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| Adbusters. " Corporate Crackdown." http://adbuster.org/campaigns/corporate | |
Iraq War Articles: |
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| Cohen, Mitchel. "How the War Party Sold the 1991 Bombing of Iraq to US," in Antiwar.com (30 December 2002). (See Public Relations below.) http://www.mwaw.org/print.php?sid=1851 | |
| Research Unit for Political Economy, "Behind the Invasion of Iraq," No. 33 & 34, Aspects of India's Economy (December 2002). http://www.rupe-india.org/34/contents.html | |
| In depth article analyzing U.S. history and motives toward Iraq that is easy to read and cites many sources. The entire December issue consists of a series of articles that describe U.S. plans for Iraq in the context of an expanded U.S. control of the Middle East and influence in Asia. Written by a non-profit independent research organization in India. | |
| Sanes, Ken. "Clash of the super-systems," Asia Times Online (7 January 2003). http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/EA07Aa01.html | |
| This article discusses major forces shaping world events, in particular: Islamic fundamentalism, corporate capitalism, statist liberalism, and the pursuit of weapons of mass destruction. | |
| Shahzad, Syed Saleem. "Saudi Arabia: The opening of a kingdom," Asia Times Online (7 January 2003). http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EA07Ak03.html | |
| Article about the growing fundamentalist movement in Saudi Arabia that the U.S. government sees as a threat to its oil interests there. | |
Military Spending and the Cost of War |
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| Council for a Livable World: See the $396.1 billion Fiscal Year 2003 Military Budget at a Glance, prepared by the Council for a Livable World, one of the nation's preeminent arms control organizations that focuses on halting the spread of weapons of mass destruction. http://www.clw.org/milspend/dodbud03.html | |
Poverty, Income, Distribution of Wealth |
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Economic Policy Institute: a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank that seeks to broaden the public debate about strategies to achieve a prosperous and fair economy.This site has many articles about poverty, the distribution of wealth, unemployment, the "jobless recovery," and economic conditions in the U.S.http://www.epinet.org/index.html |
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| The Survey of Consumer Finances, sponsored by the Federal Reserve Board, provides data from 1983 about the distribtution of wealth. The data suggests that wealth is concentrated in the hands of a small number of families. The wealthiest 1 percent of families owns roughly 39 percent of total net wealth, the top 10% of families owns over 72%, and the bottom 40% of the population owns less than 1%. http://tiger.berkeley.edu/sohrab/politics/wealthdist.html | |
Public Relations |
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| Cohen, Mitchel. "How the War Party Sold the 1991 Bombing of Iraq to US," in Antiwar.com (30 December 2002). http://www.mwaw.org/print.php?sid=1851 | |
| This is an article about the fake news report by a young girl identified as Nayirah, who testified that Iraqi soldiers tore hundres of babies from hospital incubators and killed them when they invaded Kuwait on August 2, 1991. Nayirah, who was the daughter of Saud Nasir Al-Sabah, was put before the cameras by Hill and Knowlton, a public relations firm which was paid $12-$20 million for "services rendered" by Citizens for a Free Kuwait, a phony "human rights agency" set up and funded entirely by Kuwait's emirocracy. | |
| Solomon, Norman. "War Needs Good Public Relations." Click on the link "Towards Porto alegre 2003" at the top of the page and then on the "Media, Culture, and Counter-Culture" link in the left column. http://www.portoalegre2003.org/publique/index02I.htm | |
| This article is about the role of the Rendon Public Relations company, hired by the U.S. government and many other governments to help sell the public on neoliberal economic policies (privatization, etc.). It was also hired by the U.S. government to win public support for its actions in Afghanistan. The third World Social Forum took place in January, 2003, in Porto Allegre, Brazil, bringing together activists and representatives from various social movements from around the world which oppose globalization and neoliberal free-market policies. The World Social Forum was organized as a response to the World Economic Forum, an annual gathering of world business, media, government, and other leaders held in Davos, Switzerland, since 1971. These leaders meet to discuss strategies for promoting and developing globalization. | |
Transcripts of Official Speeches |
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| Bush, George. TRANSCRIPT of President's State of the Union Address on January 28, 2003. Appearing on State Department Web Site. http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/wh/rem/17008.htm | |
| Powell, Colin. TRANSCRIPT of Powell's UN Speech (5 February 2003). Published by CNN. http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/02/05/sprj.irq.powell.transcript/index.html | |
| Colin Powell's address to the United Nations on February 5, 2003, asking for a new resolution authorizing the use of force to disarm Iraq. | |