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Znet Article Miles: Struggle For Palestine

Znet Article, November, 29 2008 Jim Miles
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I’m not sure where to start with this volume – other than to say it is a history so out of context and so biased in its language that it is essentially meaningless. If a scientist were to isolate human blood cells and study them under a microscop...

Znet Article Miles: States of Mind

Znet Article, October, 29 2008 Jim Miles
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Is it writers block, or is it that the world is in such a mess that it has simply short-circuited my mind? So many bad news scenarios present themselves on several fronts that I am somewhat amazed and dumbfounded. Is there any order, any sense ...

Znet Article Miles: Hope Destroyed

Znet Article, October, 24 2008 Jim Miles
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Of the many themes supported in William Cook’s powerful book, the most frequently reiterated is that of the corruption, abuse, and plain denial of international law.

Znet Article Miles: Canada in Kandahar

Znet Article, September, 25 2008 Jim Miles
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Afghanistan may have been a war unexpected in Canada, but a familiarity with American expectations concerning the New American Century combined with the fawning willingness of the Canadian military would make it more probable than improbable. In ...

Znet Article Miles: Secret War With Iran

Znet Article, September, 23 2008 Jim Miles
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If one knew little about the Middle East and its many strands of religious, political, military, and strategic interests, this seemingly well written work would have the reader believing that Israel is the altruistic good guy – although making tac...

Znet Article Miles: Racing the Enemy

Znet Article, August, 30 2008 Jim Miles
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The end of the Second World War with Japan is a story of the clashes of three empires – the struggling Soviets, the decline of the Japanese, and the ascendancy of the American. The common media perception is that the use of the atomic bombs ended...

Znet Article Miles: Doctor in Galilee

Znet Article, August, 25 2008 Jim Miles
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“A Doctor in Galilee” is a wonderfully descriptive narrative of life and times in Palestine/Israel. Clearly written, with a mix of personal anecdotes, historical tales, and much in the way of a reality based philosophy of a people living under an...

Znet Article Miles: Deconstructing Brzezinski’s Russia

Znet Article, August, 22 2008 Jim Miles
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The warrior ethic of the American Imperial elite, embodied in its fullest measure by Zbigniew Brzezinski, has been rejuvenated momentarily by Russia’s attack on Georgia. Reading Brzezinski’s words leaves one choking on their overt hypocrisy or la...

Znet Article Miles: Harper again serves as Bush's mouthpiece in Canada.

Znet Article, August, 19 2008 Jim Miles
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While eastern Canada suffers unseasonable rains, the west enjoys its average warm/hot summer. In the Middle East however, the heat is rising in the geo-political field.

Znet Article Miles: The Future is Now - the end of cheap oil

Znet Article, August, 12 2008 Jim Miles
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This is one of the more difficult articles/reviews I have worked on. I have been well aware of Peak Oil for a while, but never did I gather so much information in one sitting that simply spelled out doom and gloom.

Znet Article Miles: Descent Into Chaos

Znet Article, July, 21 2008 Jim Miles
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The popular news reporting from Pakistan is limited, even more so than that coming from Afghanistan, which is even more limited than that from Iraq, in turn now becoming more limited as attention is directed towards Iran. For the most part it has...

Znet Article Miles: Marching Toward Hell

Znet Article, July, 03 2008 Jim Miles
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Michael Scheuer’s new work “Marching Toward Hell” is very clear with its overall purpose of exposing where American interests have gone wrong in their interactions with the various peoples, beliefs, and religions of the Middle East. As an ex-CIA ...

Znet Article Miles: Superclass

Znet Article, June, 25 2008 Jim Miles
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This book is written by a person with the right credentials to do so, as David Rothkopf has worked within the edges of the Superclass. As he describes his credentials, "I came to this book with not an insignificant amount of personal experience -...

Znet Article Miles: Palestine Inside Out Review

Znet Article, June, 10 2008 Jim Miles
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This has been one of the most difficult books that I have ever read. It removed me from my academic detachment with which I read the majority of books and took me into emotions ranging from frustration, sadness, melancholy through to anger and be...

Znet Article Miles: Pens and Swords

Znet Article, May, 29 2008 Jim Miles
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In an era when American foreign policy has reached the pinnacle of unilateralism by invading other countries pre-emptively, threatening others with nuclear annihilation, and abrogating in doing so many decades if not more than a century of interna...

Znet Article Miles: It’s about TIME

Znet Article, May, 28 2008 Jim Miles
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For the past several months I have been receiving TIME magazine. The subscription originally started as a gift from someone unknown, with my last name spelled wrong, lasted for a year. When it came up for renewal, I stalled until the price came ...

Znet Article Miles: Reviewing Sachs

Znet Article, May, 13 2008 Jim Miles
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Sach’s essential thrust is how to eliminate poverty, indeed a noble goal, and to do so with our most “important responsibility [being] a commitment to know the truth as best we can, truth that is both technical and ethical.”

Znet Article Miles: Our Eyes & Dreams of Home

Znet Article, May, 08 2008 Jim Miles
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The pictures arrive at first in the sad multi-tones of greys, the ever-present grey concrete walls of the narrow alleys of the refugee camp, the shadows and lines on faces, the abstract shadows of wire and fence on concrete, and the loom of the Wa...

Znet Article Miles: Another American War – Look Out Earth

Znet Article, April, 30 2008 Jim Miles
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True to the American manner of meeting challenges and desiring to overcome them, a recent Time magazine cover led off with the title “How to Win The War On Global Warming” [1]. Accompanying that article, the UN Secretary-General demonstrated his...

Znet Article Miles: Lords of the Land

Znet Article, April, 27 2008 Jim Miles
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In my previous article I entered into a direct discussion on possible outcomes for the Israel-Palestine question based on a CBC radio interview between two different proponents and the most recent books they had written. Within that, while I was ...

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