29 June, 2003
Indian Troops
As Cannon Fodder
By P Sainath
The lives of Indian soldiers are more expendable
in American eyes. But should the eyes of an Indian government
see it the same way?
Displaced
And Despised
By Rory McCarthy
Rory McCarthy explains how life after Saddam has
turned into a nightmare for many of Baghdad's Palestinian and Syrian
inhabitants
28 June, 2003
How The British
Troops Became A Soft Target
By Robert Fisk
Whether or not Tony Blair realises it, the British
are playing once more the game of colonial occupiers - and now it is
time to pay the price
Guerrillas
Hold Ace In Post-War Iraq
By Paul Buchanan
Observing post-conquest Iraq, we should remember
Mao's maxim that the population is the sea in which the guerrilla fish
swim
26 June, 2003
Bush's Vietnam
By John Pilger
Once More, We Hear That America is Being "Sucked
Into a Quagmire". The Rapacious Adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan
are Going Badly Wrong
No Indian
Troops For Iraq
By Brian Cloughley
'Stabilising' Iraq is not peacekeeping: it is weasel-speak
for muscular occupation of territory on behalf of a conquering power
22 June, 2003
Paralysed
City
By Patrick Cockburn
Powerless Iraqis rail against ignorant, air-conditioned
US occupation force
Dangerous
Liasons
By Peter Beaumont
The gunner apologised and told us that he had been
about to kill us. He said he had his finger on the trigger. A second
later, it would have been too late
21 June, 2003
Saddam Alive
In Iraq, Intercepted Calls Suggest
By Andrew Buncombe
New intelligence recovered by American agents electronically
eavesdropping on supporters of Saddam Hussein suggests the former Iraqi
dictator is alive and still living inside Iraq
From Saddams
Tyranny to Post-Liberation Tyranny
By Seumas Milne
They create a wasteland and they call it
peace.
20 June, 2003
America's Nightmare:Is
Iraq The New Vietnam?
By Gwynne Dyer
Come election time, Bush may have to justify the
continuing deaths of US troops, writes Gwynne Dyer.
19 June, 2003
Just Another
Day In Baghdad
By Rory McCarthy in Baghdad
The demonstrating Iraqis have no work, no money
and are desperate. Two are shot dead. Nearby, an American soldier guarding
a gas station is casually killed
From Liberation
to Counter-Insurgency in
Less Than 80 Days
By Jim Lobe
U.S. Central Command in Baghdad has unleashed
a new campaign with a far more ominous name. ''Operation Desert Scorpion''
is designed, in the equally ominous words of Monday's 'Wall Street Journal',
''to avoid a prolonged guerrilla campaign''
18 June, 2003
Still Debating?
1,800 Indians Already There
By V K Shashikumar
Indians may be busy debating whether to commit
troops to Iraq but whats not known to many is that 1,800 of their
countrymen are already engaged in supporting US military operations
against remnants of the ousted Saddam regime
16 June, 2003
US Support In
Iraq Fades After Raids
By Ellen Barry and Bryan Bender
How One Iraqi's Lifelong Love for America Shattered
15 June, 2003
U.S. attack threatens
to create
thousands of new Iraqi enemies
By Tom Lasseter and Drew Brown
A visit to the "Triangle," an area that
extends from Baghdad, in the east to Tikrit,in the north, and then west
almost to Syria, the recent flashpoint of attacks on American troops
14 June, 2003
Battles Rage
Across Saddam Heartland
By Patrick Cockburn
Battles rage across Saddam heartland where guerrillas
resist US occupation
India Sending
Troops To Iraq -
Unjustifiable Even If UN Sanction It
By Praful Bidwai
Despatching troops and legitimising Iraqs
occupation would be unjustifiable even if a manipulated UN sanctioned
it
13 June, 2003
Anti-US Opposition
In Iraq
And The So Called Roadmap
by Amy Goodman and Robert Fisk
An Interview with Robert Fisk
12 June, 2003
Censoring The
Press In Iraq
By Robert Fisk
Many stories in the newspapers of Baghdad are untrue
and they are fanning anti-american sentiments
No Indo-Pak
Troops For Iraq!
By Praful Bidwai
India and Pakistan should not commit the blunder
of sending troops to Iraq
10 June, 2003
In An Upside-Down
City
By Euan Ferguson
Baghdad's cafes are busy but there's no clean water.
Galleries are opening, but visitors are armed. Patients freed from the
bombed psychiatric hospital are returning there - because they feel
it's safe. Reality of daily life in an upside-down city
09 June, 2003
Profiting From
Destruction
New Report Exposes Contractor Bechtel as Threat
to Iraqi Environment, Human Rights and Basic Services
08 June, 2003
Rapes And Abductions
In Baghdad
By Victoria Firmo-Fontan
A schoolgirl is feared dead amid spate of rapes
and abductions in Baghdad
05 June, 2003
U.S. To Lay Off
500,000 In Iraq
By Warren Vieth
U.S. reconstruction officials will soon lay off
nearly half a million Iraqi military and civilian personnel
04 June, 2003
Iraq War Was
About Oil
By George Wright
The US deputy defence secretary, Paul Wolfowitz
has now gone further by claiming the real motive was that Iraq is "swimming"
in oil
And The Truth
The Victors Refuse To See
By Robert Fisk
Robert Fisk Suggests George Bush who visits Iraq
next week an Itinerary That Would Open his eyes to Whats Really
Going on in Iraq
03 June, 2003
Tribesmen's
Warning
By Andrew Marshall
Leave Iraq, Tribesmen and Sacked Troops Tell U.S.
02 June, 2003
The Troops Are
Afraid To Go Out At Night
By Robert Fisk
Robert Fisk in the Shia Muslim Iraqi city of Nasiriyah
Reading In Iraq
By Amitava Kumar
Nishkam Gupta, an Indian who went to fight with
the us forces in Iraq " to fight the larger war against terrorism,
a war that would directly benefit Hinduism and its cause."
01 June, 2003
The lies that
led us into war ...
By Glen Rangwala
How the UK and the US manipulated UN reports -
and conjured an anthrax dump from thin air
29 May, 2003
So, Why Was
This War For?
By Rupert Cornwell
Rumsfeld concedes banned Iraqi weapons may not
exist
Life Under
Occupation
By Rory McCarthy
Just one town- Plight of Khalis. No electricity
means no water, means disease
28 May, 2003
Body counts
By Jonathan Steele
How many army men died in Iraq? Nobody knows. And
nobody cares to count
25 May, 2003
Gun Gangs
Rule Streets As US Loses Control in Iraq
By Ed Vulliamy
As gun gangs rule the streets aid agencies' struggle
to save Iraq from looters, disease and poverty
24 May, 2003
Bribes' and 'Threats'
Behind U.N. Vote
By Thalif Deen
A coalition of over 150 peace groups and global
non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is lashing out at the U.N. Security
Council for adopting a resolution that virtually legitimizes the U.S.-led
invasion of Iraq and endorses the foreign occupation
21 May, 2003
Seeking UN
Support For Controling Iraq's Oil
By David Usborne
America is pressing for a vote in the United Nations
Security Council this week endorsing shared control of the country and
its oil flows by the United States and Britain
20 May, 2003
Doctors Needed
By Anna Badkhen
Along with all public services, Iraq's once-proud
health system has collapsed in the aftermath of the U.S invasion
19 May, 2003
Iraq May Break
With OPEC
By Peter S. Goodman
Philip J. Carroll,the U.S. executive selected by
the Pentagon to advise Iraq's Ministry of Oil suggested\that the country
might best be served by exporting as much oil as it can and disregarding
quotas set by OPEC
16 May, 2003
Baghdad Pays
The Postwar Price:
242 Die In Three Weeks
By Phil Reeves
Statistics unpublished until today reveal the stark
facts: 242 people have died in Baghdad in just over three weeks, almost
all from bullet wounds
15 May, 2003
So, Mr Straw,
Why Did You Go To War?
By Ben Russell
The legal and political basis for the war in Iraq
was thrown into doubt when Jack Straw declared that uncovering Saddam
Hussein's weapons of mass destruction was "not crucially important"
14 May, 2003
Does Defeat
Always Have To Be So Humiliating?
By Ramzy Baroud
Anti war activists, intellectuals and educators
must move one step forward, to escape preaching and problem-digenesis,
into offering solutions, mechanisms, guidelines, and to-do lists, so
that the passionate millions know what to do with their passion, to
effect change and to foster a more promising vision for the future
Gun Rule In
Basra
By Judit Neurink
Weeks after the battle for Basra ended, the city
remains paralysed by lack of security
13 May, 2003
Iraq In Danger
Of Starvation, Says UN
By Helena Smith, Nicosia and Ed Vulliamy in Baghdad
Iraqi agriculture is on the brink of collapse,
with fears that many of its 24.5 million people will go hungry this
summer
11 May, 2003
"Go
in Ali Baba! It´s all yours." - Called The Americans
By Walter Sommerfeld
American soldiers literally opened the gates and
the doors to looters of Iraqi museums. Plundered articles were often
sold off openly on the streets the very same day
10 May, 2003
Iraq Inc: A
Joint Venture Built On Broken Promises
By David Usborne, Rupert Cornwell and Phil Reeves
America and Britain declared themselves yesterday
to be the "occupying powers" in Iraq and produced a blueprint
for the administration of the country that confined the United Nations
to a co-ordinating role
Cholera Threat
In Basra
By Ewen MacAskill
Conditions in hospitals throughout Iraq have descended
to new levels of squalor
US And Britain Seek
To Limit UN Role In Iraq
America and Britain are seeking UN approval to
run Iraq for at least a year
U.S. to Propose
Broader Control Of Iraqi Oil, Funds
By Colum Lynch
The Bush administration circulated a draft resolution
among key Security Council members today calling for the elimination
sanctions and granting the United States broad control over the country's
oil industry and revenue
Chaos, Crime
Reign In Baghdad
By Mitch Potter In Baghdad
One shot to the throat. One dead American. One
more body bag weighing against the triumph of liberation
09 May, 2003
Liberation,
One Month On
By Phil Reeves in Baghdad
Chaos on the streets, cholera in the city and killings
in broad daylight
08 May, 2003
Halliburton Deal
Includes Operating Iraq Oil Fields
The US Army has revealed for the first time that
a subsidiary of Halliburton Co. has a contract encompassing the operation
of Iraqi oil fields
Ten Lessons
Of The Iraq War
By David Krieger
There are always lessons to be learned after a
war
07 May, 2003
Unprotected Munitions
Injure Civilians In Basra
Civilians are being wounded by abandoned ordnance
in Basra,because British forces have failed to secure weapons caches
Garner
To Be Replaced By Former Diplomat
By Donald Macintyre
Jay Garner, the former general who was appointed
Iraq's chief civil administrator is making way for Paul Bremer who is
close to neo-conservatives around the US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
The Real Terror
Network
By William Bowles
Paul Bremer, the new Gauleiter of Iraq
Iraqi welcome for
US turns to fury
By Mark Baker
The mood is changing for the worse in Umm Qasr
where food and medicine is desperately needed
Liberation at
Gunpoint
By Angana Chatterji
George Bush announces 'victory' in Iraq. But is
it victory?The night is a long journey of self-reflection. In the early
hours of the day, history is in mourning
06 May, 2003
So He Thinks Its
All Over...
By Robert Fisk
When Iraqi civilians look into the faces of American
troops, President Bush famously told the world on Thursday, they
see strength and kindness and goodwill. Untrue, Mr Bush. They
see occupation
The Biggest
Bomb in Bush's Arsenal
By David Morgan
Draping the Stars and Stripes over the face of
a Saddam statue in Baghdad was a photo-op created for Bush's re-election
campaign commercials
05 May, 2003
Corporate
Colonialism
The Bush government is calling on Bechtel, Halliburton,
and other major corporations to take over the job of running the Iraqi
colony
'If Fish Can Feel
Pain, Then Maybe
Iraqi Children Can, Too'
By Terry Jones
If fish can feel pain, perhaps it's time to govern
human affairs on the principle that human beings feel pain too
04 May, 2003
How Many Iraqis
Died? We May Never Know
By Edward Epstein
The world will never know how many Iraqis died
in the war to oust Saddam Hussein, because the United States adamantly
refuses to estimate the number of people it kills in combat
Baghdad battle 'killed
2,300'
Associated Press
The battle for Baghdad cost the lives of at least
1,101 Iraqi civilians according to city hospitals and another 1,255
dead were "probably" civilians
Normalising Violence
For Young Minds
By Meena Radhakrishnan
In the three-week 24-hour Western media coverage
of the Iraq war, anti-war protests and human suffering hardly found
any mention. The war may have normalised violence and aggression, especially
for young viewers
03 May, 2003
Iraqis Vow
Revenge as Hatred of US Grows
By Alan Philps
Hatred of the Americans is boiling on the streets
of Fallujah
Dept Of Connections:
The Contractors
by Jane Mayer
How members of the Bush administration and the
Bin Laden family profit from the destruction and rebuilding of Iraq
Congratulations
We've just won the wrong war
By William Saletan
"You wanted a quick, clear victory, and you
got it. But don't flatter yourself. You haven't changed the world in
19 months. You've only changed the subject"
02 May, 2003
I watched In
Horror
By Chris Hughes
Eye Witness account of the Al-Fallujah shooting
which left two Iraqi demonstrators dead
01 May, 2003
Text of 'Saddam
Hussein Letter'
The text of a letter allegedly written and signed
by Saddam Hussein, published by the London-based Arabic newspaper Al-Quds
Al-Arabi.
US
Troops Fire on Falluja Crowd, Iraqis Say 2 Dead
By Edmund Blair
U.S. troops opened fire on Wednesday for the second
time this week on an angry crowd in the Iraqi town of Falluja, near
Baghdad.