20 April, 2012 // Category: Philosophy and Theory, Terror/War
Any British or American reader who picks up this book is more than likely to have come across a sort of joke French intellectual called Bernard-Henri Lévy, usually known as BHL in France, where the acronym has become his signature. They may have come across his name during the recent Dominique...
20 April, 2012 // Category: Corporate power, International, Terror/War
The increasingly close relationship between Google and the US “democracy promotion” apparatus recently took a new turn with the launch of a new, private, non-profit organisation designed to leverage the resources of major US corporations in manipulating democratic movements in (initially) four...
23 March, 2012 // Category: Foreign policy, International, Terror/War
Last week’s massacre of 16 Afghan civilians in Panjwai by an American serviceman, and the death of six British soldiers in Afghanistan the previous week, have focused attention on the support, or lack of it, among the public for Britain’s continued military presence in the country. A YouGov...
31 January, 2012 // Category: Activism, International, Terror/War
Sakurai Kunitoshi is a member of the Okinawan Environmental Network, professor (and until 2010 the President) of Okinawa University, and a Councilor of the Japan Society of Impact Assessment. He spoke to NLP's Alex Doherty on the history and impact of US military basing in Okinawa. What is the...
23 January, 2012 // Category: International, Terror/War
Joseph Gerson is director of programs at the American Friends Service Committee and the author of Empire and the Bomb amongst other works. He spoke to NLP's Alex Doherty on the Pentagon's new strategic guidance document. The Pentagon’s new Guidance, 'Sustaining US Global Leadership: priorities...
11 January, 2012 // Category: International, Terror/War
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 and 7/7: The London Bombings, Islam and the Iraq War among other works. He spoke to NLP's Alex Doherty on the US withdrawal from Iraq. In his...
09 January, 2012 // Category: International, Politics, Terror/War
An established public intellectual and key liberal supporter of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, when Michael Ignatieff became the leader of the Canadian Liberal Party in 2008, it seemed only a matter of time before he would become prime minister. Derrick O’Keefe, a Vancouver-based social justice...
21 October, 2011 // Category: Foreign policy, Media, Politics, Racism, Religion, Terror/War, The Right
The campaigning group Spinwatch launched a report on two right-wing think-tanks at the House of Commons last week. Co-authored by NLP’s Tom Mills, The Cold War on British Muslims argues that British neoconservatives are waging ideological warfare against Muslim and left-wing groups, and liberal...
04 October, 2011 // Category: Activism, Foreign policy, Politics, Terror/War
One night last summer Shakeel Khan and his family were at home in North Waziristan when there was a huge explosion. ‘I was resting with my parents in one room when it happened. God saved my parents and I, but my brother, his wife, and children were all killed.’ The children were five and three...
11 September, 2011 // Category: Foreign policy, International, Terror/War
Acts of terrorism, by definition, are designed to elicit a response of shock, awe and fear in an audience, with the purpose of intimidating or coercing that audience into adopting a political response favourable to the terrorists’ agenda. My own immediate reaction to the al Qaeda attacks of 11...
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