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Bennis: U.S. Trying To "Legalize" Permanent Occupation Of Iraq; Shifting Discourse On Israel-Palestine
Commentary, June, 18 2008
Phyllis Bennis
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In recent weeks the Bush administration has intensified its longstanding effort to make the U.S. occupation of Iraq permanent. First choice is to coerce the U.S.-backed Iraqi government to sign an ostensibly "bilateral" agreement - what the White...
Chomsky: US in Iraq
Video, June, 17 2008
Noam Chomsky
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Afshin Rattansi interviews Noam Chomsky June 2008...
Naiman: "What About Afghanistan?"
Znet Article, June, 15 2008
Robert Naiman
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At the height of the Reagan Administration, it was not uncommon to see a bumper sticker promoted by the College Republicans: "What About Afghanistan?"
Podur: Bursting the Dam of Containment
Znet Article, June, 13 2008
Justin Podur
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At its core, Peter Hallward's remarkable book, “Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment”, is the detailed story of the struggle between the Lavalas movement and the forces arrayed against Haitian sovereignty and democra...
Herman: Triumph of Lunacy
Zmag Article, June, 02 2008
Edward Herman
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The public in the United States doesn’t like what is going on and fully 81 percent feel that the country is moving in the wrong direction. But there doesn’t seem to be much the public can do about it.
Landau: How We Got Into The Mess
Commentary, June, 02 2008
Saul Landau
Landau's ZSpace page
Bush made a sacrifice. He stopped playing golf, to symbolize his sympathy with the troops in Iraq. He did not, however, stop playing give video golf. For Bush to forgo other pleasures might require he start another war.
Achcar: "The U.S. is sowing the seeds of a long term tragedy..."
Znet Article, June, 01 2008
Gilbert Achcar
Achcar's ZSpace page
An interview with Gilbert Achcar covering Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, and the anti-war movement.
Hoodbhoy: Ten Years Later
Commentary, May, 30 2008
Pervez Hoodbhoy
Hoodbhoy's ZSpace page
It’s May 1998 and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif congratulates wildly cheering citizens as the Chagai mountain trembles and goes white from multiple nuclear explosions. He declares that Pakistan is now safe and sound forever. Bomb makers become natio...
Bennis: Middle East Still At War: The U.S. Is Losing But The Winners Are Unclear
Commentary, May, 29 2008
Phyllis Bennis
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This is a period of rapid and dramatic decline of American economic power around the world, and that, along with massive anger directed at U.S. policies around the world, has resulted in a precipitous drop in U.S. diplomatic and political influenc...
Castro: The Empire’s Hypocritical Politics
Znet Article, May, 28 2008
Fidel Castro
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It would be dishonest of me to remain silent after hearing the speech Obama delivered on the afternoon of May 23 at the Cuban American National Foundation created by Ronald Reagan. I listened to his speech, as I did McCain’s and Bush’s. I feel no ...
Mokhiber: Bugliosi Wants Bush Charged with Murder
Znet Article, May, 26 2008
Russell Mokhiber
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Former California prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi wants President Bush charged with murder.
Masri: What's driving Lebanon's crisis?
Znet Article, May, 25 2008
Rania Masri
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Rania Masri is a Lebanese-American writer and antiwar activist currently living in Beirut. She spoke to Lee Sustar on the crisis in Lebanon today.
Goodman: Presidential Race Ignores Arms Race
Znet Article, May, 25 2008
Amy Goodman
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As the U.S. presidential race continues, so does the arms race worldwide. People — civilians, children — are being killed and maimed, on a daily basis, by unexploded cluster bombs and land mines. Thousands of nuclear missiles remain at hair-trigge...
Chomsky: United States of Insecurity
Znet Article, May, 23 2008
Noam Chomsky
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There’s good reason to think that the United States is very vulnerable to terrorist attacks. That’s not my opinion, that’s the opinion of US intelligence, of specialists of nuclear terror like Harvard professor Graham Allison, and former Defense S...
Street: A Message to American Military Personnel: Bring the War Home
Znet Article, May, 22 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
The ongoing United States invasion of Iraq has cost the lives of more than 4,000 American soldiers and 1.2 million Iraqis. The Democratic-majority U.S. Senate has just (20 minutes ago as I write this essay on the afternoon of May 22, 2008) passe...
Cronan: Recent Violence in Lebanon: Selective Media Amnesia
Blog Post, May, 20 2008
John Cronan
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The AP recently reported of the worst violence in Lebeanon since their civil war. But is this really the case?
Johnson: Our ‘Managed Democracy’
Znet Article, May, 19 2008
Chalmers Johnson
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It is not news that the United States is in great trouble. The pre-emptive war it launched against Iraq more than five years ago was and is a mistake of monumental proportions—one that most Americans still fail to acknowledge. Instead they are arg...
Young: "One of Those Guys the Army's Trying to Hide": Sgt. Kristofer Goldsmith, 22
Blog Post, May, 19 2008
Kevin Young
Young's ZSpace page
A brief account of Army Sgt. Kristofer Goldsmith's transformation from a young teenager swept-up in the jingoist hysteria following 9-11 to a dedicated 22-year-old antiwar activist who works tirelessly to end the US occupation of Iraq, based on Go...
Chomsky: CNN’s Michael Ware on Iraq
Blog Post, May, 17 2008
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
I doubt that Ware has anything like the direct experience in Iraq of Nir Rosen, Patrick Cockburn, and the few other journalist who actually know the country well. But put that aside.
Monbiot: How to Build a Human Bomb
Commentary, May, 17 2008
George Monbiot
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When we learnt last week that Abdallah Salih al-Ajmi had blown himself up in Mosul in northern Iraq, the US government presented this as a vindication of its policies. Al-Ajmi was a former inmate of the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay. The Pentag...
