Iraq - Salon.com http://dir.salon.com/topics/iraq/?source=rss&aim=iraq en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT Obama's foreign policy report card By Juan Cole Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/26/obama_report_card/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/26/obama_report_card/index.html?source=rss You'd never know it from the MSM, but he deserves high grades for his work so far in Iran, Iraq and Pakistan The sleazy advocacy of a leading "liberal hawk" By Glenn Greenwald Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/11/12/galbraith/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/11/12/galbraith/index.html?source=rss Peter Galbraith's vast, undisclosed financial interests in the policies he spent years advocating as an "expert." U.S. troops are hostages of Iraq's broken democracy By Juan Cole Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/30/iraq_election/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/30/iraq_election/index.html?source=rss Iraq doesn't know how to hold an election, and we shouldn't stick around to teach them at gunpoint The blowback from the Baghdad bombings By Juan Cole Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/25/iraq_bombings/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/25/iraq_bombings/index.html?source=rss Two blasts kill more than 100 in Iraq. Will hawks use the attacks to argue against American troop withdrawal? The end of the Pax Americana? By Michael Lind Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/09/29/obama_pax_americana/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/09/29/obama_pax_americana/index.html?source=rss Obama has the chance to end our Cold War hangover, and start an era where the U.S. is not the sole global policeman Newspaper punished for criticizing Iraqi leader By Glenn Greenwald Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/11/11/iraq/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/11/11/iraq/index.html?source=rss The increasingly autocratic behavior of Maliki highlights the folly of "spreading freedom" through occupations How similar are the cases against Iran and Iraq? By Glenn Greenwald Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/09/30/iran/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/09/30/iran/index.html?source=rss The NYT explores whether government and media behavior now differ from what happened in 2002. David Brooks: our nation's premier expert warrior By Glenn Greenwald Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/09/25/brooks/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/09/25/brooks/index.html?source=rss The NYT columnist's shameful war record should discredit him for life. Why does the opposite happen? Our war-loving Foreign Policy Community hasn't gone anywhere By Glenn Greenwald Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/09/21/iran/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/09/21/iran/index.html?source=rss The belief that Iraq taught America's "experts" a lesson about anything is wrong. Homophobia on the rise in the Muslim world By Juliane von Mittelstaedt and Daniel Steinvorth Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/18/gay_muslim/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/18/gay_muslim/index.html?source=rss As recent incidents in Iraq show, in many Islamic countries, gays are ostracized, persecuted, even murdered In Iraq, freedom is marching backward By Glenn Greenwald Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/09/15/iraq/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/09/15/iraq/index.html?source=rss Other than providing a huge gift to our Mortal Persian Enemies, what was accomplished by the attack? After Black Wednesday, tensions between Iraq and Syria simmer By Juan Cole Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/09/08/cole_syria/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/09/08/cole_syria/index.html?source=rss Leaders try to reconcile as Iraqi protestors claim Syrian complicity in attacks that left 60 dead Norway's Iraqi ace-in-the-oil-well By Andrew Leonard Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/08/31/the_norwegian_iraqi/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/08/31/the_norwegian_iraqi/index.html?source=rss If not for a case of cerebral palsy, would the course of North Sea oil development be radically different? The media can't handle the truth By Gene Lyons Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/08/27/lyons/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/08/27/lyons/index.html?source=rss Media sheep facing truth-hungry Internet wolves Al-Hakim's death unsettles Iraqi politics By Juan Cole Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/08/27/al_hakim/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/08/27/al_hakim/index.html?source=rss As elections draw nearer, the passing of the Shiite leader raises questions about the future of his coalition "It is pointless to talk to al-Qaida" By Gabor Steingart and Gregor Peter Schmitz Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/08/18/nye/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/08/18/nye/index.html?source=rss Joseph Nye talks about Obama's use of hard and soft power in Afghanistan, and what he learned from Henry Kissinger Biden in Baghdad By Gabriel Winant Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/07/02/biden_iraq/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/07/02/biden_iraq/index.html?source=rss The vice president, now the administration's point man on Iraq, drops in to talk to officials, troops Defusing bombs at 115 degrees By Andrew O'Hehir Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2009/06/26/bigelow/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2009/06/26/bigelow/index.html?source=rss Action queen Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal talk about "The Hurt Locker," their pulse-elevating Iraq drama Interview with Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/ifc/2009/06/26/btm_hurtlocker/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/ifc/2009/06/26/btm_hurtlocker/index.html?source=rss The filmmakers talk about telling the story of "the world's most dangerous job" The hidden hand of Dick Cheney By Juan Cole Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/05/13/cheney/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/05/13/cheney/index.html?source=rss Out of office, he continues to push his tortured version of reality -- and his vision of an imperial presidency -- and there are signs he is succeeding. A secret e-mail argument among psychologists about torture By Sheri Fink Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/05/08/apa_listserv/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/05/08/apa_listserv/index.html?source=rss Private messages reveal a dispute at the highest levels about the proper role of psychologists in interrogation, and whether cooperating with the Bush administration was unethical. Farewell to the American Century By Andrew Bacevich Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/04/30/bacevich/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/04/30/bacevich/index.html?source=rss Americans have perpetuated a mythic version of the past that never even approximated reality and today has become downright malignant. Obama wants $83.4 billion for Iraq, Afghanistan By Alex Koppelman Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/04/09/war_funding/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/04/09/war_funding/index.html?source=rss If Congress approves the president's request, the total cost of the two wars will reach almost $1 trillion.