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Iraq Under Siege | Praise
“For more than a decade, an inhuman campaign of sanctions—the most complete
ever in recorded history—has destroyed Iraq as a modern state, decimated
its people, and ruined the agriculture, its educational and health care systems,
as well as its entire infrastructure. All this has been done by the United States
and United Kingdon, misusing United Nations resolutions against innocent civilians,
leaving the tyrant Saddam Hussein more or less untouched. This remarkable book
is an invaluable documentation of the tragedy in Iraq, and deserves reading
by every citizen interested in the appalling reality of US and UK foreign policy.”
—Edward W. Said
“This book gives us a key to understand the New World Order, and
warns about how Iraq’s tragedy may be a model for global bullying and global
impunity in coming times.”
—Eduardo Galeano
“Here is a brilliantly collated body of unrelenting, undeniable evidence
of the horrors that sanctions and war are visiting upon the people, in particular
the children, of Iraq. For ordinary citizens sanctions are just another kind
of dictatorship. Remote-controlled, seemingly civilized, they actually, literally,
squeeze the very breath from babies’ bodies.”
—Arundhati Roy
“Iraq Under Siege is a very useful weapon in our international
struggle against sanctions. This is not only the horrible story of children
dying as a result of sanctions, a story our papers are so reluctant to write
about. It is also a well argued warning about the kind of 'globalized' world
they will build for us, if we let them.”
—Daniel Singer, The Nation
“This
is a very important book and I hope it will be widely read.”
—Tony Benn, MP British Parliament
(see Benn's review in New Statesman)
“The
arguments for change are pretty convincing. The undecided should pay heed.”
—The Economist
“Iraq Under Siege is a vitally important wake-up call to end the sanctions
while providing activists with plenty of documentation to back up their claims
of U.S. injustice.… A page-turner, regardless of the reader's degree of
familiarity with Middle East peace issues.”
—Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
“A solid beginning to understanding a portion of the West's influence
on this diverse and complicated part of the world.… The wide range of authorship
leaves us with a resource that is diverse, while presenting a focused cry for
resolution.”
—Andrew Dickson, Clamor Magazine
“A passionate and hard-hitting analysis of the situation in Iraq by
leading voices against the sanctions.… The book comes with a clear message:
sanctions against Iraq are wrong. Building a compelling case of deprivation
and deception of the tragedy of the Iraqi people coupled with their heroism,
Iraq Under Siege concludes with details of the growing international
movement to end sanctions. This is a book not only for the activist, but also
for anyone concerned with justice and with foreign policy.”
—The
New Internationalist
“By documenting the
impact of the sanctions, exposing the fallacies and distorted arguments of the
establishment and the bias of the media, this book makes a valuable contribution
to breaking the silence and complacency that surround the humanitarian crisis
in Iraq. It is bound to contribute to the mainstreaming of the growing anti-sanctions
movement, which is dedicated to helping the Iraqi people reclaim their destiny.”
—Hala Maksoud, President, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
“Each page is a document
of outrage.”
—Socialist Worker, US
“A sustained, coherent,
and comprehensive critique of U.S. policy on Iraq.”
—Texas Observer
“Iraq Under Siege
is a remarkable collection of analytical essays, emotive calls to action, and
useful ‘to-do’ lists for activists. It must be read. And it must be
acted on.”
—Z Magazine
“This marvelous collection
of essays is both heartbreaking and inspiring.”
—Socialist Review
“[Iraq Under Siege]
is not just an amazingly useful tool to activists working to end the sanctions,
but a very important work that adds to the growing literature on international
relations, the mainstream media’s failure to include balanced coverage
of this issue, [and] myths that cloud our vocabulary and understanding of the
Middle East.”
—Fellowship Magazine
“The first book to
grant a glimpse behind the veil of ideology and propaganda that shrouds the
contemporary official record.”
—Sean Gonsalves, Common
Dreams News Center
“The anthology Iraq Under Siege is a solid, credible, and comprehensive
rebuttal to the prevailing US/British policy of continued enforcement of cruel
sanctions on the people of Iraq. This anthology—authored by prominent writers
and practitioners—constitutes a long-awaited corrective to the obvious
imbalances that characterize much of the media coverage which, in turn, often
reflect a sickening obliviousness of policy-makers to the unending miseries
of a proud and gifted people.”
—Clovis Maksoud, Center for the Global South
“Each of the contributors takes on a different aspect of the sanctions. What
is their impact on the Iraqi population? Who imposed them and why? What’s
at stake for the US? How complicit is the media? How does the oil-for-food program
really work? And, most importantly, what can we do to end the sanctions? Through
its powerful eyewitness accounts of life in Iraq and carefully researched, myth-busting
chapters, Iraq Under Siege
—International Socialist Review provides a powerful antidote to our rulers’
lies and does a great service to the cause of ending the sanctions.”
“This is a definitive
and powerful indictment of one of the greatest war crimes of the last quarter
of the twentieth century.”
—Bookmarks Review of Books
“A brilliant book, which exposes the grim reality behind the US New World Order
and British ‘ethical foreign policy.’”
—Socialist
Worker, UK
“Scrupulously edited
for accuracy, readability and diversity of voice, [it] works either as a good
introduction to the crisis in Iraq or a resource for activists.”
—The Socialist
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