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Dahr Jamail

Author Bios

Dahr Jamail

Dahr Jamail, a TomDispatch regular, has reported from Iraq and writes for Inter Press Service, Le Monde Diplomatique, and other outlets. He is the author of Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq and the forthcoming book The Will To Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan. His website is
Dahrjamailiraq.com.

Articles

News and Features

Under the Ft. Hood headlines, a stressed-out Army pushes stressed-out soldiers back into the war zones.

A single platoon lost in a military limbo is a measurement of the stress under which the US Army now operates.

The ongoing dissent that does exist in the US military, however fragmented and overlooked at the moment, should not be discounted.

The war in Iraq has caused one of the most severe refugee crises in
history, and no one seems to be paying attention.

From The Archive

Examines politics and government in Iraq as of March 3, 2005. Tensions between Sunni and Shiite Muslims in Iraq; Impact of democratic elections on political stability; Potential for violence between Sunni and Shiite groups to lead to civil war; Claim that few Iraqis anticipate the development of a civil war; Claim that antiAmerican sentiment in Iraq is more influential than tensions between religious and ethnic groups.

Despite talk of civil war, Sunnis and Shiites seem more united than divided.

This article is an edited excerpt from Jamail's weblog for the New Standard News.