Iraq under Siege The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War

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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Map
Anthony Arnove
"The Roots of US/UK Policy"
Naseer Aruri: US Policy on Iraq: 1990-1999
Phyllis Bennis and Denis 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 layworker, 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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ISBN: 0896086194

ISBN-13: 9780896086197

Publisher: South End Press

Year: 2000

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

First Edition

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