All of the issues raised in this section, illustrate the diversity and the broad perspective of the campaigns we are involved with. The reports of the Iraq Solidarity Campaign UK, have each been published by a variety of respected magazines and organisations which include the UN Observer, Uruknet, the Global Research Institute, The Palestine Chronicle and the Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq.
POVERTY: Sound the Alarm!
According to The Guardian on Wednesday 23rd February 2011, Ministers should draw up an emergency plan to tackle extreme levels of poverty as new research showed that more than one in four children live in penury in some major UK cities.
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Support Iraqi orphans
It was noted that children as young as 13 had become victims of this sexual tyranny, which was being ignored by the US and UK, with the problem being intensified by the growing displacement of Iraqi nationals, as a consequence of sectarian tensions.
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A worms eye view of revolution
According to the same report, rates of poverty remain high - "reaching up to 40 per cent on average, which means that nearly 140 million Arabs continue to live under the poverty line", with worse news being, the region seeing no decrease in rates of poverty in the last 20 years.
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Did Blair Lie Over Iraq?
While many are wishing to walk the plank at Chilcot and point the finger of blame over Britain’s actions inside of Iraq, its been noticed that few questions have been asked into the credibility of the evidence.
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Gate crashing the British Illusion
I can understand that some in Britain do like to cheer on behalf of the four horseman of the apocalypse but it is clear, that its ok to cheer as long as the proverbial s**t doesn’t land on the door step back home in Britain.
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No Relief from Democracy!
On November 21st 2010, the Associated Press reported that Iraq had run out of money to pay for widows' benefits, farm crops and other programs for the poor.
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Thou shall kill thy neighbour
This is a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Iraqi Christians and far from being an isolated incident - more like a concerted effort to widen the ethnic divide since the occupation began.
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Iraqi History: For Whom the Bell Tolls
In 2006, one journalist even braved a war zone to visit the British cemetery in Baghdad and the grave of Gertrude Bell, where he was escorted to the graveside and described.
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Iraqi Deaths Still Unreported!
As Iraq Body Count only include the deaths which have been “documented” by the Western media , the denialism that now exists surrounds the fact that many undocumented deaths do include those who have died due to a lack of medicines, trauma related suicides.
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A Refugees Life
Now does anyone have any viable ideas about how to get these two kids their treatment? The family (of 5) lives on 225JD UNHCR cash assistance per month (about $300) and even paying for taxis to get their kids to a treatment centre.
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The Road to Gendercide
The current situation faced by Iraqi women is a continuation of a “mediaeval tradition”, which is being enforced by “civilised colonialists”, a scene which is reminiscent of a description of life under the first British rule of Iraq in the 1920‘s.
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Helping Iraqi Refugee's
Collateral Repair Project was first initiated as a local (Seattle WA USA) effort to raise funds to help one Iraqi widow and her family to establish some security after US forces killed her husband while he was driving ambulance during the aptly named Operation Iron Fist in Anbar province, Iraq in October 2005.
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A Sociable Smile?
Politicians’ like smiling because they are incapable of doing much else and this was proven when the Lord Mayor of Manchester recently opened the new Iraqi Consulate, in a city which prides itself on ethnic diversity and its status as a "City of Peace".
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Where did you get this from?
It is normally the case that politicians run from the fear of being associated with negative publicity but in the good old traditions of a puppet, Iraq’s democracy infact does the complete opposite, as its present speed of running into the arms of disaster, is in parallel with that of a speeding car into a brick wall.
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The Ghosts of Iraq
If you listened to the Western media, you would think the war in Iraq was over but for millions of Iraqi children, it’s only just beginning. The 2003 invasion has resulted in the growth of the child sex trade, the forced separation of families, an increase in drug and alcohol abuse among adults, with Psychiatrists also highlighting the effect of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among infants, where the exposure to extreme violence has led to an increase in "learning impediments".
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We Combat Stress, Will You?
For us, actively supporting Combat Stress is not just about raising money for an organisation but about helping to involve and educate the wider community into the essential work which this service is undertaking, so that together we can meet the needs of our Veterans and guarantee that somebody will be there for our future generations.
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A Message from Jordan
The Iraq Solidarity Campaign is proud to be the first organisation in Great Britain to officially endorse the Collateral Repair Project, in its efforts to assist the Iraqi people, at a time when silence surrounds their sufferring. By donating through the Iraq Solidarity Campaign, you can be guarenteed that ALL proceeds will reach the people who need it most.
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Blair must be confronted by his demons
When Blair faces the Iraq inquiry, and questions are fired at him from all angles, I hope to god he hears the screams of every Iraqi child whom his policies have killed and that, while he grasps at straws for answers, he sees the faces of every Iraqi victim flash before his very eyes.
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A Thought on Chilcot Legality
What a revelation it must be, to find that seven years after the illegal invasion of Iraq, the powers that be and their followers, have since discovered that a war of aggression is the ultimate war crime.
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Women’s rights are still the issue!
The Iraq Solidarity Campaign would like to applaud the recent statements of Sharon Allen of the British based People’s Charter movement, who speaking at the Communist University in London stated that activists should seek to broaden out the campaigns for women’s rights, beyond the confines of the British Trade Union movement and reach out to women in the wider community.
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I Am Not Yet Born, Forgive Me!
So why in 2009, has it come as a shock that War Trauma has occurred as a direct consequence of the invasion, that finally after the deaths of over one million people inside of Iraq since the occupation started, the continuing Iraqi war has finally come home to Britain and now it appears, that it is our turn to start paying the price.
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Talking Trauma with Families
It has been refreshing to meet so many people, who are eager to show their solidarity for an organisation, whom for the past ninety years have worked tirelessly to assist members of the armed services, whose mental health has been affected from their times in the trenches of France in the First World War through to horrors currently being witnessed inside of Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The World of the Arabs
When talking about the history of the Iraq Solidarity Campaign, one cannot talk about this question in separation to the history of the Arab people as a whole and one cannot use sectarian rhetoric to describe the history of our movement.
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For a Workers Solution
The attacks against Iraq’s workers, which was started by the United Nations through the murderous sanctions after the first Gulf War and continue to this day.
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Campaign brings out effects of war trauma
PTSD is a psychological response to the experience of intense traumatic events, in particular life-threatening situations.Symptoms include insomnia, recurring nightmares, persistent high anxiety, violent and aggressive outbursts, lack of concentration and depression.
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A Palestinian Knockout
I was first introduced to the Baqa'a boxing team in May 2005, a team that represents over 120,000 displaced Palestinian’s, in a refugee camp that is located north of central Amman.This article has been published by Uruknet, the London Progressive Journal, the Palestine Chronicle and the UN Observer.
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Invest in Caring
As a consequence of continued war within the Middle East, the region has witnessed a terrifying growth in mental health problems, with victims from both Iraq and Palestine suffering from stress related conditions, including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
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For whom the Bell Tolls
Shortly before her death in 1926, the founder of Iraq’s national museum, Gertrude Bell, gave one last promise to the people of the East and stated, “You may rely upon one thing — I'll never engage in creating kings again”, which were wise words that have since echoed through Iraq but not the corridors of Parliament.
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Time for Real Change!
Michael Prysner is the candidate for Florida’s 22nd congressional district and is running for the Party for Socialism and Liberation in the upcoming US election. Michael is the only anti-war Iraq veteran standing in the upcoming election and his campaign is showing the international anti-war movement just what can be achieved.
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A League of Their Own
According to the Palestinian group, Al Awda, “one in three refugees world wide is Palestinian“ and “there are about 7.2 million Palestinian refugees“ scattered around the globe.
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Palestinians Make Football History
As Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said, we urge more foreign teams to play in the occupied Palestinian territories. "This is a sign of solidarity, it’s a message of solidarity with the Palestinian people during a time of hardship."
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An injury to one
Even US soldiers have noted their concern over the persecution of Christians in Iraq; one serving soldier even wrote in response to my article “The War Against Christianity” that “I know from experience that what he (Hussein al-alak) says about what's going on in Iraq is accurate.”
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Action for Iraqi Children
Few words can actually describe the barbarity which the British and American governments have brought to the children of Iraq, that not being satisfied with the murder of 1.5 million children under Sanctions, in a “price worth paying” campaign, the armies of freedom and democracy have further destroyed the lives of over 4.5 million Iraqi children, by bringing to them the gift of becoming an orphan.
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The Iraqi Family: Another Neglected Casualty of War
"I recently spoke with two well known activists who have for years toiled for the freedom of the Iraqi people; Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence and Hussein Al-Alak, an Iraqi writer and activist with the Iraq Solidarity Campaign in the United Kingdom.Kelly and Al-Alak tackled how the war and sanctions have impacted the family unit, and in particular women and children."
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The War Against Christianity
The Bishop of Mosul reported in 2006 that a “fourteen year old boy was crucified in Al Basra” and how members of the US/UK trained Iraqi Police forces, have assaulted “civilian passers-by with anti-Christian and racist slurs” - grotesque acts which apparently Britain takes seriously within its own borders, when addressing “institutional racism” in the police force and cases relating to honour killings against its own civilians.
Solidarity with Iraq’s orphans
Only silence has echoed through the corridors of power in Great Britain, in relation to the news that 4.5 million child orphans now exist in Iraq, according to the Iraqi Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
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It’s Good News From America
In the 1990-91 Gulf War, Gloria was also leading the anti-war movement against the first US bombardment, which introduced the Sanctions regime, and her activities helped secure the 200,000-strong presence on the San Francisco anti-war march on January 19th 1991.
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Hail Caesar?
It would come as no surprise, if an entire generation of Iraqi boys were born to bear the name of Caesar Saadi Al-Jibouri, the Iraqi soldier who recently killed three American soldiers after seeing them kicking down the door of a house in Mosul and assaulting a pregnant woman.
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Appeal to Iraqs Muslim Scholars
The Iraq Solidarity Campaign are appealing to the Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq, to help take a lead and assist with bringing into effect an international call, which seeks to provide a focus on the five million orphaned children, so that Iraqis and concerned people alike, are able to mobilise on an international scale and provide these children with an international family network.
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Iraq: Hearts and Minds
Iraqis fleeing this violence are in need of help, to deal with the real life effects of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, which has been thrust upon them, as a result of the unaccounted for lies, of the “Parliament” in the US protected Green zone.
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Britain: Soldiers & Iraqi's
You can be "patrolling" scenes, where people are rushing past you, bumping into you, voices competing, bright lights with crowds of sweaty bodies and voices of poor people begging for loose change, when bang!
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Between Dealers and Death Squads
"Iraq has one of the worst treatment and follow-up regimes for alcohol abusers in the Middle-East," Ali states, with staff shortages complicating the situation and denying patients access to consistent after care.
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Iraq Trauma: "children grow up, people grow old"
According to Combat Stress, the British military charity which is dedicated to helping soldiers suffering psychological problems, “the seemingly indefinite struggle in Iraq has created the greatest crisis of morale among British troops for decades.”
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The War Against Iraqi Women
Just how far is the occupation willing to turn the clocks back, on the rights and civil liberties of women in Iraq, with the forced separation of families and the use of rape as a weapon to humiliate and control the population.
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The Importance of being Iraqi
Since the US/UK invasion of 2003, the Iraqi people have been subjected to a sectarian divide, which has been thrust upon them by the occupation and the illegally imported “Iraqi Government”.
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Salman Rushdie, Our Perspective is Bigger!
As Trotsky explained:“To understand and perceive truly, not in a journalistic way but to feel to the very bottom, the section of time in which we live, one has to know the past of mankind, its life, its work, its struggles, its hopes, its defeats and its achievements.”
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“Thou shalt not make for thyself an idol”
Those who are supporting this process appear to be ignoring the realities of this “modern multi-cultural Britain”, where one million pounds could actually save elderly people’s lives, pay for doctors and nurses and house entire families.
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An Absolute Farce?
Andy Kershaw of the Independent asked the US and UK in 2001, how they expected Saddam Hussain, "to wage war with beef broth?" Did the Sanctions Committee "661 expect him to turn on the Kurds again by spraying them with malt extract? Or send his presidential guard back into Kuwait armed to the teeth with pencils?"
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Who’s Counting the Dead?
In response to the US President, James Denselow, an Iraq specialist at the London-based Chatham House, claimed that "Since the administration keeps saying that failure is not an option, they are redefining success in a way that suits them."
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"Terror" in the Homes of Britain
In 2003-4, 22,000 people over the age of 65 died as a result of the cold, with the physical isolation of many British elderly people, often being the cause behind malnutrition, dehydration and hypothermia - thus leading to hospitalisation.
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Welcome to Democracy
"It was a matter of regret that the Iraqi government did not provide UNAMI with access to the Ministry of Health's overall mortality figures for the reporting period." The report includes the facts that: "A total of 1.9 million are internally displaced and four million are estimated to be acutely vulnerable due to food insecurity".
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“Selected Neighbourhoods”
The US plan to establish a 5-kilometer-long, 3.7-meter-high concrete wall, which according to Pepe Escobar of the Asia Times is “being erected in haste by the 407th Brigade support battalion of the famed 82nd Airborne Division, currently based in sprawling Camp Taji, north of Baghdad.”
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An Insult to Intelligence
The newspaper Azzaman reported on the 4/5/2007, that the Iraqi government “is burying en mass hundreds of bodies of victims of violence which have been lying in Baghdad morgues for several months.”
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Western civilisation?
August 2005 saw a report published by the Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), which brought to light the growth of child prostitution, under the new liberated Iraq and how children as young as thirteen have become victims of this sexual tyranny, which the West has brought to these children’s doors.
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