Is the detritus of the Iraq war harming the babies of Fallujah?
by Dan Murphy | Christian Science Monitor on 04-11-2012
The toll of the Iraq war will be counted for years, in its impacts on politics and on the health of survivors. The study is the latest reminder that wars don't necessarily end when the guns fall silent
New evidence that US invasion has produced epidemic of birth defects in Iraq
by Fred Mazelis on 28-10-2012
A new study confirms, not for the first time, the horrific price paid by the Iraqi people for the US-led invasion of their country in 2003, and the 2004 bombing campaign and assaults on the city of Fallujah in particular. Eight years after the attacks on Fallujah, a majority-Sunni city about 40 miles west of Baghdad where the resistance to the invasion had been tenacious, the consequences of this collective punishment, illegal under international law, are continuing to unfold.
"After the Fire, the Fire Still Burns": Horror Goes on for Victims of Iraq War Atrocities
by Chris Floyd on 20-10-2012
Although the wary pundits who criticized the early chemical weapons stories were wrong about this particular case, they were right about the overarching truth of the situation: the invasion and occupation of Iraq was ian horrific war crime in itself, regardless of what weapons or tactics were or were not used. Even without the chemical weapons, the death squads, the tortures of Abu Ghraib, the rapes and rampages, the deliberate empowerment of violent extremists, the endless barrage of lies, and the world-historical levels of corruption and war-profiteering that characterized the reality of the war, this act of aggression would still be a work of the most vile, most putrid, most irredeemable evil.
Iraq records huge rise in birth defects
by Sarah Morrison on 14-10-2012
New study links increase with military action by Western forces
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