The BBC is it again. Using a photo from Iraq in 2003 and claiming it was of the Houla massacre. Once the photographer who took the original shot cries foul it’s removed. But not before a screen shot is saved
A 2010 study said increases in infant mortality, cancer and leukaemia in Fallujah exceeded those reported by survivors of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Part II of Robert Fisk’s report from Fallujah a decade after it was ‘liberated’ by U.S. forces
The role of respectable journalism in western state crimes — from Iraq to Iran, Afghanistan to Libya – remains taboo. It is currently deflected by the media theatre of the Leveson enquiry into phone hacking
The soldier who killed herself after refusing to take part in torture
Amid the controversy engulfing Murdoch’s media one aspect is being studiously ignored. Yet it may be News International’s worst wrongdoing
True to his cynical, manipulative form over Iraq, Tony Blair used his second appearance before the inquiry into the Iraq War to call for action on Iran – military if necessary
Nick Kollerstrom presents a convincing case that elements of the British Army’s own Force Reconnaissance Regiment may have been behind the 7/7 attacks
If we are to believe the voice on those Osama bin Laden tapes, the elusive al-Qaeda leader cares deeply about Palestine. Yet the actions of the terrorist network he supposedly still directs all too often belie its statements of concern for their “brothers” under Israeli occupation
“The inspectors will find that all the talk of Iraq stockpiling weapons of mass destruction is simply a lie, and put by Bush and Blair as a pretext for staging a war.” – Tariq Aziz, New York Times, October 22, 2002
More on the detention of two British soldiers by police in Basra, how they got out of captivity and what made it so imperative that they had to be freed
John Pilger reflects on how Tony Blair and his cronies paved the way for the invasion of Iraq and how the corporate media assisted