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Posts Tagged ‘Militarism’

Joyce Chedia – On Obama's speech in Cairo

By Guest Post • Jun 13th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Features, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

On June 4 U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama gave a much-heralded speech addressed to the Muslim world in Cairo, Egypt. The commentary below is based on a comment Chediac, a Lebanese-American, made at a June 5 Workers World Forum in New York City.

Obama made a speech. It was called “bold” and “tough on Israel” because [...]

Gaza, Greece and the Meaning of Solidarity

By Guest Post • Jan 22nd, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Grassroots Activism, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, War, Zionism

The US is dead center of the system of genocide and global repression. The physical apparatus is here in every major city and across the country in small towns: munitions factories, military bases, recruiting centers. Virtually every major university has its research institutions to develop instruments of mass murder, and its theoretical institutes to develop strategies of repressive power.

But this extensiveness is also its weakness. The main strategy of security is depoliticization: there is simply no way to defend so many nodes of violence from a movement that is serious about intefering with them.