Writer David Szalay: ‘We live in an era of short attention spans – we have to work with it the best we can’

found 2025 › Feb › 22 (Sat) @ 22:33 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

The Hungarian-English author on addressing what it’s like to be a male body in the world, learning the tricks of literature from Frederick Forsyth, and the feeling of nearly winning the Booker

David S…

Let’s be clear – the US never had moral supremacy. With Trump, it’s not even pretending any more | Owen Jones

found 2025 › Feb › 20 (Thu) @ 06:45 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

The president has replaced the ‘good guys’ myth with unapologetic brute force and greed – it could be a major mistake

Donald Trump’s attempt to seize Ukraine’s natural resources is another morbid symp…

Ex-Royal Marine is cleared in just 17 minutes of stirring up racial hatred on Facebook following Southport murders after spending 20 days remanded in prison

found 2025 › Feb › 08 (Sat) @ 13:57 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Jamie Michael, 46, from Penygraig, southeast Wales, served in the Iraq War and was twice sent to Sierra Leone as a peacekeeper.

Trump might want to revive America’s imperial heyday – but does his base?

found 2025 › Feb › 06 (Thu) @ 21:17 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

The president’s Gaza proposal is a signal that old-school, blunt-force US expansionism seems to be back in fashion

Donald Trump’s proposal that the US take ownership of the Gaza Strip, expel and reset…

A wedding in a desert full of war props: Gohar Dashti’s best photograph

found 2025 › Feb › 05 (Wed) @ 17:03 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

‘This is a reproduction of a memory I have from my childhood during the Iran-Iraq war. I went to a wedding and could hear bombs and alarms going off’

I grew up in Ahvaz, a city in Iran that’s close to…

Iraq’s Supreme Court freezes controversial laws on women’s rights, detainees, and land disputes

found 2025 › Feb › 05 (Wed) @ 17:03 UTC

a story from Euronews › Euronews

The move follows a complaint by lawmakers who argued that the voting process was unlawful.

Before and after: Mosul’s historic landmarks rebuilt after IS destruction

found 2025 › Feb › 05 (Wed) @ 06:33 UTC

a story from BBC › BBC News

Some 80% of the Old City of Mosul, in northern Iraq, was destroyed under the Islamic State group.

Calls for more support for ex-soldiers at risk of substance abuse after Iraq War veteran struggling with PTSD died from accidental drugs overdose

found 2025 › Feb › 04 (Tue) @ 15:42 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Aeran Taylor, 38, 'rapidly fell into drug addiction' after being thrown out of the Army for substance misuse in December 2006 following a six-month tour to Iraq.

Military instructor sacked for hitting 17-year-old recruit across the head and calling him a 'fat f***' said it was only banter

found 2025 › Jan › 29 (Wed) @ 20:45 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Iraq war veteran Russell Davey (pictured) was investigated by bosses at a military prep college over his treatment of young British Army hopefuls, a tribunal heard.

‘A moral wreckage that we need to face’: Peter Beinart on being Jewish after Gaza’s destruction

found 2025 › Jan › 27 (Mon) @ 14:26 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

With his new book, the author – once a prominent defender of Israel – hopes to change minds among his peers as he imagines a future of ‘collective liberation’

Peter Beinart has spent a lifetime talkin…