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
2 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?
31 March, 2003
Sergeant's Suicidal
Act of War Has Struck
Fear Into Allied Hearts
By Robert Fisk in Baghdad
Sergeant 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 Mackay
British 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 Barghouti
Al-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 Koppel
UNICEF 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