Gwalgen Geodie Dent has written an article on Canadian mining interests in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo, published online by The Dominion. Dent writes that, “despite eight years of war in the Congo (from 1996 to 2003), with a death toll estimated at between four and ten million, and the continued risk of conflict [...]
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Below is an excerpt from an article by Robert Kagan, posted at the New Republic website:
The paradox of U.S. policy toward Iran is that no one, including the Bush administration, wants to use military force. Yet neither Tehran nor our European allies have sufficient incentive to stop Iran’s nuclear program peacefully without a reasonable belief [...]
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Below is an excerpt from an interview with the philosopher Alain Badiou, by Christoph Cox and Molly Whalen:
We live in a contradiction: a brutal state of affairs, profoundly inegalitarian–where all existence is evaluated in terms of money alone–is presented to us as ideal. To justify their conservatism, the partisans of the established order cannot really [...]
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A brief list of news for the day:
The G8 and other power centres. >> News at: http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=13&ItemID=12996
Police use water canons on G8 protestors. “The water cannon were used on demonstrators near the town of Bad Doberan where they entered the no-protest zone around the summit venue. Around 10,000 demonstrators entered the zone on Wednesday morning, [...]
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