J.B. Russell - Crude Conflicts in Iraq

Since 1991 there have been two major wars in the Persian Gulf involving the United States, its allies and Iraq - both under a Bush presidency. Although many reasons were advanced to justify these military interventions: the liberation of Kuwait, weapons of mass destruction, the war on terror, regime change and so on, they were essentially conflicts to secure supplies of crude oil to a world increasingly dependent on petroleum based forms of energy.

Since January 2001, J.B. Russell has been documenting the consequences of these conflicts: from the effects of depleted uranium weapons - used for the first time on a massive scale during the 1991 Gulf War – to the crimes of Saddam Hussein’s brutal regime, to the country’s disintegration into chaos and sectarian violence.