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* List of aviation shootdowns and accidents during the Iraq War (Wikipedia)

     2008

 

Article:     Three SOFA Versions - But What About The SFA? (26 Nov 2008) - SOFA

Article:    SOFA Declaration of Principles for a Long-Term Relationship of Cooperation and Friendship Between the Republic of Iraq and the United States of America (November 28, 2007) - This is the SOFA in English (November 2008) - This is the Strategic Framework and the SOFA in Arabic (October 2008)

Article:     Syria Aids American Hegemony over Iraq (03 Nov 2008)

Article:     Iraq in Hell (23 Oct 2008) - It explains just how the militarized geopolitics of oil led the U.S. to dismantle the Iraqi state and economy while fueling sectarian civil war inside that country.

Article:     Who persecutes Christians in Iraq? (20 Oct 2008)

Article:     Iraq and world financial crisis (17 Oct 2008)

Article:     Excerpts From Draft U.S.-Iraqi "Security" Agreement (17 Oct 2008) - SOFA

Article:     Mutant Seeds for Mesopotamia (15 Oct 2008)

Article:     PART III: Detention Has a Wide, Destructive Impact in Iraq - Forced Entry Into the Mind (14 Oct 2008)

Article:     PART II: Detention Has a Wide, Destructive Impact in Iraq - Society Undermined  (12 Oct 2008)

Article:     PART I: Detention Has a Wide, Destructive Impact in Iraq - Two Million May Be Affected  (10 Oct 2008)

Article:     Camp Bucca: Iraq's Guantánamo Bay (08 Oct 2008)

Article:     U.S. to Fund Pro-American Publicity in Iraqi Media (03 Oct 2008)

Article:     Winter Soldier Iraq and Afghanistan: Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupation (16 Sept 2008)

Article:     US-Iraqi agreement: leaked (full text) (02 Sept 2008)  - SOFA

Article:     What will the US foreign policy be tomorrow ? (Michel Collon, 02 Sept 2008)

Article:     Iraqi Political Prisoners and the Anti-War Movement (25 Aug 2008)

Article:     Lowest U.S. casualties not indication of better security conditions in Iraq (05 Aug 2008)

Article:     Washington’s new alibi for a criminal war: the “surge has worked” (26 June 2008)

Article:     How Psychologists Have Abetted the CIA - The Torture Trainers and the American Psychological Association (25 June 2007)

Article:     The Real State of Iraq Juan Cole (22 June 2008)

Article:     Domestic and Regional Politics Delay U.S.-Iraqi Security Agreement (19 June 2008) - SOFA

Article:     Iraqi Official: Security Pact Altered (18 June 2008) - SOFA

Article:     The Greatest Story Never Told: Finally, the US Mega-Bases in Iraq Make the News (15 June 2008)

Article:     As talks lag, Iraq ponders ordering U.S. troops out  (14 June 2008) - SOFA

Article:     In Debate Over Permanent Bases In Iraq, U.S. Seeks Authorization For War In Iran (11 June 2008) - SOFA 

Article:     U.S. seeking 58 bases in Iraq, Shiite lawmakers say (09 June 2008) - SOFA

Article:     Backgrounder: U.S. Security Agreements and Iraq (04 June 2008) - SOFA

Article:     Iraqi artists and singers flee amid crackdown on forbidden culture (11 May 2008)

Article:     U.S. Congress to Iraq: Pay Our War Expenses With Your Oil Revenue (28 April 2008)

Article:     What the Iraq war is about (24 April 2008)

Article:     300,000 Vets Have Mental Problems, 320,000 Had Brain Injuries (17 April 2008)

Article:     The discovery and unearthing of the biggest mass grave committed by the militias in Mahmoudiya (16 April 2008)

Article:     US Financial Collapse Will End Bush/Cheney Iraq War (14 April 2008)

Article:     War and the "New Middle East": US Coalition Building and the Arab League (09 April 2008)

Article:     Iraq after the Surge: "The only sensible strategy is to withdraw rapidly but in good order." (06 April 2008)

Article:     The Battle of Baghdad (24 March 2008)

Article:     Iraq: Five Years of Genocide (22 March 2008)

Article:     Declaration of Principles: Future United States Commitment to Iraq (04 March 2008)  - SOFA

Article:     Peoples court condemns Israel for war crimes in Lebanon (28 Feb 2008)

Article:     The three trillion dollar war (Joseph Stiglitz, 22 Feb 2008)

Article:     Is Iran Winning the Iraq War? (21 Feb 2008)

Article:     The fall of the Dollar Empire (15 Feb 2008)

Article:     An unstable marriage (Jonathan Steele 25 Jan 2008)

Article:     Chalmers Johnson, How to Sink America (21 Jan 2008)

Article:     US Troops Will Be In Iraq for 10 More Years (Patrick Cockburn 21 Jan 2008)

Article:     HUSAYN AL-KURDI ON THE BA’ATH PARTY, KURDS, AND THE CIA (21 Jan 2008)

Article:     First we celebrate, then we bomb (Daily Kos, 20 Jan 2008)

Article:     U.S. Boosts Its Use of Airstrikes In Iraq (WP, 17 Jan 2008)

Article:     Nationalists Stirring in Iraq (The Nation, 16 Jan 2008)

Article:     Will Anyone Pay for the Iraq War? (15 Jan 2008)

2007

 

Article:     Covering up the trail of dead Iraqis (Dahr Jamail, 28 Nov 2007)

Article:     2007 Is Deadliest Year for US in Iraq (06 Nov 2007)

Article:     Iraq: Millions Trapped in Their Own Country  (05 Nov 2007)

Article:     Envoys Resist Forced Iraq Duty (01 Nov 2007)

Article:     We tried to rebuild Iraq based on info in the 1994 Lonely Planet guide book (28 Oct 2007)

Article:     Surmounting Sectarianism in the Middle East: An Interview with Hisham Bustani (28 Oct 2007)

Article:     Ex-Commander Sanchez Says Iraq Effort Is ‘a Nightmare’ (22 Oct 2008)

Article:     Iraq whistleblower Dr Kelly was murdered to silence him, says MP (20 Oct 2007)

Article:     Invasion of Iraq was driven by oil, says Greenspan (Guardian, 17 Sep 2007)

Article:     The Illusion of Progress in Iraq (15 Sep 2007)

Article:     The Rip-off in Iraq: You Will Not Believe How Low the War Profiteers Have Gone (Alternet 30 Aug 2007)(28 Oct 2007)

Article:     Cancer in Iraq Vets Raises Possibility of Toxic Exposure (26 Aug 2007)

Article:     Allawi Pays $300k for Anti-Maliki US Campaign (24 Aug 2007)

Article:     U.S. use of Radiological weapons calls for an international tribunal (23 Aug 2007)

Article:     67,000 Detainees in Iraqi Prisons (11 Aug 2007)

Article:     British losses soar as they prepare to leave Basra city (10 Aug 2007)

Article:     UN Staff Oppose Proposed Iraq Resolution (09 Aug 2007)

Article:     30 % of Weapons Given to Iraq Are Missing (06 Aug 2007) - Iraq Weapons Are a Focus of Criminal Investigations (28 Aug 2007)

Article:     Budget Office Analysis Says War Could Cost $1 Trillion (01 Aug 2007)

Article:     Iraqis in exile Celebrate Football Victory in Jordan (31 July 2007) - pictures and a video clip

Article:     A Little Easier to Occupy from the Air (31 July 2007)
Article:     Injured Iraq War Veterans Sue Bush’s VA Head for Poor Care, Cheating (23 July 2007)

Analysis:  Setting Priorities Straight in the Struggle: On Iran and the Iranian Role in the Arab Region (25 June 2007)

Dossier:     Who is Robert Gates? (13-15 June 2007)

Article:     US signals permanent stay in Iraq (12 June 2007)

Article:     Iraqi Women Face Unemployment, Threats (30 May 2007)

PDF File:Prewar Intelligence Assessments About Postwar Iraq (24 May 2007) - Report Embarassing for Bush (25 May 2007)

Article:     UN Report on Human Rights in Iraq Draws US Denunciation (26 April 2007)

Article:     U.S. Officials Exclude Car Bombs in Touting Drop in Iraq Violence (26 April 2007)

Article:     Saudi King Slams ‘Illegitimate Occupation’ of Iraq (28 March 2007)

Article:     Iraq Minorities May Face Complete Eradication  (05 March 2007)

Article:     The redirection - by Seymour M. Hersh (05 March 2007)

Article:     How Much Embassy Is Too Much? (Washington Post, 02 March 2007)

Article:     'Exodus' of Iraq's ancient minorities (the Independent, 26 Feb 2007)

Article:     Mission Imperial (Guardian, 19 Feb 2007)

Article:     Bombs over Baghdad (TomDispatch, 07 Feb 2007)

Article:     Staticide in Iraq (Le Mondo Diplo, Feb 2007)

PDF File:Lockheed Stock and two smoking barrels (Jan 2007)

2006

Article:     The Strategy of Disintegration (December 2006)

Article:     Bush "Developing Illegal Bioterror Weapons" for Offensive Use (20 Dec 2006)

Article:     Iraqi Red Crescent: US Is Biggest Humanitarian Threat (16 Dec 2006)

Article:     Iraq: Not Civil War, Occupation (Sami Ramadani, 07 Dec 2006)

Article:     Iraq: One By One, They Tell the Truth (06 Dec 2006)

Article:     Annan: Iraq Crisis 'Much Worse' Than Civil War (04 Dec 2006)

Article:     Ten Fallacies about the Violence in Iraq (08 Nov 2006)

PDF File: 1,245 Secret CIA Flights Revealed by European Parliament (24 Nov 2006)

Article:     16,000 Single Mothers Serving in Iraq (24 Nov 2006)

Article:     The Way Out of War: A Blueprint for Leaving Iraq Now (08 Nov 2006)

Article:     How Hezbollah defeated Israel (12-13-14 Oct 2006)

Article:     Medics beg for help as Iraqis die needlessly (The Independent, 20 Oct 2006)

Article:     Unemployment and violence increase poverty (IRIN, 18 Oct 2006)

Article:     The Collapse of Iraq's Health Care Services (Counterpunch, 16 Oct 2006)

Article:     Army Chief Says British Troops Should Be Pulled Out of Iraq (October 13, 2006)

PDF File: Of War, Siege, and Lebanon: Women’s voices from the Middle East and South Asia (12 Oct 2006)

PDF File: Mortality after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: a cluster sample survey (The Lancet 11 Oct 2006)

 PDF File: War Crimes Committed by the US in Iraq and Mechanisms for Accountability (10 Oct 2006)

Article:     Twenty-One Reasons Iraq Is Not Working (October 5, 2006)

Article:     ‘Hurts Iraqis but won’t stop resistance’ (John Catalinotto 25 Sept 2006)

Article:     Lebanon: Destruction of civil infrastructure. (Amnesty International 23 Aug 2006)

Article:     The War on Lebanon and the Battle for Oil (Michel Chossudovsky, 26 July 2006)

Article:     250 Iraqi Oil Officials Killed (23 July 2006)

Article:     The height of humiliation ( Haifa Zangana, 22 June 2006)

Article:     A Safer Weapon, With Risks (May 18, 2006)

Article:     Dr. Khair El-Din Haseeb’s Presentation  at Georgetown University (28 April 2006)

Article:     Revisionism at its worst (16 April 2006)

Article:     Zarqawi-gate: More important than you think... (11 April 2006)  |  More about Zarqawi

Article:     With Iraqi Doctors Fleeing, Prognosis Is More Agony (11 April 2006) - 2,000 Iraqi physicians murdered since the invasion [PDF]

Article:     Saddam’s pilots hunted down by death squads (Sunday Times 09 April 2006)

Article:     America's war on the web (02 April 2006)   

Article:     Iraq Health Update 30 Mar 2006 (Medact)

Article:     Why Journalists Are Being Murdered In Iraq (16 March 2006)

Article:     US Military Airstrikes Significantly Increased in Iraq (March 14, 2006)

PDF File: The role of UK corporations in Iraq (13 March 2006)

Article:     Prisons and Torture in Iraq (13 March 2006)

Article:    Grounds for Impeachment (08 March 2006)

Article:      Intellectual Terrorism (08 March 2006)

PDF File: Amnesty International Report (06 March 2006)

Article:     Baghdad official who exposed executions flees (02 March 2006)

Article:     Militias and armed gangs rule streets of Iraq (01 March 2006)

Article:     Reporting Iraq: liberation's limits (Felicity Arbuthnot, 16 Feb 2006)

PDF File: In Their Own Words: Reading the Iraqi Insurgency (15 Feb 2006)

PDF File: Second Periodical Report of Monitoring Net of Human Rights in Iraq (Jan 2006)

Article:     US audit finds 'spectacular' waste of funds in Iraq (27 Jan 2006)

Article:     Iraq tops list of threatened minorities (20 Jan 2006)

Article:     Martin Wolf: The failure to calculate the costs of war (11 Jan 2006)

Article:     Iraq war could cost US over $2 trillion, says Nobel prize-winning economist (07 Jan 2006)

Article:     Billion Dollar Bunker: U.S. plans Baghdad embassy more secure than Pentagon (03 Jan 2006)

 

2005

 

Video:        Harold Pinter – Nobel Lecture (07 Dec 2005)

Article:     Corrosive Israeli Mossad in Iraqi Kurdistan (02 Dec 2005)

Article:     Death By Torture: US Media Ignores Hard Evidence  (02 Dec 2005)

Article:     Death Mask: The Deliberate Disintegration of Iraq (01 Dec 2005)

Article:     Up In The Air. Where is the Iraq war headed next? (28 Nov 2005)

Article:    Abuse of prisoners in Iraq widespread, officials say (28 Nov 2005)

Article:     15,000 hepatitis cases reported in Baghdad neighborhood (25 Nov 2005)

Article:     The Bush Plan to Bomb Al-Jazeera (24 Nov 2005)

PDF File: First Periodical Report of Monitoring Net of Human Rights in Iraq (11 Nov 2005)

PDF File: Hans von Sponeck: the Oil-for-Food  Programme 1998-2000 and  Beyond (08 Nov. 2005)

Call:           Call for UN Investigation of Killing of Defense Lawyer of Saddam Hussein (27 Oct. 2005)

Article:     U.S. troops obstruct reporting of Iraq (28 Sept. 2005)

Report:      New Accounts of Torture by U.S. Troops (Sept. 2005) HRW report

Article:     US import bullets from Israel as troops use 250,000 for every rebel killed (25 Sept. 2005)

Article:       It's imperialism, stupid - Noam Chomsky (04 July 2005)

Article:     Evangelicals Building a Base in Iraq (26 June 2005)

Article:     Unveiling Iraq's teenage prostitutes (24 June 2005)

Article:     U.S. was big spender in days before Iraq handover (21 June 2005)

Article:     US Military expenditure (June 2005)

Article:     82 Iraqi MPs Demand Occupation Pullout (19 June 2005)

Article:     The Path of War Timeline (14 June 2005)

Article:     US War Crimes, An International Vow of Silence (10 June 2005)

Article:     The occupiers will lose in Iraq (10 June 2005)

Article:     Exit strategy: Civil war (10 June 2005)

Article:     BEFORE the US attacked Iraq- Facts EVERY war supporter should have known (03 June 2005)

Article:     Media Disinformation and the Nature of the Iraqi Resistance (27 May 2005)

Article:     Give Rumsfeld the Pinochet Treatment, Says US Amnesty Chief (26 May 2005)

Report:     Amnesty International Annual Report - Iraq (26 may 2005)

Article:     The unknown unknowns of the Abu Ghraib scandal (21 May 2005)

Article:     Of Nuclear Giants and Ethical Infants (18 May 2005)

Report:      The Dynamics of Occupation and Resistance in Iraq (Part 1: Patterns of Popular Discontent) (18 May 2005)    

Article:     Operation Matador: Learning the Neo-Words of Serial Wars (13 May 2005)

Article:     Iraq: how we were duped (14 May 2005)

Article:     The Destruction of Iraq’s Educational System under US Occupation (11 May 2005)

Report:      UNDP: Iraq Living Conditions Survey 2004 (May 2005)

Article:     Iraqi's suffer “Tragic” Conditions: UN Report (12 May 2005)

Report:      The Provocateur State: Is the CIA Behind the Iraqi "Insurgents"--and Global Terrorism? (10 May 2005)

PDF File: Report Documents Use of Psychological Torture by US Forces - Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) (May 2005)

Article:     So, Mr Bremer, where did all the money go? (Guardian 10 May 2005)

Article:     The Obsession with Syria (ZMag 07 May 2005)

Article:     Iraqi Women Under US Occupation (6 May 2005)

Essay:       Fabricating Intelligence as a Justification for War (4 May 2005)

PDF FileHuman Rights Watch: Command Responsibility for the U.S. Abuse of Detainees (Apr 2005)

Article:     New Iraqi President Favors Use of Militias Against Insurgents (19 Apr 2005)

Does the Resistance Target Civilians? According to US Intel, Not Really (16 Apr 2005)

U.S. start to recruit children for future combat duty  (15 Apr 2005)

Michael Meacher: America is usurping the democratic will in Iraq (05 Apr 2005)

Article:     Independent Media: Enemy Target (17 March 2005)

Article:     List of Prisoner Deaths in U.S. Custody (16 March 2005)

Article:     Pulitzer winner Hersh gives skeptical outlook on Iraq (09 March 2005)

Article:     Extreme Cinema Verite (14 March 2005)

Article:     The Oil-for-Slush Scandal (08 Feb 2005)

Article:     No Shame (04 Feb 2005)

Article:     Iraq Oil-For-Food Audit Finds No Widespread Abuse (04 Feb 2005)

Article:     CIA Corrects Itself on Arms  (01 Feb 2005)

Article:     Proof of Massive Anglo-American Media Lying Over Iraq (21 Jan 2005)

Article:     American Terror (21 Jan 2005)

Article:     Human rights not hollow words - An appeal to President George W. Bush (19 Jan 2005) - Amnesty International

Article:     Babylon: Civilization under Occupation (19 Jan 2005)

Article:     Experts say up to 30% of Iraq vets may need psychiatric care (17 Jan 2005)

Article:     Fallujah: city of Ghosts (11 Jan 2005)

Article:     Torture and International Human Rights (09 Jan 2005)

Article:     Iraq - R