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Preparing to go to war in 2011, President Obama laid out a case for involvement in the mounting crisis in Libya. Without strong Western action, he told Americans, the conflict in Libya would trigger a humanitarian crisis and destabilize a fragile region. Most acutely, the president’s senior aides worried that failing to launch military action [...]
Srinagar, June 1 — Sitting in his presidential palace in 1991, Iraq’s President Saddam Hussein and his Culture Minister Hamad Hammadi drafted a letter to Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.). Hussein and Hammadi hoped that the U.S.S.R. would help save Iraq from the West’s barrage. Hammadi, who understood the [...]
[...]Menon writes, “Much of the world fears and suspects that the effort to legitimate humanitarian intervention by means of supposedly universal norms is designed to camouflage the pursuit of power by the powerful.” Unfortunately, as Menon explains, the hypocrisy around humanitarianism has perhaps even more dire consequences when interventions are actually launched. Because people are [...]
Politics Entre el engaño y la ética El Comercio 556 words 25 September 2013 El Comercio COMCIP Spanish Copyright 2013 NoticiasFinancieras. All Rights Reserved. Por Harry Belevan. Escritor El dilema que la comunidad internacional enfrenta estos días en Siria está entre quienes ansían ver los tentáculos del imperialismo occidental detrás de algún castigo proporcional al [...]
Opinión Tiempos de crispación y antagonismo POR JUAN GABRIEL TOKATLIAN 1345 words 5 August 2014 El País – Nacional PAISN CT (Cataluña) 29 Spanish (c) Copyright DIARIO EL PAIS, S.L. http://www.elpais.es. Si hasta los noventa la globalización se percibía como sinónimo de prosperidad, por muchos de sus logros y promesas, en el siglo XXI está [...]
The NATO emblem is seen before a defence ministers meeting at the NATO headquarters in Brussels on October 22, 2013 From judicial-financial-political-media enabled “soft” coups – as in Brazil - to support for “moderate” jihadis, multiple stages of Hybrid War now cross-pollinate and generate a vortex of new mutant viruses. Hybrid War, a Beltway concept, has even [...]
It may be assumed that Denmark’s military involvement in Syria will be according to American considerations. More than 60 countries – including Denmark – joined the Western coalition against Islamic State (ISIS). In August 2015 the Danish parliament approved military assistance using 130J transport planes. It also recently approved the participation of Danish F-16s in an air-strikes [...]
Ms. Jenny Willford’s puff letter for recruiting women into Democratic Party politics (“Historic year for women,” Daily Camera Open Forum, May 12) — and tangentially a Hillary promo — left a few things unsaid that should be said. Cynthia McKinney, formerly a six-term U.S. congressperson from Georgia, ran for president on the Green Party ticket [...]
The implications of the term “smuggler” have taken a 180 degree turn in the 21st century – it has been reframed in the ubiquitous economic language of neoliberalism On 25 September, 1940, the German philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin committed suicide on the Franco-Spanish border. After torturously crossing the Pyrenees on foot, led by a [...]
May 25, 2016 (South African Institute of International Affairs/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) — ‘I dream of the realisation of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their effort to solve the problems of this continent.’- Nelson Mandela People of Africa have shared interests and should be united around common goals. This is [...]