Critical Media Literacy: Additional Sources - Iraq

Iraq - General History

• Tripp, Charles. (2002). A History of Iraq (Second Edition). Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.

Iraq - Sanctions

• [start here] Arnove, Anthony. (December 2000). "Iraq Under Siege: Ten Years On." Monthly Review, Vol. 52, No. 7. Link: http://www.monthlyreview.org/1200arnov.htm
• [start here] Gordon, Joy. (2002, November). "Cool War: Economic Sanctions as a Weapon of Mass Destruction." Harper’s Magazine.
  Link: http://www.harpers.org/online/cool_war/?pg=1
• Alnasrawi, Abbas. (2001). "Iraq: Economic Sanctions and Consequences, 1990-2000." Third World Quarterly - Journal of Emerging Areas, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 205-218.
• Arnove, Anthony. (Ed.). (2000). Iraq Under Siege: The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War. Cambridge, MA: South End Press.
• Baram, Amatzia. (Spring 2000). "The Effect of Iraqi Sanctions: Statistical Pitfalls and Responsibility." Middle East Journal, Vol. 54, No. 2, pp.194-223.
• Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq (CASI). (2000). Sanctions on Iraq: Background, Consequences, Strategies. Proceedings of the Conference hosted by Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq, 13-14 November 1999, Cambridge. Cambridge, MA: CASI.
  Link: http://www.cam.ac.uk/societies/casi/conf99/proceedings.pdf
• Falk, Richard. (2002). "Iraq, the United States, and International Law: Beyond the Sanctions." Lund, Sweden: The Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research. Link: http://www.transnational.org/forum/meet/2002/Falk_IraqUSinternatLaw.html
• Garfield, Richard. (November 1999). "The Impact of Economic Sanctions on Health and Well-being." London: Overseas Development Institute, Relief and Rehabilitation Network. Link: http://www.odihpn.org/pdfbin/networkpaper031.pdf
• Garfield, Richard. (March 1999). "Morbidity and Mortality Among Iraqi Children from 1990 Through 1998: Assessing the Impact of the Gulf War and Economic Sanctions." Goshen, Indiana: Fourth Freedom Forum.
  Link: http://fourthfreedom.org/php/t-si-index.php?hinc=garf-index.hinc

Iraq - War - Background and Consequences

• [start here] Graham-Brown, Sarah and Chris Toensing. (October 2002). "Why Another War? A Backgrounder on the Iraq Crisis." Washington, D.C.: Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP).
  Link: http://www.merip.org/iraq_backgrounder_102202/iraq_bckground_merip_screes.pdf
• Committee on International Security Studies (CISS). (2002). War with Iraq: Costs, Consequences, and Alternatives. Cambridge, MA: American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
  Link: http://www.amacad.org/publications/monographs/War_with_Iraq.pdf
• Rogers, Paul. (October 2002). "Iraq: Consequences of a War." (Briefing Paper). Oxford: Oxford Research Group.
  Link: http://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/1publications-briefings-Iraq.htm
• Salvage, Jane. (2002). "Collateral Damage: The Health and Environmental Costs of War on Iraq." London: Medact.
  Link: http://www.medact.org/tbx/docs/Medact%20Iraq%20report_final3.pdf

Iraq - Weapons and Disarmament

• Ritter, Scott. (June 2000). "The Case for Iraq's Qualitative Disarmament." Arms Control Today, Vol. 30, No. 5.
  Link: http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2000_06/iraqjun.asp

Iraq - General Resources

• [start here] Campaign Against Sanctions (CASI) – http://www.cam.ac.uk/societies/casi/
  • Information Sources: http://www.cam.ac.uk/societies/casi/info/index.html
  • News Sources: http://www.cam.ac.uk/societies/casi/info/news.html
    
• Foreign Policy In Focus – http://www.fpif.org/
• Focus on Iraq: http://www.fpif.org/iraq/index.html
  
• The Education for Peace in Iraq Center (EPIC) – http://epic-usa.org/
  • Reports and Analysis: http://epic-usa.org/about/resources.php
    
• UNICEF in Iraq - http://www.unicef.org/iraq/
• United Nations Office of the Iraq Programme Oil for Food - http://www.un.org/Depts/oip/
• Voices in the Wilderness - http://www.nonviolence.org/vitw/
• Voices in the Wilderness UK - http://www.viwuk.freeserve.co.uk/
• The Iraq Action Coalition - http://leb.net/IAC/
• Iraq Peace Team - http://www.iraqpeaceteam.org/

Media Analysis - Gulf War

• Bennett, W. Lance and David L. Paletz. (Eds). (1994). Taken by Storm: The Media, Public Opinion, and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Gulf War. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.
• MacArthur, John R. (1992). Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War. New York: Hill and Wang.
• Mowlana, Hamid, George Gerbner, and Herbert I. Schiller. (Eds.). (1992). Triumph of the Image: The Media's War in the Persian Gulf: A Global Perspective. Boulder: Westview Press.
• Smith, Hedrick. (Ed.) (1992). The Media and the Gulf War. Washington, D.C.: Seven Locks Press.
• Taylor, Philip M. (1992). War and the Media: Propaganda and Persuasion in the Gulf War. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Media Analysis - General Resources

• [start here] Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) – http://www.fair.org/
• Iraq: http://www.fair.org/international/iraq.html
• Middle East: http://www.fair.org/international/middle-east.html
• Afghanistan: http://www.fair.org/international/afghanistan.html
• Terrorism: http://www.fair.org/issues-news/terrorism.html
• George W. Bush: http://www.fair.org/issues-news/wbush.html
• Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) – http://www.accuracy.org/

Middle East - Resources

• [start here] Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) – http://www.merip.org/

Middle East - Other

• Zunes, Stephen. (2002). Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism. Common Courage Press.