An Antidote to Info Vertigo
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Hubris and Humanitarianism
Nation-building is a bloody affair. Just ask the Angles or the Visigoths.
Islam’s Two Faces?
The United States, when it looks at Islam, suffers from a peculiar disorder of the eyes that perhaps only the great neurologist Oliver Sacks can properly diagnose. Where there is a great multiplicity of sects, beliefs, and approaches in Islam, the U.S. government has a stubborn double vision.
The Lebanon War and the Failed UN Resolution
UFPJ Talking Points #44: Passage of the resolution would not lead to a ceasefire, or even a significant reduction in violence.
Bush Offers Direct Talks with Iran
UFPJ Talking Points #41: The talks are a direct result of the Bush administration’s failure to win even a modicum of international support for its military and economic threats.
U.S. Faces Moment of Truth on Darfur
The U.S. gets an opportunity in February to end the genocide.
Why the U.S. Occupation of Iraq Must End Now
UPFJ Talking Points #36: Permanent deployment is already creating a wide range of problems, including military over-stretch, casualties, regional antagonism, and growing global isolation.
Iraqi Elections: To Be Free and Unfair
UFPJ Talking Points #35: Regardless of election results, sectarian divides continue to grow.
The Iraqi Constitution: A Referendum for Disaster
UFPJ Talking Points #33: The referendum is a consolidation of US influence and control.
A Declaration Of War
Bush declares war on the world,
Sham Sharm Talks
UFPJ Talking Points #30: The Bush Administration orchestrated the Sharm al-Sheikh talks as part of their regional strategy centered by the Iraq War.
Reading the Elections
UFPJ Talking Points #29: Bush will use these elections to claim legitimacy for his occupation of Iraq.
The Inauguration Speech: Consolidating the Empire
UFPJ Talking Points #28: The second Bush term will almost certainly reflect the same narrow standards for defining “freedom” as the first.
The Iraqi Elections
UFPJ Talking Points #27: Not every election is a legitimate instrument of democracy.
Oil for Food "Scandals" and the UN Call for Reform
UFPJ Talking Points #26: The need to reclaim the United Nations as part of our global mobilization against the ravages of empire.