Reflections on Iraq
"Hostilities aren't stilled through hostility, regardless.
Hostilities are stilled through non-hostility:
This, an unending truth."
(The Buddha, Dhammapada 5)
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Buddhism and Nonviolence
(Sulak Sivaraksa)
Non-violence: A Study Guide (Thanissaro
Bhikkhu)
Buddhist Ideas for Attaining World Peace
(Ron Epstein)
The Cultivation of Courage: Achieving peace
in a dangerous world (Sharon Salzberg)
This Present Moment: Living in Baghdad on
the Eve of War (Ramzi Kysia)
War and Peace: or, Non-contention with Mara
(Amaro Bhikkhu)
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EDITORIALS & OPINIONS:
What Does History Show? (Vietnam Veterans Against
War)
Bush's Routine Barbarism
in Iraq (Matthew Rothschild) 2/17/01
How the U.S. Intentionally Destroyed Iraq's Water Supply
(Thomas J. Nagy) 9/01
Why a First Strike Will Surely Backfire (William
A. Galston) 6/16/02
The Silence of the Bombs (Gar Smith)
10/9/02
In Baghdad, Many Insist Americans Would Regret an Invasion
(Sergei L. Loiko) 12/30/02
The Double Standards, Dubious Morality and Duplicity
of This Fight Against Terror (Robert Fisk) 1/4/03
The United States of America Has Gone Mad (John
le Carré) 1/11/03
The Coming War in Iraq: Deciphering the Bush Administration's
Motives (Michael T. Klare) 1/16/03
The Human Cost: 'Does Tony
Have Any Idea What the Flies are Like That Feed Off the Dead?' (Robert
Fisk) 1/26/03
The Nuclear Option in Iraq
(William M. Arkin) 1/26/03
Shock and Awe: Guernica
Revisited (Gar Smith) 1/27/03
Shock & Awe: Is Baghdad
the Next Hiroshima? (Ira Chernus) 1/27/03
Confronting Empire (Arundhati
Roy) 1/28/03
America's Dangerous New
Style of War (Dinah Po Kempner) 1/29/03
A War Crime or an
Act of War? (Stephen Pelletiere) 1/31/03
Bush and Hitler: The Stategy of Fear (Dave Lindorff)
2/1/03
The Message from Porto Alegre to the United States:
Restrain the Empire (Robert Jensen) 2/3/03
An Alternative to War (Jimmy Carter) 2/3/03
Oil War? (Ralph Nader) 2/4/03
War For World Dominance (Karen Talbot) 2/5/03
The Inspections Flap: Both Sides Are Wrong (John
Tirman) 2/7/03
MEMORANDUM FOR: The President (Veteran Intelligence
Professionals for Sanity) 2/7/03
A Citizen's Response to
the National Security Strategy of the United States of America (Wendell
Berry) 2/9/03
Report from Baghdad: The
Growing Anxiety (Ben Granby) 2/9/03
Let the World Be Damned (Haroon Siddiqui) 2/9/03
Fear-Mongering At Its
Worst (Lawrence Martin) 2/10/03
Dazzled
by tthe Pinstripes: Powell at the United Nations (Frida Berrigan &
William D. Hartung) 2/10/03
Declaring A Just War?
(Scotty McLennan) 2/10/03
A History Lesson: U.S. Intervention in the Middle East
Has Always Ended Up Being a Disaster for American Interests (Stephen Zunes)
2/10/03
Principled Engagement: America's
Role in the 21st-Century World (Gary Hart) 2/10/03
House of Cards (Robert
Scheer) 2/11/03
Saying No To War (James Carroll) 2/11/03
A Clear Victory, A Cloudy "Peace"
(Ira Lacher) 2/11/03
Full Spectrum Conspiracy? (Joy-Ann L. Reid) 2/11/03
War Games: "Old Europe" Confronts Washington
on Iraq (Mark Weisbrot) 2/11/03
Reckless Administration May Reap Disastrous Consequences
(US Sen. Robert Byrd) 2/12/03
Collateral Damage (Robert Kuttner) 2/12/03
Iraq? We Are Still Paying for Vietnam (Dra. Rosa
Maria Pegueros) 2/13/03
The Bush Administration’s Attacks on the United
Nations (Stephen Zunes) 2/13/03
The Alternative to War (Jeremy Brecher) 2/13/03
The Case Against the War (Jonathan Schell) 2/13/03
Group to File Suit Challenging Bush's Authority to Declare
War (Bipasha Ray) 2/13/03
Impending War on Iraq an American Jihad (George
Bisharat) 2/13/03
Why We Should March Tomorrow (John Pilger) 2/14/03
What Role the Oil Industry Playing in Bush's Drive to
War? (Ralph Nader) 2/14/03
A Monument to Hypocrisy (Edward Said) 2/14/03
What About the Death Toll (Derrick Z. Jackson)
2/14/03
Yes, There is an Alternative to This Approaching War
(Adrian Hamilton) 2/14/03
A Conspiracy Theory Held Together by Duct Tape (Ken
Wiwa) 2/15/03
A War to Save the Dollar: But Where are the Real People?
(Ira Chernus) 2/15/03
Anybody Remember the Powell Doctrine? (Rich Procter)
2/15/03
US Plans to Use Illegal Weapons (Jeremy Brecher)
2/16/03
A Season of Stupidity (Molly Ivins) 2/16/03
One US Rule for Israel, Another for Saddam (Henry
Porter) 2/16/03
Case for War Eroded by Absurd US Arguments (Haroon
Siddiqui) 2/16/03
More Than One Million Young Children At Risk in Iraq Invasion
(Jim Lobe) 2/18/03
U.S. War on Iraq to Create More bin Laden Recruits
(Samia Nakhoul) 2/18/03
'The Peace Race':
Martin Luther King on the Middle East (Martin Luther King, Jr.) 2/23/03
12 Reasons to Oppose a War with Iraq (Russell
Mokhiber & Robert Weissman) 2/24/03
Watching the War with Both Eyes (James Carroll)
2/25/03
A Tip on Iraq From Those Who Walked That Road (Robert
Scheer) 2/25/03
The American Emergency (Ronnie Dugger) 2/26/03
War (Howard Zinn) 2/27/03
A Duty to Disobey All Unlawful Orders (Lawrence
Mosqueda) 2/27/03
So, Bush Wants Civil Disobedience? (Naomi Klein)
2/27/03
War Remains the Option of First Resort - Not Last
(Simon Tisdall) 2/27/03
U.S. Diplomat's Letter of Resignation (John Brady
Kiesling) 2/27/03
To Declare Pre-emptive War is to Declare a Bankruptcy
of the Imagination (Eliot Katz) 2/28/03
The Triumph of Fear: The U.S. War Against Iraq (Michael
Lerner) March/April 2003
Why Does Bush Push to Silence Free Speech? (Ramsey
Clark) 3/1/03
Bush and America's Willing Executioners Would Be Guilty
at Nuremburg (Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman) 3/2/03
Bush's Contempt for Democracy (Robert Jensen) 3/3/03
Iraq Isn't Worth Losing U.S. Allies (Charles A.
Kupchan) 3/3/03
Diplomats Believe the Push for War is Eroding US Credibility
& Goodwill (Jesse Jackson) 3/4/03
Bush Pushes the Big Lie Toward the Brink (Robert
Scheer) 3/4/03
Higher Ground (Catherine Sundberg) 3/4/03
Administration Plans Don't Meet Carter's Criteria
for 'Just War' (Sean Gonsalves) 3/4/03
How to Swagger & Bully Your Way to Disaster: Bush's
Foreign Adventurism (Bernard Weiner) 3/5/03
What Can the World Do if the US Attacks Iraq?
(Jeremy Brecher) 3/5/03
Support U.S. Troops - Bring Them Home! (Green Party
of the U.S.) 3/6/03
Pentagon Wants Mini-Nuke Ban Ended (Julian Borger)
3/7/03
Bush Presses for War (William Hartung) 3/7/03
Bush's Irrational Rationale: An Unnecessary, Avoidable,
Dangerous War (Robert Malley) 3/7/03
President Bush's February 26 Speech on the Future of
Iraq: A Critique (Stephen Zunes) 3/8/03
Who Is In Charge? (Edward Said) 3/8/03
A Warning from Clausewitz (William S. Lind) 3/8/03
A Message to Our American Friends (Members of the European
Parliament) 3/8/03
Some of the Facts as of 3/07/2003 (Bill C. Davis)
3/8/03
When Bombs Fall, U.S. Will Join Ranks of War Criminals
(Robert Scheer) 3/11/03
Tide Turns Against Bush (Thomas Walkom) 3/11/03
How Kofi Annan Can Stop the War (Paul F. deLespinasse)
3/11/03
Letter of Resignation by John H. Brown, Foreign Service
Officer (John H. Brown) 3/12/03
Spoon-feeding the Press: The Bush administration's unprecedented
war on public information (Camille T. Taiara) 3/12/03
Requests for Meetings with President Bush Ignored
(Ralph Nader) 3/14/03
Have You Ever Seen Such Amazing Arrogance Wedded to
Such Awesome Incompetence? (Molly Ivins) 3/14/03
This Present
Moment: Living in Baghdad on the Eve of War (Ramzi Kysia)
Presidential War is Unconstitutional (Paul Rockwell)
3/15/03
The Emerging Superpower of Peace (Harvey Wasserman)
3/15/03
The War of Misinformation Has Begun (Robert Fisk)
3/16/03
When Democracy Failed: The Warnings of History
(Thom Hartmann) 3/16/03
If War Comes (Paul Loeb & Geov Parrish) 3/17/03
Why I Had to Leave the Cabinet (Robin Cook) 3/18/03
It's Time for the Democatic Leadership to Speak Out
(Ralph Nader) 3/18/03
Attack on Iraq Could Turn Bush into Criminal (Thomas
Walkom) 3/18/03
Things to Come (Paul Krugman) 3/18/03
Forgery, Hyperbole, Half-Truth: A Problem (Veteran
Intelligence Professionals for Sanity) 3/18/03
In Iraq Crisis, Networks Are Megaphones for Official Views
(FAIR) 3/18/03
The War Against Ourselves (Major Doug Rokke) Spring
03
Arrogance of Power: Today, I Weep for my Country
(Sen. Robert Byrd) 3/19/03
The Nightmare World of a Paranoid President (Mary
Dejevsky) 3/19/03
We Have a Winner in Iraq. Corporate America
(Arianna Huffington) 3/19/03
Antiwar thinking: Acknowledge despair, highlight progress
on 'moral preemption' (Desmond Tutu & Ian Urbina) 3/20/03
The Second American Revolution (Roger Normand &
Jan Goodwin) 3/20/03
The Long View: America's Illegal War (Daniel Ellsberg)
3/20/03
Casualties of War - First Truth, Then Conscience
(Norman Solomon) 3/20/03
Military Force Won't Restore Lost U.S. Power
(Mark Weisbrot) 3/20/03
American Tragedy (Jonathan Schell) 3/20/03
A Reckless Path (Paul Craig Roberts) 3/20/03
Myths and Facts About the War (Rahul Mahajan &
Robert Jensen) 3/20/03
Baghdad, Once Upon a Time (Paul Richard) 3/20/03
Ultimatums and War (Lillian Corti) 3/21/03
One Cowboy Can’t Control the World (Magie
Dominic) 3/21/03
Masters of War (Joyce Marcel) 3/21/03
What 'Coalition'? (Derrick Z. Jackson) 3/21/03
Law Groups Say U.S. Invasion Illegal (Jim Lobe) 3/21/03
Redeem This Day of Shame (Andrew Murray) 3/21/03
Bush Completing Massive Plan to Pay for Iraq War
(Adam Entous) 3/21/03
Made in the USA: A guide to Iraq’s weapons of mass
destruction (Jim Crogan) 3/21/03
Against the Hijacking of Patriotism (John Nichols)
3/22/03
Mass Murder as Liberation? Pounding the Life Out of
a City (Salvador Peralta) 3/22/03
This is the reality of war. We bomb. They suffer.
(Robert Fisk) 3/23/03
Today, It is We Americans Who Live in Infamy
(Arthur Schlesinger Jr.) 3/23/03
The Judicially-Selected Dictator's Pre-Emptive War
(Ralph Nader) 3/23/03
Even Future Warriors Harbor Doubts About War (Les
Aucoin) 3/23/03
Who Lied to Whom? Why did the Administration endorse
a forgery about Iraq’s nuclear program? (Seymour M. Hersh) 3/24/03
Anti-War Commentary (Tom Hayden) 3/24/03
To Get Peace Message Heard, Call Our Leaders Misguided,
Not Evil (Ira Chernus) 3/24/03
The Lords of Vengeance (William Rivers Pitt) 3/24/03
What Economic Price This War? (James K. Galbraith)
3/24/03
The Oscars: The Courage of Their Convictions (Steven
Shults) 3/24/03
Boycott of American Goods Over Iraq War Gains
(Erik Kirschbaum) 3/24/03
I am Burning With Fury Because My Country Has Been
Betrayed (Yasmin Alibhai-Brown) 3/24/03
U.S. Plans to Run Iraq Itself (Elizabeth Becker)
3/25/03
Live From Iraq, an Un-Embedded Journalist: Robert Fisk
on Washington’s ‘Quagmire’ in Iraq, Civilian Deaths and the
Fallacy of Bush’s ‘War of Liberation’
(Robert Fisk, Amy Goodman & Jeremy Scahill ) 3/25/03
By Flouting War Laws, US Invites Tragedy (Erwin
Chemerinsky) 3/25/03
Iraq/USA: No double standards for POWs (Amnesty
International) 3/25/03
US Pushes Freedom Abroad, Stifles It Here (David
Lazarus) 3/25/03
Why Washington is Isolated in Its Own Back Yard
(Andrew Reding) 3/25/03
A Fair Payment for War (William H. Gates Sr. &
Chuck Collins) 3/25/03
Potential Use of Chemical Agents During the Prosecution
of an Iraq War (Council for a Livable World) 3/25/03
The Math of Martyrs (Susan B. Thistlethwaite)
3/26/03
How Bush kicked the [expletive] out of the Geneva Conventions
(Paul Knox) 3/26/03
Standing Up to Uncle Sam (Naomi
Klein) 3/27/03
Smart Bombs, Dumb War (Harold Meyerson) 3/27/03
They are Fighting for Their Independence, not Saddam
(Seumas Milne) 3/27/03
This War is Wrong and Must End (Rep. Dennis
J. Kucinich) 3/28/03
Why? (Jo Wilding) 3/28/03
War in Iraq and Israeli occupation: A devastating
resonance (Ali Abunimah and Hussein Ibish) 3/28/03
They Probably Sleep (Jeff Guntzel) 3/28/03
Americans are on Their Own Now, Lone Rangers, Riding
Toward the Sunset (William Pfaff) 3/28/03
Whoever Wins the War, The US has Lost the Peace
(Adrian Hamilton) 3/28/03
Iraq: From Gunboat Diplomacy To Gunpoint Democracy
(Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.) 3/28/03
A Disaster Unfolding in Iraq (Stephen Zunes) 3/28/03
Support the Warrior Not the War: Give Them Their Benefits!
(Ashley L. Decker) 3/28/03
The Warmakers Are Not Evil. They're Just Misguided
- Really (Ira Chernus) 3/28/03
Who Will Profit From War in Iraq? (Christopher
Brauchli) 3/29/03
The Superpower of Peace and the Fundamentalist Nightmare
(Harvey Wasserman) 3/29/03
Does the West Understand How This Hated War is Altering
the Arab World? (Fergal Keane) 3/29/03
Failure of Rumsfeld's 'War Lite' Strategy Leads Allies
to Bring in the Heavies (Paul Vallely) 3/29/03
US Forces' Use of Depleted Uranium Weapons is 'Illegal'
(Neil Mackay) 3/30/03
Uranium Warheads May Leave Both Sides a Legacy of Death
for Decades (Susanna Hecht) 3/30/03
The Resemblance to Vietnam War Can't
Be Overlooked (Robert Timberg & Tom Bowman) 3/30/03
Once More Into the Swamp (Eric Margolis) 3/30/03
The Testimony of the Dead (Mary Riddell) 3/30/03
In Baghdad, Blood and Bandages for the Innocent (Robert
Fisk) 3/30/03
Support Our Protesters (Bill C Davis) 3/30/03
Mubarak Says Iraq War Will Produce "100 bin Ladens"
(Reuters) 3/31/03
Mesopotamia. Babylon. The Tigris and Euphrates (Arundhati
Roy) 4/2/03
Wailing Children, the Wounded, the Dead: Victims of the
Day Cluster Bombs Rained on Babylon (Robert Fisk) 4/3/03
Cluster Bombs Liberate Iraqi Children (Pepe Escobar)
4/3/03
The Thick Fog of War on American Television (Norman
Solomon) 4/3/03
Official Story Vs. Eyewitness Account: On Najaf Killings,
Some Outlets Seem to Prefer the Sanitized Version (Fairness & Accuracy
In Reporting) 4/4/03
We See Too Much. We Know Too Much. That's Our Best
Defense (John Pilger) 4/6/03
Civilization's Obscene Ghost (Peter Brooks) 4/6/03
Grand Plans Aside, It's Time to End the War (Caroline
Arnold) 4/6/03
The U.S. Betrays Its Core Values (Gunter Grass) 4/7/03
The Mystery of Saddam's Banned Arms (Jon B. Wolfsthal)
4/7/03
"Smoking Gun" WMD Site in Iraq Turns Out to
Contain Pesticide (Agence France Presse) 4/7/03
Evidence Contradicts Rumors of Torture (Judith Miller)
4/7/03
How Bush Betrayed Our Troops (Paul Rockwell)
4/7/03
Think You Know What Patriotism Is? (Jerry Long) 4/8/03
Blaming the Victim is an Old Habit (Ira Chernus)
4/8/03
Chemical Hypocrites (George Monbiot) 4/8/03
The View From the Throne (Robert Scheer) 4/8/03
Corporate Profits For the Troops! (Walt Kramarz)
4/8/03
The Neoconservative Agenda: Which Country is Next on
the List? (William Pfaff) 4/10/03
Spoils of War (Bob Herbert) 4/10/03
Iraqis Have Paid the Blood Price for a Fraudulent War
(Seumas Milne) 4/10/03
The Iraq War and America's Oil Addiction (Derrick
Z. Jackson) 4/11/03
Who's Next for Global Vigilante? (Gwynne Dyer) 4/11/03
Is This What We Are Fighting For? (Catharine Cooper)
4/11/03
Baghdad: The Day After (Robert Fisk) 4/11/03
A City in Flames. A Nation in Chaos (Andrew Buncombe
and John Lichfield) 4/12/03
The Reason Why (George McGovern) 4/21/03
Weapons of Mass Deception (Molly Ivins) 4/29/03
Are We Dumb or Just Numb? (Robert Scheer) 4/29/03
Yes, But Where Are the Saddam Look-Alikes?
(Siddharth Varadarajan) 4/30/03
Intelligence Officers Challenge Bush (Veteran Intelligence
Professionals for Sanity) 5/1/03
Bush's Military Defeat (Harvey Wasserman) 5/2/03
U.S. Miscalculates in Iraq (Andrew Greeley) 5/2/03
Weapons of Mass Distortion (Geoffrey Wheatcroft)
5/2/03
'Allies have prevailed' in battle (George W. Bush)
5/2/03
How to Get Out of Iraq (Howard Zinn) 5/6/04
How to Get Out of Iraq (Jonathan Schell) 5/6/04
If You Had Seen What I Have Seen (Scott Ritter)
10/10/04
Bush Spins Iraq and Its Ambiguities Into Deadly Lies
(Rhonda Chriss Lokeman) 10/12/04
The Iraq Inspections Worked, Lies Have Consequences
(Jonathan Granoff) 10/28/04
The Most Tragic Victims of the Iraq War (Dr. Cesar
Chelala) 10/30/04
Missing Explosives Cache Emblematic of Bush Administration
Failures in Iraq (Stephen Zunes) 11/1/04
Weapons Dust Worries Iraqis (Thomas D. Williams)
11/1/04
Our War on Terrorism (Howard Zinn) 11/04
Why Pre-Emptive Invasions Encourage Soldiers to Commit
War Crimes (Trevor Royle) 11/21/04
It's Time for Americans to Support Peace Instead of US
War Machine (Bill Dunn) 11/26/04
'Unusual Weapons' Used in Fallujah (Dahr Jamail)
11/26/04
They Fight and Die, But Not For Their Country (Ted
Rall) 12/1/04
El Salvador No Model for the Future of Iraq (Mark
Engler) 12/1/04
You Asked for my Evidence, Mr Ambassador. Here It Is
(Naomi Klein) 12/4/04
Why Are US Troops Still in Iraq? (Jay Bookman)
12/6/04
Questions About War Can't Be Brushed Aside (G. Jefferson
Price III) 12/12/04
Deserters Are Heroes (Harley Sorensen) 12/13/04
Building Peace
in a Time of Perpetual War (Medea Benjamin) 12/13/04
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