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"International journalism at its best." --Stephen Kinzer, former bureau chief, New York Times; author /All the Shah's Men/ "Essential reading for anybody who wants to know what is really happening in Iraq." --Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent for The Independent; author of /The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq/ Order /Beyond the Green Zone/ today! http://dahrjamailiraq.com/bookpage The Patriot: Truthout Reviews Dahr Jamail's "Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches From an Unembedded Reporter in Occupied Iraq," with author Interview By Leslie Thatcher t r u t h o u t | Book Review Thursday 03 January 2008 We were a minority, but still, there were many of us to whom it was as plain as the nose on our own face, in the fall of 2002 when the great "marketing campaign" for the Iraq war was rolled out, that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction and no connection whatsoever to 9/11, that the war was an illegal act of aggression that could only hearten enemies of the United States. Some of us turned out for the great global "focus group" of February 15, 2003; some of us wrote to the editor, argued with family members and neighbors, were horrified by the mainstream media's pornographic endorsement of "Shock and Awe," but Dahr Jamail came down from his job as a Park Service rescue ranger on Mt. Denali in Alaska, and, armed with $2,000, a laptop, digital camera, and some indie media listserve advice about how to get there, set off for Baghdad. What he has described as "an act of desperation" provoked by his sense of complicity as an American is also, in a very real sense, an ultimate act of patriotism, an assertion that Americans are better than what we have done in Iraq, a faith he still champions that: "If the people of the United States had the real story about what their government has done in Iraq, the occupation would already have ended ... If people in my country could hear the stories of life under occupation and put themselves in Iraqis' stories, they would understand. I hold that hope because the stories of Iraq are our story now." Continue reading "The Patriot: Truthout Reviews Dahr Jamail's "Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches From an Unembedded Reporter in Occupied Iraq," with author Interview" CHALLENGES 2007-2008: New Year Begins Unhappily In What Was Home Inter Press Service Analysis by Dahr Jamail WASHINGTON, Jan 2 (IPS) - The end of 2007 produced a telltale indication of what the New Year seems likely to bring to Iraq. Continue reading "CHALLENGES 2007-2008: New Year Begins Unhappily In What Was Home" _______________________________________________ *** Think Dahr's work is vital? We need your help. It's easy! http://dahrjamailiraq.com/donate/ *** Order your copy of Dahr's new book, /Beyond the Green Zone/ http://dahrjamailiraq.com/bookpage (c)2007 Dahr Jamail. 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