Tag Archives: Iraq
Our forgotten wars
Is military conflict still important enough to get angry about? As Tony Blair hawks his selective memories around the market place under the media glare of a unrepentant millionaire’s smile, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan continue to have an impact far beyond the propaganda of political news stories. Families continue to watch in despair [...]
Notes from the United States
The founder of the world’s largest and most controversial mercenary army, Xe Services (previously known as Blackwater), has been accused of committing murder. Last month two whistle-blowers, one a former member of Xe’s management team, alleged Erik Prince may have murdered or facilitated the murder of individuals who were co-operating with federal authorities investigating the [...]
Iraq: The Facts So Far
A few things which won’t be mentioned in the mass media over the coming weeks. Murder Combining all Saddam’s atrocities together still doesn’t add up to the number of people estimated dead from UN sanctions, but even ignoring this, the US and UK governments helped him perpetrate most of them. Iranian war: one million dead [...]
One Law For Them …
What a week its been for the ‘defenders of freedom’. Sovereignty has been restored in Iraq. The US Supreme Court has decreed that the Guantanamo Bay detainees are entitled to legal representa-tion. Saddam Hussein was produced in court in Iraq to be tried for crimes of genocide. The war against terror had delivered democracy to [...]
Army Grounded
T he trade unions of South Korea’s two airlines, Korean Air and Asiana Airlines, declared last week that they will refuse to transport any materials related to military intervention in Iraq. Members of the Association of Airline Unions (AAU), which was founded by workers in both national Air carriers and employees of the Incheon International [...]
What’s Iraqi For ‘Newspeak’?
The media fanfare pronouncing that ‘sovereignty’ was transferred back to the Iraqis at the end of June showed how it bows down to power. That they could, in the main, report with a straight face that the Americans giving limited powers to a group of US-appointed Iraqi politicians shows a willingness to genuflect that knows [...]
