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Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel prize-winner for economics, former president of the World Bank and globalisation critic, talks to Aida Edemariam about the true cost of the Iraq War:
'Next month America will have been in Iraq for five years - longer than it spent in either world war. Daily military operations (not counting, for example, future care of ( Read more... )

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Excerpt from "Imperial Life in the Emerald City", by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, an assistant managing editor of The Washington Post and former bureau chief in Baghdad.

The book is an account of life in Baghdad's "Green Zone", a walled-off enclave that housed the international presence overseeing the reconstruction during the American occupation of ( Read more... )