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Znet Article Mahajan: Reflections on the Arab 1848

Znet Article, February, 05 2011 Rahul Mahajan
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There is a conflagration in the Arab world right now. The wave of popular protest unleashed by the self-immolation of a poor, oppressed, despised young man in a small town in Tunisia is already making an indelible imprint on that world.

Znet Article Mahajan: Financial Records of al-Qa’ida in Iraq Reveal That Most Insurgents Aren’t in it For the Money

Znet Article, January, 19 2011 Rahul Mahajan
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I just read a fascinating RAND report titled “An Economic Analysis of the Financial Records of al-Qa’ida in Iraq.”

Znet Article Mahajan: Of Katrina, Macacas, and Race

Znet Article, September, 01 2006 Rahul Mahajan
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As the one-year anniversary of the Katrina disaster approaches, it's worth taking some time to reflect on the things it hasn't changed.I won't go over the reconstruction that hasn't happened, the preparation of New Orleans to withstand future hurr...

Znet Article Mahajan: Sectarian Violence and the United States as 'Honest Broker'

Znet Article, March, 03 2006 Rahul Mahajan
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Iraq has just gazed into the abyss and recoiled -- for now.Last Wednesday's destruction of the beautiful golden dome of the al-Askari mosque in Samarra, one of the four most important Shi'a shrines in the world and final resting place of two of th...

Znet Article Mahajan: Hamas and Palestinian Democracy

Znet Article, February, 05 2006 Rahul Mahajan
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Surprising everyone, including themselves, Hamas won the recent Palestinian Legislative Council elections in a landslide, picking up 74 of 132 seats, compared to 45 for Fatah, the group that has represented the Palestinians for 40 years. Knowledge...

Znet Article Mahajan: Congo's Tragedy and Western Complicity

Znet Article, January, 24 2006 Rahul Mahajan
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The latest issue of the Lancet, the well-known British medical journal, contains a shocking report on mortality in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Between April and July 2004, a multinational team of researchers carried out an exhaustive survey ...

Znet Article Mahajan: WMD Commission -- Yet Another Intelligence Failure

Znet Article, April, 02 2005 Rahul Mahajan
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The "Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction" has done reasonably well what it was created to do. Unfortunately, it was created to provide political cover for the Bush administration i...

Znet Article Mahajan: Bush's Speech at the RNC

Znet Article, September, 03 2004 Rahul Mahajan
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As columnist David Saransohn of the Oregonian points out, there is a curious gap in all the talk at the Republican National Convention: At this convention, you don't hear much about Iraq.That is, Iraq the country.You hear constantly about...

Znet Article Mahajan: Report from Baghdad

Znet Article, April, 19 2004 Rahul Mahajan
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Report from Baghdad

Znet Article Mahajan: This is what occupation looks like

Znet Article, April, 14 2004 Rahul Mahajan
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Baghdad, Iraq -- Aadhamiyah. People of Baghdad, Sunni and Shia, have been undertaking a massive relief collections for besieged Fallujah, coordinated through the mosques of Baghdad and beyond, with the mosque of Abu Hanifa in Aadhamiyah as the epi...

Znet Article Mahajan: Winning Hearts and Minds

Znet Article, April, 14 2004 Rahul Mahajan
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Winning Hearts and Minds

Znet Article Mahajan: Opening the Gates of Hell

Znet Article, April, 07 2004 Rahul Mahajan
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Opening the Gates of Hell

Znet Article Mahajan: The Spanish People Show the Way

Znet Article, March, 16 2004 Rahul Mahajan
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The Spanish People Show the Way

Znet Article Mahajan: Terrorism's Future

Znet Article, March, 12 2004 Rahul Mahajan
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Whether yesterday's attacks in Spain, in which 190 people were killed and nearly 1500 wounded, were carried out by the Basque separatist ETA or by al-Qaeda, they make one thing very clear: terrorism cannot be fought by military means. After the f...

Znet Article Mahajan: Bush -- Cracks in the Ice?

Znet Article, February, 13 2004 Rahul Mahajan
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For at least six months, I have been resisting early pronouncements of Bush’s political death. Most of them seemed to be composed of wishful thinking, extrapolating from simple facts -- the disaster of the Iraq occupation, the mostly joble...

Znet Article Mahajan: The True Intelligence Failure

Znet Article, February, 03 2004 Rahul Mahajan
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In the late 19th-century folk classics of Joel Chandler Harris, there is an episode where the wily Brer Rabbit, his main character, is caught by Brer Fox. He's stuck to a "Tar Baby," (the racism is palpable) and Brer Fox is going to eat him up. So...

Znet Article Mahajan: Winning Hearts and Minds

Znet Article, January, 29 2004 Rahul Mahajan
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Winning Hearts and Minds

Znet Article Mahajan: State of the Union 2004

Znet Article, January, 21 2004 Rahul Mahajan
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George W. Bush's most recent state of the union address didn't contain the caliber of bald-faced, smoking-gun lies that we have come to expect from him, like the "sixteen words" in the last one (about Iraq supposedly seeking uranium from "Africa")...

Znet Article Mahajan: After The Capture, War's Hard Truths Remain

Znet Article, December, 16 2003 Rahul Mahajan
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Saddam Hussein's capture and the hope he will be held accountable for crimes against the people of Iraq and neighboring states is welcome news, no matter what one's position on the U.S. invasion of Iraq. But this doesn't vindicate the U.S. invasi...

Znet Article Mahajan: Iraqi Liberation: Bush Style

Znet Article, September, 01 2003 Rahul Mahajan
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Now that American-British lies and distortions about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction and al-Qaida links have been thoroughly exposed, Bush administration officials have had to create new rationalizations for the Iraq war. Deputy Se...

Znet Article Mahajan: Gunpoint Democracy in Iraq

Znet Article, August, 25 2003 Rahul Mahajan
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Gunpoint Democracy in Iraq

Znet Article Mahajan: Don't Lift The Sanctions Yet

Znet Article, May, 09 2003 Rahul Mahajan
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After five years spent working to end the sanctions on Iraq, I find myself in an odd position. I'm opposed to the current U.S. plans to end the sanctions. The new situation is fascinating. For a dozen years, every time we in the anti-sanctions mo...

Znet Article Mahajan: The New Humanitarianism

Znet Article, March, 28 2003 Rahul Mahajan
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Iraq's desperate humanitarian situation has suddenly become a retroactive justification for the war, even for the attacking of civilian targets. The need to get aid into Basra has apparently prompted a British military spokesperson to designate it...

Znet Article Mahajan: Myths And Facts About The War

Znet Article, March, 20 2003 Rahul Mahajan
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Last night, our president announced a war to the nation and the world. Let us be clear about what this war is and what it is not. This war is not the result of a failure of diplomacy. This war is not a pre-emptive war. This war is not about wea...

Znet Article Mahajan: The Emperor Has Spoken. Let The World Take Heed.

Znet Article, March, 17 2003 Rahul Mahajan
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Mark the date: March 16, 2003. It will go down in history as the day our new Caesar crossed his personal Rubicon. Bush's twin ultimata, to Iraq and to the United Nations, constituted the final and ultimate declaration of the new New World Order. ...

Znet Article Mahajan: UN Resolution or not, this war is illegal

Znet Article, March, 14 2003 Rahul Mahajan
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The majority of the antiwar movement has made a mistake in emphasizing the unilateral nature of the war on Iraq and the need for United Nations approval, and we may well reap the consequences of that mistake. The argument has made major inroads wi...

Znet Article Mahajan: Responding To Colin Powell

Znet Article, February, 06 2003 Rahul Mahajan
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By If one believes everything Colin Powell said to the Security Council yesterday, one's first response ought to be that there's no reason to fight a war, since U.S. surveillance capabilities are so awesome that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction ...

Znet Article Mahajan: The Other Good War

Znet Article, October, 08 2002 Rahul Mahajan
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"OneTwoThree: F-" -- the Beatles "What's that spell?"-- Country Joe and the Fish "There came a voice from over the sea..." -- Percy Bysshe Shelley As the full imperial dimensions of current ...

Znet Article Mahajan: Why I Will Not Celebrate The 4th Of July

Znet Article, July, 04 2002 Rahul Mahajan
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I am an American. Let me be clear about that.It feels strange saying that because I have so often been made to feel a foreigner in my own country -- first because of my Indian ethnicity, and then more recently because of my outspoken criticism o...

Znet Article Mahajan: The State of the Union and the New Cold War

Znet Article, February, 09 2002 Rahul Mahajan
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Any who doubted the characterization of the war on terrorism as a new Cold War had only to listen to the State of the Union address, Bush's most depressing speech since he launched his unlimited war with his address to a joint se...

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