WEB RESOURCES ON THE WAR IN IRAQ
Note: If you have suggestions
for additional links or commentary, please e-mail Bill Kennedy at
william_kennedy@redlands.edu
BACKGROUND
INFORMATION ON IRAQ:
Atlapedia Online -
Iraq
CIA
World Factbook - Iraq
Demographic Data on
Iraq from the
U.
S. Census Bureau
Gulf/2000 Project
Iraq
- A Country Study
Library
of Congress Iraq Page
MENIC:
(Middle East Network Information Center)
at the University of Texas at Austin
U.S.
State Department Background Notes - Iraq
MAPS OF IRAQ
AND THE MIDDLE EAST:
Maps
of
Iraq from the University of Texas at Austin
Interactive
Maps of the Middle East
from the BBC
News (UK edition)
UNITED
NATIONS LINKS AND PUBLICATIONS:
November
8, 2002 Security Council Resolution on Iraqi Disarmament (Resolution 1441)
(pdf
file)
January 27, 2003 Report from Dr.
Hans Blix
U.N. home page
U.N. Department for Disarmament Affairs
U.N. News Focus - Situation in Iraq
U.N.
Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC)
U.N. Special
Commission (UNSCOM)
OIP (Office of
the Iraqi Program)
Iraq
Nuclear Verification Office
United
States Government Links:
Defense Link - U.S. Department of Defense
U.S. Department of State home page
White House
Department of Homeland Security
Congressional Research
Service Reports on Iraq
IRAQI GOVERNMENT LINKS:
Uruklink.net - Official Iraqi
government web site
Permanent Mission of Iraq to the United
Nations
Iraq Tourism Board
Iraqi News Agency
EUROPEAN GOVERNMENT LINKS:
Die
Bundesregierung
Number 10 Downing Street
France Diplomatie
Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores de Espana
ANTI-WAR ORGANIZATIONS:
Act
Now to Stop War and End Racism (International ANSWER)
Code Pink
Common Dreams
Guardian
Unlimited
True
Majority
Michael Moore
MoveOn
VoteNoWar
United for Peace and Justice
GENERAL NEWS SOURCES AND ANALYSIS:
ABCNEWS.com:
Extended Iraq Coverage
CNN.com: Showdown Iraq
BBC News: Conflict with Iraq
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation News - Iraq
Iraq Crisis Bulletin
MSNBC: Target Iraq
USA
Today: Iraq In-depth
Washington Post: Iraq
Yahoo
News: Iraq Coverage
OTHER MEDIA AND NEWS SOURCES:
world-newspapers.com
Al-Ahram
Weekly Online
Al-Jazeera
ArabNet
Bahrain
Tribune
CyberJournalist.net
DEBKAfile
Democracy Now!
FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting)
Freespeech.org
Independent
Media Center
Internet
Jerusalem Post
Iraq-Report
Jordan Times
KPFK
Mainichi
Daily News
The
Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI)
Pacifica Radio
Reuters Raw Video
Viet
Nam News: The National English Language Daily
RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS:
Center
for International and Strategic Studies
Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace
religious and faith-based organizations:
Beliefnet
- Islam Page
National
Council of Churches
Sojourners
Southern Baptist Convention home page
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' Middle East Page
Article
on the "Just War Theory" from the Internet
Encyclopedia of Philosophy
relief
organizations:
Mercy
Corps
Oxfam
America
ESSAYS,
COMMENTARIES AND SPEECHES RECOMMENDED BY UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS FACULTY
"The New War Machines" (published in Technology
Review)
"Only
in America" by Norman Mailer (published in the New York Review of
Books, March 27, 2003)
"Casuistries
of Peace and War" by Perry Anderson (published in the London Review
of Books, March 6, 2003)
"Bush
is an idiot, but he was right about Saddam" (interview with Paul Berman
in Salon.com)
"The
Philosopher of Islamic Terror" by Paul Berman (published in the New
York Times Magazine, March 23,2003) -
"We
Stand Passively Mute" (U.S. Senate Floor speech by Robert C. Byrd, D-WV
- February 12, 2003)
"The Wrong War" by
Avishai Margalit (published in the New York Review of Books, March 13,
2003)
The
University of Redlands academic community offers these resources related
to the war. The views expressed in these documents are not necessarily
those of the University of Redlands, nor are they meant to represent the
full range of positions on these issues.
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