Efter åtta år har ingen ens tillstymmelse till svar. De som dominerar är upptrappning utan politisk substans och tillbakadragande utan politisk heder. Vi stirrar ner i ett svart hål. Det enda vi ser är skräck., skriver Per Wirtén
Counter Punch, September 9, 2009. "Richard W. Behan lives and writes on Lopez Island, off the northwest coast of Washington state. He has published on various websites over two dozen articles exposing and criticizing the criminal wars of the Bush Administ
"British-Pakistani writer, journalist, and historian Tariq Ali spoke at Hampshire College on November 17 for the the Twelfth Annual Eqbal Ahmad Lecture. The annual Eqbal Ahmad Lecture honors the teaching, scholarship, and activism of the late Eqbal Ahmad
Atomkofferten, som også kalles «The Nuclear» eller «Atomic Football», veier 18 kilo og har en liten antenne. Selve kofferten er en diskré utformet Zero Halliburton metallkoffert kledd med lær og inneholder fire elementer: * The Black Book, med mulighetene
Feffer 23.12. jämför Obama med Nixon. Å ena sidan START, vapenkontroll och (eventuellt) nedrustning. Å andra sidan krig och imperialism. "This bifocal view of Richard Nixon reveals one of the great paradoxes of the U.S. peace movement. Peace activists div
"Rather than bleeding the people of Iraq and Afghanistan, with more civilian and US losses than ever, a way out could have been a conference on security and cooperation in Central Asia, modelled on the Helsinki Conference 1972-75, which prepared the way f
President Obama’s proposed “Copenhagen Accord” aims to shift from developed to developing countries the balance of “common but differentiated responsibilities” that have been bedrock principles of equity in the United Nations’ Framework Convention on Clim
The protest in Nairobi on 15 January by a handful of Muslim youth, in which four people were killed, revealed a profound radicalisation and inter-faith resentment among Nairobi’s Muslims. Analysis by John Onyando, 20 January 2010
Extracted from a 10th anniversary edition of No Logo to be published by Fourth Estate on 21 January. "Another, more hopeful possibility is that Obamamania will end up being what the US president's advisers like to call "a teachable moment". Obama is a gi
Democracy Now 2 Feb: "As part of a record $3.8 trillion budget proposal, the Obama administration is asking Congress to increase spending on the US nuclear arsenal by more than $7 billion over the next five years. Obama is seeking the extra money despite
By HANS BLIX April 4, 2010 STOCKHOLM — The financial crisis and global warming have had the world’s attention in recent years. Thanks to President Barack Obama’s initiative, perhaps the season for nuclear disarmament has finally arrived.
6 April, By DAVID E. SANGER and THOM SHANKER "The 50-page “Nuclear Posture Review” released on Tuesday acknowledged outright that “the massive nuclear arsenal we inherited from the cold-war era” is “poorly suited to address the challenges posed by suicida
IPS 5 April: "The efforts of the Barack Obama administration to maintain the secrecy of the counterterrorism policies of its predecessor, the administration of former President George W. Bush, hit a major speed bump last week. On Mar. 31, a federal judge