Wouter van de Klippe is a freelance journalist and writer based in Europe. He is particularly interested in organized labor, social and environmental justice, and social welfare states.
Despite the ravages of deindustrialization, the United Auto Workers remains the most important American industrial union. Members recently elected a new leadership promising democracy, militancy, and an end to corruption. But change isn’t coming easy to the UAW.
“Save Darfur” perfected a simple message: genocide is bad and must be stopped. But rather than examining the United States’ role in Sudan, it created a spectacle of American power and hierarchy.
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.
In 1980, Saddam Hussein commissioned a biopic about his 1959 assassination attempt on Iraq’s prime minister. He enlisted a legendary James Bond director and cast his own son-in-law to play him.
Some of the top-selling video games of the post-9/11 world have taken real events as their inspiration.
Because the Western world has a “complicated” history with frustrated artists as national leaders.
On December 14, 2008, the Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi threw his black leather dress shoes at President George W. Bush during a press conference in Baghdad. It was one of the greatest athletic acts of the Iraq War.
Despite its early accomplishments, Ba‘athism was always subject to the whims of a party elite more concerned with preserving power than revolutionary transformation.
Bright Eyes front man and enfant terrible of the early aughts indie scene Conor Oberst sat down with Jacobin to discuss the Iraq War and more.
Germany likes to keep its hands clean — but its coffers full.
A power struggle in the ranks of the Sudanese security state has thrust the country into chaos.
We talk to journalist Andrew Cockburn about the Iraq invasion and the new Middle East.
A series of natural disasters has heralded the worst global rice shortage in 20 years.
In the 2000s, a generation of youth played games that were funded and aided by the US military — a connection that goes back to the very birth of video games.
