Ongoing News from Iraq, including blogs

General resources

Other news and commentary, from:

Arab

British

Europe

India

Japan

North Korea

Pakistan

Russia

United Nations & Refugees

Voice of America

World Radio & Other News Outlets

Commentary from "Think Tanks"

Approaches to thinking about world events are informed by filters through which we understand and interpret what's happening. These approaches are shaped by experience, culture, our own sense of history, and the information resources available to us. The Web offers access to worldwide resources from which we can draw points of view, commentary, and analysis. Americans have daily access to news as disseminated in the United States. Many of the links on this page are to resources from outside the United States. 

Media from around the world!

Television

• LinkTV is television without borders. It includes access to MOSAIC, television from the Middle East.
• Mediascrape offers television news broadcasting from countries around the world.
• WN Networks World news
  
  Radio      RadioStationWorld || World Radio Network
  
  

  Africa	Australia	Britain	Canada	China
  France	Germany	India	Iran	Israel
  Japan	Netherlands	Russia	Spain (only in Spanish)	Vatican

Newspapers   Front Pages from around the world. From the Newseum

• Electronic Iraq
• Informed Comment from Juan Cole (U of Mich history prof)
• International Crisis Group
• Iraq Beyond the Green Zone
• Iraq News from The Washington Post
• Want to read what the U.S. Defense Dept. is saying? The State Dept.?
• Maps of Iraq
• Middle East Media Research Institute TV Monitor Project MEMRI on Iraq
• NeoConservative Think Tanks from CS Monitor
• War News Radio -- a project at Swarthmore College
• WatchingAmerica.com

Casualties and Costs

• Casualties in Iraq
• Cost of War from the National Priorities Project
• Iraq Body Count Information about the Project.
• Iraq Civilian War Casualties -- data collection by CIVIC Worldwide, Raed Jarrar, Director of Iraq Survey
• Iraq Coalition Casualty Count. Includes military contractors.
  

General resources for world after September 11

• War In Context Alternative Perspectives on the "War on Terrorism" and the Middle East Conflict
• War with Iraq from UCSD

U.S. Arms Sales

• Arms Sales Monitoring Project from the Federation of American Scientists

Analysis and Commentary from

Arab sources
Al-Jazeera. AlJazeera (in English)
ArabNews.com Registered in Saudi Arabia

Britain
British Broadcasting Corporation
British Ministry of Defence (MoD)
Economist Intelligence Unit From The Economist. Under EIU Views (over on left), click on Africa/Middle East
The Guardian Check the Comment section for commentaries by columnists. Their Politics page.
Independent.co.uk 

Europe
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

India
The Times of India

Japan
Asahi.com

North Korea
Korean News "News From KOREAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY of DPRK(Democratic People's Republic of Korea), "from the Web site."

Pakistan
Dawn Pakistan's most widely circulated English language newspaper. Has Editorial and Opinion sections.

Russia
Moscow Times

United Nations and Refugees
UNHCR United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
UNICEF United Nations Children's Fund 
United Nations News Center

Voice of America
Voice of America

World Radio and News Outlets
The Muslim News Independent Muslim newspaper in the United Kingdom
Radio Free Asia

Commentary from "think tanks"
The Netherlands
Transnational Institute -- War on Iraq (over on left)

United States "think tanks"
Brookings Institution
Center for Defense Information
Center for Strategic & International Studies
Henry L. Stimson Center
Institute for Policy Studies has a Foreign Policy In Focus Project
Institute for Public Accuracy in San Francisco
Strategic Forecasting

What Now in Iraq? Two public forums held at Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA. || Iraq Study Group at U.S. Institute of Peace.

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Topsy N. Smalley; last modified 1/09