Former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, who quit Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Cabinet in 2003 to protest the Iraq war, died Saturday after collapsing on a Scottish mountain while walking with his wife. He was 59.
The reason I mention this (except to note that dying in the Highlands is perhaps on the top of my [...]
Continue Reading August 7th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
A reminder that there is really nothing new under the desert sun, at least not in Iraq.
Hanna Batatu, one of the greatest historians of modern Iraq, here describes Iraqi parliamentary elections during the era of British colonialism. It is sometimes forgotten that the British organized elections in a number of their colonial possessions, both for [...]
Continue Reading August 7th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
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