5/23 End of the Empire: US Losing All Across the Middle East
End of the Empire is a twice-monthly feature on all news relating to the transition from the unipolar world…
Tag: Iraq
Conservative Estimate Suggests 4.5 Million, Mostly Children, Were Killed in America’s Post-9/11 Wars
The common refrain is that 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust during World War II. In the nations…
Arizona Senate Passes Law Forbidding Use of National Guard for Warfighting Without Congressional Declaration of War
PHOENIX, Arizona. March 21st, 2023. The Arizona state senate just passed a version of what is now becoming commonly…
Iraq Agrees to Finance Trade with China in Yuan Over Dollars
Two decades after the US launched a full-scale war to overthrow Saddam Hussein and remake Iraq in the image…
The Skewed Perception of Putin’s Invasion Has led to Current Disastrous Escalation
PC: Dnipropetrovska ODA KYIV, Ukraine, October 10th, 2022. Russia has launched a massive rocket attack on critical infrastructure sites…
3,400 Year-Old Bronze Age City Emerges from a Drought Stricken Reservoir in Iraq
PICTURED: An aerial view of Kemune Palace from the west, near the Tigris River in Iraq. PC: Universities of…
“The Fall of Kabul” Moment was Stark—As Could be the Fall of Baghdad
PICTURED: On the left, an image of the helicopter rescue from the Fall of Saigon, 1975. On the right,…
U.S. Military Endure 4 Days of Continuous Rocket Fire in Iraq as Militias “Get the Message” and Retaliate
PICTURED: Protestors gather outside the Baghdad Embassy Compound, Iraq. Story at a glance… 4 days have passed of rocket…
With Bombs Biden “Sends Message” to Iran: One Child Killed, U.S. Personnel Shelled
ANBAR, Iraq. June 28th, 2021. President Biden ordered the second bombing of Iraqi military forces along the Syrian border…
America’s Iraqi Allies from 2004 to 2007, Shi’ite Militias Agree to Kill Americans Until We Leave
PICTURED: Members of Iraq’s Kataeb Hezbollah militia. Photo credit: AFP. Fair Use. An unofficial ceasefire in Iraq has just…
Following Biden’s Bombings in Syria VA Senator Kaine “Insists” on Changes
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire. August 13th, 2016. PICUTRED: Vice-Presidential candidate Tim Kaine at a Clinton/Kaine rally, St. Anselm College. Photo…
Wracked by Decades of War Mosul Museums and Monuments Try and Rebuild
MOSUL, Iraq. March 18th, 2018. PICTURED: The ruins of the al-Nuri Mosque, in which only the dome and the…
Trump Rushes to Fulfill Foreign Policy Promises Before November Elections
PICTURED: William Ruger, speaking with attendees at the 2017 Young Americans for Liberty National Convention. Photo credit: Gage Skidmore.…
U.S. Forces Withdraw From Major Iraq Base Passing the Baton to Iraqi Government
IRAQ, January 20th, 2011. PICTURED: Soldiers with the 2nd Advise and Assist Brigade, stand with the graduating Iraqi tank…
The Empire of U.S. Bases Could be the Most High Profile Case of a Coronavirus Casualty
PICTURED: A sandstorm rolls into the Al-Asad air base, Iraq. WASHINGTON. March 31st, 2019. With over 200 military bases…
Yet Again, the Trump Administration has Changed the Justification for Assassinating Soleimani.
PICTURED: General Qasem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis at the funeral of Soleimani’s father. CC 4.0 WASHINGTON, February 14,…
House Votes to Repeal 2002 AUMF For Iraq, Blocks Any Funding for Operations Against Iran
WASHINGTON D.C. January 30th, 2020. Passing 236 – 166, the House of Representatives repealed the 2002 Authorization for the…
17 Years After Operation Iraqi Freedom, Is Iraq Our Enemy Once Again?
PICTURED: The Iraqi parliament building convening to vote in new cabinet members in October of 2018. Photo credit Kurdistan24.…
Is Confronting Iran More Important Than Preventing IS Return? Can Trump Have Both?
PICTURED: Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis at the funeral of Qasem Soleimani’s father. CC 4.0 IRAQ, January 10th, 2020. U.S. airstrikes…
How Would A Pence Oval Office Look On The World Stage?
WASHINGTON D.C. Thursday, December 19th, 2019. The U.S. House of Representatives, after several months of hearing testimony on the…
