The whole process had been an imaginary projection of US power in any case — removing the Iraqi people from the picture meant that all attention could be focused on American suffering and the meaning of the war in American life.
Articles by Guy Rundle 
Guy Rundle: How violence in Europe takes a hard-Right turn
How will the Liberal Right deal with the increasingly violent and racist trajectory of the hard-Right? Not well, one suspects on the evidence.
Guy Rundle: The email that could bring about James Murdoch’s downfall
James Murdoch has misled a UK Parliamentary committee, either deliberately or by being so indifferent to the truth-value of his testimony that he has been deceitful by negligence. That’s the only conclusion one can draw from the startling new revelations of a 2008 email.
Guy Rundle: Rundle: for Cameron, Brussells sprouts a sort of zen veto
The EU could have given the UK kittens, bl-wjobs and Belgium for free, and Cameron, on returning, would have still been portrayed as “the man who sold out to Europe”.
Guy Rundle: An unusual twist in the NotW phone-hacking tale
The Leveson inquiry into the UK print media has taken an unusual turn.
Rundle: NotW scandal widens, Mulcaire now has nothing to lose
December 7 — a day of infamy for an empire, its forces tethered and defenceless, the enemy coming out of the sun, laying waste.
Guy Rundle: Cameron’s bulldog image in danger of losing its balls
The problem for Cameron is that he’s dealing with a triple crisis — party, country and Europe — while his enemies have only one aim, to make the Tories over as a euro sceptic outfit.
Guy Rundle: The Drum, gay marriage and knowing your history
How did the cultural left win the war on marriage equality, asks Kevin Donnelly at The Drum? His answer? Radical leftists completed what he claims Antonio Gramsci called “the long march through the institutions”, to control the heights of debate.
Guy Rundle: Rundle: Europe re-engineered on the run, but don’t mention the war
It is extraordinary, unprecedented, the European project that everyone was so solemn about being re-engineered on the run like, well, like the dodgy banks that put us in this mess in the first place.
Guy Rundle: Julian Assange given a legal lifeline, Supreme Court to hear his appeal
WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange won a small battle against the push to extradite him to Sweden, with the High Court allowing him the opportunity to petition the Supreme Court to hear his appeal.
Rundle: Cain dissed as a Newt, aka the ultimate black swan, emerges
Well it has been a helluva ride for the Republican Party, as its right-wing base searches for anyone but the passionless and, by American standards, centrist mainstream candidate Mitt Romney.
The Spy Files, where power is visible (and that’s a good thing)
Newspapers and other mainstream media organisations are incapable of guaranteeing confidentiality, no matter what claims they make to their sources.
Guy Rundle: A scared UK public sector take to the streets
Today was the day it all came home to people in the UK. The whole public service was out on strike, across the nation.
Rundle: DSK, Assange and the intersection between conspiracy and violence
An investigation by Edward Jay Epstein in The New York Review of Books has re-opened the whole Dominic Strauss-Kahn matter dramatically and highlights the intersection between so called conspiracy theories and s-xual violence.
Guy Rundle: McMullan testimony a toxic mix of nihilism, self-righteousness and victimhood
Paul McMullan’s appearance before the Leveson inquiry was stomach turning testimony, but it was the best insight yet into what went so badly wrong at the heart of News International culture.
Guy Rundle: Europe farce and furious on the downhill slope
In the past two weeks the possibility of a eurozone default, collapse and disarray, has gone from formally possible, to actually possible, to a real and imminent danger.
Guy Rundle: Sienna Miller stars with winning Leveson performance
Down to the Royal Courts of Justice again, those bizarre fairytale towers in the middle of the Strand, their gravitas all gone the moment you learn they were created in the 19th century, the modern state wrapping itself in ancient stone.
Guy Rundle: Europe’s stuck, nothing changes in Italy, and the Pope must die
So Europe remains stuck in a common currency whose structural flaws it cannot resolve — and certainly cannot resolve without major reform in Italy, where the breathing space offered by the appointment of Mario Monti has been resisted.
Rundle: ‘All the fun under liberty’s masterful shadow’ — the elections in Spain
Spain’s Socialist Party has become the latest casualty of the rolling eurocrisis, with the ruling Socialist party, led losing power to the centre-right People’s Party headed by Mariano Rajoy.
Guy Rundle: Bffo and Molotovs, but real anarchists are in Brussels
Amid the drifting tear gas at the entrance to Syntagma Square, the black bloc are doing their best, with the petty weapon of the Molotov.
Jugglers on the street, PM trying to keep skittles in the air
You would be hard-pressed to say there was anything amiss in Kolonaki, the upmarket area one stop along from the centre of Athens. Here, amid the Parisian-style apartment buildings and boutiques devoted to the sale of all things Athenian — furs and leather thigh-high boots for the most part — there are no empty shop fronts, and anyone going […]
Rundle in Athens: Mogadishu with spanakopita, and the mood is dangerous
We’ve already established what kind of girl Greece is; now we’re just haggling about the price.
Guy Rundle: Italy’s Monti appointment a concession to bewilderment
The very fact that Monti and Papademos can step so easily into their appointed roles is clear evidence that the European political crisis began long before they got the call.
James Murdoch escapes, but leaves many hostages
News International chair James Murdoch is either a liar or an utterly incompetent executive. Those are the only two conclusions you can take away from his evidence to the House of Commons select committee.
Rundle: the Beeb, a cuppa and a day of James and the search for the truth
Barely noticed by many, the Leveson Inquiry into the media, phone hacking, etc, is slowly unfolding in London, its promise of 46 star witnesses, main players, etc, all held off to some time in the distant future.
