It seems as though every major city in Iraq is on the verge of collapse. The occupation must end.

“Attacks on British troops have increased significantly recently. Roadside bombs target British armored convoys and their barracks come under frequent mortar attacks … The sources said Basra was in the midst of “huge chaos” with the political factions and their militias dividing the city into zones of influence.”

“Fallujah, which is largely sympathetic to the Iraqi resistance, was assaulted twice by the U.S. military in 2004 … The second attack in November destroyed roughly three-quarters of the city of 350,000 residents.”

“With up to 2,000 Iraqi refugees arriving each day, adding to the 1.5 million – equivalent to around 8 percent of the Syrian population – who have flooded into Syria since the start of the US-led war on Iraq in 2003, economists and refugee experts warn of a looming social and economic crisis.”

–Demand and end to oppression and poverty.

–Support the struggle against oppression.

–The quest for socialism continues.

–Sure, the split is over those who do not understand that there is still inequality together with those that profit off there still being inequality against those that continually suffer from oppression based on the colour of their skin and historical injustices.

–More death in Iraq.

–If only the PM was listening.

–Wow. There is so much bad science language in this article one does not know where to start. It is an awfully strange species concept where the simple swapping of DNA can lead to a change of one species into another.

–Or at least that is what the title should have read.

–The PQ becomes less militant.

–Without a well paid and supplied staff there is no such thing as good healthcare. Support the workers. Demand public healthcare that is funded properly.

–As the news and corporations (see CN) tries to vilify the First Nations protesters for trying to get the message out that they are suffering from direct oppression from the Canadian State I would suggest that you support their rights to highlight and fight against that oppression. When talks give nothing for decades action is the only alternative.

“In February, the US agreed to accept 7,000 Iraqi refugees this year, a large jump over the fewer than 700 Iraqis accepted by the US in the first three years of the war … The US accepted only about 600 refugees from Vietnam between 1954 and 1974. The floodgates opened after the fall of Saigon, with the first wave composed largely of Vietnamese who had worked with Americans in that country.”

Also see: 2000 Iraq Refugees A Day Crossing Into Syria | Iraq Slogger

“Correspondents say it has been the biggest strike since the end of apartheid in 1994.”

“What struck me about Ward Churchill’s essay that caused the stir leading to his current troubles, ‘The Roosting of Chickens’ and the thing about little Eichmanns was that it was not that radical a piece of writing.”

“In March, Human Rights Watch charged that the seven former Guantanamo detainees had been tortured or harassed and abused by Russian law enforcement agents since their return.”

It would be interesting to know how many ex-captives from Guantanamo have either died or disappeared since their release.

–Noam Chomsky writing in the Monthly Review. Can you really resist reading it?

–I could not resist posting this.

–Robert Fisk says it like it is.