[Media-watch] ColdType Special

[Tony Sutton]

NEW AT COLDTYPE.NET
PAYING THE PRICE ­ A 26-page excerpt from John Pilger's book, The New Rulers
Of The World.
If you wonder why the Iraqi people didn¹t welcome the American forces as
liberators at the end of the second Gulf war, it may be enlightening to read
this excerpt from John Pilger¹s book, The New Rulers Of The World, written
and published before war began. Pilger describes the terrible suffering of
the people of Iraq under the West¹s ­ specifically the United States and
Britain ­ decade-long embargo of that country, vicious sanctions that saw
hundreds of thousands of children die because of lack of medical treatment
as the richest country in the Middle East was brought to its knees because
of supposed ­ but still undiscovered ­ weapons of mass destruction.
In the first part of this excerpt, Pilger reports from Iraq on the murderous
effects of these sanctions on the most vulnerable section of Iraq society;
in the second, he travels to the United States, where he has an enlightening
interview with Madelaine Albright¹s Assistant Secretary of State James
Rubin. 
Pilger concludes, ³A prosecutor [at the International Criminal Court] might
ask who has killed the most innocent people in Iraq: Saddam Hussein, or
British and American policy-makers? The answer may well put the murderous
tyrant in second place.²
Download PAYING THE PRICE at http://www.coldtype.net
Read our archive of JOHN PILGER columns and essays at
http://www.coldtype.net/pilger.html
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PLUS ­ Read the latest reports from some of the world's most incisive
newspaper columnists, George Monbiot, of London's Guardian; Antonia
Zerbisias, of the Toronto Star; and media critics Norman Solomon and Michael
I. Niman.
Read GEORGE MONBIOT at http://www.coldtype.net/London.html
Read NORMAN SOLOMON at http://www.coldtype.net/mediabeat.html
Read ANTONIA ZERBISIAS at http://www.coldtype.net/broad.html
Read MICHAEL I. NIMAN at http://www.coldtype.net/Grip.html
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COMING SOON
Excerpts from two new books: David Miller's Tell Me Lies, and Loretta
Napoleoni's Modern Jihad. Plus more essays and photo-essays
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