
We are facing death in Iraq for no reason A serving US soldier calls for the end of an occupation based on lies US Foreign aid put in context Blatant lack of justification The Dalai Lama's Statement on Iraq The Iraqi Reconstruction Guardian special report on Iraq An excellent overview of the Iraq Crisis Get a less biased overview from some independent news sources. Organisations: Voices in the wilderness UK break the economic sanctions on Iraq by hand-delivering medical supplies, medical journals and toys to children's hospitals in Iraq, without export licenses. We do so despite the risk of prosecution and imprisonment. We refuse to cooperate with a system which is causing so much death and misery in Iraq, and see breaking the sanctions as a powerful act of civil disobedience against a criminal policy, as well as a statement of solidarity with our sisters and brothers in Iraq Conscience - the peace tax campaign. Conscience campaign for the right for people who are ethically opposed to war to have the military part of their taxes spent on peace building. stopshopping.org - We won't shop until the attack talk stops. HumanShields.org - What would happen if several thousand Western citizens migrated to Iraq to stand side by side with the Iraqi people? The fact is that the world's most powerful nation would be stopped in its imperialist tracks if thousands of Westerners might be killed by its oil lust war. www.mecca-cola.com - Don't drink like an idiot, drink commitment, drink Mecca Cola (french language) Think Muslim, drink Muslim, says new rival to Coke - French firm capitalises on anti-US feeling to sell cola Jon Henley in Paris and Jeevan Vasagar - Wednesday January 8, 2003 - The Guardian Saudis boycott American products and services - Saudi traders working in foodstuffs said that their sales of American products decreased by 25% during recent times following the calls made to boycott the American commodities. A campaign which started to receive serious and positive response by the Saudi citizens.www.arabicnews.com Britons -v-Bush - Bush: the rise of a 21st-century Hitler? Boycott Blacklist BoycottAmerica - not this one, another one....each Dollar we pay for a can of CocaCola for example becomes a bullet in the American/Israeli war machine that is directed at us [Muslims] BoycotttheUSA.com - Saving the world from America. AntiWar.com - The 'best source' for anti-war news and views. Iraq: World-Class Politics or World-Class Bullying? 200,000 troops stand at the brink of yet another campaign in the Middle East. Millions of protesters have voiced their dissent worldwide. Are Mr. Bush and his friends bluffing in order to make Saddam step aside? Or, is the plan to go to war no matter what? Massive protests were pivotal in the Vietnam campaign – will they work now? Join the debate at AdBusters Back to Iraq as a human shield - Peace activists to go to Iraq as human shields. Protest organiser and former US veteran Ken Nichols O'Keefe explains why he believes that this is the most effective way to oppose the war - Kens web site - uksociety.org Philosophy of Nonviolence Internation A.N.S.W.E.R. - Act Now to Stop War and End Racism	Facts and figures: No WMDs have been found in Iraq, despite this being the primary pretext for war. Military budgets per year, worldwide, are in excess of $900 billion. 50% of this is spent by the USA. Ten percent of US military spending would ensure the essentials of life to everyone in the world. There are no links between the 9-11 attacks and Iraq. There are dozens of links between the 9-11 attacks and Saudi Arabia. Iraq has the world's 2nd biggest oil reserves in the world, after Saudi Arabia. 10% of taxes in the UK go to the military; £21 billion, ten times what is spent on overseas aid. 50% of all government research and development funding goes to military projects. 90% more is spent on promoting the sales of arms then is spent on promoting civil exports. Eight out of ten UK arms sales are to developing countries. The USA still refuse to sign the Land Mine Ban Treaty (also known as Ottawa Convention). In 1983 Donald Rumsfeld, now US defence secretary, met Saddam while he was using chemical weapons on an daily basis. The Ronald Reagan and George Bush Snr. administrations authorized the sale to Iraq of poisonous chemicals, anthrax and bubonic plague. The UN weapns inspectors have never been thrown out of Iraq.