Glenn Greenwald, Salon, March 20: More strikingly, not a single one of them [pro-war media commentators] appears to have learned the real lesson worth learning from the whole [Iraq] disaster: The U.S. should not — and has no right to — invade, bomb and occupy other nations that haven’t attacked or even threatened to attack…
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The Howard/Bush/Blair legacy
Ali, a painter and a student at the academy of art in north Baghdad, tells the Guardian about life in his occupied country: “I ask myself why life in Iraq is so cheap. We are living in a nightmare. It is like there is a camera recording us and by its light we see images…
Iraq five years on
My latest New Matilda column reflects on the five years since the invasion of Iraq: Five years after the start of the Iraq war, a clear majority of Iraqis want American troops to leave. The results of the latest ORB/Channel 4 study are disturbing. The human cost of the conflict is starkly revealed: “A quarter…
Must have missed the first day of training
The Wikileaks website has released before information about American activities in Iraq, but now two new documents have surfaced. One discusses the “Lessons Learned” from the battle of Mosul in July 2004 and the other analyses similar lessons from the battle of Samarra in 2004. The American army are portrayed as utterly incapable of waging…
A tragic anniversary
It is five years since the beginning of the Iraq war. A disaster of immense proportions was unleashed on the country. The Western media are limited in their abilities to report the story. Iraqi civilians are still suffering in an unprecedented way.
Rendition thanks to hemp
War and torture for the eco-friendly types: In The Know: How Can We Make The War In Iraq More Eco-Friendly?