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Mahmoud Awad
President Bush’s recent speech, setting an agenda for democratisation of the Middle East, is still causing reverberations around the region. After all, it features a momentous missionary call. With this in mind, this article takes as its starting point, the question of whether President Bush ever finds time to read some of the major books analyzing the course of empires throughout history.
Patrick Martin
The public disarray of the occupation and ‘rebuilding’ of Iraq has forced the Bush administration into a turning point, but no one should think that the new strategy will involve a precipitate withdrawal, or the early installation of self-determination. All indications are that the White House and Pentagon are preparing an onslaught of military violence, and levels of barbarism not seen since the Vietnam war.
Bill Vann
Seven months after Baghdad fell to USA troops, Washington is unveiling a crisis strategy that attempts to consolidate its plans for a USA-friendly regime in Iraq. And as the occupying power begins using massive firepower aimed at intimidating Iraqi resistance, there are ominous indications that this “job” will be prosecuted through a resumption of the war against the Iraqi people.
Katharine Ainger
As President Bush arrives in London amid unprecedented security, the politicisation of policing across Europe has never been clearer. This is a lesson Simon Chapman, a young British man detained on charges of carrying petrol bombs during anti-EU summit protests in Salonika in June, has learned to his cost.
Gary Younge
If USA President Bush’s visit to London provides the motivation for massive demonstrations in opposition to his presence, it would be a mistake the visit monopolised their message. If the leader who is coming is a problem, the leader who invited him is no less so. As the man who led the charge to war Bush, is a worthy target of our ire. As the man who followed him, and in so doing, lent the war what little legitimacy it ever had, Blair is even more so.
Jonathan Cook
Have you ever heard people say that Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. This article explodes that myth, as it explores the matrix of control used by Israel since its inception to control its Arab citizens, and it warns that a similar fate awaits the people of a Palestinian state emasculated behind the newly built apartheid wall.
Curtis Doebbler
The USA would like its enemies to put down their guns and trust in the good old American spirit of justice and freedom. If they would just submit to the USA?s illegal occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq everything would be alright. This may sound sensible to an American tucked away behind his enormous television set, watching other Americans make war with an increasing number of enemies as if it were a video game, cheering on cue for the president.
Martin Bright
Home Secretary David Blunkett has refused to grant diplomatic immunity to armed American special agents and snipers travelling to Britain as part of President Bush’s entourage this week. In the case of the accidental shooting of a protester, the Americans in Bush’s protection squad will face justice in a British court as would any other visitor, the Home Office has confirmed.
Arthur Neslen & Gibby Zobel
From all over Europe and beyond they came, idealists, activists, dreamers and revolutionaries, but their sights were set on events in the Middle East. The streets of Paris were brought to a halt in a blaze of colour, music and optimism as 100,000 people demonstrated against capitalist globalisation at the end of the second European Social Forum (ESF). “The message of our protest is that we want a Europe that has rights for all its citizens, in a world without war,” Pierre Khalfa, a march organiser said on Saturday.
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