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Baghdad, Nov 20 – While debate continues in the United States about how best to manage the occupation and nation building of…
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.
In Ramadi today 6 civilians were killed in clashes between the resistance and military. The military sealed the city, closing all the…
We had our daily car bomb today when a suicide bomber drove his car into a US patrol as it passed near…
BAGHDAD, Nov 18 – Journalists are increasingly being detained and threatened by the U.S.-installed interim government in Iraq. Media have been stopped…
She lays dazed in the crowded hospital room, languidly waving her bruised arm at the flies. Her shins, shattered by bullets from…
*BAGHDAD, Nov 16 (IPS) – At least 800 civilians have been killed during the U.S. military siege of Fallujah, a Red Cross…
It never fails to get my adrenaline flowing when my hotel rumbles from a car bomb detonating in central Baghdad. Last night…
*BAGHDAD, Nov 15 (IPS) – * Everyone saw it coming, only the U.S. forces did not: humanitarian disaster in Fallujah, and stronger…
Last week the US launched a major offensive on Fallujah using heavy artillery, bulldozers and tanks. The target was insurgents, but here…
Leaving the hotel is always an adventure. Last night, with a full beard and a kefir draped around my shoulders, Abut Talat…