Nick Cohen on Iraq, the Left and the anti-globalisation movement
Matt Kennard — May 25, 2010 5 Comments
In this society you don’t have to make commitments anymore. You didn’t have to say, “If Saddam’s Iraq was a terrible place when America when was his ally, it was still a terrible place when America was his enemy.”
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Unpublished Howard Zinn interview from 2004: On Iraq, the US empire, and the roots of change
Matt Kennard — February 10, 2010 1 Comment
That’s a possibility. It’s only a possibility but I think whether that grassroots movement inside the Democratic Party develops or not what is most important is the development of a mass movement outside of the party system. That is, yes, the streets. The kind of movement that in the years of the civil rights movement against racial segregation or in the years of the movement against the Vietnam. A movement that is outside of the orthodox political institutions but which creates an atmosphere in the country and enlists enough people in its cause and frightens the establishment sufficiently so that something is changed
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John Pilger on Sen. Joe Lieberman and the impending bloodbath
John Pilger — January 27, 2010 0 Comments
Pilger on Lieberman
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The why and what of the Yemen narrative
Richard Seymour — January 4, 2010 2 Comments
Until the so-called underpants bomber failed to strike, you would have been hard pressed to find much information on the Yemen insurgency outside of Press TV. Of the Anglophone media, only the wire services seemed to pay much attention to the Houthi rebellion, and Saudi air strikes against it. US involvement in the Saudi air strikes, some of them ostensibly against ‘Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula’, started to be reported this month. Now this clueless bampot/false flag (take your pick) and his combustible loin cloth have been taken into custody (I’ll let you riff on how it could have been a ‘dirty bomb’), the former reported as saying that he was trained by ‘Al Qaida’ in Yemen. So, Obama has his opportunity to come out openly and demand more US attacks in Yemen
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What is terrorism?
Faraaz Rahman — July 17, 2009 3 Comments
In the “City of God,” St. Augustine tells the story of a pirate captured by Alexander the Great. The Emperor angrily demanded of him, “How dare you molest the seas?” To which the pirate replied, “How dare you molest the whole world? Because I do it with a small boat, I am called a pirate and a thief. You, with a great navy, molest the world and are called an emperor.” St. Augustine thought the pirate’s answer was “elegant and excellent.”
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Allied turf wars
Richard Seymour — April 28, 2009 1 Comment
Is Obama’s new age of multilateralism all it’s cracked up to be?
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Tony Benn comes to Stoke Newington in London
Matt Kennard — March 3, 2009 4 Comments
Matt Kennard reports from his local area, Stoke Newington, on a political meeting with Tony Benn.
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The natives have let us down again: Afghanistan policy continues to fail
Richard Seymour — February 10, 2009 2 Comments
The Obama administration have gone ‘realist’ in Afghanistan, with their rhetoric shorn of paeans to democracy. Now it is just a strategic war to maintain control of the region.
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Somalia: The Next (Pakistan: The Next Afghanistan?)
Jeff Gore — December 15, 2008 1 Comment
Somalia could be the new Afghanistan, or Pakistan could be the new Somalia. Welcome to the ‘war on terror’.
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Robert Trivers on the militarization of the U.S.
Robert Trivers — December 2, 2008 1 Comment
Trivers on the proposed 20,000 domestic troop response unit.
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Portrayal of Mumbai attackers as just “extremist Islamists” ignores wider context
Gizem Yarbil — November 27, 2008 18 Comments
The disgraceful attacks in Mumbia may have been committed by Muslims, but the targets of the violence would indicate there is a wider context that is not being explored yet.