah, Freedom Isn't Free--Ron Jacobs, CounterPunch

12/7/04: So much loss… -- by Dahr Jamail in Baghdad

12/7/04: Health Care Given A 'New Look' in Iraq -- IPS, Dahr Jamail in Baghdad

12/7/04: Running Battles in Baghdad: Insurgents as Street Police -- Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad,  Counterpunch.org

12/6/04: So this is Christmas?  Help Send Humanitarian Aid to Falluja Refugees in Iraq:  “I have just come from a refugee camp in Baghdad with families from Fallujah. The suffering is beyond description. It's worse than anything you've read or anything I've written so far." -- Dahr Jamail & CodePink

12/6/04: Fallujah as a “Model City” -- Dahr Jamail in Baghdad

12/6/04: AUDIO  Violence Continues to Rock Iraq: 80 Iraqis, 11 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Weekend Attacks -- Democracy Now!

12/6/04: Two Paths in the "War on Terrorism" -- Rahul Mahajan, EmpireNotes.org

12/6/04: Antiwar Icon Brings Message to Colorado:  Marine Who Appeared in 'Fahrenheit 9/11' Speaks in Fort Collins -- Nikolaus Olsen, The Coloradoan

12/5/04: You Asked for my Evidence, Mr Ambassador. Here It Is:  In Iraq, the US Does Eliminate Those Who Dare to Count the Dead -- Naomi Klein, The Guardian

12/5/04: Reporting on the Ground from Iraq: An Interview with Patrick Cockburn -- Alan Maass, Counterpunch.org 

12/4/04: Trophy Hunting? -- Dahr Jamail in Baghdad

12/4/04: Navy Probes New Iraq Prisoner Photos -- Seth Hettena, AP

12/4/04:  U.S. Army Gearing Up to Punish Soldiers Who Refused Dangerous Iraq Mission-Defend the 343rd! -- Left Hook

12/3/04: Fallujah Refugees Tell of Life and Death in the Kill Zone -- Dahr Jamail in Baghdad, NewStandard

12/3/04: 200,000+ Fallujah refugees in desperate need of aid: U.S. Military provides Frosted Flakes -- Reuters

12/3/04: Jan. Elections Remain Misunderstood in U.S., Tenuous in Iraq -- Lisa Ashkenaz Croke, NewStandard

12/2/04: The Quiet of Destruction and Death -- Dahr Jamail in Baghdad

12/2/04: From Guernica to Fallujah  -- Pepe Escobar, Asia Times

12/2/04: Another Grim Record:  US Death Toll in Iraq Hits 135 in November -- Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad, Counterpunch.org

12/2/04: Liberalism and Its Bounds: Election 2004, an Epic Year of Betrayal -- Joshua Frank & Merlin Chowkwanyun, Counterpunch.org

12/01/04: For Iraq, Deliverance Means Death - Rick McDowell & Mary Trotochaud, AFSC

12/01/04: Iraq's Health Care Under the Occupation - Ghali Hassan, CounterPunch

12/01/04: Looking The Other Way: The Real Crimes of the UN in Iraq - Kathy Kelly, Commondreams

12/01/04: Iraq's Doubtful Democracy Will Not Inspire Others - Adam Morrow, Inter Press Service

11/30/04: Neglect Follows Siege of Fallujah -- Dahr Jamail in Baghdad

11/30/04: U.S. invasion of Iraq 'a public health disaster' -- Al Jazeera

11/30/04: Low Crime Rate in Fallujah -- Dahr Jamail in Baghdad

11/30/04: The Insurgency Strikes Back: There Are No Safe Havens in Iraq -- Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad, Counterpunch.org

11/30/04: AUDIO  Red Cross Finds Detainees Intentionally Tortured in Guantanamo as Lawyers in Germany Charge Rumsfeld, Tenet With War Crimes in Iraq -- Democracy Now!

11/30/04: International weapons conventions in Iran, Iraq -- Omar Khan

11/29/04: “We are living a disaster.” -- Dahr Jamail in Baghdad

11/29/04: AUDIO U.S. Accused of Using Poison Gases in Fallujah -- Democracy Now!

11/29/04: An Interview with an Anti-war Veteran from the Iraq War Jim Talib HM3 (FMF/PJ) -- Derek Seidman, Left Hook

11/28/04: This time last year… --Dahr Jamail in Baghdad

11/28/04: Face the Music: Time to Oppose Our Troops' Actions -- Joshua Frank, Left Hook

11/27/04: What We Can Control: Kinds of Resistance -- Kathy Kelly, Counterpunch.org

11/27/04: An Interview with Kevin Zeese: Blame Kerry's Loss on the ABB Crowd -- Joshua Frank, Counterpunch.org

11/26/04: 'Unusual Weapons' Used in Fallujah -- Dahr Jamail in Baghdad

11/26/04: Abu Hanifa and its terrorists -- Omar Khan

11/25/04: Witnesses Say US Forces Killed Unarmed Civilians--Kim Sengupta, The Independent (UK)

11/25/04: An Uncommon Mom--Mike Ferner, CounterPunch

11/23/04: Occupier of a Prime Minister's Chair--Dahr Jamail, Iraq dispatches

11/23/04: Fallujah Refugees--Dahr Jamail, Iraq dispatches

11/23/04: 'Something Was Not Right': Cameraman Goes Public on Video Footage of Marines--Rupert Cornwell, The Independent (UK)

11/22/04: The Triangle of Death--Ken Sengupta, The Independent (UK)

11/21/04: More blood, More chaos -- Dahr Jamail in Baghdad

11/21/04: The Horror of Fallujah: The War is Over; But There is No Peace -- Abbas Ahmed Ibrahim in Fallujah, Iraq, Counterpunch.org

11/21/04: 73 Falluja women, children in mass grave from U.S. terror attack -- Al Jazeera

11/21/04: Since U.S. Invasion acute child malnutrition nearly doubled in Iraq -- Al Jazeera

11/21/04: The Iraqi Resistance Spreads -- Dahr Jamail & Salam T., The Ester Republic

11/20/04: Anti-Bush Protesters Battle Police at Chile Summit: "Fascist Bush is a Terrorist"-- Jason Webb, Reuters

11/20/04: Iraqi Critics Speak Out on Occupation, Elections -- Dahr Jamail, NewStandard

9/8/04: U.S. Conceding Rebels Control Regions of Iraq--E. Schmitt & S.R. Weisman, The New York Times

9/8/04: Kerry: Bush set wrong course in Iraq--Associated Press

9/8/04: To Whom it May Concern--Brooke M. Campbell, truthout.org

9/7/04: Families flee US bombardment of Falluja -- Al Jazeera

9/7/04: Fallujah Erupts, Again: US Death Toll in Iraq Nears 1000 -- Patrick Cockburn,  Counterpunch.org

9/7/04: US Death Toll Nears 1,000; Dozens Killed as Sadr City Erupts Again under U.S. Attack -- Agence France Presse

9/7/04: Kerry on Iraq: 'Wrong War, Wrong Place, Wrong Time' -- Reuters

9/6/04: 20 civilians killed in attacks across Iraq -- Al Jazeera

9/6/04: U.S. Troops in Iraq See Highest Injury Toll Yet -- Karl Vick, Washington Post

9/6/04: Kerry and the Mideast: The Lesser of Two Evils? -- Stephen J. Sniegoski, Arab News

9/4/04: Najaf: Truce Or Trap? -- Milan Rai, Justice Not Vengeance, 4 September 2004

9/2/04: AUDIO & TRANSCRIPT  Shout Heard Around the World: Nearly 1,000 Arrested in Series of RNC Protests -- DemocracyNow!

9/2/04: Veterans of Iraq War Join Forces to Protest US Invasion -- Marcella Bombardieri, Boston Globe

9/2/04: A Father Gets Anti-War Message to the Floor -- David Washburn, San Diego Union-Tribune

9/1/04: U.S. Strike on Fallujah Kills at Least 9 Civilians -- The Associated Press

9/1/04: Sovereign Iraq Just as Deadly to U.S. Forces--Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times

9/1/04: Sadr orders backers to stop fighting-- Anne Barnard, Boston-Globe

8/30/04: AUDIO & TRANSCRIPT  Antiwar Voices Address 1/2 Million Strong March: Michael Moore, Jesse Jackson, Fernando Suarez, Charles Barron and More  -- Democracy Now!

8/30/04: Non-Violent Action -- David Milne, Electronic Iraq

8/30/04: Voices from the March to Nowhere -- Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch

8/29/04: 400,000+ Turn Out at Huge Anti-Bush March on Eve of Convention in NYC -- Grant McCool, Reuters

8/29/04: US Soldier Says Torture Encouraged -- Reuters

8/28/04: Najaf Ceasefire Good for Iraq: But Allawi and the US have been Weakened -- Patrick Cockburn, Counterpunch.org

8/27/04: Najaf standoff ends -- Al Jazeera

8/27/04: AUDIO & TRANSCRIPT  Ceasefire Begins in Bloodied Holy City of Najaf -- Democracy Now!

8/27/04: Prayers answered: Sistani's quest to Najaf raises hopes of peace deal -- Donald Macintyre in Najaf, The Independent

8/27/04: Bring Najaf to New York -- Naomi Klein, The Nation

8/26/04: 74 Killed as Iraq's Sistani Tries to 'Save' Najaf -- Agence France Presse

8/26/04: Woe betide Najaf -- Nermeen Al-Mufti, Al-Ahram

8/26/04: Ali's Story: A Taste of Reality from Baghdad -- Helen Williams, Counterpunch.org

8/26/04: With the Red Cross in Najaf and Kufa -- Helen Williams, Electronic Iraq

8/25/04: Sistani Tells Iraqis to March to Najaf to Save the City -- Agence France Presse

8/25/04: Letter from Baghdad: A Democracy of Killings and Bombings -- Yanar Mohammed, Counterpunch.org

8/25/04: What is so Radical about Iraq's Rebel Cleric? -- Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi, The Independent

8/25/04: The Uprising in Athens: Iraq Soccer Team Give Bush the Boot -- Dave Zirin, Counterpunch.org

8/25/04: John Kerry: the Warchurian Candidate... The Dems Do War Better Campaign -- Jerremy Scahill. Counterpunch.org

8/23/04: Fighting, Artillery Barrage Rocks Iraqi Shrine--M. Georgy, Reuters

8/23/04: Brave New World of Iraqi Sovereignty--W. Blum, CounterPunch

8/23/04: New Iraqi Council Chosen in Undemocratic Assembly--Lisa Croke, The NewStandard

8/20/04: Sadr Presses Iraqi Militia to Continue Fight After Massive US Attacks--AFP

8/20/04: US Doctors Tied to Prisoner Abuse--Sandro Contenta,Toronto Star

8/19/04: Clashes erupt around Najaf's Imam Ali mosque -- Al Jazeera

8/19/04: Najaf fighting intensifies after Government warning -- Agence France Presse

8/19/04: Al-Sadr accepts peace plan calling for transformation of Mehdi Army -- Chris Shumway, NewStandard

8/19/04: The imperfect media storm or George Bush and the Temple of Doom -- Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch

8/18/04: Heavy Fighting in Najaf: 'Surrender or Be Crushed' -- Agence France Presse

8/18/04: The Evil of Cluster Bombs -- Helen Williams, Electronic Iraq

8/16/04: Offensive Resumes in Najaf, Prompting Desertions of Iraqi Troops--H.Allam, T.Lasseter & D.Hannah, Knight-Ridder

liberation of iraq8/16/04: The Attack on Najaf: The Ultimate Stupidity--G. Leupp, CounterPunch

8/16/04: Family of Iraq Abuse Whistleblower Threatened--Reuters

8/15/04: 50 Iraqis die as US jets bomb Samarra -- Gulf Daily News

8/15/04: Iraq: Massacre Fears as Najaf Peace Talks Collapse -- James Cusick, Sunday Herald

8/15/04: Fighting resumes in Najaf as thousands of Iraqis converge as human shields at sacred Mosque, Media ordered to leave city  -- Reuters

8/15/04: Thirteen Iraqis killed during separate clashes south of Baghdad -- Deutsche Presse-Agentur

8/13/04: Uneasy ceasefire takes hold in Najaf -- Al Jazeera

8/13/04: Slaughter in Najaf: Bush Ignited This Insurgency, Not al-Sadr -- Milan Rai, Counterpunch.org

8/13/04: Continued Uprising In Iraq: Widespread Battles Claim Heavy Civilian Casualties -- Drew Poe, DC Indymedia

8/13/04: US atrocity in Najaf -- World Socialist Website

8/13/04: Slaughter as US forces attack Najaf -- Nicolas Rothwell, The Australian

8/13/04: The Imperial Democrats -- Stephen Zunes, Foreign Policy in Focus

8/12/04: AUDIO  U.S. Risks Alienating Millions Across Muslim World with Major Attack on Holy City of Najaf -- Democracy Now

8/12/04: Al-Sadr group seeks Arab intervention in Najaf As U.S. Attack Continues -- Al Jazeera

8/12/04: The Handover Fiction: Withdrawal of Foreign Troops is the Only Solution -- Tariq Ali, Counterpunch.org

8/12/04: Veterans of Iraq war found anti-war organization -- NewStandard Staff

8/12/04: Pentagon launches covert operation in response to Bush misspeak -- Ryan Beiler,. Sojourners Magazine

8/11/04: Hands Off Najaf--Voices In The Wilderness

8/11/04: If the Chalabis Were Corrupt, They Weren't Alone--Patrick Cockburn, The Independent (UK)

8/9/04: The battle for Najaf: A first-hand account by the only Western reporter in Najaf as major fighting broke out late last week. -- Scott Baldauf, Christian Science Monitor

8/9/04: Abu Ghraib Victims Speak: Alleged victim calls U.S. jailer 'disgrace to all civilized and democratic values.' -- ABC News

11/20/04: Selection of Reid as Senate Leader Shows Democrats Continued Willingness to Back Bush’s Foreign Policy Agenda -- Stephen Zunes, CommonDreams.org

11/19/04: Terrorizing those who are praying… -- Dahr Jamail in Baghdad

11/19/04: AUDIO  U.S. Continues Air Strikes and Ground Assault On Fallujah Despite Claims of Victory -- Democracy Now!

11/19/04: U.S. Troops Storm Baghdad Mosque; Open Fire on Worshippers  -- Dahr Jamail in Baghdad

11/19/04: Who Killed Margaret Hassan? I Know -- Sam Hamod, Information Clearing House

11/19/04: A New York Diary: The Crushing of Fallujah -- James Petras, Counterpunch.org

11/19/04: 46 Groups Will Boycott Iraq Vote -- Alissa J. Rubin, Los Angeles Times 

11/18/04: Slash and Burn -- Dahr Jamail in Baghdad

11/18/04: AUDIO  Iraq on Fire: Widespread Violence Continues in Sunni Cities -- Democracy Now!

11/18/04: The Streets of Baghdad -- Dahr Jamail in Baghdad

11/18/04: Remembering Margaret Hassan -- Kirsten Zaat, BBC News

11/18/04: What Price Is Innocence Now Worth? The Murder of Margaret Hassan -- Robert Fisk, Counterpunch.org

11/18/04: Media Repression in 'Liberated' Land -- Dahr Jamail in Baghdad

11/18/04: Beyond Fallujah: A Year with the Iraqi Resistance -- Patrick Graham, Harpers Magazine

11/17/04: AUDIO  Red Cross Estimates 800 Iraqi Civilians Killed in Fallujah -- Democracy Now!

11/17/04: AUDIO Fallujah, City of Death: An Interview with Dahr Jamail -- CKUT Radio Montreal

11/17/04: Onslaught: The Attack On Fallujah -- Milan Rai, Justice Not Vengeance

11/17/04: AUDIO  Family of Aid Worker Margaret Hassan Believed Executed: "Our Hearts Are Broken" -- Democracy Now!

11/17/04: Fallujah 101: A history lesson about the town we are currently destroying. -- Rashid Khalidi, In Theese Times

11/17/04: "Supporting These Troops?" Oppose the War and the Warriors -- John Marciano, Counterpunch

11/16/04: 800 Civilians Feared Dead in Fallujah -- Dahr Jamail in Baghdad

11/16/04: Crimes in Iraq:  Pray for Fallujah -- Sara Khorshid, IslamOnline.net

11/16/04: Photo Documentary of Invasion & Resistance:  Iraq Uncensored

11/16/04: Iraqi Police Aiding Militants In Mosul Insurgency -- Kathleen Ridolfo, Radio Free Europe

11/16/04: 'This One's Faking He's Dead'  'He's Dead Now' -- Andrew Buncombe, The Independent

11/16/04: AUDIO & TRANSCRIPT  War Crime Caught on Tape: U.S. Marine Executes Wounded Unarmed Iraqi -- Democracy Now!

11/16/04: The Greatest Political Scandal of Our Time: Iraq: The Unthinkable as Normalcy -- John Pilger, Counterpunch.org

11/16/04: Oil, Currency and the War on Iraq -- Cóilín Nunan, FEASTA

11/15/04: Dogs Eating Bodies in the Streets of Fallujah -- Dahr Jamail in Baghdad

11/15/04: US shells Falluja, turns back aid convoy -- Al Jazeera

11/15/04: The Other Face of U.S. 'Success' in Fallujah  -- Dahr Jamail in Baghdad

11/15/04: AUDIO Fallujah Devastated: Witnesses Describe Humanitarian Crisis and Civilian Death Toll -- Democracy Now!

11/15/04: Long live the mujahedin:  Fallujah Lies in Ruins, Along with the Lives of the Wretched Survivors -- Michael Georgy in Fallujah & Kim Sengupta, The Independent

11/15/04: The final battle: The hardest story to tell -- Peter Beaumont, The Observer

11/15/04: AUDIO & TRANSCRIPT Noam Chomsky on Yasser Arafat, Iraq and the Draft -- Democracy Now!

11/14/04: Inside Fallujah: one family’s diary of terror -- By Dahr Jamail in Baghdad, Sunday Herald

11/14/04: U.S. blocks Humanitarian from Falluja -- Al Jazeera

11/14/04: A Thousand Fallujahs -- Pepe Escobar, Asia Times

11/13/04: Falluja plunges into humanitarian crisis -- Al Jazeera

11/13/04: War Crimes in Fallujah: "Let Them Drink Sand!" -- Alexander Cockburn. Counterpunch.org

11/12/04: Fierce fighting in Falluja as anti-colonial resistance spreads to Baghdad and north -- Al Jazeera

11/12/04: AUDIO  Iraq on Fire: Resistance Spreads as the Fallujah Death Toll Rises -- Democracy Now!

11/12/04: "Iraq is burning with wrath, anger and sadness..." -- Dahr Jamail in Baghdadl, Electronic Iraq

11/12/04: Anti-US fighters may have control of Mosul -- Al Jazeera

11/12/04: Rule of Iraq Assassins Must End... -- Baghdad is Burning, Girl Blog from Iraq

11/12/04: A Fighter From Afar: Seeking Salvation In City of Insurgents -- Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Washington Post

11/11/04: Human 'Disaster' Looms in Encircled Falluja -- Reuters

11/11/04: Fighting in Falluja rages amid confusion -- Al Jazeera

11/11/04: Prayers for Vengeance, More Death... -- Dahr Jamail in Iraq, Electronic Iraq

11/11/04: Nearly Half of Mosques bombed in Falluja fighting -- Al Jazeera

11/10/04: The Fire is Spreading...--Dahr Jamail, Electronic Iraq

11/10/04: US 'pacifies' city but rebels take violence to rest of country--Kim Sengupta, The Independent (UK)

11/10/04: Iraqi Troops Condemned, Threatened for Fighting; At Least 200 Desert--H. Allam & T. Lasseter, Knight Ridder

11/9/04: U.S. Warplanes Bomb Another Hospital in Falluja -- Al Jazeera

11/9/04: The Siege Begins, Outrage in Baghdad -- Dahr Jamail in Iraq, Electronic Iraq

11/9/04: AUDIO  The Battle for Fallujah: U.S. Forces Face Fierce Resistance in Largest Offensive Since Invasion -- Democracy Now!

11/9/04: Crushing Fallujah Will Not End the Iraq War -- Patrick Cockburn, Counterpunch.org

11/9/04: 'Phantom Fury' Poised to Become Phantom Victory -- Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service

11/9/04: Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention and Iraq:  A report for [UK] Parliament on the British Government's response to the US supply of biological materials to Iraq.

11/8/04: US warplanes staged ferocious strikes on targets in Falluja-- Al Jazeera

11/8/04: AUDIO  Fallujah Under Siege: US Begins Massive Assault as Iraq Declares Martial Law -- DemocracyNow!

11/8/04: U.S. Begins Full Terror Strike on Falluja -- Richard A. Oppel Jr. & Robert F. Worth, New York Times

11/7/04: Holy War: Evangelical Marines Prepare to Battle Barbarians -- Agence France Presse

11/7/04: Fallujah and the Reality of War -- Rahul Mahajan, EmpireNotes.org

11/7/04: Carnage and Martial Law -- Dahr Jamail, Electronic Iraq

11/6/04: US strikes raze Falluja hospital -- BBC

11/6/04: Spiraling Into Occupied Iraq -- Dahr Jamail, Electronic Iraq

11/5/04:  "Bring our sons and daughters home now." -- Cynthia McKinney, CynthiaForCongress.com

11/4/04: US forces bombard Falluja -- Al Jazeera

11/4/04: U.S. Bombardment Kills Five in Iraq's Falluja -- Fadel al-Badrani, Reuters

11/4/04: AUDIO & TRANSCRIPT   Election 2004 and the Impact on the World -- DemocracyNow!

11/3/04: Hungary Will Withdraw Troops From Iraq--C. Woodward & R. Fournier, AP

11/3/04: Bombings in Baghdad, Mosul Kill 12 Iraqis--Marian Fam, AP

11/3/04: Iraq Oil Pipelines Hit by Biggest Attacks Yet--Khaled Yacoub Oweis, Reuters

11/2/04: Zarqawi - Bush's man for all seasons -- Pepe Escobar, Asia Times

11/2/04: Interchangeable Figureheads: Selling the War on Terror -- Lance Selfa, Counterpunch.org

11/1/04: US bombs Falluja as showdown looms -- Al Jazeera

11/1/04: AUDIO & TRANSCRIPT  Study: Iraq Invasion Has Killed 100,000 Civilians -- Democracy Now!

11/1/04: AUDIO & TRANSCRIPT  Robert Fisk: "Bin Laden's Vote is For George Bush" -- Democracy Now!

11/1/04: U.S. Depleted Uranium Weapons Dust Worries Iraqis -- Thomas D. Williams, Hartfort Courant

10/31/04: Pentagon Suppresses Details of Iraqi Civilian Casualties, Says Expert --  Raymond Whitaker, The Independent

10/31/04:  "U-S-A! U-S-A!"  Palestine/Iraq Wheels of Justice at Ohio State Homecoming Parade -- Nancy Stohlman

10/29/04: 100,000 Excess Iraqi Deaths Since War--Reuters

10/29/04: U.S. Marines Poised to Storm Falluja and Ramadi--Michael Georgy, Reuters

10/28/04: War Can't Be Won, Writer Hersh Says--Andrew Mills, Toronto Star

10/27/04: Negligent US Forces to Blame for Massacre of Recruits, Says Allawi--Kim Sengupta, The Independent (UK)

10/26/04: US Iraq War Veterans' Voices Rise in Protest--Dahr Jamail, Inter Press Service

10/26/04: The Soldiers Who Said No--Tom Robbins, The Village Voice

10/26/04: Islamic Law obliges Margaret Hassan's release -- Kirsten Zaat, Electronic Iraq

10/25/04: Chaos, murder and mayhem: Kidnapping and killing is a daily reality in Iraq, but in the west the atrocities go unrecorded and the dead are unnamed -- Haifa Zangana, The Guardian

10/25/04  I dread what is going to happen in Fallujah: We will kill and maim you and yours until you agree to our domination and say you are ecstatic to be given this 'freedom' -- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, The Independent

10/25/04: AUDIO & TRANSCRIPT  Kidnapped British Aid Worker: "Ask Mr. Blair to Take the Troops Out of Iraq, and Not to Bring Them Here to Baghdad"  -- Democracy Now!

10/23/04: Skull vs. Bones: Two pampered children of wealth -- Socialist Worker

10/22/04: Sunni Clerics Urge Boycott of Iraq Elections in Wake of U.S. Siege of Fallujah -- Hannah Allam, Knight Ridder

10/22/04: 300 Iraqi security force members chose not to fight in Samarra -- NewStandard

10/22/04: Kidnapped Aid worker pleads for UK Iraq withdrawal -- Al Jazeera

10/22/04: Falluja In Their Sights -- Patrick Graham, The Guardian

10/22/04: U.S. Soldiers at home and in Iraq: "All we are doing around here is getting blown up" -- Derek Seidman, Left Hook

10/22/04: Fear of Military Draft a Growing Factor -- Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service

10/21/04: A Way for Us to Help Iraqis -- Raed Jarrar

10/21/04: AUDIO & TRANSCRIPT  Noam Chomsky on the State of the Nation, Iraq and the Election -- DemocracyNow!

10/20/04: The Heroine Who Offered Hope for Iraq--Robert Fisk, The Independent (UK)

10/19/04: So, Did Saddam Hussein Try to Kill Bush's Dad? -- Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service

10/19/04: Fate Uncertain for First GIs to Collectively Refuse Iraq Combat Orders -- Lisa Ashkenaz Croke, NewStandard

10/18/04: Falluja peace bid called off:  "Who asks for peace while bombs strike? Who agrees to peace when women are being killed?"  -- Al Jazeera

10/18/04: Pentagon Rewards Generals, Corporations Tied to Abu Ghraib Scandal -- Chris Shumway, NewStandard

10/18/04: AUDIO Army Detains U.S. Reservists Who Refuse to Carry Out "Suicide Mission" In Iraq -- DemocracyNow!

10/17/04: U.S. Continues Attacking Falluja, Battles rage  -- Al Jazeera

10/17/04: Tens of Thousands Throng London To Protest Iraq War -- Agence Frane Presse

10/16/04: The Year of Surrendering Quietly -- Alexander Cockburn, New Left Review

10/15/04: US military steps up bombing of Falluja, Five Civilians Killed -- Al Jazeera

10/15/04: AUDIO & TRANSCRIPT  From Vietnam to Iraq: American War Resisters Seek Refuge in Canada -- DemocracyNow!

10/14/04: House Republicans and Democrats Unite in Linking Iraq with 9/11 -- Stephen Zunes, Foreign Policy in Focus

10/14/04: Hidden Story of the Iraq War: Maimed for Oil and Empire --  Nicole Colson, Counterpunch.org

10/13/04: Breaking Ranks--David Goodman, Mother Jones

10/12/04: Indian Country, from Shawnee to Arab: "Annhiliation Until Unconditional Surrender" --  Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Counterpunch.org

10/12/04: Investigative Journalist Seymour Hersh Spills the Secrets of the Iraq Quagmire and the War on Terror -- Bonnie Azab Powell, University of California Berkeley

10/11/04: U.S. Bombs Mosque in Iraq, Setting it on Fire -- Reuters

10/11/04: Major U.S. Terror Attack on 20 to 30 Iraqi Cities on Hold Until After U.S. Vote -- Mark Mazzetti, Los Angeles Times

10/10/04: Strong-willed Individuals Paddle Upstream Toward a Better Iraq -- Orly Halpern -- NewsStandard

10/8/04: US 'Precision' Strike Kills 11 at Iraqi Wedding -- Fadel al-Badrani, Reuters

10/8/04: A Question of Conscience: Supporting War Resisters in Uniform -- Doug Ireland, ZNet

10/7/04: VIDEO  US helicopter crew shoots on street crowd in Falluja, Iraq -- Antiwar.com

10/7/04: U.S. Diverts Billions, Donor Nations Renege: Iraq's water, sanitation services failing -- Al Jazeera

10/7/04: Iraq's Oil -- Youssef Ibrahim. ZNet

10/7/04: The Final Judgment: Bush and Blair's Case for War is Demolished -- The Independent

10/7/04: AUDIO Confirming the Obvious: Official U.S. Report Finds Saddam Had No WMDs -- DemocracyNow!

10/7/04: Where is the Urgency? The Anti-War Movement's Election Year Challenge -- Meredith Kolodner, Counterpunch

10/6/04: Fresh US-led attacks across Iraq--Al-Jazeera

10/6/04: Elections Will Not End the Fighting in Iraq--Patrick Cockburn, The Independent (UK)

10/6/04: Targeting Civilians in Fallujah--Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch

10/5/04: Dear Dad, Iraq Sucks -- Michael Moore, The Guardian

10/5/04: While Criticizing Implementation, Kerry Endorses Bush’s Unilateralist Agenda -- Stephen Zunes, Foreign Policy in Focus

10/4/04: Civilians Bear Brunt as Samarra 'Pacified' -- Kim Sengupta, The Independent

10/4/04: Iraq & Afghanistan: Post-Invasion Chaos Blamed for Drug Surge --  T. Christian Miller, Los Angeles Times

10/4/04: AUDIO & TRANSCRIPT  Ralph Nader on Iraq, Kerry, the Left and the Democratic Party's attempt to keep him off the ballot -- DemocracyNow!

10/3/04: Onslaught on Samarra escalates in 'dress rehearsal' for major US assault on rebels -- Kim Sengupta, The Independent

10/3/04: US bombers return to Falluja -- Al Jazeera

10/2/04: Samarra Residents Flee US Hell -- Samir Hadad, IslamOnline.org

10/1/04: Scores of Iraqis killed in US assault on Samarra -- Al Jazeera

10/1/04:  U.S. forces storm Iraqi town of Samarra, over 100 people killed -- Sabah al-Bazee, Reuters

10/1/04: Freed Italian Hostage Says Iraq Rebels 'Justified' -- Reuters

10/1/04: You Can't Bomb Beliefs -- Naomi Klein, The Nation

10/1/04: AUDIO & TRANSCRIPT  Robert Fisk on the Presidential Debate, Iraq, Palestine and the International Criminal Court -- DemocracyNow!

10/1/04: Presidential Debate 1: Candidates offer voters no choice on Iraq policy -- Rupert Cornwell, The Independent

9/30/04: From Baghdad: A Wall Street Journal Reporter's E-Mail to Friends -- Farnaz Fassihi, CommonDreams.org

9/30/04: A Casualty Of Bush's War -- Mark Clinton & Tony Udell,  Socialist Worker

9/29/04: Boundless and Winless Wars: Disrupting America's Fateful Non-Debate on the Roots of Terrorism -- M. Junaid Alam, Counterpunch.org

9/29/04: Continued US Airstrikes in Baghdad Draw Criticism --  Ashraf Khalil, Los Angeles Times

9/29/04: Delusion Rules: War, Outsourcing and Debt -- Paul Craig Roberts, Counterpunch.org

9/29/04: More Troops to Iraq...After the Election -- Ray McGovern, Counterpunch.org

9/28/04: Good News for Hostages in Iraq:  Two Iraqis, Four Egyptians and Two Italians Relesaed -- Reuters

9/28/04: Italian aid workers freed in Iraq -- Al Jazeera

9/28/04: Congresswoman Demands Probe of Alleged Coercion by US Army Recruiters -- Agence France Presse

9/27/04: Falluja official: Only civilians killed in U.S. attack -- Al Jazeera

9/27/04: ‘Human Shields’ Denied Hearings Over Alleged Iraq Sanctions Violations -- Brendan Coyne, NewStandard

9/26/04: Falluja doctors decry civilian toll as U.S. attacks residential neighborhood -- Al Jazeera

9/26/04: C'mon Ralph, You've Got Nothing to Lose: Go to Baghdad; Then Visit the West Bank -- Alexander Cockburn, Counterpunch.org

9/25/04: Bombs, Ahoy...Iraq: From Clinton to Bush -- Joshua Frank,  Counterpunch.org

9/25/04: The worse the situation in Iraq, the bigger the lies that Tony Blair tells us -- Robert Fisk, The Independent

9/25/04: More Iraqi civilians killed by U.S. forces than by insurgents, data shows -- Nancy A. Youssef,  Knight Ridder

9/25/04: Bush, Iraq and Demonstration Elections -- Rahul Mahajan, Empire Notes

9/24/04: Abuse, Torture and Rape Reported at Unlisted U.S.-run Prisons in Iraq -- Lisa Ashkenaz Croke, NewStandard

9/24/04: Baghdad Year Zero -- Naomi Klein, Harpers Magazine

9/23/04: Remember Uranium from Niger?  The Story That CBS Didn’t Run --  Michael Isikoff & Mark Hosenball, MSNBC

9/23/04: If America were Iraq, What would it be Like? -- Juan Cole

9/22/04: U.S. Raid on al-Sadr Office Assailed by Shiite Cleric--Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson, Knight Ridder

9/22/04: Zarqawi's War--P. Cockburn, The Independent (UK)

9/22/04: Kerry Delivers Scathing Critique of Iraq War--Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service

9/21/04: U.S. War Heroes of the Iraq War: War Resisters are the Real Heroes -- TomJoad.org

9/21/04: "We Are Not Secure" Kerry's "Unwavering Commitment" to Securing a Middle East Realm -- Gary Leupp, Counterpunch.org

9/21/04: Signs of life at the UN? -- Hasan Abu Nimah & Ali Abunimah, Electronic Iraq

9/20/04: Daily US Bombing Raids Seen as Anticipating All-Out Falluja Attack -- Rory McCarthy, The Guardian

9/20/04: US Determined to Excise "Cancer of Fallujah" -- Patrick Cockburn & Andrew Buncombe, The Independent

9/20/04: Incident on Haifa Street -- Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com

9/20/04: Crude dudes: `U.S. oil companies just happened to have billions of dollars they wanted to invest in undeveloped oil reserves -- Linda McQuaig, Toronto Star

9/18/04: In remembrance:  3207 Named and identified Iraqi victims of the war on Iraq  -- IraqBodyCount.org

9/18/04: Into the Abyss: The Week Iraq's Dream of Peace Fell Apart -- Patrick Cockburn, The Independent

9/18/04: Iraq Had No WMD: The Final Verdict -- Julian Borger, The Guardian

9/17/04: Dozens of Iraqis Killed in US Attack on Village South of  Falluja -- Al Jazeera

9/17/04: "President Bush You Killed My Son"  Mother of Dead U.S. Soldier Questions Laura Bush -- Sharon Waters, Asbury Park Press

9/17/04: Iraq War was Illegal and Breached UN Charter, Says Annan -- Ewen MacAskill & Julian Borger, The Guardian

9/16/04: Who Seized Simona Torretta? This Iraqi Kidnapping has the Mark of an Undercover Police Operation -- Naomi Klein & Jeremy Scahill, The Guardian

9/16/04: US Gives Conflicting Accounts of Rocket Attack That Killed 13 Dead -- Patrick Cockburn, The Guardian

9/16/04: The Most Important Terrorism Is 'Ours' -- John Pilger, New Statesman

9/16/04: Press Reports on U.S. Casualties: About 17,000 Short, UPI Says -- Mark Benjamin, UPI

9/16/04: Kerry Needs the Courage to Walk Away from Iraq -- Howard Zinn, Miami Herald

9/15/04: Blast Kills 47 in Baghdad; Hell on Haifa Street--Patrick Cockburn, The Independent (UK)

9/14/04: 'He's Just Sleeping, I Kept Telling Myself' -- Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, The Guardian

9/14/04: The Punishment of Fallujah: US Precision Strikes...on Ambulances -- Patrick Cockburn, The Independent

9/14/04: Rumsfeld's dirty war on terror -- Seymour Hersh, The Guardian

9/14/04: AUDIO & TRANSCRIPT  Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib -- Democracy Now!

9/14/04: 1,000 Iraqi rebels, civilians dead in U.S. attack, Najaf leader says -- Evan Osnos & Rick Jervis, Chicago Tribune

9/13/04: One of Baghdad's Bloodiest Days: "I'm a Journalist! I'm Dying! I'm Dying!" -- Patrick Cockburn, The Independent

9/13/04: AUDIO & TRANSCRIPT  Up to 110 Dead in Iraq in One of the Bloodiest Days of U.S. Occupation: Interview with The Independent's Patrick Cockburn -- Democracy Now!

9/13/04: Ambulance hit as US planes pound Falluja -- Al Jazeera

9/13/04: Over 100 killed across Iraq -- Al Jazeera

9/13/04: Elections, Alliances and Empire: Why Bush May Well Be The Lesser Evil -- Gabriel Kolko, Counterpunch.org

9/12/04: Witnesses: U.S. Apache Helicopter Fired on Crowd of Iraqi Civilians -- Al Jazeera

9/12/04: One Man's Resistance: 'Why I Turned against America' -- Jason Burke, The Observer

9/12/04: Turkey Reacts with Fury to Massive US Assault on Northern Iraqi City -- Patrick Cockburn, The Independent

9/11/04: We Should Not Have Allowed 19 Murderers to Change our World -- Robert Fisk, The Independent

9/10/04: The Hidden History of CIA Torture: America's Road to Abu Ghraib -- Alfred W. McCoy, TomDispatch.com

9/10/04: Disappointment in Samarrah? Even Ambulances Can't Get Through -- Patrick Cockburn, Counterpunch.org

9/10/04: Day 4: US jets continue to attack Falluja -- Al Jazeera

9/10/04: U.S. soldier calls killing of Iraqi ‘compassionate’ -- Chris Shumway, The NewStandard

9/10/04: Photos The Faces of 1000 Dead U.S. Soldiers  -- Truthout

9/10/04: Vigil in park honors war dead: Organizers bar political speeches, announcements to keep gathering somber -- Alexandra Obregon, Rocky Mountain News

9/9/04: Despair in Iraq Over the Forgotten Victims of US Invasion -- Patrick Cockburn, The Independent

9/9/04: More Than 10,000 Iraqis Die Violently in Baghdad Region Alone -- Bassem Mroue, AP

9/9/04: Third Night of Terror Attacks: US bombing kills more Falluja civilians -- Al Jazeera

9/9/04: Four NGO workers seized in Iraq -- Indlieb Farazi, Al Jazeera

9/9/04: Spare These Fine People: Yesterday My Friends Were Abducted in Baghdad -- Ed Kinane, Counterpunch.org

9/9/04: AUDIO  "They Are Not Enemies of the Iraqi People" - Italian and Iraqi Aid Workers Kidnapped in Baghdad -- Democracy Now!

9/8/04: This Doesn't Smell Like Victory; A War on Two Fronts--Patrick Cockburn, The Independent (UK)