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- A "Just War"? A critique of Richard Falk
- ZNET article by Stephen Shalom (21 Oct 2001): "This is a just war," people will say; "even Richard Falk says so." And his later points about the need for following the legal and moral principles of necessity, proportionality, discrimination, and humanity will be largely ignored.
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- A vision to lift the spirit
- AL-AHRAM article by Edward Said (31 Oct 2001): With the bombs and missiles falling on Afghanistan in the high-altitude US destruction that is Operation Enduring Freedom, the Palestine question may seem tangential to the altogether more urgent events in Central Asia. It would be a mistake to think so.
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- Against Rationalization
- NATION article by Christopher Hitchens (8 Oct 2001): I was apprehensive from the first moment about the sort of masochistic e-mail traffic that might start circulating from the Chomsky-Zinn-Finkelstein quarter, and I was not to be disappointed.
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- Asking 'Why'
- Essay by by Michael Klare, Five College Professor of Peace and World Security Studies, Hampshire College. Based on a talk at Smith College, September 13, 2001. Argues that the September 11 attacks stemmed from opposition to the ruling regime in Saudi Arabia and its relationship with the US. He states that the best way to respond is to carry out coordinated international police action against the perpetrators of the attacks while pushing the Saudi regime to allow a more open political system.
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- At the edge of an inter-civilisational war
- AL-AHRAM interview with Richard Falk (20 Sept 2001): The shock effect of the event was so great as to create a very primitive response that both tried to explain it in some comprehensible way, but also to mobilise the most powerful possible distinction between ourselves as the victims and those who perpetrated the act. The effort to do this led to emphases such as: 'we are civilised, they are barbarian; we are innocent, they are guilty; we are good and they are evil.'
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- How to Lose a War
- NY TIMES op-ed by Frank Rich (27 Oct 2001): This is an administration that will let its special interests — particularly its high-rolling campaign contributors and its noisiest theocrats of the right — have veto power over public safety, public health and economic prudence in war, it turns out, no less than in peacetime.
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- Neighborhood Bully: Ramsey Clark on American Militarism
- THE SUN MAGAZINE interview with Ramsey Clark conducted by Derrick Jensen: Our overriding purpose, from the beginning right through to the present day, has been world domination - that is, to build and maintain the capacity to coerce everybody else on the planet: nonviolently, if possible; and violently, if necessary.
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- New War Against Terror
- Transcript of a talk by Noam Chomsky at the Technology & Culture Forum at MIT (18 Oct 2001): We certainly want to reduce the level of terror, certainly not escalate it. There is one easy way to do that and therefore it is never discussed. Namely stop participating in it.
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- Of Sin, the Left & Islamic Fascism
- NATION article by Christopher Hitchens rebutting Noam Chomsky's rebuttal: But straight away, we meet people who complain at once that this enemy is us, really. Did we not aid the grisly Taliban to achieve and hold power? Yes indeed "we" did. Well, does this not double or triple our responsibility to remove them from power?
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- Reply to Hitchens
- NATION articly by Noam Chomsky, replying to a 24 Sept article by Christopher Hitchens: That Hitchens cannot mean what he writes is clear, in the first place, from his reference to the bombing of Sudan. He must be unaware that he is expressing such racist contempt for African victims of a terrorist crime, and cannot intend what his words imply.
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- Are we trapped in another Vietnam?
- INDEPENDENT (UK) article by Arthur Schlesinger (2 Nov 2001): The national mood in the United States today is one of apprehension – apprehension over the military stalemate in Afghanistan; apprehension over the anthrax eruption in America; apprehension, as yet incipient but nevertheless visible, over the competence of our national leadership.
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- Collateral Damage
- Article by Alan Bock (24 Oct 2001): The United States could issue something of an ultimatum to the Saudis: Either cooperate fully in the ongoing investigations of terrorists and allow US bases in Saudi Arabia to be used in the military aspects of the conflict or we’ll pull those bases right out of there.
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- Crimes Against Humanity: Benjamin Ferencz Interview
- Ferencz was a prosecuter at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial and served in the Army under General Patton in every campaign in Europe. These are his cautions about retaliatory action in the wake of the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001.
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- Fight the Roots of Terrorism
- Common Dreams News Center article by Steve Niva, a professor of International Politics and Middle Eastern Studies at Evergreen State College.
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- Give Meaning to Survival
- CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION article by Robert Jay Lifton (28 Sept 2001): The greatest danger in our present situation would be to resort to extreme measures to deny our vulnerability and reassert a sense of superpower invulnerability. That tendency is all too consistent with a larger sense of American exceptionalism.
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- No Glory in Unjust War on the Weak
- LA TIMES article by Barbara Kingsolver (14 Oct 2001): I cannot find the glory in this day. When I picked up
the newspaper and saw "America Strikes Back!" blazed boastfully
across it in letters I swear were 10 inches tall.... We've answered one terrorist act with another, raining death on the most war-scarred, terrified populace that ever crept to a doorway and looked out.
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- Our Biological Nature
- CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION article by David Barash (28 Sept 2001): The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon -- and the responses they have already evoked -- make clear that matters of peace and war are indistinguishable from those of our biological nature.
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- People are the only solution to terror
- Essay by Mark Ritchie, President of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. Unchecked globalization has led to economic disparity while creating the conditions for war and insecurity. The author concludes that peace and security can only be achieved through the actions and voice of civil society.
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- Scientists on the Edge
- LA WEEKLY article by Margaret Wertheim (8 Nov 2001): Some observers may find it curious that President Bush seems more inclined to invite the visions of Hollywood producers and directors than scientists.
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- Seeking opposition to the war in Afghanistan
- COUNTERPUNCH article by Grover Furr (9 Nov 2001): In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, a country right on its border.
President Reagan was outraged. "The Evil Empire," he stated. If the Soviet invasion were evidence for Soviet imperialism, isn't the US invasion evidence of US imperialism?
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