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Neocons Trigger Humanitarian Disaster in Somalia

The BBC has the story about the most recent humanitarian catastrophe unleashed by the neoconservatives in their pursuit of establishing an "American Caliphate" in the Middle East: The once-bustling streets of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, are now eerily empty. The southern...

Posted on December 13, 2007 6:00 AM

National Call-In Day For Iraqi Refugees

Refugees International has announced "National Call-In Day" asking you to call the White House and encourage the President to provide more funds for the 4 million Iraqi refugees who have been displaced as a result of the war in...

Posted on June 19, 2007 4:00 AM

Refugees? What Refugees?

Conservatives continue to live under the wild delusion that our intervention in Iraq hasn't created any refugees has created only a fraction of the number of 4 million refugees reported by the UN and NGOs like Refugees International. Iraq Slogger...

Posted on June 7, 2007 9:00 AM

Bush Agrees to Admit 7,000 Iraqi Refugees

Photo credit: Refugees International. I've been beating the drums about the Iraqi diaspora for several months now in posts here, here, here, and here. Most Americans have simply no idea that 2 million Iraqis have fled the chaos and violence...

Posted on May 31, 2007 1:00 PM

Desperate Conditions in Iraqi Refugee Camps

IRIN has issued a report on the squalid conditions in a refugee camp on the Syrian-Iraqi border: Hundreds of Palestinian refugees stranded at al-Waleed makeshift camp in no-man's land between the desert borders of Iraq and Syria are living in...

Posted on May 22, 2007 8:00 AM

Escaping Responsiblity for the Iraqi Diaspora

I first raised the issue of the Iraqi Diaspora in posts here and here. Last weekend, an outstanding article covering the Iraqi refugee crisis and entitled The Flight from Iraq appeared in the New York Times written by Nir Rosen....

Posted on May 16, 2007 8:30 PM

Shirking Responsibility for the Iraqi Diaspora

I first raised the issue of the Iraqi refugee problem in a post entitled "The First Diaspora of the Twenty-First Century: the Iraqis" on April 27. My post was met with incredulity on the part of some but we are...

Posted on May 14, 2007 9:00 PM

Why is Bush Ignoring the Iraqi Diaspora?

USA Today explains why Bush is ignoring the Iraqi diaspora. WASHINGTON -- The United States admitted 68 Iraqi refugees in the six months through March, a tiny percentage of those fleeing their homes because of the war, State Department figures...

Posted on April 30, 2007 12:38 PM

The First Diaspora of the Twenty-First Century: the Iraqis

Originally, the term "diaspora" was used to refer to Jewish communities who were forced to leave Israel and go into exile in the 6th century BC. Since then, it has evolved into a more general term to describe any group...

Posted on April 27, 2007 4:03 PM

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