http://www.brussellstribunal.orgThe BRussells Tribunal is an activist think tank and peace organisation with a special focus on Iraq.http://www.brussellstribunal.org/images/logo.jpg http://www.brussellstribunal.orgThe BRussells Tribunal is an activist think tank and peace organisation with a special focus on Iraq.nl-beSun, 5 Apr 2022 00:59:52 [email protected]@brussellstribunal.org http://www.brussellstribunal.org/article_view.asp?id=2203 Securing US Control over Socotra Island and the Gulf of Aden]]> Sat, 4 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://www.brussellstribunal.org/article_view.asp?id=2202 Aliens go home and leave the light on.]]> Sun, 29 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://www.brussellstribunal.org/article_view.asp?id=2201 There are 5.2 million Iraqis in need of assistance amid rising instability across the country, according to Unicef and OCHA. They are also warning that the coming war on Mosul will result in increasing numbers of IDPs seeking refuge in the Kurdistan region, on top of previous waves, including the arrival of 225,000 refugees from Syria.]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://www.brussellstribunal.org/article_view.asp?id=2200 NATO was a US creation allegedly to protect Europe from a Soviet invasion. Its purpose expired in 1991. Today NATO provides cover for US aggression and provides mercenary forces for the American Empire. Britain, Canada, Australia, are simply US vassal states just as are Germany, France, Italy, Japan and the rest. There are no partners; just vassals. It is Washington’s empire, no one else’s.]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://www.brussellstribunal.org/article_view.asp?id=2199 Many Americans now understand that it has been a terrible folly to confuse the power to destroy with the power to build a better world. The two are quite distinct, and building a better world requires neither air strikes nor “boots on the ground” but working together, talking through problems and, even more important, listening to others.]]> Tue, 24 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://www.brussellstribunal.org/article_view.asp?id=2198 Pillar, now a visiting professor at Georgetown University, added that the Bush administration had already made the decision to go to war in Iraq, so the NIE "didn't influence [their] decision." Pillar added that he was told by congressional aides that only a half-dozen senators and a few House members read past the NIE's five-page summary.]]> Mon, 23 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://www.brussellstribunal.org/article_view.asp?id=2197 First international edition (March 2015): Based on the third, improved German edition (October 2014) - Germany. ]]> Mon, 23 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://www.brussellstribunal.org/article_view.asp?id=2196 “At the beginning I thought they were fighting for Allah, but later I discovered they are far from the principles of Islam. I know that some fighters were taking hallucinatory drugs; others were obsessed with sex. As for the raping, and the way different men marry by turn the same woman over a period of time, this is not humane." - “I was paid 400,000 Iraqi dinars (£231) a month in addition to many privileges, including food, fuel, and more recently, access to the internet,” ]]> Wed, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://www.brussellstribunal.org/article_view.asp?id=2194 It seems like we are going back to Hareem Era??]]> Tue, 17 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://www.brussellstribunal.org/article_view.asp?id=2193 Association of Muslim Scholars’ Eulogy on the Occasion of the Death of Dr. Harith Al – Dhari, its Secrteray General, God Rest His Soul, spoken by Dr. Mohammed Bashar Al – Faidhi on 16th March, 2015.]]> Tue, 17 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://www.brussellstribunal.org/article_view.asp?id=2192 Putting an end to ISIS will not be achieved by committing new atrocities and perpetuating more abuses.]]> Tue, 17 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://www.brussellstribunal.org/article_view.asp?id=2191 ABC News reported last week that Iraqi military units and Shiite militias trained and armed by the United States are being investigated by the Iraqi government for possible war crimes, including the torture and summary execution of Sunni prisoners.]]> Tue, 17 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://www.brussellstribunal.org/article_view.asp?id=2190 Instead of marginalising these merciless, sectarian, anti-Western, Iran proxy militias, American officials have “regularly participated in joint operation meetings in Baghdad that include representatives of Shiite militias.”]]> Tue, 17 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://www.brussellstribunal.org/article_view.asp?id=2189 “Iraq may soon end up with no history.” - (Archeologist Joanna Farchakh, quoted in Cultural Cleansing in Iraq, Pluto Press, 2010.)]]> Tue, 17 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://www.brussellstribunal.org/article_view.asp?id=2188 American drone strikes have killed thousands of people abroad, many of them children.]]> Mon, 16 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://www.brussellstribunal.org/article_view.asp?id=2187 US air strikes and Iraqi army artillery “kill us along with Isis fighters. There is no difference between what they do and the mass killings by Isis.” ]]> Mon, 16 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://www.brussellstribunal.org/article_view.asp?id=2186 This is how the US and Israel are reacting ... they are attacking us by trying to criminalize us. So if they can take down a community icon like Rasmea, then they think they can criminalize the movement as a whole.]]> Mon, 16 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://www.brussellstribunal.org/article_view.asp?id=2185 That’s because torture, rather than being an aberration, was embedded in a strategy that was described, at the time, as the Salvadorization of Iraq—the use of dirty-war tactics to defeat an insurgency.]]> Sun, 15 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://www.brussellstribunal.org/article_view.asp?id=2184 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung‘s former editor Udo Ulfkotte recently published a book called “Bought Journalists. How Politicians, Secret Services and High Finance Control the Mass Media” in which he explains how journalists manipulate the masses for powerful interests.]]> Sun, 15 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://www.brussellstribunal.org/article_view.asp?id=2183 If the government failed to stop revenge attacks by Shia militias, the country would face reignited sectarian tensions.]]> Sun, 15 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT