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Book Review – Letters from Palestine
Thursday, 8 July 2010, 6:54 pm | Jim Miles
Kenneth Ring’s writing on Palestine has already received just praise, as it is another in a series of recently published works that cry from the heart of Palestine.[1] And while I have read many other books on Palestine, “ Letters from Palestine ”, ... More >>
Jim Miles: Book Review - Quicksand
Friday, 18 June 2010, 12:51 pm | Jim Miles
From first impression to last impression this book, like its title Quicksand , is deceptive. Even the first physical impression, the physical structure of the book itself - its glossy pages and high quality binding - is designed to impress the reader. ... More >>
Netanyahu in Canada and the Freedom Flotilla
Tuesday, 1 June 2010, 3:01 pm | Jim Miles
Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper was elected to a minority government in 2006. Since then he has done his best to set up what could be considered a Republican government for the state of Canada. Except that Canada is not a state of the United ... More >>
Jim Miles: Dazed And Confused
Tuesday, 1 June 2010, 10:21 am | Jim Miles
There are times when I must admit that to belong to the great group of uninformed people, or perhaps uncaring people, or unthinking people, would be a much easier way to get through life. The developed countries of the world have the wealth to ... More >>
Book Review - Beyond Fundamentalism
Thursday, 27 May 2010, 3:07 pm | Jim Miles
I first encountered Reza Aslan on the Jon Stewart Show and was somewhat perturbed by his interview - unfortunately I have not been able to retrieve that reference on the internet, but it did intrigue me and led me to purchasing his book Beyond ... More >>
Book Review - The Invention of the Jewish People
Monday, 17 May 2010, 1:31 pm | Jim Miles
Historians living within their own nations develop within the mythology peculiar to their nation, in which “various spheres of memory coalesced into an imagined universe representing the past.” The historian is a combination of his own personal ... More >>
Book Review: Ramzy Baroud - Freedom Fighter
Wednesday, 21 April 2010, 11:39 am | Jim Miles
Ramzy Baroud has written what should become an icon of historical-cultural writing for the people of Palestine. My Father Was a Freedom Fighter is an amazingly powerful and wonderfully well written tapestry of the modern history of Palestine, combining ... More >>
Water - driving Israel’s need for more land
Wednesday, 14 April 2010, 11:23 am | Jim Miles
There is a global crisis emerging concerning the allocation, uses, and abuses of fresh water. This is a combination of misuse by humans and the increasing violence and changing frequency of various weather conditions as the global climate heats ... More >>
Jim Miles: Book Review - Behind the Wall
Tuesday, 23 March 2010, 4:58 pm | Jim Miles
“Do you know what amazes me more than all else? The impotence of force to organize anything. There are only two powers in the world: the spirit and the sword. In the long run, the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.” More >>
United States Hypocrisy Knows No Rationale
Monday, 22 March 2010, 11:56 am | Jim Miles
The political events and comments surrounding Joe Biden’s recent visit to Israel stand only to highlight the hypocrisy and arrogant ignorance of the United States command. There are two factors here: first is the avoidance - in spite of superficial ... More >>
Book Review - The Bases of Empire
Monday, 22 March 2010, 11:53 am | Jim Miles
A book that detailed all the military posts around the world would be encyclopaedic in size and nature, for in order to be comprehensive to cover all the bases and all the impacts and affects on human culture and demographics would require a vast array ... More >>
Jim Miles: Book Review - Three Kings
Monday, 15 March 2010, 11:51 am | Jim Miles
This concisely written and well documented work covers the “Truman Doctrine…the essential rubric under which the United States projected its power globally after World War II…the ideological foundation for the “imperial presidency.” Lloyd ... More >>
Book Review - Misadventures [of the WTO]
Thursday, 11 March 2010, 3:09 pm | Jim Miles
Misadventures of the Most Favored Nations - Clashing Egos, Inflated Ambitions, and the Great Shambles of the World Trade System. Paul Blustein. Public Affairs (Perseus Books).New York, 2009. More >>
Jim Miles: Perpetual Fraud
Friday, 5 March 2010, 3:41 pm | Jim Miles
For historians who like dates and bookends for their events, the “global war on terror” started with the destruction of the Twin Towers and the attack on the Pentagon (9/11). The idea of perpetual war provided large benefits to a few and pain and terror ... More >>
Haiti & its media presentation: historical amnesia
Thursday, 4 February 2010, 3:04 pm | Jim Miles
The disaster of Haiti is well represented in Canadian media, with significant coverage in print and on television. MacLean’s magazine’s recent cover article photo is one of the very few that perhaps accidentally represents what is really happening ... More >>
Israel-Palestine Conflict - Contested Histories
Friday, 22 January 2010, 2:02 pm | Jim Miles
There are obviously multiple stories concerning any act or incident, and any series of acts or incidents, until the overall view becomes large enough that they are distilled into a national or international narrative. These national narratives often serve ... More >>
Book Review - Israel and Palestine
Monday, 18 January 2010, 12:19 pm | Jim Miles
This is a thought provoking if not fully developed work on the ongoing situation in Palestine/Israel. Avi Shlaim has compiled a set of his writings from previous publications that in a broad way cover the events of the region, with a brief look ... More >>
Jim Miles: Imperial inertia
Monday, 30 November 2009, 11:13 am | Jim Miles
The task of saving and reviving humanity oft times appears overwhelming when studied from a fully global perspective: occupations, wars, and terror abounds; starvation, disease, poverty, homelessness, accompany the wars and are also an integral part ... More >>
Reflections on Michael Moore’s capitalism
Wednesday, 4 November 2009, 1:18 pm | Jim Miles
The thrift in me allowed me to wait until Michael Moore’s “Capitalism - A Love Story” came out on second run theatres - it was well worth the wait. The powerful effect that Moore has on his audience derives from the personal stories he relates ... More >>
Reflections on Michael Moore’s capitalism
Tuesday, 3 November 2009, 11:01 pm | Jim Miles
The thrift in me allowed me to wait until Michael Moore’s “Capitalism - A Love Story” came out on second run theatres - it was well worth the wait. The powerful effect that Moore has on his audience derives from the personal stories he relates ... More >>
