A BBC television producer, moments before he was wounded by an American fighter aircraft that killed 18 people with “friendly fire”, spoke…
WE HAD a great day,” said Sgt Eric Schrumpf of the US Marines last Saturday. “We killed a lot of people.” He…
We now glimpse the forbidden truths of the invasion of Iraq. A man cuddles the body of his in-fant daughter; her blood…
TODAY is a day of shame for the British military as it declares the Iraqi city of Basra, with a stricken population…
WHEN Bush and Blair begin their illegal and immoral attack on a country that offers us no threat, we all have a…
THE Blair Government has known, almost from the day it came to office in 1997, that Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction were…
How have we got to this point, where two western governments take us into an illegal and immoral war against a stricken…
Having failed to fabricate a link between Iraq and al-Qaeda, and prove that Iraq has a secret armoury of banned weapons, the…
Dr Al-Ali is a cancer specialist at Basra’s hospital and a member of Britain’s Royal College of Physicians. He has a neat…
As the world protests against war, we hear again the lies of old. “A painful decision,” say the supporters of an invasion.…
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