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The paradise promised in Iraq has been lost writes Sinan Antoon: In the imagocratic world which inhabits us, one image is usually repeated ad nauseam until it secures its permanent place in this or that grand narrative as the moment par excellence. Such is the case with the toppling of Saddam's statue at Al-Firdaws Square in my hometown of Baghdad a few days ago. For the majority of this planet's inhabitants that image will crystallize the so-called "liberation" of Iraq and the end of Saddam's dictatorship.
From Over-Production To War: Iraq Is Not The Only Target: the target is the seizure of the bulk of the world's cheap oil. And the objective is not merely to seize oil: it is to shore up and expand U.S. global hegemony.
The New Humanitarianism: Iraq's desperate humanitarian situation has suddenly become a retroactive justification for the war, even for the attacking of civilian targets. The need to get aid into Basra has apparently prompted a British military spokesperson to designate it as a "legitimate military target".
Is Burning the American Flag Constitutional? The Supreme Court Case Texas v. Johnson: Burning the American flag is positively constitutional. Not only is it a right guaranteed by the First Amendment, it is one of the very rights that the founders intended to preserve when creating the laws for this nation.
The Global Antiwar Movement "John Howard, you can't hide. We charge you with genocide." - "Fight back, Americans are killers," - "Oh Arab army! Where are you?" - "Shock and Awe, is Shock of Shame" - "We are with you Saddam Hussein and the people of Iraq," ....
The Martyrdom of Hossein Kharrazi by Christopher de Bellaigue: On my return to Tehran, I came across Khomeini's Forgotten Sons: The Story of Iran's Boy Soldiers, written shortly after the end of the war by a Briton, Ian Brown. I was struck by one account, a basiji's recollection of his baptism of fire, at the age of 13.
Confronting Empire by Samir Amin: If the Europeans had reacted in 1935 or 1937, they could have stopped the Hitler regime. By reacting only in September 1939, tens of millions lost their lives. Let us act together in the hope that a response to the challenges posed by the present Washington neo-Nazis will come earlier.
Tony Blair is a Coward by John Pilger: He is the embodiment of the most dangerous appeasement humanity has known since the 1930s. The current American elite is the Third Reich of our times, although this distinction ought not to let us forget that they have merely accelerated more than half a century of unrelenting American state terrorism: from the atomic bombs dropped cynically on Japan as a signal of their new power to the dozens of countries invaded, directly or by proxy, to destroy democracy wherever it collided with American "interests", such as a voracious appetite for the world's resources, like oil.
The United States of America has gone mad by John le Carré: America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is
the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam War.
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