Stories by Dahr Jamail
Dahr Jamail is an independent journalist who reports from Iraq.
Looking around Iraq, one finds a ruined country.
Posted on Jan 15, 2008, Source: IPS News
The policy is divide to rule.
Posted on Jan 8, 2008, Source: International Socialist Review
Who will "liberate" Iraq from the Americans?
Posted on Jan 4, 2008, Source: IPS News
Despite all the claims of improvements, the situation in Iraq keeps getting worse.
Posted on Dec 31, 2007, Source: IPS News
The U.S.-backed Iraqi government will half Iraqis' rations because of "insufficient funds and spiraling inflation."
Posted on Dec 28, 2007, Source: IPS News
"Unembedded" journalist Dahr Jamail reviews
Meeting Resistance. With video.
Posted on Dec 21, 2007, Source: The Progressive
Mainstream media would have you believe the U.S. military has only killed Iraqi "militants," "extremists" and "criminals" -- even when the people gunned down are women and children.
Posted on Nov 27, 2007, Source: Tomdispatch.com
A new book from journalist Dahr Jamail shows what life is really like for Iraqis.
Posted on Nov 1, 2007, Source: Haymarket Books
Morale among US soldiers in the country is so poor, many are simply parking their Humvees and pretending to be on patrol, called "search and avoid" missions.
Posted on Oct 26, 2007, Source: IPS News
US-backed government is running death squads that follow the Latin America model from the 1970s and 1980s.
Posted on Sep 5, 2007, Source: IPS News
Dahr Jamail discovers a refugee's life.
Posted on Aug 3, 2007, Source: Tomdispatch.com
After years of witnessing the apocalyptic violence in Iraq first hand, life in America is "nothing short of a schizophrenic experience" for veteran reporter Dahr Jamail.
Posted on Jul 20, 2007, Source: Tomdispatch.com
The invasion and occupation of Iraq is producing what might be the most severe refugee crisis on the planet, but no one is noticing.
Posted on Apr 24, 2007, Source: Tomdispatch.com
Fleeing death threats and death squads, Iraqi refugees in Syria speak of the frightening reality they escaped from in Iraq.
Posted on Apr 13, 2007, Source: IPS News
Even the food system in Iraq is plagued by insecurities. Once a large agricultural exporter, Iraq's food supply has fallen apart under the U.S.-led occupation.
Posted on Feb 22, 2007, Source: IPS News
The Iraqi government lied about the killing of hundreds of Shias in an attack on Sunday aided by American forces, with the possible motive of stifling growing Shia-Sunni unity in the area of Najaf.
Posted on Feb 2, 2007, Source: IPS News
Women face an increased risk of rape and murder by militias and criminal gangs as lawlessness takes over the country.
Posted on Dec 15, 2006, Source: IPS News
Most Iraqi businesses have collapsed under the weight of U.S.-backed economic laws, the breakdown of security, lack of electricity and fuel, and soaring inflation.
Posted on Dec 4, 2006, Source: IPS News
Two more morgues are planned for construction in Baghdad as death squad killings have soared -- 1,536 were killed in Iraq's capitol in September.
Posted on Oct 23, 2006, Source: IPS News
Lebanon has been bombed to a point where much of the country looks as it did in the worst periods of its brutal civil war.
Posted on Aug 11, 2006, Source: Tomdispatch.com
Human Rights Watch claims that Israel has dropped cluster bombs in civilian areas of Lebanon, violating international law.
Posted on Jul 29, 2006, Source: IPS News
As the humanitarian crisis worsens by the hour, many Lebanese are angry at Hezbollah -- but they're even angrier at Israel.
Posted on Jul 25, 2006, Source: Inter Press Service
The latest Israeli onslaught of Lebanon is in full swing, driving thousands of Lebanese to flee the bombing of Beirut.
Posted on Jul 15, 2006, Source: Inter Press Service
While the U.S. military futilely spins its wheels in the bloody sands of Iraq, it's the Iraqi people who are suffering the most.
Posted on Jul 11, 2006, Source: TruthOut.org
The people of Fallujah are struggling to survive amidst skyrocketing unemployment, lack of medical supplies and ongoing violence in the city.
Posted on Jul 3, 2006, Source: IPS News
Even as the House of Representatives debate the war on Iraq, the U.S. military is laying a heavy assault on Ramadi, with devastating results.
Posted on Jun 15, 2006, Source: AlterNet
From Guantánamo to Iraq, the vicious abuse of prisoners by the U.S. military is business as usual.
Posted on Mar 9, 2006, Source: Tomdispatch.com
Why is the media not reporting crucial information about U.S. bombing runs in heavily-inhabited parts of Iraq?
Posted on Dec 14, 2005, Source: Tomdispatch.com
Reportage on Abu Musab al-Zarqawi amounts to statements from anonymous sources hardly less shadowy than he is. But who benefits from ongoing tales of this mystery man?
Posted on Jul 6, 2005, Source: Tomdispatch.com
For the last three months, I've been bound up inside -- my body walking the streets of my home country; my heart and mind still wandering war-ravaged Iraq.
Posted on Jun 2, 2005, Source: Tomdispatch.com
Yes, the election passed without major disruption. But Iraqis continue to live under the specter of routine bombings by the American military.
Posted on Feb 3, 2005, Source: Tomdispatch.com
The invasion of Iraq was just a preview of the untold misery and destruction to come under U.S. occupation.
Posted on Jan 10, 2005, Source: Tomdispatch.com
This eyewitness account from inside the U.S. siege describes a town that is rapidly becoming another Sarajevo.
Posted on Apr 14, 2004, Source: The Nation
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