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Rai: Thinking Strategically: Bigger Cages For Stronger Movements
Znet Article, July, 10 2009
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Teaching a course on strategy to a group of 12-year-olds was very helpful. Perhaps teaching any topic to 12-year-olds is helpful to a ‘teacher' trying to get to grips with what it is being taught. Among other things, I gradually realized that th...
Rai: IED Lies
Znet Article, February, 16 2007
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The US claims that Iran supplies Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDS) to Iraqi...
Rai: Bush and Blair vs. Peace: Appeasing/Assisting Israel's War On Lebanon And Gaza
Znet Article, July, 31 2006
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US and British support for Israel's onslaught on Lebanon and Gaza is both diplomatic and military. In the din, the media are scrupulously ignoring ceasefire proposals from the Lebanese Government and Hezbollah. THE BUSH/BLAIR 'PEACE PLAN' OR 'DEL...
Rai: Turning The World Upside Down
Znet Article, May, 23 2006
Milan Rai
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{ This paper is being prepared for the June 1 - 7 2006 first Z Sessions on Vision and Strategy, held in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. These sessions gathe...
Rai: 100 Days of Denial
Znet Article, October, 16 2005
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THE BIG QUESTION There had been British Muslims who have fought for al-Qaeda before, and there had been British Muslims who have carried out, or attempted to carry out, suicide bombings before. But Thursday 7 July was the first suicide bombing ...
Rai: Saudi Arabia Under The Spotlight
Znet Article, August, 03 2005
Milan Rai
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With the death of King Fahd, Saudi Arabia is the main topic of discussion in today's newspapers. Below we fill in some of the gaps in the British coverage. THE WAHHABI-SAUDI CONNECTION The central fact of Saudi Arabia is the merger between the r...
Rai: The British Attorney General's Legal Advice, Government Spin And The Iraq War
Znet Article, May, 02 2005
Milan Rai
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INTRODUCTION Tony Blair thinks that the controversy over the Attorney General's legal advice is a 'damp squib'. His ministers struggle to put out the raging fire - which has torched their election campaign plans - by offering up distortions and l...
Rai: Voting Anti-War
Znet Article, April, 19 2005
Milan Rai
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OUR OPTIONS The British anti-war movement currently has three broad options in relation to the British General Election: vote anti-Tory (as Tony Blair is urging us); vote anti-Labour (as Michael Howard and the more punitive elements of the moveme...
Rai: Najaf 'Truce' Merely A Stage In The Conflict
Znet Article, September, 04 2004
Milan Rai
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BEFORE THE INK WAS DRY The Najaf ceasefire did not resolve the conflict in Najaf. Before the ink was even dry on the agreement signed by militant Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and the supreme Shia religious leader Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, ...
Rai: The Sistani Puzzle
Znet Article, September, 01 2004
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Blunder or conspiracy? There are at least three possible accounts of the origins of the recent Najaf conflict. Uncovering the truth requires a close scrutiny of the behaviour of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, now feted as the peace-bringer of Naj...
Rai: Turning The Other Cheek?
Znet Article, March, 30 2004
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THE OUTRAGEOUSNESS OF JACK STRAW In a wide-ranging interview, the British Foreign Secretary has expressed regret that the international community failed to take ‘earlier action to deal with al-Qa’eda and the failing state ...
Rai: Mass Graves
Znet Article, May, 15 2003
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How The US And Britain Are Betraying the Iraqi People ARROW Anti-War Briefing 44 (15 May 2003) WAR PLAN IRAQ Update Number 22 A NEW JUSTIFICATION FOR WAR? A NEW LIE No evidence has yet been discovered that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruct...
Rai: This War Is Not Over
Znet Article, April, 15 2003
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The war continues to pose a threat to the lives of ordinary people in Iraq. Before the war started, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs estimated "In the event of a crisis, 30 percent of children under 5 would be at risk of ...
Rai: Blitz-coup
Znet Article, March, 19 2003
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SHOCK, AWE AND COUP D'ETAT The latest news about the US war plan confirms that this war is not for the liberation of Iraq. The war is designed to precipitate a coup. 'General Richard Myers, chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff, said recently...
Rai: Five Tests
Znet Article, March, 17 2003
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FIVE TESTS! Mr Blair's Very Last Gamble At The UN ARROW Anti-War Briefing 38 (14 March 2003) WAR PLAN IRAQ Update Number 15 AND THEN THERE WERE FIVE The desperation is mounting. The US dropped its demand for a vote 'by the end of the week. A Euro...
Rai: A Last Push For War
Znet Article, February, 27 2003
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The US/UK Struggle For War Not Inspections ARROW Anti-War Briefing 33 (27 February 2003) WAR PLAN IRAQ Update Number 12 PEACE IS WAR 'The Prime Minister will launch a "last push for peace" alongside the tabling of a new UN Security Council resol...
Rai: Uphill Struggle
Znet Article, February, 24 2003
Milan Rai
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THE SCALE OF THE TASK A second UN Resolution on Iraq is politically vital to British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and would be important in the post-conflict period when the US hopes to shift responsibilities to UN agencies. Opinion polls have clea...
Rai: Oil and War
Znet Article, February, 01 2003
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Is the projected war on Iraq intended to reinforce US domination of the energy resources of the Middle East? This explanation has such force that the Daily Telegraph featured a rebuttal by a former speechwriter for President Bush, David Frum. Frum...
Rai: Material Breach
Znet Article, January, 17 2003
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THE CRITICAL PHRASE A newspaper headline put it well: 'What will be the trigger for war? As inspectors begin checking Iraqi sites, peace hinges on the interpretation of one phrase: "material breach" ' Curiously, the article that followed did not g...
Rai: Iraq's Weapons Declaration
Znet Article, December, 23 2002
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Iraq's Weapons Declaration
Rai: War Plan Iraq
Znet Article, December, 18 2002
Milan Rai
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1) Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book is about? What is it trying to communicate? War Plan Iraq tries to explain and document how the US has been hostile to both UN weapons inspectors and to real regime change in Iraq. It also sets out...
Rai: Torpedoing the Inspectors
Znet Article, July, 13 2002
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Torpedoing the Inspectors
Rai: No Justifications For War- No Link to September 11th
Znet Article, March, 06 2002
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The United States is now set on war with Iraq. What justification is there for such a war? Occasionally it has been suggested that Iraq was somehow linked to the 11 September attacks. The strongest alleged link has been the supposed meeting of M...
