30 April, 2003
Anger Mounts After
U.S. Troops Kill 13 Iraqi Protesters
By Edmund Blair
U.S. soldiers killed at least 13 Iraqi civilians
who marched on a school west of Baghdad to demand the troops leave the
building and get out of Iraq
29 April, 2003
Robbing Iraq Of
Its History
By Dr Mubarak Ali
This is a common phenomenon of history that imperial
powers, after defeating their adversaries militarily, make systematic
efforts to root out their historical heritage and thus reduce them to
a state of intellectual and cultural powerlessness.
Fighting Is Over
But the Deaths Go On
By Michael Howard
Guardian investigation reveals mines have killed
up to 80 civilians since the conflict ended
After Costly
War, Iraqis Quickly Organize
By Wade Hudson and Scott Harris
An Interview With Wade Hudson of The Iraqi Peace
Team
28 April, 2003
Rise of Political
Islam in Iraq?
By Dr Iftikhar H. Malik
Seeing multitudes of impassioned, chest beating
yet totally orderly Shia pilgrims converging in Karbala so soon after
the demise of Saddam Hussein's regime have sent shivering messages to
different sections of global populace.
Missing: A
Vase, a Book, a Bird and
10,000 Years of History
By Adam Goodheart
Scholars reacts like mourners struggling with an
overwhelming loss at the theft and destruction of Baghdad museum
27 April, 2003
Anger
MountsAfter Iraqi Arms Dump Carnage
By Peter Ford
Residents
blame the US military for the deadly barrage that rained on their village.
American to
Oversee Iraqi Oil Industry
By David Teather
The administration is planning to structure the
potentially vast Iraqi oil industry like a US corporation
26 April, 2003
Journalism?
by John Pilger
There is something deeply corrupt about journalism.
It is not a recent phenomenon. What makes the difference today is the
technology that produces an avalanche of repetitive information
Obscuring The
Reality
By Kalpana Sharma
A full two weeks after the so-called "victory"
of the "coalition" forces in Iraq, we have yet to hear about
the numbers of Iraqi civilians or soldiers killed or injured.
25 April, 2003
Pilgrims Threaten
Jihad Against American Forces
By Kim Sengupta in Karbala
The Shia pilgrimage to Karbala, took on a strident
political and martial note with demands for the establishment of an
Islamic state and threats of a jihad against the "American occupiers".
Baptising In
Troubled Waters
By Andrew Gumbel
Evangelical Crusaders Prepare to Fight Islam with
Aid and a Bible
24 April, 2003
Prosecute US Corporate
Media Whores For War Crimes
By Davi Walsh
US corporate media should be prosecuted for presentating
the illegal invasion of a foreign country as a preventive war
Shia Clerics
To Foment Civil War
By David Warren
Once ruled by a minority, Shiites now want their
own 'Islamic democracy
U.S. Planners
Surprised by Strength of Iraqi Shiites
By Glenn Kessler and Dana Priest
As Iraqi Shiite demands for a dominant role in
Iraq's future mount, Bush administration officials say they underestimated
the Shiites' organizational strength and are unprepared to prevent the
rise of an anti-American, Islamic fundamentalist government in the country.
23 April, 2003
Many Faces of
Donald Rumsfeld
By Linda Diebel
Yesterday's Pentagon briefing was, even by the
surreal standards of the Iraqi war, a high-water mark for "Rummy"
watchers, truly an out-of-body experience.
22 April, 2003
Where
is Democracy?
By Hamsa Mohammed in Baghdad
A Baghdad resident recounts her experiences of
living in an occupied city
The US Must Leave
- and Fast
By Jonathan Steele
The gratitude for removing Saddam Hussein on which
Washington mistakenly expected to bank for years is almost exhausted.
21 April, 2003
Do not forget
the horror
By John Pilger
The saving of one little boy must not be a cover
for the crime of this war
CIA Brought Bathists
To Power
By David Morgan
CIA offers no comment on Iraq coup allegations
20 April, 2003
The New Dark Age
By Ben Okri
The looting and burning of Iraq's museums and libraries
has left us all losers
Anti-Colonial War
By Robert Fisk
America's war of "liberation" is over.
Iraq's war of liberation from the Americans is about to begin.
17 April, 2003
The Deal
By Walid Rabah
The deal includes, granting American citizenship
and residency in the United States to some of the first echelon commanders
(Republican Guards) and their families, depending on their wishes.
The Shia of Najaf
fear the yoke of US occupation
By Phil Reeves in Najaf
The Shias will not accept an Iraqi government run
by anyone they see as a stooge of the occupying Americans.
16 April, 2003
Final Chapter:
Burning Books
By Robert Fisk
Library Books, Letters and Priceless Documents
are Set Ablaze in Final Chapter of the Sacking of Baghdad
US Troops Kill
10 Injure 100 As they fire on protesters
Agence France-Presse
US troops opened fire on a crowd hostile to the
new pro-US governor in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul , killing at
least 10 people and injuring as many as 100
Deadly fruits of
Baghdad
By Peter Ford and Scott Peterson
Hundreds of unexploded cluster bombs lie scattered
in Baghdad, threatening the lives of its citizens
Baghdad Did Not
Fall - It Was Handed Over
By Jalal Ghazi
Arabic media are speculating that a secret deal
was arranged between the United States and the Baath regime to hand
over Baghdad.
Iraqis Say
Lynch Raid Faced No Resistance
By Keith B. Richburg
Gizzy and other doctors said no Iraqi soldiers
or militiamen were at the Saddam Hospital in Nassariya that night, April
1, when the U.S. Special Operations forces came in helicopters to carry
out the midnight rescue.
15 April, 2003
Why Syria Is in
Americas Gunsights
By Robert Fisk
Syria, Israels second most powerful enemy
is now in Americas gunsights
US' New Found
Syria-fixation Draws Ire
By Chidanand Rajghatta
Washington's new-found Syria-fixation amid its
military swagger in Iraq is drawing sharp criticism both in the US and
abroad
"US
Forces Encourage Looting"
By Ole Rothenborg
An eye witness says, he saw american soldiers encouraging
people in Baghdad to loot
RSS Supports
Americas War on Iraq
By Ram Puniyani
RSS chief Sudarhan is embarrassing the BJP Government
by defending the US aggression on Iraq
14 April, 2003
Noam Chomsky
Interviewed
By Noam Chomsky and MIchael Albert
Noam Chomsky talks about the invasion and occupation
of Iraq
Americans Knew What
to Defend
By Robert Fisk in Baghdad
If the Americans looked on as looters plundered
and vandalized Baghdad musuem, tanks and armoured personnel carriers
were positioned to defend the Ministry of Interior, and the Ministry
of Oil
The Rape of Mesopotamia
By Paul Street
American soldiers encouraged the looters to vandalize
Baghdad museum.
13 April, 2003
Vandalization
of Iraq's History
By Robert Fisk, In Baghdad
In Baghdad's most important museum, something truly
terrible has taken place, while the occupation looked on
The Realignment
of the World
By Stanley Kober
As USA goes ahead with its programme of Empire
building other nations around the world are building coalitions to confront
the empire
12 April, 2003
Image-Making,
Lies and the "Liberation" of Iraq
By Patrick Martin
The Images of the toppling of a statue of Saddam
Hussein in Firdos Square was stage managed to give the false impression
that the vast majority of the Iraqi people are joyfully welcoming the
invasion and occupation of their country by US and British troops.
Revealing Photographs
Here are the photographs from Information Clearing
House
'Embedded Dancers?'
Was That Another PR Masterpiece?
Cathy Breen, Iraq Peace Team
Is it true that the revelers who danced to welcome
the occupation forces 'embedded dancers' the American military brought
with them to Baghdad?
11 April, 2003
Spoils of War
By Bob Herbert
The Pentagon and its allies are close to achieving
what they wanted all along, control of the nation of Iraq and its bounty,
which is the wealth and myriad forms of power that flow from control
of the world's second-largest oil reserves.
Crime
Against Humanity
By John Pilger
Nothing Bush and Blair, their cluster-bombing boys
and their media court do now will change the truth of their great crime
in Iraq.
Israel Eyes Iraqi
Pipeline Project
By Atul Aneja
As the Anglo-American forces consolidate the occupation
of Iraq Israel is exploring the possibility of revivvin the oil pipeline
from Mosul in northern Iraq to the Israeli Mediterranean port of Haifa
10 April, 2003
Iraq Liberated?
The Real Story Begins Now
By Robert Fisk in Baghdad
Winning a war is one thing. Succeeding in the ideological
and economic project that lies behind this whole war is quite another.
The "real" story for America's mastery over the Arab world
starts now.
Possible Scenarios
in Mideast After Iraq War
By Bill Straub
With the campaign in Iraq all but wrapped up, the
US army is training their gun on Iran and Syria
My Oscar "Backlash":
"Stupid White Men" Back At #1,
"Bowling" Breaks New Records
By Michael Moore
Michael Moore's criticism of president Bush in
the Oscar night increased his popularity.
9 April, 2003
Does The US Military
Want To Kill Journalists
By Robert Fisk
Was it possible to believe this was an accident?
Or was it possible that the right word for these killings was murder?
Reporters or Snipers?
Journalists Murdered in Baghdad
By Robert Fisk
As the American invaders are on a killing spree
in Baghdad, even the journalists reporting the war are being targeted.
Three journalists lose their life on day 20.
The Outline Of the
Beast
By Arundhati Roy and Anthony Arnove
An Interview With Arundhati Roy
Morality, Religion
And an Illegitimate War
By Konrad Raiser
"It can be disastrous to translate moral imperatives
into political action without submitting them to critical judgment as
to the possible consequences of such action."
A Letter to America
By Margaret Atwood
"This is a difficult letter to write, because
I'm no longer sure who you are."
"Exciting
times" for "embedded" journalists
By Peter Mackler
The Head of the Agence France-Presse office in
Kuwait, describes daily life for journalists "embedded" in
US military units and raises some questions.
Grozny And Baghdad:
Disturbing Parallels
By Tristan Ewins
As Baghdad is threatened by the possibility of
a protracted urban warfare Tristan Ewins draws a parallel between Grozny
and Baghdad
Chemical Hypocrites
By George Monbiot
As It Struggles to Justify Its Invasion, The US
is Getting Ready to Use Banned Weapons in Iraq
8 April, 2003
Amid Allied jubilation,
a Child Lies in Agony,
Clothes Soaked in Blood
By Robert Fisk in Baghdad
The innocent are bleeding and screaming with pain
to bring us our exciting television pictures
American Thrust
Into Baghdad Had Neither
Humility nor Honour
By Robert Fisk in Baghdad
It seemed as if Baghdad would fall within hours.
But the day was characterised by crazed normality, high farce and death
The U.S. Betrays
Its Core Values
By Gunter Grass
"we are witnessing the moral decline of the
world's only superpower"
Iraq's Bread Basket
Stands to Be Ruined by War
By The Environment News Service
The war in Iraq could be devastating for the country's
rural economy with consequences on farmers' capacity to produce food
7 April, 2003
The Allied Grip
Tightens on Baghdad
By Robert Fisk in Baghdad
On the streets, grim evidence of a bloody battle
Army Chaplain
Offers Baptisms, Baths
By Meg Laughlin
Baptism in the times of war. An offensive story
from Iraq.
TheTwisted Language
of War
That is Used to Justify the Unjustifiable
By Robert Fisk
Why do we aid and abet the lies and propaganda
of this filthy war?
A morally hollow
victory
By Mary Riddell
No amount of PR will disguise the fact that this
war is an outrage against humanity.
This Is Not The
Time To Ask Questions
CNN's Aaron Brown on the network's coverage of
the anti-war movement, the media's sanitization of the invasion of Iraq
and why he believes this is an inappropriate time for reporters to ask
questions about war
6 April, 2003
The Battle of
Baghdad
By Robert Fisk in Baghdad
'Ever so slowly, the suburbs were turned into battlefields'
Bush Aide Says
US, not UN, Will Rebuild Iraq
By David E Sanger with John Tagliabuet
President Bush's national security adviser Condoleezza
Rice declare that the UN would have a secondary role in reconstructing
Iraq
We See Too Much,
We Know Too Much.
That's Our Best Defense
By John Pilger
"a deep and unconscious racism imbues every
aspect of Western policy towards Iraq."
5 April, 2003
The War's Economic
Motives Are Obvious
By Joseph E. Mulligan
Studying 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 Cornwell
As 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 Nahdi
A 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
Turkey
and The US War On Iraq
An Interview With Noam Chomsky
Embed
With The Military
By David Miller
Embedded 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 Baghdad
They 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 Roy
How 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 Sinaisky
The 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 Franchetti
Horror stories from Iraq. How war turns men into
beast
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April, 2003
Is
Bush Nuts?
By William Thomas
President 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 Baghdad
Are we getting all the truth from Baghdad?
No Way Out
By George Monbiot
Every 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
Dont
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.Hersh
Veteran 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 Jr
Did the vice president of the United States use
his influence to help make his wealthy friends at his old company wealthier?