Edward Said’s dangerous idea
The 25th September marks the 10th anniversary of the death of Professor, Writer, Thinker, Intellectual and Human Rights advocate Edward Said. Born during the British Mandate of Palestine in Jerusalem...
View ArticleMeet the Iranian Karla: General Qasem Soleimani
“Soleimani is the single most powerful operative in the Middle East today, and no one’s ever heard of him”. John Maguire former C.I.A. officer in Iraq in an interview with the New Yorker. He is...
View ArticleWhy the US implemented a ‘war approach’ to Counter-Terrorism
The 9/11 attacks were the first foreign attack on US soil since the end of the Cold War, and with the US considered the major actor on the international stage, there was pressure for an immediate...
View ArticleApplause for you, Stigmatisation for me
The male beard, what can I say about the male beard? The seeming epitome of male masculinity and the outwardly bearings of your ‘man’s man’. The bearded man, the kind of man synonymous with hyper...
View ArticleWhen is foreign intervention justified?
Co-existence with genocidal dictatorships, totalitarian rulers or any form of autocratic leadership is neither tolerable nor desirable. This seemingly axiomatic truth has rather straightforward...
View ArticleIraq Crisis: Are ‘We’ to Blame?
Last week former Prime Minister Tony Blair said ‘We didn’t cause the Iraq crisis.’ The ‘we’ he was talking about was of course the British and American governments that in 2003 invaded Iraq as part of...
View ArticleThe third invasion of Iraq?
It has recently emerged that Britain has sent a contingent of SAS soldiers to Iraq on an intelligence gathering mission in regards to potential rescue operations for the Yazidi refugees on Mount...
View ArticleStriking Out in Vain?
It has been reported that Parliament is days from being recalled so a vote can be made on whether the UK should join the US and France in air strikes against the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria....
View ArticleAmerica must learn from Western mistakes in the Middle East to successfully...
Western intervention in the Middle East has often come with a catch for the Governments and Peoples the actions were ‘intended’ to help. The years 1916 and 1979 are synonymous with Western actions that...
View ArticleDebating Syria
The news appeared this morning that the first air strikes over Syria had taken place, and we learned later that the four British Tornadoes had hit their targets: seven points in the oilfields of...
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