Traumatic brain injury on the front line
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is said to be one of the signature injuries of the conflict in Iraq, and accounts for a larger proportion of troop casualties than it has in previous wars fought by the...
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The cultural destruction of Iraq
Erasing Memory: The Cultural Destruction of Iraq is a 28-minute film from the Archaeology Channel which documents the plundering of Iraqi archaeological sites and looting and destruction of priceless...
View ArticleExposure to sarin may have caused brain damage in U.S. troops
On March 4th 1991, four days after the end of the Persian Gulf War, ground troops from the U.S. 37th Engineering Battalion destroyed large caches of weapons found at the Khamisiyah Ammunitions Storage...
View ArticleNew poll suggests death toll in Iraq is 1.2 million
A new survey, released today by the ORB polling agency, suggests that around 1.2 million Iraqi civilians have been killed since the U.S.-led invasion of March 2003. That’s more than 4% of the country’s...
View ArticleThe death of history
More on the cultural destruction of Iraq, or, as Robert Fisk calls it in this article from The Independent, the death of history.
View Article$500,000 per minute
That’s the cost of war in Iraq, according to a new analysis by Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard Public Policy lecturer Linda J. Bilmes. The money spent on one day of war in...
View ArticleMoD begins traumatic brain injury study
The Guardian reports that the Ministry of Defence has just started a major study into traumatic brain injury (TBI) in British troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. In an accompanying article, the...
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