74 Articles

Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Reflections on Michael Moore's "Capitalism"
(1 comments) A bit slow in viewing, but worth a comment about this half of capitalism. The other half? China.

Sunday, November 1, 2009
In the Jaws of the Dragon - Book Review
The U.S. economy is increasingly embroiled with the Asian economies in a manner that maintains weaknesses in the U.S. economy as a whole.

Friday, October 23, 2009
A Choice of Enemies - Book Review
A good compilation of modern Middle East history from 1979 forward - if the first and last chapters can be ignored.

Sunday, October 11, 2009
Premature Peace
(4 comments) A peace prize given to a man who talks well, but acts within the norm of U.S. foreign policy.

Friday, October 2, 2009
Make love...make war - two sides of the Israeli coin
(1 comments) Two different Israeli authors, one sees a military solution, the other sees a humanistic solution, both based on traditional Judaism

Thursday, September 10, 2009
Palestinian Rejection - Book Review
An excellent summary work on the committees, documents, and rulings from the Balfour Declaration through to the UN partition plan.

Thursday, September 3, 2009
Syria and Iran - Book Review
A well written academic work that highlights the interactions of Iran and Syria.

Tuesday, July 28, 2009
The Inheritance - Book Review
An interesting account of Bush era current events, but not with any significance for the future.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009
After America - Book Review
(1 comments) A well structured and informative look at some possible futures for the no longer dominant U.S. empire.

Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Book Review = Halliburton's army
An effective account of Halliburton's wrongdoings within the U.S. war machine.

Wednesday, June 24, 2009
The U.S. and Iran - Long on rhetoric, short on history
(10 comments) While Iran struggles with its internal problems, the U.S. tends to purposely forget its role in the region.

Monday, June 15, 2009
In Mortal Hands - Book Review
There is nothing green or safe about the nuclear industry as its history is all about making weapons of mass destruction.

Thursday, June 4, 2009
The Devil We Know - Book Review
(1 comments) The 'devil we know' proves to be a rational, pragmatic, and flexible player in Baer's analysis of the situation with Iran.

Thursday, May 21, 2009
The Hebrew Republic - Book Review
(2 comments) An interesting philosophical read concerning the changes necessary to create a Hebrew, secular, Jewish state - highly improbable with the turn of current events.

Sunday, May 10, 2009
Food shortages and science
(4 comments) An argument about global "failing states" fails to accurately make its case about civilization.

Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Terror and Torture - Commentary
(3 comments) Terror and torture cannot be separated. The U.S. conceals its own culpability under self righteous denial.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Predator State - Book Review
(2 comments) James Galbraith effectively deconstructs the free market myths and provides basic solutions to the Predator State.

Saturday, April 11, 2009
"Let me be clear...." - Commentary on Nuclear Weapons
(2 comments) The recent missile launch by North Korea highlights the west's double standards with nuclear weapons.

Saturday, April 4, 2009
State of the nations III - Environment/Solutions
(1 comments) The previous two articles looked at the economy and military as integrated items. The environments, now subordinate in the main media, is still a part of it all.

Friday, April 3, 2009
State of the Nations II: War on terror
(1 comments) The second part of the essay examines the basis and rationales for the war on terror in context with the economy.

Thursday, April 2, 2009
State of the nations - Part I - The Economy
This three part series discussses the over-all theme of the requirements of our consumer economy needing a "military fist" to support it, both destroying teh environment while doing their work.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Canada Past Due in Afghanistan
Four more Canadian soldiers die in a war without just cause in Afghanistan. Canada should bring its troops home before more lives are sacrificed in vain.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009
American Raj - Book Review
(1 comments) A comprehensive view of the Muslim world and its variety of cultures and beliefs - it is not a monolithic culture of terror as formulated by its occupiers.

Friday, March 20, 2009
Torture Team - Book Review
(1 comments) A clearly written focus on the chain of command and its abuses of international law in relation to Guantanamo.

Saturday, March 7, 2009
U.S. vs. THEM - Book Review
Peter Scoblic has written a good history of the modern conservative era and its relationship with nuclear weapons.

Saturday, February 14, 2009
Israel's Occupation - Book Review
This is the best work available on the nature of Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories.

Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Book Review - Uncultured Wars
Steven Salaita's essays discuss the obvious and not so obvious anti-Arab/Muslim racism in the U.S.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Not to remain silent
(1 comments) The current battle in Gaza is on hold with questions that only time will answer, but within which the answer lies.

Thursday, January 15, 2009
Canada complicit with Israeli war crimes
Canada was the only nation to vote against the UN Human Rights Commission statement on its offense into Gaza and human rights violations. Canada is complicit with Israeli war crimes.

Thursday, January 8, 2009
Rebuttal to Joan Brunwasser's link to Haaretz
(1 comments) The link provided to a Haaretz article that argued against five presupposed "leftist" arguments against Israel - all of which are out of context or simply poorly argued.

Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Gaza - Plan of Attack
(12 comments) The Gaza attacks have historical precedent in Israel's long sought after goal for control of Eretz Israel.

Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Fear of Socialism
(1 comments) The "progressives" of the U.S. have many very good common sense ideas, all of which could fall within the rubric of "socialism."

Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Bad Money - Book Review
(2 comments) Kevin Phillip's describes the current U.S. problems through the lens of "finance capitalism" and oil, ending on a rather negative note.

Saturday, December 13, 2008
Robert Kagan's Mythology of U.S. Exceptionalism
(2 comments) Robert Kagan's arguments are superficially coherent, but the underlying thesis for them is highly faulted.

Saturday, November 29, 2008
Book Review - Hamas vs. Fatah
(5 comments) A very one dimensional view of the Hamas-Fatah conflict, generally taken completely out of context.

Monday, November 10, 2008
Book Review - The Limits of Power
(3 comments) An excellent overview of U.S. foreign policy by Andrew J. Bacevich, this should be required reading as Obama formulates his new policies.

Thursday, October 30, 2008
States of mind
A dizzying array of problems befuddles the world - with the main sources of the problem being the ones seeking the solution. Not the best way to go.

Thursday, October 23, 2008
Book Review - Hope Denied, Justice Destroyed
(1 comments) William Cook's writing expresses with very strong terms the outrage that should be present for the international rule-breaking of Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Book Review - The Secret War With Iran
(2 comments) A good piece of rhetoric and propaganda encouraging the U.S. to attack Iran.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008
The dismal science becomes gloomier
(4 comments) The unscientific beginnings of economic "science" leave it without a theory.

Friday, August 29, 2008
Racing the Enemy - Book Review
The race is still on for geopolitical control of territory - Hasagawa's work describes the critical period of the summer of 1945 that started our current world order.

Saturday, August 23, 2008
Deconstructing Brzezinski's Russia
(3 comments) Zbigniew Brzezinski continues to argue with hypocrisy and double standards towards the Russians.

Thursday, August 21, 2008
Canada's Harper serves as Bush's mouthpiece
(1 comments) Canada's Prime Minister Harper again speaks on bended knee in support of Bush's foreign policy.

Thursday, August 21, 2008
A Doctor in Galilee - Book Review
A wonderfully and powerfully written account of a Palesinian doctor's life experiences living and working inside Israel's green line.

Friday, August 15, 2008
THe Future is Now - the End of Cheap Oil
(1 comments) Recent material indicates that a global energy change is coming soon, with possible 'traumatic' results.

Sunday, July 20, 2008
Marching Toward Hell - Book Review
The shackles of oil and Israel, the elitist ignorance of the American government, the antagonism of the Muslim world supported by the predictions and indictments of bin Laden have created a losing position for the Americans no matter what they attempt to do.

Sunday, July 20, 2008
Descent Into Chaos - Book Review
An excellent work that examines the previously poorly chronicled affairs between the United States, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Book Review - Palestine Inside Out - Saree Makdisi
Another valuable addition to the growing library on the Palestinian occupation and ethnic cleansing.

Friday, May 30, 2008
Book Review - Pens and Swords
An excellent work that describes the bias in American reporting on Israel-Palestine carrying two main themes: context (emphasizing international law, right of return, and occupation/settlements); and following the Washington consensus viewpoint.

Wednesday, May 28, 2008
It's about TIME
(1 comments) TIME magazine carries a familiar bias in relation to Hamas and Hezbollah when criticized using current works on media bias.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Book Review - Common Wealth - Jeffery Sachs
A great topic, but without any consideration of the Washington consensus institutes (WTO, IMF, World Bank) and the U.S. military, it fails in its arguments.

Thursday, May 8, 2008
Book Review - Our Eyes and Dreams of Home
Two books of photography from inside Aida Refugee camp near Bethlehem allow the world to see the camp from the eyes of its youth.

Friday, May 2, 2008
Another American War - Look Out Earth
(1 comments) Time Magazine and Ban Ki-Moon get together to declare another war. If it is as effective as previous American wars, earth is in serious trouble.

Friday, April 18, 2008
Book Review - The Perils of Empire
Another attempt to analyse the empirical imperative - not quite successful as the author is somewhat ambivalent about his position.

Friday, April 11, 2008
Book Review - Three Trillion Dollar War - Stiglitz & Bilmes
(2 comments) The latest estimates, on the conservative side, by Stiglitz and Bilmes revealing how much the current war in Iraq will cost The U.S. and the world.

Monday, April 7, 2008
Book Review - The Zoo on the Road to Nablus
A story of Dr Sami Khader and his dream of having a zoo in Qalqilya in the West Bank. It combines humour with pathos in narrating the events of Dr. Khader his family, and the many persons involved with the zoo, speaking at both a literal and metaphorical level.

Friday, April 4, 2008
Book Review - Bad Samaritans - Ha-Joon chang
(1 comments) A wonderfully accessible work providing strong arguments agaisnt the rhetoric of free market capitalism.

Thursday, March 27, 2008
Book Review - The new imperialists - Ideologies of Empire
(1 comments) An excellent collection of essays that deconstructs the arguments of the imperial apologists.

Saturday, March 22, 2008
War in Heaven - Book Review
Caldicott returns again, co-authoring with Craig Eisendrath, a new book about American attempts to realize "full spectrum dominance" with the domination of space.

Monday, March 3, 2008
Canada, NATO, and nuclear terror
(2 comments) Three recent news items - Canada in Afghanistan, NATO pre-emptive nuclear weapons use, and NATO in Palestine, create a bizarre mixing of the American imperial imperative.

Thursday, February 14, 2008
Book Review - Mission Al Jazeera
An honest and clear anecdotal exploration of the benefits of Al Jazeera English throughout the world, America included.

Thursday, January 24, 2008
House of Cards
(1 comments) The current entrance into recession is something that has been in the works for a long time and should be no surprise. It should also be no surprise if it hangs around for a lot longer than expected.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Canada Report - Canada's Policy on Israel/Palestine
(1 comments) Canada's policy towards Israel/Palestine rhetorically sounds good, but is truly hot air followed by inaction.

Thursday, January 10, 2008
Canada Report - Reaching for Subnation Status
An accounting of Canada's current government policies shows a picture different from what Canadians expect of their self-image.

Monday, December 31, 2007
John Bolton - Surrender is Not an Option
Definitely not quintessential John Bolton, bu an overly long diary of who, what, when, where, but never the analytical why.

Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Advocacy, Intellect, and Common Sense
(1 comments) The reasons and perspectives for writing are many and varied - common sense and truth are two of the most important.

Sunday, November 18, 2007
Treacherous Alliance - Book Review
With chaos becoming more and more evident in the broader Middle East, Parsi's "Treacherous Alliance" is a strong background read on the political processes between Israel, Iran, and the United States.

Wednesday, October 31, 2007
The Israel/Palestine Question - Book Reveviw
(4 comments) While Israel may have the physical institutional underpinnings of democracy, its ethnic logic denies equality and democracy to the Arab citizens.

Wednesday, October 10, 2007
It's not about the carbon
Carbon is not the real problem with global warming. It is the scapegoat, the 'evil' other that disguises the real problem - that of an overly consumptive pro-growth free market economy backed up by the 'invisible fist' of the military.

Friday, October 5, 2007
Book Review - American Empire and the Commonwealth of God
(1 comments) A strong counter indicator from the Christian perpsepective that challenges the empire and the fundamentalist religious right.

Friday, September 28, 2007
The State of the American Empire - Book Review
As an 'atlas' defining the American Empire, this book almost works. Even though highly critical os US actions, it contains some rather 'slippery' concepts that put it within the pro-empire camp.

Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Canada - Time to Exit NATO
(3 comments) Canada's role within Afghanistan under NATO auspices leaves it under the direction of the United States, morally and militarily. It is time to leave Afghanistan, NATO, and let the U.S. fight its own imperial wars.

Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Canada's foreign and domestic policy entanglements
(1 comments) Canadian news media present the topics of global warming, Arctic sovereignty, the rendition of Maher Arar, and the housing market as separate items, yet they are all entangled within Canada's foreign policy.

Sunday, July 1, 2007
Myth of democratic pacifism
Buchheit's recent article on democratic pacifism is very unsatisfying, using statistical "ifs" to quantify his arguments and not recognizing the undemocratic nature of corporate greed and the undemocratic nature of corporate institutions.