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- 'We'll Clap Our Hands' - Newsweek interview with Egypt's Mubarak - An interview with the President of Egypt, in which he explains the steps he believes will help bring peace to the region, as well as actions that should be avoided in the war on terrorism.
www.msnbc.com/news/645344.asp
- (Media Monitors Network) Tell Me, America.. - A Muslim 16-year old writer reproaches America for supporting oppression, for an intolerant world hegemony, while lacking true democracy and freedom at home.
www.mediamonitors.net/saa6.html
- (New Statesman) The Truths They Never Tell Us, by John Pilger - Counts the innocent victims of US bombing in the millions, and calls the US unsurpassed as a terrorist state, the only one to have been condemned by the World Court for international terrorism.
www.venus.co.uk/weed/current/pilger2.htm
- abunimah.org: US Warplanes Bomb Al-Jazeera Bureau In Kabul, All Contact Lost - Discusses whether bombing of Qatar TV's offices was deliberate. Al-Jazeera, censored in the US, showed civilian casualties of US bombing and Northern Alliance executions.
www.abunimah.org/features/011113jazira.html
- AlterNet : U.S. Policy in the Mid East & Central Asia - A collection of informative articles by illustrious contributors, on topics such as dangerously counterproductive and contradictory US policies.
www.alternet.org/issues/index.html?IssueAreaID=29
- Amnesty USA : Afghanistan: Humanitarian Aid - The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, and leading aid organizations call for a pause in the bombing of Afghanistan to allow for the delivery of humanitarian aid.
www.amnestyusa.org/news/2001/afghanistan10182001.html
- Attacks Show That Political Courage Is the Only Real Defense - William Pfaff discusses the impossibility to prevent terrorist attacks by use of advanced technology. International Herald Tribune, UK.
libweb.uoregon.edu/diversity/teachin/pfaff.html
- Bush warned over 'axis of evil' - Describing Europe's preference for diplomacy over military action, with regard to Iran, Iraq and North Korea.
www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,645000,00.html
- Bush's 'evil axis' comment stirs critics - Describing international concern with regard to United States plans for Iran, Iraq and North Korea after President Bush branded them an 'axis of evil'.
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1796000/1796034.stm
- CS Monitor.com: Muslim opinion sees conspiracy - Latest US moves to sway views don't bridge credibility gap, as Muslims want substantive policy changes after generations of disappointment.
www.csmonitor.com/2001/1106/p1s1-wogi.html
- csmonitor.com: In PR war, US gets ready to turn up volume - The Voice of America Arabic service reaches only 2% of Arabs, but its reach may be increased to 5%, and a Radio Free Afghanistan is also planned.
www.csmonitor.com/2001/1101/p1s3-usmi.html
- Dear President Bush ... (DAWN Magazine) - Presents letters to the White House, pleas for help from dying children, too naive to know USAF Gen. LeMay's answer: "There is no such thing as an innocent civilian," nor the motive, to make them an example of US military superiority.
www.dawn.com/weekly/dmag/dmag1.htm
- Declassified documents point to US war crimes in Iraq (by Stephen Gowans) - Media Monitors Network - Accuses US of poisoning drinking water; quotes expert opinions that Iraq is already disarmed, and that sanctions have killed more people in history than weapons of mass destruction.
www.mediamonitors.net/gowans22.html
- Guardian: They can't see why they are hated - "What could some political thing have to do with blowing up office buildings during working hours?"
www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/story/0,1300,551086,00.html
- In These Times: Trigger Happy - Quotes the musings of several Congressmen and high-level US government officials on the use of nukes in Afghanistan.
www.inthesetimes.com/issue/25/26/news2.shtml
- Independent Argument: Are we trapped in another Vietnam? - By Arthur Schlesinger: 'Our leaders gambled that the unpopularity of the regime would enable bombing to bring about the Taliban's rapid collapse.'
argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=102701
- Independent News: Nuclear expert questioned over Taliban taken to hospital - A scientist with Islamic fundamentalist sympathies and intimate knowledge of Pakistan's nuclear program was receiving cardiac care for chest pains that occurred during his arrest and interrogation by the FBI and CIA in Lahore.
news.independent.co.uk/world/asia_china/story.jsp?story=102409
- Insult and injury in Afghanistan (MSNBC) - This eloquent depiction of civilians as hostages to the terror of their governments, an Orwellian media campaign, a cynical "alms race", and the drumbeat of mounting rage in the Middle East, predicts the rise of future terrorists from the death of innocents.
www.msnbc.com/news/645002.asp
- International Socialist Organization: The United States vs. Iraq--A Study in Hypocrisy - William Blum says the US first exported chemical weapons to Iraq to contain Iran, now bombs civilians without UN approval, after the country has been inspected, only because Saddam Hussein is in power.
www.internationalsocialist.org/Blum-Iraq.shtml
- Is Intel supporting an Apartheid Regime? (by Mazin B. Qumsiyeh) - Claims that Intel built its billion-dollar FAB 18 plant on land of ethnically cleansed villages in violation of the Geneva convention and special accords.
www.mediamonitors.net/mazin7.html
- MENO Middle East News Online: US and the Middle East - Regular news coverage related to the United States Middle East foreign Policy, culled from regional online media and the VOA.
www.middleeastwire.com:8080/countrypage.jsp?idm=66&next10=0
- Middle East: FAIR Resources - Articles on media spin, the systematic Zionist bias of American media reporting and vocabulary.
www.fair.org/international/middle-east.html
- Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed Archive: Treatises on postwar American imperial geopolitics. - Thoroughly footnoted theses portray US foreign policy as driving world conflict, instability, poverty and terror in order to maintain a lion's share of world GNP.
nafeez.mediamonitors.net/archive.html
- Salon.com : "A struggle for the soul of the 21st century", speech by Bill Clinton - Some themes of this reaction to 9/11 are globalization, poverty, dialogue with Muslims, dangers of terrorism and extremism, responsibility of the West.
www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/11/10/speech
- The Afghan Quagmire Beckons or How Not to Intervene in Afghanistan (Pravda) - "The US is staring into the morass of potential disaster. In this kind of old-school, knee-jerk intervention, there lies nothing but ruin."
english.pravda.ru/main/2001/10/17/18281.html
- The journalism and films of John Pilger - Human rights abuses, especially the sanctions against Iraq; the goal of the attacks on Afghanistan is not the capture of a fanatic, but the acceleration of western power by divide and conquer, or "containment".
www.johnpilger.com/print
- The New McCarthyism, by Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive, Jan. 2002 - Hardly enduring freedom: describes how America underpins its Mideast policy by suppressing dissent, with the full support of a dictatorship of the hawkish majority.
www.progressive.org/0901/roth0102.html
- The Real Roots of Terror - Suggesting that the autocratic regimes of Saudi Arabia and Egypt distract their citizens from repression at home by directing their anger toward the United States. Atlantic Unbound.
www.theatlantic.com/unbound/polipro/pp2001-12-05.htm
- The Secret Behind the Sanctions - How the U.S. Intentionally Destroyed Iraq's Water Supply (The Progressive) - Claims that US violations of Geneva Conventions have killed 500,000 children in Iraq, with 5,000 a month dying now.
www.progressive.org/0801issue/nagy0901.html
- The U.S. and the World (by James Zogby - American Arab Inst. - MMN) - Contrasts public opinion in USA and rest of world on issues like US policy on Iraq and Israel, and whether the US is a cooperative partner or a force for good or otherwise.
www.mediamonitors.net/zogby37.html
- The War on Islam / Enver Masud - This on-line, 250-page book from The Wisdom Fund has this answer: they don't hate us, but they do resent American foreign policy.
www.twf.org/Library/WaronIslam.html
- This report cannot be independently verified (Asia Times) - "This is the new mantra on 24-hour news TV as the Slaughter Show of the world's most miserable by the world's most affluent reaches its third week - with very good ratings indeed."
atimes.com/c-asia/CJ24Ag04.html
- To Prevent Terrorism, U.S. Foreign Policy Must Change (AlterNet) - Mark Weisbrot writes that America has an awful habit of imposing its will through violence, throughout the globe, and this must change to prevent terrorism against the USA.
www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11571
- United States and Afghanistan Military Strength - Overview of United States and Afghanistan Military strengths, including maps, country flags, and statistics.
hometown.aol.com/maxinquaye74/index.html
- Unveiling Traditions - Book review discussing alternatives to confrontation between Western globalization and Islamic fundamentalism. Al Jadid Magazine:
www.aljadid.com/reviews/0734nice.html
- US Big Bullies, by Bill Kaufmann, Calgary Sun Columnist - Blames US bombing and quarantine for genocide death of 1.5 million civilians in Iraq, US weapons, cash and encouragement for brutal military occupation of Palestine.
www.canoe.ca/Columnists/kaufmann.html
- US Department of State: Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs - Overview of terrorism and information on travel to the region, the Middle East peace process, and the International Coalition to Fight Terrorism.
www.state.gov/p/nea/rt
- US in a bind over Mideast (PE.com) - Presents a condensed history of how the conflict and US involvement in it evolved.
www.pe.com/digitalextra/world/mideast
- Victor Ostrovsky - A former Mossad spy talks about Israel's behind the scenes influence on the U. S.
www2.southwind.net/~amfirst/ostrovsk.htm
- Washington Report on Middle East Affairs - US Middle East policy gadfly page has a forum, FAQ, letters, activism, essayists, country facts, US aid to Israel, AIPAC, US in the peace process, and political developments in Islamic states.
www.washington-report.org
- What a pity that Cherie isn't PM - Suggesting that most Britons would accept that pursuit of martyrdom is the consequence of hatred born of despair, and that the Israel-Palestinian conflict cannot be understand within the framework of a simplistic victim/perpetrator dichotomy.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,740635,00.html
- Where the bodies are: News of civilian death tolls is being under-reported - WorkingForChange.com reports that the Afghan civilian death toll is probably in the thousands; USAF pilots now fire "at will", drop cluster bombs, an anti-personnel weapon, while some regions are designated "kill boxes" (free-fire zones).
www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=12195
- Why Egypt Produces Extremists - Arguing that the lack of democracy in the Arab world, openly encouraged by the US, will only breed more militants, and criticizing efforts by the United States to silence dissent in Arab nations. Christian Science Monitor.
www.csmonitor.com/2001/1012/p11s1-coop.html
- Why Washington Wants Afghanistan - Anti-globalization site claims that US intervention in Afghanistan is premeditated and motivated by a geopolitical opportunity to outflank Russia, and cites instances of US terrorism.
emperors-clothes.com/analysis/afghan.htm
- Wm. Blum: Iraq 1990-91 - Ex-foreign service officer relates that the US induced Iraq to attack Kuwait, then bombed and irradiated the Iraqi people: Chapter 52 of "The American Holocaust."
members.aol.com/bblum6/iraq2.htm
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