U.S. Undermines Israeli Doves in their Quest for Peace admin, January 20, 2006July 16, 2024 Continue Reading
Don’t Blame Israel admin, January 14, 2006July 16, 2024 The official rationales for the U.S. invasion of Iraq are now widely acknowledged to have been fabricated: that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction threatening the national security of the United States and that the Iraqi government had operational ties to al Quaida. As the backup rationalization — bringing freedom and democracy to Iraq — loses credibility, increasing attention is being given as to why the U.S. government, with broad bipartisan support, made such a fateful decision. Continue Reading
The U.S. Invasion of Iraq: Not the Fault of Israel and Its Supporters admin, January 3, 2006July 16, 2024 As the official rationales for the U.S. invasion of Iraq—that Iraq possessed “weapons of mass destruction” which threatened the national security of the United States and that the Iraqi government had operational ties to al-Qaida—are now widely acknowledged to have been fabricated, and the back-up rationalization—of bringing freedom and democracy to Iraq—is also losing credibility, increasing attention is being given as to why the U.S. government, with broad bipartisan support, made such a fateful decision. Continue Reading
Globalising Nonviolence: Nonviolence against Apartheid – a case study of “globalisation from below” admin, January 1, 2006 While many Western governments argued that the benevolent influence of Western capital would gradually force an end to South Africa’s apartheid system and many on the left argued that liberation would come only through armed revolution, in fact it was largely unarmed resistance by the black majority and its supporters, both within South Africa and abroad. Continue Reading