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Buckling to Bigotry: The Newseum Dishonors Murdered Palestinian Journalists
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Just two days before Palestinians were to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the Nakba, the names of two Palestinian cameramen targeted and killed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza in November 2012 were dropped from a dedication ceremony held to honor “reporters, photographers and broadcasters who have died reporting the news” over the past year. The move followed an Israel lobby pressure campaign
Keep Reading »Glenn Owns Bill: A Lesson in Challenging Islamophobia and Taking Responsibility (Video)
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[The following video is from the 10 May 2013 episode of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher. The clip shows an exchange between Bill Maher and Glenn Greenwald following a discussion about the White House and State Department's immediate response to the 11 September 2012 attack on the US Embassy in Benghazi, Libya. In this clip, Maher claims that theocracy and violence are inherent to Muslims and/or Muslim culture, and that US citizens and policy-makers are void of any responsibility for the status quo of forces in the Middle East (or Muslim world, it is not really clear). Greenwald, in turn, proceeds to give viewers a lesson in how to take down Bill Maher and own up to his ...
Keep Reading »Why Domestic Politics Still Matter in Iran’s Nuclear Policymaking
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The first round of nuclear talks in Kazakhstan raised optimism on the prospect of reaching a diplomatic solution for Iran’s nuclear crisis. Sanctions are crushing Iran’s economy. Meanwhile, the turmoil in its ally Syria and the rise of Sunni Islamism in the Middle East is undermining Iran’s strategic position. The overall regional and domestic situation appears to have forced Iran to revise its nuclear approach. Therefore, not surprisingly, Iran started the first round of recent nuclear talks with a relatively milder position. As usual, the negotiations failed, but this time it was due to a different reason: the domestic concerns of Iranian leaders. As a senior diplomat ...
Keep Reading »On Iraq War Revisionism: Kanan Makiya and the Arab Revolutions
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Commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq by those responsible for waging it has taken largely unapologetic form. Donald Rumsfeld tweeted about the “long, difficult work of liberating 25 mil Iraqis,” and that those who “played a role in history deserve our respect and appreciation.” He ostensibly includes himself in this group. Paul Wolfowitz suggested that “we still don’t know how all this is all going to end,” hopeful that Iraq might possibly follow the model of South Korea after the Korean War. Wolfowitz bemoaned the fact that Iraqis were not given control over Iraq immediately, and that Iraqi exiles who swooped into Iraq on the ...
Keep Reading »Showtime's Homeland and the US Media
I took advantage of a recent promotion by my cable company to power-watch both seasons of Showtime’s Homeland. Before taking this plunge, I had purposely stayed away from Argo and Zero Dark Thirty, which have Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) heroes pitted against Muslim enemies. I never tuned into any of the seasons of 24, a show that shares the same producers with Homeland, who have teamed up with the Israeli crew who created Homeland’s precursor, Hatufim (“Hostages”). I did watch Covert Affairs while it remained a silly look at a CIA operative’s activities around the world. I had to stop when the main character successfully convinced a Yemeni official to be a ...
Keep Reading »Announcing The New Issue of Middle East Report Spring 2013
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IRAQ TEN YEARS LATER With few exceptions, the rush of reflections on the decennial marker of the US-led invasion of Iraq ignored the fact that the war happened mostly for Iraqis. Already devastated by 20 years of war, sanctions and dictatorship, Iraq suffered another decade of foreign occupation, civil strife and mass displacement. The spring 2013 issue of Middle East Report takes a hard look at “Iraq Ten Years Later,” including the question of why the Bush administration launched the war in the first place. Joost Hiltermann surveys the political scene in the country under Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. There are visible traces of the ...
Keep Reading »Media Mea Culpas and The Iraq War: Co-Editor Sinan Antoon and Others on AJE (Video)
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Looking back over the ten years since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, what was the role of the US media in the war on Iraq and how has it portrayed that role since? The following segment from Al Jazeera's "Listening Post" features a number of commentators and analysts, including Jadaliyya Co-Editor Sinan Antoon. Central to the discussion therein is a questioning of how much of mainstream US media's conduct was a mistake, which of those mistakes has it owned up to, and how much of its conduct was in fact complicity in a war that destroyed the entirity of the Iraqi state and devastated the lives of its population.
Keep Reading »Noura Erakat and Rashid Khalidi on US-Israeli Relations: Interview with MSNBC's Chris Hayes
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This week US President Barack Obama made his first Middle East visit of his second term in office. It was also his first trip to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) since coming into office in 2008. The purpose of the trip was to warm chilled relations with Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, as well as to reiterate the US position towards Iran's nuclear power ambitions. In many ways, the trip signaled Obama's retreat from the region rather than the first step in an intensified approach to it. Obama's "Listening Tour" sought to strengthen his political leverage in the United States by appeasing a domestic constituency, and especially an ...
Keep Reading »Event -- Shades of Occupation: Iraq After 10 Years (29 March, Haverford College)
Shades of Occupation: Iraq After 10 Years 2013 Mellon Symposium Friday, 29 March 2013 Haverford College Convened by Zainab Saleh, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Haverford College This interdisciplinary symposium will be held on the 10th anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq as a venue to examine multiple dimensions of the decade-long occupation. Despite the US Army's official withdrawal from the country, the US presence in Iraq as a military, economic and political force continues to loom large. Baghdad is home to the largest US embassy in the world. An enormous body of private security and other contractors ...
Keep Reading »Mainstream Taboo on Criticizing Israel Suffers Visible Cracks (Video)
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For those of us in the United States who have been advocating for Palestinian rights for many years, our impact can seem dismal by looking only at the unshakable bias of US foreign policy on the issue. However, since real political change happens from the ground up, and the political establishment is often the last element to respond to social change, the impact of our activism can be more accurately measured by looking at how public discourse has changed over the last decade. A decade ago, sympathy for the Palestinian quest for justice was virtually nonexistent in the United States. But in the last ten years, some noteworthy signs of change have appeared: a former ...
Keep Reading »London Event -- Algeria, Mali: Another Chapter in the “Global War On Terror”? (9 March)
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Algeria, Mali: Another Chapter in the “Global War On Terror”? 9 March 2013, 4:30 p.m. Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, London As the dreadful hostage crisis at the BP-operated In Amenas gas plant in Algeria came to an end on January 19th, the British Prime Minister, David Cameron claimed, like George Bush Jr and Tony Blair before him, that the country faced an "existential" and "global threat" to "our interests and way of life". Ten years after the devastating war against Iraq and following the NATO onslaught on Libya two years ago; Western troops are again intervening in Mali to “fight Islamist extremists”. ...
Keep Reading »Event: Proxy and Invisible Detention in the US Counterinsurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan (12 March 2013, Rutgers University)
Proxy and Invisible Detention in the US Counterinsurgencies in Iraq & Afghanistan 12 March 2013, 5:00 - 6:30 p.m. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers University presents "Proxy and Invisible Detention in the US Counterinsurgencies in Iraq & Afghanistan," a talk by Dr. Laleh Khalili, Reader in Politics of the Middle East SOAS, University of London. This talk examines the use of proxies by the United States in the War on Terror and traces their historical roots. In the US case, extraordinary rendition had been used as early as the 1970s in the US War on ...
Keep Reading »Why There Is No Military Solution to the Syrian Conflict
Today, as violence intensifies in Syria, external powers, including the United States, are openly debating direct intervention. Such intervention is justified as serving multiple goals at once: it is a means of securing chemical weapons caches; a mechanism to protect the civilian population; and a necessary measure to ensure that the successors to the Asad regime are adequately beholden to the United States and its regional allies. However, whether the intentions are humanitarian or strategic, policies ...
Keep Reading »O.I.L. Media Roundup (May 9)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Occupation, Intervention, and Law and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the O.I.L. Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each biweekly roundup to OIL@jadaliyya.com by Monday night of every other week.] News Obama Hints at US Military Action at Syria as Administration Readies Lethal Aid Options, Associated Press Barack Obama has indicated his ...
Keep Reading »The Constitution Project's Task Force on Detainee Treatment
[The following report was issued by the The Constitution Project on 16 April 2013.] The Report of the Constitution Project's Task Force on Detainee Treatment Statement of the Task Force This report of The Constitution Project’s Task Force on Detainee Treatment is the result of almost two years of intensive study, investigation and deliberation. The project was undertaken with the belief that it was important to provide an accurate and authoritative account of how the United ...
Keep Reading »Imperialist Liberalism and the Egyptian Revolution
In the following lines, I level four criticisms against what I term the imperialist liberal trend of thought and how it deals with the January 25 Revolution. By “imperialist liberalism,” I mean that loose US-European academic tradition, whose defense of liberalism, especially of representative democracy and individual freedom, is inextricably tied to a colonial, Western-centric conceptual toolbox that sometimes reaches the limit of directly and unashamedly defending US global interests. First, placing ...
Keep Reading »Iraq: Ten Years Later
“The Iraq war is largely about oil,” wrote Alan Greenspan in his memoir The Age of Turbulence(2007). “I’m saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows.” It may indeed be self-evident that the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, as the former Federal Reserve chairman says, because of oil. But what does this proposition mean? The answer is not so obvious. Part of the plan may have been that regime change in Iraq would open the country’s oilfields to exploitation by ...
Keep Reading »Caught Shopping While Iranian: Diasporic Solidarity and the Globalization of Collective Punishment
In recent years, the Iranian New Year, Norooz, has become a fairly predictable time for US presidents to gesture towards “dialogue” and mutual respect between the United States and the Iranian people, while criticizing the repressive policies and nuclear aspirations of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI). George W. Bush spoke often of the Iranian people’s right to live in a “free society,” and ended his presidency with an opulent haft sin display in the dining room of the White House. More recently, ...
Keep Reading »Sinan Antoon on Iraq Ten Years After US Invasion: Panel Interview on DW
Ten Years ago, the United States and its "Coalition of the Willing" invaded Iraq while justifying such an act on shifting, conflicting, and false pretenses of combating terrorism, containing weapons of mass destruction (WMD), and democracy promotion. Subsequent to that invasion, the United States proceeded to occupy Iraq and disastrously reconfigure its political structures, economic organization, and social fabric. Of note is that such a history of destruction did not begin in 2013, but was ...
Keep Reading »O.I.L. Media Roundup (March 25)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Occupation, Intervention, and Law and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the O.I.L. Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each biweekly roundup to OIL@jadaliyya.com by Monday night of every other week] News "Kuwait Lengthens Sentence of Man Who "Insulted" Emir", Swiss Info.ch A court in Kuwait has raised the sentence of ...
Keep Reading »العراق 1990 إلى 2003 خيانة شعب والإفلات من العقاب للأبد؟
في تاريخ العراق المعاصر حدثان بعيدا الأثر: غزو العراق للكويت في الثاني من آب/ أغسطس 1990، وغزو الولايات المتحدة وبريطانيا للعراق في 19 آذار/مارس 2003. ترى هل استفاد القادة السياسيون من دروس هذين الحدثين؟ يبقى ذلك موضع تساؤل وشك. فما يزال العراقيون يتعرضون للظلم، وما يزال الخطر على الحياة والأضطراب يشكلان جانباً قاسياً من واقع البلاد حتى مطلع هذا العام، حتى باتت المعاناة الجماعية منتشرة على نحو لا يمكن إخفاؤه. ولعل معضلة الحياة في العراق تؤكد عدداً لا يحصى من المآسي: فمنذ الغزو الأمريكي – ...
Keep Reading »O.I.L. Media Roundup (March 12)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Occupation, Intervention, and Law and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the O.I.L. Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each biweekly roundup to OIL@jadaliyya.com by Monday night of every other week] News "Minister: Autopsy Shows Torture Killed Jaradat," Ma'an News Ma'an News reports on the PA Minister of Detainee Affairs' ...
Keep Reading »What was at Stake at Brooklyn College?
It was an odd spectacle: Michael Bloomberg, the New York City mayor responsible for a quite a bit of repression against New York activists, was also the one chiding New York politicos for their threats to cut funding for the city’s public colleges. As he quipped, “If you want to go to a university where the government decides what kind of subjects are fit for discussion, I suggest you apply to a school in North Korea.” Brooklyn College’s hosting of activist Omar Barghouti from the Boycott National ...
Keep Reading »Spider Web: The Making and Unmaking of Iran Sanctions
[The following report was issued by International Crisis Group on 25 February 2013.] Spider Web: The Making and Unmaking of Iran Sanctions Executive Summary With war a frightening prospect and fruitful negotiations a still-distant dream, sanctions have become the West’s instrument of choice vis-à-vis Iran. They are everywhere: in the financial arena, barring habitual commercial relations; in the oil sector, choking off Tehran’s principal source of currency; in the insurance sector, thwarting its ...
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