Iraqi Doctors In Hiding Treat As They Can By Dahr Jamail 21 February, 2009 Inter Press Service Photo: daylife.com BAGHDAD, Feb 21 (IPS) - Seventy percent of Iraq's doctors are reported to have fled the war-torn country in the face of death threats and kidnappings. Those who remain live in fear, often in conditions close to house arrest. "I was threatened I would be killed because I was working for the Iraqi government at the Medical City," Dr. Thana Hekmaytar told IPS. Baghdad Medical City […]
IRAQ:Still Homeless in Baghdad By Dahr Jamail Iraqi refugee in Iraq (photo: codepink) BAGHDAD, Feb 19 (IPS) - "We only want a normal life," says Um Qasim, sitting in a bombed out building in Baghdad. She and others around have been saying that for years. Um Qasim lives with 13 family members in a brick shanty on the edge of a former military intelligence building in the Mansoor district of Baghdad. Five of her children are girls. Homelessness is not easy for anyone, but it is particularly […]
"Mounir Bachir naît le 28 septembre 1930 à Mossoul en Irak d'un père d'origine syriaque musulman et d'une mère kurde. Son père, quoique charpentier, est également chanteur et joueur de oud. Il encourage le penchant musical du jeune Mounir, qui s'inscrit dès 6 ans à l'institut de Bagdad dirigé alors par Chérif Muhieddin Haydar dont il devient l'élève. Il donne ses premiers concerts en 1953 sur un oud à 5 cordes doubles augmentées d'une grave. Le rajout de la corde basse est l'une de ses […]
The Guardian ArchivesMonday 8 September 2008 Inmates tell of sexual abuse and beatingsin Iraq's overcrowded juvenile prison system By Jonathan Steele Children as young as nine held in sweltering cells No money to improve conditions, says ministry Karkh juvenile prison in 2004. The prison currently holds 315 children, while its capacity is 250. Photograph: Marwan Naamani/AFP Hundreds of children, some as young as nine, are being held in appalling conditions in Baghdad's prisons, sleeping in […]
Dahr Jamail on Iraq Eyewitness to Occupation at Socialism 200820:33 - 21 juil. 2008 Charles Jenks - www.socialistworker.org "Over half the total population of the country are either refugees, in need of emergency aid or dead." Dave Jamail gave a riveting talk ."Over half the total population of the country are either refugees, in need of emergency aid or dead." Dave Jamail gave a riveting talk on the occupation of Iraq at Socialism 2008 in Chicago on June 20. (Websites may embed this […]
ZmagDecember 08, 2008 Source: AlterNet By Jeremy Scahill The New York Times is reporting an "apparent evolution" in president-elect Barack Obama's thinking on Iraq, citing recent statements about his plan to keep a "residual force" in the country and his pledge to "listen to the recommendations of my commanders" as Obama prepares to assume actual command of U.S. forces. Source: blogimages "At the Pentagon and the military headquarters in Iraq, the response to the statements this week from […]
Talk about Impeachment and Investigations at the special event with Mike Malloy & Scott Ritter put on by Nova M Radio and 1480 KPHX The Valley's Progressive Talk
Archives 2006 British LibDem MP Norman Baker is now two months into a private, year-long investigation into the death of Dr David Kelly, the scientist who found himself under seige after apparently accusing the government of ‘sexing up’ the case for war to a BBC journalist. The Hutton Inquiry, framed as a battle between the government and the BBC, failed to probe the manner in which Dr Kelly met his death. Suicide was largely assumed, but the blunt gardening knife found at the scene, the […]
Ritter Frmr. UN Weapons Inspector. His commen... Scott Ritter Frmr. UN Weapons Inspector. His commentary on Hillary Clinton includes:http://www.alternet.org/story/48729
http://www.mediaed.org Ritter is noted for his role as a chief United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991 to 1998, and later for his criticism of United States foreign policy in the Middle East. Prior to the US invasion of Iraq in March, 2003, Ritter publicly argued that Iraq possessed no significant weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). He became a popular anti-war figure and talk show commentator as a result of his stance. description courtesy of wikipedia.
L'Orient le Jour L’Église chaldéenne dénonce la violence « orchestrée » contre ses fidèles et demande au gouvernement de tenir ses engagements de protéger cette communauté. « Nous sommes la cible d’une campagne de liquidation, une campagne de violences aux objectifs politiques », a déclaré Mgr Louis Sako, l’archevêque chaldéen de Kirkouk (Nord), dans un entretien à l’AFP. Il a une nouvelle fois dénoncé « la continuation des attaques et des agressions contre les chrétiens, surtout à Mossoul […]
CounterPunch Weekend Edition October 10 / 12, 2008 Corruption and Dirty Water A deadly outbreak of cholera in Iraq is being blamed on a scandal involving corrupt officials who failed to sterilize the local drinking water because they were bribed to buy chlorine from Iran that was long past its expiration date. The centre of the epidemic is in Babil province, south of Baghdad, in the marshy lands east of the Euphrates river, not far from the ruins of ancient Babylon. In Baghdad, where half […]
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