Sanctions do more harm than good
Article by CIWI Member Ramesh Thakur, published inThe AustralianJanuary 4, 2012(Access published article here)SANCTIONS became popular as a bridge between diplomacy and force for ensuring compliance with…
AUSTRALIA’S VIRTUAL VIETNAM: The importance of 17 December 1964
The decision to send troops into battle on alien terrain is usually said to be the most serious a government can make. Politicians do not deny…
Late Night Live
On the evening of Tuesday 4 December 2012 Paul Barratt discussed the aims of the Iraq War Inquiry Group, and the background to its establishment, with…
Moves to codify US drone policy
The New York Times 24 November 2012 reports that with more than 300 drone strikes and some 2,500 people killed by the Central Intelligence Agency and the…
Richard Tanter on “Is Australia too close to the US?”
On Friday 16 November Iraq War Inquiry Group Committee member Professor Richard Tanter was interviewed on ABC 612 Brisbane by Steve Austin, presenter of the station’s Mornings program.The…
Death from above: Ramesh Thakur on drones
IWIG member Professor Ramesh Thakur of the Australian National University (Crawford School of Public Policy) writes in The Ottawa Citizen, 16 November 2012 that armed drone attacks in…
Sue Wareham on Alan Stretton
Following is the text of a letter to the editor of The Canberra Times written by IWIG Secretary Dr Sue Wareham on the occasion of the death of…
No UK Bases for Attacks on Iran
Iraq War Inquiry Group is following very closely the confrontation between the United Sates and Iran, because we regard the possibility of a pre-emptive attack on…
Iraq war, what was it good for? Absolutely nothing
Chris Smith (Letters, August 21) asks why we still need to question why we went to war to overthrow Saddam Hussein.If the reasons for the invasion…
ABC TV Coverage
Today I recorded an interview with Jeff Waters of ABC TV News, covering why we think an inquiry is necessary, what we are trying to achieve…