Dahr Jamail, a TomDispatch regular, is a recipient of numerous honors, including the Martha Gellhorn Award for Journalism for his work in Iraq and the Izzy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Independent Media in 2018. He is the author, most recently, of The End of Ice (The New Press). He is also the author of Beyond the Green Zone and The Will to Resist.
The waters of the Gulf of Alaska are some of the most pristine in the world. That will change next month.
“Fear, arbitrary arrests, indiscriminate bombing, killing, an uncertain future—this is the new democratic Iraq.”
Conditions in Iraq, not surprisingly, bear little resemblance to the fantasyland touted by America’s recent presidents.