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It’s about TIME.
Thursday, 29 May 2008, 3:49 pm | Jim Miles
For the past several months I have been receiving TIME magazine. The subscription originally started as a gift from someone unknown, with my last name spelled wrong, lasted for a year. When it came up for renewal, I stalled until the price came down ... More >>
Book Review - Common Wealth - Jeffery Sachs
Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 4:43 pm | Jim Miles
Economists…some so intent on their money, not able to truly release themselves from their fundamental neoliberal values, afraid to admit that many of the policies they are advocating fall squarely into the rubric of ‘socialism’. That of course ... More >>
Book Review - Muqtada - Patrick Cockburn
Wednesday, 7 May 2008, 12:45 am | Jim Miles
An excellent work, Muqtada ends off right where current events pick up with the recent Iraqi army attacks ordered by Nuri al –Maliki in southern Iraq, Basra in particular. The media view that this was purely an Iraqi effort is put into place with one of ... More >>
Another American War – Look Out Earth
Wednesday, 30 April 2008, 9:16 pm | Jim Miles
True to the American manner of meeting challenges and desiring to overcome them, a recent Time magazine cover led off with the title “How to Win The War On Global Warming” [1]. Accompanying that article, the UN Secretary-General demonstrated ... More >>
Book Review - The Perils of Empire
Monday, 21 April 2008, 11:27 am | Jim Miles
The concept of empire has been discussed quite rigorously by various authors since the advent of the Bush administration, with views ranging from neocon jingoism through more academic apologists to those berating empire for the ills of the world. While ... More >>
Book Review - Three Trillion Dollar War
Friday, 11 April 2008, 1:22 pm | Jim Miles
Following on their previous pronouncement that war costs could amount to as much as 1 trillion to 2 trillion dollars, ten times more than even then previously thought [1], Stiglitz and Bilmes have furthered their research into the cost of the war with ... More >>
Book Review - Zoo on the Road to Nablus
Tuesday, 8 April 2008, 9:41 am | Jim Miles
This tale from the West Bank operates at several levels. Nominally it is about one man – Dr. Sami Khader – and his attempts to sustain the dream of having an internationally approved zoo in the town of Qalqilya in the West Bank. Almost completely surrounded ... More >>
Book Review - Bad Samaritans - Ha-Joon Chang
Monday, 7 April 2008, 11:42 am | Jim Miles
Every now and then a ‘prize’ of a book comes along that includes all the elements of good writing. Bad Samaritans is one of them. Using straightforward language that generally avoids using the lexicon of economists, and explains it well when it is ... More >>
Jim Miles: The Science of Terror
Wednesday, 26 March 2008, 2:17 pm | Jim Miles
Sometimes the science community, hiding behind the guise of empirical research, cannot see its own bias even while correctly analyzing a situation. The latter statement may seem contradictory, but given the manner in which it studies `terror´ and then ... More >>
Book Review - The new imperialists
Tuesday, 25 March 2008, 3:05 pm | Jim Miles
The new imperialism is part a recognition that, yes, the United States is an imperial power as accepted and supported by various neocon pundits and apologists, and part a recognition that it takes a different form than previous empires, no longer so ... More >>
Book Review - War in Heaven
Saturday, 22 March 2008, 1:08 pm | Jim Miles
In this short volume, Helen Caldicott and Craig Eisendrath provide a sharp and concise analysis of the American nuclear weapons industry and its many ramifications for society and the peoples of the world in general. While they see the big picture, ... More >>
Canada’s response to Israel’s actions in Gaza
Thursday, 6 March 2008, 12:07 am | Jim Miles
Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier issued a news release expressing his concern about the escalating violence in the Gaza Strip[1]. It does nothing to help resolve the situation and only demonstrates that the Canadian government is ... More >>
Jim Miles: Canada, NATO, And Nuclear Terror
Tuesday, 4 March 2008, 10:00 am | Jim Miles
Any countries elected representatives need to remember that they are just that, representatives first, and within that representation there is a leader, but one who should represent his constituents, not ignore their opinions. More >>
Jim Miles: Book Review - The Seventh Decade
Tuesday, 12 February 2008, 9:27 am | Jim Miles
Humanity is now living through it seventh decade with the threat of nuclear annihilation even more powerful than ever. In this wonderfully written work, Jonathan Schell reviews the history of the doomsday weapons that have affected all our lives. More >>
Jim Miles: House of Cards
Friday, 25 January 2008, 9:24 am | Jim Miles
America today is not the only empire, but it is one that has consistently formulated itself around the ideologies of corporate business, the military, big government, and religious self-righteousness, mass marketing itself and mass exploiting others ... More >>
Jim Miles: Canada Report '07 - Part II - Palestine
Thursday, 17 January 2008, 11:23 am | Jim Miles
The "barrier" - the wall - is recognized as legitimate by Canada if Israel builds it on its own territory, which under the lack of any kind of settled border definition also leaves the wall undefined and therefore illegitimate. More >>
Jim Miles: Canada Report 2007 - Part I - Subnation
Friday, 11 January 2008, 8:07 am | Jim Miles
Canadians have always prided themselves on the "goodness" if not the "greatness" of their country. Sitting north of the United States, Canadians struggle with an ideal that rejects many American ideas, yet accommodates most of those ideas. More >>
Review: Surrender Is Not An Option, John Bolton
Tuesday, 1 January 2008, 10:24 am | Jim Miles
Surrounded by terrorists, 'Islamofascists', the old guard complacency of the "EUroids", a resurgent Russian Empire, a belligerent if not hostile China, and almost above all else the two largest threats of Iran and North Korea... More >>
Book Review - Chua - Day of Empire
Wednesday, 19 December 2007, 11:24 am | Jim Miles
This work had so much anticipatory potential as Amy Chua’s previous work “World on Fire” had provided a strong, well-supported thesis on how the colonial elites later brought about much of the incompetence, racism, and malevolent tendencies of ... More >>
Advocacy, Intellect, and Common Sense
Wednesday, 12 December 2007, 2:15 pm | Jim Miles
Ramzy Baroud's current article [1] on the despair of writers and the role of the intellectual in presenting information has proven to be very thought provoking personally. I would not be doing what I am doing now without his support and conviction, yet ... More >>
