Book Review: Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War
Andrew Bacevich has written another authoritative and well written book examining the U.S. military and its influence on the United States.
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Book Review: Toward a New Public Diplomacy
So there, four words to describe this book – arrogant, ignorant, image, FAIL. It would certainly make my critique shorter if that was all I wrote, but my pen ran over in disgust.
Read MoreBook Review: Palestine Betrayed
Palestine Betrayed is a hoax — one that speaks the truth, yet conceals much more than it reveals, and creates a ‘neo-revisionist’ canard about the Palestinian expulsion.
Read MoreBook Review: Letters from Palestine
Letters from Palestine – Palestinians Speak Out about Their Lives, Their Country, and the power of Nonviolence. Kenneth Ring and Ghassan Abdullah. Wheatmark, Tucson, AZ, USA. 2010. Kenneth Ring’s writing on Palestine has...
Read MoreQuicksand – America’s Pursuit of Power in the Middle East
The rest of Wawro’s story, before becoming stuck in his own analytical quicksand, is very well written. Put simply, without going into a lot of quotes and references, the U.S. has acted through arrogance, ignorance, and political domestic expediency.
Read MoreNetanyahu in Canada: the New Republican Stronghold
What I cannot abide by is the Harper government’s unequivocal support given to Israel and its occupation of Palestine, its denial of the democratic election of Hamas, its support of the 2006 invasion of Lebanon, and its support of Israeli war crimes in Gaza and its subsequent dismissal of the Goldstone report.
Read MoreDazed and Confused
There are times when I must admit that to belong to the great group of uninformed people, or perhaps uncaring people, or unthinking people, would be a much easier way to get through life.
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Review: Beyond Fundamentalism – Confronting Religious Extremism in the Age of Globalization
Aslan’s views in ‘Beyond Fundamentalism’ have some background weaknesses e.g. globalization, the U.S. role in jihad etc. but the specific ideas he presents about terrorism, global jihad, fundamentalism and democratic rights are sound and accurate. It is a brief work with some powerful statements, a bit sensational at times, but mostly well grounded.
Read MoreReview: The Invention of the Jewish People
The Invention of the Jewish People is very well written and argued, taking a lot of mind work to assimilate the ideas and their implications. Whether anything real arises from this is uncertain. As the West in particular examines the atrocities that modern Israel perpetrates against the Palestinian people, this critical examination of Jewish history may add to the growing discontent of other peoples towards Israeli militarism and apartheid.
Read MoreReview: My Father Was A Freedom Fighter – Gaza’s Untold Story
Ramzy Baroud has written what should become an icon of historical-cultural writing for the people of Palestine. My Father Was a Freedom Fighter is an amazingly powerful and wonderfully well written tapestry of the modern history of Palestine…
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