Iraq Under Siege

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 Munoz, 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 SiegeRaising Voices: The Children of Iraq 1990-1999Kathy KellyIt 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 lay worker, 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, LesliArnove, Anthony is the author of 'Iraq Under Siege' with ISBN 9780896086197 and ISBN 0896086194.