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Civilians Slaughtered in Baghdad
Robert Fisk
The Independent
also at:
http://www.aljazeerah.info/
BAGHDAD, 27 March 2003
 corpse on Abu Taleb street |
It was an outrage, an obscenity. The severed hand on the metal door, the swamp of blood and mud across the road, the human brains inside a garage, the incinerated, skeletal remains of an Iraqi mother and her three small children in their still smoldering car. Two missiles from a single American jet killed them all — more than 20 Iraqi civilians, torn to pieces before they could be “liberated” by the nation which destroyed their lives.
Who dares, I ask myself, to call this “collateral damage”? Abu Taleb Street was packed with pedestrians and motorists when the American pilot approached through the dense sandstorm that covered northern Baghdad in a cloak of red and yellow dust and rain yesterday morning. It’s a dirt poor neighborhood — of mostly Shiite Muslims, the same people whom Messers Bush and Blair still fondly hope will rise up against Saddam — a place of oil-sodden car repair shops, overcrowded apartments and cheap cafes.
 Abu Taleb street, March 26 |
Everyone I spoke to heard the plane. One man, so shocked by the headless corpses he had just seen, could only say two words. “Roar, flash,” he kept saying and then closed his eyes so tight that the muscles rippled between them.
How should one record so terrible an event? Perhaps a medical report would be more appropriate. But the final death toll is expected to be near to 30 and Iraqis are now witnessing these awful things each day; so there is no reason why the truth — all the truth — of what they see should not be told.
For another question occurred to me as I walked through this place of massacre yesterday. If this is what we are seeing in Baghdad, what is happening in Basra and Nassiriyah and Karbala? How many civilians are dying there too, anonymously, indeed unrecorded, because there are no reporters to be witness to their suffering?
Abu Hassan and Malek Hammoud were preparing lunch for customers at the Nasser Restaurant on the north side of Abu Taleb Street. The missile that killed them landed next to the westbound carriageway, its blast tearing away the front of the cafe and cutting the two men — the first 48, the second only 18 — to pieces. One of their fellow workers led me through the rubble. “This is all that is left of them now,” he said, holding out before me an oven pan dripping with blood.
 car and burned bodies on Abu Taleb street, March 26 |
At least 15 cars burst into flames burning many of their occupants to death. Several men tore desperately at the doors of another flame-shrouded car in the center of the street which had been slipped upside down by the same missile. They were forced to watch helplessly as the woman and her three children inside were cremated alive in front of them.
The second missile hit neatly on the east-bound carriageway, sending shards of metal into three men standing outside a concrete apartment block with the words “This is God’s possession” written in marble on the outside wall.
The building’s manager, Hishem Danoon, ran to the doorway as soon as he heard the massive explosion. “I found Ta’ar in pieces over there,” he told me. His head was blown off. “That’s his hand.” A group of young men and women took me into the street and there, a scene from any horror film, was Ta’ar’s hand, cut off at the wrist, his four fingers and thumb grasping a piece of iron roofing. His young colleague Sermed died the same instant. His brains lay piled a few feet away, a pale red and gray mess behind a burned car. Both men worked for Danoon. So did a doorman who was also killed.
As each survivor talked, the dead regained their identities. There was the electrical shop owner killed behind his counter by the same missile that cut down Ta’ar and Sermed and the doorman, and the young girl standing on the central reservation, trying to cross the road, and the truck driver who was only feet from the point of impact and the beggar who regularly called to see Danoon for bread and who was just leaving when the missiles came soaring down through the sandstorm to destroy him.
In Qatar, the Anglo-American forces — let’s forget this nonsense about “coalition” — announced an inquiry. The Iraqi government, who are the only ones to benefit from the propaganda value of such a blood bath, naturally denounced the slaughter which they initially put at 14 dead. So what was the real target? Some Iraqis said there was a military encampment less than a mile from the street, though I couldn’t find it. Others talked about a local fire brigade headquarters, but the fire brigade can hardly be described as military target.
Certainly, there had been an attack less than an hour earlier on a military camp further north. I was driving past the base when two rockets exploded and I saw Iraqi soldiers running for their lives out of the gates and along the side of the highway. Then I heard two more explosions — these were the missiles that hit Abu Taleb Street.
Of course, the pilot who killed the innocent yesterday could not see his victims. Pilots fire through computer-aligned coordinates and the sandstorm yesterday would have hidden the street from his vision. But when one of Malek Hammoud’s friends asked me how the Americans could so blithely kill those they claimed to want to liberate, he didn’t want to learn about the science of avionics or weapons delivery systems. And why should he? For this is happening almost every day in Baghdad.
The truth is that nowhere is safe now in Baghdad and as the Americans and British close their siege of the city in the next few days or hours, that simple message will become ever more real and ever more bloody. We may put on the hairshirt of morality in explaining why theses people should die. They died because of Sept. 11, we may say, because of Saddam’s “weapons of mass destruction”, because of human rights abuses, because of our desperate desire to “liberate” them all. Let us not confuse the issue with oil. Either way, I’ll bet we are told that Saddam is ultimately responsible for their deaths. We shan’t mention the pilot, of course.
Added note: Oh yes we shall! That dirty bastard pilot is a WAR CRIMINAL and justice demands that he be tried as such before the international court. The entire goddamned Bush and Blair regimes are filthy war criminals who belong in prison.
But there will never be any justice or peace as long as these satanic people remain in power. Therefore it is high time for the people of America and Britain to launch total Revolutions to overthrow the war-criminal American and British governments.
See also:
Baghdad market massacre sheds ghastly light on nature of US invasion
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/mar2003/mass-m28.shtml
In Baghdad, blood and bandages for the innocent
by Robert Fisk
in the Baghdad suburb of Shu’ale
30 March 2003
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=392161
 Tiny Iraqi girl murdered by heroic American warriors March 28, 2003, Baghdad, Shu’ale Market Bombing |
The piece of metal is only a foot high, but the numbers on it hold the clue to the latest atrocity in Baghdad.
At least 62 civilians had died by yesterday afternoon, and the coding on that hunk of metal contains the identity of the culprit. The Americans and British were doing their best yesterday to suggest that an Iraqi anti-aircraft missile destroyed those dozens of lives, adding that they were “still investigating” the carnage. But the coding is in Western style, not in Arabic. And many of the survivors heard the plane.
In the Al-Noor hospital yesterday morning, there were appalling scenes of pain and suffering. A two-year-old girl, Saida Jaffar, swaddled in bandages, a tube into her nose, another into her stomach. All I could see of her was her forehead, two small eyes and a chin. Beside her, blood and flies covered a heap of old bandages and swabs. Not far away, lying on a dirty bed, was three-year-old Mohamed Amaid, his face, stomach, hands and feet all tied tightly in bandages. A great black mass of congealed blood lay at the bottom of his bed.
This is a hospital without computers, with only the most primitive of X-ray machines. But the missile was guided by computers and that vital shard of fuselage was computer-coded. It can be easily verified and checked by the Americans — if they choose to do so. It reads: 30003-704ASB 7492. The letter “B” is scratched and could be an “H”. This is believed to be the serial number. It is followed by a further code which arms manufacturers usually refer to as the weapon’s “Lot” number. It reads: MFR 96214 09.
[Added note: These serial numbers indicate that it was either a “high speed anti-radiation missile” (H.a.r.m.) or a “Paveway laser-guided bomb”, both manufactured by the war criminals of Raytheon in Texas.]
The piece of metal bearing the codings was retrieved only minutes after the missile exploded on Friday evening, by an old man whose home is only 100 yards from the 6ft crater. Even the Iraqi authorities do not know that it exists. The missile sprayed hunks of metal through the crowds — mainly women and children — and through the cheap brick walls of local homes, amputating limbs and heads. Three brothers, the eldest 21 and the youngest 12, for example, were cut down inside the living room of their brick hut on the main road opposite the market. Two doors away, two sisters were killed in an identical manner.
“We have never seen anything like these wounds before,” Dr Ahmed, an anaesthetist at the Al-Noor hospital told me later. “These people have been punctured by dozens of bits of metal.”
He was right. One old man I visited in a hospital ward had 24 holes in the back of his legs and buttocks, some as big as pound coins. An X-ray photograph handed to me by one of his doctors clearly showed at least 35 slivers of metal still embedded in his body
Like the Sha’ab highway massacre on Thursday — when at least 21 Iraqi civilians were killed or burned to death by two missiles fired by an American jet — Shu’ale is a poor, Shia Muslim neighbourhood of single-storey corrugated iron and cement food stores and two-room brick homes. These are the very people whom Messrs Bush and Blair expected to rise in insurrection against Saddam. But the anger in the slums was directed at the Americans and British yesterday, by old women and bereaved fathers and brothers who spoke without hesitation — and without the presence of the otherwise ubiquitous government “minders”.
“This is a crime,” a woman muttered at me angrily. “Yes, I know they say they are targeting the military. But can you see soldiers here? Can you see missiles?”
The answer has to be in the negative. A few journalists did report seeing a Scud missile on a transporter near the Sha’ab area on Thursday and there were anti-aircraft guns around Shu’ale. At one point yesterday morning, I heard an American jet race over the scene of the massacre and just caught sight of a ground-to-air missile that was vainly chasing it, its contrail soaring over the slum houses in the dark blue sky. An anti-aircraft battery — manufactured circa 1942 — also began firing into the air a few blocks away. But even if the Iraqis do position or move their munitions close to the suburbs, does that justify the Americans firing into those packed civilian neighbourhoods, into areas which they know contain crowded main roads and markets — and during the hours of daylight?
Last week’s attack on the Sha’ab highway was carried out on a main road at midday during a sandstorm — when dozens of civilians are bound to be killed, whatever the pilot thought he was aiming at.
“I had five sons and now I have only two — and how do I know that even they will survive?” a bespectacled middle-aged man said in the bare concrete back room of his home yesterday. “One of my boys was hit in the kidneys and heart. His chest was full of shrapnel; it came right through the windows. Now all I can say is that I am sad that I am alive.”
A neighbour interrupted to say that he saw the plane with his own eyes.
“I saw the side of the aircraft and I noticed it changed course after it fired the missile.”
Plane-spotting has become an all-embracing part of life in Baghdad. And to the reader who thoughtfully asked last week if I could see with my own eyes the American aircraft over the city, I have to say that in at least 65 raids by aircraft, I have not — despite my tiger-like eyes — actually seen one plane. I hear them, especially at night, but they are flying at supersonic speed; during the day, they are usually above the clouds of black smoke that wash over the city. I have, just once, spotted a cruise missile — the cruise or Tomahawk rockets fly at only around 400mph — and I saw it passing down a boulevard towards the Tigris river. But the grey smoke that shoots out of the city like the fingers of a dead hand is unmistakeable, along with the concussion of sound. And — when they can be found — the computer codings on the bomb fragments reveal their own story. As the codes on the Shu’ale missile surely must.
All morning yesterday, the Americans were at it again, blasting away at targets on the perimeter of Baghdad — where the outer defences of the city are being dug by Iraqi troops — and in the centre. An air-fired rocket exploded on the roof of the Iraqi Ministry of Information, destroying a clutch of satellite dishes. One office building from which I was watching the bombardment literally swayed for several seconds during one long raid. Even in the Al-Noor hospital, the walls were shaking yesterday as the survivors of the market slaughter struggled for survival.
Hussein Mnati is 52 and just stared at me — his face pitted with metal fragments — as bombs blasted the city. A 20-year-old man was sitting up in the next bed, the blood-soaked stump of his left arm plastered over with bandages. Only 12 hours ago, he had a left arm, a left hand, fingers. Now he blankly recorded his memories.
“I was in the market and I didn’t feel anything,” he told me. “The rocket came and I was to the right of it and then an ambulance took me to hospital.”
Whether or not his amputation was dulled by painkillers, he wanted to talk. When I asked him his name, he sat upright in bed and shouted at me: “My name is Saddam Hussein Jassem.”
Amid Allied jubilation, a child lies in agony, clothes soaked in blood
By Robert Fisk
in Baghdad
08 April 2003
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=395117
They lay in lines, the car salesman who’d just lost his eye but whose feet were still dribbling blood, the motorcyclist who was shot by American troops near the Rashid Hotel, the 50-year-old female civil servant, her long dark hair spread over the towel she was lying on, her face, breasts, thighs, arms and feet pock-marked with shrapnel from an American cluster bomb. For the civilians of Baghdad, this is the real, immoral face of war, the direct result of America’s clever little “probing missions” into Baghdad.
It looks very neat on television, the American marines on the banks of the Tigris, the oh-so-funny visit to the presidential palace, the videotape of Saddam Hussein’s golden loo. But the innocent are bleeding and screaming with pain to bring us our exciting television pictures and to provide Messrs Bush and Blair with their boastful talk of victory. I watched two-and-a-half-year-old Ali Najour lying in agony on the bed, his clothes soaked with blood, a tube through his nose, until a relative walked up to me.
“I want to talk to you,” he shouted, his voice rising in fury. “Why do you British want to kill this little boy? Why do you even want to look at him? You did this — you did it!”
The young man seized my arm, shaking it violently.
“Are you going to make his mother and father come back? Can you bring them back to life for him? Get out! Get out!”
In the yard outside, where the ambulance drivers deposit the dead, a middle-aged Shia woman in black was thumping her fists against her breasts and shrieking at me.
“Help me,” she cried. “Help me. My son is a martyr and all I want is a banner to cover him. I want a flag, an Iraqi flag, to put over his body. Dear God, help me!”
It’s becoming harder to visit these places of pain, grief and anger. The International Committee of the Red Cross yesterday reported civilian victims of America’s three-day offensive against Baghdad arriving at the hospitals now by the hundred. Yesterday, the Kindi alone had taken 50 civilian wounded and three dead in the previous 24 hours. Most of the dead — the little boy’s family, the family of six torn to pieces by an aerial bomb in front of Ali Abdulrazek, the car salesman, the next-door neighbours of Safa Karim — were simply buried within hours of their being torn to bits.
On television, it looks so clean. On Sunday evening, the BBC showed burning civilian cars, its reporter — “embedded” with US forces — saying that he saw some of their passengers lying dead beside them.
That was all. No pictures of the charred corpses, no close-ups of the shrivelled children. So perhaps I should warn those of what the BBC once called a nervous disposition to go no further. But if they want to know what America and Britain are doing to the innocent of Baghdad, they should read on.
I’ll leave out the description of the flies that have been clustering round the wounds in the Kindi emergency rooms, of the blood caked on the sheets, the blood still dripping from the wounds of those I talked to yesterday. All were civilians. All wanted to know why they had to suffer. All — save for the incandescent youth who ordered me to leave the little boy’s bed — talked gently and quietly about their pain. No Iraqi government bus took me to the Kindi hospital. No doctor knew I was coming.
Let’s start with Mr Abdulrazek. He’s the 40-year-old car salesman who was walking yesterday morning through a narrow street in the Shaab district of Baghdad — that’s where the two American missiles killed at least 20 civilians more than a week ago — when he heard the jet engines of an aircraft.
“I was going to see my family because the phone exchanges have been bombed and I wanted to make sure they were OK,” he said. “There was a family, a husband and wife and kids, in front of me.
“Then I heard this terrible noise and there was a light and I knew something had happened to me. I went to try to help the family in front of me but they were all gone, in pieces. Then I realised I couldn’t see properly.”
Over Mr Abdulrazek’s left eye is a wad of thick bandages, tied to his face. His doctor, Osama al-Rahimi, tells me that “we did not operate on the eye, we have taken care of his other wounds”. Then he leant towards my ear and said softy:
“He has lost his eye. There was nothing we could do. It was taken out of his head by the shrapnel.”
Mr Abdulrazek smiles — of course, he does not know that he will be forever half-blind — and suddenly breaks into near-perfect English, a language he had learnt at high school in Baghdad.
“Why did this happen to me?” he asks.
Yes, I know the lines. President Saddam would have killed more Iraqis than us if we hadn’t invaded — not a very smart argument in the Kindi hospital — and that we’re doing all this for them. Didn’t Paul Wolfowitz, the US Deputy Defence Secretary, tell us all a few days ago that he was praying for the American troops and for the Iraqi people? Aren’t we coming here to save them — let’s not mention their oil — and isn’t President Saddam a cruel and brutal man? But amid these people, such words are an obscenity.
Then there was Safa Karim. She is 11 and she is dying. An American bomb fragment struck her in the stomach and she is bleeding internally, writhing on the bed with a massive bandage on her stomach and a tube down her nose and — somehow most terrible of all — a series of four dirty scarves that tie each of her wrists and ankles to the bed. She moans and thrashes on the bed, fighting pain and imprisonment at the same time. A relative said she is too ill to understand her fate. “She has been given 10 bottles of drugs and she has vomited them all up,” he said.
The man opens the palms of his hands, the way Arabs do when they want to express impotence. “What can we do?” they always say, but the man was silent. But I’m glad. How, after all, could I ever tell him that Safa Karim must die for 11 September, for George Bush’s fantasies and Tony Blair’s moral certainty and for Mr Wolfowitz’s dreams of “liberation” and for the “democracy” which we are blasting our way through these people’s lives to create?
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The Fire This Time: U.S. War Crimes in the Gulf
by Ramsey Clark
Desert Slaughter: The Imperialist War Against Iraq
by the Workers League
Iraq’s Poisoned Water:
The deliberate genocide of the Iraqi people by America and Britain
Bibliography:
American Sanctions Against the Iraqi People
Neighborhood Bully: American Militarism
interview with Ramsey Clark
America: the Ultimate Terrorist
by John Pilger
9-11:
The United States Government Committed the September 11 Attacks
The Israeli Connection To 9-11
Fox News Special Report: Israeli Spying on the U.S.
Massive Israeli Spy Ring Linked to September 11
9-11 Was a Mossad “False Flag Operation”
9-11, Mossad, the CIA and “False Flag Operations”
The CIA, Insider Trading and the World Trade Center Terror Attack
Operation 911: NO SUICIDE PILOTS
Fake Terror: the Road to Dictatorship
See the Honest News page, as well as the sites below, for more news about American state terrorism of the people of Iraq.
Related sites
What Really Happened
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/
This alternative news site is one of the best for breaking news on American state terrorism of the people of Iraq.
Aggression Against Iraq
http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news066.htm
“The IRAQWAR.RU analytical center was created recently by a group of journalists and military experts from Russia to provide accurate and up-to-date news and analysis of the war against Iraq. The following is the English translation of the IRAQWAR.RU report based on the Russian Army Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) information.” (Translated into English and posted at aeronautics.ru with maps and photos, courtesy of Venik.)
These Russian G.R.U. reports are written from a professional military point of view, and contain perhaps the most detailed information publicly available on the Web about America’s latest state terror campaign against the Iraqi people.
First report in the series, starting with the events of March 14-17:
http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news066.htmApril 7 report:
http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news092.htm
Russian Intel Reports
http://www.rense.com/Datapages/RUS.htm
This is a Rense.com datapage with a collection of the above ongoing reports from Russian G.R.U. intelligence analysts.
Electronic Iraq: News
http://electronicIraq.net/news/
“Electronic Iraq is a news portal on the US-Iraq crisis published by veteran antiwar campaigners, Voices in the Wilderness, and respected Middle East supplementary news publishers, the Electronic Intifada.”
Al-Jazeerah
http://www.aljazeerah.info/
http://www.aljazeerah.us/
Al-Jazeera T.V. and related websites are the major Arab news source for information on America’s latest genocide of the Iraqi people. The website and mirror above are in English.
“The word ‘Al-Jazeerah’ means ‘The Island,’ in Arabic. ... The main goal of Al-Jazeerah Information Center is to promote cross-cultural understanding between people all over the world. ...Palestinians are victims of the Israeli military occupation and oppression. It is the mission of Al-Jazeerah Information Center to promote non-violence in the resolution of international conflicts, particularly the U.S.-Iraqi conflict and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, without equating the oppressed Palestinians with the oppressive Israeli occupiers. ... Thus, Al-Jazeerah will be an island of truth and hope.”
War: Iraq
http://www.rense.com/Datapages/warr.htm
Rense.com datapage with a collection of important news articles about America’s latest war crimes against the Iraqi people.
The “Shock and Awe” Photo Gallery
http://www.marchforjustice.com/id191.htm
“The brutal ‘Shock and Awe’ military strategy devised by the Zionist Harlan Ullman is taking a horrific toll on the Iraqi children of Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq. Ullman is a Jewish ‘defense intellectual.’ He was the Navy’s ‘head of extended planning’ and taught at the National War College. One of his students was Secretary of State [and war criminal] Colin Powell, who says he ‘raised my vision several levels.’
“The American people are not being shown the horrific devastation that the massive tons of bombs and missiles are causing to Iraqi civilians including its children. La Voz de Aztlan has collected the following pictures from the non-Jewish-dominated media to show the Mexican-American community and the USA community in general the horrible slaughter the U.S. military is inflicting on the children of Iraq.”
Iraq Body Count
http://www.iraqbodycount.net/
“This is a human security project to establish an independent and comprehensive public database of civilian deaths in Iraq resulting directly from military actions by the USA and its allies in 2003.”
Islam Online
http://www.islamonline.net/english/index.shtml
Another good site for news about America’s latest genocide campaign against the Iraqi people.
“Our Goals: To work for the good of humanity, as Islam teaches us. To work to uplift the Islamic nation specifically and humanity in general. To support the principles of freedom, justice, democracy, and human rights. To reinforce values and morals on the individual, family, and community levels.”
The crisis of American capitalism and the war against Iraq
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/mar2003/iraq-m21.shtml
“The unprovoked and illegal invasion of Iraq by the United States is an event that will live in infamy. The political criminals in Washington who have launched this war, and the wretched scoundrels in the [Jewish-Zionist controlled] mass media who are reveling in the bloodbath, have covered this country in shame.
“Hundreds of millions of people in every part of the world are repulsed by the spectacle of a brutal and unrestrained military power pulverizing a small and defenseless country. The invasion of Iraq is an imperialist war in the classic sense of the term: a vile act of aggression that has been undertaken on behalf of the interests of the most reactionary and predatory sections of the [Jewish-Zionist dominated] financial and corporate oligarchy in the United States. Its overt and immediate purpose is the establishment of control over Iraq’s vast oil resources and reduction of that long-oppressed country to an American colonial protectorate.”
The Amariyah bomb shelter: a sea of flames, no place to hide
http://www.chugoku-np.co.jp/abom/uran/iraq_amiria_e/index.html
From the Chugoku Shimbun (Hiroshima) newspaper site. The story about an American atrocity committed during Iraq Genocide 1, in 1991.
Birth defects of Iraqi babies caused by American/British depleted uranium weapons radiation
http://www.wakefieldcam.freeserve.co.uk/extremedeformities.htm
WARNING — the photos on this page, of bizarrely deformed infants with birth defects caused by American and British Depleted Uranium, are horrifying and nauseating. View at your own risk. The photos are worse than those from Nazi concentration camps, but they are a painfully necessary part of the public record of American/British WAR CRIMES.
See these photos and behold the future — of America and Britain.
To the cowardly pilots and military/corporate/politician slime of America and Britain: you will not live this down.
Fire and Ice:
The Devastation of Iraq by War and Sanctions
by Ramsey Clark
http://www.iacenter.org/fireice.htm
About Iraq Genocide 1: “There was no war. No combat. There was only a deliberate, systematic genocide of a defenseless population while barely setting foot on Iraqi soil. When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said in 1967, ‘The greatest purveyor of violence on earth is my own government’, he could not have dreamed in his worst nightmare what the U.S. did to Iraq.”
Iraq Daily
http://www.uruklink.net/iraqdaily/
Published by the Iraqi Ministry of Information, with sections devoted to national and international news, the arts, literature, science, sports, society and technology.
No longer available, due to American/British censorship.
Iraqi News Agency
http://www.uruklink.net/iraqnews/eindex.htm
The Iraqi News Agency (INA) employs 320 editorial, technical and administrative staff. INA has 48 offices and correspondents in Arab and foreign countries, reduced to 15 since the sanctions have been imposed on Iraq in August 1990. INA Transmits bulletins in Arabic and English over a period of 14 hours a day.
No longer available, due to American/British censorship.
Bibliography
The Fire This Time:
U.S. War Crimes in the Gulf
by Ramsey Clark
Desert Slaughter:
The Imperialist War Against Iraq
by the Workers League
American Sanctions Against the Iraqi People
(bibliography)
Pirates and Emperors, Old and New:
International Terrorism in the Real World
by Noam Chomsky
Rogue State:
A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower
by William Blum
Killing Hope:
U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since WWII
by William Blum
The Beast Reawakens
by Martin A. Lee
Apocalypse 1945:
The Destruction of Dresden
by David Irving
Against Empire
by Michael Parenti
The Sword and the Dollar:
Imperialism, Revolution and the Arms Race
by Michael Parenti
What Uncle Sam Really Wants
by Noam Chomsky
Censored 2000:
The Year’s Top 25 Censored Stories
by Peter Phillips & Project Censored
The Culture of Terrorism
by Noam Chomsky
The Real Terror Network:
Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda
by Edward S. Herman
Western State Terrorism
Alexander George, editor; essays by Noam Chomsky, Edward S. Herman, Gerry O’Sullivan and others
Terrorizing the Neighborhood:
American Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era
by Noam Chomsky
Pressure Drop Press, 1991
Derailing Democracy:
The America the Media Don’t Want You to See
by David McGowan
Inventing Reality:
The Politics of News Media
by Michael Parenti
Manufacturing Consent:
The Political Economy of the Mass Media
by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
The Habits of Highly Deceptive Media:
Decoding Spin and Lies in Mainstream News
by Norman Solomon
On Killing:
The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
Dave Grossman
published by: Little, Brown
Examines the consequences of conditioning American soldiers to overcome the instinctive loathing of killing. Shows how it has increased post-combat stress disorder and how contemporary society — especially the media — replicates the U.S. Army’s conditioning techniques, resulting in increased violence in American society.
Available from: Edward R. Hamilton, Bookseller
