Since the attacks of September 11, protection from terrorism has become the United States’ national obsession. Demands for security from the terrorists that seemingly menace the country at every turn have led the U.S. military to occupy two countries and expand the hundreds of bases that it maintains in dozens of foreign nations.
Reflection on why [...]

But, yet, the mass movement that we were a part of ten years ago really isn?t present in the streets. And I think a lot of that has to do with, perhaps, the ?Obama effect? in the United States where everyone is still in this waiting pattern, hoping that he?s going to save the day.

“War is peace” was one of the memorable slogans on the facade of the Ministry of Truth, Minitrue in “Newspeak,” the language invented by George Orwell in 1948 for his dystopian novel 1984. Some 60 years later, a quarter-century after Orwell’s imagined future bit the dust, the phrase is, in a number of ways, eerily [...]

The Age
21 January 2008
AMNESTY International has said that Israel’s use during the Gaza offensive of white phosphorus ? banned under international law for use near civilians ? was “clear and undeniable”.
Tension eased in Gaza early yesterday as a fragile ceasefire entered its third day. There were no reports of shooting or rockets for the first [...]

By Afua Hirsch
The Guardian, Wednesday 14 January 2009
Israel faces the prospect of intervention by international courts amid growing calls that its actions in