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Our man in Baghdad
British and US forces drawn into battle for Basra: The timing of this week’s attack may also be explained by the decision this month, at the prompting of US Vice-President Dick Cheney, on a visi… more »
Pardon My Paradox
Muqtada
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m.idrees wrote 1 week ago: Geoffrey Wheatcroft on Patrick Cockburn’s Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia Revival, and the … more »
Patrick Cockburn on Iraq
m.idrees wrote 2 weeks ago: Media Matters with Bob McChesney has been an important source of my political education. Back when I … more »
Our man in Baghdad
Lister wrote 1 month ago: British and US forces drawn into battle for Basra: The timing of this week’s attack may also b … more »
Patrick Cockburn: This is the war that started with lies, and continues with lie after lie after lie
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clitemnistra wrote 1 month ago: It has been a war of lies from the start. All governments lie in wartime but American and British pr … more »
Iraq Destroyed (article)
Sanjeev wrote 2 months ago: The Independent/UK Sunday, March 16, 2008 Five Years of Occupation, Iraq Destroyed Iraq is a country … more »
Has America abandoned Kurdistan?
Lister wrote 2 months ago: Patrick Cockburn: The Turkish government piously claims that its army is in pursuit of PKK Turkish K … more »
Return to Fallujah
Lister wrote 3 months ago: Patrick Cockburn had to pass through 27 checkpoints in order to get to Fallujah. Only residents and … more »
A pathetically soft target
Letters From A Tory wrote 8 months ago: Dear Patrick Cockburn, The complicated nature of the war in Iraq is not something that can be dealt … more »
British pull out of Basra Palace
Lister wrote 8 months ago: Ignominious end to futile exercise that cost the UK 168 lives: The withdrawal of British forces from … more »
Cholera in Iraq
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Lister wrote 8 months ago: With 5000 cases, according to Patrick Cockburn: The outbreak is among the most serious signs yet tha … more »
Blair's Media Mendacity.
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freeluncher wrote 11 months ago: The recipient of tonights Mendacity Award is quite probably the most accomplished liar, dissembler, … more »
Opium production in Iraq
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Lister wrote 11 months ago: Victory for lawlessness: Iraq’s deadly new export Farmers in southern Iraq have started to gro … more »
Secret US plot to kill Al-Sadr
Lister wrote 12 months ago: From the Independent. The US Army tried to kill or capture Muqtada al-Sadr, the widely revered Shia … more »
Jalal Sharafi, the Arbil 5 and the Cornwall 15
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Lister wrote 1 year ago: Blair and Ahmadinejad have got their stories straight. No deal was done. And they have cover in that … more »
Could it be possible, or is this more Smoke?
hunterseeker wrote 1 year ago: Tony Blair Finally Concedes Defeat in Iraq By Patrick Cockburn, CounterPunch. Posted February 24, 20 … more »
