We have been providing high quality audio-visual programs on the issues of our times for almost 40 years. Our collection of over 1000 films, videos, and slide shows makes us perhaps the largest lending library of programs on peace and social justice issues in the country. A moving and very effective account of how the sanctions imposed on Iraq to allegedly to punish Saddam Husein and keep the country from developing weapons of mass destruction have led to the death of as many as 500,000 children in the past 10 years. We see heart-rending scenes of malnourished infants with cancer.
Iraqi physicians try to cope with lack of medicines and equipment.
We hear from Denis Haliday, who resigned his top U.N. post as administrator of the U.N.'s Oil for Food program, for the harm he saw done to children. Those effects are aggravated by the use of shells incorporating depleted Uranium. We also learn how UK and US policies built up Hussein and undermined opposition to him. We do hear from the US Department of State spokesman and a UN spokesman, but neither is very convincing as they mouth the official line. Very good quality of production and information.