March 18 2003

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• Remember Guantanamo Bush is right to condemn Iraq's treatment of captured soldiers - but his outrage rings hollow
Editorial, Independent, U.K.

• Outrage in Baghdad
It's not easy being an American in a Baghdad Emergency room
By April Hurley, MD, Iraq Peace Team

• The shocking truth about 'shock and awe'
By Robert Fisk

• Ashamed to be an American
Letter to NPR: Iraq parading prisoners of war
By Hugh Sansom

• On Fire
Bringing the war back home to Baghdad by the Bay
By John Ross

• Baghdad's night of terror
The U.S. empire's message: Resistance is futile
By Robert Fisk

• On the bus
Journalists, lawyers, four-year-olds – the cops were ready to bust anyone Thursday morning
By Steven T. Jones

• History Lesson, Bay Guardian city editor Steven T. Jones looks for perspective from our past in understanding Bush's approach to war.

• Life During Wartime: Weekly column by Bay Guardian reporter A.C. Thompson

• www.electroniciraq.net is a news portal on the US-Iraq crisis published by veteran antiwar campaigners Voices in the Wilderness and respected Middle East supplementary news publishers, the Electronic Intifada. The Iraq Diaries section offers eyewitness reports from Iraq, and Electronic Iraq's intention is to publish diary accounts from on the ground during any hostilities. Content from this website can be easily syndicated onto other friendly sites by webmasters.

• Common Dreams has a compilation of progressive news and views on the war.

• Vote to impeach President George W. Bush at http://www.votetoimpeach.org.

• Will the war begin with a lie? Iraq will be invaded or occupied regardless of ultimatum. A media advisory from FAIR.org

• Four historians appeared on PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer after Bush declared war on Iraq, but it was Howard Zinn – author of A People's History of the United States – who stole the show.

World reaction: selected links to newspapers around the world as they cover Bush's war declaration

• Nicholas Buchele, Arab News, on the "new totalitarian regime"

• Pentagon orders 77,000 bodybags

• The U.K. Guardian

• Le Monde (translated into English through Google)

• The Independent, U.K. main page (Click here for editorials, here for comment)

• Cairo Times, English edition