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Table of Contents: [Iraq] Wartime Emissions John Harford <thefragment@thefragment.com> Iraq War Information Doug Kellner <kellner@ucla.edu> Dancing calling Louise Desrenards <louise.desrenards@free.fr> How "the coalition" is killing itself (Weather Report) Phil Graham <phil.graham@mailbox.uq.edu.au> ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 13:17:12 -0500 From: John Harford <thefragment@thefragment.com> Subject: [Iraq] Wartime Emissions Greetings Nettime, This past week has been a time of serious reflection for me not only as an artist, but also as a an American citizen. In response to the current world events I have compiled several writings, along with a good number of indy media, disinformation, and anti-propaganda links at my website: http://www.thefragment.com/war/ I invite you to check this out. As always - thanks for the kilobytes... John - --ooOOoo-- John Harford thefragment@thefragment.com http://www.eccentre.net - sound projects http://www.thefragment.com/ - visual/multimedia "There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare." - Sun Tzu, The Art of War ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 19:56:29 -0800 From: Doug Kellner <kellner@ucla.edu> Subject: Iraq War Information Dear Colleagues: This is the first time I've ever sent a message to everyone in my address book. It is to express my concern about the current US and UK war against Iraq and the need for adequate information concerning the events and opposition to it. I am doing a daily war blog that I would like to invite you to regularly check for commentary. Critical comments and suggested entries will be appreciated. Click on http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/courses/ed253a/blogger.php For Peace, Douglas Kellner Graduate School of Education Moore Hall Mailbox 951521 UCLA Los Angeles, CA 90095 > kellner@ucla.edu http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/kellner.html Fax: 310 206-6293 Phone: 310 825-0977 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 19:46:17 +0100 From: Louise Desrenards <louise.desrenards@free.fr> Subject: Dancing calling It seems a paranoiac vision powerfully getting up to control the world? Who are Paul Wolfowitz Richard Perle Robert Kagan William Kristol? they hold the American power since September the 11th, govern the Iraqi war handling all the religious ideologies, pray appearing a crusade and surrounding their exclusive preacher front of the world TV as a natural representation of the whole coalition, tell us of a project which seems a messianic material recasting of the world, territories, resources, symbolic exclusive system, based on a selective management of the religions and the resources near Eugenism, tell us they would represent the good ideology to the world and pass to the act to realize it by the force, using a professional army where the GI cannot protest being not the army of the people, a sort of enormous militarmanship, and founding its legitimate actuality from the September 11th terror, Who are these men, obviously and objective fundamentalists could be ‹ which Fundamentalism would act this? If somebody would know or studying their respective course and reference theories, please could not you send us on the list and hope it would be communicated all the most possible via the numerous lists? Or send me for any contents to our special front page online "Dancing against the war" opening a popup at the homepage http://www.criticalsecret.com *DANCING AGAINST THE WAR", moving online hope for a move of numerous and autonomous links under this tittle ‹ not a property ;-) - --------- * Special tribute to André Breton just before his melt of files and works of Art would be dispersed on April 7th, auction sale, Salle des ventes Drouot, Paris. And a special tribute to the psychiatrist Lucien Bonnafé who have just died (march 16th) ; he has installed the institutional psychiatry in France, educating on the heap young Lacan, Oury and others, in San Alban hospital, Lozère, France, during the second international war, and was Paul Eluard's special friend and near the surrealists in every case. Resisting against the government of Vichy prescription for a selective treatment of the patients that he refused to practice, acting all the contrary to give all the place to the patients. We remember that Surrealism revolution was the revolution of the Art :" Dancing ‹ with the same violence and passion against the war" ‹ born from the terror in San Dizier psychiatric hospital in Moselle, France, where the young doctor André Breton was called to a stage face of the wounded soldiers in the first international war. Nadja , the splendid butterfly on the transitory ‹ metamorphosis. (and since we let us know how on for the pragmatic theory "butterfly" better than "rosebud" could be not only a worst but same time a chance when it takes its flight ‹ several would be fabulous ‹ (when "roses" cannot fly if not in the "azure" ;-) Thanks L.D. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 00:59:47 +1000 From: Phil Graham <phil.graham@mailbox.uq.edu.au> Subject: How "the coalition" is killing itself (Weather Report) There has been much talk about combat in Iraq, bombings in Baghdad, the battles for Basrah and Um Qasar, whether or not the attack is going to plan, human rights violations on both sides, etc, etc, etc. In short, all the stuff we've come to expect from the warmongering mainstream media. There has even been a lot of talk about the weather. Dust storms to be specific. As I watched the wall-to-wall footage of vague figures in fatigues sucking down the Southern Iraqi desert dust, as machinery and vision failed, as confusion and a sense of scale hit the troops and their commanders, I wondered how soon the 100,000+ military personnel from US, UK, and Australia exposed to the dust would begin to show signs of radiation sickness because of the massive amounts of depleted uranium they must have been inhaling. Not a word has been said about it, at least not to my knowledge. Apart from committing serious violations of international law which will undoubtedly result in war crimes charges, the governments responsible for ordering these people to invade Iraq have also sentenced them to numerous unsavoury futures as a result of extended and extreme exposure to depleted uranium: slow and painful death; strange incurable cancers; and horrendous disabilities for hundreds of thousands of children born to those who are able to have children, or at least who manage to have children before they are rendered unable to reproduce from the effects of the enormous amounts of depleted uranium deposited in Southern Iraq during and since the Gulf War. One commentator notes the effects of depleted uranium on the population of Basrah in 2001: "I thought I had a strong stomach - toughened by the minefields and foul frontline hospitals of Angola, by the handiwork of the death squads in Haiti and by the wholesale butchery of Rwanda. But I nearly lost my breakfast last week at the Basrah Maternity and Children's Hospital in southern Iraq. Dr Amer, the hospital's director, had invited me into a room in which were displayed colour photographs of what, in cold medical language, are called "congenital anomalies", but what you and I would better understand as horrific birth deformities. The images of these babies were head-spinningly grotesque, and thank God they didn't bring out the real thing, pickled in formaldehyde. At one point I had to grab hold of the back of a chair to support my legs." http://www.rense.com/general17/south.htm A report from the International Action Centre notes that "[The] president of the Australian Yellow Cross International traced down an American war crime that had been previously kept secret and made it public internationally. He conducted extensive studies in Iraq on the effect of DU on Iraqi population. These studies produced ample evidence to show that contact with DU ammunition has the following consequences, especially for children: *A considerable increase in infectious diseases caused by most severe immunodeficiencies in a great part of the population; *Frequent occurrence of massive herpes and zoster afflictions, also in children; *AIDS-like Syndrome; *A hitherto unknown syndrome caused by renal and hepatic dysfunctions; *Leukemia, elaptic anemia and malignant neoplasms; *Congenital deformities caused by genetic defects, which are also to be found in animals. In his book The Fire This Time, former U.S attorney-general Ramsey Clark said there were about fifty thousand depleted-uranium missiles and rockets fired from U.S aircraft in more than 110,000 aerial sorties over Iraq. He said U.S aircraft had dropped over eighty-eight thousand tons of bombs on the country, the equivalent of seven-and-one-half bombs of the size of the atomic bomb that incinerated Hiroshima. But later research proved that there were probably more than nine hundred thousand rounds of depleted uranium ammunition fired on Iraq" http://www.iacenter.org/depleted/du_iraq.htm People aware of depleted uranium use in munitions usually assume it is used only in armour piercing shells, affectionately called "crispy critters" (a picture at this address shows why http://www.zianet.com/boje/peace/facts_and_myths_about_iraq_war.htm). But, as an IDUST reporter notes: "DU is being used in armor-piercing bullets, casing on bombs, shielding on Today tanks, counterweights and penetrators on missiles, cluster bombs, anti-personnel mines, and other weapons sometimes referred to as "dirty bombs." The US government and others maintain that the only purpose for using DU is to pierce armor. However, DU has a dual use because it is in fact being used to poison personnel. Already in 1978 an author noted in the periodical Strategic Review that today's most effective conventional anti-tankweapons are designed to penetrate tank armor and produce radiation effects which will kill or disable the tank crews." http://www.iraqpeaceteam.org/pages/DU_Damacio_Present_UNDP.html How much DU is there in Southern Iraq? Between 320 and 1,000 tons, depending on who you believe and how you do the figures. 1000 pounds of the stuff is way more than enough to kill 100,000 people. How much does it take to make a person sick? "If even one small particle (less than five microns in diameter, 5-millionths of a meter, the size of cigarette ash) is trapped in the lungs, surrounding tissues can be exposed up to 272 times the maximum permitted dose for workers in the radiation industry". http://www.iraqpeaceteam.org/pages/DU_Damacio_Present_UNDP.html. The half life of the stuff is about 4 billion years, give or take a million years. In other words, the "coalition" troops have, without a doubt, collectively sucked down enough depleted uranium dust (DUD) in the past week to kill them hundreds of times over, along with generations of their children. I find no mention of this anywhere. Perhaps the organisers of the invasion just forgot the stuff was there. Those of us exposed to the dust storm footage, whether "for" or "against" the invasion, were watching people being killed by nuclear weapons. Apart from any other consequences of the current invasion, the troops invading Iraq have been sentenced by their government to a life of severe illness, early death, and grotesque birth defects for their children. Vive la geurre? No thanks. Phil DU in Southern Iraq -- Infolinks http://www.iraqpeaceteam.org/pages/DU_Damacio_Present_UNDP.html http://rwor.org/a/v22/1080-89/1086/iraq.htm http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0118-01.htm http://www.ius.bg.ac.yu/apel/du-articles.html http://www.ius.bg.ac.yu/apel/du-articles-2.html http://www.mindspring.com/~wnpj/terrstmt.htm http://alt.venus.co.uk/weed/current/bigissue.htm http://www.zianet.com/boje/peace/facts_and_myths_about_iraq_war.htm http://www.nonviolence.org/vitw/old_site/pages/187.htm http://www.anti-imperialist.org/Iraq-background_9-24-01.html http://www.michaelparenti.org/DefyingSanctions.html http://www.stopnato.org.uk/du-watch/euler/athens.htm http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/irtenye.htm http://pilger.carlton.com/media/articles/19261 http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/mar2000/iraq-m11.shtml ...................................................................................................... Opinions expressed in this email are my own unless otherwise stated. If you have received this in error, please ignore and delete it. Phil Graham Senior Lecturer UQ Business School www.philgraham.net www.cds-web.net ...................................................................................................... ------------------------------ # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net