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A. NEW ANTI-WAR BOOK: 'Regime Unchanged' by Milan Rai

Paul | 18.08.2003 21:02 | Culture | London | Oxford

Ex Oxford man Milan Rai has writern an new book 'Regeme Unchanged'which if it is anything like his last, War Plan Iraq', should be informative, readable and a great resource.

A. NEW ANTI-WAR BOOK from Milan Rai, author of the ARROW Anti-War
Briefings
and WAR PLAN IRAQ

1) Early Comments - John Pilger and Professor Paul Rogers
2) Summary
3) Contents pages
4) ISBN info
5) Ordering info for Special Activist's Advance Order Discount

REGIME UNCHANGED: Why The War Was Wrong

Order Now For A Special Activist's Discount

Please send in a completed form (see end of email) with your cheque
to:
ARROW Publications, 29 Gensing Road, St Leonards on Sea, East Sussex
TN38
0HE.

EARLY COMMENTS

'This is a magnificent exposé of the lies that propelled the criminal
attack on Iraq.'
John Pilger

'As the controversy over the war and its aftermath deepens, this is an
immediate, detailed and illuminating analysis that brings together a
remarkable range of material. Milan Rai does us all a service by
providing
so much of the evidence that is fuelling that controversy.'
Paul Rogers, Professor of Peace Studies, Bradford University

SUMMARY

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.

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's 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.

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?

Updates will be available on .

REGIME UNCHANGED: Why The War On Iraq Changed Nothing, by Milan Rai
Published by Pluto Press in the UK in September 2003, and in North
America
in November 2003. £10.99 ISBN 0 7453 2199 2 paperback.

Ask your library to order a copy!

ORDERING INFO

Special Discount for Advance Orders

JNV has secured a limited quantity of advance copies of Milan Rai's
256-
page book, REGIME UNCHANGED, from Pluto Press, for sale to UK
activists.

For orders sent from a UK address before 20 August 2003, the book
will be
available for £8.50 inc p&p. The price after 20 August, and in
bookshops,
will be £10.99 (plus £1.80 p&p).

Unfortunately we have no method of dealing with credit card orders,
either
online or by telephone. Our apologies.

To secure your copy/copies of REGIME UNCHANGED, please print off this
page,
fill it in, and send with a cheque made out to 'ARROW PUBLICATIONS',
to 29
Gensing Road, St Leonards on Sea, East Sussex TN38 0HE.

REVIEWS for 'War Plan Iraq'

George Monbiot: 'The clearest and most persuasive explanation of the
reasons not to go to war with Iraq that anyone could wish for.'

Tariq Ali: 'An excellent weapon. Required reading'

John Pilger: 'If Nobel Peace Prizes were given to true peacemakers,
one
would be reserved for Milan Rai. This book is a thorough, irrefutable
testimony'

Bruce Kent: 'Milan Rai is an author on whose accuracy and research we
have
come to rely.'

ORDER FORM

Please send me 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / copies of REGIME UNCHANGED at
£8.50
per copy. Total: £

I enclose a cheque made out to ARROW Publications to the sum of £

This order is being posted before 20 August 2003.

Name (block capitals please):

Postal Address (block capitals please):

Postcode:

Email address/phone number (in the event of delays/problems):

Please send in a completed form with your cheque to:
ARROW Publications, 29 Gensing Road, St Leonards on Sea, East Sussex
TN38
0HE.

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B. SEPTEMBER BOOK TOUR: Milan Rai available to speak to groups around
the
country,

Author Milan Rai will be available for talks in the lead up to
publication
of his new book, 'Regime Unchanged', in early September.

September is also the month that will see renewed anti-war activities,
including a lively picket of the Docklands arms fair and a
demonstration to
coincide with the Labour Pa

Paul