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May 3, 2005 - Iraq Watch Discontinued
Due to time constraints and a reprioritization of resources, Media Mouse will be discontinuing the Iraq Watch feature for the foreseeable future. Media Mouse will continue to provide news and analysis pertaining to Iraq on the main page as part...
April 22, 2005 - Week # 043
Humanitarian Worker Killed in Iraq On Saturday April 16, humanitarian aid worker and activist Marla Ruzicka died in a car bombing in Iraq. She was the founder of a group called Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict. Since 2002 she...
April 15, 2005 - Week #042
Occupation and Reconstruction are an "Economic Catastrophe" After two years of occupation, news continues to come in regarding the dismal state of Iraq's economy and the lives of its citizens as promises by the United States to rebuild the country...
April 8, 2005 - Week #041
Occupation Watch Website Redesigned The Occupation Watch website has been restructured into a news and information resource focusing on the U.S./coalition occupation of Iraq. Every day, they will be posting a selection of the most significant English-language news articles on...
April 1, 2005 - Week # 040
New Iraq "Intelligence" Report Once Again Confirms Administration Lied A "final analysis" of the intelligence distortions leading up to the invasion of Iraq has placed the majority of the blame on the United States' spy agencies while leaving the Bush...
March 25, 2005 - Week # 039
800 Anti-War Protests Across the United States This last weekend, tens of thousands of people turned out for anti-war protests across the country, marking the second anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The protests, of which there were approximately...
March 18, 2005 - Week # 038
The Invasion and Occupation of Iraq: Two Years Later The invasion and occupation of Iraq have taken a devastating toll on the people of Iraq. While estimates vary, between 15,000 and 100,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed during the invasion...
March 11, 2005 - Week # 037
Report Shows Pentagon Missed Chances to "Correct" Detainee Abuse A number of recent news stories have revealed that the military is refusing to take responsibility of the actions of its members with regard to the abuse of detainees. In many...
March 4, 2005 - Week # 036
Women in Iraq The Bush administration regularly claim that women in Iraq are "more free" since the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. This claim is, not surprisingly, completely false. Life for women in Iraq has become less safe and...
February 25, 2005 - Week # 035
Nader Announces Democracy Rising 'Stop the War' Campaign On Thursday Ralph Nader held a press conference announcing a new "Stop the War" project by the organization Democracy Rising. The purpose of the "Stop the War" campaign is "to bring the...
February 18, 2005 - Week #034
Iraqi Prisoner Died in Handcuffs During CIA Torture (From Democracy Now! 2/18/2005) A major expose by the Associated Press has revealed that an Iraqi whose corpse was photographed with grinning U.S. soldiers at Abu Ghraib died under CIA interrogation while...
February 11, 2005 - Week #033
The Iraqi Election: News and Iraqi Voices Since the election two weeks ago there has been a large number of articles published about the election and what it might mean both for the future of Iraq and the ongoing occupation....
February 4, 2005 - week #032
Iraq Election Commentary Earlier this week, something sort of resembling an election (with 175 attacks that killed 44 people) took place in Iraq. While there has been plenty of mainstream coverage of this supposed "turning point" in the occupation of...
January 28, 2005 - Week #031
Voting Problems Likely in Iraq Election While the threat of violence will certainly be omnipresent in Sunday's election, there is also a likelihood that widespread voter disenfranchisement will come as a result of a poorly administered election. Even the US...
January 14, 2005 - Week #030
Politicians Slowly Beginning to Urge Withdrawal from Iraq Despite Senator John Kerry and the Democratic Party's pro-occupation stance and support for the removal of Saddam Hussein from power, a group of sixteen Democracts in the House of Representatives have written...
December 17, 2004 - Week #029
Oil for Food and the Corporate Press, War Costs Exceed Estimates, Iraq Election Articles
December 10, 2004 - Week #028
More Pessimism on Iraq from Government Sources, Pictures of Iraqi Victims, Relatively Low U.S. Fatalities Belie True Number of Casualties, Independent Voices from Iraq: Patrick Cockburn
December 2, 2004 - Week #027
More Troops Headed to Iraq, Grand Rapids Press Highlights High School Student Support of Iraq War, Legal Actions Challenge Occupation of Iraq, Halliburton Facing More Problems in Iraq; Proposes to Sell Great Lakes Water, Fallujah Coverage from Al-Jazeera
November 19, 2004 - Week #026
Possible War Crimes in Fallujah, Accounts from Inside Fallujah, Humanitarian Margaret Hassan Executed, 47 Iraqi Political Parties to Boycott Elections
November 12, 2004 - Week #025
The Assault on Fallujah, Economic Policies another Type of Violence in Iraq, Fallujah Assault a Possible Reawakening of Antiwar Movement
November 5, 2004 - Week #024
"The Coalition" Keeps Getting Smaller, Fallujah, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and the Iraqi Resistance, Massive Attack on Oil Pipeline Indicative of Flawed Reconstruction Plan,
October 29, 2004 - Week #023
New Study puts Iraqi casualties at 100,000, Reporters Without Borders: Iraq "world's deadliest country for journalists", FBI Launches Criminal Probe of Halliburton, "Dutch Approach" in Iraq leads to better relations, fewer casualties, Report: 600 Civilians Die in Fallujah Siege in April
October 22, 2004 - Week #022
The Iraq war and Globalization, 70,000 March against Iraq war in London, Humanitarian aid worker taken hostage in Iraq, Muslim scholars arrested in Iraq
October 14, 2004 - Week #021
James Baker's use of his Role for Illegal Business Deal, Justification for War Keeps Falling Apart, Classified Documents Relating to Abu Ghraib Prison Abuse Posted Online, Stories of U.S. troop Atrocities by Semour Hersh, US soldiers arrested for disobeying orders
October 8, 2004 - Week #020
US air strike hits wedding party, Video reveals possible US war crime in Iraq, Anti-feminist group hired to train Iraqi women, Official U.S. Report Finds Saddam Had No WMDs, Iraq's water, sanitation services failing, Paul Bremer to visit Grand Rapids
October 1, 2004 - Week #019
Outsourcing the War in Iraq, One out of four children in Iraq Malnourished, More Spin on Iraq, New Report claims that the "Transition" has failed, Soldier faces possible disloyalty charges for writing essay, Understanding the Iraqi Factions
September 23, 2004 - Week #018
Growing Unrest in the Military, Final Report: No WMD in Iraq, Bush and Kerry on Iraq, Iraq a Dangerous Place for Companies Involved in Reconstruction Contracts
September 17, 2004 - Week #017
U.S. gunships kill 13 in Bahgdad and an Al Arabiya reporter, U.N. Secretary General Annon calls Iraq war Illegal, U.S. continues bombing in Fallujah, CIA report Shows Pessimism on Iraq's Future, 17,000 GIs not listed as casualties, Italian humanitarian workers kidnapped by Undercover Police?
September 9, 2004 - Week #016
Fighting continues across Iraq: civilians continue to pay the price, U.S. Troop casualties hit 1,000 dead, Al Jezeera ban extended by Iraq Interim Government, Najaf: the aftermath - News and commentary, Halliburton may lose logistics contract in Iraq
September 3, 2004 - Week #015
Assessing the Battle of Najaf, Kerry and the Torture Report, Protests against the RNC, Bush Speaks at the RNC, Iraq Veterans: Stop Talking about Vietnam, Medicine Shortage in Iraq
August 27, 2004 - Week #014
Fighting Ends in Najaf, RNC Protests, Attack on Oil Pipelines, Blair to be Impeached, Abu Ghraib Abuse Report
August 20, 2004 - Week #013
Second Week of Fighting in Najaf The second week of fighting in Najaf has led to what some believe is an escalation of US military activity in Iraq. Islam Online has reported that US warplanes bombed Najaf on August 19,...
August 13, 2004 - Week #012
Fighting in Najaf, Media and Iraq, Military Contracts and the Reconstruction of Iraq, The Fragmentation of Iraq, John Kerry's Support of Iraq, Iraqi Women and Torture, Class and the Iraq War
August 5, 2004 - Week #011
Destruction of Iraq's Cultural Heritage, New Group Claims 37,000 Civilians Killed in Iraq, Iraq "About to Explode," War Profiteering, Iraq Lies known to Bush Administration, Abu Ghraib, US Arrests Iraqi Newspaper Editor
July 30, 2004 - Week #010
DNC: Democrats refuse to take anti-war stance, Saddam Update, Labor update, Violence in Iraq on the Rise
July 23, 2004 - Week #009
Unemployment in Iraq, Mental Illness in US Soldiers, Iraqi PM Executes 6, Iraqi Government has No Control, Betsy Devos Blames Iraqi Suffering on the French, Onward to Iran
July 16, 2004 - Week #008
GR Press not Reporting all US Casualties, Iraqi Society Destabilizing, War Profiteering, UK Intelligence Report Shows Flaws, "Support the Troops" Rally, Kucinich Delegates Reach "Deal" on Democratic Platform, Sexual Assaults in Iraq
July 9, 2004 - Week #007
New Information on the Iraq War Deception, Iraq War Contracts a Failure, Violence Continues in Iraq, Iraqi Prime Minister Poised to Declare Martial Law, Tony Blair Admits no WMD in Iraq, Cheney Keeps Lying
July 2, 2004 - Week #006
Iraqi "Handunder" of Sovereignty, Iraqi Oil Revenues, Saddam Hussein on Trial, Iraq War Propaganda in Grand Rapids, Fahrenheit 9/11
June 25, 2004 - Week #005
New Study on the Costs of Iraq War, Negroponte as US Ambassador to Iraq, "Reconstruction" of Iraq a Myth, US Stops Effort to get War Crimes Immunity, O'Reilly: Iraqis a Primitive Group
June 17, 2004 - Week #004
Handover of Sovereignty, War Profiteering in Iraq, Bush Administration Lying about Al-Qaeda/Iraq Link, Iraqi Views on the Occupation
June 11, 2004 - Week #003
Torture as Policy and Violations of Occupation Law, Allawi Organized Terrorist Attacks in Iraq Years Ago, Iraqi Viewpoints Rarely Heard, Remembering Ronald Regan and Iraq, Terrorist Attacks Increased in 2003, Protests against the Occupation
June 4, 2004 - Week #002
Dick Cheney, Halliburton, and War Profiteering, Abu Ghraib Abuse, New Iraqi Government, Iraq Lies, Labor and Civil Society in Iraq, Protests and Direct Action
May 28, 2004 - Week #001
Bush Addresses the Nation on Iraq, Media on Iraq, War Profiteering, Protests against the Occupation