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  • AUSTRALIA

    Iraqi innocent pay for misplaced US spending priorities

    • Georgina Pike
    • 27 February 2007
    4 Comments

    The UN's refugee protection organisation is appealing for $US60 million to enable it to confront the Iraq refugee situation. Meanwhile the United States continues to spend $2 billion each week to fund the war that has caused the crisis.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Grip eluding PM's legacy

    • Jack Waterford
    • 22 January 2007
    3 Comments

    With so many matters in John Howard's political calculus beyond his capacity to influence or control – Iraq, Afghanistan, the Pacific crises, wheat scandals and water reform – he must be thinking it would be nice to have a hold on something.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Gut reaction aside, those on the ground know Iraq reality

    • Ben Coghlan
    • 30 October 2006
    4 Comments

    This month The Lancet published the findings of an Iraq war mortality survey that put the toll at more than 600,000. The US should recognise this figure because other studies in Darfur, Kosovo and Afghanistan employing identical methods are widely accepted.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Book reviews

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 06 July 2006

    Reviews of American Catholic Social Teaching; War on Iraq: What Team Bush doesn’t want you to know; September 11, 2001: Feminist Perspectives; Inside Al Qaeda, and Marriage and the Catholic Church.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Grim reaping

    • Jack Waterford
    • 03 July 2006

    The United States will probably complete its war against Iraq with its military clout enhanced, its diplomatic clout reduced, and its place in the world less secure.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Paper dolls

    • Marcelle Mogg
    • 01 July 2006

    Notions of good and evil have become a tradeable commodity in the rhetoric that has enveloped the conflict in Iraq.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Winners or losers?

    • Andrew Vincent
    • 01 July 2006

    Iraq’s Kurds continue to face an uncertain future

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The alienation of Iraq

    • Anthony Ham
    • 19 June 2006

    Anthony Ham on Iraq and America.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Costly conflict

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 13 June 2006

    When we associate a year with a nation, the people of that nation have usually had little to celebrate.  This has been the year of Iraq.

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  • RELIGION

    The war of the willing

    • Bruce Duncan
    • 13 June 2006

    Western intelligence agencies fell down  badly over Iraq. So did our consciences, argues Bruce Duncan.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Oiling the wheels

    • Anthony Ham
    • 11 June 2006

    Africa has been watching closely while Iraq descends into conflict.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Something old, something new

    • Nadja Breton
    • 14 May 2006

    European allegiances have been tested by the conflict in Iraq.

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