In today’s online edition of The Guardian, Australian journalist John Pilger surveys the mess that is contemporary Iraq, under the headlines
We’ve moved on from the Iraq war – but Iraqis don’t have that choice
Like characters from The Great Gatsby, Britain and the US
have arrogantly turned their backs and left a country in ruins
After surveying the horrendous spike in cancer cases and birth defects which local doctors and World Health Organisation researchers attribute to the use by US and UK forces of over 300 tonnes of depleted uranium (a metal which is highly toxic aside from its …