Muslim Peacemakers Team - RISE UP TIMES

The Legacy of War, by Mary Beaudoin

The years of U.S. war and occupation had taken an enormous toll on Iraq. The “constructive chaos” and “the birth pangs of a new Middle East” that U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice so cavalierly proclaimed in 2006 was a nightmare for the people living there. Over a million Iraqis had been killed in the U.S. war and there were large numbers of widows, orphans, and wounded. Although international corporations were supplying oil to the world, the Iraqi people were struggling to survive in the broken country.

▶ Sami Rasouli: On Islamophobia and Iraq, Back in the Eye of the Storm

Featuring videos of two talks by Sami Rasouli, Iraqi-American and former Minneapolis restaurant owner, who is back in Minnesota for a visit, bringing information about the situation in Iraq and information on Islamophobia, what it is, what it means in the current world situation.

▶ Sami Rasouli | Iraq: Back in the Eye of the Storm

What is happening in Iraq today? What is ISIS? Is the Iraqi army as bad as ISIS? What is the U.S. military doing in Iraq? Is a new major U.S. war in Iraq imminent? What is the role of Islamophobia in the west in justifying U.S. intervention? What is happening in Mosul? Who is benefiting from Iraqi oil resources? After the loss of thousands of lives in Iraq over the past 11 years, millions of refugees later, and trillions of dollars spent, the U.S. is starting a new military intervention in that country.

▶ Coleen Rowley, Sami Rasouli: A new chapter of U.S. war: Iraq, Syria, ISIS and U.S. Intervention

[youtube=http://youtu.be/R88eOq0Rpvk] Published on Nov 5, 2014 Sami Rasouli is an Iraqi-American who lived in Minnesota for many years before returning to Iraq after the 2003 U.S. invasion. Sami works in Iraq with the Muslim Peacemakers Team (MPT), a group dedicated to the principles of nonviolence. Coleen Rowley is a retired FBI Agent and former Minneapolis More

▶ Sami Rasouli: First-hand Account, Update From Iraq

[vimeo http://vimeo.com/101096289] from Bill Sorem PRO Sami Rasouli, an Iraqi-American peace activist, is visiting from Iraq. Hear this video of his first-hand account of the dangers of US intervention in Iraq and the region. He lived in the U.S. (Minneapolis) for a number of years before returning to Iraq because of the wars. Recently he was featured on More