Lisa Ashkenaz Croke

Lisa Ashkenaz Croke. a Chicago-based writer and editor, is a Core Contributor to The NewStandard.

Previous contributions to The NewStandard (35):

• 03/29/05 GAO Unhappy With Passenger Screening Program
• 03/29/05 Air Force Will Not Discipline Officers Accused in Assault Scandal
• 03/29/05 Proposed CA Drug Plan Meets Preemptive Resistance from Big Pharma
• 03/29/05 Science, Religion Square Off in Massachusetts
• 03/23/05 US Military Frees Iraqi Criminals to Use as Moles Against Rebels
• 02/07/05 Three Bills Renew Senate Clash Over Abortion
• 12/31/04 Iraq Torture Investigators Reveal Scores of New Cases
• 12/13/04 Controversial U.S. Groups Operate Behind Scenes on Iraq Vote
• 12/08/04 Shi’ite leaders put together diverse slate for upcoming elections
• 12/02/04 Jan. Elections Remain Misunderstood in U.S., Tenuous in Iraq
• 11/12/04 Fallujah’s Political Fallout Threatens Security Throughout Iraq
• 11/07/04 ‘Pacified’ Samarra flies out of control on eve of Fallujah assault
• 11/01/04 Missing Explosives Problem Goes Far Beyond Al-Qaqaa
• 10/28/04 FBI Glossed Over Abu Ghraib Abuses in Recently Obtained Report
• 10/18/04 Fate Uncertain for First GIs to Collectively Refuse Iraq Combat Orders
• 09/23/04 Abuse, Torture and Rape Reported at Unlisted U.S.-run Prisons in Iraq
• 08/30/04 American Lawyer Finds New Evidence of Recent Torture in Iraq
• 08/22/04 Pro-U.S. Former Exiles Dominate Appointed Iraqi Assembly
• 08/17/04 Najaf Prompts Outrage, Talk of Secession Among Iraqi Politicians
• 08/14/04 Allawi ends Najaf truce talks; U.S.-led assaults appear inevitable
• 08/10/04 UN nuke watchdogs ‘OK’ Iraq site, hope to resume broader search
• 08/10/04 U.S. Government, Media Silent on Torture of Detained Iraqi Kids
• 07/29/04 Three Days of Extraordinary Bloodshed Shake Iraq
• 07/26/04 U.S. Sneaks Uranium Out of Iraq; UN Team Returns with Limited Mandate
• 07/20/04 Blair misled world on Iraq mass grave body count
• 07/11/04 Kurdish village gassed by Saddam ignored throughout U.S. occupation
• 07/05/04 Washington Refuses to Relinquish Legal Authority to ‘Sovereign’ Iraq
• 06/28/04 Partial sovereignty transferred to Iraq
• 06/24/04 Another prominent Iraqi murdered in Mosul
• 06/24/04 Washington seeks to extend immunity for troops from Iraqi prosecution
• 06/23/04 Al-Sadr declines invitation to join Iraqi political conference
• 06/21/04 Extreme Sentences Given to Men Connected to Paintball Training Club
• 06/19/04 US Senate ready to move on gay marriage ban
• 06/19/04 Lawsuits challenge racist law invoked to prevent same-sex marriage
• 06/10/04 Militants assault police, raid headquarters in Najaf