1 September 2006 - How Hitler Became a Dictator
How Hitler Became a DictatorInteresting read. I also find here, a lot of similarities with recent politics (after 11th September).
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14 June 2006 - Lieutenant Watada's War Against the War
U.S. army Lieutenant Watada
publicly refuse orders to fight in Iraq on ground that the war is illegal.
He claims the war in Iraq is illegal because it violates the Constitution if the U.S. and international law. He
discovered that "the UN Charter, the Geneva Convention and the
Nuremberg principles all bar wars of aggression." The Constitution
makes such treaties part of American law as well.
Read the article from The Nation
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13 June 2006 - As science goes, so goes the nation
How the White House misunderestimated the height, width, breadth and depth of a crucial cultural meme.An article from seedmagazine.com
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6 June 2006 - If we knew more about Ireland, we might never have invaded Iraq
George Monbiot on the Guardian:
"Why should we be surprised by these events?
This is what happens when one country occupies another.
When troops are far away from home, exercising power over people
that they don't understand, knowing that the population harbours
those who would kill them if they could, their anger and fear and
frustration turns into a hatred of all "micks" or "gooks" or "hajjis".
Occupations brutalise both the occupiers and the occupied.
It is our refusal to learn that lesson which allows new colonial
adventures to take place. If we knew more about Ireland, the invasion
of Iraq might never have happened."
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2 March 2006 - A Letter to the American Left
From The Nation an
interesting article about the american left by Bernard-Henri Levy.
"Nothing made a more lasting impression during my journey through Americathan the semi-comatose state in which I found the American left.
I know, of course, that the term "left" does not have the same meaningand ramifications here that it does in France.
And I cannot count how many times I was told there has never been anauthentic "left" in the United States, in the European sense... "
Read the full article.
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