- Asia: Militarisation and Regional Conflict
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
Asia is a region where both superpowers have intervened on land and stationed increasing naval forces. The continent has also witnessed numerous inter-state wars. In this book, scholars from the region describe and try to understand these tensions, and also pose alternative options for peace. They examine the militarisation of south-east Asia, the Pacific Islands and Japan; regional security issues; and specific conflicts such as the Iran-Iraq war.
- Breaking The Silence: Truth And Lies In The War On Terror
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2003
'Breaking The Silence: Truth And Lies In The War On Terror' was screened six months after the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 and two years after the invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001. The film dissects the truth and lies behind the 'War on Terror', investigating the discrepancies between American and British justification for 'war' and the facts on the ground in Afghanistan and Washington DC.
- Canadian Left and the Test of War
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2003
The bloody U.S. war of conquest against Iraq was a litmus test for the left. Millions internationally and hundreds of thousands in Canada rallied against the war. yet is is patently clear that the biggest antiwar demonstrations in history had no effect whsoever on the war-crazed American ruling class.
- A Coalition of the Killing
War, media, propaganda and language
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2003
War, media, propaganda and language.
- The Cynicism and the Slaughter
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Death of a Hero
The General, The Media Adulation And The Forgotten Victims
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
If all this glorification of a military commander had happened in the North Korean or the Soviet-era press, lavishly praising an 'original' who'd given years of 'patriotic service' in wars abroad, it would have rightly elicited scorn and ridicule amongst commentators here.
- The Deciders
The disastrous Iraq policies that led to ISIS were not President Bush's
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
In May 2003, in the wake of the Iraq War and the ousting of Saddam Hussein, events took place that set the stage for the current chaos in the Middle East. Yet even most well-informed Americans are unaware of how policies implemented by mid-level bureaucrats during the Bush administration unwittingly unleashed forces that would ultimately lead to the juggernaut of the Islamic State.
- 'Fake news' & 'post-truth' politics? What about those Iraqi WMDs?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
The people and the outlets warning of the dangers of 'fake news' and 'post-truth politics' have been the biggest peddlers of 'fake news' and 'post-truth politics' out there. It's like receiving lectures on the immorality of bootlegging from Al Capone.
- In Middle East Wars It Pays to be Skeptical
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
In the context of Western air strikes on alleged Syrian biological weapons sites on 14 April, 2018, the history of the bombing of the Abu Ghraib baby milk factory in 1991 underscores the need for permanent scepticism towards claims by U.S. and Western governments that they know exactly what is happening on the ground in Syria.
- The Iraq Crisis in Context
Resource Type: Article
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.
- The Iraq War Was an Act of Military Aggression Launched on a False Pretext: Remarks on the Chilcot Inquiry Report
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
The following is a transcript of Jeremy Corbyn's remarks in the House of Commons.
- Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction: Who Said What When
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
This is a list of quotations is excerpted from Imperial Crusades: a Diary of Three Wars.
- It's Still the Iraq War, Stupid.
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
No rational person could blame Jeremy Corbyn for Brexit. So why are the Blairites moving against Corbyn now, with such precipitate haste? The answer is the Chilcot Report. It is only a fortnight away, and though its form will be concealed by thick layers of establishment whitewash, the basic contours of Blair’s lies will still be visible beneath. Corbyn had deferred to Blairite pressure not to apologise on behalf of the Labour Party for the Iraq War until Chilcot is published.
- Middle East Imperial Meltdown
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
How U.S. drive for "stability" in the Middle East produces the opposite, and how these crises feed back into the peculiarities of U.S. domestic political culture.
- The oil war
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Declassified documents now reveal what everybody, especially the Iraqis, always knew: the US invaded Iraq to secure its oil supplies for US and allied companies. It hasn't quite worked out as planned.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 22, 2017
Disobedience
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2017
Ultimately all power structures depend on the obedience of those over whom they rule. It helps if people believe in the legitimacy of those who wield power, but the crucial thing is obedience. Once people start to disobey in significant numbers, the dynamic of power changes fundamentally. Disobedience, especially on a large scale, shakes the power of the rulers, and increases the power of those who disobey. Disobedience is the theme of this issue.
- Peace Activist Spends Last Days Resisting War, Supporting Kim Rivera
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
In the last days of her life, wheelchair bound and terminally ill, peace activist and author Shirley Farlinger will be in Nathan Phillips Square to hold a sign in support of Kim Rivera, the Iraq war resister currently facing deportation.
- Press for Conversion #49
October 2002
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2002
Obviously the invasion of Iraq had nothing to do with either finding "weapons of mass destruction" or fighting terrorism. These were just the phoney pretexts that U.S. and British warplanners used to generate public support for the war.
- Press for Conversion #65
December 2010
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2010
Canada's hidden involvement in the Iraq War.
- The real first casualty of war
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
Censorship by journalism is virulent in Britain and the US - and it means the difference between life and death for people in faraway countries.
- The Sledgehammer Worldview
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The U.S.-U.K. invasion of Iraq was a textbook example of aggression. Apologists invoke noble intentions, which would be irrelevant even if the pleas were sustainable. The destructive consequences of such aggression are clear, as evidenced in numerous historical examples of violent imperialism.
- Toxic legacy of US assault on Fallujah 'worse than Hiroshima'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
The shocking rates of infant mortality and cancer in Iraqi city raise new questions about the battle.
- Trump Insults the Media, but Bush Bullied and Defanged It to Sell the Iraq War
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Bush was anything but a friend of the press during his presidency. Maybe he didn’t demonize it as much as Trump does -- but he actively manipulated it and bullied it far worse and far more effectively than Trump has, much of it in the service of selling his marquee policy: the war in Iraq.
- Trump's War on Terror Has Quickly Become as Barbaric and Savage as He Promised
Resource Type: Article
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.
- US Lost Track of Nearly a Million Guns in Iraq, Afghanistan
Officials: Records Remain for Only 48% of the Guns Sent to Warzones
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Early in the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq, the go-to policy for the US in trying to prop up new allied security forces was to dump weapons, en masse, into the countries. It's only now that people are really starting to ask what happened to the 1.45 million guns shipped into those countries.
- War in the Gulf
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1991
The U.S. and its allies are launching themselves into an unnecessary but potentially calamitous war.
- Where War Reporting Goes Wrong
A Diary of Four Wars
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The four recent conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria have been propaganda wars in which newspaper, television and radio journalists played a central role. In all wars there is a difference between reported news and what really happened, but during these four campaigns the outside world has been left with misconceptions even about the identity of the victors and the defeated.
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