Lettre d’opinion publiée dans le journal Le Devoir le 3 juillet 2007.
par Jacques Lanctôt www.ledevoir.com/2007/07/06/149512.html

(...) Il y a quelques jours, à Londres, on a déjoué un complot ...
y a-t-il une différence entre tuer des civils ...

by John Pilger in the New Stateman, 13th November 2006
Pilger is a renowned journalist. He is known and respected for being of the rare few to dare mention truths.

In a show trial whose theatrical climax was clearly timed to promote George W Bush in the American midterm elections, Saddam Hussein was convicted and sentenced to hang. Drivel about “end of an era” and “a new start for Iraq” was promoted by the usual false moral accountants, who uttered not a word about bringing the tyrant’s accomplices to justice. Why are these accomplices not being charged with aiding and abetting crimes against humanity?

by Jonathan Cook, July 26, 2006
Antiwar.com

This week I had the pleasure to appear on American radio, on the Laura Ingraham show, pitted against David Horowitz, who most recently made his name under the banner of Campus Watch, leading McCarthyite witch-hunts against American professors who have the impertinence to suggest that maybe, just maybe, Arabs have minds and feelings like the rest of us.

It was a revealing experience, at least for a British journalist rarely exposed to the depths of ignorance and prejudice in the United States on Middle East matters well, apart from the regular whackos who fill my e-mail in-tray. But five minutes of listening to Horowitz speak, and the sympathy with which his arguments were greeted by Laura (“The Professors your book’s a great read, David”), left me a lot more frightened about the world’s future.

Ce 24 septembre 2005,
il y a de bonnes raisons de dénoncer l’occupation de l’Irak
Cette lettre-conjointe, signée par 13 organismes de Québec et du Canada, provient d’un réseau pour la paix basé dans la Ville de Québec ( www.coalitionsquebec.org ). Elle a été écrite pour le 24 septembre 2005, en solidarité avec des manifestations à travers les États-Unis et le monde.
[ Aucun média commercial ne l’a publiée, mais elle fut publiée dans des médias citoyens.]

This 24th of September 2005,
there are good reasons to denounce the occupation of Iraq.
This joint-statement, signed by 13 organizations from Quebec and Canada, from the Quebec City peace network ( www.coalitionsquebec.org ) written for Sept. 24, 2005 in solidarity with the protests across the USA and the world.
[ Commercial medias did not publish it, but it was posted in French and English to various grassroots medias.]

Il y a presque un an j’écrivais sur le site « Oulala.net », le 19 septembre 2004 pour être plus exact, un article intitulé « Et si certains foutaient la paix aux pays arabes ». Je crois aujourd’hui ne pas m’être trompé en écrivant ces lignes. Les attentats sur Londres, revendiqués par des cellules d’al-Qaida, l’attentat à Beyrouth peu après la visite de Codoleezza Rice et l’attentat de Charm el Cheikh où au moins 83 personnes sont déjà portées disparues, toutes ces horreurs semblent maintenant me donner raison, même si Tony Blair nous dit de ne pas nous inquiéter. Ces attentats poursuit-il n’ont aucun lien avec l’envoie de troupes occidentales en Irak, mais qu’ils sont tout simplement le fruit de fanatiques islamiques sans rapport avec les politiques de la coalition. Je trouve ces affirmations déniées de toute responsabilité. Il faut être soit de mauvaise foi ou complètement inconscient pour déclarer de semblables assertions.

War in Iraq Violates International Law
by Tom Krebsbach, Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Opinion, July 15, 2005)
 
More than two grueling years have passed since U.S. and coalition forces stormed into the sovereign nation of Iraq. Still there has been little discussion in this country about the legal standing of the invasion.

Perhaps that is because most Americans are reluctant to admit this inconvenient but certain fact: The United States/United Kingdom invasion of Iraq in 2003 was a war of aggression, a crime against the peace as defined by the Nuremberg Principles.

Les exportations d’armes des pays du G8 alimentent la pauvreté et les atteintes aux droits humains
G8 arms exports fuelling poverty and human rights abuses

Español | Arabia
- Amnesty International, Oxfam et le RAIAL.

Siriel-Media Comment :
Note that four of the five permanent members of the United Nations ‘Security Council’ are members of the G8. Let us mostly notice that these permanent members of the ‘Security Council’ are the greatest purveyors of weaponry worldwide.

Included as a ‘comment’: UN Report on Iraqi living conditions released in Baghdad (May 2005).

Children ‘starving’ in new Iraq, BBC (March 30, 2005).
Increasing numbers of children in Iraq do not have enough food to eat and more than a quarter are chronically undernourished, a UN report says.

UN Rights Expert Charges US Using Food Access as Military Tactic, Agence France Presse (March 31, 2005).
A UN human rights expert sharply condemned the invasion of Iraq and the global anti-terror drive, accusing the US-led coalition of using food deprivation as a military tactic and of sapping efforts to fight hunger in the world.

Iraqi children malnutrition doubled after U.S. invasion (Aljazeera.com, March 30, 2005)
Speaking to the UN human rights body on Wednesday, Jean Ziegler, a hunger specialist, noted that malnutrition amongst Iraq’s young almost doubled since the U.S. led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein.

Iraq death toll ‘soared post-war’, BBC News (UK edition)...

Poor planning, air strikes by coalition forces and a “climate of violence” have led to more than 100,000 extra deaths in Iraq, scientists say. (...) [The Lancet] found the relative risk, the risk of deaths from any cause, was two-and-a-half times higher for Iraqi civilians after the 2003 invasion than in the preceding 15 months. That figure drops to one-and-a-half times higher if data from Falluja – the scene of repeated heavy fighting – is excluded.

Jeremy Laurance, Iraq faces soaring toll of deadly disease, The Independent (13 Oct. 2004, UK newspaper), writes:

Soaring rates of disease and a crippled health system are posing a new crisis for the people of Iraq, threatening to kill more than have died in the aftermath of the war. Deadly infections including typhoid and tuberculosis are rampaging through the country, according to the first official report into the state of health in the country.

Siriel-Media :

The ‘Media-silenced’ Humanitarian Crisis in Iraq has gotten worse
and too many people are dying in silence.
La crise humanitaire en Irak, qui se trouve «sous silence-média», s’est aggravée
et trop de gens meurent en silence.

A good summary of the untruthful propaganda we are fed about the war in Iraq. A brief article that poses very good questions…

by Voices in the Wilderness,October 13, 2004.
www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=6406