Afghanistan

• Eye on Afghanistan  The latest news on Afghanistan from Antiwar.com, including links to other sources.

• The Enemy Within, by Gore Vidal, The Observer, London, 27 October 2002. This article provides a geo-political/economic context for the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, imperialist goals, and speculation on the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the U.S.

Burma (Myanmar)
 

• Burmese Sue US Oil Company, the Guardian/UK, July 28, 2003. "Californian Firm Benefited from the Junta's 'Rape, Murder and Forced Labor.'"  This article includes a link for information on Dick Cheney's company Halliburton and its involvement with Burma.

• Free Burma Coalition  This site provides breaking news about Burma, and ways to get involved. The Free Burma Coalition is an Internet-based organization with grassroots member groups and affiliates in 28 countries. Through public education, policy advocacy, consumer boycotts, and divestment campaigns, FBC works to raise awareness about the horrific human rights violations by Burma's illegitimate military dictatorship.

Syria

• Znet's page on the U.S. push for war against Syria.

Iran

• Secrets of History: The CIA in Iran, by James Risen, New York Times, provides a history of the CIA coup of 1953 that overthrew a democratically elected government in Iran, and replaced it by a military dictatorship.  The purpose of the coup was to maximize western corporate control of oil.

"I have placed my death-head formations in readiness...with orders to them to send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women, and children of Polish derivation and language.  Only thus shall we gain the living space which we need.  Who after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?" --Adolf Hitler

• The Armenian Genocide of 1915:

 
• Remember The First Holocaust, by Robert Fisk
• Dead Reckoning; Holocausts vs holocausts, by Robert Fisk
• A conflict conveniently forgotten and a holocaust deliberately denied, by Robert Fisk
• Setting The Record Straight: Turkey, Islam And The Genocide Of Nearly Two Million Christian Armenians, by Henry Pelifian
• Extensive background on the history, culture of Armenia, and the genocide.

• Fascism's Firm Footprint in India, by Arundhati Roy, 30 September 2002, The Nation.

"On the evening of February 27, Hindu nationalists in the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP, the World Hindu Council) and the Bajrang Dal movement put into motion a meticulously planned pogrom against the Muslim community. Press reports put the number of dead at just over 800. Human rights organizations have said it is closer to 2,000. As many as 100,000 people, driven from their homes, now live in refugee camps. Women were stripped and gang-raped, and parents were bludgeoned to death in front of their children. In Ahmedabad, the former capital of Gujarat and the second-largest industrial city in the state, the tomb of Wali Gujarati, the founder of the modern Urdu poem, was demolished and paved over in the course of a night. The tomb of the musician Ustad Faiyaz Khan was desecrated. Arsonists burned and looted shops, homes, hotels, textile mills, buses and cars. Hundreds of thousands have lost their jobs."

Indonesia
 

• U.S. Criminal History in Indonesia, by S. Brian Willson, 1999   A brief introduction to U.S. involvement in Indonesia and East Timor.