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Middle East scholars join TNI fellows in a unique and fascinating discussion of the context of the democracy uprisings in the Middle East and the way it may shape the region for future generations.

How has military intervention in Libya shaped the Arab Spring?

A continuing war in Libya tarnishes the Arab revolutionary uprising, because it has subverted a democratic revolution and become a war of intervention. Two of TNI's fellows and experts on the Middle East debate the underlying causes and consequences of the Libya military intervention.

Iraq: The Invisible War

The US continues to paint a rosy picture of progress in Iraq but the reality is one of poverty, violence, torture and political corruption.

Get all US forces and mercenaries out of Iraq

War and Sanctions continue to be used to manipulate and control Iraq. Joy Gordon's recent book on the sanctions and US policy shows them being used by the US and Britain, not as an alternative to war as many in the international community may have intended, but as a means of softening in preparation for war.

What the Wikileaks leaks don't reveal

The Wikileaks revelations demonstrate the great extent to which Iraqi loss of life and US-British cruelty has been under-reported, but what we know is only the tip of the iceberg.

No law for oil

Iraq’s Oil Law: Parsing the Fine Print

Blood, Sweat and Oil

Iraqis will never accept this sellout to the oil corporations

Iraq and Ruin

Iraq: 'The British army is just another militia'

A cultural genocide

Those they can't co-opt, they destroy

Let's face up to it - we are torturers too

The shame of it

Privatisation won't make you popular

Thanks for nothing