Category Archives: Middle East

Petraeus: Israel is putting American lives at risk (updated)

Posted on 15 March, 2010 by

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 →

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Responses to Obama's Speech: An Attitudinal National and Ethnic Divide?

Posted on 5 June, 2009 by

Links added In scanning the progressive press, I’d like to add an observation to Idrees’ survey of the online reaction to Obama’s speech about an interesting pattern that seems to have emerged. A list follows by way of illustration, and … Continue reading →

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Boycott, Surrender or War

Posted on 30 March, 2009 by

“There is no peace process. There never was”, Jeremy Salt writes from Ankara. “There is only a war process. The fictions of the Oslo process, Madrid, the Declaration of Principles, Wye River, the Hebron protocol, have all been exposed”: The … Continue reading →

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James Petras: Regional Wars and the Decline of the US Empire

Posted on 28 March, 2009 by

James Petras’s latest essay [.pdf], ‘World Depression: Regional Wars and the Decline of the US Empire’ is excerpted below, wherein he combines an analysis of world economic prospects with his thoughts on US Empire and the continuity of zionist influences … Continue reading →

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