Contents

• Richard Greeman
  Contextualizing the Threat of Radical Islam

  “The most urgent ‘Islamic threat’ on the horizon is probably the threat that America’s irrational Crusade against ‘Islamo-fascism’ will explode into nuclear war or seal the doom of democracy in the U.S.”

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• Deepak Tripathi
  Savage Decade

  “When countries with overwhelming destructive power fail to prevail in war, they are disposed to employing even more firepower. But the record of this tactic against guerrilla forces is not one of success.”

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• Mats Svensson
  The Pilot Plays Computer Games over Gaza

  “Smilansky tells the whole world that you who have fled from your house in Palestine, Australia, Germany or from your tent in America, who no longer have a house or tent to which to return, you were once there and you exist today and your story is not forgotten and it will always be remembered.”

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• Kenneth Couesbouc
  The Struggle of Nations

  “The American surge in Afghanistan next spring will push refugees across the Durand Line, where they will join other refugees fleeing Pakistan’s military offensives in Swat and Waziristan. They will move East, South and North, spreading anger and resentment.”

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• Little Big Pine
  Asymmetries of the Heart

  “You cannot murder a man without destroying yourself. Nor can you murder a people without destroying your own.”

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• Rannie Amiri
  Houthi’s Ceasefire Offer Spurned: Saada War Rages on

  “To understand the true motive behind the relentless bombardment, one only need return to the primary demand of the rebels: an end to the ever-increasing socioeconomic marginalization and religious discrimination of the Zaidi community in Yemen.”

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• Eric Walberg
  Reagan’s Ghost: Starwars Stops START

  “Sadly, the present scenario is a classic arms race one: vast sums will be spent by both sides uselessly as their respective economies crumble.”

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• J A Miller
  They Just Keep Coming after the Palestinians (Poetry)

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• Paul Buchheit
  Support Our Troops (Poetry)

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• Ismael Hossein-zadeh
  Beyond Mainstream Explanations of this Recession: A Marxian Analysis

  “The only way to end the recurring cycle of financial instability and the resulting economic turbulence is to place control of people’s money under public authority.”

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• Peter Watt
  NAFTA 15 Years on: The Strange Fruits of Neoliberalism

  “Regardless of the party in power, a key provision of the NAFTA treaty allows investors to sue governments if legislation negatively affects profits. With this, the Mexican state effectively passed control of environmental, labour and health and safety legislation to multinational corporations.”

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• Robert Fantina
  The Toll of Partisanship

  “One wonders why a 51-49 split favoring the Democrats during the Bush years was sufficient to control some of that president’s more alarming impulses, but a 59-41 split, also favoring the Democrats, is insufficient for Mr. Obama to govern.”

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• Kenneth Couesbouc
  Taking a Look at Boom and Bust

  “Credit grows faster than incomes, bubbles inflate and suddenly burst, and recession looms. Is the premise at fault, or is it just greedy bankers who are to blame?”

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• Carl Finamore
  Strikes, Boycotts & Arrests Mark SF Hotel Dispute

  “Refusal to come to an agreement with the modest demands of the union is producing growing public outrage because hotels have been profitable the last few years.”

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• Steve Early
  Michael Yates: On Labor, the Economy, Growing up Working Class, and Surviving the Motels of America (Review)

  “Why Unions Matter has been so popular because it provides both a guide to the basic structure, functioning, and history of American labor, and a critique of the ways in which union agitation, education, and organization have fallen short.”

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