Agathe Dorra is a PhD researcher in political aesthetics at King’s College London
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The life and death of the ideology that gave us Iraq.
Long before disinformation became a moral panic, respectable media outlets like the New York Times trafficked in false information that led to decades of war in Iraq.
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British political comedy of the 1990s and 2000s satirized a low-stakes world of media management and spin. What happened when it tackled the tragedy and atrocity of the war in Iraq?
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How Iraq brought Australia into America’s war machine — just in time for a showdown with China.
How Labour failed to mobilize against the Iraq War.
The Iraqi Kurds were supposed to be liberated by Saddam’s removal. Instead, they face corrupt regional parties and a hostile central state.
Some of the most scathing critiques of the Iraq War were set to music.
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