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.

These Times They Aren’t a-Changin’ by Leah C. Wells. A look at Regime Uunchanged

Calendar for Mil Rai’s U.S. Book tour

10 November 2003

Journey into Baghdad and wonder why more than 11 ounces of Samuel Beckett’s "Waiting for Godot" needs to be smuggled into the hands of drama students. See into the paintings of Amal who lives in the oldest house in Baghdad. Listen to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. speak as a "brother to the suffering poor of Iraq… and for those whose land is being laid waste, whose homes are being destroyed, whose culture is being subverted, and for the poor of America who are paying the double price of smashed hopes at home and death and corruption in Iraq." Meet Sundus and her gift, and never forget her. Show that part of Baghdad we rarely see: the part with people in it. Learn of music that speaks to the sadness of life, an expression of infinite sadness, and why Celine Dion is seemingly so popular in Baghdad. Understand that joy still springs within the tremors of war and occupation, and there is dancing, dancing that will not cease. Visit Baghdad in No Particular Order.

24 November 2003

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• Jessica Lynch’s Doctor talks to VitW
• “The Killing Continues”: A Press Conference with General Sanchez.
• Reflects on the Al Kawas Family
• Interview with Ed Kinane
• Rent a Whitey: A New Iraqi NGO

24 November 2003

Columbus, GA - Over ten thousand people gathered this weekend outside the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia in the most diverse demonstration yet of opposition to the School of the Americas, renamed Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (SOA/WHISC), a combat-training school for Latin American soldiers. Hundreds of thousands of Latin Americans have been tortured, raped, assassinated, "disappeared", massacred, and forced into refuge by SOA graduates.

51 people got arrested this weekend during the vigil and nonviolent direct action to close the SOA for the charge of trespassing on federal property. 3 people have asked that no one post bond for them and are still being held in Muscogee County jail.

"Prison will not deter us," said Kathy Kelly, who was among those arrested today. "We intend to close this school and to change the foreign policy that this school represents."

Ed Kinane
Voices in The Wilderness
Baghdad
October 18, Saturday

SAMARRA

Driven and guided by our friend Ghareeb, Neville and I go north for the weekend. G. drives unusually fast, so we cover a lot of ground. First we go to Samarra, 160 kilometers north of Baghdad. There we view a huge ancient now-roofless mosque. Reconstruction work began here a couple years ago. It was interrupted by the war.

Next door is the ‘Spiral’ — a winding outside staircase about four feet wide and about seven stories high. It’s conical: broad at the bottom, narrow at the top. It’s what I, but not people here, would call a ziggurat. Nev and I climb to the top. Unlike most monuments or public works projects anywhere, the steps are spaced comfortably for walking. Far views of the flat landscape in all directions.