Arnove, Anthony
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Anthony Arnove
The Roots of US/UK Policy
Naseer Aruri: US Policy on Iraq: 1990-1999
Phyllis Bennis and Denis
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Halliday: Iraq: The Impact of Sanctions and U.S. Policy (Interview with David Barsamian)
Noam Chomsky: US Iraq Policy: Motives and Consequences
Myths and Realities
John Pilger: Collateral Damage
Voices in the Wilderness: Ten Myths About Sanctions
Robert Fisk: The Hidden War
Rania Masri and Ali Abunimah: The Media's Deadly Spin on Iraq
Howard Zinn: One Iraqi's Story
Life Under Sanctions
Kathy Kelly: Raising Voices: The Children of Iraq 1990-1999
Barbara Nimri Aziz: Targets--Not Victims
George Capaccio: Killing a Country and a People
Documenting the Impact of Sanctions
Dr. Peter Pellett: Sanctions, Food, Nutrition, and Health in Iraq
Dr. Huda S. Ammash: The Impact of Sanctions on the Environment and Health in Iraq
Activist Responses
Edward Said, Noam Chomsky, Ed Herman, Howard Zinn, Robert Jensen, William Keach, June Jordan, Angela Davis, Carlos Muoz, Jr, and Sharon Smith.: Sanctions Are Weapons of Mass Destruction
Noam Chomsky: Sanctions as Biological Warfare
Sharon Smith: Building the Movement to End Sanctions
Appendix Organizations Working to End Sanctions
Index
An Excerpt from Iraq Under Siege
Raising Voices: The Children of Iraq 1990-1999
Kathy Kelly
It is January 8, 1997. I am in a car driving from Baltimore to Washington, D.C., at 6:15 a.m. With me are Simon Harak, a Jesuit priest and theology professor, and Ardeth Platte and Carol Gilbert, Dominican sisters from Baltimore. We will later meet Aft Laffin, a Catholic lay worker, at the Senate Hart Office Building. Our plan is to enter the Senate confirmation hearings for Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
Leslie Stahl went to Iraq for 60 Minutes. On the program that aired May 12, 1996, she asked Albright, who was then the US ambassador to the United Nations, to explain US policy in the context of the devastation she had seen among the children of Iraq. Albright responded: "It's a hard decision, Lesli
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