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Same old, same old – Israel wins again
Monday, 3 December 2007, 10:36 am | Jim Miles
As I sit and read the announcements from today’s first discussions from Annapolis, all I can see is another dismal failure for peace and another year long “negotiation” process that like Oslo, Camp David, the ‘road map’ all lead to the same place. ... More >>
Book Review - Bitter Friends - Bosom Enemies
Thursday, 29 November 2007, 2:18 pm | Jim Miles
If I had to provide an overall rating for Barbara Slavin's " Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies " I would have to tell the reader that it is well worth reading, but with several qualifications that make the recommendation somewhat underwhelming. It is ... More >>
Book Review - Treacherous Alliance
Monday, 19 November 2007, 11:43 am | Jim Miles
Treacherous Alliance– the secret dealings of Israel, Iran and the United States . Trita Parsi. Yale University Press, New Haven. 2007 More >>
Book Review - Lords of the Land
Wednesday, 7 November 2007, 5:02 pm | Jim Miles
Lords of the Land - The War Over Israel's Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967-2007 . Akiva Eldar and Idith Zertal. Nation Books, New York, 2007. More >>
Uncertain outcomes –the Israeli-Palestine question
Thursday, 1 November 2007, 7:58 pm | Jim Miles
After 9/11, 2001, when I first started examining the various landscapes – physical, political, cultural, military – of events relating to that day, I had no real idea that it would lead me into an advocacy position of Palestinian rights, but everything ... More >>
Book Review: Israel/Palestine Question, Ilan Pappe
Monday, 22 October 2007, 10:40 am | Jim Miles
Ilan Pappe's highly revised second edition of The Israel/Palestine Question offers the reader a very instructive read on changing historical perspectives about Israel/Palestine within one over-riding theme - land tenure and population control. More >>
Review: American Empire & the Commonwealth of God
Sunday, 7 October 2007, 7:17 pm | Jim Miles
Based solely on the title, this book appeared to be something that could have some strong revelations on the nature of the American Empire and its relationship with religion. Having read several books from the religious right, including the first ... More >>
Canada - Time to exit NATO
Tuesday, 18 September 2007, 12:12 am | Jim Miles
NATO has recently had one of its regular meetings of the "Military Committee" in Victoria, B.C., Canada, with appropriate demonstrations against it for Canada's role within NATO and Afghanistan. Phil Lyons, the organizer of the demonstration, ... More >>
Book Review - Iraq - the Logic of Withdrawal
Monday, 17 September 2007, 7:32 pm | Jim Miles
Iraq - The Logic of Withdrawal . Anthony Arnove. Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2007. More >>
Book Review - Stiglitz - Making Globalization Work
Sunday, 9 September 2007, 8:36 pm | Jim Miles
Book Review - Stiglitz - Making Globalization Work by Jim Miles Making Globalization Work . Joseph Stiglitz. W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 2007. More >>
Book Review - Hamas - A History From Within
Tuesday, 4 September 2007, 11:01 am | Jim Miles
Most of the world knows the superficial history of Hamas as presented by western media, the stories of the suicide bombers, the election results that were argued to be a vote against the PLO/Fatah but not for Hamas, the resulting denial of that ... More >>
Book Review - Stiglitz/Charlton and 'Fair Trade'
Monday, 27 August 2007, 10:31 am | Jim Miles
In 2003 Joseph Stiglitz published his much acclaimed and critically popular book Globalization and it Discontents. Its overall thesis, arguable particularly to those hidebound within the ‘Washington Consensus’, simply stated that following International ... More >>
Jim Miles: Book Review - White Man's Burden
Sunday, 19 August 2007, 7:02 pm | Jim Miles
This is one of those books that comes so close to getting it right all the way along, and in truth actually does get it right, but not always for the expressed reasons. The reader has to consider the author and the probable intended audience. The author, ... More >>
Jim Miles: Book Review - Between the Lines
Sunday, 12 August 2007, 2:39 pm | Jim Miles
This work is a powerful compilation of articles relating the story of the al-Aqsa Intifada, tying it into a broader world vision of the Middle East and American Empire. That serves as the main theme for the book, “the continuation of the Zionist colonial ... More >>
Harper’s foreign policy of American convenience
Tuesday, 24 July 2007, 11:31 am | Jim Miles
Stephen Harper has been making much of himself lately, promoting his version of how to achieve global peace and prosperity, with talks and presentations on Afghanistan and Columbia. The central tenet of his global approach is apparently to support those ... More >>
Review: Hamas - Vision, Violence, & Coexistence
Monday, 9 July 2007, 6:36 pm | Jim Miles
In consideration of current events with Hamas’ military takeover of Gaza, this book on the Palestinian Hamas is very timely. It would have been more timely in its original version in 2000 at the start of the al-Aqsa Intifada. With precise foresight ... More >>
Book Review: The Palestinian Hamas
Wednesday, 4 July 2007, 9:48 am | Jim Miles
In consideration of current events with Hamas’ military takeover of Gaza, this book on the Palestinian Hamas is very timely. It would have been more timely in its original version in 2000 at the start of the al-Aqsa Intifada. More >>
Book Review - It's the Crude, Dude
Tuesday, 26 June 2007, 11:25 am | Jim Miles
It’s the Crude, Dude - War, Big Oil, and the Fight For the Planet. Linda McQuaig. Anchor Canada (Random House). 2006. by Jim Miles More >>
Entangled Insurgencies – Hezbollah and Hamas
Tuesday, 19 June 2007, 6:13 pm | Jim Miles
In the past year, two completely unexpected events have surprised all the politicians and pundits who never even came close – in the material that I was able to research – to predicting, even as a remote possibility, the actual outcome. The first event ... More >>
Freedom Next Time - Resisting the Empire
Sunday, 10 June 2007, 4:10 pm | Jim Miles
John Pilger is one of the foremost journalists today who, in the current vernacular, 'walks the walk'. He has been to most of the world's hotspots, and whether or not the standard media has considered them 'hot', has revealed much of the truth behind ... More >>
