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Online Resource Focus:
IRAQ
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Online Rsources about IRAQ
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www.electroniciraq.net
News portal on the US-Iraq crisis published by respected Middle East alternative news publishers, The Electronic Intifada |
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www.dahrjamailiraq.com
Weary of the overall failure of the US media to accurately report on the realities of the war in Iraq for the Iraqi people and US soldiers, Dahr Jamail went to Iraq to report on the war himself. |
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Lebanon Bleeds, Iraq Burns, People Flee
by Dahr Jamail, t r u t h o u t | Perspective
Posted July 25, 2006
"Habibi, to live in Baghdad now is to live in a big prison," he told me recently, "You stay in your home, and that's it. You only go out when you must. So many are being killed daily, and you only hope that your day to die is not today."...
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Feingold Amendment Calls for U.S. Troop Redeployment from Iraq by December 31 2006
April 27, 2006
Washington, D.C. U.S. Senator Russ Feingold is introducing an amendment to the emergency supplemental appropriations bill that requires the redeployment of U.S. forces from Iraq by December 31st, 2006. Last August, Feingold was the first Senator to announce a target date for withdrawal...
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Iraqi-American Calls for War's End in Campus Lecture
By Dylan Thomas, Mankato Free Press staff writer
March 3, 2006
MANKATO - Sami Rasouli is a man who lives between two worlds and two different cultures.
That was never more apparent to Rasouli than when the Iraqi-American returned to his homeland for the first time in 2003. Since that trip - a joyous reunion with his family set against the backdrop of war - Rasouli is determined to be a bridge between the country of his birth and his adopted home...
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Activists call for protection of academics
by Mike Whitney
January 15, 2006
A network of human rights activists and journalists has called for the protection of local academics and higher level educational institutions.
The appeal, launched this month by the Brussells Tribunal, a worldwide network devoted to campaigning against the US occupation of Iraq, notes the "systematic liquidation of the country's academics."...
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Urgent Appeal to Save Iraq's Academics
Sign the petition online!
A little known aspect of the tragedy engulfing Iraq is the systematic liquidation of the country's academics. Even according to conservative estimates, over 250 educators have been assassinated, and many hundreds more have disappeared..
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Behind the Steel Curtain: The Real Face of the Occupation: Dirty Means, Genocide and Mass Destruction
"Sabah Ali (18 December 2005) White flags on top of houses and cars, plenty of American and Iraqi military vehicles, too many check points and blocks on the road, many frightening walking patrols, curfew after sunset, heaps and heaps of destroyed houses, shops, offices, the only bridge, hospitals and medical care centers, walls covered with bullets shots, and elections posters; empty faces with bleak looks wonder in the streets. This is Al-Qaim picture after the Steel Curtain military operation which began on November 5, 2005 with 3000 thousands American and Iraqi troops participating in it.
"You are filming our miserable condition so that Bush would pity us?! You want to soften his heart?" asked a tiny skinny young villager disapprovingly...
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Young Iraqi surgeon testifies about the horrors of the Iraq war...
Barbara Debusschere, De Morgen (Belgium)
26 November 2005
The Iraqi surgeon Salam Ismael (29) has piles of pictures and interviews with survivors and witnesses that show that many Iraqi civilians and doctors were victims of much more than ‘collateral damage’, as was the case with the US attacks on Fallujah ...
WARNING: the following link contains images and descriptions that depict the reality and horror of war - for mature audiences only.
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From Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney's remarks on Iraq before the United States House of Representatives
November 18 2005
"... Prior to its invasion, Iraq had not one (not one!) instance of suicide attacks in its history. Research shows a 100% correlation between suicide attacks and the presence of foreign combat troops...
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Bush Administration on the Skids in Iraq, Palestine, at Home..
an essay by Phyllis Bennis
November 18 2005
...the work of the peace and justice movement remains all the more urgent. While the administration is weaker than ever on the war front, the right is still pushing hard on much of their agenda.. .We have no time for complacency. – Phyllis Bennis
The recent escalation in Bush administration attacks on anti-war critics reflects the escalation of anti-war sentiment across the country. The deepening and consolidation of the anti-war movement has led to much wider public demands for bringing home the troops now. Those demands are increasingly being answered, albeit cautiously and nervously, by congressional and other official voices calling for timetables, scaling down, and "redeployment" of U.S. troops...
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EYES WIDE OPEN...
September 29 - October 1
The College of St. Catherine, St. Paul
An exhibition on the human cost of the Iraq war that commemorates all the lives lost...
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Twin Cities: Bring Them Back from Iraq!
Saturday September 24
Local Rally in solidarity with the March on Washingtonl
Over 1000 neighbors from across the Twin Cities stood up for peace in solidarity with the march on Washington, joining other cities nation-wide where citizens took the streets to speak out for peace and against the war and occupation in Iraq.
As participants gathed, they signed postcards addressed to President Bush, telling him:
It's time end the war and occupation in Iraq. Too many people have died. There was no reason for this war. There were no weapons of mass destruction. There was no connection between Iraq and 9-11. Iraq was no threat to our national security. The war has made us less safe and more vulnerable to terrorist attacks...
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Army Contract Official Critical of Halliburton Pact Is Demoted
By Erik Eckholm, New York Times
August 29 2005
A top Army contracting official who criticized a large, noncompetitive contract with the Halliburton Company for work in Iraq was demoted Saturday for what the Army called poor job performance...
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175 Say: End the War! End the Occupation! Bring the Troops Home NOW!
June 30, 2005
The Iraq Peace Action Coalition (IPAC), an organization made up of Twin Cities area peace and justice groups, including WAMM, initiated the event.
The response from people passing through the busy downtown intersection by the government center plaza and LRT station was overwhelmingly positive to the anti war message. The event was called to mark the one-year anniversary of the so-called "hand off" of sovereignty in Iraq. U.S. troops continue the occupation, the war casualties continue to grow, and the Bush Administration can offer only more lies to justify the war.
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Incinerating Iraqis; the napalm cover up
by Mike Whitney
June 27 2005
Two weeks ago the UK Independent ran an article which confirmed that the US had "lied to Britain over the use of napalm in Iraq". (06-17-05) Since then, not one American newspaper or TV station has picked up the story even though the Pentagon has verified the claims...
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"Fallujah--The Hidden Massacre" - featuring actual footage, interviews with international journalists, U.S. military veterans
Audio Report - click here
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U.S. used banned weapons in Fallujah – Health ministry
Dr. Khalid ash-Shaykhli, an official at Iraq’s health ministry, said that the U.S. military used internationally banned weapons during its deadly offensive in the city of Fallujah. He said that researches, prepared by his medical team, prove that U.S. occupation forces used internationally prohibited substances, including mustard gas, nerve gas, and other burning chemicals in their attacks in the war-torn city...
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Secret no more: Downing Street memo
June 3 2005
"This record is extremely sensitive. No further copies should be made. It should be shown only to those with a genuine need to know its contents." |
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Read the complete Downing Street Memo - click here
Minneapolis StarTribune. Off site, opens new window. |
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More from the StarTribune: Downing Street Memo - click here
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Sign-on to the Conyer's letter to Bush - click here
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Galloway Delivers Scathing Remarks
May 17, 2005
British Parliament member George Galloway vehemently denied any involvement in the oil-for-food scandal during a hearing on Capitol Hill chaired by Senator Norm Colman. (note: the public record of this hearing has been removed from the Congressional Record web site.)
View the Video online - click here
MSNBC Video. RealPlaye® file. Best viewed with a high speed conection.
Read the transcript online - click here
London Times. May 18, 2005. Opens new window. Close to return. |
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Mourning the Children
by Terry Collins, Minneapolis StarTribune
Wednesday, December 29, 2004
Dear Children of Iraq...
There was a candlelight vigil in your honor Tuesday at St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. The people at the vigil were thinking about you and others your age who have become victims during the conflicts in Fallujah, Mosul, Najaf, Samarra and, of course, Baghdad...
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100,000 Iraqis have died. Where’s the press?
November 20, 2004
The recent study entitled, “Mortality before and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: cluster sample survey,” was published in The Lancet, a highly regarded British medical journal, on November 20, 2004...
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America's Criminal Occupation
Opinion/Editorial
by Roger Normand, Electronic Iraq
10 July 2004
There has been much speculation as to whether Washington's neoconservative rulers actually believe the nonsense about freedom and human rights or whether they are driven solely by power and profit. It makes little difference to the people of Iraq. After 30 years of Western-sponsored domestic tyranny, they must now suffer the brutal depredations of foreign occupation. As the popular Iraqi saying goes, "the student is gone; the master has come."...
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Bring the Troops Home Now!
From a speech given at a Minneapolis protest by Marie Braun of the Twin Cities Peace Campaign/Focus on Iraq, outside senator Norm Coleman's office on April 30, 2004.
One year after the official end of the war in Iraq, the humanitarian crisis continues - people are still without electricity, clean water, and basic medical care...
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