crisis in iraq

While avoiding ground invasions, Obama has actually doubled down on the War on Terror with ever-widening drone attacks in Pakistan, Yemen, and elsewhere. He imitated Bush’s surge in Iraq with one of his own in Afghanistan, which has been even less successful, neither defeating the Taliban..

europe’s refugee crisis

Estimates suggest that 80 percent of the refugees currently begging entrance to Europe are from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan — countries decimated by decades of Western and war, and the violence of dictatorial regimes like Syria's Bashar al-Assad and the reactionary forces of Islamic State Iraq and..

race, surveillance, and empire

Significantly, the racial underpinnings of the War on Terror sustain not just domestic repression but foreign abuses—the war’s vast death toll in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, and elsewhere could not be sustained without the dehumanization of its Muslim victims. ..

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