It’s always the old story: Israel has no interest in peace. A nation that still laments the holocaust has been inflicting a slow version of it on Palestinians for almost sixty years (which in itself is just the continuation of a campaign of ethnic cleansing that started decades earlier), and it has little intention to [...]
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Israel not lifting blockade despite promises
Posted in ethics, global justice, human rights, war on August 20, 2008 | No Comments »
The insanity of war
Posted in ethics, the empire, war on August 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
After having just posted an article by John Pilger on Hiroshima, continuing with Howard Zinn’s reflections on the futility of war is almost a necessity. I find myself more and more appalled by images of war, whether they are the visual backdrop on non-reflective TV news reports or the falsely proud war veterans parading in [...]
John Pilger on Hiroshima
Posted in ethics, the empire, war on August 18, 2008 | No Comments »
I am not claiming that the Left has final answers to what is essentially a product of the evolutionary or otherwise shortcomings of the human mind, but: it at least gives us a chance to critically reflect and maybe even to change our ways by addressing attributes like greed, barbarism and ultimately the Ego. In [...]
The Iraq War
Posted in war on April 27, 2008 | No Comments »
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Despite the spin: Democrats support the war in Iraq
Posted in the empire, war on April 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Americans by and large live in a dream world, and two of those dreams are that they see themselves as a force of good against evil and that they as a nation are invincible, probably they have ‘god on their side’. You would think Vietnam would have shattered those myths 40 years ago but Iraq [...]
Martin Luther King: anti-war, anti-capitalism
Posted in alternative culture, global justice, peace, war on April 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
From the media to politicians to education and history books, Martin Luther King is revered as the civil right hero and martyr, but he actually had a much broader understanding of the political and economic complexities of American society. And the same media that today celebrate him, then condemned him for it.
Alternet has an interesting [...]
Stop-Loss, the all-American anti-war movie that isn’t one
Posted in creativity, war on April 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A review by Eileen Jones, The eXile of Stop-Loss, based on the standard war movie formula: glamorising war while pretending to deplore it. The review is so well written in terms of characterising the America (especially Bush’s home turf Texas) and her war and war movie culture that I didn’t feel I would [...]
The true extend of terrorism
Posted in civilisation?, global justice, war on March 13, 2008 | No Comments »
This is an excellent article by John Croft (associated with the Gaia Foundation) on the more more extend and nature of what media and politicians define as terrorism. The article takes a much more systemic view of the phenomenon and attempts to get closer to understanding the actual core or heart of terrorism and - [...]
Nuclear warfare still a real threat
Posted in war, tagged nuclear_warfare on February 11, 2008 | No Comments »
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, a couple of weeks ago a group of former war chiefs from the US, Britain, France, Germany and (not so unsurprisingly anymore) the Netherlands presented a paper to the two biggest war machines in the world: the Pentagon and NATO. Their point was that a ‘first strike’ nuclear option [...]
