It’s going wrong, faster than anyone could have imagined. The army of ‘liberation’ has already turned into the army of occupation
The US says it will recover and repair priceless antiquities looted from Baghdad’s national museum. Which is laughable when they just sit back and watch as library books, letters and priceless documents are torched. It should prove interesting watching them try to pry artefacts out of the claws of wealthy American collectors
Welcome aboard the Iraqi gravy train. There will be no role for the UN in setting up an interim government in Iraq. The US-run regime will last at least six months, probably longer. And by the time the Iraqi people have a say in choosing a government, the key economic decisions about their country’s future will have been made by their occupiers
The family of a British peace protester, shot by an Israeli sniper as he shielded three young children, claimed yesterday that he appeared to have been deliberately targeted for assassination
The Pentagon has held up its practice of embedding
journalists with military units as proof of a new media-friendly policy. On 8 April, however, US military forces launched what appeared to be deliberate attacks on independent journalists covering the war, killing three and injuring four others
American troops shot and killed seven Iraqi women and children yesterday when the van in which they were travelling failed to obey orders to halt at a checkpoint near the city of Najaf in southern Iraq
Two incidents of friendly fire in the ongoing war against Iraq have raised concerns about potentially serious glitches in the targeting software of the US Patriot missile
The conflict in Iraq has spurred a wave of Web attacks from hackers expressing views about the war
Singapore’s Internet registry has withdrawn its trademark application for the Internet domain name of .sg, following a hostile public reaction to the unprecedented move
Despite daily reports about the showdown
with Iraq, Americans hear very little from mainstream media about the most basic fact of war: People will be killed and civilian infrastructure will be destroyed, with devastating consequences for public health long after the fighting stops
An employee at the top-secret Government Communications Headquarters has been arrested following revelations in The Observer last weekend about an American dirty tricks
surveillance operation to win votes at the United Nations in favour of a tough new resolution on Iraq
The father of Bali bomb victim Josh Deegan has stated that linking war against Iraq with the Bali tragedy was cynical and the prime minister should immediately withdraw his remarks. While the PM also copped an earful from New Zealand as their resolve strengthened against following Howard into war against Iraq
Walter Kolbow, junior minister in the German Defence Ministry, was quoted as saying that the United States was behaving like a dictator over the Iraq crisis
After Yugoslavia‘s formal name change to Serbia and Montenegro, it is still not clear what will happen with the country’s top-level domain
A five-year-old Indian boy dutifully showed up in court after receiving a summons, only to find out the case was against his father
East Timor has bowed to intense political pressure from Australia and will today rush through the signing of an agreement to clear the way for joint development of the vast oil and gas reserves of the Timor Sea
NSA personnel have been instructed to step up operations to bug the phones and e-mails of the UN Security Council. And, not surprisingly, the US news monopolies have been ignoring the story
Filmmaker Michael Moore says journalists should look into a possible deal between the Bush administration and Russia to carve up Iraq’s oil fields after ousting Saddam Hussein
France’s high-rise ghettos are fuelling machismo driven males to murder while leaving the young women of the area living in constant fear
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