Justifying the Unjustifiable by DIANA JOHNSTONE August 26, 2013 counterpunch.org Paris. The liberal warhawks are groping around for a pretext they can call “legal” for waging war against Syria, and have come up with the 1999 “Kosovo war”. This is not surprising insofar as a primary purpose of that US/NATO 78-day bombing spree was always More
The Snowden Affair and the Destruction of Effective Democracy in Europe by DIANA JOHNSTONE July 5-7, 2013 Counterpunch.org Paris, France. The Snowden affair has revealed even more about Europe than about the United States. Certainly, the facts of NSA spying are significant. But many people suspected that something of the sort was going on. The More
The Snowden Affair and the Destruction of Effective Democracy in Europe by DIANA JOHNSTONE July 5-7, 2013 Counterpunch.org Paris, France. The Snowden affair has revealed even more about Europe than about the United States. Certainly, the facts of NSA spying are significant. But many people suspected that something of the sort was going on. The More
"The obsession with 'genocide' as the primary humanitarian issue in the world today relativizes war. It reverses the final judgment of the Nuremberg Trials that: 'War is essentially an evil thing.'" by Diana Johnstone April 2, 2013 PhilosophyforChange.org Opposing genocide has become a sort of cottage industry in the United States. Everywhere, “genocide studies” are cropping More
The Good Intentions That Pave the Road to War R2P and Genocide Prevention by DIANA JOHNSTONE Counterpunch WEEKEND EDITION FEBRUARY 1-3, 2013 Paris. Opposing genocide has become a sort of cottage industry in the United States. Everywhere, “genocide studies” are cropping up in universities. Five years ago, an unlikely “Genocide Prevention Task Force” was set More
The Good Intentions That Pave the Road to War R2P and Genocide Prevention by DIANA JOHNSTONE Counterpunch WEEKEND EDITION FEBRUARY 1-3, 2013 Paris. Opposing genocide has become a sort of cottage industry in the United States. Everywhere, “genocide studies” are cropping up in universities. Five years ago, an unlikely “Genocide Prevention Task Force” was set More
Sanctions are a form of warfare used by the U.S. and allies The Franco-American journalist Diana Johnstone muses over the evolution of Western policy. The ideals of the French Revolution were slowly replaced by a moral humanitarianism that makes it possible to switch from the defense of oppressed peoples to the apologia for colonization. At More
Sanctions are a form of warfare used by the U.S. and allies The Franco-American journalist Diana Johnstone muses over the evolution of Western policy. The ideals of the French Revolution were slowly replaced by a moral humanitarianism that makes it possible to switch from the defense of oppressed peoples to the apologia for colonization. At More
The Decline of Political Protest> Pussy Riot and Amnesty International What is most notable about this attention, and the attention of the Western media in general, is its tone. The tone is by no means a diplomatic appeal intended to persuade authorities to free the women in question. Rather, it is a tone of provocation. by DIANA More
The Decline of Political Protest> Pussy Riot and Amnesty International What is most notable about this attention, and the attention of the Western media in general, is its tone. The tone is by no means a diplomatic appeal intended to persuade authorities to free the women in question. Rather, it is a tone of provocation. by DIANA More
“Western politicians and media are not yet fighting World War III, but they are talking themselves into it.” Road to Damascus… and on to Armageddon? by DIANA JOHNSTONE FEBRUARY 13, 2012 Counterpunch Paris What if pollsters put this question to citizens of the United States and the European Union : “Which is more important, ensuring More
On Libya: What Washington Wants, Washington Gets By Polly Mann WAMM Newsletter August ◊ September 2011 Several years ago I met Diana Johnstone at a Women Against Military Madness (WAMM) conference where she was the keynote speaker. She is a graduate and former professor of the University of Minnesota, former European editor of the weekly More
