5 April, 2003
The War's Economic Motives Are Obvious
By Joseph E. MulliganStudying world history helps us to suspect that the current military intervention in Iraq, dubbed Operation Iraqi Freedom, is powered by the long-standing U.S. policy of enhancing the freedom of large U.S.-based multinational corporations and banks to do unrestricted business at will.
Turf War Rages in Washington Over Who Will Rule Iraq
By Rupert CornwellAs the Anglo-American forces are making their final push towards Baghdad, a war is raging in Washington over dividing up the booty.
Doublespeak: Islam and the media
By Fuad NahdiA western news agenda dominated by hostile, careless coverage of Islam distorts reality and destroys trust. This makes a dynamic, relevant, and professional Muslim media all the more necessary.
4 April, 2003
An Interview With Noam Chomsky
Embed With The Military
By David MillerEmbedded journalists are the greatest PR coup of this war.They are almost completely controlled by the military
3 April, 2003
Wailing Children, the Wounded, the Dead: Victims of the Day Cluster Combs Rained on Babylon
By Robert Fisk, in BaghdadThey fell like "small grapefruit". But they exploded and took many lives with it. The day that Cluster bombs rain down on Babylon.
Mesopotamia. Babylon. The Tigris and Euphrates
By Arundhati RoyHow many children, in how many classrooms, over how many centuries, have hang-glided through the past, transported on the wings of these words? And now the bombs are falling, incinerating and humiliating that ancient civilisation
Detecting Disinformation, Without Radar
By Gregory SinaiskyThe war in Iraq provides us plenty of interesting samples for a study of disinformation techniques. Here is one such example
US Marines Turn Fire on Civilians
at the Bridge of Death
By Mark FranchettiHorror stories from Iraq. How war turns men into beast
2 April, 2003
Is Bush Nuts?
By William ThomasPresident George W Bush, a reformed alcoholic, could be suffering from personality disorders.A Psychiatric assessment of GWB
Cows and Armed Guards on a College Campus.
Where is the Truth Amid All This Subterfuge?
By Robert Fisk in BaghdadAre we getting all the truth from Baghdad?
No Way Out
By George MonbiotEvery likely outcome of this war is a disaster. Monbiot explores ways to get out of this war and save the world from disaster
Emperor George
By Jonathan Freedland
What has become of American values and idealism? All swept away in this thoroughly un-American war
“Don’t Mess With My Soldiers.They Are Trained Like Dogs to Kill. And They Will kill You...”
U.S. military detains, beats and threatens to kill four foreign journalists in Iraq. A Democracy Now! interview with Israeli reporter Dan Scemama
1 April, 2003
The Monster of Baghdad is Now the Hero of Arabia
By Robert Fisk in Baghdad
This is now a nationalist war against the most obvious kind of imperial power
Forging Their Way to War
By Seymour M.HershVeteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reports that the intelligence report that Iraq had bought five hundred tons of uranium oxide from Niger, which helped the US government to obtain a congressional mandate for a military assault on Iraq, were based on forged documents.
The Cheney Connection
By Ruben Navarrette JrDid the vice president of the United States use his influence to help make his wealthy friends at his old company wealthier?
31 March, 2003
Sergeant's Suicidal Act of War Has Struck
Fear Into Allied Hearts
By Robert Fisk in BaghdadSergeant Ali Jaffar Moussa Hamadi al-Noman's suicide attack on American soldiers throws up new challenges for the Anglo-American forces
US Forces' Use of Depleted Uranium
Weapons is 'Illegal'
By Neil MackayBritish and American coalition forces are using depleted uranium (DU) shells in the war against Iraq
Let's Send Rumsfeld and His Hawks to War Instead
By Robin Cook"I want our troops home and I want them home before more of them are killed."
The Other Media War
By Omar BarghoutiAl-Jazeera's coverage of Anglo-American war on Iraq truly puts to shame any English language television channel, the BBC included.
War Will Traumatise ''at least half a million children''
By Naomi KoppelUNICEF estimates that more than half a million traumatised Iraqi children could need psychological counselling or aid at the end of the war in their country