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Patrick Cockburn is the Baghdad correspondent of the Independent and the author of The Occupation: War, resistance and daily life in Iraq…
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.
Nablus — The Islamic movement Hamas is taking over from Fatah, the party created by Yasser Arafat, as the main Palestinian national…
(December 16) — The sight of the Iraqi reporter Muntazer al-Zaidi hurling his shoes at President Bush at a press conference in…
[Patrick Cockburn is the author of ‘The Occupation: War, resistance and daily life in Iraq’, a finalist for the National Book Critics’…
If fewer US troops and Iraqis are being killed, it is only because the Shia community and Iran now dominate; whatever the…
Barack Obama was lucky in the timing of his visit to Iraq. He arrived just after the Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki…
Nearly four decades after the four biggest Western oil companies were expelled from Iraq by Saddam Hussein, they are negotiating their…
The US is holding hostage some $50bn (#25bn) of Iraq’s money in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to pressure the…
A secret deal being negotiated in Baghdad would perpetuate the American military occupation of Iraq indefinitely, regardless of the outcome of…
Tuesday April 22nd, 2008–The Real Story: Behind Sadr’s warning to the US lies an unavoidable fact – he holds critical cards. In…