I Had No Choice14 Oct 2007Original Essay for Powell’s Books “During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” ?George Orwell I never intended to be a revolutionary. In March 2003 when the U.S-led invasion of Iraq was launched I was in…
BOOK RELEASE AND NATIONAL TOUR LAUNCH14 Oct 2007Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq By Dahr Jamail with a Foreword by Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan of Democracy Now! ORDER BOOK Via Dahr Jamail’s website Via Haymarket Books PRAISE FOR BEYOND THE…
NY Times Responds Again on Fallujah23 Jul 2007Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) http://www.fair.org NY Times Responds Again on Fallujah Public editor’s second response contains factual errors 7/24/07 To paraphrase Clark Hoyt, if you’re going to defend the performance of a news organization, you at a minimum…
FAIR: NY Times Responds on Fallujah Weapons21 Jul 2007Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting: Update NY Times Public editor sides with reporter’s dismissal 7/20/07 On July 18, New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt responded to FAIR’s June 11 Action Alert “Incendiary Weapons are No Allegation.” FAIR’s action alert…
Iraq by the Numbers: Surging Past the Gates of Hell26 Jun 2007As many of you know, I’ve been a regular contributor to TomDispatch.com since December 2004. Tom Englehart, who runs this fantastic site, has just authored an incredibly telling piece about the current situation, statistically, in Iraq. Here’s a taste of…
Beyond the Green Zone – Book Tour25 Jun 2007Hello Middle East Dispatches Subscribers—Haymarket Books is pleased to announce the planning of a national speaking tour featuring Dahr Jamail, to coincide with the release of his forthcoming book Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in…
Incendiary Weapons Are No ‘Allegation’10 Jun 2007Times corrects a minor error, ignores the big one A report by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting 6/11/07 Reviewing the London-based anti-Iraq War play Fallujah, New York Times reporter Jane Perlez wrote (5/29/07), “The denunciations of the United States are…
“Baghdad is a smashed city…”26 May 2007Below is an email I have just received from my close friend and translator Abu Talat. While he has fled Baghdad with his family and is now a refugee in Syria, he recently had to return to Baghdad in order…
Tomgram: Dahr Jamail, Into the Iraqi Diaspora22 Apr 2007Last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) released new figures on the disintegrating health situation in Iraq where, according to the group, 100 people a day die, on average, and countless more are wounded. Of the injured who manage to…
Ongoing Defiance/Political Gridlock in Lebanon19 Apr 2007Last night, 19 April, Jeff and I visited the ongoing opposition sit-in near the Lebanese Parliament. In sum, there are four main political parties which participated in a sprawling protest on December 10, 2006, probably Lebanon’s largest ever, immediately followed…
Interview with Senior Ba’ath Party Member19 Apr 2007On Sunday April 15th I interviewed a high ranking member of Iraq’s Ba’ath Party in Damascus, Syria. Like many senior party members, he lives in exile in Syria, and spoke on condition of anonymity by asking to be referred to…
Interactive 3D images from Damascus13 Apr 2007The following are some interactive 3D images made by Jeff Pflueger in Damascus, Syria of the Old City Souq and inside the stunning Umayyad Mosque. To view them, you will need Quicktime player installed (its free from Apple) and some…
Additional request for Funds19 Feb 2007I am returning to the Middle East to cover several stories regarding the occupation of Iraq and the results of U.S. policy in the region that have been entirely absent from mainstream media. This trip I hope to be accompanied…
Help Support Continuing Middle East Independent Reportage7 Feb 2007Friends, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Jeff Pflueger. I’ve worked closely with Dahr since nearly the beginning of his reporting from the Middle East, using my skills on the web to reach as many people as…
Lt. Ehren Watada27 Jan 2007I would like to bring your attention to a story I covered last August about 1st Lt. Ehren Watada. The story covered his decision not to deploy to Iraq and a speech he gave at the Veteran’s for Peace National…
Child Victims of Violence13 Dec 2006Here is the text and photos I just received from a doctor friend in Baghdad: “This is 20 month-old Iraqi baby girl, who was severely injured and mutilated, in a blast by a car bomb in Al-Sadr City 21 days…
The Oil Factor in the Iraq Study Group (Interview)12 Dec 2006Interview with Dori Smith on Talk Nation Radio, December 13, 2006 http://talknationradio.com/ Journalist Dahr Jamail speaks about the reality of the Iraq Study Group Report and what is going on in Iraq today: US support for death squad militias, US…
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