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Amnesty International: Annual Reports:
2001: Iraq.
"Hundreds of people, among them political prisoners including possible prisoners of conscience, were executed. Hundreds of suspected political opponents, including army officers suspected of planning to overthrow the government, were arrested and their fate and whereabouts remained unknown. Torture and ill-treatment were widespread and new punishments, including beheading and the amputation of the tongue, were reportedly introduced. Non-Arabs, mostly Kurds, continued to be forcibly expelled from their homes in the Kirkuk area to Iraqi Kurdistan".
2002 : Iraq
Iraq: Human rights in the balance
"The human rights situation in Iraq is being invoked with unusual frequency by some western political leaders to justify military action."
Cairo Declaration : Against US Hegemony and War on Iraq and in Solidarity with Palestine, and Statement issued by the European Anti-War Coordination Meeting, Copenhagen, 15 December 2002
About the Cairo Conference
Human Rights Watch World Report 2002 :
Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan.
"The Iraqi government of President Saddam Hussain perpetrated widespread and gross human rights violations, including arbitrary arrests of suspected political opponents and their relatives, routine torture and ill-treatment of detainees, summary execution of military personnel and political detainees as part of a 'prison cleansing' campaign, and forced expulsions of Kurds and Turkmen from Kirkuk and other regions".
Info by country: Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan
The Institute for Policy Studies (IPS)
A pamphlet from the Institute, january 2003 [24 pages] in HTML & pdf:
Phyllis Bennis: Understanding the U.S.-Iraq Crisis : A Primer
"To truly understand why we stand now at the brink of war, however, one must look closely at the goals of the current Bush administration, which is drawn to conflict by Iraq's massive oil reserves and the goal of expanding U.S. military power around the world."
International Psysicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW)
Collateral damage : the health and environmental costs of war on Iraq (nov. 2002).
"A US-led attack on Iraq could kill between 48,000 and 260,000 civilians and combatants in just the first three months of conflict, according to a study by medical and public health experts. Post-war health effects could take an additional 200,000 lives".
Beth Osborne Daponte: A case study in estamitating casualties from war and its aftermath : the 1991 Persian Gulf War (1993).
"According to the methods described in this paper, the number of Iraqis who died in 1991 from effects of the Gulf war or postwar turmoil approximates 205,500. There were relatively few deaths (approximately 56,000 to military personnel and 3,500 to civilians) from direct war effects ...The largest component of deaths in this reconstruction derives from the 111,000 attributable to postwar adverse health effects".
International Socialism : A Quarterly Journal of Socialist Theory [London, UK]
Alex Callinicos: The grand strategy of the American empire
(Issue 97, Winter 2002, p. 3-338)
".. what are the strategic and economic motives that are driving this new policy of the Bush administration)? And does the US have the unparalleled economic strength that can support such a renewed imperial drive? These are issues that it its critical for the anti-war movement to understand."
International Socialist Review : Journal of Revolutionary Marxism [Chicago, USA]
Anthony Arnove: The invasion of Iraq (Issue 28, March–April 2003)
"The value to U.S. imperialism of expanding its hegemony in a region that contains two-thirds of the world’s proven oil reserves is obvious. For American military planners, Iraq is merely the easiest target, and the most strategic. Control of Iraq is not an end in itself, but the starting point of a plan to redraw the map of the Middle East."
"Shock and Awe" - [US-]Weapons of mass destruction - Occupation - Control of oil.
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Eric Ruder: Q&A : the truth behind their war (nr.26, nov.-dec. 2002).
"The Bush administration wants war with Iraq, and it has launched a full-scale public relations campaign to build support ... Iraq has developed weapons of mass destruction in order to threaten the U.S. and its neighbors. Saddam Hussein is an evil madman who has shown his willingness to use these weapons in wars with other nations and against his own people. And Iraq has defied United Nations (UN) weapons inspectors for a decade. But at every step in this argument, U.S. officials rely on exaggeration, half-truths, rank hypocrisy, or outright lies—and the media eats it up. Lets look at each point in turn".
The antiwar movement : a great beginning (nr.26, nov.-dec. 2002).
"The October 26 protests in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. against war with Iraq, called by International ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism), marked a major step forward for the antiwar movement. One hundred fifty thousand people turned out in Washington, and half as many in San Francisco - with tens of thousands more joining demonstrations in cities across the U.S. … The demonstrations have involved people from all walks of society - including students who have already begun organizing on the campuses, but also trade unionists, church members, veterans of the Vietnam antiwar movement, and many others who have never before attended a demonstration".
Anthony Arnove: The case against Bush’s war (nr.25, sept.-oct. 2002).
"Once again, the U.S. government is gunning for Iraq. After twelve years of imposing the most comprehensive and deadly sanctions in history, after destroying much of the countrey and killing tens of thousands of civilians in the 1991 Gulf War, and after periodiccally bombing the country in the years since, the U.S. warmongers are now openly planning another major invasion, including possibly an occupation of the country that could last for years".
Sharon Smith: Targeting Iraq : U.S. hypocrisy and media lies (nr.20, nov.-dec. 2001, s.60-66).
"No credible evidence has emerged to link Iraq with the terrorist attack on the U.S., yet speculation on this subject a recurrent theme, prominently featured throughout the media's 'crisis coverage' since September 11. Within hours of the attack on the World Trade Center, the warmongers began lining up to seize the opportunity provided by the attacks to their hawkish agendas Media outlets have been only too happy to comply".
Anthony Arnove: The hidden war against Iraq (nr.12, june-july 2002, s.37-44).
"Defenders of the sanctions present them as a humanitarian alternative to war. Yet they are part of a program of deliberate warfare that targets civilians, and they have been accompanied by the routine bombing of Iraq. With virtually no public discussion, British and American jets have been bombing Iraq almost every other day since January 1999".
Middle East Report (MERIP - Middle East Research and Information project)
Sarah Graham-Brown and Chris Toensing: Why another war? A backgrounder on the Iraq crisis (oct. 2002, 16 s.). "What you need to know about US Policy, Role of UN, Sanctions, Inspections, Oil, Human Rights, Regional Politics" (pdf-fil).
Raad Alkadiri: The Iraqi Klondike : oil and regional trade (nr.220, fall 2001, s.30-35).
"Despite the most onerous international sanctions in modern history, Saddam Hussein's regime has survived. Within limits, the regime has even used the strait-jacket of sanctions to its advantage in trading with its neighbours. If the Iraqi government has learned anything over the past decade, it is surely to appreciate the power of economic persuasion".
Iraq : a decade of devation. Theme (nr.215, summer 2000). Online from this issue:
Phyllis Bennis: ‘And they called it peace’ : US policy on Iraq. (s.4-7): "Ten years ago, on August 2, 1990, US policy in, toward and around Iraq dramatically changed course. From close if sometimes distasteful allies, Baghad's government and its leaders, Saddam Hussein, were transformed overnight into Washington's public enemy number one: 'Hitler!' thundered President George Bush".
David Aquila Lawrence: A shaky defacto Kurdistan. (s.24-26): "Surrounded by four states that do not wish it well, officially embargoed, still divided by internal conflicts, Iraqi Kurdistan hasn't had it this good for years. Paradoxically, Kurds in northern Iraq are hoping everything stays exactly the way it is".
Monthly Review : An Independent Socialist Magazine
Anthony Arnove: Iraq under siege : ten years on (nr.7, dec. 2000, s.14-25).
"It has been ten years since the United Nations imposed sanctions against Iraq. The sanctions were adopted on August 6, 1990, forty-five years to the day after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, killing an estimated one hundred thousand people and leaving a toxic legacy that still affects the population of the area ... As horrific as the use of nuclear weapon against Japan was, perhaps five to ten times as many people have died in Iraq as a consequence of the war led by United States and Britain, under the United Nations (UN) auspices, during the last decade".
MoveOn Peace Bulletin (formerly 9-11peace.org)
"A free, weekly email briefing on the latest topics in peace and international affairs".
Jumping the Gun on Iraq (Sept. 25, 2002):
Introduction: Good-Bye to Deterrence, Hello to First Strikes
Editor's Note: 9-11peace.org Now MoveOn Peace; One Link: Stop the War Before it Starts; Pre-emption as Policy; The Possible Consequences of a Pre-Emptive Strike; Take Action; etc.
Revisiting the Gulf War (Aug. 14, 2002)
Introduction:Won't Get Fooled Again; One Link: What the Heck, Let's Bomb Baghdad!; Background; The Events of the Gulf War; Omissions, Half-Truths, and Lies about the Gulf War; Gulf War Syndrome; Experts and World Leaders Oppose a New Attack on Iraq; Get Involved; etc.
New Internationalist Magazine : The peoples, the ideas, the action in the fight for global action
Theme: Iraq : what United Nations sanctions have done (nr.316, sept. 1999):
Iraq : the pride and pains, Arguments against the bombing; Poised legacy; Secrets and spies; Iraq : the facts; Life in the danger zone; Iraq : a history.
Theme: The Gulf in flames : the real cost of Desert Storm (nr.236, oct. 1992, s.1-28):
The Gulf in flames; Patriarch and petroculture; Cracy for oil; Storm damage; The Gulf War : the facts; Torching the earth.
Tariq Ali: Our herods [=Throttling Iraq] (nr.5, sept.-oct. 2000, s.5-14).
"The bombing and starving of Iraq are nearing their tenth year. Catechisms and consequences of the Anglo-American blockade, as a defining memorial of the Clinton and Blair regimes".
Socialist Review : monthly magazine of the Socialist Workers Party [UK]
War, weapons and Iraq : the alternative dossier, compiled by Peter Morgan (nr.267, okt. 2002, s.11-26).
"With the publication of Tony Blair's long-awaited dossier [Iraq's weapons of mass destructions : the assessment of the British Government, sept. 2002], co-written by the CIA, it is obvious that the propaganda offensive has begun in earnest. In response Socialist Review has compiled its own dossier which examines the misinformation, myths, hypocrisy and downright lies being peddled to justify war on Iraq
Linsey German: Moving on up (nr.268, nov. 2002, p.12-14).
"The Stop the War Coalition has created the biggest anti-war movement in generations"
Michael Albert and Stephen R. Shalom: Ten Q&A : on antiwar organizing (24. oct. 2002).
Stephen R. Shalom and Michael Albert: 45 Questions an Answers Regarding : Intervention i General, 9-11 and Afghanistan One Year Later, and Iraq on the Verge on War (9. oct. 2002).
"In trying to raise consciousness and inspire activist resistance regarding the currently threatened invasion of Iraq and the on-going 'War on Terrorism', critics of these repeatedly confront variations on a relatively few themes. The following essay tries to distill these themes into a series of questions and answers".
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