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War: Will We Ever Learn?

November 11, 2014 By Farhaanah Ali 4 Comments

The concept of war has been present in human civilisation for as far back as history stretches. From conflicts that happened centuries ago, to more recent ones, there are a myriad of a different reasons humans have gone to war. In fact there’s really only one constant each time armies are gathered to fight against an enemy, real or imagined, and that is that man has knowingly and willingly put the lives of other humans on the line.

What do I mean by that? Simply and topically, considering Remembrance Sunday has just passed, we do not learn. The very essence of Remembrance Sunday is to remember the individuals who died while at war: to remember and learn. Is there any point in remembering the dead at all if we do not learn from our past mistakes?

The day becomes worth very little if we do not look at the pain and hurt that was inflicted on both soldiers and civilians and take away a valuable lesson of the complete futility of war.

Filed Under: Civil Liberties Tagged With: Armistice Day, Canada, civilization, Frankenstein, Frankenstein's monster, history, Iraq, Iraq War, Mary Shelley, military, Military-industrial complex, Remembrance Day, Remembrance Sunday, Siegfried Sassoon, United Kingdom, Veteran's Day, veterans, War, World War I, World War II

Ask Not For Whom The Wall Falls

November 11, 2014 By David Seaton 1 Comment

We are now in the midst of commemorating the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, which was followed in short order by the collapse of the Soviet Union and its entire international system.

I say “commemorate,” but when it comes to the collapse of the wall and enormous Soviet system, the word most people use is “celebrate.” But here I would interject an ancient Spanish folk proverb which goes, “when you see your neighbor’s beard on fire, put your beard to soak;” or the not so ancient but equally valid American saying, “what goes around, comes around.”

In my opinion the most unbiased, irrefutable, undeniable take-away from the collapse of the USSR and its entire ideological superstructure is that huge, powerful, complex and historically successful systems, which have embodied the hopes and dreams of several generations of people all around the world, can just up and die with little or no warning … Soon to be playing in theaters near you.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs, Media & Culture, National News Tagged With: Berlin Wall, Branko Milanovic, Buckley v. Valeo, capitalism, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Citizen’s United, Coca-Cola, Coke, Cold War, Dani Rodrik, democracy, Der Spiegel, Edward Bernays, France, French Revolution, history, IMF, International Monetary Fund, karma, marketing, NAFTA, Napoleon, NATO, New World Order, oligarchy, plutocracy, propaganda, Russia, SCOTUS, Sigmund Freud, Supreme Court, Supreme Court of The United States, The Century of the Self, The Globalist, USSR, Waterloo, William Pfaff, World Bank, World War I, WTO, Zhou Enlai

The Guardian’s Endorsement of the Palestinian Tragedy Or The “Balfour Declaration”

November 3, 2014 By Nu’man Abd al-Wahid 3 Comments

The little known episode of the publication of the ‘Balfour Declaration’ assists an independent, curious and rational observer in acknowledging the all too modern roots of the Palestinian tragedy.

Unbeknownst to many in this conflict is the wide support the Balfour Declaration received from the British media and populace. Leading from the front, the liberal Guardian newspaper came out, in racist and imperialist terms, in support of the declaration.

One could easily and validly argue that the British Empire’s Balfour Declaration issued on 2nd November 1917 in a letter from the British Foreign Secretary, Lord Balfour, to Baron Walter Rothschild, is the central founding bloc of the current Palestinian predicament. The so-called ‘declaration of sympathy’ is no more than 67 words, yet in terms of the inevitable warring consequence, they are among the 67 most bloodiest words in history.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs, Media & Culture Tagged With: Afghanistan, Arthur Balfour, British Empire, Comment is free, history, imperialism, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Libya, Lord Balfour, Lord Rothschild, MENA, Middle East, Mr. C. P. Scott, Ottoman Empire, Palestine, racism, The Balfour Declaration, The Guardian, Turkey, United Kingdom, William Ormsby-Gore, World War I, Zionism

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