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LOCAL CONTACTS

Please refer to the "Member Organizations" page of this website
or contact the PCMC chair at celiabos@gmail.com


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RECOMMENDED ARTICLES

"Who's Profiting from the Iraq War?"
   http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/CompanyFocus/WhosProfitingFromTheIraqWar.aspx


"War Costing $720 Million Each Day, Group Says"
   by Kari Lydersen
   The Washington Post, September 22, 2007 
   http://www.twf.org/News/Y2007/0817-Cost.html


"Becoming an American Citizen, the Hardest Way"
     By Clyde Haberman
     The New York Times, September 18, 2007
     http://select.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/nyregion/18nyc.html?_r=1&em&ex=1190347200&en=b9840b45039719ee&ei=5087%0A&oref=slogin


 "Iraq Fraud Whistleblowers Vilified"
   The Associated Press, MSNBC.com, Updated: 11:57 a.m. PT Aug 25, 2007
   http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20430153/
   Cases show fraud exposers have been vilified, fired, or detained for weeks 

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RECOMMENDED BOOKS
some of these titles may be available from the Monterey Peace and Justice Center
See also books listed on this website under "Military Alternatives"


Out of Iraq
by Johann Hari
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082807E.shtml

"Need Iraq Suffer More If We Pull Out?  Johann Hari writes for The Independent UK: "Former presidential
candidate George McGovern, who fought heroically against the Vietnam War, has worked on a detailed
way to leave Iraq that doesn't also leave behind a holocaust. It is mapped out in his book "  ...Truthout 


Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
by Thomas E. Ricks
The Penguin Press, New York, 2006

"...the definitive account--explosive, shocking, and authoritative--of the American military's tragic experience in Iraq. "

"Masterly...[Ricks's] knowledge of the military, vast experience and association with military organizations, and keen insights into the military culture clearly come out in this superb book."  -- Gen. Anthony Zinni (U.S. Marine Corps, ret.), former commander, U.S. Central Command


Chasing Ghosts: A Soldier's Fight for America from Baghdad to Washington
by Paul Rieckhoff, Executive Director and Founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America
New American Library, Division of Penguin Books, New York, 2006
ISBN:  0-451-21841-8 

"It is the real story of how the lies, idiocies, frustrations, obscenities, and tragedies of the war impact those who fight it..."
Senator Max Cleland, Vietnam Vet


The Assassin's Gate:  America in Iraq
by George Packer
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2005

"...vivid description of the haphazard, poorly planned and almost criminally executed occupation of Iraq. ... the staggering gap between abstract ideas and concrete reality."  Fareed Zakaria, The New York Times Book Review

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RECOMMENDED  FILMS
some of these films may be available from the Monterey Peace and Justice Center

No End in Sight
www.noendinsightmovie.com

War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death
www.warmadeeasythemovie.org
A documentary featuring Norman Solomon and narrated by Sean Penn that chronicles how propaganda
has been used to sell wars to the American people.