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The Espionage Act Charges Against Julian Assange
In 2019 the United States charged a publisher under a 1917 espionage law for obtaining and publishing classified material. That had never h…
How Apache Gunsight Footage Works
The camera that made this recording was never meant to be watched by the public. Understanding what it can and cannot show explains most of…
How to Check a Piece of War Footage
A practical method for anyone who sees a conflict clip and wants to know whether it shows what the caption says. It takes about ten minutes.
New Baghdad: The District Where It Happened
Al-Amin al-Thaniyah was an ordinary crowded neighbourhood of shops, flats and side streets. Knowing what kind of place it was changes how t…
Iraq Body Count and How the Iraqi Dead Were Counted
Estimates of the civilian toll in Iraq range from around 200,000 to over a million. The range is not dishonesty. It is four different metho…
Baghdad in 2007 and the Surge
The airstrike happened in the worst year of the war, in the middle of a strategy that deliberately put American infantry inside neighbourho…
The Missile Strike on the Building
The third and least examined engagement of that morning: three Hellfire missiles fired into a partly built block of flats, and a death toll…
The 38-Minute Video and the 17-Minute Edit
WikiLeaks published a full recording and a shorter captioned edit on the same day. Almost everyone watched the short one, and the differenc…
The Strike on the Van
The hardest part of the footage to defend: a civilian vehicle stops to pick up a wounded man, and is fired on. What the law says about resc…
The National Press Club Release, 5 April 2010
A small organisation booked a room in Washington, played a US military video to the press, and changed what the public expected to be able …
