Nation's Major Newspapers Ignore Iraq War's Sixth Anniversary As The War Fades From Public Consciousness.
Nation's Major Newspapers Ignore Iraq War's Sixth Anniversary
By Ben Armbruster, Think Progress
Today marks six years since former President Bush launched the invasion of Iraq.Read more »
Today marks six years since former President Bush launched the invasion of Iraq -- a preventive war of choice based on “intelligence fixed around the policy.” Since that time, hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent, over 4,000 U.S. servicemen and women and hundreds more from coalition countries have died (tens of thousands more physically and mentally wounded), nearly 100,000 (or more) Iraqi civilians have parished and nearly 5 million have been displaced. Yet the New York Times,Washington Post, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, and many other major American newspapers are ignoring the anniversary today. Only USA Today printed a story noting the anniversary of the invasion. Today’s Progress Report has more on the good, the bad, and the ugly of developments surrounding the Iraq war over the last year.
As Public Moves On, Local Soldiers Dig In | Guardsmen Prepare For Key Role In Iraq Pullout
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Update: Check out ThinkProgress's updated timeline of the Iraq war.
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Economic Dirty Bomb Goes Off in New York
With a Whimper, Not a Bang… the Old Neighborhood Empties
By Tom Engelhardt
A block from my apartment, on a still largely mom-and-pop, relatively low-slung stretch of Broadway, two spanking new apartment towers rose just as the good times were ending for New York. As I pass the tower on the west side of Broadway each morning, one of its massive ground-floor windows displays the same eternal message in white letters against a bright red background: "Locate yourself at the center of the fastest expanding portion of the affluent Upper West Side."
Successive windows assure any potential renter that this retail space (10,586 square feet available! 110 feet of frontage! 30 foot ceilings! Multiple configurations possible!) is conveniently located only "steps from the 96th Street subway station, servicing 11 million riders annually."
Here's the catch, though: That building was completed as 2007 ended and yet, were you to peer through a window into the gloom beyond, you would make out only a cavernous space of concrete, pillars, and pipes. All those "square feet" and not the slightest evidence that any business is moving in any time soon. Across Broadway, the same thing is true of the other tower.
That once hopeful paean to an "expanding" and "affluent" neighborhood now seems like a notice from a lost era. Those signs, already oddly forlorn only months after our world began its full-scale economic meltdown, now seem like messages in a bottle floating in from BC: Before the Collapse….
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So, if you're wondering what the Democratic Congress was doing when it very pointed wasn't doing anything to wind down the Iraq War, or holding impeachment hearings, this is the sort of tough-minded action is was devoting itself to. ...
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War Crimes Times: In America We’re locking up mothers While the ...
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Six Years After the Invasion of Iraq, War Resisters Are Taking Their Fight Across the Globe
By Maya Schenwar, TruthOut.org
"We have killed, tortured and bombed civilians into submission": Winter Soldiers speak out in Europe. Read more
President Obama, Why Did You Pay Blackwater $70 Million in February?
By Jeremy Scahill, AlterNet
Obama may keep the company on the government payroll months after its Iraq contract expires. Not bad for a firm supposedly going down in flames. Read more
What Is "the Most Dangerous Country in the World Today?"
By Robert Greenwald, Brave New Foundation
Part two of "Rethink Afghanistan" focuses on the war's impact on Pakistan and all of us. Read more »
An Afghan Surge. . . in Civilian Casualties
By Siun, Firedoglake
Military escalation has led to a sharp rise in civilian deaths. Read more
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