• Kersplebedeb Palestine page
• Kersplebedeb September 11th and Fallout  
• Revolutionary Texts
  

Iraq

• About Baghdad - website for a documentary film shot in Baghdad in the summer of 2003
  
• Al MuaJaha - "The Iraqi Witness" - the Baghdad Independent Media Centre

• Salam Pax's BLOG - a BLOG is "A frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links. A blog is often a mixture of what is happening in a person's life and what is happening on the Web, a kind of hybrid diary/guide site, although there are as many unique types of blogs as there are people." This BLOG is maintained by an Iraqi living in Iraq.
  

• Electronic Iraq
• Iraq Occupation Focus - British group campaigning for an end to the occupation
  
• Occupation Watch exposing the impact of the military and economic occupation of Iraq
• Organization for Women's Freedom in Iraq
• Progressive Review's Iraq Report (and archives)
  
• Voices in the Wilderness UK -  a British group in solidarity with the people of Iraq
  
• Women War Peace is a site run by the United Nations Development Fund for Women, so its not exactly chock full of revolutionary political analysis. Nevertheless, it contains a lot of useful facts and figures, and so its page on women's status and situation in Iraq, both hitsorically and at present, may be worth checking out.
• Workers Communist Party of Iraq english homepage

Analysis

• Arab Popular Classes' Guerillas Confront World Capitalism in Iraq , an issue of the Kana'an Bulletin (for the realization of "Arab unity, development, and socialism.")
• Beyond McAntiwar: notes on finding our footing in the collapsing stageset of u.s. empire, by J. Sakai (early 2005)
  
• New World, Hard Choices: global empire and the new opposition by Bromma (March 2001)
• An Exchange on "New World, Hard Choices" between Bromma and Train
• There's Fighting in Iraq But the Real Women's War is in Afrika by Butch Lee
• Women's War Daily #1: After Anti-War Movements Win or Lose in Iraq... there's still women by Butch Lee
• Women's War Daily #2: The Rape Movement in Iraq and Men's Anti-War Politics  by Butch Lee
  

Saddam Hussein & His Ba'athist Regime

• National Security Archive's Saddam Hussein Sourcebook - declassified documents on the history of America's relationship to Saddam Hussein

Torture at Abu Ghraib & Elsewhere

• ACLU
  
• Amnesty International Page on torture and human rights in Iraq
  
• Articles on the involvement of medical personnel from the New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet
• U.S. Government Memos and Reports on the Treatment of Prisoners and Detainees (Pace Law School)
  
• Report by the International Committee of the Red Cross on the Treatment by Coalition Forces of Prisoners of War and Other Protected Persons by the Geneva Conventions in Iraq During Arrest, Internment and Interrogation (February 2004)
  
• Report by US Major General Antonio Taguba on abuse carried out by 800th Military Police Brigade in Iraq
• "Abu Ghraib and the Logic on Conquest" by political prisoner David Gilbert (16-7-4)
• "Cruel and Unusual - the End of the Eighth Amendment" by Joan Dayan in the Boston Review - looks at the legal normalization of torture that has helped set the stage for Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay
  
• "Currently Employed PA Prison Guard Supervised Iraqi Torture" , highlighting one connection between torture abroad and torture at home.
• " Focus shifts to jail abuse of women ", Guardian Unlimited May 12 2004
• " Horror and Homophobia in Iraq " by Mubarak Dahir (May 13 2004)
• Occupations, Prisons, and Torture - a pamphlet (in PDF format - 442KB) putting the torture at Abu Ghraib in a global context, by Sumoud, a political prison solidarity group based in Toronto, Canada
• "Torture, America Style" - an online pamphlet in both HTML (i.e. webpage) and Microsoft Word formats by Historians Against War
  
• "Torture and the Future" , by Lisa Hajjar (MERIP)
  

     

War Profiteers

• " Canadian Bullets, Dead Iraqis " by Chris Spannos (ZNet) - about how Canadian multinational SNC Lavalin is making big bucks off the war
• The Iraq War Fat Cat Tour - exposing the corporate feeding frenzy, with a special focus on British companies - a project of Voices in the Wilderness UK
• " United States: War Profiteering and Corporate Capitalism ", by Doug Lorimer, Green Left Weekly January 21 2004
• War Profiteer Card Deck - profiling over 80 individuals and companies securing their futures by making sure Iraqi kids don't have one
  
• War Profiteers - a project of CorpWatch
  

Students in Baghdad read a notice asking women to observe stricter dress codes. The signs have been posted by conservatives emboldened by the new political void.

Women in Iraq

• Women's groups under threat in the new Iraq (24 March 2004)
• Home abortions soar in Iraq as unwanted pregnancies rise (Filed: 26/10/2003) -Women in Baghdad are turning to backstreet abortionists to avoid the risk of family honour killings, reports Damien McElroy
• "Political Islam's Crimes Against Women in the City of Mosul ", from Organization for Women's Freedom in Iraq, Sept 14 2004
  
• " Role of Women in New Iraq of Concern ", from Womens E News (March 22 2004)
• " Iraq: New Family Law on Hold ", from IRIN News org (Feb. 4 2004)
• Iraq: Women’s Liberation and the Struggle Against Imperialist Subjugation from International Communist League
• Occupation is not (Women's) Liberation Part One by Huiben Amee Chew (March 24, 2005)
• Occupation is not (Women's) Liberation Part Two by Huiben Amee Chew (March 24, 2005)
  
• " One Year Later - women's Human Rights in 'Liberated' Iraq ", from Madre (Spring 2004)
• " One Year Later: Iraq Reconstruction Efforts Show Gaps in Women’s Health and Trauma Recovery; Comprehensive Process for Justice and Accountability for Past Abuses Lagging " - Physicians for Human Rights (March 23, 2004)
• "Our Lives are Worst Now - Yanar Mohammed Talks About the Impact of the US Occupation on the Lives of Iraqi Women" , interview by Lucinda Marshall
  
• Organization for Women's Freedom in Iraq
• Women Living Under Muslin Laws - not specifically about Iraq, but keeps an eye on the rise of the religious right in that country
• " Women Under Siege ", by Lauren Sandler in The Nation December 11, 2003
  
• Women War Peace is a site run by the United Nations Development Fund for Women, so its not exactly chock full of revolutionary political analysis. Nevertheless, it contains a lot of useful facts and figures, and so its page on women's status and situation in Iraq, both hitsorically and at present, may be worth checking out.
• Women's War Daily #1: After Anti-War Movements Win or Lose in Iraq... there's still women by Butch Lee
• Women's War Daily #2: The Rape Movement in Iraq and Men's Anti-War Politics  by Butch Lee

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