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.
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...."
Read on...
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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
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
Read
on...
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...
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Amy Goodman
Interviews
Robert
Fisk on
Democracy
Now
Read
on...
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?
Read on...
Americans
defend
two untouchable
ministries
from the
hordes
of looters
By
Robert
Fisk
in Baghdad
The
London
Independent,
14 April
2003
Read
on...
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Profiting
From
War
-
Somewhere
George
Shultz
is smiling.
Bob
Herbert
New
York
Times
- Monday
21 April
2003
Read
on...
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The
Unthinkable
Is Becoming
Normal
John
Pilger
Independent
(UK)
Sunday
20 April
2003
Read
on...
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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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on...
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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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on...
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Carving
Up The
New
Iraq
Neil
Mackay
The
Sunday
Herald
(Scotland)
Tuesday
15 April
2003
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on...
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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...
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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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on...
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Anti-War
Thinking:
Acknowledge
Despair,
Highlight
Progress
on Moral
Preemption
by Desmond
Tutu
and
Ian
Urbina
April
07,
2003
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on...
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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
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