الحراك الشعبي في العراق ولبنان ملفات الفساد بيد الناس

The Popular Movement in Iraq and Lebanon: Corruption Files in the People's Hands

Bidayat

In the name of religion, the thieves robbed us — sectarianism isn't the cause of corruption but its cover, and the World Bank fights "corruption" with the privatization that produces it.

لا تحيّة لهذا العلم!

No Salute to This Flag!

A blue crescent reduces Arabs to Muslims, a yellow line grants Kurds exclusive nationality — Saddam in reverse, and a flag that deserves only to be torn apart in the street.

العراق: خربوا البلد وهربوا

Iraq: They Destroyed the Country and Fled

As-Safir

They destroyed the country and fled—150,000 dead, 4.7 million displaced, and Iraqis still clash with police over electricity.

العراق: هل مَن يريد للاميركيين ان يغادروا؟

Iraq: Does Anyone Want the Americans to Leave?

As-Safir

The occupation punished a whole sect for a regime's crimes and convinced Iraqi forces to define themselves sectarianly. Who actually wants the Americans to leave?

السيادة العراقية بين الاتفاق الامني وخصخصة النفط

Iraqi Sovereignty Between the Security Agreement and the Privatization of Oil

As-Safir

The occupation exits through the military window and returns through the oil gate—Basra follows Kurdistan in privatizing Iraq's wealth.

For an Arab-Kurdish Federation in Iraq

An-Nahar

Translation: Iraqi federalism should be based on the national divide, not the sectarian one—and the occupation destroyed the state, not just the regime. Kirkuk's oil belongs to all Iraqis.

العراق: حروف لنقاط النفط والدم

Iraq: Letters for the Dots of Oil and Blood

As-Safir

The occupation punished an entire sect for a regime—what's needed is Arab-Kurdish federalism and just distribution of Iraq's two rivers: water and oil.

إعدام الاحكام في إعدام صدّام

Executing Justice in Executing Saddam

As-Safir

A death sentence for accountability itself — one crime from the north, one from the south, as if the center had no victims. Sectarianizing victims instead of accounting for thirty years of policy.

The New Iraqi Flag: an exercise in identity manipulation

The new Iraqi flag (2004) was identity manipulation under occupation: erasing Arabism and Islam—and successive Iraqi flags record the country's gradual drift from secularism toward religion.

Was the Iraq War Inevitable?

Was the war inevitable? Saddam knew there were no WMD yet procrastinated—and our rulers follow Machiavelli in repression but fail to uncover traps like the fox.

Cruelty and silence in perspective – on Kanan Makiya’s book

Makiya cuts quotes to prove a uniquely Arab "cruelty"—while he himself worked for Saddam's regime: "somebody had to do it."

Renverser Saddam Hussein ou démembrer l’Irak?

Overthrowing Saddam Hussein or Dismembering Iraq?

Le Monde diplomatique

Saddam survived because Bush wanted to replace one dictator with another, not a popular uprising—and the real question is: topple him or dismember Iraq?