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![[Political rally for US President Barack Obama on the Pentacrest of the University of Iowa. Image by Douglas Jones via Wikimedia Commons.]](/content_images/3/sm_PentacrestObamaRallyWide.JPG "[Political rally for US President Barack Obama on the Pentacrest of the University of Iowa. Image by Douglas Jones via Wikimedia Commons.]")
Scattered are the lunatics, like rats, scurrying across the floor in panic when the lights are turned on. For forty years they have assumed that the cultural world of the United States is to their advantage. Hatred of the outsider and of women distinguished their social view. Theirs is the rhetoric of freedom and liberty papering over, lightly, a politics of suffocation. The main word was No: no to this, no to that, no to a woman’s right to dignity, no to the unfurling of ...
Keep Reading »Putting Palestine on the Map
They want their homeland? They should fight for it. -- Ali Khaled, father of Leila Khaled, 1950s With the US embroiled in Afghanistan’s endless theater, the debate around insurgencies has once more taken hold. In 2007, Jeffery Record’s Beating Goliath detailed the story of how some insurgencies end up defeating their much more powerful adversaries. Three years later, the RAND Corporation published Ben Connable and Martin Libicki’s How Insurgencies End, which showed that ...
Keep Reading »The Southern Silk Road
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1. Paralysis in Washington US policy on Iran is paralyzed. A report from mid-September by the Iran Project shows how the Obama agenda is poorly considered. This report, “Weighing the Costs of Military Action Against Iran,” comes with the imprimatur of Washington’s retired eminences: politicians (Republican Senator Chuck Hagel and Democratic Congressman Lee Hamilton), ambassadors (Frank Wisner and Thomas Pickering), and military officers (Admiral William Fallon and General ...
Keep Reading »Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran
![[Crop of Image of Negev Nuclear Research Center at Dimona, photographed by an American reconnaissance satellite in 1960. Image from Wikimedia Commons.]](/content_images/3/sm_Nuclear_reactor_in_dimona_(israel).jpg "[Crop of Image of Negev Nuclear Research Center at Dimona, photographed by an American reconnaissance satellite in 1960. Image from Wikimedia Commons.]")
Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu seemed inspired by the Road Runner cartoons, Glenn Beck and Reverend Gene Scott. The bizarre, almost hand drawn, “bomb” in one of his hands was complemented by the red marker in another: man enough, Bibi suggested, to draw his own red lines. He does not need the Americans. The last time someone came to the UN General Assembly and did one of these amateur presentations, the US went to war. Poor Colin Powell would come to regret his 5 February, ...
Keep Reading »Libyan Humiliation a Driving Force for Anti-Americanism
![[US Consulate burnt down in Benghazi. Image from www.newsship.com via Tunisia-Live.]](/content_images/3/sm_consulate-benghazi-burnt-down.jpg "[US Consulate burnt down in Benghazi. Image from www.newsship.com via Tunisia-Live.]")
Al-Nass (The People), and other television channels of “Satellite Salafism,” broadcast news of a year-old mediocre film trailer about the life of the Prophet Mohammad, made by an Israeli-Californian and championed by a Florida-based Christian pastor. Across the waters, radicals spurred each other on. The reactions in Cairo and Benghazi were swift. Crowds formed in front of the US embassy in Egypt and the US consulate in Libya, storming them, and, in Benghazi, ...
Keep Reading »عن الخليج: الحملة الأمنية في الإمارات
من النادر أن نرى تغطية إعلامية في الغرب عن القمع المنسق الذي يتعرض له الناشطون المطالبون بالديمقراطية في شبه الجزيرة العربية. تعد المملكة العربية السعودية الأولى بين أقرانها في الجزيرة العربية التي ترفض وبقسوة أي اقتراحات باصلاحات ديمقراطية. فقد قامت السلطات السعودية مؤخراً باعتقال رجل الدين، نمر النمر، في القطيف في عملية تم فيها إطلاق النار على قدمه وقتل آخرين في قرية العوامية. وقال وزير الداخلية، الأمير أحمد بن عبد العزيز، أن النمر هو "مثير للفتنة" و" رجل ...
Keep Reading »The South Gathers in Tehran
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Next week, representatives from one hundred and eighteen of the world’s one hundred and ninety two states will gather in Tehran, Iran for the 16th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit. Created in 1961, the NAM was a crucial platform for the Third World Project (whose history I detail in The Darker Nations). It was formed to purge the majority of the world from the toxic Cold War and from the mal-development pushed by the World Bank. After two decades of useful ...
Keep Reading »Concerning the Gulf: The Emirates Crackdown
Rarely reported in the West has been the concerted repression of democracy activists on the Arabian Peninsula. Saudi Arabia, the first among equals in the peninsula, has been ruthlessly against any suggestion of democratic reform. Most recently, the Saudi authorities arrested the Qatif-based cleric Nimr al-Nimr, shooting him in the leg and killing several people during the operation in the village of al-Awwamiyya. Interior Minister Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz said that ...
Keep Reading »When Protector Turned Killer
![[An F-15E Strike Eagle, one of the aircraft used by NATO forces in combat over Libya. Image from WikiMedia Commons.]](/content_images/3/sm_1024px-F-15E_strike_eagle_91-0304-LN.jpg "[An F-15E Strike Eagle, one of the aircraft used by NATO forces in combat over Libya. Image from WikiMedia Commons.]")
Back in January, Faiz Fathi Jfara of Bani Walid asked a simple question, “I just need an answer from NATO: why did you destroy my home and kill my family?” NATO refuses to answer him. NATO went to war in Libya to protect civilians through a UN mandate (Resolution 1973). The UN Human Rights Council and the International Criminal Court gave legitimacy to NATO's operations, and it began its ten thousand sorties in March 2011. The war quickly exceeded the UN mandate, moving for ...
Keep Reading »Convulsions in Libya
![[Burning vehicle in Bayda on 16 February 2011. Image from Wikipedia.]](/content_images/3/sm_First_demonstrations_calling_for_toppling_the_regime_in_Libya_(Bayda,_Libya,_2011-02-16).jpg "[Burning vehicle in Bayda on 16 February 2011. Image from Wikipedia.]")
Fifteen days from now, the Libyan people will go to the polls. It will be the first election of its kind in Libya, but not the first election in the country. Qaddafi’s Jamahiriya held elections, but these turned out to be very large rubber stamps for a regime that conducted the spectacular trick of centralization in the name of de-centralization. But this is going to be a fraught election. The social and political conditions are unprepared for the niceties of ...
Keep Reading »Bio
Vijay Prashad is Professor of International Studies at Trinity College. He is the author of The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South (Verso); Arab Spring, Libyan Winter (AK Press); Uncle Swami: Being South Asian in America (New Press); and The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World (New Press), which won the 2009 Muzaffar Ahmed Book Prize.
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