Tag Archives: Iraq

Iraq’s Missing Pages

Posted on March 9, 2013 by Matt

Reading Peter van Buren’s excoriating indictment of the role played by the ‘complacent and sleepy media’ in paving the way for the Iraq war reminded me of an episode during the build-up to the war that when the mainstream media … Continue reading →

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The Return of the ‘Salvador Option’

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Matt

TODAY’S Guardian will not make pleasant reading in Washington. For the first time, a major mainstream media outlet has alleged that leading American politicians and military figures, including General David Petraeus, the former commander of US forces in Iraq, were … Continue reading →

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Waiting for Chilcot

Posted on January 2, 2013 by Matt

I can’t say I ever expected a great deal from the Inquiry into the ‘lessons that can be learned’ from the Iraq conflict, which  Gordon Brown reluctantly established in 2009.   The British elite does not generally indict itself, and … Continue reading →

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Money makes the (neo-imperial) world go round

Posted on August 21, 2012 by Matt

The ‘international community’ is making cautiously optimistic noises regarding the highly-selective attempts to conjure up a new government in Somalia.  The new parliamentary institutions are intended to replace the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) that Western governments and their African allies … Continue reading →

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