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Sean McGouran, January 2007
CHE-LEILA – A review – and app
The above is the name of magazine, which does not have a ‘snail-mail’ address, or a website (its e-address is cheliela@gmail.com). The Che-Leila Brigades is the youth movement of the PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which is supra-sectarian, but probably largely Palestinian-Christian, at least in origin.) The edition to hand, Issue 3, 2005, has an image of Palestinian freedom fighters with lots of guns on the cover. ...
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David Morrison, January 2007
Britain’s “dependent” nuclear
At least eight (and perhaps nine) states in the world now possess functional nuclear weapons and the means of delivering them. All of them, bar one, manufacture and maintain their own nuclear weapons and the means of delivering them. All of them, bar one, have complete control over the use of their systems. In other words, all of them, bar one, possess what can reasonably be described as an “independent” nuclear deterrent that isn’t dependent ...
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Editorial, January 2007
Shiites Under-represented
The most important fact about Lebanese politics, which the Western media rarely tell us, is that the Shiite community is under-represented within the Lebanese political system. Bush and Blair constantly talk about defending democracy in Lebanon. But, if they were seriously concerned about democracy there, they would be demanding more seats in the Lebanese Parliament for Hezbollah. And a greater share for it in the Lebanese ...
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David Morrison, January 2007
No guarantee for success, says
The Iraq Study Group report [1], published on 6 December 2006, is brutally frank about the catastrophe that Bush and Blair have visited upon Iraq. It is completely devoid of the optimistic spin that they have continuously spewed out. The word “victory” is conspicuously absent. The President’s grandiose ambition of bringing democracy to the Middle East, beginning with Iraq, is dismissed in one sentence: “Most of the region’s countries are ...
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Mark Langhammer, January 2007
Venezuela and the Bolivarian R
Venezuela and the Bolivarian Revolution Notes from a visit 27 November – 6th December 2006 “the United States of North Ameriis destined by providence to plague the people of the Americas with hunger and misery in the name of freedom.” Simon Bolivar, 1825 “We will not rest until we break the chains that oppress our people, the chains of hunger, misery and colonialism. This country will be free, or we will die trying to free ...
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