Nov/Dec 2006 the rise and fall of tony blair
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Arshin Adib-Moghaddam
The Muslim Presence in British Politics“If Tony Blair wants to “open up” Islam for reformist penetration, subsuming the plurality of Islams into an undifferentiated political category such as “the Muslim community in Britain” provokes the exact opposite.”
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Gideon Polya
Blair, Science & History Repeated“The war-time atrocities of the Japanese have been documented and publicized, but the Bengal Famine, which was associated with horrendous civilian and military sexual abuse of perhaps hundreds of thousands of starving women and girls, has been largely written out of history.”
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Alex Nunn
What next for the New Labour Project after Blair?“The NLP represents a second stage in the shift to neo-liberal hegemony in the UK. This second phase represents both important continuities and breaks with earlier neo-liberal reform but it does not represent a return to meaningful social democracy.”
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Daud Abdullah
A Reading of the Blair Visit to the Middle East“For the British Prime Minister, Palestine represents a deadlock as much as Iran, Iraq, Lebanon and Afghanistan have all highlighted his failure to reconfigure the region as it was planned in Washington.”
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Dennis Chapman
The Fall of Tony Blair: The Double-Edged Sword of Performancism“Tony Blair’s government is responsible for a systemic wide pattern of blunders, such that the institutions of the UK make deep sacrifices of basic state obligations to their citizens to increase general indicators of social, political and economic well-being.”
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Ron Jacobs
The Weather Underground: An Interview with Dan Berger“Here was a group of white people in the US that saw things in terms of international solidarity – solidarity with the black liberation struggle in the US and solidarity with the national liberation struggle in Vietnam.”
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Ismael Hossein-zadeh
Islamic Fascism?“In light of the characteristics of fascism as a specific socio-historical phenomenon, the Bush administration’s labeling of radical Islamic movements and leaders as fascist, or ‘Islamofascism’, is sheer nonsense.”
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Morton Skorodin
The Fire Next Time“Though nuclear war is possible and becoming more likely, it is not inevitable. It is humanity’s right to survive that is at stake. We must untiringly struggle for general nuclear disarmament, starting with the United States.”
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Shepherd Bliss
New York Times Reacts to Bioneers“Rather than respond to Goodman’s ideas and the many other media professionals at the gathering who challenge the corporate media, the Times reporter employs a classic ad hominem fallacy that basic journalism courses teach students not to do.”
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“Both Rabin and Clinton quoted the Bible at Arafat in their speeches, putting the Palestinians on notice yet again that not only would they not relinquish Jewish and Christian claims of an ownership stake in Palestinian real estate, but that they had in hand the legal paperwork to back it up.”
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Little Big Pine
A Diff’rent Lesson (Poetry)
