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The World's True Outlaw State 4 September 2006
By Achin Vanaik
Global War on Terrorism Leaves Region in Turmoil 7 September 2006
By Praful Bidwai
Five years after U.S. President George W. Bush launched his "global war on terrorism", the world has become more unsafe, more divided, more strife-prone, more paranoid, and ironically, more vulnerable to terrorism, says Bidwai.
Lebanon, Israel, and the “greater west Asian crisis” 18 August 2006
By Fred Halliday
The Lebanon war is one component of the crisis of a new geopolitical region - "greater west Asia" - whose dangers are comparable to those of Europe in 1914, says Fred Halliday.
Peace in the Middle East? End the occupation! 3 August 2006
By Saul Landau
The media barrage of carnage reports from Lebanon and, to a much smaller effect, Israel, obscures causes and possible solutions to the new Middle East war: Palestine, not terrorism, remains the central conflictive issue in the area, says Landau.
Los derechos en Oriente Medio 1 August 2006
By Mariano Aguirre
A key, almost forgotten question in the conflict in Lebanon and Gaza is the violation of International Humanitarian Law that explicitly prohibits attacks on civilian population. Israel, and to much smaller extent Hezbollah, have been violating this rule continuously. Aguirre makes the case.
Israel's "new Middle East" 27 July 2006
By Tanya Reinhart
Although it was presented as a response to the Hezbollah attack, there are all indications that Israel has been planning massive war on Lebanon for a long time, and was only waiting for the 'international conditions to ripen'. Israel's plans fit well with those of its sponsor - establishing the full US domination in the Middle East.
Washington's latest Middle East war 25 July 2006
By Phyllis Bennis
Bennis looks at the wider implications of Israel’s “disproportionate act of war” on Lebanon. She argues that Israel’s attempt at military dominance is in keeping with the neo-con goal of a redrawn political map of the Middle East. But with Hezbollah gaining support, the conflict is damaging pro- US Arab governments, and will have knock-on effects on the situation in Iraq and Palastine. In response, the anti-war movement should redouble its advocacy for a just peace in the whole Middle East.
Lurching Toward Regional War in the Middle East 18 July 2006
By Richard Falk
Israel’s moves towards an all-out war in Gaza and Lebanon suggest that it is using the Hamas/Hizbollah incidents as pretexts for a political restructuring of the entire region in partnership with the US, writes Falk.
The Gaza/Lebanon Crises: Escalating Occupation & Danger of New Border Fighting Institute for Policy Studies, 12 July 2006
By Phyllis Bennis
The Israeli assaults on Gaza and Lebanon are political, not just humanitarian, says Bennis. They violate the Fourth Geneva Convention in seeking to collectively punish whole populations, and the attack on Lebanon risks a serious escalation, were Syria to become involved. Only a new, international (not U.S.-sponsored) diplomatic process based on international law and human rights can form the basis for a just, lasting and comprehensive peace in the region.
Counterinsurgency and Political Control: US Military Strategies Regarding Regional Conflict
By Jochen Hippler
Institute for Development and Peace, university of Duisburg - Essen, INEF Report 81/2006, April 2006
In this in-depth study, Hippler analyses insurgencies and counter-insurgencies as basically struggles for legitimacy, both locally and internationally, using political and military means. In a context of often unilateral or even imperial US foreign policy or policies of doubtful legality, the US armed forces may be militarily superior to all potential foes, but quite vulnerable in the competition for political legitimacy. This paper describes and analyses US military doctrines as regards control of regional conflicts.
New War Dangers: Iran, the U.S. and Nukes in the Middle East 15 March 2006
By Phyllis Bennis
There is a dangerous and provocative nuclear arsenal in the Middle East, but it belongs to Israel, not Iran. The only solution to the crisis is to move towards a nuclear weapons-free zone, or even a weapons of mass destruction-free zone across the entire Middle East, argues Bennis.
Esfuerzos neoimperiales 14 December 2005
By Mariano Aguirre
Una superpotencia en constante declive December 2005
By Mariano Aguirre
Aguirre dissects the failed policies of the Bush Administration, both within and without the US, and asks whether the Bush Administration will be remembered for the beginning of the long fall of US hegemony.
Forging a stronger link between two solidarity movements - for Iraq and Palestine, and the alter-globalisation movement
Achin Vanaik interviewed by Aleksej Scira, Transnatioanl Institute, 21 May 2005
Vanaik talks of the importance of continuous efforts to delegitimise both the US occupation of Iraq, and Israeli occupation of Palestine under US cover. The key strategic terrain on which the peace movement must fight is within the US. It is therefore necessary to urgently forge stronger links with the anti-war and the alter-globalisation movements in the US.
Democracy and Occupation: What's Really on the Rise Across the Middle East? 12 March 2005
By Phyllis Bennis
Contrasting US's claims to be supporting democratic changes in the Middle East with actual
US policies towards the countries in the region, Bennis concludes that what is happening
across the Middle East is an explosion not of democracy, but of occupation.
Back to the UN! 21 September 2003
By Phyllis Bennis
Washington wants a UN-endorsed multilateral military force to participate in the occupation of Iraq, but the commander would be an American and would not share authority and decision-making with the UN nor with governments sending soldiers.
Roadmap to Injustice by Achin Vanaik
The takeover of Iraq is the first step in the effective re-colonisation of West Asia. But without 'resolving the Palestine issue' the region cannot be stabilised.
Resisting Hegemony by Achin Vanaik
In the longer term, hegemony depends on the capacity to secure public consent for domination. That is why the US government is so determined to portray its invasion of Iraq as carried out to 'liberate' the Iraqi people.
Clear Channel fogs the Airwaves
Saul Landau writes about how Bush administration uses its influence on Clear Channel to manufacture the news.
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