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Book review of: Jeremy R. Hammond’s ‘The Rejection of Palestinian Self-Determination The Struggle for Palestine and the Roots of the Israeli-Arab Conflict’ (Lulu, 2009). Reviewed by Jim Miles – VERNON The story of Palestine is poorly represented in western media, generally taken out of context and generally – as a strong cohort to the lack of context – with a …

My generation grew up at a time when colonial hang up was at its peak. Our older generation had been slaves and had a huge inferiority complex of the British. The school I went to was similar to all elite schools in Pakistan. Despite gaining independent, they were, and still are, producing replicas of public schoolboys rather than Pakistanis. I …

September 02, 2009 “venezuelanalysis” — Mérida, August 27th 2009 (Venezuelanalysis.com) — U.S. author, dissident intellectual, and Professor of Linguistics at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology Noam Chomsky met for the first time with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in Caracas and analyzed hemispheric politics during a nationally televised forum on Monday. Chomsky is well known in Venezuela for his critiques of …

To My Muslim Sisters A letter from a Christian woman to all Muslim Sisters Between the Israeli assault on Lebanon and the Zionist “war on terror,” the Muslim world is now center stage in every American home. I see the carnage, death and destruction that have befallen Lebanon, but I also see something else: I see you. I can’t help …

This week the world marked the 70th anniversary of the beginning of World War II. During the six-year war — from 1939 to 1945 —  some 70 million people died. Of these only 17 million were combatants. As the war intensified, the belligerents did not care a damn about the rules of warfare. They resorted to all sorts of barbaric …

West Bank – Sitting in my Tokyo apartment two years ago and planning a worldwide trip, I only considered travelling through Lebanon, Syria and Jordan as a means to get from Turkey to Egypt. The thought of travelling through the Middle East both terrified and intrigued me. The majority of the news I heard from Tel Aviv, Damascus or Beirut …