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Iraq

Chilcot - dipping a toe in

by Milan Rai | Blog entry | 23 April, 2015

A sceptical look at the evidence given to the British government's Chilcot Inquiry into the 2003 Iraq war by Richard Dearlove, head of MI6 at the time. Dearlove sticks to his WMD story but it has a big hole in it....

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Patrick Cockburn, The Jihadis Return: ISIS and the New Sunni Uprising

by Milan Rai | Review | October - November 2014

OR Books, 2014; 150pp; £9. Purchase online here: http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/jihadis-return/

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Clark Stoeckley, The United States vs Pvt. Chelsea Manning

by Gabriel Carlyle | Review | October - November 2014

OR Books, 2014; 199pp; £12. Purchase online here: http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/manning-trial/

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Eight things everyone should know about the Iraq crisis

by Ian Sinclair | Feature | October - November 2014

Ian Sinclair looks beyond the "babbling brook of [mainstream media] bullshit" about the Iraq crisis.

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8 facts everyone should know about the Iraq crisis

by Ian Sinclair | Blog entry | 8 September, 2014

Ian Sinclair looks beyond the "babbling brook of [mainstream media] bullshit" about the Iraq crisis.

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Behind the Iraqi crisis: the crushing of the nonviolent Sunni uprising

by Milan Rai | Feature | August 2014

Milan Rai recovers the hidden background to the current crisis

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Iraq war ‘promoted terrorism’

by Gabriel Carlyle | News | June 2014

‘Far from reducing international terrorism... the 2003 invasion [of Iraq] had the effect of promoting it'

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Half a million dead Iraqis

by Gabriel Carlyle | News | November 2013

New survey tallies war-related deaths

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Campaigners allege Iraqi birth defects survey has been manipulated - but fail to back up claims

by Gabriel Carlyle | News | October 2013

Was data from the Iraqi government's survey of birth defects manipulated?

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Halabja Chemical Bombing, 1988

by Osman Ahmed | Feature | September 2013

Halabja survivor Osman Ahmed's work are a 'rendezvous between life and death'

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