Notes from the Editors, September 2005
September 1, 2005
More than a year after the supposed “transfer of sovereignty” the war of aggression that the United States is waging in Iraq shows no sign of abating. Washington’s plan is… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Middle East
A Cup of Tea, Summer of ’72
February 1, 2005
his short memoir was originally written in Farsi (Persian) and will shortly appear in a collection to be published in Tehran in honor of Paul Sweezy. Borzoo Nabet translated Sweezy’s… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, December 2004
December 1, 2004
New Political Science, a journal associated with the Caucus for a New Political Science, has devoted its entire September 2004 number to “The Politics of Empire, Terror and Hegemony.” The… READ MORE
The New Israel
December 1, 2004
This essay has been adapted from chapter 8 of Michel Warschawski’s Toward an Open Tomb: The Crisis of Israeli Society (Monthly Review Press, 2004), which presents an important dissident Israeli… READ MORE
U.S. Imperial Strategy in the Middle East
February 1, 2004
Gilbert Achcar lived in Lebanon before moving to France where he teaches politics and international relations at the University of Paris-VIII. He is the author of The Clash of Barbarisms:… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, June 2003
June 1, 2003
The chief, indeed the only, justification that Washington offered for its invasion of Iraq during its build-up for war between September 2002 and March 2003, was the need to “disarm”… READ MORE
Behind the War on Iraq
May 1, 2003
Research Unit for Political Economy is based in Mumbai, India. The group publishes the journal Aspects of India’s Economy and a range of research publications in English and Hindi. This… READ MORE
‘I Am in the Midst of a Genocide’: E-Mails from Gaza
May 1, 2003
For more on Rachel Corrieand the International Solidarity Movement see: www.palsolidarity.org, and www.distanceeddesign.com/rachel. Two of us, John Foster and Bob McChesney, are graduates of The Evergreen State College in Olympia,… READ MORE
Beyond the Drumbeat: Iraq, Preventive War, ‘Old Europe’
March 1, 2003
Arno J. Mayer is Professor Emeritus of history at Princeton University and author of numerous works including Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?: The “Final Solution” in History(Pantheon Books, 1988)… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, February 2003
February 1, 2003
On December 19, 2002 U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell declared that the 12,000 page document that Iraq delivered to the United Nations on December 7, listing its secret weapons… READ MORE