CounterPunch Press is publishing Other Lands Have Dreams: From Baghdad to Pekin Prison, by Kathy Kelly, a co-founder of Voices in the Wilderness, with a Foreword by Milan Rai and an Afterward by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair.

Other Lands Have Dreams features analysis by Milan Rai (author of Regime Unchanged and social justice organizer in the United Kingdom) and Kathy’s writings from Baghdad and prison, with introductory remarks to place each section within its historical and contemporary setting.

Other Lands Have Dreams is Kathy’s account of her time in Iraq from the first Gulf War of 1991, through the misery of 12 years of economic sanctions, to the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq that began with Operating Shock and Awe and continues to the present.

Kathy, a founder of Voices in the Wilderness, returned to the U.S. and engaged in nonviolent / civil disobedience at two locations of the U.S. war machine: Project ELF in northern Wisconsin (since closed) and School of the Americas at Fort Benning, GA. Kathy served three months in federal prison for her nonviolent resistance at Fort Benning, Georgia, home to the School of the Americas. Kathy recounts in detail the miseries experienced by U.S. prisoners in a climate where the merciless war on drugs has fostered a “throw away the key mentality.”

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by Leah C. Wells

Saddam is gone, but Iraq is not much different. The chaotic post-invasion reality provides good cover for the purely cosmetic reinvention of this nation still at war.

Milan Rai, founder of the UK chapter of Voices in the Wilderness, has painstakingly outlined the international processes involved with the most openly illegal war in recorded history which reinstated many of the same Ba’thist ideologues and henchmen who were supposedly purged.

His book, “Regime Unchanged”, weaves together a shrewd narrative of quotes and analysis from across the political spectrum to demonstrate how the U.S. steamrolled through global opinion on its path toward conquering Iraq. Milan Rai asserts that the war nearly happened without the participation of the British, giving particular attention to the global anti-war movements, most notably within the United States and Great Britain.

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