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      Trump pardons Blackwater contractors jailed for massacre of Iraq civilians

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      Four guards fired on unarmed crowd in Baghdad in 2007, killing 14 and sparking outrage over use of private security in war zonesDonald Trump has pardoned four security guards from the private military firm Blackwater who were serving jail sentences for killing 14 civilians including two children in Baghdad in 2007, a massacre that sparked an international outcry over the use of mercenaries in war.The four guards – Paul Slough, Evan Liberty, Dustin Heard and Nicholas Slatten – were part of an armoured convoy that opened fire indiscriminately with machine-guns, grenade launchers and a sniper on a crowd of unarmed people in a square in the Iraqi capital. Continue reading… More

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      The Murdoch media’s China coronavirus conspiracy has one aim: get Trump re-elected | Kevin Rudd

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      News Corporation The Murdoch media’s China coronavirus conspiracy has one aim: get Trump re-elected Kevin Rudd News Corp is campaigning full-bore for the US president, with reports of a Wuhan lab ‘intelligence’ dossier being seeded across its empire On the China coronavirus lab conspiracy, ‘let’s be clear: Murdoch is campaigning full-bore for Trump,’ the former […] More

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      Iraq Faces Insecurity Alone

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      In late March, the US-led coalition, operating under the auspices of Operation Inherent Resolve, announced that it was relocating most of its personnel and equipment out of Iraq. By early April, the coalition already completed the transfer of four major bases hosting US-led troops back to Iraqi security forces. What Departing From Iraq Would Mean […] More

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      What Departing From Iraq Would Mean

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      In January, the US assassinated two crucial military figures — Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy head of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) — on Iraqi territory. This led the Iraqi parliament to vote in favor of the departure of all foreign forces from Iraq. The US refused, saying that […] More

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      George W Bush paved the way for Trump – to rehabilitate him is appalling | Arwa Mahdawi

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      George W Bush paved the way for Trump – to rehabilitate him is appalling Arwa Mahdawi We don’t have to rewrite the former president’s record just because the incumbent is unleashing his own campaign of shock and awfulness George W Bush visits Biloxi, Mississippi, in September 2005. Parts of the city were completely destroyed by […] More

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      Why did Trump order the killing of Iran's Qassem Suleimani? – video explainer

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      Play Video 3:40 Qassem Suleimani, who was killed in a US drone strike in Baghdad, was widely considered to be the most powerful man in Iran after the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – and Iran’s leading military figure.  Suleimani’s assassination has plunged the Middle East into a crisis that seems likely to lead to further escalation between […] More