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In this section we
provide some useful articles
and commentary from the
world media, political
commentators and NGO's,
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.
The
links on the left break
this section up into 4
main categories. Below
are Highlights from each
section!
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State
blocked
US planes
carrying
landmines
20/04/03
00:00
By
Pat
Leahy
The
Sunday
Business
Post
More
than
50,000
United
States
military
personnel
passed
through
Shannon
Airport
between
the
start
of 2002
and
early
March
of this
year,
according
to documents
obtained
from
the
Department
of Transport.
Read
on...
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 U.S.
Use of
Clusters
in Baghdad
Condemned
(New York,
April
16, 2003)
The U.S.
Central
Command
should
respond
publicly
to evidence
that U.S.
forces
used cluster
munitions
in a populated
area of
Baghdad,
Human
Rights
Watch
urged
today.
Read
on...
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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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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)
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NOAM
CHOMSKY
ON THE
IRAQ WAR
12 April
2003
Noam Chomsky
Interviewed
By Michael
Albert.
Read
on...
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Download
this NO
WAR!
poster
courtesy
of the
New Internationalist.
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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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