Peace & Security

Get all US forces and mercenaries out of Iraq

November 2010
Kamil Mahdi

War and Sanctions continue to be used to manipulate and control Iraq. Joy Gordon's recent book on the sanctions and US policy shows them being used by the US and Britain, not as an alternative to war as many in the international community may have intended, but as a means of softening in preparation for war.

Strategies to end the Israeli occupation

November 2010
Phyllis Bennis

An analysis of how the deadly raid on the Mavi Maramara by the Israeli Navy has changed the public opinion so dramatically in the U.S., and in Israel.

Profiteers of the occupation of Palestine should be excluded from the ESRP

November 2010
Ben Hayes

Quakers call for an end to participation of Israeli companies “that profit from the occupation of Palestine” in EU security research programme

The USA: Scarecrows on the March

November 2010
Atilio Boron

The U.S. public has accepted as valid and reasonable, affirmations that would have provoked incredulity or hilarity among the most backward and superstitious people in medieval Europe. The clear indication of moral and political decay eating into American Rome.

Misplaced euphoria over UN seat

October 2010
Praful Bidwai

India 's policy-makers are beguiled by deceptive symbols of “prestige” like the Commonwealth Games, G-20 membership and nuclear arsenals. Is this really what India should do with its growing power?

Relying on Big Brother’s Aadhaar

October 2010
Praful Bidwai

The fundamental assumptions underlying Aadhaar are flawed. Its likely social benefits will be minuscule in relation to its cost and the public will pay a huge price through exclusion from social services, surveillance, loss of privacy, and strengthening a Big Brother state.

The Kashmir Interlocutors’ Panel

October 2010
Praful Bidwai

There's widespread disappointment over India's choice of negotiators for the recent dialogue over Kashmir, which looks more like an effort to pretend - in advance of Obama's visit to the country - that the government is "doing something" about the situation.

What would Gandhi say to a seat in the Security Council?

October 2010
Praful Bidwai

The Indian government should not waste its energies vying for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, but redirect the use of its power radically.

From apartheid South Africa to Palestine

October 2010
Patrick Bond

With settlement expansion and continuing human rights abuses against Palestinians, the lessons from the anti-apartheid movement continue to motivate the growing global opposition to the occupation.

Of tall caims and low cunning

October 2010
Praful Bidwai

Aadhaar - the Indian government policy dishonestly marketed as a social security-related scheme, actually originates from “national security” concerns, with nefarious implications for surveillance, profiling and tracking of citizens.