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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 ...

Znet Article Miles: Treacherous Alliance

Znet Article, April, 26 2008 Jim Miles
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As the prospects of a limited ‘strike’ or a full out attack on Iran become more and more familiar in the media, and as the end date for the Bush-Cheney regime in the United States draws ever nearer to its close, a better understanding of the tripa...

Znet Article Miles: Bitter Friends

Znet Article, April, 24 2008 Jim Miles
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If I had to provide an overall rating for Barbara Slavin’s “Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies” I would have to tell the reader that it is well worth reading, but with several qualifications that make the recommendation somewhat underwhelming. It is a...

Znet Article Miles: The Science of Terror

Znet Article, March, 26 2008 Jim Miles
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Sometimes the science community, hiding behind the guise of empirical research, cannot see its own bias even while correctly analyzing a situation...

Znet Article Miles: War in Heaven

Znet Article, March, 19 2008 Jim Miles
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In this short volume, Helen Caldicott and Craig Eisendrath provide a sharp and concise analysis of the American nuclear weapons industry and its many ramifications for society and the peoples of the world in general. While they see the big pictur...

Znet Article Miles: Canada’s Response to Israel’s Actions in Gaza: Biased, Ignorant and Ineffective

Znet Article, March, 06 2008 Jim Miles
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Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier issued a news release expressing his concern about the escalating violence in the Gaza Strip[1]. It does nothing to help resolve the situation and only demonstrates that the Canadian government is ...

Znet Article Miles: Canada, NATO, and Nuclear Terror

Znet Article, March, 02 2008 Jim Miles
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Each year I take several sabbatical retreats into wilderness country, to find the calmness and serenity that the thin veneer of civilized life cannot provide. The wilderness may be wild and completely without Disneyesque happy endings, but it is ...

Znet Article Miles: Mission Al-Jazeera

Znet Article, February, 14 2008 Jim Miles
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A review of Josh Rushing's book...

Znet Article Miles: The Seventh Decade – The New Shape of Nuclear Danger

Znet Article, February, 11 2008 Jim Miles
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Humanity is now living through it seventh decade with the threat of nuclear annihilation even more powerful than ever. In this wonderfully written work, Jonathan Schell reviews the history of the doomsday weapons that have affected all our lives ...

Znet Article Miles: House of Cards

Znet Article, January, 25 2008 Jim Miles
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America today is not the only empire, but it is one that has consistently formulated itself around the ideologies of corporate business, the military, big government, and religious self-righteousness, mass marketing itself and mass exploiting othe...

Znet Article Miles: Canada Report 2007 – Part II – Canada’s Policy on Israel/Palestine

Znet Article, January, 18 2008 Jim Miles
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Canada and Israeli/Palestine...

Znet Article Miles: Canada Report 2007 – Part I – Reaching for Subnation Status

Znet Article, January, 12 2008 Jim Miles
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Canadians have always prided themselves on the “goodness” if not the “greatness” of their country. Sitting north of the United States, Canadians struggle with an ideal that rejects many American ideas, yet accommodates in one way or another most ...

Znet Article Miles: Reviewing Bolton

Znet Article, December, 31 2007 Jim Miles
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It is an interesting perspective, that of America needing ‘defending’, but it is one that John Bolton holds to thoroughly in “Surrender is Not an Option.” Surrounded by terrorists, ‘Islamofascists’, the old guard complacency of the “EUroids”, a ...

Znet Article Miles: Day of Empire – How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance – and Why They Fall.

Znet Article, December, 18 2007 Jim Miles
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This work had so much anticipatory potential as Amy Chua’s previous work “World on Fire” had provided a strong, well-supported thesis on how the colonial elites later brought about much of the incompetence, racism, and malevolent tendencies of pos...

Znet Article Miles: Uncertain Outcomes: The Israeli-Palestine Question

Znet Article, December, 12 2007 Jim Miles
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After 9/11, 2001, when I first started examining the various landscapes – physical, political, cultural, military – of events relating to that day, I...

Znet Article Miles: Same old, same old – Israel wins again

Znet Article, December, 09 2007 Jim Miles
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As I sit and read the announcements from today’s first discussions from Annapolis, all I can see is another dismal failure for peace and another year long “negotiation” process that like Oslo, Camp David, the ‘road map’ all lead to the same place.

Znet Article Miles: The American Empire and the Commonwealth of God

Znet Article, October, 06 2007 Jim Miles
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The American Empire and the Commonwealth of God

Znet Article Miles: Canada - Time to exit NATO

Znet Article, September, 18 2007 Jim Miles
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Canada - Time to exit NATO

Znet Article Miles: Making Globalization Work?

Znet Article, September, 09 2007 Jim Miles
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Making Globalization Work.  Joseph Stiglitz.  W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 2007. Having read Stiglitz' first work, "Globalization and its Discontents", having thought at the time that it was a strong work, then having read his second book "F...

Znet Article Miles: Between the Lines Review

Znet Article, August, 11 2007 Jim Miles
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Between the Lines Review

Znet Article Miles: Pilger Book Review

Znet Article, June, 07 2007 Jim Miles
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Pilger Book Review

Znet Article Miles: The Ugly Canadian

Znet Article, June, 06 2007 Jim Miles
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Review of: Whose War Is It? How Canada Can Survive In The Post 9/11 World. By J. L. Granatstein. (Harper Collins, Toronto, Ontario, 2007.) The 'ugly American' - arrogant, ignorant, hubristic, militaristic - has in this instance a good Canadia...

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