October 21, 2008 Institute for Policy Studies
	U.S.-Iraq Agreement on Maintaining U.S. Troops in Iraq -- The agreement now being negotiated would continue the U.S. occupation for years, but is likely to fail.
August 14, 2008 IPS
	One-Fifth of Iraq Funding Paid to Contractors -- As a new report forecasts that the 190,000 private contractors in Iraq and neighbouring countries will cost U.S. taxpayers more than 100 billion dollars by the end of 2008, an under-the-radar Florida court case suggests that U.S. President George W. Bush -- a staunch contractor supporter -- is preparing to throw security contractors such as Blackwater under the political bus.
July 28, 2008 IPS
	Bush Forced al-Maliki to Back Down on Pullout in 2006 -- WASHINGTON, Jul 28 (IPS) - Many official and unofficial proponents of a long-term U.S. military presence in Iraq are dismissing Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's demand for a U.S. timeline for withdrawal as political posturing, assuming that he will abandon it under pressure.
July 13, 2008 The Washington Post
	U.S., Iraq Scale Down Negotiations Over Forces -- U.S. and Iraqi negotiators have abandoned efforts to conclude a comprehensive agreement governing the long-term status of U.S troops in Iraq before the end of the Bush presidency, according to senior U.S. officials, effectively leaving talks over an extended U.S. military presence there to the next administration.
July 10, 2008 IPS
	Pull-out Demand Signals Final Bush Defeat in Iraq -- Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's demand for a timetable for complete U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq, confirmed Tuesday by his national security adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie, has signaled the almost certain defeat of the George W. Bush administration's aim of establishing a long-term military presence in the country.
July 10, 2008 International Crisis Group
	Failed Responsibility: Iraqi Refugees in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon -- A refugee crisis was feared before the coalition invasion of Iraq in 2003, but it came later than anticipated, and on a greater scale. It started not because of the military action, but two years later, when American efforts to rebuild the country faltered, violence escalated, and civilians became the targets of insurgent groups and sectarian militias.
July 08, 2008 The Huffington Post
	US Withdrawal Timetable Insisted Upon By Iraqi Government -- BAGHDAD — Iraq's national security adviser said Tuesday his country will not accept any security deal with the United States unless it contains specific dates for the withdrawal of U.S.-led forces.
June 12, 2008 The Huffington Post
	John McCain Dismisses the War's Collateral Damage -- Sen. John McCain was asked in an interview yesterday when U.S. forces should begin withdrawing from Iraq. "That's not too important," McCain responded dismissively. "What's important is the casualties in Iraq," he continued, referring to the more than 4,000 American troops killed since the invasion.
April 01, 2008 BBC News
	Iraqi death toll climbs sharply -- The monthly figure of people killed in Iraq rose by 50% in March compared with the previous month, according to official government counts.
February 13, 2008 The New York Times
	Senate Votes to Expand Spy Powers -- WASHINGTON — After more than a year of wrangling, the Senate handed the White House a major victory on Tuesday by voting to broaden the government’s spy powers and to give legal protection to phone companies that cooperated in President Bush’s program of eavesdropping without warrants.
February 12, 2008 The New York Times
	Where Marines Are Called ‘Intruders’ and Recruiting Office Is Unwelcome -- The Council, with its staff’s concurrence, apparently, also set aside a parking spot one day a week in front of the office for Code Pink, an antiwar group that aims to disrupt the recruiters and, like all Californians, loves a good parking spot.
February 12, 2008 San Francisco Chronicle
	Berkeley to decide on revoking Marines letter -- Protesters from all sides of the debate over the Iraq war - from the anti-war Code Pink to groups supporting the troops and the war - have promised to spend the day in front of old City Hall, drumming, singing, chanting and exchanging barbs with bullhorns.
February 12, 2008 San Francisco Chronicle
	Hundreds shout it out over Marines in Berkeley -- Anti-war protesters gathered on the other side of the street, including members of the group Code Pink, which has held weekly protests in front of the recruiting station on nearby Shattuck Square. They sold T-shirts, waved flags and sang "We Shall Not be Moved" through a loudspeaker.
February 11, 2008 The New York Times
	Army Buried Study Faulting Iraq Planning -- WASHINGTON — The Army is accustomed to protecting classified information. But when it comes to the planning for the Iraq war, even an unclassified assessment can acquire the status of a state secret.
February 01, 2008 The New York Times
	Berkeley Finds a New Way to Make War Politics Local -- To that end, the council awarded the group, Code Pink, exclusive use of the parking spot for four hours one afternoon each week, for the next six months, to stage its protests. “If you’re going to join the Marines, you’re going to join the Marines,” said Zanna Joi, an activist with Code Pink, which favors cotton-candy-colored garb and in-your-face tactics. “But you don’t have to join the Marines from our town.”
January 17, 2008 The Financial Times
	Iraqi refugees strain Syrian economy -- Syria’s economy is straining under the weight of the estimated 1.5m Iraqi refugees who have taken refuge in the country, say government officials and analysts, threatening the country’s fragile social infrastructure from subsidised goods to free schools.
January 11, 2008 San Francisco Chronicle
	U.S. planes bomb insurgent weapons stashes -- In the span of 10 minutes Thursday, U.S. warplanes dropped as much explosive south of Baghdad as they usually do in a month, a thundering barrage of more than 40,000 pounds of bombs intended to blow up insurgents' weapons stashes.
November 27, 2007 BBC News
	Iraqi refugees begin journey home -- Hundreds of Iraqi refugees have left temporary shelter in Syria to return to their homes in Iraq.
November 14, 2007 CNN.com
	War costs could total $1.6 trillion by 2009, panel estimates -- WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The total economic impact of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is estimated at $1.6 trillion by 2009, a congressional committee said in a report released Tuesday.
August 22, 2007 Inter Press Service News Agency
	Another U.S. Military Operation, More Unrest -- On Aug. 13 about 16,000 U.S. and Iraqi troops began a massive new military operation north of Baghdad. According to the U.S. military, the goal of the operation, named Lightning Hammer, is to "target insurgents who have fled a crackdown in the restive city of Baquba."
August 17, 2007 Inter Press Service News Agency
	Between the Two Rivers, Lack of Water Kills -- Iraq, with its famous Tigris and Euphrates rivers that run the length of the country, is now unable to provide drinking water to most of its people. "The two rivers are still there, great as they always were, and flowing all through the year," chief engineer Ahmad Salman of the Baghdad Water Authority told IPS. "Yet Iraqis are thirsty, and we are ashamed of being engineers in the service. We have simply failed to provide our people with half of the drinking water they need."
July 26, 2007 BBC News
	Crisis warning on Iraq refugees -- The scale of the exodus of refugees fleeing violence in Iraq has prompted a "humanitarian crisis", a conference in Jordan has heard.
July 16, 2007 IRIN
	Traumatised Iraqi children suffer psychological damage -- UNICEF is increasingly concerned that the number of vulnerable children in Iraq has outstripped the country’s capacity to care for them. Citing the UN's civilian casualty figures for 2006 which indicate up to 100 civilian deaths per day, UNICEF said: "Thousands, if not tens of thousands, of children will have lost at least one parent. And if violence continues at current levels, even more will lose a parent in 2007." According to UNICEF, half of Iraq's four million people who have fled their homes since 2003 are children. Many were killed inside their schools or playgrounds and gangs routinely kidnap children for ransom. "Iraq's conflict is taking an immense and unnoticed psychological toll on children and youth that will have long-term consequences," said Bilal Youssif Hamid, a Baghdad-based child psychiatrist.
July 12, 2007 BBC News
	UN concerned over US Iraq policy -- United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has expressed concern about worsening violence in Iraq and where US policy on Iraq might be heading.
July 09, 2007 BBC News
	US Iraq chief warns of long war -- The head of US forces in Iraq, General David Petraeus, has told the BBC that fighting the insurgency is a "long term endeavour" which could take decades.
July 09, 2007 IRIN
	IRAQ: Number of IDPs tops one million, says Iraqi Red Crescent -- According to an Iraqi Red Crescent Society (IRCS) report, 142,260 families - about 1,037,615 individuals - have become internally displaced persons (IDPs) since 22 February 2006, when a revered Shia shrine in Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad, was bombed by what many believe was a Sunni extremist group. Sectarian violence has increased sharply since that time.
July 09, 2007 IRIN News
	IRAQ: Ministry to insure and protect professors -- The Iraqi Ministry of Finance is to give life insurance to university professors following an increase in the number of lecturers leaving the country because of violence. The initiative will also include providing university teaching staff with personal bodyguards.
July 05, 2007 New York Times
	Contractors Back From Iraq Suffer Trauma From Battle -- Contractors who have worked in Iraq are returning home with the same kinds of combat-related mental health problems that afflict United States military personnel, according to contractors, industry officials and mental health experts.
July 05, 2007 IRIN
	IRAQ-JORDAN: Palestinian refugees from Iraq heading to Brazil -- After spending over four years languishing in a refugee camp in the Jordanian desert, 100 Palestinian refugees from Iraq will finally be heading to their new home - Brazil
July 04, 2007 Los Angeles Times
	Private Contractors Outnumber US Troops in Iraq -- The number of U.S.-paid private contractors in Iraq now exceeds that of American combat troops, newly released figures show, raising fresh questions about the privatization of the war effort and the government’s capacity to carry out military and rebuilding campaigns.