Democratic elections in the NATO member states serve one clear purpose. They contribute to the self-satisfaction concerning “our values” needed to justify…
Diana Johnstone
Diana Johnstone is a Minnesota-born independent journalist and scholar who has lived in Paris for over thirty years. She has an B.A. in Russian Area Studies and a PhD in French literature. Her active opposition to US military aggression began during the war in Vietnam. She served as press officer of the Green Group in the European Parliament between 1990 and 1996. She is the author of The Politics of Euromissiles: Europe in America’s World (Verso, 1983) and Fools’ Crusade: Yugoslavia, NATO and Western Delusions (Pluto Press, London, and Monthly Review Press, New York, 2003) which was published in French as La Croisade des Fous (Le Temps des Cerises).
These days the humanitarian warriors are riding high, thanks to their proclaimed victory in Libya. The world’s only superpower, with moral, military and…
Press Release May 19, 2010 Today, May 19, the following Open Letter has been sent to the honorable Kenneth Clarke, Lord High…
There are surely millions of us, invisible to each other, enraged and powerless as we watch the massacre of Gaza and listen…
[First published in Zeta Magazine, May 1988] France is commemorating the twentieth anniversary of May 68 with a certain nostalgia and…
The United States and its European allies have announced that diplomacy has failed to solve the Kosovo problem. When diplomacy fails, that…
In the last major speech of his successful presidential campaign, Nicolas Sarkozy launched into a bizarre attack on May 1968. “May 1968…
