FEATURED ADDITIONS
The Torture Memos and Historical Amnesia - Noam Chomsky / Chomsky.info (5/29)
"Exterminate all the Brutes": Gaza 2009 - Noam Chomsky / Chomsky.info (1/23)
Use Your Illusions - Slavoj Zizek / London Review of Books (12/18)
Obama's Victory - Fear and Hope - Immanuel Wallerstein / FBC (11/15)
Don′t Just Do Something, Talk - Slavoj Zizek / London Review of Books (10/15)
The Audacity of Rhetoric - Slavoj Zizek / In These Times (9/6)
The Ambiguous Legacy of ’68 - Slavoj Zizek / In These Times (6/28)
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A Global Recovery for a Global Recession
Joseph Stiglitz
The Nation
June 28, 2009
"This is not only the worst global economic downturn of the post-World War II era; it is the first serious global downturn of the modern era of globalization. America's financial markets failed to do what they should have done--manage risk and allocate capital well--and these failures have had a major impact all over the world. Globalization, too, did not work the way it was supposed to. It helped spread the consequences of the failures of US financial markets around the world. September 11, 2001, taught us that with globalization not only do good things travel more easily across borders; bad things do too. September 15, 2008, has reinforced that lesson." [read more...]
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The Game of Nations - Azmi Bishara / Al-Ahram Weekly (7/4)
That 30's Show - Paul Krugman / The New York Times (7/3)
Israel's Man of Conscience - Ezra Nawi / The Nation (7/1)
GPS: Krugman and Taylor - Paul Krugman , John Taylor / CNN (6/29)
Gaza: Bombs, Missiles, Tanks And Bulldozers - Jimmy Carter / Countercurrents.org (6/26)
An Alternative Reading - Azmi Bishara / Al-Ahram Weekly (6/25)
The Next Explosion in Iran - Robert Dreyfuss / The Nation (6/23)
What Really Happened in the Lebanese Elections? - Esam Al-Amin / Counterpunch (6/22)
What Kind of Two-State Solution? - Immanuel Wallerstein / FBC (6/17)
Turning Point? - Noam Chomsky / ZNet (6/10)
Global Peace Index for 2009 (PDF file) - Institute for Economics & Peace / Vision of Humanity (6/10)
Lebanon's Elections - Franklin Lamb / Counterpunch (6/8)
Israel 141st out of 144 in Global Peace Index - Jerusalem Post (6/8)
The Grim Picture Of Obama's Middle East - Noam Chomsky / ZNet (6/5)
Obama versus Cheney, Center versus Right - Immanuel Wallerstein / FBC (6/1)
Toothless counsel - Azmi Bishara / Al-Ahram Weekly (5/29)
The Spring of the Zombies - Joseph Stiglitz / Project Syndicate (5/25)
Gaza and Peace - Norman Finkelstein / Univ. of Texas/blip.tv (5/17)
The Sinking Dollar - Immanuel Wallerstein / FBC (5/15)
Israel Knows that Peace Just Doesn't Pay - Amira Haas / Haaretz (5/14)
Obama and the Middle East - Gilbert Achcar / ZNet (5/13)
In Praise of Revolutions - Serge Halimi / CounterPunch (5/12)
Hostage to Israel's Far Right - J. Algazi , D. Vidal / Le Monde diplomatique (5/9)
'Make sure you say that you were treated properly' - G. Peirce / London Review of Books (5/6)
Assessing the Summit of the Americas (Pt. 1) - Noam Chomsky / ZNet/MIT (5/6)
Stephen Hawking on Gaza - Stephen Hawking / You Tube/Al-Jazeera (5/5)
Where's the Justice at the Justice Department? - James G. Abourezk / Counterpunch (5/4)
Eloge des révolutions - Serge Halimi / Le Monde diplomatique (5/1)
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Books of Interest
Barradori / Habermas / Derrida - Philosophy in a Time of Terror
Jean Baudrillard - The Spirit of Terrorism
Noam Chomsky - Middle East Illusions
Noam Chomsky - Distorted Morality: America's War on Terror (DVD)
Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent (DVD)
N. Finkelstein - Image
and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Heinz Halm - Shi'a Islam: From Religion to Revolution
Marshall Hodgson - The Venture of Islam
Albert Hourani - History
of the Arab World
Paul Krugman - The Great Unraveling
Fawzi Mansour - The Arab World
Roy Mottahedeh - An Introduction to Shi'i Islam
Sheldon Rampton/John Stauber - Weapons of Mass Deception
Richards / Waterbury - A Political Economy of the Middle East
Edward Said - Covering Islam
Edward Said / Christopher Hitchens - Blaming the Victims
Jalal Toufic - Over-Sensitivity (Sun & Moon Classics, No 119)
Jalal Toufic / David / Sadek - Tamass 1
United Nations - Arab Human Development Report 2002
United Nations - Arab Human Development Report 2003
Paul Virilio - Ground Zero
Immanuel Wallerstein - The Decline of American Power
Slavoj Zizek - Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle
Slavoj Zizek - Welcome to the Desert of the Real
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