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Radio host Papantonio: Anti-intellectualism ‘has become almost epidemic in America’
Progressive radio host Mike Papantonio sang the praises of author Susan Jacoby on his radio show on Friday, echoing the theme of her 2008 book The Age of American Unreason in saying, “Anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism have become almost epidemic in America,” and saying the only hesitation one should have in…
Dutch chemical trader ordered to pay victims of Saddam Hussein’s gas attacks
A Dutch businessman who sold Iraq’s former regime chemicals that were used in deadly gas attacks against Kurds in Iraq and in Iran was ordered on Wednesday to pay 400,000 euros ($520,000) in compensation to some of the victims. The court ruled that Frans van Anraat must pay 25,000 euros…
Obama honors those who made the ultimate sacrifice in Iraq war
President Barack Obama marked the tenth anniversary of the Iraq invasion on Tuesday by paying tribute to the sacrifice of US troops, but steered clear of the debate over the war’s aftermath. In a muted statement, issued on the eve of a visit to a Middle East much changed since…
New evidence: CIA and MI6 were told before invasion that Iraq had no active WMD
BBC’s Panorama reveals fresh evidence that agencies dismissed intelligence from Iraq foreign minister and spy chief Fresh evidence is revealed today about how MI6 and the CIA were told through secret channels by Saddam Hussein’s foreign minister and his head of intelligence that Iraq had no active weapons of mass…
Costly Iraq war left U.S. no stronger in Middle East
The US-led invasion of Iraq overthrew a dictator, but 10 years on the war is seen to have destabilized the Middle East, exposed the limits of military power and left America no stronger than before. With US forces having withdrawn after the deaths of almost 4,500 American troops and an…
U.S. spying still under shadow of Iraq intelligence failures
US spy agencies still live under the shadow of disastrous intelligence failures that paved the way for the Iraq war, and now face a crucial test as they track Iran’s nuclear program. In the run-up to the invasion of Iraq 10 years ago, the CIA and other intelligence services confidently…
Inspector general report: U.S. cannot account for $1.7 billion spent in Iraq
After invading Iraq ten years ago, the United States spent $60 billion on a vast reconstruction effort that left behind few successes and a litany of failures, an auditor’s report said Wednesday. The ambitious plan to transform the country after the fall of Saddam Hussein has been marked by half-finished…
Former British prime minister Tony Blair: ‘Ugly’ Iraq decision is ‘not nearly’ what he hoped
Former British prime minister Tony Blair admitted on Tuesday that the situation in Iraq is “not nearly” what he hoped it would be when Britain joined the US-led invasion to depose Saddam Hussein ten years ago. He said he had made the best of an “ugly” choice between taking action…
Saddam’s VP releases videos backing Iraqi protesters
Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, Saddam Hussein’s vice president and the highest-ranking member of his regime still on the run, has backed ongoing rallies in Sunni-majority areas of Iraq in an online video. The 53-minute video, posted on YouTube on Friday, shows Duri reading a prepared statement behind a desk with a…
Iraq archives chief moves to seal controversial Saddam-era files
The terror of Saddam Hussein’s secret police has lived on long after his fall through their millions of reports, which are still dragged up by Iraqi politicians and the media, often with damaging results. But Saad Iskander, the head of Iraq’s national archives, thinks the documents have been used for…
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