We will no doubt see more children shot and killed by occupiers and their colonial proxies in the months and years to come, with more villages and neighborhoods invaded in the dead of night by armed men creeping up on their houses.

Why is the fate of people subjected to US invasion and occupation, and the scale of the slaughter inflicted, hidden from Americans?

Children are dying from malnutrition, diarrhoea, TB, meningitis, leishmaniasis, liver disease, pneumonia, anaemia and congenital heart disease, all of which are easily preventable outside of Iraq.

Previously secret evidence to the Iraq inquiry confirms what was clear at the time: Tony Blair and Alistair Campbell concocted a pack of lies to take Britain into an illegal war.

The theme running throughout Greg Muttit's book is that Iraq's grim fate has been bound up with the lake of oil that lies beneath.

Plans to exploit Iraq's oil reserves were discussed by the UK government and the world's largest oil companies a year before Britain invaded Iraq.

If the US does not leave Iraq by the end of 2011, resistance leaders say they will escalate the military and peaceful opposition and turn Baghdad into a giant Tahrir Square.

A new Amnesty International report details the killings, injuries, torture and other ill-treatment of protesters who, inspired by the democracy uprisings in the Middle East and north Africa, have demonstrated in their tens of thousands across Iraq.

Iraqis have embarked on a new phase in their struggle for dignity and freedom, says Sami Ramadani, inspired by the uprisings of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Bahrain.

The government panicked and declared a state of emergency, banning the movement of all vehicles and bicycles, but huge demonstrations took place not only in Baghdad but throughout Iraq. The main demands included: work, water, electricity and sewage systems, but political demands were also conspicuous.

Facts were bled of their real significance. Only the most aware readers would have understood that the US had not been duped, but rather that the White House had exploited a "fantasist" -- or desperate exile from a brutal regime, depending on how one looks at it -- for its own illegal and immoral ends.

Obama is silent about the protests in the other Tahrir Square in Baghdad -- not a word, even after the killing of at least 29 protesters by Iraq's security forces.

Praising people power in Egypt, Libya etc not extended by Barack Obama to protests in Iraq, still under US occupation, even when over 20 killed.

The carnage inflicted by the US on Falluja in 2004 was one of the worst atrocities in the war on Iraq. Now another report indicates that the legacy of that attack is a dramatic increase in cancers and birth defects, with the finger of blame again pointing at the US Army's use of depleted uranium and white phosphorous weaponry.

A US soldier serving five life terms for raping and killing a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and killing her parents and sister, blames US Army dehumanisation of Iraqi civilians.

The war on Iraq continues not just through the presence and activities of US occupation forces and foreign mercenaries, but also through a series of punitive tools used against Iraq to ensure compliance with US wishes.