More Heat, Less Water: Climate Emergency Pushes Iraq’s Farmers off Land as Drought cripples Crops

( Middle East Monitor ) – Until a few years ago, farming in southern Iraq was “as lucrative as oil”, …

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From US Invasion in Iraq to Russia’s Assault on Ukraine, We Need a Global Standard for War Crimes | Amy Goodman

So-called “rules of engagement” are regularly ignored in the all-consuming violence and barbarism of war. U.S. and coalition troops were guilty of this in Afghanistan, as documented by Manning’s disclosures to Wikileaks and often corroborated by journalists and human rights investigators. Few if any of those who committed atrocities will ever be held accountable.”Unfortunately, the U.S. would not allow the International Criminal Court to even investigate potential U.S. war crimes in Afghanistan, and there were many of them,” Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the peace group CodePink, said this week on the Democracy Now! news hour, shortly after returning from a U.S. women’s delegation to Afghanistan. “The U.S. is not even a party to the International Criminal Court. It would be nice to have a judgment against those who took us into this war in Afghanistan.”

Source: Opinion | From US Invasion in Iraq to Russia’s Assault on Ukraine, We Need a Global Standard for War Crimes | Amy Goodman

Nineteen Years Ago Today the Bush Administration Invaded Iraq in One of the Worst Crimes of the Modern Era – CovertAction Magazine

Numerologists tell you that 19 is 1 + 9 which equals the powerful # 1, or new beginnings. Well, 19 […]

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Mutiny on the Kyiv

The initial Russian invasion plan for Ukraine was to duplicate the 2003 American attack on Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, both because that assault quickly decapitated the local government and because the Kremlin was eager to send the Americans the message that two powers can play the great games that lead to regime change.

Source: Mutiny on the Kyiv – CounterPunch.org

I Resigned My Diplomatic Post Over the US Invasion of Iraq. Will Any Russian Diplomats Do the Same?

I would not be easy. But from my own experience, I can tell those Russian diplomats that a heavy load will be lifted from their consciences if they do.

Source: Opinion | I Resigned My Diplomatic Post Over the US Invasion of Iraq. Will Any Russian Diplomats Do the Same? | Ann Wright

‘The rank hypocrisy is stunning’: did the world forget what the United States did to Iraq?

Source: ‘The rank hypocrisy is stunning’: did the world forget what the United States did to Iraq? – Alternet.org

The War-Profiteering Gangsters Will Kill Us All Unless We Unite Against Them

I figured something out after tossing and turning all night. We on the left often make the mistake of still looking upon Russia as a somewhat socialist

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