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»Weisbrot: Venezuela is Not Florida5 Dec 2007This op-ed is being distributed by McClatchy Tribune Information Services. If anyone wants to reprint it, please let CEPR know, by replying to this message.
Golan: A Generous Offer To The Palestinian Refugees?5 Dec 2007Anyone familiar with Israeli politics was not surprised that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert did not acknowledge Israel’s occupation in his speech at Annapolis. What was surprising was that short of mentioning the “R” word- refugees, Olmert acknowledged the Palestinian refugee problem.
Weissman: The Story of Stuff5 Dec 2007Right now, representatives of the governments of the world are meeting in Bali, Indonesia, to negotiate international agreements to forestall climate change. Necessarily, these negotiations will revolve around technical, arcane matters.
Schell: Trying to Dispel a Mist with a Machine Gun4 Dec 2007Enter his small office at the Nation Institute only if you don’t mind experiencing a slightly vertiginous feeling. Books are everywhere—in boxes on the floor, on every surface, in, along, and perilously stacked above shelves.
Neslen: Normalising injustice4 Dec 2007Diplomatic briefcases are unlikely to be dropped at news of Condoleezza Rice’s call, on the eve of the Riyadh summit, for Arab states to “reach out to Israel” and show they accept it. Israel’s insistence that negotiators begin by accepting its right to exist has already pushed normalisation up the political agenda.
Hahnel: Venezuela: Not What You Think4 Dec 2007In the case of Hugo Chavez and the Venezuelan Bolivarian Revolution, the mainstream media and politicians in the United States have elevated their game of demonizing all who oppose US foreign policy and business interests to a higher level of absurdity than usual. According to the mainstream media, the only newsworthy stories in Venezuela are one sided diatribes lifted from the discredited, opposition-owned media in Venezuela.
Reyes: The price of climate change4 Dec 2007It is possible to conceive of all manner of climate disasters, it seems, but not to think outside the box of the economic systems that have contributed to their happening in the first place.When political historians look back on 2007, there is a fair chance they will see it as the year that the climate change threat was finally taken seriously.
Lendman: Annapolis Hypocrisy Hides Occupied Palestine Reality3 Dec 2007Against the sham backdrop of Annapolis, life in occupied Palestine is a daily struggle to endure and survive what Edward Said once referred to as Israel’s “refined viciousness.” This article addresses one week of it no different than most others.
Soldz: The Facts be Damned!:2 Dec 2007Last Friday American Psychological Association President, and Indiana University professor Sharon Brehm discussed the APA’s policies supporting psychologist participation in national security interrogations with faculty and students at her university. The Indiana Daily Student has an account of the meeting.
Achcar: On the Middle East:2 Dec 2007Gilbert Achcar is Professor of Development and International Politics at SOAS, London. His books include Perilous Power with Noam Chomsky (2007), The 33-Day War (2007), The Israeli Dilemma (2006), The Clash of Barbarisms (2nd edn, 2006) and Eastern Cauldron (2004).
Engelhardt: Iraq as a Pentagon Construction Site2 Dec 2007The title of the agreement, signed by President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki in a “video conference” last week, and carefully labeled as a “non-binding” set of principles for further negotiations, was a mouthful: a “Declaration of Principles for a Long-Term Relationship of Cooperation and Friendship Between the Republic of Iraq and the United States of America.” Whew! Words matter, of course.
Bennis: The 12 Myths of Annapolis2 Dec 2007Myth #1) The Annapolis meeting was designed to launch serious new negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians that aimed at ending the occupation and producing a just, lasting and comprehensive peace in the region based on a two-state solution. In fact, the two main reasons for the conference had virtually nothing to do with Israel or Palestine.
Uhlenbeck: The Anti-War Movement & the 2008 Elections2 Dec 2007The campaigns begin earlier, the war chests grow larger, and just when you thought it had become impossible to do so—the Democratic and Republican platforms on the major issues of the day have become even more blurred. Welcome to the spectacle that is the US presidential elections.
Ali: Common Sense Under Attack2 Dec 2007WHEN she arrived in Khartoum four months ago, Gillian Gibbons couldn’t possibly have had any inkling that she’d be headed back to England some four months later, following a stint a prison. In a statement issued last Saturday, the incarcerated 54-year-old Liverpudlian said she wasn’t keen to leave Sudan and would much rather go back to work.
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