{"id":8828,"date":"2015-06-05T05:41:13","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T10:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8828"},"modified":"2015-06-05T05:41:13","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T10:41:13","slug":"george-monbiot-and-the-iraq-war-bullshit-brigade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8828","title":{"rendered":"George Monbiot and the Iraq War bullshit brigade"},"content":{"rendered":"
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George Monbiot and the Iraq War bullshit brigade<\/a><\/h3>\n

Why the \u2018liberal\u2019 defence of the Iraq Body Count falls flat on its face<\/strong><\/p>\n

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There has been a response to my investigation into Iraq Body Count (IBC) and the people behind it\u200a\u2014\u200aand longstanding Guardian columnist George Monbiot himself has popped out of the woodwork to give it his official thumbs-up.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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The article in question is my\u00a0INSURGE intelligence<\/em>\u00a0piece, \u201cHow the Pentagon is hiding the dead<\/a>,\u201d which critically examines the claims of IBC and IBC-affiliated scholars about the death tolls in Iraq, as well as in other conflicts, mainly Afghanistan and Colombia.<\/p>\n

Monbiot, a journalist for whom I have much respect, couldn\u2019t bring himself to say a word in public after news of how my contract was\u00a0unilaterally terminated<\/a>\u00a0by The Guardian for writing on my environment blog about the role of Gaza\u2019s gas in motivating Israel\u2019s military offensives.<\/p>\n

But an attack on my critique of Iraq Body Count was enough to break the silence.<\/p>\n

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George Monbiot on Twitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My investigation into Iraq Body Count, Monbiot trumpeted on Twitter, is \u201cpernicious bullshit,\u201d which has received a \u201cdevastating take-down\u201d by Brian Dean, who runs a blog called \u2018News Frames\u2019 and who has apparently been a vocal supporter of Iraq Body Count for many years.<\/p>\n

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George Monbiot on Twitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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George Monbiot and the Iraq War bullshit brigade Why the \u2018liberal\u2019 defence of the Iraq Body Count falls flat on its face There has been a response to my investigation into Iraq Body Count (IBC) and the people behind it\u200a\u2014\u200aand longstanding Guardian columnist George Monbiot himself has popped out of the woodwork to give it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2487,2452,6115,6116,6112,3771,6114,6113,442,6117,1049,525,2092],"class_list":["post-8828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-afghanistan","tag-bullshit","tag-colombia","tag-gaza","tag-george-monbiot","tag-guardian","tag-ibc","tag-insurge-intelligence","tag-iraq","tag-iraq-body-count","tag-israel","tag-military","tag-nafeez-ahmed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8829,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8828\/revisions\/8829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}