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Rumination On Truth: The Destruction Of Iraq, Twenty Years On / Dahr Jamail

Rumination On Truth: The Destruction Of Iraq, Twenty Years On / Dahr Jamail

Patrick Farnsworth
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Author and former climate journalist Dahr Jamail returns to the podcast to discuss the 20th anniversary of the invasion and occupation of Iraq by United States-led coalition forces. Jamail began his journalistic career as an unembedded journalist documenting the war from the ground beginning in 2003, highlighting the countless war crimes committed by the occupying forces against the civilians of Iraq, superbly documented in his first book on the subject, Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq published in 2007 by Haymarket Books. 

Today Is Better Than Tomorrow: A Time Of Endings; Shades Of Denial / Dahr Jamail

Today Is Better Than Tomorrow: A Time Of Endings; Shades Of Denial / Dahr Jamail

Patrick Farnsworth
Dahr Jamail, 257, Transcript

In this episode, I speak with award-winning journalist and author Dahr Jamail. 

I can imagine most of you listening to this episode will recognize what Dahr and I both feel and know in this time we are in. Many of us are beginning to come to terms with the reality we have been dealt — a global predicament that includes a pandemic that won’t soon leave us, economic crisis and social unrest that will only worsen as the months pass on, and nonlinear climate disruption that continues to rear its ugly head, portending horrors that are only beginning to make themselves a reality. And we know, from these trends, this breakdown will only accelerate as the months and years pass. As Dahr states, citing his time in Iraq, “today is better than tomorrow.”