Month: January 2020
Iranian Messages Behind Attacking US Bases in Iraq and the Consequences
Just after midnight local time today, Iranian ballistic missiles “Fateh 313” hit two military bases in Iraq that host a significant concentration of US forces, along with other allies. The Iranian direct hit was the retaliation for the US assassination of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds brigade Sardar Qassem Soleimani and his companions, killed by a US drone at Baghdad airport last week. …
Juan Guaidó’s Parallel Reality Show
Fistfights and screaming matches broke out at Venezuela’s National Assembly on January 5th, when the assembly was scheduled to elect its leader. But it wasn’t what you might think. The fights weren’t between chavistas (those who support the Bolivarian Revolution and President Maduro) and oppositionists, but between members of the opposition itself. …
An eyewitness to the horrors of the US ‘forever wars’ speaks out
Editor’s note: Kathy Kelly, a co-founder of Voices in the Wilderness, renamed Voices for Creative Nonviolence, is a peace activist who, from the start of the first Gulf War in 1991, has traveled to U.S. war zones. From Baghdad and Basra in Iraq to Kabul in Afghanistan, she sought to bridge the language of enemies and counter the violence with personal witness, often writing accounts that countered the misleading appraisals of U.S. officials. …
