Monday, Feb 6th 2012
Pirooz Daneshmandi talks to Denis Halliday, the Irish peace activists and former UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq (September 1, 1997 to 1998). A 34-year veteran of the UN, Halliday resigned in 1998 over the economic sanctions imposed on Iraq, characterizing them as “genocide”.
In the interview Halliday discusses his reasons for resigning as Humanitarian Coordinator in [...]
Here’s Pirooz Daneshmandi’s Near FM interview with Noam Chomsky, which aired on the 1st of March 2011. In it Chomsky explains his analysis of the causes of the current economic crisis and how to avoid a future one as well as the recent uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East, the wars in Iraq [...]
The blood of Iraq boils black. Bubbling beneath the surface in a sandy womb, Iraq´s oil reserves resemble an iceberg. The `known´ and officially confirmed oil deposits amount to some 115 billion barrels. At over 10% of the world´s total reserves, this places Iraq third in global terms. However, an estimated further 350 billion barrels [...]
Patrick Cockburn | The Truth About The Afghan Election
President Hamid Karzai is not particularly popular, but as the incumbent he in a strong position, through networks of patronage, to get the support of local and regional king-makers such as warlords, chiefs of police, shuras (local councils), religious, tribal and ethnic leaders. What foreign reporting of [...]
“We have no interest in oppressing other people. We are not moved by hatred against any other nation. The … maintenance of a tremendous military arsenal can only be regarded as a focus of danger. We have displayed a truly unexampled patience, but I am no longer willing to remain inactive while this madman ill-treats [...]
Patrick Cockburn is the Baghdad correspondent of the Independent and the author of The Occupation: War, resistance and daily life in Iraq and Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia Revival and the struggle for Iraq. He spoke to Daniel Finn of Irish Left Review about the latest developments in Iraq.
How do you interpret the latest election [...]
One of the secret weapons of the occupation forces in Iraq has been the sheer danger of reporting on the conflict. The occupiers themselves have attacked the local offices of Al-Jazeera, the broadcaster with the least inclination to “embed” itself in the protective grasp of the US army: their claim that this was an unfortunate [...]
