(Lara Deeb, a cultural anthropologist, is assistant professor of women’s studies at the University of California-Irvine. She is author of An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi‘i Lebanon.)
Hizballah, the Lebanese Shi‘i movement whose militia is fighting the Israeli army in south Lebanon, has been cast misleadingly in much media coverage of the ongoing war. Much more than a militia, the movement is also a political party that is a ...

Subject: Tariq Ali on Iran- Iraq Shiite solidarity
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 09:58:57 -0000

Bush's war of empire may spread and engulf Middle East
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03/02/2006

If Iran is attacked, they will hit back in Iraq.Without Shia support the West will have to withdraw, writes Tariq Ali.

If one looks at the crisis-torn, oil-rich Middle East through the lens of the past one can say that history never repeats itself exactly, but it ...

"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state"
(Noam Chomsky)

There are truths; there are lies; there is then the middle ground of
half-truths: propaganda. Those who engage in its dissemination are malicious
criminals. And those who are subjected to it are the victims. Propaganda is
consumed innocently, like drinking a glass of milk that has been
contaminated with small drops of urine; the taste, color, ...

As White House Counsel, Alberto Gonzales originated, authorized,
approved, and aided and abetted grave breaches of the Third and Fourth
Geneva Conventions of 1949 (e.g., torture and Gitmo kangaroo courts),
which are serious war crimes. In other words, Gonzales is a prima facie
war criminal. He must be prosecuted under the Geneva Conventions and the
US War Crimes Act.

For example, article 129 of the Third Geneva Convention on ...