How Bush’s Iraq Fiasco ruined US Credibility and Enabled Putin’s Invasion of...
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – George W. Bush issued a statement about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It went like this: DALLAS, TEXAS – “Russia’s attack on Ukraine constitutes the gravest security...
View ArticleUS Deplores Russia’s ‘Shock and Awe’ against Ukraine, but Found its own...
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The scenes of the horrible destruction that Russia is inflicting on Ukraine’s civilian cities, from Kharkiv to Mariupol, and the killing of nearly 1,000 civilians,...
View ArticleGeorge W. Bush denounces “the decision of one man to launch a wholly...
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Michael Williams at the Dallas Morning News reports on George W. Bush’s speech at his presidential center at Southern Methodist University, during which the former...
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How the Bush “War on Terror” Fed US White Nationalism and brought the Terror...
( Tomdispatch.com ) – Recently, an agent of the Department of Homeland Security called me and started asking questions about a childhood acquaintance being investigated for extremism. I put him off. My...
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20 Years On, What Did the Iraq War Truly Cost?
By Peter Certo | – ( Otherwords.org) – The war claimed more than lives and treasure — it claimed a future’s worth of lost opportunities. Now, younger generations are demanding them back. By Peter Certo...
View Article20 Years Ago, the Bush Administration Launched the Iraq War: Juan Cole: “I...
To mark the 20th anniversary of the Iraq War, here are some brief blog entries Juan Cole made in the run-up to the war expressing caution and pessimism about the triumphalist rhetoric issuing from the...
View ArticleWhen Foreign Policy Elites Manipulate the Public into War, the First...
Eau Claire, WI (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – United States presidents have repeatedly waged wars with tacit congressional approval and distorted narratives at the expense of citizens’...
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Iraq’s Climate Crisis: America’s War for Oil and the Great Mesopotamian Dustbowl
( Tomdispatch.com ) – It was one of the fabled rivers of history and the Marines needed to cross it. In early April 2003, as American forces sought to wrap up their conquest of the Iraqi capital,...
View ArticleJuan Cole: The Rise and Fall of Oil and the US Invasion of Iraq
Here is the closing plenary panel of a conference held in mid-September by the Qatar branch of Georgetown University on “The Invasion of Iraq: Regional Reflections.” Juan Cole is the first speaker in...
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