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…
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.
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.)
Was the Israel lobby behind the Iraq war?
Norman Finkelstein and John Mearsheimer discuss the reasons behind the Iraq war on Al-Jazeera English:
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.
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…
The Iraq we never see
Leading, independent journalist Dahr Jamail discusses the reality of the Iraqi occupation and US soldiers who revolt: