Iraq war

‘Smooth operator’: The propaganda model and moments of crisis - Des Freedman

An article by Des Freedman on Herman and Chomsky's propaganda model for the mass media and moments of crisis (disagreements within the ruling class), focusing particularly on the Daily Mirror and its anti-war coverage in the build up to the Iraq war.

Two FSAO Members share their experience as war resistors on active military duty

A brief account of soldiers affiliated to Chicago's Four Star Anarchist Organization attempts to organize within the military and avoid being shipped off to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Recently, two members of FSAO were interviewed and published describing their experiences as war resistors on active military duty at Ft. Polk Lousiana 2004-2005.

The interview was published at
http://www.truthout.org/080309T?n

Against the 'Iraqi' Resistance

To those Western pro-revolutionaries who have lately fallen under into the politics of anti-imperialism the message is this: always reject imposed conditions and proposed solutions from within the established array; take courage from your principles under all circumstances; there must be no compromises and no negotiations with religions, political groups, state agencies or structural panaceas; the struggle is always for humanity as its own end and against the commodity.

A Plague on Both Your Houses: Against the ‘Iraqi Resistance’

by Frere Dupont (2005)

(Article appeared in the first issue of Letters.)

On the brink of disaster

The war on Iraq prompted mass protests throughout Europe and beyond

Franco 'Bifo' Berardi's essay from Feb 2003, in response to mass anti-war demonstrations, argues that a society that has rebelled and seceded from war must also secede from capitalism.

Let’s take a snapshot of the situation before everything precipitates; let’s simply try to remind ourselves what has happened in the world during the preparatory period of a conflict with unpredictable consequences; let’s delineate scenarios of likely developments and imagine possibilities to act: let’s build a strategy for the aftermath of the war.

Route Irish, directed by Ken Loach

Submitted by Tom Jennings on Aug 1 2011 16:23

A disappointingly missed opporunity to explore recent developments in the military-industrial complex.

Privatised on Parade. Film review – Tom Jennings

Fallujah, Iraq 2004 - Misrata, Libya 2011

Medialens compare and contrast the coverage in the mainstream media of the attacks on Fallujah during the Iraq war, and the current attack on Misrata in Libya by Muammar Gadaffi's forces.

Operation Phantom Fury

In November 2004, the UN's Integrated Regional Information Network reported the impact of Operation Phantom Fury, a combined US-UK offensive, on Iraq’s third city, Fallujah:

US Judge Dismisses Hearing into Guantánamo "Suicides"

Submitted by Adroobus on Sep 30 2010 19:23

A US federal Judge dismissed a complaint Wednesday (9/29) brought by the families of two Guantánamo prisoners that alleged that the circumstances surrounding the men's deaths had been covered up when they were declared suicides by the Pentagon in June of 2006. Read the full article at http://tiresiasspeaks.wordpress.com/us-judge-dismisses-hearing-into-guantanamo-suicides/

Fallout from US seige on Fallujah worse than Hiroshima’s

Submitted by Adroobus on Aug 19 2010 20:57

On July 6th, 2010, the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) released a study titled, “Cancer, Infant Mortality and Birth Sex-Ratio in Fallujah, Iraq 2005–2009." The study implicates the US military's use of depleted uranium munitions as causing similar but even worse damage to the people of Fallujah than fallout from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima did to the survivors of that bombing.

Friday, August 6th, marked the sixty-fifth anniversary of the day the United States’ dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima killing some 140,000 people and bringing the second world war to a quick and brutal end. The anniversary was covered in The New York Times and many other major news outlets across the US.

"The enemy is the system that sends us to war" - Speech by Iraq war veteran

Mike Prysner being arrested at an anti-war rally

A speech given by former US soldier and Iraq war veteran Mike Prysner in 2009.

When I first joined the army, we were told that racism no longer existed in the military. A legacy of inequality and discrimination was suddenly washed away by something called "Equal Opportunity." We would sit through mandatory classes, assuring us that racism had been eliminated from the ranks, and every unit had its own EO representative to ensure no elements of racism could resurface.