Global Issues
News headlines for “Iraq Crisis”, page 20
BOOKS-US: Wounded Veterans Treated as an Afterthought
- Inter Press Service
'But the [George W.] Bush administration was never seriously interested in helping veterans. The sorry state of care for Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans is not an accident. It's on purpose.'
POLITICS-US: Vets Health System in Need of Triage
- Inter Press Service
Eighteen U.S. veterans kill themselves every day. More veterans are committing suicide than are dying in combat overseas. One in every three homeless men in the United States has put on a uniform and served his country. On any given night, the U.S. government estimates 200,000 veterans sleep on the street.
U.S.: Bush Foreign Policy Legacy Short of Disastrous
- Inter Press Service
While in a farewell press conference Monday George W. Bush once again expressed the belief that his eight-year presidency, particularly his foreign-policy record, will be vindicated by history, the portents are not particularly good.
U.S.: Networks' Int'l News Coverage at Record Low in 2008
- Inter Press Service
Despite two wars involving more than 200,000 U.S. troops and a global economic crisis, foreign-related news coverage by the three major U.S. television networks fell to a record low during 2008, according to the latest annual review of network news coverage by the authoritative Tyndall Report.
IRAQ: It Could be More Than Three Years to US Departure
- Inter Press Service
Washington and Baghdad signed a security agreement earlier this month allowing the U.S. to maintain a military presence in Iraq for another three years. But while Baghdad officials hailed the pact as the 'beginning of the end' of the U.S.-led occupation, Egyptian commentators -- like much of the Iraqi opposition -- say the agreement simply reflects U.S. strategic interests.
MEDIA: Deaths Down, But Iraq Still Top Danger Zone
- Inter Press Service
The improved security in Iraq has had benefits for everyone there. This has included fewer Iraqi civilian deaths, U.S. casualties, and, says a new report, journalists.
POLITICS: U.S. Military Defiant on Key Terms of Iraqi Pact
- Inter Press Service
U.S. military leaders and Pentagon officials have made it clear through public statements and deliberately leaked stories in recent weeks that they plan to violate a central provision of the U.S.-Iraq withdrawal agreement requiring the complete withdrawal of all U.S. combat troops from Iraqi cities by mid-2009 by reclassifying combat troops as support troops.
BOOKS-US: When Neocons Ruled Washington
- Inter Press Service
In the first two pages of his book on the neoconservative movement, historian Stephen Sniegoski tells us that U.S. Mideast policy during the George W. Bush presidency has been 'colossally erroneous' and 'disastrous to U.S. interests', that the Iraq War is a 'blunder of colossal proportions', and that an attack on Iran is a 'highly likely' 'disaster' unless the country 'eschews all elements of the Middle East war policy'.
IRAQ: Looking After Pockets, Not Patients
- Inter Press Service
A nurse at Baquba General Hospital asked Ahmed Ali, who co-authored this report, for a bribe to look after his sick baby. It was hardly an exceptional demand. Patients around Iraq have begun commonly to speak of the need to bribe medical staff to get some form of care.
RIGHTS: Politics Still Reign Over Principles at U.N.
- Inter Press Service
The United Nations Wednesday commemorated the 60th anniversary of the landmark Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) against the backdrop of widespread political repression -- most notably in Zimbabwe, Sudan, Burma (Myanmar), Iraq, Afghanistan and in the Israeli-occupied territories of West Bank and Gaza.
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