1. Abu Ghraib: The Politics of Torture
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2004
   A series of essays on the Abu Ghraib prison and the political climate surrounding the Bush Administration's intervention into Iraq.
2. Against Capitalism
   The European Left on the March
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2007
   
3. AlterNet
   Resource Type: Website
   Online news magazine and community featuring original journalism as well as material from many other independent media sources. AlterNet's aim is to inspire action and advocacy on the environment, human rights and civil liberties, social justice, media, health care issues, and other issues.
4. Beyond the Ballot
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2006
   Rather than focusing upon the establishment of elections in Iraq, Chomsky points out that popular will is the essential element of democracy. The vast majority of Iraqis were, however, opposed to coalition forces.
5. Beyond Iraq: The Spreading Crisis
   Against The Current vol. 122
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2006
   The disaster and carnage of the Iraq occupation is the center of a crisis now spreading through the region—to Iran, to Afghanistan and the India-Pakistan subcontinent, and especially to Israel-Palestine—with implications far beyond.
6. Blackwater
   The rise of the world's most powerful mercenary army
   Resource Type: Book
   
7. Bound By Power
   Intended Consequences
   Resource Type: Book
   These essays focus on how power and ideology work within society. Interviews are with Noam Chomsky, Linda McQuaig, Robert Bertuzzi and others. They speak to the issues of the understanding of power and political dissent, the repression of dissent in post 9/11 media coverage and the war on terror.
8. Buda's Wagon
   A Brief History of the Car Bomb
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2007
   Mike Davis traces the car bomb's worldwide use and development. In his analysis, he also exposes the role of state intelligence agencies - particularly those of the United States, Israel, India, and Pakistan - in globalizing urban terrorist techniques
9. Bush Fights For Another Clean Shot In The War
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2002
   The perversity of Bush's agenda.
10. Camp Bucca, Abu Ghraib, and the Rise of Extremism in Iraq
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Suffering caused through our wars including conditions inside US military camps, in Iraq, led to the extremism of Al-Baghdadi and his ISIS followers.
11. Can Soldiers Resist?
    Against The Current vol. 133
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Interviews with Tod Ensign and Phil Aliff.
12. Captivity
    118 Days in Iraq and the Struggle for a World Without War
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    An account of a peace activist kidnapped while leading a peace delegation in Iraq.
13. The Case Against U.S. Adventurism in Iraq
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2003
    Chomsky depicts the Bush Administration's ambition to rule the world by force and the dangers of this intention.
14. The Case for Staying in Iraq
    Against The Current vol. 122
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    I don't support an immediate U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, because I think it would probably make an already bad situation much worse. Of course, there's no guarantee that continuing the occupation will succeed in allowing some form of stability to take hold—particularly if our military forces simply "stay the course" of brutality evidenced in Fallujah, Abu Ghraib, and the training of Iraqi death squads. However, I believe it offers the best chance for the chaotic forces now at work in Iraq to settle, over time, into some type of a coherent nation.
15. Chasing a Mirage
    The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    According to Tarek Fatah, "Morality is doing what is right, regardless what we are told; Religious dogma is doing what we are told, no matter what is right." Fatah argues that since Islam's advent, there have been two parallel strains of the religion that are in clash. The first "state of Islam" is a person's moral compass; the way Islam governs an individual's personal life. By contrast, the yearning for "an Islamic state" has been bloody and fruitless.
16. Chilcot Inquiry - The Establishment Goes to Work
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    When public scepticism erupts in response to resultant extremes of state violence and criminality that even the media are powerless to deny, the illusion of democracy must be bolstered. Then Tweedledum-Tweedledee will choose from their own to rig an "inquiry", while their media allies present the process as something other than a farce.
17. The CIA's Greatest Hits
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Brief case studies of the CIA's greatest 'triumphs'.
18. The Collapse of Western Morality
    The Indispensable People?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Moral degradation is reaching new lows.
19. Color of Violence
    The INCITE! Anthology
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    An anthology of critical writings demanding that we address violence against women of color in all its forms, including interpersonal violence, such as sexual and domestic violence, and state violence, such as police brutality, militarism, attacks on immigrants and Indian treaty rights, the proliferation of prisons, economic neo-colonialism, and violence from the medical industry.
20. Complete testimony of George Galloway
    Resource Type: Article
    Testimony of British M.P George Galloway before the U.S. Senate.
21. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1991
    
22. Connexions Library: Middle East Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the Middle East.
23. Countercurrents
    Resource Type: Website
    An alternative news site based in India. "We bring out what the mainstream media fails to tell you, or hides from you. These are the things that really matter. The things which may determine the fate of planet earth! The future of our children! In a word, the survival of the species!"
    
24. The Cover-Ups That Exploded
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    
25. The Cynicism and the Slaughter
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999
    IMPEACHMENT. BOMBING. ELECTION. Impeachment. Bombing. Perhaps by now, the scandal-witchhunt-Cruise missile cycle has become so predictable that it's hard to respond with appropriate outrage to the latest round. We all knew, after all, that it was going to happen. Yet outrage is absolutely necessary, even at a moment when atrocity follows atrocity and world-class crimes against humanity virtually crowd each other out of attention.
26. Dilemmas of Domination
    The Unmaking of the American Empire
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    Argues that in a not-too-distant future the American empire's hidden weaknesses will pose fatal challenges to American supremacy.
27. Double Standards
    Resource Type: Website
    Focusing on double standards in the media and in international politics. "Double Standard 1. a rule or principle applied more strictly to some people more than others (or oneself)."
28. Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2010-2011 
    Capital devours lives, labor, land; masses seek paths to freedom
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    A revolutionary organization can no longer allow any separation between theory and practice, philosophy and revolution, workers and intellectuals, "inside" and "outside."
29. Elections and Regime Crisis
    Against The Current vol. 124
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Will the Democrats "regain control of Congress"? Will Joseph Lieberman change parties? Will Hillary Clinton be the Democratic frontrunner for 2008? How much does any of this matter?
30. Embassy Row Online
    Resource Type: Website
    Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
31. Empire of Lies and Torture
    Against The Current vol. 111
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    The prohibition of torture in international conventions is absolute. There are no exceptions for so-called "ticking bombs," for "high-value terrorists" or "illegal enemy combatants" or similar improvised fictions—or for extraterritorial prison camps (Guantanamo) where the jailers exercise absolute power but somehow disclaim the legal responsibilities of "sovereignty."
32. Empire, Religion and Liberation
    Against The Current vol. 135
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    “At least 10 Palestinians were killed in Gaza on Sunday by Israeli fire,” today’s New York Times reports as I write this review, “bringing the number of Palestinians killed since Wednesday… to more than 100.” One Palestinian in Gaza laments, “There is an attack every five or ten minutes. It keeps our nerves on edge and our senses strained. There is so much rage at what is happening; especially the scenes of murdered children and babies.” According to the Israeli human-rights group, B’Tselem, approximately half of the dead were unarmed civilians, and a quarter were children.
33. Empire's Workshop
    Latin America, the United States and the Rise of the New Imperialism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    Looks at U.S. foreign policy post 9/11 and its antecedents.
34. The Face of Imperialism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    Parenti redefines empire and imperialism to connect the current crisis in America to its own bad behavior worldwide.
35. The Fog of Intelligence 
    Or How to Be Eternally "Caught Off Guard" in the Greater Middle East
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The phrase "the fog of war" stands in for the inability of commanders to truly grasp what's happening in the chaos that is any battlefield. Perhaps it's time to introduce a companion phrase: the fog of intelligence.
36. From Central America to Iraq
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    Noam Chomsky bitterly criticizes the regular exclusion of America from the principle of universality and the impunity with which the nation acts.
37. From Sykes-Picot to "Islamic State": Imperialism's Bloody Wreckage
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    When the Jihadist group Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) changed its name and declared the establishment of the Caliphate, it did so with the release of a promotional video entitled "The End of Sykes-Picot." This was a reference to the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement that marked the end of the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of two zones of influence, British and French.
38. From the Editor: Green Living
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1991
    To satiate North America's addiction to high energy consumption, the popular solution is war.
39. "Good News," Iraq and Beyond
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Chomsky explores why the issue of Iraq seems to have fallen to the wayside following the 2006 mid-term election. He cites the necessity for diversion of the masses away from (lacking) political options to PR-created "character" and "good news". But he insists that the question of "the clash of civilizations" must indeed remain prominent in the minds of voters.
40. Gulf War The Gulf in flames The real cost of Desert Storm
    New Internationalist October 1992
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
    Examining the real reasons behind the Gulf War. Was it motivated by Western oil interests? Articles on arab women, oil and arms and the aftermath of Desert Storm in the arab world.
41. Hegemony or Survival 
    America's Quest for Global Dominance
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003   Published: 2004
    Chomsky documents how, for more than half a century, the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of dominating the globe.
42. Hekmat, Mansoor - Writings - Index
    Resource Type: Article
    Writings of Mansoor Hekmat (1951-2002).
43. A History of the Jews - Ancient and Modern
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    Starting from a political interpretation of the period when judges, kings and prophets held sway over Israel and Judah, Ilan Halevi traces the evolution of the Jewish identity through its numerous stages, from the Roman occupation and the decline of Temple authority, through to the Zionist settlement of Palestine in the twentieth century.
    
44. How Islamist gangs use internet to track, torture and kill Iraqi gays
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Iraqi militias infiltrate internet gay chatrooms to hunt their quarry and hundreds are feared to be victims.
45. Imperial Crusades
    Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia: A Diary of Three Wars
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    Iraq was just one of three major imperial crusades in the decade after 1992, orchestrated by a new generation of American politicians, both Democrat and Republican, who backed pre-emptive strikes to overthrow unruly regimes in Yugoslavia and Afghanistan under the pretext of humanitarian intervention. Imperial Crusades chronicles the lies that are now returning almost daily to haunt the liars in Washington and London, the secret agendas and the under-reported carnage of these wars.
46. In Remembrance of Things Lost
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    It’s astonishing that I actually have to make an argument (and a losing one at that) against murdering children, but this is the reality we ourselves have given birth to.
47. Interview with Gilbert Achcar
    Against The Current vol. 122
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    On the third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, Susan Weissman interviewed Gilbert Achcar for her program, "Beneath the Surface," on KPFK, Pacifica radio in Los Angeles. In the following excerpt, Achcar discusses the questions of immediate withdrawal and civil war in Iraq.
48. Iraq 1990-1991
    Desert Holocaust
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1995
    An account of the American invasion of Iraq (Desert Shield) in 1990-91.
49. The Iraq Crisis in Context
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2003
    A rogue state, heavily armed with weapons of mass destruction, openly contempuous of international law and the United Nations, plunges the world into crisis.
50. Iraq for Sale
    The War Profiteers
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2006
    A film about what happens to everyday Americans when corporations go to war which uncovers the connections between private corporations making a killing in Iraq and the decision makers who allow them to do so.
51. Iraq: Guerrilla War in Sadr City
    Against The Current vol. 114
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    In attacking first Najaf, then Tal Afar and Samarra, and finally tackling the center of Sunni resistance in Fallujah, the United States was seeking to reverse this process. But these attacks were not designed to restore order; they were, instead, intended to prevent the consolidation of a very orderly anti-American status quo in a constantly expanding set of "liberated" areas. Ironically, the American attacks in the Fall of 2004 underscore the larger contradictions in American policy in Iraq: that the chaos American leaders keep saying there are preventing will, in fact, occur only if U.S. military forces succeed in destroying these nascent city-states.
52. The Iraq War and Contempt for Democracy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2003
    Chomsky highlights that while the war in Iraq was being shaped, the voices of the people - neither in Iraq nor Europe - were being heard or considered. This is a clear violation of the principle that people play the main role in democratic societies.
53. Iraq: Women's Liberation and the Struggle Against Imperialist Subjugation
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2003
    The women of Iraq illustrate the status of most of the world's women, caught between the domination of imperialism and the oppression of stifling ancient 'customs' like the veil, holdovers from a more backward era.
54. Iraq's greatest danger yet: collapse of 'world's most dangerous dam'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    As if Iraq has not suffered enough under Saddam Hussein, the vicious UN sanctions regime, the US-UK occupation and the depradations of Daesh, a new threat looms that could kill a million people or more, and destroy Baghdad and a string of other cities along the Tigris river. The porous rocks beneath the Mosul dam are dissolving away and the entire edifice could collapse at any moment, releasing 11 cubic kilometres of water.
55. Iraq's Torture by Sanctions
    Against The Current vol. 91
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
    An interview with Kathy Kelly. Kathy Kelly, organizer for Voices in the Wilderness, has been involved in the struggle around ending sanctions against Iraq for the past decade. David Finkel interviewed her for Against the Current in January 2001.
56. ISIS Thrives on the Disunity of Its Enemies
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The aftermath of terrorist attacks such as the massacre in Paris are a bad time to produce new policies, but they provide ideal political conditions for a government to take radical, if ill-thought-out, initiatives. Leaders are carried away by a heady sense of empowerment as a worried or frightened public demands that something be done in response to calamity and to prevent it happening again. The moment of greatest risk is not when the bombs explode or the guns fire, but when governments react to these atrocities.
57. Islamic Peril
    Media And Global Violence
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    
58. Justifying What You Know Can't Be True
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Researchers looking at al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein explore why it is that people often steadfastly believe something even when they've been shown it ain't so.
59. Killing Hope 
    U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Is the United States a force for democracy? William Blum serves up a forensic overview of U.S. foreign policy spanning sixty years. For those who want the details on the U.S.'s most famous actions (Chile, Cuba, Vietnam, to name a few), and for those who want to learn about lesser-known efforts (France, China, Bolivia, Brazil, for example), this book provides a window on what U.S. foreign policy goals really are. "If you flip over the rock of American foreign policy of the past century, this is what crawls out… invasions … bombings … overthrowing governments … occupations … suppressing movements for social change … assassinating political leaders … perverting elections … manipulating labor unions … manufacturing “news” … death squads … torture … biological warfare … depleted uranium … drug trafficking … mercenaries … It’s not a pretty picture. It’s enough to give imperialism a bad name."
60. The Kurdish Crisis in Iraq and Syria
    Against the Current vol. 192
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    In discussion of right of self-determination for the between 28 and 35 million Kurdish people in Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran, the author considers the current polticial landscape.
61. Leader and Vassal
    Bringing Death and Destruction to Muslims
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Americans do not think of themselves or of Israel as terrorist states, but the evidence is complete and overwhelming. Thanks to the power of the Israel Lobby, Americans only know the Israeli side of the story, which is that evil anti-semite Palestinians will not let blameless Israelis live in peace and persist in their unjustified terror attacks on an innocent Israeli state.
    
62. The Left Worker-communist Party of Iraq
    Organization profile published 2007
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 2005
    Socialism Now. "The basis of socialism is the human being... Socialism is the movement to restore human beings' conscious will."
63. Letters from Lexington
    Reflections on Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    
64. Lifting the Iraq Embargo After Almost 2 Million Deaths
    What Have We Learned From the Embargo's Lessons?
    Resource Type: Article
    A summary of the 1991-2003 Iraq Embargo, and its devastating attack on the Iraqi civilian population.
65. Lying to Ourselves About the Air War
    The Killers
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Most US citizens have never been subjected to an air raid. They have never heard the roar of planes flying high above them while an air raid siren wails, its whine competing with the planes’ roar and piercing the audio centers of the brain making sequential thought difficult if not impossible. Nor have they heard the sound of bombs — canisters filled with high explosives and fire — whistling as they fall through the air toward their targets on the ground. Nor have most US citizens ever sat in a bomb shelter wondering if their homes will survive the aerial assault they are hoping to survive themselves.
66. Made in the USA: Report Shows ISIS Using US Arms from 'Syria Rebels'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    From the moment the US began sending lethal arms to Syrian rebel factions, there was a chorus of people expressing fears that those arms would end up in the “wrong hands,” and US officials insisted they were going to carefully vet everyone who got those weapons.
67. The Massacre of Withdrawing Soldiers on "The Highway of Death"
    Excerpted from the book War Crimes: A report on United States war crimes against Iraq
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1992
    I want to give testimony on what are called the "highways of death." These are the two Kuwaiti roadways, littered with remains of 2,000 mangled Iraqi military vehicles, and the charred and dismembered bodies of tens of thousands of Iraqi soldiers, who were withdrawing from Kuwait on February 26th and 27th 1991 in compliance with UN resolutions. U.S. planes trapped the long convoys by disabling vehicles in the front, and at the rear, and then pounded the resulting traffic jams for hours. "It was like shooting fish in a barrel," said one U.S. pilot. The horror is still there to see.
68. Michael Berg for U.S. Congress in Delaware: A Voice Against War
    Against The Current vol. 124
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    On June 8 Americans awoke to the news that the U.S. military in Iraq had killed Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, alleged leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq. In the midst of press coverage that cravenly accepted government claims that this was, once again, a turning point in the war, one voice in the mass media dramatically countered government claims - that of Michael Berg, Green Party candidate for Delaware's seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
69. Mr. Bush's truthfulness
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    The truthfulness-challenged President.
70. Models of Coming U.S. Interventions: Iraq or Haiti?
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Ben Terrall interviews Mike Davis.
71. Naomi Klein's "Courage"
    Ain't But One Way Out
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    In saying that we need to make Iraq safe for democracy, Klein is buying into the US agenda for Iraq.
72. News & Letters: Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2006 - 2007
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    We aim to help fill the void on the question of "what happens after" by creatively rethinking and restating his concept of "revolution in permanence" for today.
73. The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    Peter Steven aims to make readers realize the power and influence of dominant media but, at the same time, also understand that they are not "omnipotent" and that there are alternative forms available.
74. The No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    An in-depth look at the nature of terrorism that discusses questioning terrorism, assessing it, the difference between state terrorism and group terrorism, morality and history, and war and politics.
75. On Imperialist Barbarism & the Need for World Democracy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1991
    Four articles in Ideas & Action #16 (Fall 1991):
    1. The Destruction of Iraq: Why?
    2. The Rise and Decline of the American Empire
    3. Every Nation-State is Imperialist by Nature
    4. For National Autonomy within a World-wide Democracy
76. On Oil and Quicksand
    Against The Current vol. 114
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    The end of 2004 finds the Middle East sliding toward an even bloodier morass, thanks in large part to imperial and colonial arrogance which has rarely been on such open display.
77. The Only House Left Standing
    The Middle East Journals of Tom Hurndall
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    A journey through the life and thoughts of the late Tom Hurndall, a British photojournalist fatally wounded in Gaza in April 2003.
78. Overthrowing other people's governments: The Master List 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War.
79. Peace Mom
    A Mother's Journey Through Heartache to Activism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    An American mother loses her 24-year-old soldier son, killed in action in Iraq, and leads her to become a prominent US anti-war activist.
80. The People in Gravest Danger
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2003
    Chomsky discusses what makes the Kurds in Iraq the likeliest population to suffer most due to the war in Iraq.
81. The Persecution of Pfc. Bardley Manning
    The Leaker as American Hero
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    If Manning did what he is suspected of doing, he should be honoured as an American hero for exposing war crimes.
82. A Poisonous Affair: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja
    Resource Type: Book
    Joost's Hiltermann "A Poisonous Affair" is a disturbing book. Chronicling both the use of chemical weapons against the Iranis and specifically the Kurds at Halabja it is also the tale of culpability by the international community and the United States who turned a blind eye to the genocide. The book shows how complicit American support for Saddam layed the ground work for the ongoing distrust by Kurds and Iranis to American policy to this day. It is an essential book for those who wish to understand the tortuous policies of the US, Iraqi Kurds and Iran.
83. Press for Conversion #43
    December 2000
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2000
    
84. Press for Conversion #51
    May 2003
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2003
    Why is the U.S. government reviled by so many people in the Middle East and North Africa? This issue looks at the past 50 years of wars and regime changes in the region and unveils a consistent pattern of U.S. involvement.
85. Propaganda, Fake News, and Media Lies
    The Diabolical Business of Global Public Relations Firms
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The PRP industry has experienced phenomenal growth since 2001. In 2015, three publicly traded mega PR firms -- Omnicom, WPP, and Interpublic Group -- together employed 214,000 people across 170 countries, collecting $35 billion in combined revenue. Not only do these firms control massive wealth, they also possess a network of connections in powerful international institutions with direct links to national governments, multi-national corporations, global policy-making bodies, and the corporate media.
86. Radical Digressions 2
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 1981   Published: 2000
    
87. Radical Digressions 3
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2001   Published: 2006
    
88. The Real Costs of Empire
    Against The Current vol. 123
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Vietnam all over again? Yes, it is. The massacres by United States military forces of unarmed civilians in Haditha and, as is finally being revealed despite official lies and coverup, numerous other Iraqi towns, are showing tens of millions of Americans what this war is, and part of what it really costs. The highest costs obviously are borne by the ordinary people of Iraq; but American society will pay for decades as well for this dirty conflict -- and worse is yet to come.
89. The reliable tyrant
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    The solution to the Iraq debacle is within the Americans' grasp.
90. Remembering the War and the Movement
    Against The Current vol. 90
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
    February 28, 1991. Thinking that weeks of war and antiwar organizing were still ahead (not my only mistake during those months!), I took a Canadian vacation at the end of February 1991 with my lover Christopher. On the morning of February 28 I got up in Vancouver in the friend's house where we were staying and went to collect the Globe and Mail from the front stoop.
91. Report: Hundreds of Civilians Killed by U.S.-Led Bombing of ISIS in Iraq and Syria
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    A new report from a group of journalists and researchers says that hundreds of civilians have died during airstrikes by the U.S. and other nations fighting the Islamic State, a marked contrast to the Pentagon’s official admission of just two civilian deaths.
92. A Response to Critics
    Against The Current vol. 123
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    David Finkel's comments (ATC 122) about my book Is Iraq Another Vietnam?, and about my position against immediately withdrawing the US military from Iraq, were well-informed and fair. So were the judgments of Gilbert Achcar in his interview with Susan Weissman, though his focus was on the withdrawal issue in general and not on my essay specifically. Likewise, Michael Schwartz's current ATC response reflects an impressive familiarity with Iraq and the Middle East, and his critique of my analysis is well-taken.
93. Revealed: Pentagon's link to Iraqi torture centres
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The Pentagon sent a US veteran of the "dirty wars" in Central America to oversee sectarian police commando units in Iraq that set up secret detention and torture centres to get information from insurgents.
94. Rogue State 
    A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    A mini-encyclopedia of the numerous un-humanitarian acts perpetrated by the United States since the end of the Second World War.
95. Saddam's Iraq
    Revolution or Reaction?
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    
96. Saddam's Alleged Weapons of Mass Destruction
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2003
    If Saddam Hussein really had weapons of mass destruction, he would certainly use them now with the U.S. poised to invade.
97. A Shameful Silence: Where is the Outrage Over the Slaughter of Civilians in Mosul?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The catastrophic number of civilian casualties in Mosul is receiving little attention internationally from politicians and journalists. This is in sharp contrast to the outrage expressed worldwide over the bombardment of east Aleppo by Syrian government and Russian forces at the end of 2016.
98. The Shock Doctrine
    The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Klein chronicles free-market disasters of recent years and advances a theory that we are living in the age of 'disaster capitalism'.
99. The Six Most Disastrous Interventions of the 21st Century
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    On October 2, 2015, President Barack Obama, alluding to Russia's decision to launch air strikes in Syria, told reporters at the White House that for Russia to view the forces targeted "from the perspective they're all terrorists [is] a recipe for disaster, and it's one that I reject."
100. Stop the War
     The Story of Britain's Biggest Mass Movement
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2005
     
101. The Thin Blue Line
     How Humanitarianism Went to War
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     An account of the failure of humanitarian intervention in places like Iraq and Somalia. Conor Foley explores how the doctrine of humanitarian intervention has been used to allow states to invade other nations in the name of human rights.
102. The Third Camp
     Against U.S. militarism and Islamic terrorism
     Resource Type: Website
     We must stand up with all our power to the US government's and its allies' bullying. We must put an end to the crimes of the opposite pole, i.e. Islamic terrorism. We must help the people of Islam-stricken countries to get rid of the menace of Islamic terrorist states and forces. American militarism and Islamic terrorism have brutalised the world. Neither of them has a solution to the present crisis and its resulting problems. Rather, they are themselves the cause of this crisis and its aggravation. Civilised humanity must rise up against both these poles and the suffering that they have imposed on the world.
103. This is why everything you’ve read about the wars in Syria and Iraq could be wrong
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2016
     A description of how much of the coverage of the wars in Syria and Iraq is second-hand reporting, due to the dangers posed, and subject to political bias and propaganda.
104. Top 10 Proofs People Can Be Completely Manipulated Without Hypnosis
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     
105. Trump's War on Terror Has Quickly Become as Barbaric and Savage as He Promised
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     Although precise numbers are difficult to obtain, there seems little question that the number of civilians being killed by the U.S. in Iraq and Syria -- already quite high under Obama -- has increased precipitously during the first two months of the Trump administration.
106. U.S. Bombing: Murder as Usual
     Against The Current vol. 91
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2001
     Voices in the Wilderness decries today's bombardment of Iraq which hit sites just south of Baghdad. However, we find it instructive to recall the digest of bombings that occurred in the past week and to note that on December 22, 2000 the Gulf News from Dubai quoted figures of civilians killed and injured as a result of US/UK air raids since December 1998 as 311 killed and 927 wounded.
107. The U.S. Military Under Stress
     Against The Current vol. 112
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2004
     John Kerry's campaign tome should dispel any illusion that he has any significant differences with George Bush on the aggressive use of the U.S. military to defend the empire.
108. War and the Culture of Violence
     Against The Current vol. 125
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2006
     Last year I had the opportunity to see “Winter Soldier,” a rarely shown 1971 documentary based on the testimony of over 100 soldiers recently back from Vietnam. It was filmed during a three-day hearing on war crimes that Vietnam Vets against the War organized in Detroit. Young soldiers spoke about atrocities they had committed in the name of freedom and democracy: throwing suspects out of planes, torching villages, raping women, killing civilians. Of course the Nixon administration attempted to discredit the soldiers and their stories.
109. War Crimes
     Resource Type: Article
     Corporate media can't ignore photos the way they ignored protests. The real reign of terror we face is much closer to home than we dare to think.
110. The war everyone forgot
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Chomsky probes what prompted the issue of Iraq to disappear from the agenda following the 2006 mid-term election.
111. War in the Gulf
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1991
     The U.S. and its allies are launching themselves into an unnecessary but potentially calamitous war.
112. War in the Gulf
     An Environmental Perspective
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1991
     
113. War(s) With No Exit
     Against The Current vol. 136
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     The raging debate on “war policy” between the corporate presidential campaigns has come down to this:
114. We Own the World
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007   Published: 2008
     The whole debate about the Iranian 'interference' in Iraq makes sense only on one assumption, namely, that we own the world. If we own the world, then the only question that can arise is that someone else is interfering in a country we have invaded and occupied.
     
115. What a Fair Trial for Saddam Would Entail
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2004
     Chomsky identifies the actors and issues that would have to be included in the Tribunal process if Saddam Hussein were to be given a fair trial in international court. These include key members of the Bush I administration who were active during the years of Hussein's most atrocious crimes.
     
116. What Uncle Sam Really Wants
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1993
     Chomsky discusses examples of U.S. intervention and links together events stretching over four decades in regions throughout the world. He provides a quick synopsis of American foreign policy and paints a vivid picture of the realities faced by social movements.
117. Where's the Iraqi voice?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     Despite the "shared beliefs" identified amongst Iraqis, for example the belief that the presence of foreign troops is a main cause of the escalation in violence, only the conquerors - in this case America - can decide when troops should be withdrawn.
118. Winter Soldier 2008
     Against The Current vol. 134
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     More than 250 veterans and military families gathered from March 13-15 outside Washington, DC for the Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) Winter Soldier Investigation: Iraq and Afghanistan. Videos of their testimony on their experiences are posted at www.IVAW.org.
119. World Orders Old and New
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1994
     Chomsky surveys the international scene since 1945.
120. Year 501 
     The Conquest Continues
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1993
     An examination of the U.S. role in the world placed in the long historical perspective of the 500 years that followed the voyages of Columbus.
121. Zanj Rebellion
     Connexipedia Article
     Resource Type: Article
     A series of revolts by some 500,000 slaves against their Muslim owners and rulers, 869-883 AD.

Experts on Irak in the Sources Directory

1. International Crisis Group
2. League of Arab States
3. NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
4. United Nations
5. Wikileaks