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Downing Street [the residence of the Prime Minister] is at panic stations as the full implications of Hans Blix’s inspections report sink in. The two main US-British arguments in favour of launching a war on Iraq next month – that … Continue reading →

New York – On streets of beauty, the warm people inched along or stood and chanted and laughed against a war and for peace and their warmth made the winter temperature irrelevant. They were summer people in winter clothes. They … Continue reading →

‘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 →