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Christian war maker

by Gabriel Carlyle | News | September 2007

Gordon Brown is succeeding with his first great spin campaign, appearing to distance himself from the aggressive policies of his predecessor while at the same time escalating his two wars in Iraq a ...

Iraqis reject foreign control of national oil assets

by Ewa Jasiewicz | News | September 2007

An opinion poll released in August found that Iraqis oppose plans to open the country's oil fields to foreign investment - by a factor of two to one. ...

Remembering Iraq

News in Brief | September 2007

On 30 July, WWII merchant navy veteran and 1991 Gulf Peace Team camper Richard Crump, 87, marked 16 years of his weekly Whitehall vigil for Iraq. ...

Iraqi week of nonviolence

by Milan Rai and Emily Johns | News | June 2007

b>From 28 April to 6 May, the LaUnf (nonviolence) network of Iraqi peace activists organised a second “Week of Nonviolence”, this time at 13 locations, reaching 7300 people all over Iraq. ...

The good news

by Kat Barton | News | May 2007

The Bush Administration was dealt another blow over Iraq in April after three of its top generals turned down a new high-profile post tasked with overseeing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan ...

Lancet "robust"

News in Brief | May 2007

In public, the government scorned the Lancet estimate that 655,000 Iraqis had died directly and indirectly as a consequence of the invasion and occupation of Iraq. ...

Oilworkers oppose oil law

by Ewa Jasiewicz | News | May 2007

The Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions (IFOU) is a 26,000 member-strong trade union based in the south of Iraq, which is also organising in the centre and north of Iraq. ...

Iraq: polls suggest growing discontent

by Milan Rai | News | April 2007

A number of polls have been conducted in Iraq to mark the fourth anniversary of the invasion, demonstrating enormous and growing hostility to the occupation. ...

Four years of war

by Voices in the Wilderness | News | April 2007

To mark the fourth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, groups worldwide engaged in anti-war actions between 17 and 20 March - from mass marches and vigils naming the dead, to protests out ...

Iraq – War

by Kathy Kelly | Feature | April 2007

While in Amman, Jordan, in January, I received a joyful phone call from friends in Baghdad announcing that one of their daughters was engaged. ...