Dahr Jamail: Hard News from Occupied Iraq
Dahr Jamail
Investigative Journalist, Author

  • No free press in Iraq
    Attacks on both local and international journalists across Iraq have not stopped to this day, finds Al Jazeera. Baghdad, Iraq – Iraq has been one of the deadliest countries in the world for journalists since 2003. While scores of newspapers and media outlets blossomed across Baghdad following the removal of Saddam Hussein’s regime in the [...]

  • Iraq: A country in shambles
    Despite promises made for improvements, Iraq’s economy and infrastructure are still a disaster. Baghdad, Iraq – As a daily drumbeat of violence continues to reverberate across Iraq, people here continue to struggle to find some sense of normality, a task made increasingly difficult due to ongoing violence and the lack of both water and electricity. [...]

  • Western oil firms remain as US exits Iraq
    The end of the US military occupation does not mean Iraqis have full control of their oil. Baghdad, Iraq – While the US military has formally ended its occupation of Iraq, some of the largest western oil companies, ExxonMobil, BP and Shell, remain. On November 27, 38 months after Royal Dutch Shell announced its pursuit [...]

  • Fallujah babies: Under a new kind of siege
    Doctors and residents blame US weapons for catastrophic levels of birth defects in Fallujah’s newborns. Fallujah, Iraq – While the US military has formally withdrawn from Iraq, doctors and residents of Fallujah are blaming weapons like depleted uranium and white phosphorous used during two devastating US attacks on Fallujah in 2004 for what are being [...]

  • Wave of bombings leaves scores dead in Iraq
    At least 70 killed and more than 100 wounded in the latest attacks in mainly Shia areas across the country. Dahr Jamail reporting from Baghdad on Thursday’s bombing targeting Shia pilgrims in southern Iraq. Read the story at Al Jazeera English.

  • Seven Years After Sieges, Fallujah Struggles
    With their city largely destroyed by two US military assaults, residents of Fallujah continue to suffer. Fallujah, Iraq – Fallujah still bears the scars of war; skeletons continue to be pulled from the rubble of bombed buildings, and, worse, rates of birth defects and childhood malformations have skyrocketed. There is evidence of reconstruction, but shortages [...]

  • Rivals Say Maliki Leading Iraq to ‘Civil War’
    Iraq’s deputy Prime Minister accuses Nouri al-Maliki of acting like “a dictator” amid fears of “chaos and civil war.” Baghdad, Iraq – Less than 24 hours after the US military withdrew the last of its occupation forces from Iraq, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered an arrest warrant for Vice-President Tariq al-Hashimi on terrorism charges. Maliki, [...]

  • World’s Oceans in Peril
    Climate change is causing our oceans to become increasingly acidic, threatening to alter life as we know it. “From a climate change/fisheries/pollution/habitat destruction point of view, our nightmare is here, it’s the world we live in.” This bleak statement about the current status of the world’s oceans comes from Dr Wallace Nichols, a Research Associate [...]

  • Can Herman Cain Deliver?
    Presidential hopeful Herman Cain, while controversial, has a possible chance of winning the Republican nomination. “Many of the Muslims, they are not totally dedicated to this country,” GOP campaigner Herman Cain said in March. “They are not dedicated to our Constitution. Many of them are trying to force Sharia law on the people of this [...]

  • The Pipeline of ‘Poison’
    The aftermath of a tar sands oil spill in Michigan has left a community with sickness, anger, and loss of livelihood. Deb Miller lives less than 30 metres from the Kalamazoo River in central Michigan, site of one of the largest inland tar sands oil disasters in US history. In July 2010, nearly four million [...]