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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.
At least 20 US soldiers have been killed in Iraq in May, the most since last September, along with more than 50…
On Monday, Iraqi government security forces arrested two prominent Sunni leaders in Iraq’s volatile Diyala Province. One of them, Sheikh Riyadh al-Mujami,…
Throughout history, those who collaborate with the occupiers of their country tend to end up hung out to dry, or dead. The…
Last week found Iraq swimming in blood once again. Attacks last Thursday brought the worst violence Iraq has seen in over a…
The US occupation of Iraq, which has become the full responsibility of President Barack Obama, is once again a bloodbath. Not that…
Everyone knows the analogy of the beehive. When it is goaded, countless bees emerge, attacking the tormentor. Right now in Iraq, the…
"[W]hat lengths men will go in order to carry out, to their extreme limit, the rites of a collective self-worship which fills…
Following George W. Bush’s example of keeping war funding off the books, President Barack Obama is seeking $83.4 billion in additional “emergency”…
Last weekend, the Iraqi government arrested an Awakening Group leader of a Baghdad neighborhood, then moved into the area. With the help…