Building on the success of his previous book WAR PLAN IRAQ, anti-war activist Milan Rai has charged up new and disturbing facts that the warmongers would rather we forgot about. 95 per cent new material, REGIME UNCHANGED is an angry battery of arguments for preventing the re-writing of history.

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The first half of REGIME UNCHANGED documents step-by-step the way in which Washington undermined and finally shut down the UN weapons inspectors’ efforts to disarm Iraq peacefully, just as they were on the brink of a new and decisive phase of inspections. It sets out in full for the first time the mystery of the Most Censored Document of 2003: the UNMOVIC Draft Work Programme, launched and torpedoed on the day President Bush issued his ultimatum to Saddam Hussein.

The second half of the book presents damning evidence that leading members of Saddam Hussein’ Ba’athist regime were deliberately restored to power in Iraq in the first month after ‘liberation’. A pattern familiar from US and UK policy in liberated territories after the Second World War (documented in REGIME UNCHANGED): denigration and demobilization of the resistance movements and restoration of collaborators and leaders of fascist regimes.

REGIME UNCHANGED demonstrates unequivocally that this was a war based on lies. This was not a war for disarmament or for ‘regime change’, but for power.

A furious book packed with facts, REGIME UNCHANGED is THE anti-war book of 2003.

Don’t read it. USE IT.

Calendar for Mil Rai’s U.S. Book tour
Special engagement in Chicago!
Read more about REGIME UNCHANGED at Justice Not Vengeance
It can be purchased in the United Sates through Barnes and Noble

CONTENTS PAGE
Introduction: Tony Blair Wobbled - We Nearly Derailed The War
I Argument Over - The War Was Wrong
II ‘Regime Change’ - A Prior Commitment
III First Strike - The February 2001 Bombing Of Baghdad
IV Sickly Inhibitions - The Political Significance Of 11 September
V George Bush Lied - Misconnecting Iraq, WMD And Terrorism
VI The First Ultimatum - The Five Demands
VII Disaster Strikes - Iraq Accepts The Weapons Inspectors
VIII The Minefield - Resolution 1441: Designed To Be Refused
IX No Smoke, No Gun - No Evidence Discovered
X Colin Powell Lied - Turning On The Inspectors
XI Inspection Was An Option - Qualitative Disarmament
XII Blitzing Dr Blix - UNMOVIC Resists
XIII The Censored Document - Destroying The Inspectors
XIV Authority And Power - US/UK Versus The UN
XV Regime Reloaded - Re-Nazifying Iraq
XVI Hitler Won - False De-Nazification
XVII Coup d’État - The US Wanted A Coup
XVIII Why ‘Regime Stabilization’? - Turkey and Saudi Arabia Need Saddamism
XIX Crushing the Resistance - After WWII: Betraying The Anti-Fascists
XX Regime Revolutions - De-Ba’athification?
XXI Shia Power - A Looming Confrontation With The People Of Iraq
XXII Sunni Rage - After Falluja
XXIII Capitalism’s War
XXIV Regime Unchanged
Postscript - What Would You Have Done?

Nov 12
3:30 PM - Brooklyn College Student Union, East 27th and Campus Road, contact: BerrigaF@newschool.edu
6:30 PM - Long Island University, 4th floor lounge in Humanities Building, Debevoise St (at Willoughby), contact: BerrigaF@newschool.edu

Nov 13
12:00 PM - St. Peters College, New Jersey, contact: Anna Brown ajbspc@earthlink.net
7:00 PM - Columbia University, Room 313 in Fayerweather Hall, (off Amsterdam by St. Paul’s Chapel, contact: Gabe Huck 212-491-1162

Nov 14
3:00 PM — Marymount Manhattan College 221 East 71st Street, New York, NY 10001, in the mezzanine, (this event will be streamed live on the internet) contact: Terri Dewhirst (212)-774-4866
7:00 PM - Bluestockings Book Store and Activist Center 172 Allen Street, New York, NY 10002, contact: Brook Lehman brooke@bluestockings.com

Nov 15
6:00 PM - School of the Art Institute 280 South Columbus Drive, Chicago, IL 60603, contact: Joe Proulx joe@vitw.org
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Nov 16
7:00 PM - “Highschool” 1542 North Milwaukee Avenue 3rd Floor, Chicago, IL 60622, contact: Joe Proulx joe@vitw.org

Nov 17
7:30 PM - Ruminator Books 1648 Grand Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105, Q and A and book signing, contact: 651-699-0587

Nov 18
8:00 PM - Winona State University, Student Activity Center, lower Kryzsko Commons, contact: Safaa Abdel-Majid safaa@vitw.org

Nov 19
7:00 PM - Madison Area Technical College 211 North Carroll Street. Downtown campus-Room D240, contact: Rainbow Books 608-257-6050

Nov 21
7:00 PM - Keystone Church 5019 Keystone Place North, Seattle, WA

Nov 22
7:30 PM - Elliot Bay Bookstore, 101 South Main Street, Seattle, WA

Nov 23
Time: TBA - Vancouver, BC, Canada, contact: Irene MacInnes (604)-737-1299 iremac@shaw.ca

Special engagement in Chicago!
Voices will be hosting Milan Rai for a talk at School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Columbus Drive Auditorium next Saturday November 15 at 6pm. This event is free and open to the public.

Don’t miss it!!

Come see Milan Rai discuss his new book Regime Unchanged- Why the War in Iraq Changed Nothing. Three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee Kathy Kelly has referred to Milan as our generation’s Noam Chomsky. He is the founder of the UK branch of Voices In the Wilderness and author of Chomsky’s Politics and War Plan Iraq.

Joining Milan will be a new video work by Paul Chan, a NYC based artist and SAIC alumni. Paul Chan’s new work entitled "Baghdad In No Particular Order" chronicles his stay in Iraq as part of VitW’s Iraq Peace Team. This will be the first showing of the film in the US.

On Paul Chan and his new work:

From Dec. 14 to Jan. 14, Chan lived in Baghdad filming the people and the culture. He traveled to Iraq as a member of the Iraq Peace Team (IPT), a group initiated by Voices in the Wilderness. The IPT members included teachers, artists and church workers who live in Iraq at different times documenting the lives of Iraqi citizens. The IPT project began in Sept. 2002 in an attempt to prevent a U.S. attack on Iraq through the use of non-violent actions. The IPT project remained in Iraq recording the Iraqi citizens’ experiences throughout the war and during a part of the occupation. The piece is a montage of scenes filmed in single channel digital video used to increase awareness of the situation.