9 QuickLinks
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Iraq's New Death Squads - Shane Bauer
An interesting article describing how the same U.S. trained Special Ops death squad tactics from Central and South America are being used in Iraq.
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Making Globalization Work?
Joseph Stiglitz' heart is in the right place, but his thoughts are still captive to the World Bank/IMF/corporate ideology.
Monday, September 3, 2007
Hamas - A History From Within
A new work that discusses the inner political workings of the Islamic Brotherhood that developed into the Palestinian Hamas, a group initially dedicated to social constructs within the Palestinian territories.
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
White Man's Burden - not so free and democratic
In "the White Man's Burden" William Easterly rhetorically argues for free markets and capitalism, yet his examples have much more to do with popular democracy of the people (some call it socialism).
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Between the Lines - Israel, Palestine, and the war on terror
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A review of a powerful book, developed from "Between the Lines" journal published during the al-Aqsa Intifada. "The mainstream discourse within Israel and abroad ignores the fact that Zionism, as the hegemonic ideology of the Israeli state and society, is constantly reproduced and sustained in the service of the Israeli-U.S. colonialist project, including the globalized economic interests that underlie it.
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Harper's Policy of American Convenience
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper continues Canada's unquestioning support of AMerican foreign policy.
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
What is Canada For? Book Review
A wonderful description of what could accomplish with a foreign policy independent from that of the United States and not giving in to the new militarism of the 'war on terror'.
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Book Review - It's the Crude Dude, by Linda McQuaig
Linda McQuaig's updated story "It's the Crude Dude" provides a readily accessible read on the story of oil politics - its control and the antagonisms it creates from Rockefeller in Titusville Pa. to Bush and Cheney in Iraq.
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Entangled Insurgencies - Hamas and Hezbollah
Hezbollah and Hamas developed from the commonality of occupation and subjugation by Israel. Other commonalities - democracy, social concerns - follow from this repression.
