The Iraqi Toll

Truth Is the First Casualty

"...of the initial incursion and the ongoing violence against Iraqis." That was President George W. Bush, speaking to the..."

Dec. 30, 2005 News Feature by Michael King

Strange Equation: 'Privileged College Kids and Professors' and 'Iraqi People'

"...actions of our top politicians. An estimated 650,000 innocent Iraqi people of all ages and both genders have had..."

April 19, 2007 Postmarks

Iraqi Body Counts in Dispute

"...was stated in “War Watch” [News, April 21] that "Iraqi civilian body count, as reported in the media, is..."

April 26, 2006 Postmarks

Iraqi Day of the Dead:

How to make your own mask

"...6) Prepare altars for Iraqi adult civilian casualties. As above, omitting the alcohol. Repeat..."

Oct. 29, 2004 News Feature

I Get to Decide the Rules of National Sovereignty 'and' I Know the Personal History of Most Iraqi Casualties

"..."smart" is not one of them. As for the "Iraqis that we have killed and maimed since 2003": A..."

June 24, 2004 Postmarks

Operation Iraqi... What?

Murders of Iraqi homosexuals on a terrifying rise.

April 5, 2009 Qmmunity Post by Steve Rivas

State and Local Politicians Respond to Soleimani Assassination

Officials and candidates comment on killing of Qassem Soleimani

"...legal, you needn’t consult either U.S. or Iranian officials. Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi summarized the U.S. attack...."

Jan. 6, 2020 News Post by Michael King

The Wall

Two American soldiers face off with an Iraqi sniper

"...of two U.S. soldiers pinned down by a cunning Iraqi sniper. At a trim 81 minutes and featuring just..."

May 12, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Devil's Double

Saddam Hussein's decadent and monstrous eldest son Uday forced Latif Yahia to serve as his body double, and this movie recounts his experience.

"...Hussein, the notoriously decadent and monstrous elder son of Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein. The story’s double is Latif Yahia,..."

Aug. 12, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Point Austin: Counting the Dead

Whatever their number, the Iraqi casualties lie at our feet

"...as of July 2006, there have been 654,965 excess Iraqi deaths as a consequence of the war, which corresponds..."

Nov. 17, 2006 News Column by Michael King

Amira & Sam

Cross-cultural love between a U.S. soldier and an Iraqi girl flourishes in the Big Apple.

"...recently returned army veteran and a thoroughly modern young Iraqi woman...."

Jan. 30, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

My Country, My Country

Using the Iraqi democratic elections in early 2005 as its focal point, this powerful documentary is the sad lament of Iraqis who truly want the best for their homeland, despite seemingly overwhelming odds.

"...ultimately defines a nation as a people. Using the Iraqi democratic elections in early 2005 as its focal point,..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Under the Shadow

A mother and her son are stuck in a war zone in this Iranian horror film

"...(mostly mom) begin to crack under the strain of Iraqi bombings and the mysterious, aforementioned orphan, who seems to..."

Oct. 7, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Deliver Us From Evil

A police officer and a priest team battle supernatural forces in this horror thriller from the director of Sinister.

"...cryptic Latin inscription written on the wall of an Iraqi cave. Turns out, this chance encounter opens a portal..."

July 11, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Saving Private Perez

This Mexican black comedy about a drug lord who gathers a posse to rescue his captured brother in Iraq is a huge hit in its homeland.

"...his estranged younger brother who has been captured by Iraqi armed forces. The comedy has already proved a box-office..."

Sept. 2, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

G.I. Jesus

Jesus Feliciano is a Mexican national who joins the Marines to gain U.S. citizenship and returns home from Iraq with a nasty case of post-traumatic stress disorder.

"...the only inarguable apparition in the entire film, an Iraqi doctor named Mohammed (Farhad), whose family members Jesus killed..."

March 23, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The War Tapes

As raw and disturbing as it is wry and satirical, this film gives voice to U.S. National Guard soldiers in Iraq.

"...reflects on the one confiscated tape: footage of dead Iraqis over which the soldier's commentary expresses no regret. "If..."

Sept. 22, 2006 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Jarhead

Though lacking a clear point of view, the film seems to say that war not only dehumanizes soldiers but also infantilizes them. It’s not a pretty picture, but it is a lovely film.

"...Motherfucker; girlfriends/wives are not to be trusted, ever; the Iraqi desert looks sublime when Red Adair’s not in town;..."

Nov. 4, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Control Room

A timely documentary look at Arab news network al Jazeera.

"...permitted to see on American television: prisoner-of-war interviews, bombed Iraqi children, and so on. Noujaim learned her trade in..."

June 11, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Point Austin: A Few More Shoes

An Iraqi journalist waves goodbye to the Bush era

"...year than that offered by Muntader al-Zaidi, the brave Iraqi TV journalist who finally had enough of American imperial..."

Dec. 26, 2008 News Column by Michael King

Fables of the Reconstruction

A confidential internal U.S. memo describes a Coalition / Iraqi administration sinking into chaos

"...matter-of-fact optimism. According to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Iraqi uprisings in half a dozen cities, accompanied by the..."

April 16, 2004 News Feature by Jason Vest

'I Am Sullied – No More'

Col. Ted Westhusing chose death over dishonor in Iraq

"...ruins. Tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of Iraqis are dead. Hundreds of thousands more have fled the..."

April 27, 2007 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Letters @ 3AM

The widespread and richly deserved condemnation of President Bush's new Iraq "plan" has been high on rhetoric and low on specificity

"...Bush and Dick Cheney brag about creating. Last November, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki proposed to Bush "that U.S...."

Feb. 2, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

The Military-Petroleum Complex

The Second Iraq War and the cronies of state capitalism

"...and British troops were in a furious battle with Iraqi tank companies for control of the Rumaila, Majnoon, Qurnah,..."

June 18, 2004 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Jason White's claim that the Iraqis would have happily surrendered had it not been for..."

April 18, 2003 Column

Bringing the War Home

No More Victims works for peace, one wounded child at a time

"...invasion of Iraq in March 2003. The number of Iraqis dead and injured, though undoubtedly much higher, is unknown...."

Dec. 30, 2005 News Feature by Emily Pyle

Iraqis Come Home to Austin

Refugees, fleeing violence in Iraq, struggle to get used to life in Texas

"...and April 30, 2014, the U.S. admitted over 103,000 Iraqi refugees for resettlement. According to the U.S. Department of..."

Dec. 5, 2014 News Feature by Dina Samir Shehata

Letters at 3AM

America has engaged in a long-term strategy, through three presidential administrations, to take over the Iraqi people whom we've made helpless from a ruthless form of bio-warfare.

"...entire region ... What we're seeing now [in the Iraqi people], respiratory problems, kidney problems, cancers, are the direct..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Soldier's Heart

Thousands of Iraq War veterans will come home to face serious psychological problems and a system unready to help them

"...where Private Jessica Lynch had been ambushed, he saw Iraqi soldiers, dead and rotting, dangling out of their tanks...."

Dec. 24, 2004 News Feature by Dan Frosch

The Hightower Report

Bush; and FEMA Strikes Again

"...First came the news that the Iraqi government will give no-bid contracts to ExxonMobil, Shell, BP,..."

July 4, 2008 News Column by Jim Hightower

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