The plot, so unexpectedly, thickened in Iraq on a Sunday like no other. The two main actors – US President George W. Bush, and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki – took to the stage to perform another well-rehearsed press conference.

I can't lie. I've watched Iraqi journalist Montather Al-Zaidi whip those two shoes past George Bush's head more times than I can count. I loved it; I even got into the corny jokes about the Red Sox drafting Al-Zaidi in the spring.

As George Bush prepares to leave office, he and his aides are trying desperately to rewrite history, especially on Iraq. Nearly six years after invading Iraq on the basis of lies that were manufactured inside the White House, the Bush administration adamantly insists the lies were all innocent mistakes.

Corporate media are cheering what they suggest are signs that President-elect Barack Obama will break his campaign promise and defy both U.S. and Iraqi public opinion to keep combat troops in Iraq for longer than his 16-month withdrawal timetable.

World media rashly celebrated the "historic" security pact that allows for US troops to stay in Iraq for three more years after the Iraqi parliament ratified the agreement on Thursday, 27 November.

The Iraqi government said Thursday that US President-elect Barack Obama has called Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and confirmed his commitment to responsible withdrawal for US troops from Iraq.

The global financial crisis, with its enormous proportions that is storming capitalist economies today, is an expression of the internal contradictions of globalized capitalism, revealing once again the inability of the system to resolve these contradictions.

Local NGOs are concerned about the rights of detainees in US military custody due to be transferred to the Iraqi authorities in 2009 in line with a draft US-Iraqi security pact.

President Bush’s attack on Iraq has made daily life there “unbearable” for most people, two prominent American financial authorities write.

Fears are growing in the northern province of Ninevah, about 400km north of Baghdad, of a possible radiation leak and contamination from a former nuclear plant.

The Iraqi CP leader, Hamid Majeed Mousa, the Secretary of the Central Committee, spoke in detail about the party’s position regarding the Iraq-US Agreement, and relevant issues and developments, during a meeting held in Baghdad on 31 October 2008.

Since it invaded Iraq in 2003, the US has detained thousands of juveniles – some of whom were tortured and sexually abused, according to published reports. Figures of the number of children behind bars vary. Some estimates put the number as high as 6,000.

BAGHDAD – The Iraqi Communist Party does not support the proposal of some political blocs to allocate only six seats for minorities in the provincial councils, said Mufid al-Jazairy, a member of Iraq's parliament for the Communist Party, during the parliament session last Monday, Nov. 3rd.

The Iraqi Communist Party organized a large meeting in Baghdad on Friday 30-10-2008 to present its position on the proposed Iraq-US Agreement. The meeting, attended by about 1,000 people, was addressed by Hamid Majeed Mousa, the Secretary of the Central Committee of the party.

Iraqis this week resisted Bush administration demands to hurriedly pass a status of forces agreement, or SOFA, and even took affront to the administration's hostile and threatening tone on the matter.

Nearly 750 Christian families, about 3,750 individuals, have fled their homes in Mosul, a city about 400 km north of Baghdad, as Sunni Muslim extremists have increased attacks against this religious minority since 4 October,

More than 300 confirmed cholera cases have been registered in central and southern Iraq since an outbreak began on 20 August, with almost 50 percent of the cases occurring in the past week.

Discussing the preface to The Opinion Makers, by David W. Moore (Boston: Beacon Press, 2008) in Part 1, we reviewed the claim that the polls distort and misrepresent public opinion. Here is a case in point: how the polls manufactured a pro Iraq War sentiment to bolster the claims of the Bush administration.

The surge of 30,00 US troops from January 2007 to June 2007 caused the decline in violence in Iraq. At least that's the commonly-held wisdom. John McCain thought the surge was so successful, he has even gone so far as to suggest that the surge in troops was his idea.

The number of confirmed cases of cholera has risen to 107 in central and southern parts of the country, a Health Ministry spokesman said on 16 September.