#iraqwar — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #iraqwar, aggregated by home.social.
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“HOW MEDIA LENS FORGED A PATH FOR INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM”
by Peter Oborne in Declassified UK
@Declassified_UK
@DeclassifiedUK
@uk_politics
@medialens
@turnleft
@cemedia
@novaramedia
@BylineTimes
@MiddleEastEye
@DoubleDownNews“We are seeing today a surge in heretical media outlets including Novara, Doubledown News, Drop Site, Byline Times, Middle East Eye – and of course Declassified UK.
We have emerged thanks in part to a growing appreciation that the mainstream media is broken, cannot be trusted, and is far more likely to disseminate falsehood than tell the truth.
So it is only fair to wish a happy 25th birthday to the earliest of these dissident outlets – Media Lens”
https://www.declassifieduk.org/how-media-lens-forged-a-path-for-independent-journalism/
#Press #SocialMedia #UK #LegacyMedia #MediaLens #LiberalBias #Gaza #Iran #PalestinianGenocide #BBCPropaganda #Lies #Disinformation #ClimateCrisis #IraqWar #NHS #Assange #Vindication
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“HOW MEDIA LENS FORGED A PATH FOR INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM”
by Peter Oborne in Declassified UK
@Declassified_UK
@DeclassifiedUK
@uk_politics
@medialens
@turnleft
@cemedia
@novaramedia
@BylineTimes
@MiddleEastEye
@DoubleDownNews“We are seeing today a surge in heretical media outlets including Novara, Doubledown News, Drop Site, Byline Times, Middle East Eye – and of course Declassified UK.
We have emerged thanks in part to a growing appreciation that the mainstream media is broken, cannot be trusted, and is far more likely to disseminate falsehood than tell the truth.
So it is only fair to wish a happy 25th birthday to the earliest of these dissident outlets – Media Lens”
https://www.declassifieduk.org/how-media-lens-forged-a-path-for-independent-journalism/
#Press #SocialMedia #UK #LegacyMedia #MediaLens #LiberalBias #Gaza #Iran #PalestinianGenocide #BBCPropaganda #Lies #Disinformation #ClimateCrisis #IraqWar #NHS #Assange #Vindication
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Palestine Action
Andy Burnham & his Blairite still on the path set by Kier Starmer and his Blairites?
Puzzled?
#UKPol #AndyBurnham #KierStarmer #TonyBlair #IraqWar #ISIS #Brexit #PalestineAction #AllTheWayWithLBJ
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Palestine Action
Andy Burnham & his Blairite still on the path set by Kier Starmer and his Blairites?
Puzzled?
#UKPol #AndyBurnham #KierStarmer #TonyBlair #IraqWar #ISIS #Brexit #PalestineAction #AllTheWayWithLBJ
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Iran is putting pressure on the US-UK ‘special relationship’ – but it has survived worse over the years. #DonaldTrump #Iran #IraqWar #KeirStarmer #TonyBlair #USforeignpolicy #USIranconflict #WinstonChurchill
https://iwpost.com/iran-is-putting-pressure-on-the-us-uk-special-relationship-but-it-has-survived-worse-over-the-years/?fsp_sid=12318 -
thank you, #IraqBodyCount, for your work to document #Israel's #genocide in #Gaza, as you have done with the #IraqWar!
It's crucial work
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thank you, #IraqBodyCount, for your work to document #Israel's #genocide in #Gaza, as you have done with the #IraqWar!
It's crucial work
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@crazyeddie Both the #IranWar and the #IraqWar were horrible. The #IranWar is so much of a failure that it is good to see so much opposition to it inside and outside of the United States.
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@crazyeddie Both the #IranWar and the #IraqWar were horrible. The #IranWar is so much of a failure that it is good to see so much opposition to it inside and outside of the United States.
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Rod Dreher: "Trump started the #IranWar, and he lost it. There was a massive loss of US authority, to say the least. I backed him in 2024, in part because I trusted him to avoid stupid wars. This war is going to cost the United States way more in the long run than the #IraqWar did. To hell with Trump's stupid, lying excuses."
#OperationEpicFailure #politics #military -
Rod Dreher: "Trump started the #IranWar, and he lost it. There was a massive loss of US authority, to say the least. I backed him in 2024, in part because I trusted him to avoid stupid wars. This war is going to cost the United States way more in the long run than the #IraqWar did. To hell with Trump's stupid, lying excuses."
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Senator Susan Collins Faces Criticism for Comments on Iraq War and Military Service
📰 Original title: 'Disqualifying': Susan Collins scorched over her response to Iraq war question
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
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Senator Susan Collins Faces Criticism for Comments on Iraq War and Military Service
📰 Original title: 'Disqualifying': Susan Collins scorched over her response to Iraq war question
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
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Putin when this debacle is finally over:
https://piefed.social/c/noncredibledefense/p/2069753/putin-when-this-debacle-is-finally-over
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Putin when this debacle is finally over:
https://piefed.social/c/noncredibledefense/p/2069753/putin-when-this-debacle-is-finally-over
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Victory in Iran is nothing short of finishing it off. #DonaldTrump #HormuzBlockade #Huawei #Iranwar2026 #IraqWar #MiddleEast #Opinion #OsamabinLaden #ProjectFreedom #ZTE
https://iwpost.com/victory-in-iran-is-nothing-short-of-finishing-it-off/?fsp_sid=8367 -
America’s Iran quagmire and the failure of strategic memory. #BenjaminNetanyahu #Block1 #DonaldTrump #HormuzBlockade #IranWar #IraqWar #JaredKushner #OperationEpicFury #Opinion #SteveWitkoff #USWarDeaths #USChinarivalry #USIsrael
https://iwpost.com/americas-iran-quagmire-and-the-failure-of-strategic-memory/?fsp_sid=7825 -
Two imperial ventures at Kut al-Amara, one in the #GreatWar and another in the #IraqWar, reveal the similarities – and differences – in the exercise of power.
⌛️ Last chance to read this archive article for free
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/kut-losses-two-disasters-mesopotamia
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Two imperial ventures at Kut al-Amara, one in the #GreatWar and another in the #IraqWar, reveal the similarities – and differences – in the exercise of power.
⌛️ Last chance to read this archive article for free
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/kut-losses-two-disasters-mesopotamia
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NATO’s internal cohesion is being threatened (again) – but in pushing for support on Iran, Trump may risk eroding US influence on the alliance. #AfghanistanWar #Alliance #ColdWar #Diplomacy #DonaldTrump #Greatpowers #internationalrelations #IranWar #IraqWar #Liberalworldorder #NATO #RussiaUkraine #StraitofHormuz #USIran #Viet...
https://iwpost.com/natos-internal-cohesion-is-being-threatened-again-but-in-pushing-for-support-on-iran-trump-may-risk-eroding-us-influence-on-the-alliance/?fsp_sid=7605 -
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a) #Trump is threatening #Italy with withdrawing #USSoldiers, because, if we stick to open source data, we realise that for the #IRANWar the #Meloni government has NOT provided #Trump with the full (and criminal) cooperation that #Berlusconi provided to #Bush for the #IRAQWar -
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a) #Trump is threatening #Italy with withdrawing #USSoldiers, because, if we stick to open source data, we realise that for the #IRANWar the #Meloni government has NOT provided #Trump with the full (and criminal) cooperation that #Berlusconi provided to #Bush for the #IRAQWar -
I just watched an episode of Masters of Horror called Homecoming directed by Joe Dante.
Almost all of Dante's movies are political but you often need to interpret. In 2005 he had something to say about the Iraq War and George W. Bush. This time there was no subtlety involved.
Homecoming is not great. If it had been purely black humor it might have worked better but it also tries to be sentimental which falls flat. As a political statement I love it.
If you want the spoiler summary ....
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I just watched an episode of Masters of Horror called Homecoming directed by Joe Dante.
Almost all of Dante's movies are political but you often need to interpret. In 2005 he had something to say about the Iraq War and George W. Bush. This time there was no subtlety involved.
Homecoming is not great. If it had been purely black humor it might have worked better but it also tries to be sentimental which falls flat. As a political statement I love it.
If you want the spoiler summary ....
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2. back in 2003, for the #IRAQWar #Berlusconi granted #Bush:
-the deployment of 173rd Airborne Brigade from Vicenza to Northern Iraq (the largest air drop since WWII)
-the largest combat movement of C-17 in history from Italian soil
- around 1,300 missions from #SigonellaNAS -
2. back in 2003, for the #IRAQWar #Berlusconi granted #Bush:
-the deployment of 173rd Airborne Brigade from Vicenza to Northern Iraq (the largest air drop since WWII)
-the largest combat movement of C-17 in history from Italian soil
- around 1,300 missions from #SigonellaNAS -
"No friends but the mountains..."
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1995858/no-friends-but-the-mountains
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"No friends but the mountains..."
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1995858/no-friends-but-the-mountains
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"No friends but the mountains..."
https://piefed.social/c/noncredibledefense/p/1995854/no-friends-but-the-mountains
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I appreciate you making that point, because I do agree the cost in lives matters. I would not have this war for that reason.
I was intending to speak narrowly of people's obsession with price, because I think many people complaining about the price WOULD accept casualties in exchange for their own comfort.
The climate issue itself ALSO has a cost in lives, of course. Sadly, many of those casualties would be seen as acceptable by far too many of us ... even if (though we never phrase it that way) our own children may bear that cost.
Denial abounds.
So I'm not even saying the Iranian people should pay that cost ahead of others on Climate, just that climate's a cost everyone will pay if we don't address this. It's easy to try and talk about this in terms of money, not lives, but money is just a proxy for priority. And many lives still hang in the balance in a variety of ways.
Sometimes I hear that we can't afford to do the things we need to do for climate because they're too expensive, which I hear as we needn't or mustn't prioritize this because money tells us that it's not a priority. And that's just not true. Once we get to talking like that, we need to talk about the fact that money is not even serving the societal purpose that it actually needs to.
As proof that I do in fact think of lives as well, I offer this cross-reference to my 2010 essay, The Cost. It illustrates another monetary issue, sadly also tied to the Middle East. But I mention it more because it offers another way to think about the relationship between money and lives in a slightly different way (complementary not competing) than you and I are doing here, by opportunity cost.
All of these different angles matter. And we need not to be nationalistic about these costs. Wars are rarely instigated by the ordinary people of any country. They are mostly indulgences of the Rich and powerful, adequately detached, able to think of lost lives as a budgetable expense because they and theirs are not part of that budget. The Draft was a scary concept, but it gave everyone a stake. Many were able to relax when we move to an "all volunteer" army. But they did not look closely at the dark reasons some are driven to volunteer. And war should not be something one can relax from.
The Cost (my 2010 essay on Iraq War cost)
https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2010/08/the-cost.html#climate #ClimateCost #cost #money #lives #TheDraft #war #gasoline #GasPrices #IranWar #IraqWar #OpportunityCost #HealthCare
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Where is Saddam Hussein when you need him?
#IranWar #endlessWars #TrumpAdministration #foreignPolicy #geopolitics #interventionism #Iran #Iraq #IraqWar #SaddamHussein #war
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‘When the knife came up through the pool table, audiences gasped’
Within six months of its launch in 2006, the National Theatre of Scotland (NTS) produced a globe-conquering hit. Inspired by tragic events at Camp Dogwood in Iraq, Black Watch was a humane portrayal of young squaddies on the frontline.
In this article, the makers of the devastating drama recall how it grew and grew.
#Scottish #literature #drama #theatre #theater #Iraq #IraqWar #BlackWatch
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#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of Timur (1336) - Turco-Mongol Persianate conqueror who founded the Timurid Empire in and around modern-day Iran and Central Asia, becoming the first ruler of the Timurid dynasty.
Baghdad fell to U.S.-led forces on this day in 2003, several weeks after the start of the #IraqWar.
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The Trump Administration Had No Plan for the War with Iran
Editor’s Note: War on the Rocks is running “for” and “against” articles on the war with Iran by…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #breakingnews #Iran #Iranwar2026 #IraqWar #UnitedStates
https://www.newsbeep.com/460879/
