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Dahr Jamail
Dahr Jamail is the Baghdad correspondent for The NewStandard. Jamail, a political activist from Anchorage, Alaska, first traveled to Iraq in November 2003 to write about the effects of the US occupation on the Iraqi people. After nine weeks covering Iraq under occupation, he returned to the US and addressed audiences in Alaska and the Northeast about his experience. He has recently returned to Iraq in order to continue reporting on US occupation and privatization. You can view his dispatches and articles at http://newstandardnews.net/iraq.
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‘Habibi, to live in Baghdad now is to live in a big prison,’ he told me recently, ‘You stay in your home,…
*DAMASCUS, Jul 21 (IPS) – The daily Israeli bombardment of Lebanon and the floods of refugees pouring in have set off a…
“In my judgment, the best way to stop the violence is to understand why the violence occurred in the first place.” That…
ADDABBAOUSIYEH (northern Lebanese border. The bombing has killed more than 100 Lebanese civilians so far. Several border points between Syria and Lebanon…
RAMADI, Jun 19 (IPS) – As the threat of a giant U.S. military operation in Ramadi lingers and sporadic clashes plague the…
RAMADI, Jun 19 (IPS) – As the threat of a giant U.S. military operation in Ramadi lingers and sporadic clashes plague the…
On Tuesday, June 13th, while Mr. Bush spent a brave five hours in the “green zone” of Baghdad with puppet Iraqi Prime…
*RAMADI, Jun 19 (IPS) – As the threat of a giant U.S. military operation in Ramadi lingers and sporadic clashes plague the…