http://www.truthdig.com/about/staff/5280/ Truthdig, a Web magazine that provides expert in-depth coverage of current affairs as well as a variety of thoughtful, provocative content assembled from a progressive point of view. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman. en editor@truthdig.com Copyright 2008 2008-08-19T00:45:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/ http://www.truthdig.com/images/rss_feed_promo.gif http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080818_the_second_insurgency/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080818_the_second_insurgency/ badkhen, corruption, insurgency, iraq, jobs, occupation, security, war, Dateline: Iraq

Many Iraqis struggle every day to find work, but a shortage of jobs, superimposed on a tradition of using personal connections to do business, has led to what Iraqis complain is an explosion in corruption and graft among their nation’s officials.

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]]> 2008-08-19T00:45:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080814_baghdad_behind_walls/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080814_baghdad_behind_walls/ dora, iraq, market, military, militias, occupation, reconstruction, security, shopping, sovereignty, walls, Dateline: Iraq

Walls have become ubiquitous in Baghdad, a place where barricades keep militias from one another and hungry shoppers from the nearest kebab. As Iraqis struggle with sovereignty, the barriers are a constant reminder of the American military occupation.

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]]> 2008-08-14T10:17:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080519_thats_what_saddam_said/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080519_thats_what_saddam_said/ badkhen, baghdad, hussein, iraq, jawari, militias, saddam, security, war, Dateline: Iraq

The war is over for now in Sahar al-Jawari’s Baghdad neighborhood, but life is still a struggle. An American soldier encourages her not to be pessimistic, but it’s hard to look on the bright side while supporting a family by selling off your jewelry.

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]]> 2008-05-19T11:12:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080515_trading_spaces_iraq_edition/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080515_trading_spaces_iraq_edition/ army, badkhen, baghdad, coalition, community, government, home, house, iraq, military, militias, occupation, reconstruction, refugees, violence, war, Dateline: Iraq

Sectarian violence has driven millions of Iraqis from their homes. Now that the violence has abated in one formerly upscale Baghdad neighborhood, residents are returning to find squatters who refuse to leave and a government and occupying army unwilling to kick them out.

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]]> 2008-05-15T12:29:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080511_another_sort_of_power_struggle_in_baghdad/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080511_another_sort_of_power_struggle_in_baghdad/ american, badkhen, baghdad, foreign correspondent, government, militias, power, saidiyah, shiite, sunni, troops, utilities, waste, water, Dateline: Iraq

As one U.S. soldier tells Truthdig foreign correspondent Anna Badkhen, it’s not entirely a bad sign that residents of Baghdad’s Saidiyah neighborhood are complaining about their meager daily power allotment: A year earlier they were concerned about just staying alive.

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]]> 2008-05-11T13:39:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080509_report_from_baghdad/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080509_report_from_baghdad/ army, baghdad, burgers, business, insurgency, iraqi, militias, peace, police, security, sunni, troops, Dateline: Iraq

In this first installment in her series of stories from Iraq for Truthdig, veteran foreign correspondent Anna Badkhen reports about the civilian costs of war, life under occupation and the precarious state of a Baghdad burger joint.

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