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Dissident Voice, July 29, 2011
...by researchers from the world-renowned Johns Hopkins University and followed standard epidemiological practice for estimating mortality in war. John Tirman, who commissioned the Lancet study, notes in a recent article that ‘the Murdoch media machine...
Huffington Post, February 23, 2012
...Afghanistan is slipping away. Not slipping away like a thief in the night, but slipping out of our conscious grasp. Like Iraq, it's a venue of escape for Americans, a place from which to flee. We see little spurts of stories that punctuate the foreign...
Huffington Post, February 13, 2012
...As America's involvement diminished last autumn, I wondered how the Iraq War would be remembered. Would we recall only the U.S. sacrifice of blood and treasure, or would we grapple with its broader meaning -- not least the hundreds of thousands dead, the...
Antiwar.com, February 7, 2012
...the way of media coverage of post-war Iraq. While there were some notable exceptions – including two fine articles by MIT’s John Tirman that asked how many Iraqis had been killed as a result of the US invasion — overall the American press...
ZNet, February 2, 2012
...As Executive Director of the Center for International Studies at MIT, John Tirman commissioned what is popularly known as the 2006 Lancet Study, which found 655,000 Iraqis had died because of the 2003 US/UK invasion and subsequent occupation. In London in...
Council On Foreign Relations, January 31, 2012
...a hard line on reducing illegal immigration and avoiding alienating Latino voters and moderates. Policy Options MIT's John Tirman criticizes the tenor of the GOP candidates' discussions on immigration and also faults President Obama (HuffingtonPost) for...
North County Times, January 29, 2012
...to a John Hopkins study that "never happened." The New York Times published a column written by John Tirman, director of the Center for Intelligence Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, on Jan. 4 ("The forgotten wages of war,"...
