Beware The Anti-Anti-War Left

Why Humanitarian Interventionism is a Dead End Jean Bricmont Louvain, Belgium. Ever since the 1990s, and especially since the Kosovo war in 1999, anyone who opposes armed interventions by Western powers and NATO has to confront what may be called an anti-anti-war left (including its far left segment). In Europe, and notably in France, this…

France’s “Left” Silences Anti-war Activist Jean Bricmont

The War on Freedom of Speech Belgian theoretical physicist Jean Bricmont Gearóid Ó Colmáin Every year the French communist Party ( PCF) organizes the Fête de l’Humanité in Paris, a left-wing festival where concerts are held and communist parties from all over the world erect stands to exchange books, pamphlets and ideas. Many authors, journalists…

Eritrea: US Intervention and Militarization of Africa

Glen Ford Speaks at the Eritrean Festival about US Intervention and Militarization of Africa Published on 8 Sep 2012 by Elias Amare Glen Ford, Executive Director of Black Agenda Report, gave a talk at the Eritrean Festival in Oakland, CA on 11 August 2012. The panel was on “US Intervention, Conflicts & Prospects for Peace…

Can Nations Survive World Imperialist Terrorism?

Will they fall like Libya, or can Syria & Iran Survive? Or, how to survive a world dominated by imperialist terror Sukant Chandan Whatever were the limits of the Soviet Union it is an accepted fact by any student or historian of the post Second World War period that if a small nation was oppressed…

The Case For A Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy

R2P Imperialist Doctrine Jean Bricmont Louvain-la-Neuve The events in Syria, after those in Libya last year, are accompanied by calls for a military intervention, in order to “protect civilians”, claiming that it is our right or our duty to do so. And, just as last year, some of the loudest voices in favor of intervention…

Post-Gadhafi Libya: Naked Neo-Imperialism

The Daylight Robbery of Libyan Resources Nile Bowie While the unconcealed hypocrisy that led to the emergence of a new Libya fades from the public consciousness, the governments of the West are beginning to reap the profits of their investments. Under a mandate to protect civilians, these allied forces armed radical factions of Islamist fighters…