The New York Times features a stunning report in today’s edition, on the Pentagon’s manipulation of information about the “war on terror”: In the summer of 2005, the Bush administration confronted a fresh wave of criticism over Guantánamo Bay. The detention center had just been branded “the gulag of our times” by Amnesty International, there…
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A consistent war against Islam
Robert Fisk, in the Palestine Chronicle, discusses the similarities and differences between the war against Iraq and the 1990s battle in Bosnia: “Bosnia was in Europe, so eventually, we wanted to switch the war off. Iraq is a different matter – we’re in Iraq for oil. If the national product of Iraq was asparagus, we…
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Finding real friends
The anti-U.S. movement of Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is now Iraq’s main humanitarian organization helping needy Iraqis, a relief group said in a report that is certain to cause concern in Washington.
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How to enable disaster
The architects of the Iraq war – where are they now? (But nobody should forget that the crimes committed by the Bush administration since 9/11 involve more than just members of the Bush cabinet.)
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Was the Israel lobby behind the Iraq war?
Norman Finkelstein and John Mearsheimer discuss the reasons behind the Iraq war on Al-Jazeera English:
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Lack of authority
I was physically ill from having feces being placed in my mouth. A female contractor talks about being allegedly raped and assaulted by KBR in Iraq.
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Spot the news story
My following article appears in today’s ABC Unleashed: Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s overseas trip has been extensively covered in the mainstream media. From George W. Bush to Gordon Brown, the travelling journalists have given readers and viewers a running commentary of his daily meetings. Missing from the vast majority of the coverage, however, has been…
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The Iraq we never see
Leading, independent journalist Dahr Jamail discusses the reality of the Iraqi occupation and US soldiers who revolt: