2023-03-19: News Headlines

Dr. C. Stephen Frost (2023-03-19). Iraq War Based on Fake Intelligence: "Sexed up" Report on the Death of Weapons Inspector Dr. David Kelly: Lord Hutton Findings challenged by Medical Doctors. globalresearch.ca It was not only the intelligence which had been "sexed up", the Hutton Report, which assumed suicide without proof, had "sexed up" its findings to implement a coverup.

Jeremy Earp (2023-03-19). Who's in Control of How We Remember the Iraq War? indybay.org Orwell and newspeak vs. history and democracy…

Juan Cole (2023-03-19). 20 Years Ago Today, the Bush Administration Launched the Iraq War: Juan Cole: "I Have a Bad Feeling About This" juancole.com To mark the 20th anniversary of the Iraq War, here are some brief blog entries Juan Cole made in the run-up to the war expressing caution and pessimism about the triumphalist rhetoric issuing from the White House and my US news organizations. Juan Cole 01/28/2003 (Remarks delivered in late 2002). The Journal of the International …

teleSUR, JDO (2023-03-19). Estadounidenses rechazan guerras y medidas de presión de la Casa Blanca. telesurtv.net Masiva movilización en Washington contra el belicismo del Gobierno de EE.UU. y la OTAN. Recuerdan los 20 años de la invasión de EE.UU. a Iraq.

Glen Rangwala (2023-03-19). 20 Lies About the Iraq War. globalresearch.ca

Shawn Yuan (2023-03-18). [World Report] Health and the invasion of Iraq: 20 years later. thelancet.com The legacy of the US-led invasion is still being felt across Iraqi society. Shawn Yuan reports from Baghdad.




Norman Solomon (2023-03-18). 'War Made Easy' — The Iraq War 20 years later. therealnews.com

_____ (2023-03-18). Stop Calling The Iraq War A 'Mistake': Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix. strategic-culture.org Stop calling the Iraq War a "mistake". When you make a mistake, you make changes to ensure that mistake is not repeated. Nobody responsible for that invasion suffered any consequences of any kind, zero policy changes were made, and the unipolarist ideology which led to it has become more entrenched than ever.

Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report. (2023-03-18). The US Is The Greatest Threat To World Peace And Collective Humanity. popularresistance.org As anti-imperialist and Anti-war activists are preparing to mobilize in Washington D.C. on the 20th anniversary of the illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq by the U.S. and its Western colonial allies, it is imperative that authentic anti-imperialist forces and those earnestly committed to an Anti-war principle recognize two things: the U.S. based transnational ruling class is fully invested in the doctrine of U.S. "Full Spectrum Dominance," and as a consequence the U.S. state has become an existential threat to collective humanity on our planet. | The recognition of these two "facts" are the only basis of a polit…

Ann Wright, Popular Resistance. (2023-03-18). Don't Let The Media Cheerlead Us Into More Wars Like It Did in Iraq. popularresistance.org Twenty years ago on this coming weekend, I was in Mongolia as the Deputy US Ambassador. After writing a Dissent Cable in early March 2003 on the pending U.S. war on Iraq to my boss Secretary of State Colin Powell, I made the decision to resign from the U.S. government as it was poised to invade, occupy and destroy the sovereign state of Iraq. I was one of three U.S. diplomats who resigned—Brady Kiesling and John Brown resigned before me. | For months, the Bush administration attempted to get the U.S. public to believe that Saddam Hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction and therefore was a threat to t…

Anonymous103 (2023-03-18). Military Situation In Syria On March 18, 2023 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On March 18, the Russian Ministry of Defense recorded no cases of hostilities and ceasefire violations in the Idlib region in the past 24 hours; | On March 18, SAA artillery shelled positions of Turkish-backed forces in Afes; | On March 17, the SDF announced that nine of its fighters were killed in two helicopter crashes while on their way to the Iraq's Kurdistan region; | Commander of the IRGC's Quds Force reportedly visited Syria's Aleppo and Latakia for the second tim…

Anonymous669 (2023-03-18). Iraqi Tribal Fighters Kill Four ISIS Terrorists In Al-Anbar (Photos). southfront.org Click to see full-size image. Via Facebook. | On March 17, the Iraqi Security Media Cell announced that fighters from the Tribal Mobilization had killed four terrorists of ISIS during a "preemptive special operation" in the area of al-K'ara in the western province of al-Anbar. | The Tribal Mobilization was formed by the sons of Sunni Arab tribes in Iraq to fight ISIS after the rise of the terrorist group in 2014. | The force responsible for the successful operat…

Norman Solomon (2023-03-18). 'War Made Easy' — The Iraq War 20 years later. therealnews.com

_____ (2023-03-18). Stop Calling The Iraq War A 'Mistake': Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix. strategic-culture.org Stop calling the Iraq War a "mistake". When you make a mistake, you make changes to ensure that mistake is not repeated. Nobody responsible for that invasion suffered any consequences of any kind, zero policy changes were made, and the unipolarist ideology which led to it has become more entrenched than ever.

Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report. (2023-03-18). The US Is The Greatest Threat To World Peace And Collective Humanity. popularresistance.org As anti-imperialist and Anti-war activists are preparing to mobilize in Washington D.C. on the 20th anniversary of the illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq by the U.S. and its Western colonial allies, it is imperative that authentic anti-imperialist forces and those earnestly committed to an Anti-war principle recognize two things: the U.S. based transnational ruling class is fully invested in the doctrine of U.S. "Full Spectrum Dominance," and as a consequence the U.S. state has become an existential threat to collective humanity on our planet. | The recognition of these two "facts" are the only basis of a polit…

Ann Wright, Popular Resistance. (2023-03-18). Don't Let The Media Cheerlead Us Into More Wars Like It Did in Iraq. popularresistance.org Twenty years ago on this coming weekend, I was in Mongolia as the Deputy US Ambassador. After writing a Dissent Cable in early March 2003 on the pending U.S. war on Iraq to my boss Secretary of State Colin Powell, I made the decision to resign from the U.S. government as it was poised to invade, occupy and destroy the sovereign state of Iraq. I was one of three U.S. diplomats who resigned—Brady Kiesling and John Brown resigned before me. | For months, the Bush administration attempted to get the U.S. public to believe that Saddam Hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction and therefore was a threat to t…

Anonymous103 (2023-03-18). Military Situation In Syria On March 18, 2023 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On March 18, the Russian Ministry of Defense recorded no cases of hostilities and ceasefire violations in the Idlib region in the past 24 hours; | On March 18, SAA artillery shelled positions of Turkish-backed forces in Afes; | On March 17, the SDF announced that nine of its fighters were killed in two helicopter crashes while on their way to the Iraq's Kurdistan region; | Commander of the IRGC's Quds Force reportedly visited Syria's Aleppo and Latakia for the second tim…

Anonymous669 (2023-03-18). Iraqi Tribal Fighters Kill Four ISIS Terrorists In Al-Anbar (Photos). southfront.org Click to see full-size image. Via Facebook. | On March 17, the Iraqi Security Media Cell announced that fighters from the Tribal Mobilization had killed four terrorists of ISIS during a "preemptive special operation" in the area of al-K'ara in the western province of al-Anbar. | The Tribal Mobilization was formed by the sons of Sunni Arab tribes in Iraq to fight ISIS after the rise of the terrorist group in 2014. | The force responsible for the successful operat…

Caitlin A. Johnstone (2023-03-18). Bush-era neocons should shut the fuck up about Iraq (and everything else). mronline.org David Frum and Max Boot, two neoconservatives who helped grease the wheels for the invasion of Iraq, have some thoughts they'd like to share with us as we approach the 20th anniversary of that horrific and unforgivable war.

James A. Lucas (2023-03-18). U.S. Regime Has Killed 20-30 Million People Since World War II. globalresearch.ca Originally published on March 22, 2018. March 19-20, 2023 Commemorates the Illegal Invasion of Iraq | Introduction: | After the catastrophic attacks of September 11 2001 monumental sorrow and a feeling of desperate and understandable anger began to permeate the American psyche. …

Louis Brehony (2023-03-18). The brouhaha of war: soundscapes of the invasion of Iraq, twenty years on. mronline.org Musicians around the world depicted and resisted the 2003 invasion of Iraq in other ways, yet others scraped the barrel of base, chauvinistic interests to sing for the imperialists. Sound was a partisan weapon.

Manlio Dinucci (2023-03-18). La guerra del 2003 contro l'Iraq. Escalation USA verso Oriente. globalresearch.ca MARZO 2003 — Vent'anni fa, il 20 marzo 2003, gli USA e la Coalizione sotto loro comando attaccavano e invadevano l'Iraq, accusato di possedere armi di distruzione di massa in base a "prove" poi risultate false. Lo stesso Segretario di …

Peter Certo (2023-03-18). 20 Years On, What Did the Iraq War Truly Cost? juancole.com By Peter Certo | — ( Otherwords.org) — The war claimed more than lives and treasure — it claimed a future's worth of lost opportunities. Now, younger generations are demanding them back. By Peter Certo | Most of us who were alive then remember where we were on the morning of the 9/11 attacks. As …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-03-18). Colin Powell and the "The Sloppy Dossier": Plagiarism and "Fake Intelligence" Used to Justify the 2003 War on Iraq: Copied and Pasted from the Internet into an "Official" British Intel Report. globalresearch.ca Fake intelligence as well as plagiarized quotations had been slipped into an official intelligence report on Iraq's WMD presented to the UN Security Council by Secretary of State Colin Powell in February 2003.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-03-18). Justification to Wage War on Iraq based on "Fake Intelligence". Whistleblower Dr. David Kelly: Who Ordered his Assassination? globalresearch.ca Our thoughts today are with the people of Iraq, whose country was invaded twenty years on March 19, 2003. The destruction and loss of life are beyond description. | The architects of this illegal invasion are "war criminals". Amply documented the …

The Dissenter (2023-03-18). March To Iraq War, 20 Years Later: March 18, 2003. thedissenter.org The Dissenter Newsletter recalls each day in the timeline of events that led up to the US invasion of Iraq on March 19, 2003, twenty years ago…

WSWS (2023-03-18). My Lost Country: The fate of Iraqi culture and society. wsws.org A piece of autobiography and a tribute to the filmmaker's theater director father, the work is intended, above all, as "an act of resistance" against the imperialist devastation of Iraqi culture and society.

David Swanson (2023-03-18). Iraq and 15 Lessons We Never Learned. globalresearch.ca

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