Opinion/Editorial Weary of War? Don't Collaborate.
Kathy Kelly, Voices for Creative Nonviolence (Apr 18, 2008)
Veteran Iraq campaigner Kathy Kelly denounces the current efforts by some in the US leadership to require the Iraqi government to foot the bill for US costs in Iraq, and challenges the argument that the American people are bound to continue to fund the war - rather than reparations, relief, and reconstruction - with their tax dollars.
News & Analysis Embarrassed U.S. Starts to Disown Basra Operation
Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service (Mar 31, 2008)
As it became clear last week that the "Operation Knights Assault" in
Basra was in serious trouble, the George W. Bush administration began
to claim in off-the-record statements to journalists that Prime
Minister Nouri al-Maliki had launched the operation without consulting
Washington.
Aid & Development Curfews and clashes cripple Baghdad, Basra
Report, IRIN (Mar 30, 2008)
Non-governmental organizations appealed to the Iraqi authorities today to facilitate their distribution of relief materials in Baghdad
and Basra. Both cities are under an
indefinite curfew due to ongoing clashes between government forces and
the Mahdi Army, the Shia militia led by Moqtada al-Sadr.
BY TOPIC The Battle of Basra
Editors, Electronic Iraq (Mar 29, 2008)
Comprehensive coverage of the violence that has drawn Iraqi, U.S., and British military forces together in a battle against Muqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army in the south of Iraq and beyond.
Art, Music & Culture Ghosts From the Land of Milk and Honey
Marie-Helene Rousseau, Institute for War and Peace Reporting (Mar 29, 2008) Immortalised in stark black and white, two photographs
of everyday life in Iraq confront visitors to the Pomegranate Art
Gallery in the heart of SoHo, New York City. This is the only gallery in New York City to specialise in
modern Middle Eastern art. Its current exhibit, "Contemporary Iraqi Art," features the work of 16 Iraqi
artists, many of whom have fled Iraq and now live scattered across
Europe and the Middle East.
Aid & Development Humanitarian situation set to worsen as violence hits south
Statement, International Organization on Migration (Mar 29, 2008)
The International Organization on Migration's humanitarian activities in Iraq's southern city of Basra and as
well as in other southern governorates have been put on hold as
violence and curfew prevent staff and partners from providing
humanitarian assistance to internally displaced people and
vulnerable populations.
Opinion/Editorial The Enigmatic Second Battle of Basra
Reidar Visser, Historiae (Mar 29, 2008)
"On the surface, the story may look plausible enough," writes Reidar Visser, author of Basra: The Failed Gulf State. "A provincial
city rich in oil degenerates into mafia-style conditions affecting the
security of citizens as well as the national oil revenue; the central
government intervenes to clean up. Still, there are probably few spots on this planet where the search
for mono-causality is more futile than Basra."
