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In this section we provide some useful articles and commentary from the world media, political commentators, as well as other sources, relating to the war in Iraq, the background to this and other wars - conflicts, and the growing antiwar movement throughout the world.

This will be added to on an ongoing basis.

Recommended read

Article by Geoffrey Heard, a political commentator in Australia. Rarely has the economic basis for any war been outlined so clearly. This is relatively common knowledge in the rest of the world. It is also obvious why it is not being made apparent here.


"There are many things driving President Bush and his administration to invade Iraq, unseat Saddam Hussein and take over the country. But the biggest one is hidden and very, very simple. It is about the currency used to trade oil and consequently, who will dominate the world economically, in the foreseeable future - the USA or the European Union...."
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How to stop the war

by Richard Douthwaite

This article was commissioned by Resurgence magazine but, in view of its urgency and potential importance, the editor, Satish Kumar, has decided that its publication cannot wait until the next available issue appears.

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NOAM CHOMSKY

NOAM CHOMSKY ON THE IRAQ WAR


12 April 2003

Noam Chomsky Interviewed By Michael Albert. Read on...


Chomsky On The Anti War Movement

Matthew Tempest The Guardian
Tuesday February 4, 2003

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Iraq is a trial run

Chomsky interviewed by Frontline

VK Ramachandran
Frontline India
April 02, 2003 Read on...


TRANSCRIPT OF NOAM CHOMSKY'S LECTURE

"THE CURRENT CRISES IN THE MIDDLE EAST: WHAT CAN WE DO?"

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
December 14, 2000

(VERY INTERESTING INSIGHT INTO US POLICY ON THE REGION ACCORDING TO CHOMSKY) Read on...


ROBERT FISK

Amy Goodman Interviews Robert Fisk on Democracy Now
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For the People on the Streets, This Is Not Liberation But a New Colonial Oppression

Robert Fisk
Writing From Baghdad - 17th April
The Independent (uk)

Yesterday I found myself at the Ministry of Oil, assiduously guarded by US troops, some of whom were holding clothes over their mouths because of the clouds of smoke swirling down on them from the neighbouring Ministry of Agricultural Irrigation. Hard to believe, isn't it, that they were unaware that someone was setting fire to the next building?

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Americans defend two untouchable ministries from the hordes of looters

By Robert Fisk in Baghdad
The London Independent, 14 April 2003

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Profiting From War -
Somewhere George Shultz is smiling.

Bob Herbert New York Times - Monday 21 April 2003
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The Unthinkable Is Becoming Normal

John Pilger
Independent (UK)
Sunday 20 April 2003

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US companies reap rewards of invasion

20/04/03 00:00

By Tina Marie O'Neill The Sunday Business Post (Ireland)

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The new dark age

The looting and burning of Iraq's museums and libraries has left us all losers

Ben Okri
Saturday April 19, 2003
The Guardian

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Carving Up The New Iraq

Neil Mackay The Sunday Herald (Scotland)

Tuesday 15 April 2003

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Give Iraqis real justice -- not a U.S. puppet show

Kenneth Roth
10 April 2003
The Globe and Mail

Saddam Hussein and his henchmen have been responsible for murdering or "disappearing" some 225,000 Iraqis. Now that his dictatorship is crumbling, what is the best way to bring to justice the surviving members of his government who are responsible for these atrocities? Read on...


Iraqis have paid the blood price for a fraudulent war -

The crudely colonial nature of this enterprise can no longer be disguised

Seumas Milne
Thursday April 10, 2003
The Guardian

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Anti-War Thinking:
Acknowledge Despair, Highlight Progress on Moral Preemption


by Desmond Tutu and Ian Urbina
April 07, 2003 Read on...




Did you know?


Since the Second World War
THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
has bombed 21 countries

China
1945-46, 1950-53
Korea
1950-53
Guatemala
1954, 1960, 1967-69
Indonesia
1958
Cuba
1959-61
Congo
1964
Peru
1965
Laos
1964-73
Vietnam
1961-73
Cambodia
1969-70
Lebanon
1983-84
Grenada
1983
Libya
1986
El Salvador
1980s
Nicaragua
1980s
Panama
1989
Bosnia
1995
Sudan
1998
Former Yugoslavia 1999
Iraq
1991-??
Afghanistan
1998, 2001-??

How many more are they planning to bomb? Bush's advisers say Iraq is just a 'battle in the wider war'. They have named North Korea, Iran, and even Syria, Cuba and Libya as possible future targets. They call it a war without end. But millions of people around the world are raising their voices in protest against this illegal, unjust war.


FROM

New Internationalist