the withdrawals from Iraq and Afghanistan, and the shifting emphasis back to our own region, surely defence ...

PoliticOZ - admin - 2012-05-04 11:44 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

A veteran's death " An American soldier dies every day and a half, on average, in Iraq or Afghanistan. Veterans kill themselves at   ... of soldiers killed in Afghanistan and Iraq combined since those wars began. " ...

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JetBlue flight diverted after captain restrained " Screaming 'They're going to take us down,' a JetBlue pilot stormed through his plane rambling about a bomb and threats from Iraq, until passengers on the Las Vegas-bound ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-03-28 13:58 - 0 comments

for Al Gore rather than George W Bush in 2000, there would have been no invasion of Iraq and the question ...

The Monthly - Robert Manne - 2012-04-04 09:51 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

to replace authoritarian regimes. East Timor, Afghanistan, Iraq and last year's Arab Spring are examples ...

SlowTV - admin - 2012-03-01 11:36 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

statistics, on the battlefields of Iraq, 4487 American servicemen and women were killed and 32,226 were ... to severe traumatic brain injury among US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. The RAND Corporation found 14% ... 130,000 civilian deaths in Iraq, an unknown number maimed, one and a half million refugees, at least ...

The Monthly - Don Watson - 2012-02-23 14:54 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Iraq archive reveals conspiratorial mindset of Saddam Hussein "Even in an age of WikiLeaks, such a detailed record of a foreign leader's ... (Iraq, Saddam Hussein, New York Times) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-10-27 13:45 - 0 comments

of the willing”. Perhaps, just as Bush overawed Blair on Iraq, drawing him into an overconfident, misinformed ...

The Monthly - Peter Singer - 2012-02-08 14:44 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

What’s left in Iraq  “The typical American soldier was nineteen, and wore a heavy flak-jacket and a pair of wrap-around Oakley sunglasses. Seeing ... (Iraq, New Yorker) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-10-24 19:51 - 0 comments

Julian Assange Robert Manne Less than twenty years ago Julian Ass ...

The Monthly - Robert Manne - 2011-12-19 13:24 - 9 comments - 0 attachments

to the Iraq War, McKnight allows a little anger to show. He accuses News Corp of having blood on its hands ...

The Monthly - David Marr - 2012-03-01 10:55 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

The Iranian general secretly running Iraq ... in Iraq and how he shapes key agendas like no one else. 'He is indeed like Keyser Soze,' said ... (Al-Quds, Iran, Iraq, Martin Chulov, Qassem Suleimani, Guardian) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-08-01 15:11 - 0 comments

Bill Keller: My unfinished 9/11 business "President Bush got it wrong. And so did I. For years, our early stories hyping Iraq's menace fed ... (9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, President Bush, New York Times) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-09-08 16:57 - 0 comments

Iraq and his recent essay collection Oranges & Peanuts for Sale , which alone takes ...

SlowTV - admin - 2011-09-19 10:27 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

General item (Al-Qaeda, Iraq, Patrick Cockburn, Terrorism, The Independent) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-09-12 15:17 - 0 comments

(Iraq, Robert Fisk, The Independent) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-09-09 14:20 - 0 comments

Culture warrior Chris Kenny (1121 words) is all over the shop. He maintains that the Iraq invasion ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2011-10-05 13:58 - 25 comments - 0 attachments

Prime Minister of Iraq. In this talk Prime Minister al-Maliki speaks about the future of his country ...

SlowTV - admin - 1970-01-01 10:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

demanded from all his newspapers that they support the invasion of Iraq, I fail to account for the fact that over climate change Murdoch’s views did not prevail in his media empire. “On the Iraq war, ... obvious fact that Murdoch did indeed oblige all his papers to toe the Iraq line. Does Kelly think all 175 ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2011-09-19 17:37 - 24 comments - 0 attachments

of the Indigenous dispossession; the paper’s cheerleading for war prior to the Iraq invasion and the near-complete ... way or another supported the invasion of Iraq. The edited text inadvertently made it appear ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2011-09-13 09:13 - 48 comments - 0 attachments

then President George Bush had similarly declared success in Iraq just hours before: “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED”. ... of contingencies – Iraq, Iran, North Korea – [but] we had nothing on the shelf for Afghanistan. No one ... a taskforce of American commandos leading the hunt for bin Laden were transferred to Iraq. It would take ...

The Monthly - Sally Neighbour - 2011-09-09 16:22 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Churchill and exposed the government’s secret involvement in pushing the sale of armaments to Iraq ... political exiles in Iraq, who Robertson argues should be offered United Nations protection. He has also just ... Freedom of Speech, Geoffrey Robertson, Human Rights, Iran, Iraq, Lawyers, Wall Street) ...

The Monthly - Paola Totaro - 2011-09-07 10:03 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

career was a stint as the Australian Defence Forces' Chief of Operations in Iraq. In this talk at the University of Queensland, he discusses some of the lessons that should be taken from the Iraq war, adding ...

SlowTV - admin - 1970-01-01 10:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

distinguished military career was a stint as the Australian Defence Forces' Chief of Operations in Iraq ... the Iraq war, adding some general comments on the strategy and morality of modern warfare and the role ...

SlowTV - admin - 1970-01-01 10:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

The press and the Arab Spring: Six reasons for failure "For most of the last decade there have been three key media stories: Israel‐Palestine, Iraq and Al Qa’ida. In most other cases, journalists have had no choice but to play catch up ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-07-19 13:21 - 0 comments