Independent reporter Simon Aronowitz, who has a contact within the BBC, reports that journalists there are finding the coverage of the situation highly irregular. Information is being released in a way that suggests it is being carefully stage managed
Over 33 deaths have been reported and over 150 have been seriously injured in a spate of bombings that ripped through London’s busy rush hour Thursday morning
“The Americans won’t be out in less than ten years”, says one Iraqi. If you could see the bases they are planning to build – if you could see what already has been built – you’d know that they are going to be here for quite a while
She stood surrounded by minions,writes Riverbend. The photograhers lights flashed against her as her cruel lips curled into a grimace. It was meant to be a smile but it wouldn’t reach her cold, lifeless eyes. It was the leer of the undead before a feeding
Writing from Baghdad, Riverbend has a suggestion for a TV ‘reality show’ featuring 15 Bush supporters in a house in Fallujah. We could watch them cope with the water problems, the lack of electricity, the raids, the bombings, and- oh yeah- the ‘insurgents
Sergeant Bendermen has been officially charged with Articles 85 and 87 UCMJ, Desertion and Missing Movement, following his refusal to redeploy to Iraq
Iraqi resistance has found a new weapon: the power of propaganda. In their latest video on the Internet the narrator asks: “George W. Bush; you asked us to ‘bring it on’. And so help me we will”, as the video shows explosions around a burning US Humvee
With Iraq’s elections looming ever closer, Robert Fisk reports that Iraq has become a Vietnam-style world in which statistics are increasingly more important than reality. And where “accidents” often turn out to be the work of insurgents
American soldiers fighting in Depleted Uranium battlefields are called “Throw-Away Soldiers”
The Iraqi resistance is becoming adept at luring American troops into traps, as this incident shows
As what is effectively World War III, rages across Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, Israel Shamir reflects that it is not enough to simply be “against the war”
Despite renewed revelations of torture and humilation, the mainstream media has yet to ask the key question: who was really behind the obscenities at Abu Ghraib and why were they committed?