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Book Review: In The Jaws of the Dragon
Monday, 2 November 2009, 10:09 am | Jim Miles
A book about the future published in 2008, with information preceding the publishing date, could well be considered out of date - or at worst in error - after a couple of years of passing current events. Eamonn Fingleton’s ‘old’ work - In the ... More >>
Jim Miles: Book Review - Choice of Enemies
Wednesday, 21 October 2009, 1:28 pm | Jim Miles
The subtitle to this text carries an interesting choice of active verb, “confronts”. It signifies “coming face to face in hostility or defiance.” That alone brings to question the U.S. perspective, generally expressed in most U.S. media that U.S. ... More >>
Jim Miles: Premature peace
Monday, 12 October 2009, 3:21 pm | Jim Miles
When I first saw the headline, in Rob Kall’s OpEd News, I thought “This is a joke.” However on further checking the joke on the web - through sites as diverse as al-Jazeera, the Globe and Mail, the Christian Science Monitor, Reuters and others ... More >>
Make love..make war: Two sides of the Israeli coin
Thursday, 1 October 2009, 12:05 pm | Jim Miles
That Israel exists and has the power to continue existing is very much a fact. With a sophisticated military establishment including more than 200 nuclear weapons (at lowest estimates) there is no way Israel would stop existing as a state of some kind. ... More >>
The Rejection of Palestinian Self-Determination
Tuesday, 8 September 2009, 2:53 pm | Jim Miles
The story of Palestine is poorly represented in western media, generally taken out of context and generally - as a strong cohort to the lack of context - with a strong bias in favour of the Israeli perspective. That perspective in short is that of Arab ... More >>
Flying Home by the Children of Lajee Center
Monday, 7 September 2009, 3:55 pm | Jim Miles
Kite flying activities go well beyond the physical phenomenon of wind blown materials flying tethered to their earth bound launchers. It is an activity including local knowledge of winds and landscapes, knowledge of how to physically shape the kite ... More >>
Jim Miles: Book Review - Syria and Iran
Monday, 31 August 2009, 10:53 am | Jim Miles
“In the past we prepared for a possible military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities,” said one insider, “but Iran’s growing confidence after the war in Lebanon means we have to prepare for a full-scale war, in which Syria will be ... More >>
Book Review - One State, Two States - Benny Morris
Tuesday, 11 August 2009, 4:27 pm | Jim Miles
This is a rather oily work to deal with, operating under the pretence of academic objectivity that “does not flatter anyone’s prejudices.” And while Benny Morris obviously knows his historical facts, One State, Two States reveals more of a prejudice ... More >>
Jim Miles: The Inheritance - Book Review
Wednesday, 29 July 2009, 12:15 pm | Jim Miles
David Sanger makes it clear what his book, “ The Inheritance ”, is all about. Simply stated in the first line of the preface he says, “This book looks backward at the seismic events that led America to lose so much standing and leverage in the ... More >>
Jim Miles: Book Review - After America
Wednesday, 15 July 2009, 12:45 pm | Jim Miles
After a half decade of books on the ‘American empire’ and many more on the politics, military, religion, and economics that are pieces of the whole, a new trend is now appearing on the book market. After the election of Obama as president, the new material ... More >>
In Mortal Hands - Book Review
Tuesday, 16 June 2009, 12:21 pm | Jim Miles
In an era when the corporate media and the corporate politicians and the corporate military men gang up together and denounce and threaten other countries because of their nuclear related activities, they should spend much of that rhetorical energy ... More >>
Devil We Know - Book Review
Friday, 5 June 2009, 12:45 pm | Jim Miles
Iran is obviously a key player in the Middle East. The many references within other texts dealing with other aspects of the Middle East and the several texts dealing specifically with Iran highlight its significance. Part of that significance is that ... More >>
Book Review - The Hebrew Republic
Thursday, 21 May 2009, 5:39 pm | Jim Miles
Two events have severely diminished the prospects of this book since it was published in early 2008 – the IDF attack on Gaza and the current global recession. In what are somewhat hopeful but weakly expressed arguments, Bernard Avishai was on slim ... More >>
Jim Miles: Terror and Torture
Wednesday, 29 April 2009, 9:22 am | Jim Miles
The current media frenzy concerning Obama’s coming release of more information on U.S. torture between 2000 and 2005 is a political storm conveniently kept out of context. There are two aspects to the context that are missing. First, this is ... More >>
Jim Miles: Book Review - Predator State
Thursday, 23 April 2009, 10:08 am | Jim Miles
Not too many economists make much clarity these days, and the general run of the mill economists that populate the majority of political and business positions seem to be mired in their own illusions and myths about what the economy actually is. ... More >>
State of the Nations - III The environment
Monday, 6 April 2009, 10:00 am | Jim Miles
The first part of this series looked at the overall context of the economy, the war on terror, and the environment. The previous section focussed on the military with its ties to terror and the economy globally. This final section looks at the environmental ... More >>
State of the nations II: The war on terror
Thursday, 2 April 2009, 3:40 pm | Jim Miles
The following was first published in the Palestine Chronicle, April 1, 2009. State of the nations II: The war on terror by Jim Miles More >>
Jim Miles: State of the nations
Thursday, 2 April 2009, 2:26 pm | Jim Miles
There are several large problems that afflict the globe in a major way today, with the economy being the prime time concern receiving the vast majority of the governmental/corporate/media attention. Global climate change seems to have dropped off the mainstream media’s ... More >>
Jim Miles: Book Review - American Raj
Tuesday, 24 March 2009, 3:07 pm | Jim Miles
In a wide-ranging and thorough overview of essentially the Middle East, but also the rest of the Muslim world, Eric Margolis’ recent work American Raj should become a first source of information on current events in the Muslim world. It is not encyclopaedic ... More >>
