Views the United States as an evil nation whose invasion of Iraq was motivated by a lust for oil and empire
Based in Italy, Uruknet.info is a pro-Baathist, pro-Saddam Hussein website that posts the anti-American compositions of numerous Arab and Western writers, Muslim and non-Muslim alike. Uruknet depicts Israel as an "apartheid state," and the U.S. as the world's leading supporter of terrorism. Notable past and present contributors to Uruknet include the following writers:
Kurt Nimmo: This New Mexico-based blogger (who also writes for CounterPunch) wrote a June 2006 Uruknet piece predicting that President Bush, because of his declining popularity, would soon launch a frivolous, unwarranted invasion of Iran. "Bush and the neocons," wrote Nimmo, "… have nothing but contempt for the American people, who they consider clueless peons, little more than expendable pawns in their global game of domination, beginning in the Middle East." In order to persuade Americans "to do their murderous bidding," he explained, lackeys of President Bush have more than once coordinated and staged "gruesome acts of false flag terrorism" (i.e., they have tried to rally the public by committing or provoking acts of terror and then blaming innocent foreigners for those deeds).
In a 2005 article that appeared on Uruknet, Nimmo defended British Member of Parliament George Galloway as "one of the last principled men in the whole of the British government." In a July 2006 piece, Nimmo opined that "the neocons" in the Bush administration were privately delighted to see "millions of enraged Muslims taking up arms against the United States" — because that frightening image "will force a reluctant and usually peaceful population … to donate their sons and daughters to a horrific war" which seeks "the eradication (or at minimum submission) of the Muslim hordes."
Norman Solomon: In a March 2007 article posted on Uruknet, this founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Public Accuracy characterized as "ultimately destructive" a recent congressional decision "to refuse to do the one thing that the Constitution empowers Congress to do to halt a U.S. war—stop appropriating taxpayer money for it."
Kevin Zeese: Also in March 2007, this Director of Democracy Rising and co-founder of Voters For Peace similarly blasted congressional Democrats for not being steadfast enough in pushing for an immediate U.S. troop withdrawal from what he viewed as an immoral and unjustified war in Iraq.
Stephen Lendman: In a March 2007 Uruknet article, this Chicago-based blogger wrote that the Islamic terrorist threat facing America was sparked entirely by U.S. aggression. "Ending the [terrorist] threat is simple," he explained. "… Stop attacking them, and they won't hit back." According to Lendman, America's military ventures in both Iraq and Afghanistan were equally "willful and malicious acts of illegal aggression."
Dave Lindorff: A writer for CounterPunch and a supporter of cop-killer and leftist icon Mumia Abu Jamal, Lindorff wrote in a March 2007 Uruknet article: "We know now that when Dick Cheney makes a foreign policy or war policy decision regarding Iraq or Iran or Saudi Arabia, he is really thinking about what it will do for Halliburton and Dubai—and for Dick Cheney."
Jason Miller: Administrator of the blog Thomas Paine's Corner, Miller describes himself as "a wage slave of the American Empire who has freed himself intellectually and spiritually." In one Uruknet article, he condemned Americans for being "perverse" and "audaci[ous]" enough "to call ourselves a 'Christian nation' as we rape, pillage, and plunder the rest of the world via military and economic weapons." In a separate composition, Miller declared that "by and large, those labeled 'terrorists' by the Bush administration … are people who are simply using 'asymmetrical warfare' to resist the ongoing oppression, exploitation and subjugation of an imperialist aggressor." In Miller's estimation, America is a "foreign occupier" whose "invading hordes" have been "waging genocide against the Iraqi people since the Gulf War."
Robert Weitzel: This Wisconsin-based writer has been published in CommonDreams and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. As he sees things, the contemporary Western-Islamic conflict "is not a clash of ideology or religion, nor is it to spread democracy or to fight the long war on terrorism. It is about the immoral war profiteering of the U.S. military-industrial complex ... It is about the maiming and killing [by America] of civilians who are not yet born."
Jane Cutter: This organizer for International ANSWER wrote a 2007 Uruknet article denouncing "U.S. imperialism"; deriding "the role of the bought-and-paid-for corporate media in selling the Bush administration's lies" that led the U.S. to war in Iraq; and asserting that "all the justifications for the invasion have been proven to be lies."
Manuel Valenzuela: Born in Mexico City and now splitting his time between Spain and the United States, Mr. Valenzuelais an Internet columnist who, in an April 2007 Uruknet article, wrote that the U.S. government was: deviously fabricating "new Pearl Harbors leading to perpetual war and perpetual fear for perpetual profit, power and control"; embarking on "a century-long war on concocted dark skinned enemies from alien lands"; exploiting "the purposeful murder of their fellow countrymen as the marketing ploy by which empire seekers unleash hell on Earth"; and using "America's rural and urban poor" as "cannon fodder for their corporatist masters." Valenzuela further asserted that "9/11 was designed, like the Reichstag fire in 1930s Nazi Germany, and as other false flag operations throughout history, as the first salvo in a war of propaganda and fear upon the American people"; that 9/11 turned Americans into "crazed and hypnotized warmongers" who allowed "criminals and murderers in government to invade, attack and occupy lands that had no reason for attack"; and that the Twin Towers were in fact brought down by the American government.
