Robert Fisk on Washington’s ‘Quagmire’ in Iraq, Civilian Deaths and the Fallacy of Bush’s ‘War of Liberation’ by Robert Fisk, Amy Goodman…
Donald Rumsfeld says the American attack on Baghdad is “as targeted an air campaign as has ever existed” but he should not…
Saddam’s main presidential palace, a great rampart of a building 20 storeys high, simply exploded in front of me a cauldron of…
All across the Middle East, they are deploying by the thousand. In the deserts of Kuwait, in Amman, in northern Iraq, in…
On March 8, 1917, Lt. Gen. Stanley Maude issued a “Proclamation to the People of the Wilayat of Baghdad”. Maude’s Anglo-Indian Army…
Oh, for the ice-cold Swedish eye on the Middle East. Ah, for the freezing Scandinavian vision of truth. Hans Blix, everybody’s headmaster,…
ON 8 MARCH 1917, Lieutenant- general Stanley Maude issued a “Proclamation to the People of the Wilayat of Baghdad”. Maude’s Anglo-Indian Army…
O n the road to Basra, ITV was filming wild dogs as they tore at the corpses of the Iraqi dead. Every…
Ah, to be a “viable” state! The word “viable” has now become the be-all and end-all of American policy towards Palestine. “For…
Already, the American press is expressing its approval of the coverage of American forces which the US military intends to allow its…
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