Shingogogol
19-09-2005, 18:11
Here's some starters
Here are some sources I came across during the mid-90's when I was first exposed to the idea that 1) Gulf War was about oil; and 2) (in the later 90s) that the sanctions on Iraq were killing hundreds of thousands of innocents.
One of the first people I met to be against the sanctions was
a veteran of the Gulf War
The Persian Gulf TV War by Douglas Kellner (1992)
(online book, w/footnotes)
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/papers/gulfwar1.htm
CHALLENGE TO GENOCIDE: LET IRAQ LIVE (1998)
(chapter excerpts online)
http://www.iacenter.org/ctglil.htm
The Scourging of Iraq : Sanctions, Law and Natural Justice (Paperback) by Geoff Simons
Placing the Poet
Badr Shakir al-Sayyab and Postcolonial Iraq
Terri DeYoung - Author
Political Gain and Civilian Pain: The Humanitarian Impacts of Economic Sanctions
http://hwproject.tufts.edu/publications/abstracts/pgacp.html
Chapter 7 on Iraq online
War in the Gulf, 1990-91
The Iraq-Kuwait Conflict and Its Implications
http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryWorld/European/?ci=0195149793&view=usa
This is a must read for all interested in Mid East politics. ~reviewer at amazon
THE ECONOMY OF IRAQ
Oil, Wars, Destruction of Development and Prospects, 1950-2010 (Contributions in Economics and Economic History)
http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=9782228
(online library)
The Final Sack of Nineveh : The Discovery, Documentation, and Destruction of King Sennacherib`s Throne Room at Nineveh, Iraq
These are books all related to the destruction of Iraqi civilization. Previously Iraq had been known as the Germany
of the middle east do to its industrial know-how.
Also, women in Iraq had a level of social status unknown to
other middle eastern countries. But since the first Gulf-war...
The above sources came to me via
a US based group called "Education for Peace in Iraq Center"
run by Americans including Gulf War Veterans.
also there is Voices In The Wilderness
http://vitw.org/
Both worked during the 90s to end the brutal sanctions
that US media repeatedly failed to cover.
Journalist John Pilger also has reported
on events in Iraq, you can watch some of his
documentaries online.
http://pilger.carlton.com/iraq
Hussein & Rummy via declassified documents
on US/Iraq relations
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/
http://www.nodraftnoway.org/
Here are some sources I came across during the mid-90's when I was first exposed to the idea that 1) Gulf War was about oil; and 2) (in the later 90s) that the sanctions on Iraq were killing hundreds of thousands of innocents.
One of the first people I met to be against the sanctions was
a veteran of the Gulf War
The Persian Gulf TV War by Douglas Kellner (1992)
(online book, w/footnotes)
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/papers/gulfwar1.htm
CHALLENGE TO GENOCIDE: LET IRAQ LIVE (1998)
(chapter excerpts online)
http://www.iacenter.org/ctglil.htm
The Scourging of Iraq : Sanctions, Law and Natural Justice (Paperback) by Geoff Simons
Placing the Poet
Badr Shakir al-Sayyab and Postcolonial Iraq
Terri DeYoung - Author
Political Gain and Civilian Pain: The Humanitarian Impacts of Economic Sanctions
http://hwproject.tufts.edu/publications/abstracts/pgacp.html
Chapter 7 on Iraq online
War in the Gulf, 1990-91
The Iraq-Kuwait Conflict and Its Implications
http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryWorld/European/?ci=0195149793&view=usa
This is a must read for all interested in Mid East politics. ~reviewer at amazon
THE ECONOMY OF IRAQ
Oil, Wars, Destruction of Development and Prospects, 1950-2010 (Contributions in Economics and Economic History)
http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=9782228
(online library)
The Final Sack of Nineveh : The Discovery, Documentation, and Destruction of King Sennacherib`s Throne Room at Nineveh, Iraq
These are books all related to the destruction of Iraqi civilization. Previously Iraq had been known as the Germany
of the middle east do to its industrial know-how.
Also, women in Iraq had a level of social status unknown to
other middle eastern countries. But since the first Gulf-war...
The above sources came to me via
a US based group called "Education for Peace in Iraq Center"
run by Americans including Gulf War Veterans.
also there is Voices In The Wilderness
http://vitw.org/
Both worked during the 90s to end the brutal sanctions
that US media repeatedly failed to cover.
Journalist John Pilger also has reported
on events in Iraq, you can watch some of his
documentaries online.
http://pilger.carlton.com/iraq
Hussein & Rummy via declassified documents
on US/Iraq relations
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/
http://www.nodraftnoway.org/