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Reel Bad Arabs – DVD Sut Jhally (Director) This groundbreaking documentary dissects a slanderous aspect of cinematic history that has run virtually unchallenged form the earliest days of silent film to today's biggest Hollywood blockbusters. Featuring acclaimed author Dr. Jack Shaheen, the film explores a long line of degrading images of Arabs--from Bedouin bandits and submissive maidens to sinister sheikhs and gun-wielding "terrorists"--along the way offering devastating insights into the origin of these stereotypic images, their development at key points in US history, and why they matter so much today. More. |
 $37.00 |
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Arabs and Terrorism ... DVD Bassam Haddad A multi-faceted documentary project focusing on Arabs & Terrorism, this film is unique in it’s breadth and scope. "Arabs and Terrorism" was researched in 6 languages and filmed on location in 11 countries with 120 experts and politicians as well as hundreds of street interviews across the United States, Europe, and the Arab world. It examines the dominant discourse on terrorism in the United States and Europe and offers critics an opportunity to respond. Featuring 120 distinguished interviewees in 11 countries, as well as dozens of street-level interviews. Each episode contrasts high-profile interviewees and adversaries never seen together before on the same screen. More. |
 $29.00 |
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Iraq in Fragments ... DVD James Longley (Director) An opus in three parts, IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS offers a series of intimate, passionately-felt portraits: A fatherless 11-year-old is apprenticed to the domineering owner of a Baghdad garage; Sadr followers in two Shiite cities rally for regional elections while enforcing Islamic law at the point of a gun; a family of Kurdish farmers welcomes the US presence, which has allowed them a measure of freedom previously denied. More. |
 $29.00 |
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The World Tribunal On Iraq ... DVD (4 DVDs) Arundhati Roy (Contributor), David Barsamian (Contributor), Deep Dish TV (Director), DeeDee Halleck (Contributor), and Richard Falk (Contributor) A staggering 4 DVD collection, based around the World Tribunal On Iraq sessions in NYC in May 2004 and Istanbul in June 2005, documented with 5 one hour programs. An invaluable record of the crimes committed by the United States and its "Coalition of the Willing" partners in the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Iraqi witnesses and experts in international law, human rights, science, culture and history testified for three days before an international "Jury of Conscience" that included Arundhati Roy (India), Eve Ensler (U.S), Chandra Muzaffar (Malaysia), Dumisa Nsebeza (South Africa), Francois Houtart (Belgium), and Taty Almeida (Argentina). More. |
 $45.00 |
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Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers ... DVD Robert Greenwald IRAQ FOR SALE takes you inside the lives of soldiers, truck drivers, widows and children who have been changed forever as a result of profiteering in the reconstruction of Iraq. From Army soldiers outsourced from their military jobs by contractors making five-times what they do, to truck drivers abandoned by their company to die in the dessert at the hands of insurgents. From the mother of a former NAVY SEAL who blames corporate negligence for his violent death in Fallujah, to the truck driver from Oklahoma who watched his employer literally burn brand new trucks to the ground in a bald attempt to rake in more money. IRAQ FOR SALE is a movie about corporate traitors stealing American money and spending American lives – exploiting the Iraq War to make a killing for themselves. Using whistleblowers, first-hand accounts, corporate financial records and top-secret documents, IRAQ FOR SALE tells the story that has been kept away from the general public. More. |
 $29.00 |
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Mission Rejected: U.S. Soldiers Who Say No To Iraq Norman Solomon (Introduction by) and Peter Laufer Disillusioned, outraged, and betrayed, American soldiers are taking a stand against the war in Iraq. A shattering journey of revelation, pain, and betrayal, Mission Rejected takes the reader deep into the turmoil of U.S. troops confronting the Iraq War. Some of these soldiers have decided not to fight in Iraq. Others, who have served in the "Sand Box" only to return so appalled by their experience and by what that experience has done to them, choose to declare, in the words of the old Phil Ochs song, "I'm not marchin' anymore!" Consider Specialist Jeremy Hinzman, who chose Canada over his military career. When queried about his obligation to follow orders, his answer came fast: "I was told in basic training that, if I'm given an illegal or immoral order, it is my duty to disobey it. I feel that invading and occupying Iraq is an illegal and immoral thing to do." Meet Sergeant Camilo Mejía, who said from prison, "Behind these bars I sit a free man because I listened to a higher power: the voice of my conscience." Increasing numbers of U.S. soldiers are returning from Iraq horrified by what they witnessed and what they did. Journalist and Vietnam Veteran Peter Laufer tells how these soldiers are transformed from trained warriors to activists in the struggle to end the Iraq War. He puts their experiences into context by drawing on the lessons of the Vietnam War and citing the historical precedents for troops who refuse unconscionable orders. Includes a foreword by Norman Solomon. |
 $21.00 |
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The Occupation: War And Resistance In Iraq Patrick Cockburn In March 2003, Patrick Cockburn traveled secretly to Iraq just before the invasion, and has covered the war from Baghdad ever since. In The Occupation, Cockburn describes the fighting on the ground as Saddam's armies collapsed, the looting of Baghdad, the failure of the US occupation, the springs of the resistance and how it turned into a full scale uprising. Explaining how the three main Iraqi communities, the Kurds, the Shia and the Sunni, responded to the growing conflict, he gives us a nuanced portrait of daily life in Baghdad, of how Iraqis themselves reacted to the invasion and the long war and occupation that followed. "Cockburn writes with authority and understatement... He'll be read when the rest of us are long forgotten." — The Times. |
 $29.00 |
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Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog From Iraq Riverbend and James Ridgeway (Introduction by) In August 2003, a young Iraqi blogger began reporting on her experiences as a civilian observer in Baghdad. Calling herself Riverbend, she has offered searing eyewitness accounts of daily life in the war zone and has garnered a worldwide audience hungry for unfiltered news and fresh analysis. Riverbend's blog, Baghdad Burning, collected here for the first time, responds to events both personal and political—from the impact on her family of the invasion's aftermath to the Abu Ghraib prison abuses. She reveals for us most sharply the fate of Iraqi women, whose rights and freedoms are falling victim to rising fundamentalisms. Describing the reality of regime change in Iraq in a voice at turns outraged, witty, and deeply moving, Riverbend is a vital witness to the recent events that are shaping the future of her homeland. "I've learned more about the occupation of Iraq from Riverbend's blog than from just about any other news source... Every American should read this book."—Katha Pollitt Includes a foreword by Ahdaf Soueif, and an introduction by James Ridgeway. |
 $19.00 Out of Stock |
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Baghdad Burning II: More Girl Blog From Iraq Riverbend Riverbend, the Iraqi blogger who received the Ulysses Prize for literary reportage, continues her dispatches from her native Baghdad. Embedded journalism at its most compelling, her blog recounts the major events of the occupation and the insurgency since October 2004, as well as her and her family's daily struggles. The postings include: An "open letter to Americans" before the 2004 election begging them to consider what a second Bush term will mean for Iraq. The irony of living in an oil-rich country with a desperate fuel shortage: Riverbend waits with her brother in long lines before the gas pump and then goes home to siphon out the fuel for the neighborhood generator. A description of the plight of young women in an increasingly Islamist Iraq: "The problem with defiance (not going out in public fully covered) is that it doesn't just involve you personally, it involves anyone with you at that moment—usually a male relative. It means that there might be an exchange of ugly words or a fight and probably, after that, a detention in Abu Ghraib." The kidnapping of Christian Science Monitor reporter Jill Carroll; with a moving tribute to Carroll's guide and translator, a well-known person in the neighborhood who was murdered on the spot by the kidnappers. |
 $19.00 |
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Crimes Of War: Iraq Noam Chomsky (Contributor), Arundhati Roy (Contributor), Howard Zinn (Contributor), Cindy Sheehan (Contributor), Robert Jay Lifton (Editor), Irene Gendzier (Editor), and Richard Falk (Editor) Crimes of War—Iraq provides a comprehensive legal, historical, and psychological exploration of the war in Iraq from the same editorial team whose 1971 Crimes of War was a landmark book about Vietnam and the revelation of American war crimes. The editors apply standards of international criminal law, as set forth at Nuremberg after World War II, and by subsequent developments regarding individual responsibility and accountability. These principles have to do with the waging of aggressive war, attacks on civilian centers of population, rights of resistance against an illegal occupation, and the abuse of prisoners. Explorations of psychology and human behavior include levels of motivation and response in connection with torture at Abu Ghraib; the phenomenon of the atrocity-producing situation in both Vietnam and Iraq (in which counter-insurgency, military policies, and angry grief could cause ordinary people to participate in atrocities); the behavior of doctors and medics in colluding in torture at Abu Ghraib; emerging testimony of American veterans of Iraq concerning the confusions of the mission, and the widespread killing of civilians; and accounts of broadening unease and psychological disturbance among men and women engaged in combat. Contributors include Cindy Sheehan, Arundhati Roy, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn and dozens more. Nearly 500 pages on the crimes, and complicity of war. |
 $21.00 |
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Fallujah ... DVD Deep Dish TV (Director) Fallujah is a collaborative production created by Iraqi and American filmmakers. After a major US led offensive launch in November of 2004, two-thirds of the city was destroyed and thousands of its citizens were forced into refugee camps. Code Pink commissioned Iraqi filmmaker Homodi Hasim to send a team of videographers and investigative journalists to Fallujah to record the destruction and death inflicted by the American assault. He also interviewed many of the thousands of Fallujah residents who were forced to live in refugee camps on the outskirts of Fallujah and Baghdad. Using the footage produced by Code Pink and additional footage of the US led destruction of Fallujah, Deep Dish Television has produced this gripping documentary. |
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About Baghdad .. DVD InCounter Productions In July of 2003, exiled writer and poet Sinan Antoon returned to his native Baghdad with a team of independent filmmakers, artists and poets to document the effects that decades of oppression, war, sanctions and occupation have had on his city. The result is a fascinating mosaic of opinions, perspectives, desires and memories that offers a picture far more complex than the limited one presented by mainstream US media. About Baghdad pays tribute to the brave people of Baghdad as they struggle to come to terms with the tragic fate of their beloved city. More. |
 $29.00 |
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Hizbu'llah: Politics & Religion Amal Saad-Ghorayeb Hizbu'llah is the largest and most prominent political party in Lebanon, and one of the most renowned Islamist movements in the world. In this volume, Amal Saad-Ghorayeb examines the organisation's understanding of jihad and how this, together with its belief in martyrdom, brought about the withdrawal of Israeli occupation forces from Lebanese territory in May 2000. Saad-Ghorayeb explores the nature of the party's struggle against the West by studying, among other issues, its views on the use of violence against Westerners. Crucially, she also addresses the question of whether Hizbu'llah depicts this struggle in purely political or civilisational terms. The existential nature of the movement's conflict with Israel is analysed and the Islamic roots of its anti-Judaism is unearthed. The author explores the mechanics and rationale behind the party's integration into the Lebanese political system, and sheds light on how it has reconciled its national idenitity with its solidarity with the Muslim umma. |
 $29.00 |
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Lebanon, Lebanon Robert Fisk (Contributor), Mahmoud Darwish (Contributor), and Anna Wilson (Editor) Children are living in appalling conditions in Lebanon since the outbreak of war in July 2006. This collection of writing and drawings – from some of the world's leading authors and artists – is for them. The contributors include: Etel Adnan, Adonis, Paul Auster, Hoda Barakat, John Berger, Abbas Beydoun, Raymond Briggs, Carmen Callil, John le Carré, Jung Chang, Hassan Daoud, Mahmud Darwish, Margaret Drabble, Moris Farhi, Simone Fattal, Robert Fisk, Lara Frankena, Maggie Gee, Mai Ghoussoub, Charles Glass, Fabio Guzman, Malu Halasa, Mona Hatoum, Tobias Hill, Aamer Hussein, Nada Awar Jarrar, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Peter Kennard, Judith Kazantzis, Mazen Kerbaj, Zena el-Khalil, Hanif Kureishi, Doris Lessing, Toby Litt, Madi, Jean Said Makdisi, Alberto Manguel, Yann Martel, David Medalla, Adrian Mitchell, Blake Morrison, Beverley Naidoo, V. S. Naipaul, Alexandre Najjar, Adam Nankervis, Greta Naufal, Shirin Neshat, Rebecca O'Connor, Orhan Pamuk, Hadrian Piggott, Harold Pinter, Clare Pollard, Mohammed Rawas, Rhea, Claudia Roden, Marisa Rueda, Kamila Shamsie, Hanan al-Shaykh, Owen Sheers, Anna Sherbany, David Shrigley, Iain Sinclair, Souheil Sleiman, Ali Smith, George Szirtes, Arnold Wesker, Brian Whitaker, Hugo Williams and Zapiro. |
 $24.00 |
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Pity The Nation: The Abduction Of Lebanon Robert Fisk A remarkable combination of war reporting and analysis by an award-winning foreign correspondent who has witnessed the carnage of Beirut for 25 years. Fisk spares no one in this saga of the civil war and subsequent Israeli invasion: the PLO, whose thuggish behavior alienated most Lebanese; the various Lebanese factions, whose appalling brutality spared no one; the Syrians, who supported first the Christians and then the Muslims in their attempt to control Lebanon; and the Israelis, who tried to install their own puppets and, with their 1982 invasion, committed massive war crimes of their own. Now in a fully updated edition, with 60 new pages, to add to the already 700! |
 $22.00 Out of Stock |
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