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The Iraqi documents released by Wikileaks produce significantly more detail on US actions in the war in Iraq, but do they produce…
Patrick Cockburn
Patrick Cockburn is an award-winning Independent columnist who specialises in analysis of Iraq, Syria and wars in the Middle East. In 2014 he forecast the rise of Isis. He also did graduate work at the Institute of Irish Studies, Queens University Belfast and has written about the effects of the Troubles on Irish and British policy in light of his experience.
Is Pakistan disintegrating? Are the state and society coming apart under the impact of successive political and natural disasters? The country swirls…
Dramatic increases in infant mortality, cancer and leukaemia in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, which was bombarded by US Marines in 2004,…
(Baghdad) — Seven years after the US and Britain invaded Iraq the country remains highly unstable and fragmented. So divided are parties and…
The US-run aid effort for Haiti is beginning to look chillingly similar to the criminally slow and disorganized US government support for…
We are the Awaleq Born of bitterness We are the nails that go into the rock …
The savage suicide bombings in the heart of Baghdad yesterday show how far the violence in Iraq is from being over. It…
In Iraq and Afghanistan American and British forces became participants in civil wars which their own presence has exacerbated and prolonged. The…
Sulaimaniyah — The surprisingly strong showing by a reformist party in Kurdistan elections is shaking the power structure in what has long…
Herat is cut off from the rest of the planet. This was once one of the great cities of the world, an…