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Like George W Bush, Trump has started a reckless war based on a lie | Mohamad Bazzi

The Iraq war was built on a lie. Now history is repeating itself

In May 2003, George W Bush landed on the deck of a US aircraft carrier to deliver a triumphant speech, declaring that major combat oper…

3 days 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…

4 days ago

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…

12 days ago

Flight 149: Hostage of War review – a tale so staggering you couldn’t write it

This excellent documentary tells the tale of a BA plane’s Kuwait stopover … just as Saddam Hussein invaded. It’s a crucial tale of a four-month nightmare that is barely believable

If it were a work of…

13 days ago

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…

24 days ago

We’re minimizing the horror of Trump’s military birthday parade | Judith Levine

The media has focused on the price tag and potholes. But history may mark 14 June as the ceremonial birth of US fascism

In 2017, watching a two-hour Bastille Day procession, Donald Trump told the Fren…

57 days ago

Tyrants like Trump always fall – and we can already predict how he will be dethroned | Simon Tisdall

The US constitution protects incompetence. But don’t underestimate the self-destructive power of the president’s own hubris

Tyrants come to a sticky end, or so history suggests. Richard III and Coriol…

58 days ago

70 days ago

It is difficult to imagine a post-American world. But imagine it we must | Nesrine Malik

The truth is, we were always dangerously overexposed to decisions made in Washington – consider this chaotic moment an opportunity

“People speak with forked tongues about America,” a veteran foreign c…

73 days ago

The battle that set the standard for modern warfare: Battle Board breaks down the 100 hours that began Saddam Hussein's downfall... Operation Desert Storm

This is the story of one of the most decisive victories in military history - as the United States and her allies crushed the army of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in just 100 hours on 24 February, 1…

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