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Operation Epic Fury is now into its third week, and its effects are global. By March 12 combined US and Israeli forces had struck around 6,000 targets in Iran since operations began.

3 months ago

The US spent months promoting a false case for the invasion of Iraq. This time, we’re in the dark about Washington’s goals

In October 2002, George W Bush laid out his case for taking the US to war aga…

The President’s Cake review – sweet portrait of life in wartime Iraq builds to an explosive climax ⊕⊕

Nine-year-old Lamia is obliged by her school to bake a birthday cake for Saddam Hussein, and meets a series of vivid characters as she shops for sanctioned ingredients

There’s a terrific charm and swe…

4 months ago

Shock, awe, death, joy and looting: how the Guardian covered the outbreak of the Iraq war ⊖⊖

In spring 2003, exuberance at the fall of Saddam was swiftly followed by a descent into deadly chaos. Whether moving independently or embedded with troops, Guardian reporters witnessed the violence o…

Trump is repeating mistakes of Iraq in Venezuela | Mohamad Bazzi

As it did in 2003, the US is underestimating the potential for instability as Trump resurrects one of the Iraq war’s biggest myths

“Ladies and gentlemen, we got him!” Paul Bremer, the US proconsul in …

5 months ago

The reported capture of Venezuelan president evokes previous eras when other leaders were seized by US.

11 months ago

America made a catastrophic mistake with the Iraq war. Is it about to repeat it in Iran? | Stephen Werthheim

If the United States joins Israel’s fight to try to finish Israel’s job, it will enter into a war of unknowable scope against a country of 90 million people

Two decades ago, as Americans debated wheth…

Easy regime change in Tehran is a nice idea. But look to history: it’s a near-impossible one | Martin Kettle

No one doubts the malignity of the Iranian government, but if we forget the tragedies of interventions past, we’ll make the same mistakes

On the eve of the 1991 Gulf war, a TV reporter asked the US co…

Blix Not Bombs review – former UN weapons inspector revisits the Iraq war

Greta Stocklassová’s documentary films Hans Blix, aged 97, and asks about his role in the war, WMD, and why his world of diplomacy has now disappeared

At the age of 97, entirely lucid, still writing b…

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