Little Birds

"After the U.S. armed forces entered Iraq in April 2003, Watai Takeharu remained in Iraq to continue shooting portraits of Iraqi citizens in the war-ravaged country. In Baghdad, Samawa, Falluja, and at Abu Ghraib, Watai listened to the voices of the Iraqi people, and succeeded in catching glimpses of the truth about the Iraq War that mainstream media have failed to capture. From the footage of over 123 hours which resulted from his one-and-a-half-year-long research in Iraq, a film has now been competed." Read this film review by Gregory Elich on Electronic Iraq

IRAQ IS MOST DEFINITELY IN A (U.S. induced) CIVIL WAR. With so much world-wide war fatigue, Americans and its useless mainstream media, who were marginally attentive to the violence in Iraq, decided to pay a little attention the dramas in Lebanon, thanks to Lebanese bloggers and journalists inside and outside of Lebanon. The gruesome pictures coming out of Lebanon made a difference,creating public pressure & mass world demonstrations--mostly from people of color!!

More than a million Iraqis have died since 1991; cancer rates are extreme; the civil war is entrenched. What are we doing about it? Those of us who care, Iraqis, Lebanese, Palestinians, other activists--we need to keep the pressure on and to continue blogging, sending out visual and aural and verbal messages against the U.S. led aggression inside Iraq. --shlamma, salamat, always, nayj