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Life in a Refugee Camp (October-November 2009)

Hope for the Hopeless

Monday 9 November 2009 by Jeremy Wildeman

Life is never easy growing up in a refugee camp. It is a life of poverty, limited access to education, lack of access to sporting or recreational facilities and few opportunities. Hopelessness and despair abound. This is a reality that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have known as (...) > continue

The Economic Crisis and Obama’s Response- Part 2 of 2 (October-November 2009)

A Problem of Scale

Monday 9 November 2009 by James K. Galbraith

The Obama administration’s bank bailout may work to save the major banking institutions. But there are two problems. One is that there is no reason why we should have, over the next several decades, all the big banks we now have. We don’t need, and won’t need, a banking system as large as we have (...) > continue

Israel and India, Zionism and Hindutva (October-November 2009)

Peas in a Pod, or Don’t Give These Peas a Chance

Monday 9 November 2009 by Achin Vanaik

It was after the Cold War that the Indian establishment’s attitude to Palestine could not escape the impact of the overall lurch rightwards of the centre of gravity of the Indian polity. At home this has meant much greater accommodation towards— and acceptance of— Hindutva, which applauds (...) > continue

The US Arc of Instability (October-November 2009)

Doctrine Monroe, I presume?

Monday 9 November 2009 by Pepe Escobar

The New Great Game is not only focused on the face-off between the United States and its strategic competitors Russia and China, with Pipeline-istan as a defining element. The Full Spectrum Dominance doctrine instead requires the control of the Pentagon-coined “arc of instability” from the Horn (...) > continue

The Bhopal Disaster (October-November 2009)

Ecological Debt Going Unpaid

Monday 9 November 2009 by Vinod Raina

On the 3rd of December 1984, 40 tonnes of toxic gases escaped from the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India. The result was catastrophic. 3,000 people— men, women, and children— were dead within the hour; after 72 hours the death toll had tripled. Over 22,000 have died to date from (...) > continue

Hunting for Gatherers (October-November 2009)

Monday 9 November 2009 by Michael Ryan Wiseman

For want of a nail the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe the horse was lost. For want of a horse the rider was lost. For want of a rider the battle was lost. For want of a battle the kingdom was lost. > continue

Goldstone (October-November 2009)

Something To Report

Monday 9 November 2009 by Ramzy Baroud

“We may be witnessing the beginning of the end of the era of impunity,” Nadia Hijab, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Institute for Palestine Studies, was quoted by IPS in response to the findings of a 574-page report by a four-member United Nations Fact finding (...) > continue

Honduran Coup: The U.S. Connection (Publications)

Friday 7 August 2009 by CONN HALLINAN

While the Obama administration was careful to distance itself from the recent coup in Honduras — condemning the expulsion of President Manuel Zelaya to Costa Rica, revoking Honduran officials’ visas, and shutting off aid — that doesn’t mean influential Americans aren’t involved, and that both sides (...) > continue

Another Day Will Come (June-July 2009)

Poets For Palestine

Tuesday 21 July 2009 by Michael Ryan Wiseman

The AIJ’s MR Wiseman recently summoned the ghosts of bards-past to wax poetic with Remi Kanazi, editor of Poets For Palestine (Al Jisser, 2008), a collection of old- and new-school poetry and artwork for, you guessed it, Palestine. > continue

The Economic Crisis and Obama’s Response (June-July 2009)

Part 1 of 2

Tuesday 21 July 2009 by James K. Galbraith

It is a relief to have a new Administration, to be at the start of a new government rather than at the end of one, and to have a President with the talent of President Obama and with the public confidence that he presently enjoys. That said, there is a real question as to whether this (...) > continue