Iraq
Shi’ite-Communist coalition wins most seats in Iraq election
June 1, 2018The Iraqi Communist Party's Salam Ali explains how the Sairoun Alliance managed to buck the sectarian trap.
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Iraq elections: A step toward rebuilding popular power
May 30, 2018A growing progressive alliance, recovering its oil wealth, could make Iraq a country to be envied by its neighbors instead.
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15 years after the Iraq invasion, what are the costs?
March 26, 2018We are still spending $32 million per hour on wars started during the Bush administration.
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Republican Senate leadership unable to scuttle debate on U.S. wars
September 13, 2017Rand Paul, libertarian and one-time GOP presidential hopeful, threatened to paralyze the Senate unless Mitch McConnell allowed debate on the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
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Are you watching Iraq? You should be
April 3, 2017The U.S. has been bombing Iraq for decades now, creating more terrorists than it’s killed. Extremists are flourishing; the same can’t be said for civilians now burying their dead in Mosul.
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