Photo: Kathy with Girl in Iraq
The Plight of Iraqi
Refugees in Jordan
(Attuned to ‘Tom and Jerry’)
By KATHY KELLY
Counterpunch
July 24, 2007
JORDAN–Last week, Umm Daoud, (her name means “Mother of Daoud”), met me and three friends at a bridge that crosses into her neighborhood. It was just after sundown; the streets were darkening as she guided us […]

Conservative Newspaper
Calls for Iraq Troop
Withdrawal
Questions Bush’s
‘Mental Stability’
Other Major Papers
Calling for War’s End
By E&P Staff
Editor & Publisher
July 16, 2007
NEW YORK — The Pittsburgh newspaper owned by conservative billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife yesterday called the Bush administration’s plans to stay the course in Iraq a “prescription for American suicide.”
The editorial in the Tribune-Review added, “And quite […]

Photo:
Private Contractors

Private contractors
now outnumber U.S.
troops in Iraq
New U.S. data show how heavily
the Bush administration has relied
on corporations to carry out the
occupation of the war-torn nation.
By T. Christian Miller
LA Times Staff Writer
July 4, 2007
The number of U.S.-paid private contractors in Iraq now exceeds that of American combat troops, newly released figures show, raising fresh questions about […]