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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.
Despite the continuing escalation of violence here, Iraqi officials insist the country’s first-ever general assembly elections remain on schedule, even if preparations…
The morgues at the hospitals of Baghdad are filling to capacity. At Yarmouk Hospital in central Baghdad, the three freezers reek of…
The usual spiral descent in the airplane landed me into a grey day in Baghdad…the weather the same as when I left…
AMMAN, Jan 7 (IPS) – Families of some U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq plan a strong protest to mark the second anniversary…
The devastation of Iraq? Where do I start? After working 7 of the last 12 months in Iraq, I’m still overwhelmed by…
The devastation of Iraq? Where do I start? After working 7 of the last 12 months in Iraq, I’m still overwhelmed by…
The dump is a dusty wasteland. Heaps of Baghdad’s rotting wastes are strewn about several square miles of the battered capital city.…
December 11-13, 2004 11 Dec. “My list is now 32,” says Salam as he arrives at the hotel, “Now 32 of my…
Charles Shaw: How long have you been reporting on Iraq, and what brought you there? Dahr Jamail: I have spent 6 of…