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LA Event -- Glenn Greenwald on How the Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful
The UCLA School of Law’s Critical Race Studies Program, the David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy, the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, and the Arab Studies Institute (ASI) invite you to attend With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful Glenn Greenwald Wednesday, 2 November 2011 10:00am to 11:30am UCLA School of Law Room 2326, Faculty Library In countless instances over recent years, prominent political and media figures have insisted that serious crimes by the most powerful should be overlooked— either in the name of the common good, or in the name of a warped conception of ...
Keep Reading »The Cost of Kill/Capture: Impact of the Night Raid Surge on Afghan Civilians
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[The following is the latest from Open Society Foundations' Regional Policy Initiative on Afghanistan and Pakistan on night raids in Afghanistan.] Executive Summary Nighttime kill and capture operations (“night raids”) by international military have been one of the most controversial tactics in Afghanistan. They are as valued by the international military as they are reviled by Afghan communities. Night raids have been associated with the death, injury, and detention of civilians, and have sparked enormous backlash among Afghan communities. The Afghan government and the Afghan public have repeatedly called for an end to night ...
Keep Reading »If the Libyan War Was About Saving Lives, It Was a Catastrophic Failure
![[Anti-Qaddafi fighters gesture to the crowds in front of a Kingdom of Libya flag during celebrations in Benghazi on 23 October. Image by Esam Omran Al-Fetori/Reuters]](/content_images/3/sm_notsavinglives.jpg "[Anti-Qaddafi fighters gesture to the crowds in front of a Kingdom of Libya flag during celebrations in Benghazi on 23 October. Image by Esam Omran Al-Fetori/Reuters]")
As the most hopeful offshoot of the "Arab spring" so far flowered this week in successful elections in Tunisia, its ugliest underside has been laid bare in Libya. That's not only, or even mainly, about the YouTube lynching of Qaddafi, courtesy of a NATO attack on his convoy. The grisly killing of the Libyan despot after his captors had sodomised him with a knife, was certainly a war crime. But many inside and outside Libya doubtless also felt it was an understandable act of revenge after years of regime violence. Perhaps that was Hillary Clinton's reaction, when she joked about it on camera, until global revulsion pushed the US to call for an ...
Keep Reading »Amnesty International Memorandum on Investigating Former US President George W. Bush for Crimes Under International Law
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[The following is the latest from Amnesty International on the criminality of George W. Bush's use of torture.] VISIT TO CANADA OF FORMER US PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH AND CANADIAN OBLIGATIONS UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL MEMORANDUM TO THE CANADIAN AUTHORITIES AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Summary: Amnesty International considers that there is enough material in the public domain – even if one were to rely only upon information released by United States authorities, and by former US President George W. Bush himself – to give rise to an obligation for Canada, should former President Bush proceed with his visit to Canada on or around 20 October ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Belen Fernandez, The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work
Belén Fernández, The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work. London and New York: Verso, 2011. Jadaliyya: Why did you write this book? Belén Fernández: I asked myself this question several thousand times, particularly during my third rereading of every Friedman column published since 1995. The idea for the book came about in a far less climactic fashion than Friedman’s ideas tend to occur—i.e. it did not involve “Quarter-Pounder[ing] my way around the world,” being struck by a “bolt out of the blue that must have hit somewhere between the McDonald’s in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, the McDonald’s in Tahrir Square in Cairo and the McDonald’s off ...
Keep Reading »United States Should Step Aside as Mideast Broker
![[Left to right: Hillary Clinton, Benjamin Netanyahu, Mahmoud Abbas. Image from unknown archive.]](/content_images/3/sm_netanyahu-Clinton-Abbas.jpg "[Left to right: Hillary Clinton, Benjamin Netanyahu, Mahmoud Abbas. Image from unknown archive.]")
When it comes to Arab-Israeli diplomacy the American monopoly on mediation needs to be terminated. The reason is simple. Washington’s systematic failure over several decades has disqualified it from acting without adult supervision. Rather than the marriage counselor who must be balanced because both spouses are angry, the US is the arbitrator who sleeps with and solicits bribes from the more powerful disputant, and fixes outcomes accordingly. Given the US mantra that it cannot want peace more than the parties themselves and that negotiations without preconditions are the only acceptable formula–meaning that Israel has a veto over every decision large and small–it is ...
Keep Reading »Authors in Support of Occupy Wall Street and Related Movements
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[The following statement was issued by a group of authors in support of the Occupy movements. It was recently published on occupywriters.com] We, the undersigned writers and all who will join us, support Occupy Wall Street and the Occupy Movement around the world. Lorraine Adams, author of Harbor Rose Aguilar, author of Red Highways Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina Steve Almond, author of Letters from People Who Hate Me Katie Arnold-Ratliff, author of Bright Before Us Margaret Atwood, author The Handmaid's Tale Rosecrans Baldwin, author of You Lost Me There Russell Banks, author of Lost Memory of Skin ...
Keep Reading »BNC Statement: Occupy Wall Street not Palestine!
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[The following statement was issued by the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee on October 14, 2011.] Occupy Wall Street not Palestine! We are part of the world’s 99% yearning for freedom, justice and equal rights! If a people one day wills to live fate must answer its call. And the night must fade and the chain must break. – Abou-Al-kacem El-Chebbi (Tunisia) Occupied Palestine, October 13 - The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), the largest Palestinian civil society coalition struggling for Palestinian rights, is proud to stand in solidarity with the movements struggling for a new world based on ...
Keep Reading »Democracy Now! Interview with Toby Jones on "Iranian Assassination Plot"
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This is an interview conducted with Toby Jones on Wednesday, 12 October, in regards to the alleged Iranian-backed plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States. The interview addresses the facts that have been revealed thus far, potential explanations for why the Iranian regime would engage in such an an act, as well as questions and problems with the narrative of events that is currently unfolding. The interview also discusses the broader background and implications for both the United States and Saudi Arabia. In a 21-page indictment filed in New York federal court, two Iranian agents are charged with conspiring to kill Saudi Ambassador Adel al-Jubeir ...
Keep Reading »Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, and Historical Frames: 2011, 1989, 1968
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Activists and analysts increasingly join the Arab Spring with Occupy Wall Street. And some now recognize this historical juncture to have more in common with the transformative social movements of 1968 than with 1989, the year in which east European dictatorships were overturned by democratically driven civil societies. Shifting comparative frames for 2011 from 1989 to 1968 is helpful on a number of scores for thinking historically, theoretically, and strategically. It can help us reframe our expectations for global transformations too: for now, it is not only a matter of drafting constitutions, but of rearticulating solidarity across the ...
Keep Reading »The Forgotten Anniversary: 10/7 and America's Longest War
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On 7 October 2001, at approximately 12:30pm EST, US and British forces launched Operation Enduring Freedom, an aerial bombing campaign with the declared objectives of overthrowing the Taliban regime, destroying or capturing Taliban and al-Qaeda forces, and bringing an end to terrorist activities in Afghanistan.
Keep Reading »Declaration of the Occupation of New York City
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[The following statement was issued on 29 September 2011 by the NYC General Assembly.] As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies. As one people, united, we acknowledge the reality: that the future of the human race requires the cooperation of its members; that our system must protect our rights, and upon corruption of that system, it is up to the individuals to protect their own rights, and those of their neighbors; that a democratic government ...
Keep Reading »A Message from Anonymous to Wall Street, New York, and the Protesters
[The following text is from the video message below.] This is a message from anonymous to the people of New York City, Wall Street and members of the protest. We are crowding your streets, we are filling its veins. This might be painful, but you will not open your eyes so we have been forced to dilate them. This is your protest. Welcome your new neighbors, for they choose to sleep on the streets for you. They choose to open their mouths when you are too exhausted. They are your brothers. They are here ...
Keep Reading »Solidarity Letter from Cairo
[The following statement was issued by activsts in Cairo on 24 October 2011.] To all those in the United States currently occupying parks, squares and other spaces, your comrades in Cairo are watching you in solidarity. Having received so much advice from you about transitioning to democracy, we thought it’s our turn to pass on some advice. Indeed, we are now in many ways involved in the same struggle. What most pundits call “The Arab Spring” has its roots in the demonstrations, riots, strikes and ...
Keep Reading »R-Shief Opens Its Databases of Twitter #Occupy Tags and Analytics In A Collective 3-Day Effort to #Occupydata
LOS ANGELES, October 26, 2011- 3 Days, 30 Twitter hashtags, and countless ways to understand the occupy movement. From 09 December 2011 to 11 December 2011, R-Shief, a lab that collects and analyzes Middle East content from the Internet, will hold its first hackathon with satellite locations throughout the world. The aim of this event is to give activists data collected from Twitter, as well as R-Shief’s machine learning analytics, in a collective effort to offer a public and shared repository for data ...
Keep Reading »Some of My Best Friends Are Zionists
In the spring of 2002 I helped run a campaign to gather the signatures of American Jews who took some sort of independent line on Israel. The initiative came from the physicist Alan Sokal, who had emailed me along with some other people and attached a draft text called “Peace in the Middle East: An Open Letter from American Jews to our Government.” The idea was to send the text out far and wide, collecting enough checks along with the signatures so as to take out an advertisement in the New ...
Keep Reading »PARC 2012-13 Fellowship Competition for U.S. Scholars: Conducting Field-Based Research on Palestine
PARC Palestinian American Research Center PARC 2012-13 Fellowship Competition for U.S. Scholars: Conducting Field-Based Research on Palestine Fellowship awards from $6,000 to $10,000 Full proposals due January 12, 2012 Awards announced March 12, 2012 The Palestinian American Research Center (PARC) announces its 13th annual competition for post-doctoral and doctoral research fellowships in Palestinian studies. Important information about the fellowship competition: Research must ...
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Keep Reading »Consensus: A Look into the "how" of the Occupy Wall Street Movement
The following short documentary was produced by Meerkat Media Collective. A look into the “HOW” of the Occupy Wall Street movement: the consensus process. The community of occupiers at Liberty Plaza have sparked the process of building a movement that now transcends any one physical landmark. The tools to keep the movement alive belong to all of us. Another world is possible.
Keep Reading »The "Very Scary" Iranian Terror Plot
The most difficult challenge in writing about the Iranian Terror Plot unveiled yesterday is to take it seriously enough to analyze it. Iranian Muslims in the Quds Force sending marauding bands of Mexican drug cartel assassins onto sacred American soil to commit Terrorism—against Saudi Arabia and possibly Israel—is what Bill Kristol and John Bolton would feverishly dream up while dropping acid and madly cackling at the possibility that they could get someone to believe it. But since the US Government ...
Keep Reading »The Irvine 11, the Police, and the Autonomy of the University
The recent conviction of ten University of California students of two misdemeanor counts of disrupting and conspiring to disrupt a speech given by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren on 8 February 2010, points to the stifling of free speech and academic work and inquiry in the university. Three of the Irvine 11 are students at the University of California, Riverside, and two of these UCR students have been my own: Taher Herzallah and Shaheen Nassar. Both were studious, inquisitive, and engaged, modeling for ...
Keep Reading »Film and its Voices: The DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival
Palestinian Film and Arts Festival September 26 - 30, 2011, Washington, DC Last week Washington, DC joined Chicago, Boston, Houston, Ann Arbor, and a string of other cities and communities in putting on the first DC Palestinian Film & Arts Festival. Over the past ten years, Palestinian Film Festivals produced by the Palestinian diaspora community have been popping up all over and have come to exhibit a new stage in Palestinian artistic expression and the showcasing of it. In the Middle East, the ...
Keep Reading »State Sanctioned Killings
It is now an undisputed fact, confirmed by President Obama: the United States has executed two American citizens far away from zones of actual armed conflict and without due process. More than anything, the targeted killings of Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan in Yemen represent serious challenges to the United States’ reputation for abiding by the rule of law. The killings further complicate US foreign policy in a region currently witnessing bloody revolutions and uprisings motivated by a desire for ...
Keep Reading »Hate Speech Finds a Mainstream Platform
It is not often that major international publications respond to crackpot opinion pieces in other newspapers. Yet Robert L. Bernstein’s latest tantrum against the Palestinians, which the Washington Post published instead of steering the author to an extremist website, was so far beyond the pale that The Economist felt compelled to issue a ...
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