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As the Arab Spring continues to challenge dictators, demolish old structures and ponder roadmaps for a better future, the US remains committed to its failed policies, misconceptions and selfish interests. Arabs may disagree on many things, but few disagree on the fact...
Yvan Lemaître :— The smothering of all political life by the dictatorships obscured the politicisation of intellectual circles, the workers’ movement and peoples in the aftermath of war and anti-imperialist struggles. Will this political base re-emerge today in the...
Events in Libya and Syria have again brought to the forefront the question of armed humanitarian intervention or the “responsibility to protect.” Our hearts all go out to the unarmed demonstrators seeking to bring down corrupt dictatorships that are a plague on their...
The Obama administration repeatedly declares that it is “on track” to withdraw all US military forces from Iraq by the end of 2011, in keeping with candidate Barack Obama’s signature promise to “end the war in Iraq.” But, even as the White House avows this intention,...
The fact that the landmark trial of Hosni Mubarak is happening at all - in itself a remarkable feat - is glossed over by critics who are quick to point out the flaws in a trial that certainly would not meet Western expectations [EPA]The trial of ousted Egyptian...
There are two political-intellectual prisms through which the recurrent conflagrations of the modern Middle East are conventionally seen. One casts the regionís stubborn ills as internally caused -- by the outsize role of religion in public life, the persistence of...
The Egyptian cotton city of Mahallah hides its political lessons well.A place of 24-hour-a-day Stalinist factories, ruined 19th-century townhouses buried between concrete blocks and a shambling railway system of filthy rolling stock, only the appearance of a...
The Syrian regime continues its crackdown on opposition forces, but the demonstrations and protests are continuing. How can President Assad be removed from power? Anyone looking for evidence that what is happening in Syria is a revolution will not find it difficult to...
Frank Barat poses questions from artists, activists and journalists, on Egypt, corporate power, Palestine and more.For his second interview in less than a year with Professor Noam Chomsky (the first one took place in Cambridge in September 2010 and is available here),...