Iraq Under Siege: The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War

Place_Pub: Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2000. Fourth Printing. Wraps. 224 pages. Wraps, illus., notes, index, slight cover wear/soiled. Signed by the editor (Arnove) & by Howard Zinn, one of the authors. In essays examining the effects on the Iraqi people of the sanctions imposed by the United States after the Gulf War, this collection includes essayists usually associated with the Left, such as John Pilger, Howard Zinn, and Noam Chomsky. They focus on a range of issues and most report devastation and human suffering on a large-scale. Taken as a whole, these essays argue that policies directed against Saddam Hussein greatly harm the civilian population. For nearly a decade now the Iraqi people have borne the hardship of life under harsh sanctions. More than one million people, many of them children under five, have died due to the sustained bombing attacks and the deprivation caused by the sanctions. In this book, leading voices against the sanctions document the human, environmental and social toll of the United States-led war against Iraq. Condition: very good.

Keywords: Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, United Nations, Sanctions, Denis Halliday, Political Activists, Madeleine Albright, Phyllis Bennis, Iraq

ISBN: 0896086194

[Book #52893]

Price: $50.00

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