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 3rd March 08 - Noam Chomsky, Democracy Now!/AlterNet The following speech was delivered by Chomsky in Massachussetts at an event sponsored by Bikes Not Bombs. Not very long ago, as you all recall, it was taken for granted that the Iraq war would be the central issue in the 2008 election, as it was in the midterm election two years ago. However, it's virtually disappeared off the radar screen, which has solicited some puzzlement among the punditry. |
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 28th February 08 - Aida Edemariam, The Guardian (UK)
In 2005, a Nobel prize-winning economist began the painstaking process of
calculating the true cost of the Iraq war. In his new book, he reveals how
short-sighted budget decisions, cover-ups and a war fought in bad faith will
affect us all for decades to come.
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 22nd February 08 - John Horgan, Adbusters
In the aftermath of World War I, which some optimists were calling the war to end all wars, the philosopher George Santayana demurred, “Only the dead have seen the end of war.” This sort of fatalism is still widespread today, and it cuts across political affiliations. Whether they are hawks or doves, on the political left or right, many people have come to accept war as inevitable, even “in our genes.” The obvious problem with such fatalism is that it can become self-fulfilling. Our first step toward ending war must be to believe that we can do it. |
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 19th February 08 - Noam Chomsky, ZNet
Not long ago, it was taken for granted that the Iraq war would be the central issue in the presidential campaign, as it was in the mid-term election of 2006. But it has virtually disappeared, eliciting some puzzlement. There should be none. Iraq remains a significant concern for the population, but that is a matter of little moment in a modern democracy. The important work of the world is the domain of the "responsible men," who must "live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd," the general public, "ignorant and meddlesome outsiders" whose "function" is to be "spectators," not "participants." And spectators are not supposed to bother their heads with issues. |
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 16th February 08 - Raúl Zibechi, Nacla News
Urban peripheries in Third World countries have become war zones where states attempt to maintain order based on the establishment of a sort of “sanitary cordon” to keep the poor isolated from “normal” society.
“Army sources confirmed that techniques employed in the occupation of the Morro da Providéncia favela [slum] are the ones Brazilian soldiers use in the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti.”1
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 15th February 08 - Paul Rogers, Open Democracy
The serious strategic predicament created by the occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq by the United States and its key allies shows no sign of being alleviated. In Afghanistan, the dispute over the appointment of a new United Nations envoy in Kabul (where Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's president, vetoed the appointment of former British politician Paddy Ashdown to the role) is the surface of a deeper disarray. |
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 14th February 08 - John Pilger, New Statesmen
The recent breakout of the people of Gaza provided a heroic spectacle unlike any other since the Warsaw ghetto uprising and the smashing down of the Berlin Wall. Whereas on the occupied West Bank, Ariel Sharon's master plan of walling in the population and stealing their land and resources has all but succeeded, requiring only a Palestinian Vichy to sign it off, the people of Gaza have defied their tormentors, however briefly, and it is a guarantee they will do so again. There is profound symbolism in their achievement, touching lives and hopes all over the world. |
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