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Josh White / 20 Mar 2023

Abandoned by the Press

The UK Media and Iraq

Twenty years ago today, US and British forces entered Iraq to bring down Saddam Hussein and rid the country of weapons of mass destruction (WMD).(...)
Drasko Duranovic / 09 Mar 2023

The Struggle for Montenegro

Moscow’s Hybrid War

For the Kremlin, controlling Montenegro is an opportunity to have its own proxy in NATO. For Belgrade, it’s a chance to regain the territory, which declared independence in June 2006.(...)
The Battleground / 20 Feb 2023

Retro World

The Battleground’s Spring Books List

Protests and war belong together. Not because they reflect each other but because conflict stirs the pot. Not just about itself but everything else.(...)
Ari Paul / 13 Feb 2023

Cold War Blame Games

Seymour Hersh and Nord Stream

Seymour Hersh, the legendary investigative journalist who uncovered American war crimes in Vietnam and Iraq, has been in journalistic hibernation for some time. (...)
John Foster / 04 Feb 2023

Fake News About History

Ukraine is Not Stalingrad

Foucault once suggested that Clausewitz's famous observation, "war is not merely a political act but a real political instrument" carried out by other means, be reversed, with politics made an extension of war.(...)
John Foster / 25 Nov 2022

Think Different

Culture from the Slums, by Jeff Hayton

Based on the flurry of academic titles about it over the last decade, punk has become as common to college curriculums as it is to the Top 40. Why this took so long is baffling.(...)