Selected Articles

A U.S. Marine’s Tale from Iraq
    “We killed 30 civilians in six weeks.
    I felt we were committing genocide”



The Logic of Torture
    New York Review of Books
    explores why Abu Ghraib
    is nothing surprising or unusual



          PROJECT FOR THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY

This Washington think tank asks the important question, “Does the United States have the resolve to shape a new century favorable to American principles and interests?” and proposes “a Reaganite policy of military strength and moral clarity.”

Scary cult? No way. Among its distinguished members are Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Steve Forbes, Francis Fukuyama, Paul Wolfowitz, and Jeb Bush.

The PNAC was pushing for war with Iraq long before 9/11, and said in 2000 that their plans for projecting American dominance could only be implemented slowly and discreetly unless there were “some catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor.”



Fahrenheit 9/11
    Not an article, but a movie.
        Watch it if you can.
      (Something hilarious)




Standard Operating Procedure
    PAUL KRUGMAN, New York Times
    “The public was told that Saddam posed an imminent threat.
    If that claim was fraudulent, the selling of the war
    is arguably the worst scandal in American political history—
    worse than Watergate, worse than Iran-contra.”




U.S. to Fight Terror With Terror
         The Onion
    (It’s funny because it’s true)




Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam Hussein in 1983
    He was our friend back then



New York Times Apology
    for sloppy and unprofessional coverage
    of the Iraq war



The Israel-Iraq Connection
    From the Shalom Center, a network of American Jews
    who draw on Jewish tradition and spirituality to seek peace,
    pursue justice, heal the earth, and build community.



            The Corporation
            is another movie
        that looks promising
    and hilarious.
(This, too, shall pass.)

Devastating effects of Depleted Uranium exposure to U.S. soldiers
“People [in the US armed services] are sick over there already. It's not just uranium. You've got all the complex organics and inorganics that are released in those fires and detonations. And they're sucking this in... You've got the whole toxic wasteland.”

More Cancers and Birth Defects among Iraqi Children
Rokke, who has a Ph.D. in physics and until recently was a professor at Jacksonville State University in Alabama, says he has “5,000 times the recommended level of radiation in my body” and has called the health woes among residents of southern Iraq and his own colleagues “the direct result” of DU exposure.

In an interview on Saturday, Rokke said of his own health: “I'm trashed.” He said that Pentagon officials routinely tell him and others who were contaminated in the gulf theater that the elevated levels of uranium in their bodies are “just coming out of our diets.”

Effects are bad on soldiers, worse on kids
Speaking from his home in Rantoul, Ill., where he works as a substitute high school science teacher, Rokke said, “When we went to the Gulf, we were all really healthy, and we got trashed.”

Rokke, an Army Reserve major who describes himself as “a patriot to the right of Rush Limbaugh,” said hearing the latest Pentagon statements on DU is especially frustrating now that another war against Iraq appears likely.

“Since 1991, numerous U.S. Department of Defense reports have said that the consequences of DU were unknown,” Rokke said. “That is a lie. We warned them in 1991 after the Gulf War, but because of liability issues, they continue to ignore the problem.” Rokke worked until 1996 for the military, developing DU training and management procedures. The procedures were ignored, he said.

“Their arrogance is beyond comprehension,” he said. “We have spread radioactive waste all over the place and refused medical treatment to people . . . it's all arrogance.

“DU is a snapshot of technology gone crazy.”

Too many Iraqi babies born without eyes
A Flemish eye doctor is stunned

Effects of D.U. on U.S. troops in the First Gulf War
As of July 1999, of the 579,000 American veterans who participated in the Gulf War, 251,000 (43%) were seeking medical treatment from the Department of Veterans Affairs. About 182,000 (31%) were seeking compensation for medical disabilities or damage related to illness or injury. The illnesses for which claims are being filed include leukemia, lung cancer, chronic kidney and liver disorders, respiratory ailments, chronic fatigue, skin spotting, and joint pain. Birth defects in their children were also widely reported.