3/27/2003
Stop the war
Robert Fisk - the un-embedded journalist reporting from Iraq.
'It was an outrage, an obscenity'
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-smouldering car. Two missiles from an American jet killed them all – by my estimate, more than 20 Iraqi civilians, torn to pieces before they could be 'liberated' by the nation that 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.
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Robert Fisk - the un-embedded journalist reporting from Iraq.
'It was an outrage, an obscenity'
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-smouldering car. Two missiles from an American jet killed them all – by my estimate, more than 20 Iraqi civilians, torn to pieces before they could be 'liberated' by the nation that 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.
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Stop the war
taking sides
Taking Sides - for justice. A critical look at the news on the 'war on terrorism' and the attack on Iraq.
taking sides
Taking Sides - for justice. A critical look at the news on the 'war on terrorism' and the attack on Iraq.
'You Just Can't Imagine It'
by Rachel Corrie
I have been in Palestine for two weeks and one hour now, and I still have very few words to describe what I see. It is most difficult for me to think about what's going on here when I sit down to write back to the United States -- something about the virtual portal into luxury. I don't know if many of the children here have ever existed without tank-shell holes in their walls and the towers of an occupying army surveying them constantly from the near horizons. I think, although I'm not entirely sure, that even the smallest of these children understand that life is not like this everywhere.
e-mail from the late Rachel Corrie to a dad.
by Rachel Corrie
I have been in Palestine for two weeks and one hour now, and I still have very few words to describe what I see. It is most difficult for me to think about what's going on here when I sit down to write back to the United States -- something about the virtual portal into luxury. I don't know if many of the children here have ever existed without tank-shell holes in their walls and the towers of an occupying army surveying them constantly from the near horizons. I think, although I'm not entirely sure, that even the smallest of these children understand that life is not like this everywhere.
e-mail from the late Rachel Corrie to a dad.
The Countdown Begins
AIJAZ AHMAD
The internal dynamics of its capitalism driven primarily by petrodollar and weapons-dollar industries and the need to beat its European rivals in the race for global domination propel the United States inexorably towards war.
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