Author Archives: Team VCS

‘Are there any more coming, then?’ There have been dafter questions, but not many. At 1.10 yesterday afternoon, Mike Wiseman from Newcastle upon Tyne placed his accordion carefully on the ground below Hyde Park’s gates and rubbed cold hands together. … Continue reading →

On February 25, 1991 the war correspondent Leon Daniel arrived at a battlefield at the tip of the neutral zone between Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Daniel was one of a pool of journalists who had been held back from witnessing … Continue reading →

London, United Kingdom – Millions of protesters — many of them marching in the capitals of America’s traditional allies — demonstrated Saturday against possible U.S. plans to attack Iraq. In a global outpouring of anti-war sentiment, Rome claimed the biggest … Continue reading →

Dublin, Ireland – Well over 100,000 people attended anti-war demonstrations in Dublin and Belfast yesterday adding their voice to the millions around the world expressing opposition to the expected US-led war in Iraq. Singers, political figures and clergymen joined demonstrators … Continue reading →

Hours before the top U.N. arms inspectors give a report to the U.N. Security Council that could influence the chance or timing of any war, Saddam also reiterated that Iraq was free of any such weapons, a claim the United … Continue reading →

A week later, 100,000 turned out in San Francisco and nearly as many in Washington, D.C., to protest the war. A neoconservative smear campaign was launched that tried to label the protestors radical leftists, but these were not just the … Continue reading →

The new arrivals, the first wave of more than 14,000 seaborne Marines expected to land in the region in coming weeks, include a highly trained special missions unit with experience in carrying out tactical raids, including seizure of enemy command … Continue reading →

I was then 20-year-old, naive, uneducated, with zero knowledge of politics. Arriving in Korea we hiked up steep mountains as replacements. Departing soldiers made puns while we remained silent not knowing what lay ahead—it was nighttime. At daybreak, a devastated … Continue reading →

More than 2000 Scots soldiers are awaiting official notification to leave their base near Bergen, Germany, for the Gulf. Yesterday, the last Challenger II tanks of the 7th Armoured Brigade were delivered to the ferry port of Emden. There they … Continue reading →

Mark Crispin Miller, author of “The Bush Dyslexicon” and “Boxed In: The Culture of TV,” wishes he could still talk only of television, unleashing barbs like “Big Brother Is You Watching.” Now he can’t. In Miller’s view, America’s great independent … Continue reading →