LIBYA 2011 IS NOT IRAQ 2003March 22, 2011 PROFESSOR JUAN COLEHere are the differences between George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the current United Nations action in Libya:1. The action in Libya was authorized by the United Nations Security Council. That in Iraq was not. By the UN Charter, military action after 1945 should either come as self-defense or with UNSC authorization. Most countries in the world are signatories to the charter and bound by its provisions.2. The Libyan people had risen up and thrown off the Qaddafi regime, with...
Thursday, 24 March 2011
Sunday, 20 March 2011
EVERY SQUARE IS A TAHIR SQUARE
EVERY SQUARE IS A TAHIR SQUAREBREAKING THE CRUST OF SILENCEEVERY SQUARE IS A TAHIR SQUAREBy AHMAD BARQAWIAmman, Jordan.WALK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN BY Mr. FISHDICTATORS DOMINOES BY MIKE LUCHOVICHFor thirty years; generations of Arab people were deliberately spoon-fed a fallacious reality about themselves; a reality of passiveness, instinctive capitulation and quiet submission; a reality that seemed to contradict –and indeed often wrestled with- their true...
Tuesday, 15 March 2011
PEOPLE POWER VS. WASHINGTON
PEOPLE POWER VS. WASHINGTONMar 15, 2011By Juan ColeThe claim that George W. Bush’s war of aggression against Iraq somehow opened up the Middle East to reform is an affront to the brave crowds that have risked their lives to change the American-backed order in that part of the world. Bush’s invasion was followed by no significant reforms in the region, whereas the outbreak of people power today has scared autocratic regimes into making unheard-of...
Monday, 14 March 2011
REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT IN THE ARAB WORLD
REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT IN THE ARAB WORLDWHAT ROLE IS THE US MEDIA PLAYING?By Diana MukkaledOver the past few weeks, western political commentators, particularly those in the US, have been involved in discussing how modern western technologies, particularly social networking websites such as Twitter and Facebook, have served as the catalyst for the revolutionary movement in the Arab world.The US internet industry has, in effect, given itself credit for overthrowing the regimes of both Hosni Mubarak and Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.What is most striking...
A PLANET ON THE BRINK: ECONOMIC CRASH WILL FUEL SOCIAL UNREST
A PLANET ON THE BRINK: ECONOMIC CRASH WILL FUEL SOCIAL UNRESTGOVERNMENTS ACROSS THE PLANET ARE PREPARING FOR A SURGE OF VIOLENT PROTESTS FROM ECONOMIC UPHEAVAL. WARS MAY FOLLOW. The global economic meltdown has already caused bank failures, bankruptcies, plant closings, and foreclosures and will, in the coming year, leave many tens of millions unemployed across the planet. But another perilous consequence of the crash of 2008 has only recently made its appearance: increased civil unrest and ethnic strife. Someday, perhaps, war may follow.As people...
Friday, 11 March 2011
THE EGYPTIAN REVOLT IS COMING HOME
THE EGYPTIAN REVOLT IS COMING HOMEJohn PilgerWestern leaders should be quaking in their boots.The uprising in Egypt is our theatre of the possible. It is what people across the world have struggled for and their thought controllers have feared. Western commentators invariably misuse "we" and "us" to speak on behalf of those with power who see the rest of humanity as useful or expendable. The "we" and "us" are universal now. Tunisia came first, but the spectacle always promised to be Egyptian.As a reporter, I have felt this over the years. At Tahrir...
BEHIND THE ARAB REVOLT LURKS A WORD WE DARE NOT SPEAK
BEHIND THE ARAB REVOLT LURKS A WORD WE DARE NOT SPEAKJohn PilgerThe people of Egypt, Tunisia, Bahrain, Algeria, Yemen, Jordan and Libya are rising up not only against their leaders, but also western economic tyranny.Shortly after the invasion of Iraq in 2003, I interviewed Ray McGovern, one of an elite group of CIA officers who prepared the president's daily intelligence brief. McGovern was at the apex of the "national security" monolith that is American power and had retired with presidential plaudits. On the eve of the invasion, he and 45 other...
THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION FISSURES IN THE ARAB REVOLTS
THE COUNTER-REVOLUTIONFISSURES IN THE ARAB REVOLTSBy VIJAY PRASHADMarch 11 - 13, 2011There will be blood. No revolution comes in a straight line. Counter-revolution runs its steady course from Bahrain and Saudi Arabia through Egypt and into Libya. In Qatif, the Saudi National Guard opened fire on a protest, a phenomenon which has become commonplace in Bahrain. Inside Egypt, rumors fly that it is the security services that orchestrated the attacks on Copts and women (at a march on the 100th anniversary of international women's day). Libya is in...
THE NEW ARAB AWAKENING "NEITHER WITH THE WEST, NOR AGAINST IT"
"NEITHER WITH THE WEST, NOR AGAINST IT"THE NEW ARAB AWAKENINGBy ALAIN GRESHMarch 11 - 13, 2011A large Muslim country is overwhelmed by strikes and demonstrations. This pillar of US regional policy is damaged by authoritarian rule and its resources are looted by the president’s family; there is social and economic crisis; Washington abandons an old ally and the US Secretary of State calls on a dictator to stand down and allow for democratic transition.This may sound like Egypt in 2011. In fact, it was Indonesia in May 1998, and the call for President...
THE RISE OF THE ARABS A NEOCONSERVATIVE "SHOCK AND AWE"
A NEOCONSERVATIVE "SHOCK AND AWE"THE RISE OF THE ARABSBy RAMZY BAROUDMarch 11 - 13, 2011A pervading sense of awe seems to be engulfing Arab societies everywhere. What is underway in the Arab world is greater than simply revolution in a political or economic sense– it is, in fact, shifting the very self-definition of what it means to be Arab, both individually and collectively.Hollywood has long caricatured and humiliated Arabs. American foreign policy in the Middle East has been aided by simplistic, degrading and at times racist depictions of Arabs...
Thursday, 10 March 2011
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