Invisible War: How Thirteen Years of US-Imposed Economic Sanctions Devastated Iraq Before the 2003 Invasion

i challenge everyone to watch this interview. norman finkelstein recommended this book when he spoke in syracuse. no, it’s not about the blockade of gaza. it’s about an equally pernicious and immoral blockade – the incredibly cruel sanctions imposed on iraq before the 2003 american invasion. half a million to three quarters of a million children dead as a result. this stat relates only to children under 5 – it does not include anyone older than 5, it does not include the sick or the elderly. talk about strangulating a civilian population and bringing an entire country to the absolute verge of collapse. shameful shameful shameful.

Joy Gordon, author of Invisible War: The United States and the Iraq Sanctions, writes, “U.S. policymakers effectively turned a program of international governance into a legitimized act of mass slaughter.” Full interview on DN! here.