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May 29, 2011
U.S. Boat to Gaza
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I am currently slated to be one of some 60 people aboard the U.S. boat setting sail for Gaza next month as part of a larger flotilla seeking to symbolically break the siege of Gaza and put political pressure upon Israel to lift the blockade. You can learn more about it here. I will be posting regular updates relating to the trip here on the blog.
April 30, 2011
Kropotkin Selection? Updating Mutual Aid
I wrote a brief commentary for ideas & action on E.O. Wilson's latest ideas on evolution and the puzzling phenomenon of cooperation among individuals within species, touching upon themes Kropotkin discussed over 100 years ago.
April 28, 2011
John Prendergast and the New York Times
The Times today has a short article by Josh Kron on the latest developments in the Abyei dispute. The only analyst quoted in the piece is John Prendergast, who, with unerring predictability, uttered a series of platitudes.
Here's Prendergast:
The Arab-African Spring: A Genomic Mutation?
Much has happened in North Africa and the Middle East since Tunisia's government fell to popular protest in January. The wave of uprisings sweeping the region immediately presented and continue to present Western elites with a serious public relations challenge. New York Times columnist Roger Cohen serves, as usual, as a good indicator of establishment values and double-think.
April 27, 2011
Khartoum Enlists India In Befriending Washington
In playground political developments, the unsavoury outcast has enlisted the help of one of the bully's crew in an attempt to get on the bully's good side. Sudan is appealing to India for help in getting removed from Washington's state sponsors of terrorism list, which entail economic sanctions. Sudan, of course, has long been trying to get the sanctions removed.
Salah Gosh Out!
It was reported on Tuesday (April 26th) that Salah Gosh, the CIA's favored liason with Khartoum for intelligence collaboration in Iraq and noted architect of the atrocities in Darfur, has been dismissed by through decree by President al-Bashir.
The Economist Cites Our Book!?
"Darfur – Intervention and the USA" has been mentioned in the Economist. Unfortunately, it's only online ....and only in the context of noting how many books have a similar title. The Economist counts six other recent books playing on the theme of a "scramble for Africa". As the normally staid publication playfully puts it, "Go to Africa on an egg."
April 21, 2011
April 18, 2011
Former Iraq PM Supports South Sudan?
Nir Rosen reports that on March 17th, Iraqi MP and former Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Ja'fari gave a speech before the Iraqi parliament in which, in the course of condemning the Saudi invasion of Bahrain, he expressed solidarity with South Sudan:
April 16, 2011
Finkelstein on the Goldstone Retraction
Norman Finkelstein displays his characteristic depth of knowledge and analysis in this interview, which ends with Philip Weiss' comment: "I feel like you're a Talmudist, and teaching me how to read." And Finkelstein's response:
