Anonymous Comrade writes: "This is a leaflet from an unnamed group I know nothing about, distributed in Glasgow at the end of the first Gulf War. Contact addresses for it are given at the end, but I have no idea if they're still valid."


"Ten Days that Shook Iraq:

Inside information From an Uprising"


The Gulf war was not ended by the military victory of America and the Allies. It was ended by the mass desertion of thousands of Iraqi soldiers. So overwhelming was the refusal to fight for the Iraqi state on the part of its conscripted army that, contrary to all predictions, not one Allied soldier was killed by hostile fire in the final ground offensive to recapture Kuwait. Indeed the sheer scale of this mutiny is perhaps unprecedented in modern military history.


But these mutinous troops did not simply flee back to Iraq. On their return many of them turned their guns against the Iraqi state, sparking a simultaneous uprising in both Southern Iraq and in Kurdistan to the North. Only the central region of Iraq surrounding Baghdad remained firmly in the state's hands in the weeks following the end of the war.


From the very start the Western media has grossly misrepresented these uprisings. The uprising in the South, centred on Basra, was portrayed as a Shia Muslim revolt. Whereas the insurrection in the North was reported as an exclusively Kurdish Nationalist uprising which demanded little more than an autonomous Kurdish region within Iraq.


The truth is that the uprisings in both the North and South of Iraq were proletarian insurrections.

Anonymous Comrade writes "Chronicle of Higher Education, March 28, 2003



America: an Empire in Denial

By NIALL FERGUSON



Once there was an empire that governed roughly a quarter of the world's population, covered about the same proportion of the Earth's land surface, and dominated nearly all its oceans. The British empire was the biggest empire ever, bar none. How an archipelago of rainy islands off the northwest coast of Europe came to rule the world is one of the fundamental questions not just of British but of world history.

hydrarchist writes:

The Media Companies' FCC Wishlist

By Jeffrey Chester, Center for Digital Democracy

March 18, 2003

mobiustrip44 writes "the ap reports today that a group of israeli peace activists were distributing mystical literature to jews and palestinians on the jerusalem/ramallah border in hopes of triggering a spiritual resolution to the ongoing israeli/arab conflict. among the activists were jews and christians, but primarily they were members of a fringe islamic sect known as the druzes.

Check out www.jakeneck.coma nice site from a NYC surrealist blogging upstart. - h.
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mobiustrip44 writes ..... need a good reason to reject the war in iraq? couldn't give two fucks about iraqi civillians or the general corruption of our own administration? well in that case, how 'bout thinking about our boys overseas?



check your headlines: 16 soldiers died today when a ch-46 helicopter crashed in kuwait. incidentally, the ch-46 is the brother of boeing's ch-47, a chopper known for its "substandard and dangerous" construction, that at one point led to a $54 million lawsuit filed by the department of defense against the manufacturer. sure, boeing was found guilty and lost the suit. they're still the number two defense contractor in the nation. but, that's ok... they've paid their debt to society in campaign contributions.

Anonymous Comrade writes

"American Empire and the Emergence of a Global Ruling
Class"

Joe R. Golowka

Traditionally, the radical left has viewed international relations in
the past 50 years through a paradigm of the American empire.
The United States is viewed as the latest and most powerful
imperialist power, dominating over the rest of the globe. During
the cold war this was sometimes viewed as a dual-empire
scenario; with the American empire competing with the Soviet
empire.

jinx writes:

"The Ides of March"

Partha Chatterjee

There is a gnawing sense of inevitability in the way things are

moving. The flood is rising inch by inch; the only question is

when the dike will burst. Except, this is not a natural disaster

waiting to happen. These are events fully under the control of

world leaders playing for high stakes. Why is the world being

pushed to the precipice?

Anonymous Comrade writes:

"Practicing Anti-Capitalism"

An Interview with Brian Holmes



After the World-InfoCon conference in Amsterdam Brian Holmes, writer, art critic and translator told World-Information.Org (http://world-information.org/wio/readme/992006691 /1046966843) about his collaboration with the French artist group Bureau 'Études in mapping capitalist structures.

Aonymous Comrade writes:

"Not Oil, But Dollars vs. Euros"

Geoffrey Heard

Why is George Bush so hell bent on war with Iraq? Why does his
administration reject every positive Iraqi move? It all makes sense when you
consider the economic implications for the USA of not going to war with
Iraq. The war in Iraq is actually the US and Europe going head to head on
economic leadership of the world.

Louis Lingg writes:
"The National Defense University has posted on its website the text of Shock and Awe: Achieving Rapid Dominance, published in 1996 and written by Harlan K. Ullman and James P. Wade with L.A. "Bud" Edney, Fred M. Franks, Charles A. Horner, Jonathan T. Howe, and Keith Brendley.

An excerpt from the book's Prologue:


Since before Sun Tzu and the earliest chroniclers of war recorded their observations, strategists

and generals have been tantalized and confounded by the elusive goal of destroying the adversary's

will to resist before, during, and after battle. Today, we believe that an unusual opportunity exists to

determine whether or not this long-sought strategic goal of affecting the will, understanding, and

perception of an adversary can be brought closer to fruition. Even if this task cannot be

accomplished, we believe that, at the very minimum, such an effort will enhance and improve the

ability of our military forces to carry out their missions more successfully through identifying and

reinforcing particular points of leverage in the conflict and by identifying and creating additional

options and choices for employing our forces more effectively.