Full Narration of Facts: Legal case for Iraq on US genocide
PRESS RELEASE For immediate distribution Date: 11 November 2013 FULL NARRATION OF FACTS US GENOCIDE IN IRAQ The following is the full “Narration of Facts”...
Globalization
The Arab Spring of democracy
The Tunisian uprising is nothing but the natural result of the failure of the globalisation model and the impasse affecting the entire world. Indeed, as soon as an economy opens up to foreign capital and one gives the local economy and services over to market forces, the state’s role is automatically undermined and remains only […]
Iraq: 19 years of intended destruction
PRESS RELEASE For immediate distribution Date: 14 February 2010 WHY JUDICIAL ACTION? IRAQ: 19 YEARS OF INTENDED DESTRUCTION Having supported and participated with others in reviving the efficacy of people’s tribunals as a moral response to imperial war, we turned to — and encourage others to move towards — legal and judicial action. Why? 1. […]
US genocide in Iraq
Does anyone believe there is another way to steal a country? — Eduardo Galeano 1. Summary — The United States has committed and sponsored the crime of genocide in Iraq.1 — Responsibility for genocide rests on specific intent and given or probable consequences of actions. The 2003 US invasion of Iraq was the culmination […]
Globalization as governance: An archaeology of contemporary political reason
The development of global governance is part of the evolution of human efforts to organize life on the planet, and that process will always be going on. Our work is no more than a transit stop on that journey. — The Commission for Global Governance The organization of life is the project, global in […]
The illusion of liberation
just imagine a complete and universal order embracing all humanity, in a word, a state of perfect civilian order. Take my word for it, it’s sheer entropy, rigor mortis, a landscape on the moon, a geometrical plague .. — Robert Musil In the third section of Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault described the measures to […]
Globalization and the end of the State?
Throughout the human sciences ‘globalization’ has become the explanatory concept of social change in the 1990s. In the study of political economy a rich combination of interconnected characteristics are conventionally identified as constituents of the larger dynamic: the ascendance of the ‘stateless corporation’; the emergence of the trillion dollar ‘24–hour, integrated global financial market–place’; the […]