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Minister with No Imagination and a Minister with a Wild Imagination PDF Print E-mail
Written by Michael Warschawski   
Friday, 05 February 2010 17:08
Israeli Minister Avishai Braverman.The Minister of National Infrastructures Uzi Landau is not known as an imaginative person. He is a boring man whose world view is identical to that of his father, an Irgun member and close friend of Menachem Begin. He never learned anything and never forgot anything. The famous saying of Yitzhak Shamir, “the Jews are the same Jews, the Arabs are the same Arabs and the sea is the same sea” serves as Landau’s guiding light. Although he is 67 years old, Landau is a politician of the first half of the 20th century, and as such he understands nothing about political
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The Battlefields of Contemporary Imperialism PDF Print E-mail
Written by Samir Amin   
Friday, 05 February 2010 16:43

altIn the art of war each belligerent chooses the terrain considered most advantageous for its battle for the offensive and tries to impose that terrain on its adversary, so that it is put on the defensive.  The same goes for politics, both at the national level and in the geopolitical struggles.
Nowadays, for the last 30 years or so, the powers forming the Triad of collective imperialism (the United States, Western Europe and Japan) have been defining two battlefields, which are still apposite:  ‘democracy’ and ‘the environment’.
This paper aims first to examine the concepts and substance in the definitions of each of these two themes selected by the Triad powers and to make a critical analysis of them from the viewpoint of the interests of the peoples, nations and states, at which they are targeted, the countries of the South, after those of the former East.

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The Third Bethlehem International Conference PDF Print E-mail
Written by Michael Warschawski   
Monday, 02 November 2009 09:41
Bethlehem ConferenceDuring the past weekend (24-25 October), the Third International Conference in Bethlehem was held, in cooperation, this time, with OPGAI, the umbrella organization uniting a large number of Palestinian national movements as well as the Golan Heights resistance.

The contributing organizations will likely issue their own evaluations and conclusions in the next days, however, I would like to share some of my own, personal ones.

In general, that conference what a great success, even more so than the two previous ones. The presentations at the different panels were very interesting, even for a veteran activist like me; the speakers didn't repeat the obvious; the participation was bigger than expected (more than 400 persons), and the atmosphere was great.
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