http://dahrjamailiraq.com/covering_iraq/ en-us Copyright 2008 Sat, 04 Mar 2006 16:00:46 +0000 Sat, 17 May 2008 03:48:10 +0000 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.01D http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Perspectives on the historical origins of the systematic torture of Iraqis at US hands.... http://dahrjamailiraq.com/covering_iraq/archives/commentary/000371.php http://dahrjamailiraq.com/covering_iraq/archives/commentary/000371.php Commentary Sat, 04 Mar 2006 16:00:46 +0000 On 1 February 2006 in Doha, Qatar, I interviewed Mr. Samir Khader, Program Editor for Al-Jazeera Channel. Mr. Khader was a key personality in the highly acclaimed documentary “Control Room” about Al-Jazeera. I asked him questions about his channel, Bush’s... http://dahrjamailiraq.com/covering_iraq/archives/interviews/000358.php http://dahrjamailiraq.com/covering_iraq/archives/interviews/000358.php Interviews Mon, 06 Feb 2006 14:30:35 +0000 “War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.” - Antoine De Saint-Exupery The Voice of America’s Washington DC based bureau daily radio broadcast promotes President Bush’s State of the Union battle cry for global democracy... http://dahrjamailiraq.com/covering_iraq/archives/commentary/000353.php http://dahrjamailiraq.com/covering_iraq/archives/commentary/000353.php Commentary Fri, 27 Jan 2006 23:26:10 +0000 In July, 2003, Karen Kwiatkowski retired as a lieutenant colonel from the U.S. Air Force, having served since 1978. From May, 2002, to February, 2003, Karen Kwiatkowski served in the Pentagon’s Near East and South Asia directorate (NESA). Dr. Kwiatkowski... http://dahrjamailiraq.com/covering_iraq/archives/interviews/000352.php http://dahrjamailiraq.com/covering_iraq/archives/interviews/000352.php Interviews Fri, 27 Jan 2006 02:08:08 +0000 The torture of Iraqi detainees by US military forces is undeniable. We now know the Bush administration condoned torture even before Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom was launched upon Afghanistan and Iraq, in this post-9/11 hysteria of terrorist... http://dahrjamailiraq.com/covering_iraq/archives/commentary/000328.php http://dahrjamailiraq.com/covering_iraq/archives/commentary/000328.php Commentary Tue, 29 Nov 2005 21:11:56 +0000 On September 29, 2005, shortly after 8 p.m., Amal Kadhum Swadi, and her youngest son Safa were arrested by U.S. forces in the Ghazaliya district of Baghdad on suspicion of planting an improvised explosive device.... http://dahrjamailiraq.com/covering_iraq/archives/commentary/000316.php http://dahrjamailiraq.com/covering_iraq/archives/commentary/000316.php Commentary Wed, 09 Nov 2005 18:26:02 +0000 On Saturday morning, October 2nd, hours after the Pentagon officially launched ‘Operation Iron Fist’, the Associated Press reported, “About 1,000 U.S. troops, backed by attack helicopters, swarmed into a tiny Iraqi village near the Syrian border Saturday in an offensive... http://dahrjamailiraq.com/covering_iraq/archives/commentary/000297.php http://dahrjamailiraq.com/covering_iraq/archives/commentary/000297.php Commentary Sat, 08 Oct 2005 04:28:05 +0000 Pablo Picasso. Guernica, 1937. Securitizing the Global Norm of Identity: Biometric Technologies in Domestic and Foreign Policy For presentation at Global Norms Under Siege: Non-Intervention, Human Rights, and Abstention from Torture, 20 May 2005, Queen's University Belfast, N. Ireland.... http://dahrjamailiraq.com/covering_iraq/archives/commentary/000277.php http://dahrjamailiraq.com/covering_iraq/archives/commentary/000277.php Commentary Sat, 17 Sep 2005 13:24:18 +0000 Journalist, author, and lecturer, David Barsamian is perhaps best known as the founder and director of Alternative Radio, a weekly one-hour public affairs program that began in 1986 and today reaches millions of listeners from on top of an alleyway... http://dahrjamailiraq.com/covering_iraq/archives/interviews/000179.php http://dahrjamailiraq.com/covering_iraq/archives/interviews/000179.php Interviews Wed, 23 Feb 2005 09:00:00 +0000 Quare siletis juristae in munere vestro? (Why are you jurists silent about that which concerns you?) —Giorgio Agamben Remembering the first siege of Fallujah: excerpts from testimony submitted to the World Tribunal on Iraq, Session on Media Wrongs against Humanity,... http://dahrjamailiraq.com/covering_iraq/archives/commentary/000197.php http://dahrjamailiraq.com/covering_iraq/archives/commentary/000197.php Commentary Tue, 15 Feb 2005 02:33:04 +0000 Operation Iraqi Freedom revisited. When President George Bush announced ten days ago that “the survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands,” he drew upon a notion with deeper roots in the... http://dahrjamailiraq.com/covering_iraq/archives/commentary/000191.php http://dahrjamailiraq.com/covering_iraq/archives/commentary/000191.php Commentary Sun, 30 Jan 2005 21:33:38 +0000 Kevin Benderman is a mechanic who is trained to fix Bradley armored vehicles. On December 20, 2004, he applied for conscientious objector status. Yesterday he made time to talk with us about his decision.... http://dahrjamailiraq.com/covering_iraq/archives/interviews/000180.php http://dahrjamailiraq.com/covering_iraq/archives/interviews/000180.php Interviews Mon, 24 Jan 2005 04:07:14 +0000 Notes on a photographic message. http://dahrjamailiraq.com/covering_iraq/archives/commentary/000177.php http://dahrjamailiraq.com/covering_iraq/archives/commentary/000177.php Commentary Thu, 20 Jan 2005 23:24:28 +0000 A word on differing standards of accountability to international agreements. In hundreds of articles over the past few weeks, our press has tirelessly reported on Iran’s uranium enrichment program, or rather—in characteristic shorthand—on “Iran’s efforts to develop the capability to... http://dahrjamailiraq.com/covering_iraq/archives/commentary/000140.php http://dahrjamailiraq.com/covering_iraq/archives/commentary/000140.php Commentary Mon, 29 Nov 2004 05:49:45 +0000 A comparison of two accounts of an attack on a Baghdad mosque followed by some observations. What gives violence legitimacy? Last Friday, in Baghdad, Iraqis attending mosque were interrupted by a US-led military assault. Several accounts of the event circulated... http://dahrjamailiraq.com/covering_iraq/archives/commentary/000138.php http://dahrjamailiraq.com/covering_iraq/archives/commentary/000138.php Commentary Fri, 26 Nov 2004 18:03:32 +0000