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Past Due for Canadian troop homecoming
Tuesday, 24 March 2009, 3:05 pm | Jim Miles
Another four Canadian military personnel have been killed in Afghanistan. It is well past due that Canadian forces be brought home from this senseless war before more die for a poorly defined cause. More >>
Book Review - Torture Team
Friday, 20 March 2009, 3:03 pm | Jim Miles
“Only a few pieces of paper can change the course of history. On Tuesday, 2 December 2002 Donald Rumsfield signed one that did.” From such a singular beginning Philippe Sands writes the history of U.S. attempts to abrogate international laws and conventions ... More >>
Canada Complicit with Israeli War Crimes
Wednesday, 14 January 2009, 5:04 pm | Jim Miles
Canada lives in the unfortunate position of being under the thrall of U.S. media for most its information and cultural relevance. At the same time, its own media, apart from the national broadcast company CBC, is highly centralized under the influence ... More >>
Rebuttal to Bradley Burston, Haaretz
Monday, 12 January 2009, 9:57 am | Jim Miles
The following “leftist” arguments were presented for denial by Mr. Burston, a Haaretz correspondent who is obviously educated in the Israel as victim line of thinking. Some element of truth may be squeezed out of some of his counter arguments, but most ... More >>
Gaza - Plan of Attack - Commentary
Tuesday, 6 January 2009, 9:53 am | Jim Miles
I can only witness the tragedy of Gaza from the knowledge I have gained from years of historical and foreign affairs reading, from the personal contacts and information that are readily available on the internet, and least significantly from the local ... More >>
Robert Kagan’s Mythology of U.S. Exceptionalism
Tuesday, 9 December 2008, 2:38 pm | Jim Miles
Robert Kagan is a difficult subject to analyze. At times his writing seems to be very honest and directly critical of U.S. intentions as well as being clearly honest about the sometimes “dangerous nation” aspect of its history and foreign policy. ... More >>
Book Review - Hamas vs. Fatah
Thursday, 27 November 2008, 10:19 am | Jim Miles
I’m not sure where to start with this volume - other than to say it is a history so out of context and so biased in its language that it is essentially meaningless. If a scientist were to isolate human blood cells and study them under a microscope ... More >>
Book Review - Bacevich - Limits of Power
Sunday, 9 November 2008, 6:24 pm | Jim Miles
Before the war in Iraq started Robert Kagan wrote a wonderful little narcissistic view of the United States and its abilities to provide peace in a world of democratic capitalism. It climaxed in my favourite statement of hubris and jingoism that I have ... More >>
Jim Miles: States of mind
Thursday, 30 October 2008, 2:53 pm | Jim Miles
Is it writers block, or is it that the world is in such a mess that it has simply short-circuited my mind? So many bad news scenarios present themselves on several fronts that I am somewhat amazed and dumbfounded. Is there any order, any sense to ... More >>
Review - The Unexpected War - Canada in Kandahar
Thursday, 25 September 2008, 3:25 pm | Jim Miles
Afghanistan may have been a war unexpected in Canada, but a familiarity with American expectations concerning the New American Century combined with the fawning willingness of the Canadian military would make it more probable than improbable. In “ The ... More >>
Book Review - Secret War With Iran
Tuesday, 23 September 2008, 8:06 pm | Jim Miles
If one knew little about the Middle East and its many strands of religious, political, military, and strategic interests, this seemingly well written work would have the reader believing that Israel is the altruistic good guy – although making tactical ... More >>
The dismal science becomes gloomier
Tuesday, 16 September 2008, 4:46 pm | Jim Miles
Economics as the “dismal science” was greatly emphasized in a recent Scientific American article concerned about the “unscientific assumptions in economic theory…undermining efforts to solve environmental problems.”[1] Economists are great at using wonderful ... More >>
Book Review - Racing the Enemy
Monday, 1 September 2008, 12:21 am | Jim Miles
The end of the Second World War with Japan is a story of the clashes of three empires – the struggling Soviets, the decline of the Japanese, and the ascendancy of the American. The common media perception is that the use of the atomic bombs ended the ... More >>
Deconstructing Brzezinski’s Russia
Monday, 25 August 2008, 1:56 pm | Jim Miles
The warrior ethic of the American Imperial elite, embodied in its fullest measure by Zbigniew Brzezinski, has been rejuvenated momentarily by Russia’s attack on Georgia. Reading Brzezinski’s words leaves one choking on their overt hypocrisy ... More >>
Harper again serves as Bush's mouthpiece in Canada
Tuesday, 19 August 2008, 6:34 pm | Jim Miles
While eastern Canada suffers unseasonable rains, the west enjoys its average warm/hot summer. In the Middle East however, the heat is rising in the geo-political field. More >>
Book Review A Doctor in Galilee - Kanaaneh
Tuesday, 19 August 2008, 6:32 pm | Jim Miles
“ A Doctor in Galilee ” is a wonderfully descriptive narrative of life and times in Palestine/Israel. Clearly written, with a mix of personal anecdotes, historical tales, and much in the way of a reality based philosophy of a people living under ... More >>
The Future is Now - the end of cheap oil
Tuesday, 12 August 2008, 4:58 pm | Jim Miles
This is one of the more difficult articles/reviews I have worked on. I have been well aware of Peak Oil for a while, but never did I gather so much information in one sitting that simply spelled out doom and gloom. More >>
Book Review - Superclass
Wednesday, 25 June 2008, 4:38 pm | Jim Miles
This book is written by a person with the right credentials to do so, as David Rothkopf has worked within the edges of the Superclass. As he describes his credentials, "I came to this book with not an insignificant amount of personal experience - experience ... More >>
Book Review - Palestine Inside Out
Tuesday, 10 June 2008, 4:10 pm | Jim Miles
This has been one of the most difficult books that I have ever read. It removed me from my academic detachment with which I read the majority of books and took me into emotions ranging from frustration, sadness, melancholy through to anger and belligerence. ... More >>
Book Review - Pens and Swords - Marda Dunsky
Thursday, 29 May 2008, 3:53 pm | Jim Miles
In an era when American foreign policy has reached the pinnacle of unilateralism by invading other countries pre-emptively, threatening others with nuclear annihilation, and abrogating in doing so many decades if not more than a century of international ... More >>
