Category: Iraq Dispatches

The New Statesman Dahr Jamail set out to report the truth about the US invasion of Iraq and its terrible impact on daily life. Determined to remain independent of the army, he embedded himself instead with the Iraqi people On the day martial law was declared, US tanks began rolling into the outskirts of Fallujah,

With the media subdued, governments have not been held to account for the biggest political calamity of our time Madeleine Bunting Monday November 5, 2007 The Guardian Excerpt: “What is chilling about Jamail’s accounts is the routine destructiveness of the US forces; how they demolish nearby homes after a roadside bomb, leave unexploded munitions in

The Catastrophic Military Occupation of Iraq is Rarely Described Accurately in the U.S. Media Written by Kevin Zeese, for Democracy Rising Monday, 29 October 2007 An Interview with independent journalist Dahr Jamail “The bogus idea that if the U.S. leaves things will worsen is both inherently racist and ignorant.” Read full interview here Time Out

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ZNET by Ron Jacobs; October 02, 2007 Original Posting of Review Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches From an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq by Dahr Jamail (Haymarket, 2007) As the U.S. occupation of Iraq and the accompanying war on its people heads into a fifth year, the New York Times and Washington Post continue to

Original Essay for Powell’s Books “During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” —George Orwell I never intended to be a revolutionary. In March 2003 when the U.S-led invasion of Iraq was launched I was in the midst of another full mountaineering season in Alaska. However, unlike earlier seasons, I was

The Fanonite “…for the last forty years, our thought has been trapped in hollow structures of language, a stale, dead but immensely successful rhetoric. This has represented, in my view, a defeat of the intelligence and of the will.” — Harold Pinter Occupied Iraq: A Horizontal View September 9th, 2007

Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) http://www.fair.org NY Times Responds Again on Fallujah Public editor’s second response contains factual errors To paraphrase Clark Hoyt, if you’re going to defend the performance of a news organization, you at a minimum need to get your facts right. In his second response to FAIR regarding the New York

Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting: Update NY Times Public editor sides with reporter’s dismissal On July 18, New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt responded to FAIR’s June 11 Action Alert “Incendiary Weapons are No Allegation.” FAIR’s action alert took issue with a New York Times review (5/29/07) of the British play Fallujah, in which