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For centuries, artists, writers, and intellectuals have been meeting in Baghdad’s teahouses over tulip-shaped glasses of sweet lemon tea, cigarettes, and shisha…
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.
BAGHDAD, Mar 6 (IPS) – Prompt medical care is at last on offer in Iraq, for those who can find the dollars…
BAGHDAD – Seventy percent of Iraq’s doctors are reported to have fled the war-torn country in the face of death threats and…
BAGHDAD, Feb 19 (IPS) – "We only want a normal life," says Um Qasim, sitting in a bombed out building in Baghdad.…
Fallujah, Iraq — Driving through Fallujah, once the most rebellious Sunni city in this country, I saw little evidence of any kind…
"Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind." -John F. Kennedy It is not the…
BAGHDAD — Amidst the soaring unemployment in Iraq, the gravediggers have been busy. So busy that officials have no record of the…
BAGHDAD – After strong polling for the provincial elections Saturday, Iraqis are looking out for new signposts of political recovery from the…
BAGHDAD – Uncertainty and tension are running high in Baghdad ahead of the provincial election due Jan. 31. But this time fears…
"Foreseen for so many years: these evils, this monstrous violence, these massive agonies: no easier to bear." -Robinson Jeffers, American poet Agence…