Christopher Hitchens interview on Iraq, the Left, and the Islamic Caliphate
Matt Kennard — March 24, 2010 1 Comment
Wherever I go and whatever platform on which I speak, I attempt to make two points. First, that the intervention in Iraq is opposed by conservative forces all over the world, and not just Muslim conservatives but reactionary isolationists in America, Haider-type parties in Western Europe, xenophobes and chauvinists in Russia, Greece and Serbia, and of course by all the fascist and anti-Jewish fringe. I mention this not in order to suggest guilt by association but to challenge the lazy Left/Right antithesis that is so commonplace
Politics
Richard Dawkins interview on religion, evolution and Iraq
Matt Kennard — March 19, 2010 24 Comments
“Blair is surely guilty but I as I said “with agony” – that’s what I meant. I think he really did agonize over it whereas I think Bush is too stupid to agonize about anything.”
Editor's Pick, Religion
Iraq Inquiry: Unpublished interview with Jack Straw, then-UK Foreign Secretary, from 2006
Matt Kennard — February 14, 2010 1 Comment
MK: I mean because a normal Iraqi may be thinking: “Oh Rumsfeld, maybe twenty years ago, was supporting Saddam.”
JS: Well it’s more complicated than that.
MK: Well, he was selling him weapons – I mean alongside all the other powers.
JS: I think their story… we didn’t by the way – as far as I know. But the story on that is actually more complicated. But, you know, they will accuse the Americans of all sorts of things and there is certainly, as it were, in the Arab street a feeling of complaints about hypocrisy and double standards. At the same time the Arab street wants many of the things that the West has including education and scientific research and so on… Listen I’m going to have to go, is that alright?
Politics
John Pilger on the legacy of Iraq
John Pilger — December 10, 2008 0 Comments
Pilger takes on Bush over Iraq
What They Really Mean
An interview: Damon Albarn on the Gorillaz, fatherhood, the war in Iraq, and going out
Matt Kennard — November 24, 2008 0 Comments
In an exclusive interview, Matt Kennard talks to Britpop icon and frontman of Gorillaz and Blur, Damon Albarn, about his political activism, how he makes a tune, and whether he still gets time to go out on the town.
Culture
The Iraq ‘Status of Forces Agreement’ is the product of Iraqi resistance
Richard Seymour — November 21, 2008 0 Comments
The ‘Status of Forces Agreement’ is surprisingly good in many respects, but this is because the Iraqi people have shown they will not stand for an enduring imperial occupation.
Politics
Ahmed Chalabi is a world-class fraud and thief
Richard Seymour — September 30, 2008 2 Comments
Ahmed Chalabi’s career from MIT student, to banking mogul, to Washington toady, has been characterized by a steadfast commitment to theft, Faustian pacts, and manipulation.