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After the Disintegration of the U.S. Plan, What Is to Be Done? Whither Iraq?Statement of the Iraqi Communist Party (ICP) (Central Leadership), published in the Iraqi left wing newspaper Al-Ghad. Read English translation

John Pilger, IRAQ: Get out now, before we are thrown out

3 April, Naomi Klein, Bremer has destroyed my country
Even the pro-US manager of Iraq's Pepsi plant feels betrayed by an occupation which has spawned fear, hatred and chaos. Click for text of article..

Munir Chalabi, Stop the blood bath against the Iraqi people and the destruction of Iraqi towns, 14 April 2004
What is happening now is the mass killing of civilians including men, women and children all ages in several districts and towns, in which the American army have used a range of sophisticated weapons including cluster bombs, Apache helicopter gunships and F16 fighter jets. Click for article

Naomi Klein, An Iraqi intifada, 12 April 2004
Now the war is being fought in the open, by people defending their homes. Click for article

John Sloboda, THE IRAQI DEAD OF 2003-4 – AIRBRUSHED OUT OF THE US/UK POLITICAL EQUATION Read on ..

Naomi Klein, Democracy and robbery Washington wants to outsource Iraqi sovereignty, but its grip on the country is growing weaker. Click for text of article..

15 March, Sabah Jawad, IDAO, Crippled Democracy
On the 8th March, members of the US appointed Iraqi Governing Council approved the "Law of Administration for the state of Iraq for the Transitional Period", signalling another attempt by the occupying forces to impose its will over the democratic wishes of the Iraqi people. Click for article.

6 March, Adil Allawi in a letter to the FT, For the sake of peace and stability Iraqis must be free to determine their own future. Read on ..

12 February, Hussain AL-Shihristani, Democracy Delayed Is Democracy Denied "Since the fall of the regime, I have led numerous humanitarian and developmental projects in different regions of Iraq. Village elders, community leaders and professionals tell me of their dreams for a new Iraq. I am struck by the deep-rooted concern and fear felt by these people that the occupying forces will impose a new dictatorship on them that may cost them further hundreds of thousands of lives. Fair and free elections, they insist, are their only guarantee of living as free people." Read on for text of article appeared in the Wall Street Journal.

Iraqi novalist Haifa Zangana, Why Iraqi women aren't complaining, on the daily struggle of Iraqi women under occupation and their mistrust of American and British official pronouncements on the issue of women rights.

Abdulillah Al Bayati calls for a Free, modern and democratic Iraq state, with Arab and Islamic identity, representing all its citizens, regardless of athnic, secterian, gender and religion backgrounds. He argues that under military occupation, it is not possible to drew a permanent constitution. Click for Arabic section ..

Poem by Saadi Youssef
America, America .... God save America .... My home sweet home!

5 January, Sami Ramadani comments on Julian Coman's Washington report: CIA to re-establish Iraqi Secret Service
"This development presumably follows on from a recent visit to CIA headquarters in the US by Ayad Allawi (member of the Iraqi Goverening Council, former Baathist and leader of Wifaq, a powerful group of former Saddam army and securitymen) and the Minister of Interior (from the same Wifaq organisation). This was also made clear by the realease of leading tortures Saadoun Shakir and Samir Shaikhly a couple of month ago.

This is the true meaning of the US plan to handover power to Iraqis: create new fascist Iraqi structures, to maintain a puppet regime in Baghdad, protected by US forces and permanent bases."

5 January, Risky Business in Iraq by Naomi Klein

2 January, Poem in Arabic by Farouk Juadea, Who said oil is more valuable than my blood?

Iraqi writer and researcher Alaa Allami writes on Bush flying visit to Baghdad airport.
"It must be the first time in history that an emperor, victorous in a devastating war and in control of the entire globe with his money, media and armed forces, makes a brief secret visits in the dead of night to one of his colonies". Click for Arabic section.

December 03, Zaineb Al-Assam writing for the Socialist Campaign Group, Where are democracy and human rights in Iraq?

Thanks for nothing, 10 November, Countries at the Madrid Donors' Conference recently pledged $33 billion for the reconstruction of Iraq. Kamil Mahdi questions the motives and substance behind the donors' promises. More in Al-Ahram article

From Tarq Ali's article in the Guardian, 3 November, "The great poets of Iraq - Saadi Youssef and Mudhaffar al-Nawab - once brutally persecuted by Saddam, but still in exile, are the consciences of their nation. Their angry poems denouncing the occupation and heaping scorn on the jackals - or quislings - help to sustain the spirit of resistance and renewal. Youssef writes:

I'll spit in the jackals' faces/ I'll spit on their lists/ I'll declare that we are the people of Iraq/ We are the ancestral trees of this land.

And Nawwab:

And never trust a freedom fighter/ Who turns up with no arms/ Believe me, I got burnt in that crematorium/ Truth is, you're only as big as your cannons/ While those who wave knives and forks/ Simply have eyes for their stomachs

New book by Imad Khadduri, Former Iraqi nuclear scientist, 'Iraq's Nuclear Mirage'. Click here for more details. Click for an overview of the book, or for an overview in Arabic.

27 September, Sami Ramadani, Iraqi resistance to foreign occupation enjoys great popular support, Click for Guardian article

Mohammed Aref 25 September, America imposes in Iraq a Russian-style Mafia rule See Arabic section

This war on terrorism is bogus
The 9/11 attacks gave the US an ideal pretext to use force to secure its global domination, says former British minsiter Michael Meacher in the Guardian 6/9/03. More ...

Bomb before you buy
What is being planned in Iraq is not reconstruction but robbery, says Naomi Klein in the Guardian 14/4/03. More ...

US warned it faces 'third Gulf war' in Iraq
The Washington-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies warns '' Unless this situation change soon,and radically,the United States may end up fighting a third Gulf war against the Iraqi Poeple...it is far from clear that the United States can win this kind of a symmetric war''. More ...

Munir Al-Chalabi: On the need for fast transition to an elected democratic Iraqi goverment See Arabic section

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8 July, Kiss and make up, the rehabilitation of the Baath party. Political writer Alaa Allami on the secret negotiation between the American occupation and Saddamist on power sharing within the government of Ayad Allawi. Click for Arabic section

26 June, The multibillion robbery the US calls reconstruction, Naomi Klein. Click for Guardian article

Iraq is heading towards a Black Hole, if the present course continues, Ibrahim Allawi, Al-Ghad Newspaper, Click for article

Interview with Dr. Sawsan Al Sammir, Baghdad April 2004
Click for Text of intreview .See also the news item 'Mustansariya University assaulted by US occupation troops'.
IDAO is conducting a series of interviews, with prominent Iraqi political and social figures on the current situation in Iraq under occupation, it will be published in English and Arabic. The first of these interviews, which is published today, is with Dr Sawsan Al Samir, head of the English department at Baghdad Al Mustansiryia University Further interviews with Dr. Wamid Nadmi, Publisher of the progressive nationalist Baghdad Al-Arab newspaper, and Dr. Ibrahim Allawi, editor in chief of the progressive left Baghdad newspaper will be published in the coming weeks.

24 Feb, Sabah Jawad, IDAO, Occupation v Democracy
"As we approach, in March, the anniversary of the war launched on Iraq, the issue of elections and democracy continued to dominate the political debate among Iraqis.." Click for article.

Naomi Klein, Democracy and robbery Washington wants to outsource Iraqi sovereignty, but its grip on the country is growing weaker. Click for text of article..

6 March, Adil Allawi in a letter to the FT, For the sake of peace and stability Iraqis must be free to determine their own future. Read on ..

12 February, Hussain AL-Shihristani, Democracy Delayed Is Democracy Denied "Since the fall of the regime, I have led numerous humanitarian and developmental projects in different regions of Iraq. Village elders, community leaders and professionals tell me of their dreams for a new Iraq. I am struck by the deep-rooted concern and fear felt by these people that the occupying forces will impose a new dictatorship on them that may cost them further hundreds of thousands of lives. Fair and free elections, they insist, are their only guarantee of living as free people." Read on for text of article appeared in the Wall Street Journal.

Iraqi novalist Haifa Zangana, Why Iraqi women aren't complaining, on the daily struggle of Iraqi women under occupation and their mistrust of American and British official pronouncements on the issue of women rights.

Abdulillah Al Bayati calls for a Free, modern and democratic Iraq state, with Arab and Islamic identity, representing all its citizens, regardless of athnic, secterian, gender and religion backgrounds. He argues that under military occupation, it is not possible to drew a permanent constitution. Click for Arabic section ..

Thanks for nothing, 10 November, Countries at the Madrid Donors' Conference recently pledged $33 billion for the reconstruction of Iraq. Kamil Mahdi* questions the motives and substance behind the donors' promises. More in Al-Ahram article

New book by Imad Khadduri, Former Iraqi nuclear scientist, 'Iraq's Nuclear Mirage'. Click here for more details. Click for an overview of the book, or for an overview in Arabic.

27 September, Sami Ramadani, Iraqi resistance to foreign occupation enjoys great popular support, Click for Guardian article

Mohammed Aref on the threat of occupation to Iraqi and world culture. See Arabic section

America's approach to governing Baghdad has failed to involve Iraqis, says ISAM al-KHAFAJI

Iraq end the occupation June 2003
Sabah Jawad: Iraq rejects occupation
"As Tony Blair embarks on a victory parade to the Middle East ¯ and Iraq ¯ it is important to remember the aim of the war and occupation of Iraq, as declared by Blair and Bush. "
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"All free spirited Iraqi's should publicly oppose occupation"
Naseer Shamma on Abu Dhabi Television 10 May
One of the world's most renowned Ouad players and composer states :" we should not replace the tyranny of the past regime with the tyranny of occupation. Iraqis must show their true spirit of resistance and resolve"
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Iraq end the occupation May 2003
Sabah Jawad: USA Out of Iraq
"A new era had indeed arrived. The era of military occupation by the same forces which helped and supported Saddam Hussein’s regime in the past."
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Foreign Policy Research Institute 27/03/03
Eric Davis: Taking Democracy Seriously in Iraq
"On Americans misperceptions of Iraqi politics and society"
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Independent on Sunday 20/04/03
John Pilger: The unthinkable is becoming normal. Do not forget the horror
The saving of one little boy must not be a cover for the crime of this war.
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The Guardian 02/04/03
Arundhati Roy: Mesopotamia. Babylon. The Tigris and Euphrates
How many children, in how many classrooms, over how many centuries, have hang-glided through the past, transported on the wings of these words? And now the bombs are falling, incinerating and humiliating that ancient civilisation.
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