Archive for: March, 2003

THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE UGLY

THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE UGLY AND WHY A LITTLE BIT OF LEARNING IS A DANGEROUS THING. PLEASE CHOOSE. By Brady Long IF a picture is worth a thousand words, are ten pictures worth Ten thousand words? I think neither is applicable. The gentleman in the center gives the appearance of sadness but it is [...]

PALESTINE

I am not an Arab, I am not a Jew Abraham is not my father, Palestine is not my home But I would fight any man Who kicked me out of my house To dwell in a tent I would fight

UN hampered by Annan’s weak leadership

By Ali Abunimah Electronic Iraq 25 March 2003 When George W. Bush spoke to the United Nations on 12 September 2002 and threatened the world body with “irrelevance” if it did not grant him a license to invade Iraq, he achieved the opposite. Rather than becoming irrelevant, the UN proved that it could be the [...]

shock and awe…?

Good Bites Financial Times Shock and awe and a clash of cultures By Harlan Ullman Published: March 23 2003 ” …campaign to bring justice and stability to a region infested with the most virulent forms of violence and hatred the world has known…no parallel strategy to shock and awe for implementing the peace. Should the [...]

The problem with ”after the war”

by Ghassan Khatib While the British and American war against Iraq is so far not having any direct and immediate impact on the Palestinian-Israel conflict, we are already seeing signs on the horizon of the war’s long-term strategic results. One of the first possible casualties of this war could be the Quartet, the high-level Middle [...]

A weaker international community

by Yossi Alpher An Israeli view By the time the United States commenced its war against Iraq last week, it left behind considerable international wreckage: in the United Nations, in the Atlantic Alliance, and within the European Union. How the US will emerge from the war is not at all clear. But the sum total [...]

We Must Not Let Each Other Down Confronting Our Fears So We Can Confront the Empire

By ROBERT JENSEN I am finally ready to admit what for months I have kept hidden: I am terrified. I am more scared than I have ever been in my adult life. For weeks now I have felt a new kind of free-floating terror at what has been unfolding, as the Bush administration has made [...]

We almost stopped the war

By Ali Abunimah Electronic Iraq The “war” — or more accurately the massive assault on a small, defenceless country by an uncontrollable superpower — began precisely on schedule, although with a “pinpoint” strike of “only” forty cruise missiles rather than the “massive” attack of hundreds or thousands that have been trailed in Pentagon advertising. The [...]

Myths and facts about the war

by Rahul Mahajan and Robert Jensen Last night, our president announced a war to the nation and the world. Let us be clear about what this war is and what it is not.

Poem for Rachel

The skies are weeping The birds have flown away With rain-sodden flowers in hand I wait for you, Rachel…

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