1. AlterNet
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   Online news magazine and community featuring original journalism as well as material from many other independent media sources. AlterNet's aim is to inspire action and advocacy on the environment, human rights and civil liberties, social justice, media, health care issues, and other issues.
2. Blackwater
   The rise of the world's most powerful mercenary army
   Resource Type: Book
   
3. Bush Fights For Another Clean Shot In The War
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   The perversity of Bush’s agenda.
4. The Case Against U.S. Adventurism in Iraq
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2003
   Chomsky depicts the Bush Administration's ambition to rule the world by force and the dangers of this intention.
5. Chilcot Inquiry - The Establishment Goes to Work
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2009
   When public scepticism erupts in response to resultant extremes of state violence and criminality that even the media are powerless to deny, the illusion of democracy must be bolstered. Then Tweedledum-Tweedledee will choose from their own to rig an "inquiry", while their media allies present the process as something other than a farce.
6. Chomsky.Info 
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   The Noam Chomsky Web site.
7. The CIA's Greatest Hits
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1994
   Brief case studies of the CIA's greatest 'triumphs'.
8. A Coalition of the Killing
   War, media, propaganda and language…
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2003
   War, media, propaganda and language.
9. Complete testimony of George Galloway
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Testimony of British M.P George Galloway before the U.S. Senate.
10. Countercurrents
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    An alternative news site based in India. "We bring out what the mainstream media fails to tell you, or hides from you. These are the things that really matter. The things which may determine the fate of planet earth! The future of our children! In a word, the survival of the species!"
    
11. Counterpunch
    Periodical profile
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Progressive U.S. newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair.
12. Dilemmas of Domination
    The Unmaking of the American Empire
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    A clear and prophetic examination which reveals a not-too-distant future in which the American empire's hidden weaknesses will yield fatal challenges to American supremacy.
13. Double Standards
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Focusing on double standards in the media and in international politics. "Double Standard 1. a rule or principle applied more strictly to some people more than others (or oneself)."
14. Embassy Row Online
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
15. From Central America to Iraq
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2004
    Noam Chomsky bitterly criticizes the regular exclusion of America from the principle of universality and the impunity with which the nation acts.
16. From the Editor: Green Living
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1991
    To satiate North America's addiction to high energy consumption, the popular solution is war.
17. "Good News," Iraq and Beyond
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    Chomsky explores why the issue of Iraq seems to have fallen to the wayside following the 2006 mid-term election. He cites the necessity for diversion of the masses away from (lacking) political options to PR-created "character" and "good news". But he insists that the question of "the clash of civilizations" must indeed remain prominent in the minds of voters.
18. Gulf War The Gulf in flames The real cost of Desert Storm
    New Internationalist October 1992
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
    Examining the real reasons behind the Gulf War. Was it motivated by Western oil interests? Articles on arab women, oil and arms and the aftermath of Desert Storm in the arab world.
19. A History of the Jews - Ancient and Modern
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    Starting from a political interpretation of the period when judges, kings and prophets held sway over Israel and Judah, Ilan Halevi traces the evolution of the Jewish identity through its numerous stages, from the Roman occupation and the decline of Temple authority, through to the Zionist settlement of Palestine in the twentieth century.
    
20. How Islamist gangs use internet to track, torture and kill Iraqi gays
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Iraqi militias infiltrate internet gay chatrooms to hunt their quarry – and hundreds are feared to be victims.
21. Imperial Crusades
    Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia: A Diary of Three Wars
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    Iraq was just one of three major imperial crusades in the decade after 1992, orchestrated by a new generation of American politicians, both Democrat and Republican, who backed pre-emptive strikes to overthrow unruly regimes in Yugoslavia and Afghanistan under the pretext of humanitarian intervention. Imperial Crusades chronicles the lies that are now returning almost daily to haunt the liars in Washington and London, the secret agendas and the under-reported carnage of these wars.
22. Iraq 1990-1991
    Desert Holocaust
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1995
    An account of the American invasion of Iraq (Desert Shield) in 1990-91.
23. The Iraq Crisis in Context
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2003
    A rogue state, heavily armed with weapons of mass destruction, openly contempuous of international law and the United Nations, plunges the world into crisis.
24. Iraq for Sale
    The War Profiteers
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2006
    A film about what happens to everyday Americans when corporations go to war which uncovers the connections between private corporations making a killing in Iraq and the decision makers who allow them to do so.
    
25. The Iraq War and Contempt for Democracy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2003
    Chomsky highlights that while the war in Iraq was being shaped, the voices of the people - neither in Iraq nor Europe - were being heard or considered. This is a clear violation of the principle that people play the main role in democratic societies.
26. Iraq: Women’s Liberation and the Struggle Against Imperialist Subjugation
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2003
    The women of Iraq illustrate the status of most of the world’s women, caught between the domination of imperialism and the oppression of stifling ancient “customs” like the veil, holdovers from a more backward era.
27. Justifying What You Know Can't Be True
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Researchers looking at al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein explore why it is that people often steadfastly believe something even when they've been shown it ain't so.
28. Leader and Vassal
    Bringing Death and Destruction to Muslims
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    Americans do not think of themselves or of Israel as terrorist states, but the evidence is complete and overwhelming. Thanks to the power of the Israel Lobby, Americans only know the Israeli side of the story, which is that evil anti-semite Palestinians will not let blameless Israelis live in peace and persist in their unjustified terror attacks on an innocent Israeli state.
    
29. The Left Worker-communist Party of Iraq
    Organization profile published 2007
    Resource Type: Organization
    Published: 2005
    Socialism Now. "The basis of socialism is the human being... Socialism is the movement to restore human beings' conscious will."
30. Lifting the Iraq Embargo After Almost 2 Million Deaths
    What Have We Learned From the Embargo's Lessons?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A summary of the 1991-2003 Iraq Embargo, and its devastating attack on the Iraqi civilian population.
31. Mr. Bush's truthfulness
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2005
    The truthfulness-challenged President.
32. Naomi Klein's "Courage"
    Ain't But One Way Out
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2005
    In saying that we need to make Iraq safe for democracy, Klein is buying into the US agenda for Iraq.
33. New Internationalist Online
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Articles from the New Internationalist, chat forum, ethical shopping, more.
34. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
35. News & Letters: Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2006 - 2007 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    We aim to help fill the void on the question of "what happens after" by creatively rethinking and restating his concept of "revolution in permanence" for today.
36. The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    Peter Steven aims to make readers realize the power and influence of dominant media but, at the same time, also understand that they are not "omnipotent" and that there are alternative forms available.
37. The No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    An in-depth look at the nature of terrorism that discusses questioning terrorism, assessing it, the difference between state terrorism and group terrorism, morality and history, and war and politics.
38. Peace Mom
    A Mother's Journey Through Heartache to Activism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    An American mother loses her 24-year-old soldier son, killed in action in Iraq, and leads her to become a prominent US anti-war activist.
39. A Poisonous Affair: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja
    Resource Type: Book
    Joost's Hiltermann "A Poisonous Affair" is a disturbing book. Chronicling both the use of chemical weapons against the Iranis and specifically the Kurds at Halabja it is also the tale of culpability by the international community and the United States who turned a blind eye to the genocide. The book shows how complicit American support for Saddam layed the ground work for the ongoing distrust by Kurds and Iranis to American policy to this day. It is an essential book for those who wish to understand the tortuous policies of the US, Iraqi Kurds and Iran.
40. Radical Digressions 2
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 1981   Published: 2000
    
41. Radical Digressions 3
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2001   Published: 2006
    
42. The reliable tyrant
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2004
    The solution to the Iraq debacle is within the Americans' grasp.
43. Saddam's Alleged Weapons of Mass Destruction
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2003
    If Saddam Hussein really had weapons of mass destruction, he would certainly use them now with the U.S. posed to invade.
44. The Shock Doctrine
    The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Klein chronicles free-market disasters of recent years and advances a theory that we are living in the age of 'disaster capitalism'.
45. The Thin Blue Line
    How Humanitarianism Went to War
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    An account of the failure of humanitarian intervention in places like Iraq and Somalia. Conor Foley explores how the doctrine of humanitarian intervention has been used to allow states to invade other nations in the name of human rights.
46. The Third Camp
    Against U.S. militarism and Islamic terrorism
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    We must stand up with all our power to the US government’s and its allies’ bullying. We must put an end to the crimes of the opposite pole, i.e. Islamic terrorism. We must help the people of Islam-stricken countries to get rid of the menace of Islamic terrorist states and forces. American militarism and Islamic terrorism have brutalised the world. Neither of them has a solution to the present crisis and its resulting problems. Rather, they are themselves the cause of this crisis and its aggravation. Civilised humanity must rise up against both these poles and the suffering that they have imposed on the world.
47. War Crimes
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Corporate media can’t ignore photos the way they ignored protests. The real reign of terror we face is much closer to home than we dare to think.
48. The war everyone forgot
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    Chomsky probes what prompted the issue of Iraq to disappear from the agenda following the 2006 mid-term election.
49. War in the Gulf
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1991
    The U.S. and its allies are launching themselves into an unnecessary but potentially calamitous war.
50. War in the Gulf
    An Environmental Perspective
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    
51. We Own the World
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007   Published: 2008
    The whole debate about the Iranian “interference” in Iraq makes sense only on one assumption, namely, that we own the world. If we own the world, then the only question that can arise is that someone else is interfering in a country we have invaded and occupied.
    
52. What a Fair Trial for Saddam Would Entail
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2004
    Chomsky identifies the actors and issues that would have to be included in the Tribunal process if Saddam Hussein were to be given a fair trial in international court. These include key members of the Bush I administration who were active during the years of Hussein's most atrocious crimes.
    
53. What Uncle Sam Really Wants
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Chomsky discusses examples of U.S. intervention and links together events stretching over four decades in regions throughout the world. He provides a quick synopsis of American foreign policy and paints a vivid picture of the realities faced by social movements.
54. Where's the Iraqi voice?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    Despite the "shared beliefs" identified amongst Iraqis, for example the belief that the presence of foreign troops is a main cause of the escalation in violence, only the conquerors - in this case America - can decide when troops should be withdrawn.
55. World Orders Old and New
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    
56. Year 501 
    The Conquest Continues
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    An examination of the U.S. role in the world placed in the long historical perspective of the 500 years that followed the voyages of Columbus.

Experts on Iraq in the Sources Directory

1. League of Arab States
2. NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
3. United Nations