More critical reflection on US policy and actions vis-a-vis Iraq.
Lawrence
>From: "Marita Nadalutti" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Priority: normal
>X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/)
>X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/)
>Subject: [Tni-news] 1 May 2003
>Sender: [log in to unmask]
>X-BeenThere: [log in to unmask]
>X-Mailman-Version: 2.0
>List-Unsubscribe: <https://worldcom.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tni-news>,
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>List-Id: Bi-weekly news list from the Transnational Institute
><tni-news.tni.org>
>List-Post: <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>List-Help: <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>List-Subscribe: <https://worldcom.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tni-news>,
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>List-Archive: <https://worldcom.nl/pipermail/tni-news/>
>Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 18:44:09 +0200
>X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 May 2003 17:42:19.0313 (UTC)
>FILETIME=[03549210:01C31009]
>
>
>======================================
>
>TNI-News is a bi-weekly e-mail service from the Transnational
>Institute. If you wish to view a complete version of this bulletin with
>direct links, please visit http://www.tni.org
>
>Feel free to forward this message!
>
>======================================
>
>1 May 2003
>
>======================================
>
>TNI wishes everyone a happy 1st of May, International Workers'
>Day
>
>======================================
>
>In this issue:
>
>1. The occupation of Iraq
>- various articles from the TNI fellowship
>2. New from TNI fellows
>- Saul Landau on Cuba
>- Boris Kagarlitsky on Lenin's birthday and the use of extremism
>- Praful Bidwai on Kashmir
>3. Pinochet Watch No 48
>
>======================================
>
>IRAQ
>
>The new American strategy of pre-emptive wars, ignoring
>international law, indicates the US doesn't deem it necessary to
>have the cover of legality from the United Nations for its actions,
>but is ready to go unilaterally for any future military action it sees
>as necessary to strengthen its role as the world's only
>superpower. The war against Iraq might be only the beginning of a
>new phase of an American push to build uncontested world
>hegemony by installing its own puppet regimes in countries of
>strategic interest for securing a hold over their resources. The US
>has guaranteed the installation of an interim administration in Iraq,
>which will serve its own best interests, and not necessarily those of
>the Iraqi people. The interim administrator of Iraq is retired US
>General Jay Garner, known for his post-retirement career path,
>which put him at the head of a major defence contractor with close
>links to the Pentagon. Organising an interim government in Iraq
>was the prerogative of the United Nations. This act renders the
>interim government of Iraq illegal in international law, just as the
>war itself was illegal.
>
>A New, Angry, Pentagon Colony
>By Praful Bidwai
>The US "liberators" now face the wrath of the people who see the
>occupation as history repeating itself - 85 years after the British
>colonised Iraq.
>http://www.tni.org/archives/bidwai/colony.htm
>
>El imperio se relanza
>By Mariano Aguirre
>As the only superpower, the US doesn't like competitors neither
>among its enemies nor among its allies, and is determined to use
>force in all its possible manifestations to preserve that position.
>http://www.tni.org/archives/aguirre/imperio.htm
>
>Pax Romana versus Pax Americana: Contrasting Strategies of
>Imperial Management
>By Walden Bello
>With the US increasingly seen as a universal threat, France,
>Germany, Russia and China will consolidate the balancing coalition
>that emerged during the Iraq crisis.
>http://www.tni.org/archives/bello/pax.htm
>
>Iraq War: A Policy of Christian and Jewish Fundamentalism;
>Worse Lies Ahead
>By Saul Landau
>9/11 served as a U.S. equivalent of Hitler's 1933 Reichstrag fire in
>which "fighting terrorism" became the pretext for radical new forms
>of control at home and abroad.
>http://www.tni.org/archives/landau/fundamentalism.htm
>
>Deterrence is for Dummies
>By Praful Bidwai
>After no weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq, the
>message the war sends is: if you don't have WMD, but let in the
>inspectors, you get attacked.
>http://www.tni.org/archives/bidwai/dummies.htm
>
>======================================
>
>NEW FROM FELLOWS
>
>Take Him at His Word
>By Praful Bidwai
>The 'hand of friendship' Indian prime minister offered to Pakistan in
>his public address in Srinagar must be heartily welcomed - and
>purposively followed up
>http://www.tni.org/archives/bidwai/word.htm
>
>Lenin's Entombed Ratings
>Boris Kagarlitsky on Lenin's birthday and what the revolutionary
>means today to Russians.
>http://www.tni.org/archives/kagarlitsky/lenin.htm
>
>Making Use of Extremism
>By Boris Kagarlitsky
>Instilling fear of terrorism in the public makes it possible to give
>additional powers to the police and security services, and thus
>makes things a little easier for the ruling class.
>http://www.tni.org/archives/kagarlitsky/extremism.htm
>
>The Cuba Conundrum
>By Saul Landau
>After the trial of 75 'dissidents' and execution of three boat
>hijackers Cuba has lost more progressive intellectual friends than it
>has since the infamous 1971 case of Heberto Padilla.
>http://www.tni.org/archives/landau/conundrum.htm
>
>======================================
>
>PINOCHET WATCH No 48
>
>In this issue:
>
>- DINA Officers Indicted for Prat's Murder
>- Colin Powell "Not Proud" of US Role in Chile: Transcript of BET
>Comment
>- Where is he now? Pinochet Resigns from Senate, Goes on
>Vacation, and Signs Autographs
>- New IPS Project on Pinochet Case
>
>http://www.tni.org/pinochet/watch/watch48.htm
>-------------------------
>Transnational Institute
>Paulus Potterstraat 20
>1071 DA Amsterdam
>The Netherlands
>Tel: 31-20-6626608
>Fax: 31-20-6757176
>www.tni.org
>_______________________________________________
>Tni-news mailing list
>[log in to unmask]
>https://worldcom.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tni-news
--
Lawrence D. Berg, D.Phil.
Associate Professor of Geography
Okanagan University College, Vernon, B.C., Canada V1B 2N5
Voice: +1 250 545-7291 ext. 2264; Fax: +1 250 545-3277; E-mail:
[log in to unmask]
Homepage: http://www.geog.ouc.bc.ca/geog/berg/Berghome/
Editor: The Canadian Geographer/Le Geographe canadien
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0008-3658
http://www.geog.ouc.bc.ca/tcg
Co-Editor: ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies
http://www.acme-journal.org
Co-Moderator: Critical Geography Forum
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/crit-geog-forum.html
|