28 March, 2011 // Category: Foreign policy, Terror/War
In his recent interview with the New Left Project, Richard Seymour argues that, while an assessment of the costs and benefits of military intervention in Libya “must be taken seriously”, the supporters of such interventions generally fail to produce any “serious accounting” or “audit”...
20 March, 2011 // Category: Foreign policy, International
Richard Seymour writes the blog Lenin’s Tomb and is the author of The Liberal Defence of Murder and The Meaning of David Cameron. Following the onset of military intervention in Libya, he spoke to NLP’s Edward Lewis about the motives underlying the operation and whether or not it can be...
19 March, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Foreign policy, History, International, Politics, Terror/War
British foreign policy was big news in the first decade of the 21st century. The so-called “war on terror” brought us the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan – now in its tenth year – and the invasion and occupation of Iraq, which precipitated one of the worst humanitarian disasters in living...
07 February, 2011 // Category: Activism, Foreign policy, International
The massive popular uprising in Egypt is already the most important event in the modern history of the Middle East. It will have wide-reaching reverberations for decades to come. Arab tyrants around the region are already announcing pre-emptive “reforms” in the hope of staving off what US Senator...
24 January, 2011 // Category: Foreign policy, International
Make no mistake about it: despite attempts by some to downplay the significance of the biggest leak of secret documents in the history of the Middle East conflict, the Palestine Papers are explosive. Their content will not surprise those who have been paying attention. Nonetheless, as Ali Abunimah...
04 January, 2011 // Category: Foreign policy, International
In November, it was reported that a US-based group called Artists 4 Israel (A4I), modestly calling themselves ‘New York’s finest urban artists’, had attempted to enter Bethlehem to paint over some of the ‘anti-Israeli’ graffiti that appears on Israel’s illegal separation wall, a wall...
07 October, 2010 // Category: Culture, Foreign policy, Politics
‘A Living Revolution: Anarchism in the Kibbutz Movement’ by James Horrox (AK Press, 2009) In his seminal book Expulsion of the Palestinians, Palestinian scholar Nur Masalha writes of Israel Zangwill’s infamous slogan "a land without a people for a people without a land" that it was not...
04 October, 2010 // Category: Foreign policy
Marcus Booth, vice chair of the UK Chagos Support Association, examines the historical record of dispossession of the Chagos Islanders, and how they are now being kept in limbo by the mixed messages of the current government. It is a sad and sorry stain on the human rights record of the British....
28 September, 2010 // Category: Activism, Foreign policy
Milan Rai is a co-editor at Peace News, and is involved in the anti-war group Justice Not Vengeance. He is also the author of Chomsky’s Politics; 7/7: The London Bombings, Islam and the Iraq War; and other works. In terms of both rhetoric/posture and substance, to what extent does the nascent...
24 September, 2010 // Category: Economy, Foreign policy, Terror/War
Shir Hever is an economist at the Alternative Information Center and author of The Political Economy of Israel’s Occupation. In this essay he examines the political, economic and strategic forces driving the continuation of Israel’s occupation. 1. The Cost of the Occupation to Israeli Society...
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