Iraq – Page 11 – People's World

Kurdish struggle a key factor in Syria and beyond

August 30, 2013 By Conn Hallinan

For almost a century, the Kurds-one of the world's largest ethnic groups without its own state-have been deceived and double-crossed, their language and culture suppressed, their villages burned and bombed, and their people scattered; now they...

Iraqi unions still repressed

May 15, 2013 By Press Associates

Nine years after the Bush government invaded Iraq and overthrew Saddam Hussein, Iraqi unions are still repressed and toiling under the former ruler's labor law, a U.S. unionist who recently toured there says.

10 years later, Iraq war holds big lessons

March 19, 2013 By PW Editorial

President Bush launched a war that directly killed nearly 4,500 U.S. troops and at least 121,000 Iraqis, and wounded over 33,000 U.S. soldiers and countless Iraqis.

VIDEO Iraq & Afghanistan vets: why NATO can have my medals

May 23, 2012 By Teresa Albano And John Bachtell

VIDEO U.S. veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars threw their medals towards the site of the NATO Summit May 20 in what was called the most dramatic antiwar action by ex-GIs since Vietnam. Hear their...

Iraq and Afghanistan veterans return medals at NATO protest

May 22, 2012 By Teresa Albano

U.S. veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars threw their medals towards the site of the NATO Summit May 20 in what was called the most dramatic antiwar action by ex-GIs since Vietnam.