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Recent Articles from Three Monkeys Online Magazine

• Fallujah. Uncovering a massacre - interview with Maurizio Torrealta, co-producer of Fallujah - The Hidden Massacre

  One year on from Operation Phantom Fury/al-Fajr, the second battle for Fallujah, the American military have been forced to admit to the use of white phosphorus as an offensive weapon. Three Monkeys Online looks at the background to the battle in Fallujah, and interviews Maurizio Torrealta, co-producer of the controversial RAI News 24 documentary Fallujah - the hidden massacre.

  
  
• Counting the dead. The Iraq Body Count.

  While George W. Bush and Tony Blair have consistently re-assured their electorates that all possible precautions have been taken to protect civilians in the conflict in Iraq, they have provided no data to support this. The Iraq Body Count has compiled information from media reports over a period of two years. With the release of their dossier on civilian casualties 2003-2005, founder John Sloboda spoke to Three Monkeys Online about the project, the methodology, figures, and unanswered questions.

  
  
• A 'special' writer. Dacia Maraini in interview

  Dacia Maraini is one of Italy's most succesful writers - translated into dozens of languages, she has written novels, essays, plays, and poems. Maraini talks to Vincenza Fanizza for Three Monkeys Online.

  
  
• Seventeenth Century Dutch Art – Recording the Visual World

  Pictures record the world but they are inexorably bound up with the perception of the world by the artist. The emergence of the Dutch Republic was one of the key national historical events of the 17^th century and the intense realism of painting from this time shows the desire to record not only the visual world but also the collective mindset of the nation.

  
  
• Myth, Ritual and Orthodoxy: Cosimo de’ Medici and Saint Peter Martyr.

  The Medici, powerful patrons of the arts in renaissance Florence, chose to be associated in portraits with the figure of Saint Peter Martyr, not to be confused with St. Peter the Apostle. The reasons for this choice are far from obvious, but this article by Dr. Catherine Lawless provides some possible answers, and a wonderful insight into the workings of myth, ritual, and politics in renaissance Florence.