The normalization of war as a contemporary expression of the West’s responsibility to bring liberal democracy and capitalist freedom to the non-White hordes, and the fact that most of the people being killed in the process of “being saved” by the West are non-European, is a graphic confirmation of the White supremacist assumptions of humanitarian More
Why Humanitarian Interventionism is a Dead End Beware the Anti-Anti-War Left by JEAN BRICMONT DECEMBER 04, 2012 Counterpunch.org Louvain, Belgium. Ever since the 1990s, and especially since the Kosovo war in 1999, anyone who opposes armed interventions by Western powers and NATO has to confront what may be called an anti-anti-war left (including its far More
Why Humanitarian Interventionism is a Dead End Beware the Anti-Anti-War Left by JEAN BRICMONT DECEMBER 04, 2012 Counterpunch.org Louvain, Belgium. Ever since the 1990s, and especially since the Kosovo war in 1999, anyone who opposes armed interventions by Western powers and NATO has to confront what may be called an anti-anti-war left (including its far More
Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO’s War on Libya and Africa The next time that empire comes calling in the name of human rights, please be found standing idly by By Stephen Gowans what’s left Posted in Africa, Libya by what’s left on November 9, 2012 Maximilian C. Forte’s new book Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO’s War on Libya and Africa (released November 20) More
Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO’s War on Libya and Africa The next time that empire comes calling in the name of human rights, please be found standing idly by By Stephen Gowans what’s left Posted in Africa, Libya by what’s left on November 9, 2012 Maximilian C. Forte’s new book Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO’s War on Libya and Africa (released November 20) More
Is the War in Afghanistan “Humanitarian Intervention”? The fact is, war cannot liberate women. In reality, that was never a real goal of the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan. . . . By the same token, democracy cannot be delivered at gunpoint. By Jess Sundin August 22, 2012 Editor’s Note: This speech is one of More
Is the War in Afghanistan “Humanitarian Intervention”? The fact is, war cannot liberate women. In reality, that was never a real goal of the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan. . . . By the same token, democracy cannot be delivered at gunpoint. By Jess Sundin August 22, 2012 Editor’s Note: This speech is one of More
Syria and Libya > A Geo-political Analysis Samir Amin, Egyptian born scholar and activist, says that the main struggle in the world today is between countries that need their resources to modernize and the imperialist countries that need control of the resources to maintain their economic supremacy. By Linda Hoover August 22, 2012 Editor’s Note: This speech More
Syria and Libya > A Geo-political Analysis Samir Amin, Egyptian born scholar and activist, says that the main struggle in the world today is between countries that need their resources to modernize and the imperialist countries that need control of the resources to maintain their economic supremacy. By Linda Hoover August 22, 2012 Editor’s Note: This speech More
Syria: how the West is sanctioning sectarianism Brendan O’Neill Monday 13 August 2012 Spiked In the name of making a PR performance of their moral resolve, Western governments are meddling in Syria in an ever-more lethal way. For a textbook example of how Western meddling in other states’ affairs makes bad situations worse, look no More
Syria: how the West is sanctioning sectarianism Brendan O’Neill Monday 13 August 2012 Spiked In the name of making a PR performance of their moral resolve, Western governments are meddling in Syria in an ever-more lethal way. For a textbook example of how Western meddling in other states’ affairs makes bad situations worse, look no More
Syria and the Invisible Hand of Foreign Intervention Eric S. Margolis August 10, 2012 National Interest via antiwar.com The Polish Zionist ideologue Vladimir Jabotinsky, the father of Israel’s right wing, observed nearly a century ago that much of the Arab world was a fragile mosaic. A few sharp blows, he wrote, would cause it More
