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Miles: Unmaking of Israel – Book Review
Znet Article, February, 25 2012
Jim Miles
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Review of The Unmaking of Israel
Miles: Dismantling the Empire
Znet Article, September, 27 2010
Jim Miles
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REview of Chalmers Johnson's Dismantling the Empire.
Miles: Washington Rules
Znet Article, September, 18 2010
Jim Miles
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A book review of Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War. Andrew J. Bacevich.
Miles: Netanyahu in Canada - the New Republican stronghold
Znet Article, June, 01 2010
Jim Miles
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Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper was elected to a minority government in 2006. Since then he has done his best to set up what could be considered a Republican government for the state of Canada. Except that Canada is not a state of the Unite...
Miles: The Invention of the Jewish People
Znet Article, May, 15 2010
Jim Miles
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Historians living within their own nations develop within the mythology peculiar to their nation, in which “various spheres of memory coalesced into an imagined universe representing the past.”
Miles: Water - driving Israel’s need for more land and more power.
Znet Article, April, 14 2010
Jim Miles
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There is a global crisis emerging concerning the allocation, uses, and abuses of fresh water. This is a combination of misuse by humans and the increasing violence and changing frequency of various weather conditions as the global climate heats up...
Miles: Shlaim's Israel and Palestine
Znet Article, January, 17 2010
Jim Miles
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This is a thought provoking if not fully developed work on the ongoing situation in Palestine/Israel. Avi Shlaim has compiled a set of his writings from previous publications that in a broad way cover the events of the region, with a brief look at...
Miles: Imperial Inertia
Znet Article, November, 30 2009
Jim Miles
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The task of saving and reviving humanity oft times appears overwhelming when studied from a fully global perspective: occupations, wars, and terror abounds; starvation, disease, poverty, homelessness, accompany the wars and are also an integral pa...
Miles: Reflections on Michael Moore's capitalism
Znet Article, November, 03 2009
Jim Miles
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The thrift in me allowed me to wait until Michael Moore's "Capitalism - A Love Story" came out on second run theatres - it was well worth the wait. The powerful effect that Moore has on his audience derives from the personal stories he relates com...
Miles: Flying Home Created by the Children of Lajee Center with Rich Wiles
Znet Article, September, 06 2009
Jim Miles
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A book review...
Miles: Long on rhetoric, short on memory
Znet Article, June, 24 2009
Jim Miles
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Having watched the situation in Iran now for several years through to the current protests by the dissident citizens of the country unsatisfied with the election results, I remain as perplexed as ever. Not the perplexity of not understanding what...
Miles: The Predator State
Znet Article, April, 26 2009
Jim Miles
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Review of James Galbraith's new book.
Miles: “So let me be clear…â€
Znet Article, April, 09 2009
Jim Miles
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Obama did call for “concrete steps†to reduce its nuclear arsenal. A good call, but the U.S. has ignored much of the NPT ‘rules’ for so long that until it makes a significant unilateral change towards lowering its nuclear weapons, the dou...
Miles: Review or American Raj
Znet Article, March, 24 2009
Jim Miles
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In a wide-ranging and thorough overview of essentially the Middle East, but also the rest of the Muslim world, Eric Margolis’ recent work American Raj should become a first source of information on current events in the Muslim world. It is not ...
Miles: Torture Team
Znet Article, March, 20 2009
Jim Miles
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“Only a few pieces of paper can change the course of history. On Tuesday, 2 December 2002 Donald Rumsfield signed one that did.†From such a singular beginning Philippe Sands writes the history of U.S. attempts to abrogate international...
Miles: U.S. vs. Them
Znet Article, March, 06 2009
Jim Miles
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In a work that is well focussed, Peter Scoblic has written an intriguing historical review of the second half of the Twentieth Century on into the recently passed Bush regime
Miles: Fear of Socialism
Znet Article, December, 23 2008
Jim Miles
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Two recent events have prompted the ideas behind this article – in truth, the whole history of recent events have prompted the following comments, but it is two in particular that gave the push to write them down.
Miles: Robert Kagan’s Mythology of U.S. Exceptionalism
Znet Article, December, 14 2008
Jim Miles
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Robert Kagan is a difficult subject to analyze. At times his writing seems to be very honest and directly critical of U.S. intentions as well as being clearly honest about the sometimes “dangerous nation†aspect of its history and foreign pol...
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...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
