What do you stand for?
Many recent works are reflecting an internal crisis within Israel, part of which is the increased power of the ultra-Orthodox Jews within…
Jim Miles
Jim Miles is a Canadian educator and a regular contributor/columnist of opinion pieces and book reviews to Palestine Chronicles. His interest in this topic stems originally from an environmental perspective, which encompasses the militarization and economic subjugation of the global community and its commodification by corporate governance and by the American government.
By Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé; Haymarket Books, 2010, 240 pp. When two of the most informed academics in the world collaborate…
Dismantling the Empire – America’s Last Best Hope. Chalmers Johnson. Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, NY. 2010. That the empire…
Washington Rules – America’s Path to Permanent War. Andrew J. Bacevich. Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, New York. 2010. Andrew…
Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper was elected to a minority government in 2006. Since then he has done his best to set…
The Invention of the Jewish People. Shlomo Sand. Verso, New York, 2009. Historians living within their own nations develop within the…
There is a global crisis emerging concerning the allocation, uses, and abuses of fresh water. This is a combination of misuse by…
Israel and Palestine – Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations. Avi Shlaim. Verso, London, 2009. This is a thought provoking if not fully developed…
The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global. Fawaz A. Gerges. Cambridge University Press. N.Y. 2009. First published in 2005, this text still…
The task of saving and reviving humanity oft times appears overwhelming when studied from a fully global perspective: occupations, wars, and terror…