Posts Tagged ‘Terrorism’
The New American Imperialism
Naked Punch | 9 June 2010 By NOAM CHOMSKY Interviewed by David Barsamian MIT, Cambridge, MA 2 April 2010 One of the themes that Howard Zinn tried to address during his long career was the lack of historical memory. The facts of history are scrupulously ignored and/or distorted. I was wondering if you could comment on imperialism then and [...]
CNAS Panel: Advice on “Af/Pak” to the Next U.S. President
CNAS | 10 June 2010 CNAS Fourth Annual Conference Shaping the Agenda: American National Security in the 21st Century BEYOND AFGHANISTAN: AMERICA'S ENDURING INTERESTS IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH ASIA Beyond Afghanistan & Keynote Address by Michèle Flournoy 00:00:00 Panel Discussion 00:57:20 Questions & Answers 01:11:30 [...]
Americans Failing to Suppress Afghan Resistance to Occupation
DefenseTech | By Greg Grant | 9 June 2010 The “Lone Guerrilla Paradox” and the Failure of COIN Doctrine in Afghanistan The New York Times runs a story today from reporter Rod Nordland in Kandahar about the shift in strategy there away from a military headlined offensive to more aid and reconstruction efforts, with a gradual increase [...]
Obama to Petraeus: Yes You Can!
Antiwar | By Jeff Huber | 15 June 2010 King David and His Howling Commandos As Renaissance political scientist Niccolo Machiavelli noted, the fall of Rome came about when its military elite, known as the Praetorian Guard, gained control over the emperor and the Senate. Had irony survived the Bush Jr. administration, it would relish that [...]
Mavi Marmara and the U.S.S. Liberty
Brookings | By Charles K. Ebinger | 15 June 2010 The Attack on the USS Liberty: Lessons for U.S. National Security General Petraeus warned that the stalled Middle East peace process is a direct threat to U.S. interests and prestige in the region and that the lack of progress in Palestine foments anti-Americanism, undermines Arab [...]
Saree Makdisi on “the racism of our age”
Los Angeles Times | By Saree Makdisi | 13 June 2010 Don't single out Helen Thomas The veteran journalist was pilloried for her remark about Israel, but where's the uproar over such comments directed at Palestinians? Unconscionable. Offensive. Hurtful. Bigoted. Terrible. Hateful. These are the words being used to describe Helen Thomas' [...]
Chomsky on the Freedom Flotilla
In These Times | By Noam Chomsky | 8 June 2010 The Real Threat Aboard the Freedom Flotilla Israel’s violent attack on the Freedom Flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza shocked the world. Hijacking boats in international waters and killing passengers is, of course, a serious crime. But the crime is nothing new. For decades, Israel [...]
Hoodbhoy on the Flotilla Massacre
ViewpointOnline | By Pervez Hoodbhoy | 11 June 2010 This article, recovered from Google cache, is not accessible in Pakistan. A revised (sanitised) version appears as The Flotilla Massacre: Why?, and a condensed version has been published as The flotilla killings, in Dawn. Reflections on the Flotilla massacre Israel is responsible for [...]
Raw 1-Hour Footage: Attack on the Mavi Marmara
Cultures of Resistance | 8 June 2010 Under Attack: Mavi Marmara Attacked - Flotilla footage mirrors Via Iara Lee, a filmmaker from Cultures of Resistance CulturesOfResistance.org - Hosted by Twin Cities Indymedia. Note: Footage includes graphic violence, gunfire and lethal injuries. Can you host more files or recompress into open formats? [...]
From the CENTCOM Af/Pak Conference in Tampa, Florida
Registan.net | By Joshua Foust | 7-8 June 2010 Dispatches from the CENTCOM Afpak Conference Jump to: 1. The Art of the Implausible | 2. Assertions, or Arguments? 3. A Problem of Implementation | 4. Extremely Extremist Extremism 5. Opinion Polls Make You Dumb This week, the United States Central Command, CENTCOM, is holding a conference [...]
