If US intelligence is to be believed, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is the ultimate bad guy.- Background article from 2004. (via archive.org) "In the run-up to the Iraq war in February 2003, US Secretary of State Colin Powell told the United Nations that al-Zarq
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Elaine Supkis on EATR: ENERGETICALLY AUTONOMOUS TACTICAL ROBOT. This is a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase II Project (DARPA Contract W31P4Q-08-C-0292a). Supkis blog-entry is based on a presentation of the project made 9 April, 2009, by
a review of “The Bases of Empire: The Global Struggle Against U.S. Military Posts,” an important collection of articles on United States militarism and imperialism, edited by Catherine Lutz
Project leader: Jonathan Taylor Department: Middle East Project start date: 2002 End date: 2010 Other British Museum staff: Irving Finkel Project funded by: The Townley Group and the Andrew Mellon Foundation External partners: Dr Ali Yaseen Al-Juboori,
Jack Straw’s evidence at the Chilcot enquiry into the Iraq war yesterday [21 Jan 2010], and the discussion that it led to of deadlines and resolutions, tells an interesting and important story about the conduct of international relations and the problems
"Lumumba understood that the UN was acting as the armed forces of the Western imperialist powers. Rather than stay under house arrest, he decided to flee. As he was fleeing, he was captured by Mobutu’s forces on 1 December 1960. Mobutu handed over Lumumba
"Intentionally changing climate is a way of exerting power on a global scale in a context in which relevant norms, conventions, and treaties barely exist, are highly ineffectual, or very controversial. Yet the people of the world will have their say about
Ce n’est pas le fruit de l’imagination du Colombien Gabriel García Márquez, prix Nobel de littérature. Le massacre d’environ mille cinq cents ouvriers, le 6 décembre 1928, et la répression qui s’ensuivit pendant trois semaines, qu’il raconte dans son roma
"Madhusree Mukerjee geht dokumentarisch und analytisch vor. Sie zeigt, wie Churchill die eigenwillige »britische Kronkolonie« bekämpfte: indem er Indien währungspolitisch systematisch pauperisierte (britische Kriegskosten inflationär auf Indien abwälzte),