On the morning of 2nd August 1990, I awoke to an early morning phone call at about 7:30 am. It was my brother-in-law on the line. He was confused, scared and asked me whether I knew anything about what was going on in Kuwait at that moment. In a shaky anxious voice, he told me that when he was on his way to work in Shuwaikh, he saw a tank blocking the 4th Ring Road and a military officer telling people to go back to their homes speaking in a pure Iraqi accent.

Dedicated to all non-white Americans who face injustice at the hands of a racist system.

The Nation, July 11, 1966

The Nation, July 11, 1966

Until white Americans, liberals and conservatives alike, join African Americans, Native Americans, Latinx Americans, Asian Americans, and all people of colour in replacing this white supremacist system with an anti-racist republic, politically and economically, the revolts of African Americans and their allies against the American Republic of White Supremacy will continue for the foreseeable future. 

Joseph Massad
Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History at Columbia University, New York

“The vast majority of Black families find it necessary to have “the talk” with their children. No, not the one about the birds and the bees. This talk prepares them to expect unfair and disrespectful treatment from the police – and to accept such treatment because the slightest objection could result in their death.”
 
Derrick Johnson
President of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
The Guardian, 03 June 2020

Who really needs to “Stay Alert and Control the Virus”? Is it you and your incompetent government, or the British people who have lost more than thirty three thousand lives and rising?

Boris Johnson, British Prime Minister, during a global Corona crisis.

Thanks to Boris and his government “Dither & Delay” and incompetence, our Corona death toll will soon be the second worst in the world after America.

That’s how reckless, irrational and incompetent Trump described Coronavirus at the outbreak of the pandemic. Since then, a million Americans have fallen ill with the “hoax” and more than 67,000 have died; in just a few weeks surpassing the US death toll in all the years of the Vietnam war.

To all doctors, nurses and medical staff around the world. Your efforts and sacrifices in fighting Covid-19 are highly appreciated.

A print design for my Italian friends and for Italy that I love.
Un print-design per i miei amici italiani e per l’Italia che amo.

Why is it that all Iraqi soldiers who fled Mosul and handed the city easily to ISIS in June 2014 were trained and equipped by America? Boot America out of Iraq and Syria. Terror sponsors cannot be terror fighters.

Why is it that all those who lust for our blood and wish to see ISIS cause more death and destruction in Iraq and Syria keep telling us: “you can’t defeat ISIS without America? Boot America out of Iraq and Syria. Terror sponsors cannot be terror fighters.

Why is it that all “mighty” America reshuffles ISIS terrorists between borders and makes their hideouts no-go-areas to anti-terror Iraqi and Syrian troops? Boot America out of Iraq and Syria. Terror sponsors cannot be terror fighters.

Why is it that all America can do is pretend to fight ISIS when in fact one of its aims in Iraq is to complete its military besiegement of Iran? Boot America out of Iraq and Syria. Terror sponsors cannot be terror fighters.

Why is it that all America can do is tell lies again and again by pretending to fight ISIS when in fact it wants to put its hands on Iraqi and Syrian oil? Boot America out of Iraq and Syria. Terror sponsors cannot be terror fighters.

Why is it that all US officials are eager to disband The Popular Mobilisation Forces – a group of Iraqi volunteers – who defeated ISIS, liberated Mosul and other parts of Iraq? Boot America out of Iraq and Syria. Terror sponsors cannot be terror fighters.

Why is it that all Iraqi people, after more than fifty years of dictatorship, have nothing but the dreadful choice to live either under ISIS rule or under American occupation? Boot America out of Iraq and Syria. Terror sponsors cannot be terror fighters.

George Monbiot, The Guardian, 10 December 2019

“Why are these lying politicians not taking action over this lying company that is allowing lying politicians to lie to me?”
Carole Cadwalladr
Journalist, The Observer, 27.10.2019

A print inspired by an interview with James Verini, the American author of They Will Have To Die Now: Mosul And The Fall Of The Caliphate.
In answering a question about what he has taken away from being in Mosul, Iraq, he said: “Yet more guilt, and more shame about America’s role in the destruction of Iraq over the last decade and a half. You see the effect of it endlessly and, if you’re not endlessly ashamed, then you ought to be.”
The Observer, 29.9.2019

This print is dedicated to the memory of all innocent people who lost their lives as a result of knife crimes in the UK. Their families and loved ones have been left to endure the pain and torment of their loss.

Italian Jew, chemist, author and Holocaust survivor.
English translation by Ruth Feldman

This poster is dedicated to the Palestinian people whose liberties and equality are denied by the oppressive and racist Israeli regime.

From her novel Home

or how to turn a defeat into a victory (the American/Trumpian style)

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister, 29 August 2018

Question: Why would any objection to this type of fascist rhetoric, spewed out daily by far right racist Israeli politicians, be judged as anti-Semitic?

Stop the daily criminal practices against Palestinian civilians

Mike “Bombastic” Pompeo, US Secretary of State, during a speech at The American University in Cairo, January 2019.

In Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, we learned when America interferes, chaos often follows.

Benito Mussolini, Fascist chief, soon after he learned he had been elected member of the Italian Parliament in 1921.
Don’t let anti-democrats win democratic elections.

After seeing Mussolini 2019 calendar on sale in Rome. 

“America shouldn’t be doing the fighting for every nation on earth, not being reimbursed in many cases at all. If they want us to do the fighting, they also have to pay a price. And sometimes that’s also a monetary price.”
Trump to American troops in Iraq, December 26th 2018.

‘Money Buys Everything’ is the tried and tested Saudi policy that achieves results in every currency.
The money that buys everything corrupts everyone.

No. Only through oppressive Arab rulers can we guarantee our interests in the region and peace for Israel.

A print design featuring the sales pitch of the former reality-show host and America’s forty-fifth president to rulers of oil sheikhdoms to buy US-made military equipment. The Arabic words at the bottom read:
FOR YOUR DIRTY WARS.

Nearly 4,500 American troops were killed in Iraq. Between 2005 and the end of 2018 the figure of veterans lost to suicide will reach 100,000.
Source: BBC, Newsnight, 25 October 2018.
How many Iraqis were killed and how many will be lost as a result of the American invasion in 2003?

By George W.Bush, 2003 and Donald J.Trump, 2018
Poster design inspired by an American air strike on Syria.

Don’t let Saudi despots buy your silence along with your arms.
Stop arming killers of children in Yemen.

Anat Berko, member of the Likud party in a speech to the Israeli parliament, February 2016.
Israel: 70 years of denying the reality and history of a people.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003)

Dr Martin Luther King Jr (1929-1968)
Poster design on the 50th anniversary of his assassination.

What an American solider said to a displaced Iraqi civilian at a camp in the buffer zone between Iraq and Kuwait in 1991.

“Exercising their right to bear arms, Americans had accumulated more than 40% of the planet’s small arms; the US arsenal in private hands was larger than that of the next 25 countries combined.”

The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory by Andrew Bacevich, Professor of history and international relations at Boston University.

Daphne Caruana Galizia, investigative journalist, writer and anti-corruption activist, Malta.
A poster designed in memory of the brave anti-corruption campaigner who was murdered by a car bomb on October 16th, 2017.

Iraq: Ten Years On (2003-2013)

Iraq: Ten Years On (2003-2013)

The fake bomb detectors ADE651, sold to Iraq at vastly inflated prices by British conman James McCormick, were in use in Iraq long after UK investigators discovered they were worthless. McCormick was jailed for 10 year in 2013. 

Iraq: Ten Years On (2003-2013)

D’ibil al-Khuza’i (d.860) 
… and now, before me are many self-serving Iraqi politicians, but Iraq-serving politicians are nowhere to be seen.
Iraq: Ten Years On (2003-2013)