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About Nicolas J. S. Davies

Nicolas J. S. Davies is an independent journalist, a researcher for CODEPINK, and the author of Blood on Our Hands: The American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq.
  • Protest by students in Thailand.

    Ten contradictions that plague Biden’s ‘Democracy Summit’

    Originally published: CODEPINK on December 2021 (more by CODEPINK)  |

    Biden hopes to secure his place at the head of the “Free World” table by coming out as a champion for human rights and democratic practices worldwide.

  • US Marines provide security as members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Forensics Team investigate a grave site in a village in Kosovo on July 1, 1999

    Key U.S. ally indicted for organ trade murder scheme

    Nicolas J. S. Davies

    If the people of Kosovo can hold the CIA-backed gangsters who murdered their people, sold their body parts and hijacked their country accountable for their crimes, is it too much to hope that Americans can do the same and hold our leaders accountable for their far more widespread and systematic war crimes?

  • 'America first' erodes U.S.' soft power

    Could COVID-19 bring down the U.S. empire?

    Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies

    With the U.S. failing and China taking a leadership role in the international response to this crisis, could the COVID-19 crisis mark a turning point in the transition to a multipolar world in which China will be just as important as a world leader as the United States?

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    12 ways the U.S. invasion of Iraq lives on in infamy

    Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies

    While the world is consumed with the terrifying coronavirus pandemic, on March 19 the Trump administration will be marking the 17th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq by ramping up the conflict there.

  • US Target Outside walls of the Ex-US embassy-Taleghani street-Tehran

    The U.S. is recycling its big lie about Iraq to target Iran

    Nicolas J. S. Davies

    The U.S.’s campaign against Iran has violated the most critical lessons that U.S. and UN officials claimed to have learned from the debacle in Iraq.

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    How Trump got himself into a World of trouble in Iraq

    Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies

    It’s a new year, and the U.S. has found a new enemy—an Iraqi militia called Kata’ib Hezbollah. How tragically predictable was that? So who or what is Kata’ib Hezbollah? Why are U.S. forces attacking it? And where will this lead?

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    Why aren’t Americans rising up like we are seeing across the Planet?

    Originally published: Local Peace Economy, a project of the Independent Media Institute on November 14, 2019 (more by Local Peace Economy, a project of the Independent Media Institute)

    We can’t predict exactly what catalyst will trigger a mass movement in the U.S. like the ones we are seeing overseas, but with more and more Americans, especially young people, demanding an alternative to a system that doesn’t serve their needs, the tinder for a revolutionary movement is everywhere. We just have to keep kicking up sparks until one catches fire.

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    In “The Dialectics of Dependency,” Ruy Mauro Marini developed a theory of dependency and unequal exchange that is still invaluable today.

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