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“Just as none of us is outside or beyond geography, none of us is completely free from the struggle over geography. That struggle is complex and interesting because it is not only about soldiers and cannons but also about ideas, about forms, about images and imaginings.”
Edward Said (1994)
Category Archives: Audio
Australia: 11 Unions back campaign to boycott Israel
I am tickled to hear about growing support for BDS from Australian unions … and in such ocker Aussie accents! Well done, CFMEU! Meanwhile, the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) has a piece about Julia Gillard’s silence on the ”excesses” of … Continue reading
Ambassador Edward Peck describes Gaza flotilla raid
Voice of reason former US Ambassador Edward Peck interviewed by Free Speech Radio News just before the Rachel Corrie sailed. His eyewitness account of his experience as part of the Gaza convoy that was attacked by the Israeli military is worth … Continue reading
Petraeus: Israel is putting American lives at risk (updated)
Update I: All this is interesting given that General Petraeus has been named as the 2010 recipient of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI)’s Kristol Award — is this a neocon attempt to politically co-opt a key military figure involved in … Continue reading
Posted in Audio, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, US Foreign Policy, US military
Tagged General Petraeus, Mark Perry, Paul Woodward
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Iraq’s fertile crescent is turning dust bowl
At the moment, “Afghanistan is hot, Iraq is not”, Martin Chulov notes in this anti-war radio interview. Baghdad correspondent for the Guardian, Chulov provides insights on the ecological disaster of Iraq’s dust bowl, the diversion of water from the Tigris … Continue reading

