Month: January 2016

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ilan Pappe | Electronic Intifada | 14 July 2006 Imagine a group of high ranking generals who simulated for years Third World War scenarios in which they can move huge armies around, employ the most sophisticated weapons in their disposal and enjoy the immunity of a computerized headquarters from which they can direct their

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Tamara Traubmann and Benjamin Joffe-Walt | The Guardian | 20 June 2006 Following a heart attack earlier this year, Paul Mackney, then general secretary of the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education (Natfhe), was lying in hospital last month flipping through emails on his Blackberry. A proposal calling on the lecturers’

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Alison Weir | Counterpunch | 18/19 March 2006 “The trend toward secrecy is the greatest threat to democracy.” – Associated Press CEO, in a speech about the importance of openness. “The official response is we decline to respond.” – Associated Press Director of Media Relations, replying to questions about AP. In the midst of

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt | London Review of Books Vol. 28 | 23 March 2006 For the past several decades, and especially since the Six-Day War in 1967, the centrepiece of US Middle Eastern policy has been its relationship with Israel. The combination of unwavering support for Israel and the related effort to

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Saree Makdisi | Los Angeles Times | March 10, 2006 RICHARD ROGERS, the noted British architect, was recently summoned to the offices of the Empire State Development Corp. to explain his connection to a group called Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine. Empire State is overseeing the redesign of New York’s $1.7-billion Javits

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) National Council of Arab Americans | 4 January 2005 In a widely used college textbook published by McGraw-Hill, an article titled “The Great War on Militant Islam” includes racist references to Arabs, Muslims and Palestinians. See an excerpt below. “Christianity and Judaism in particular – regard themselves, like Islam regards itself, as a final,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) David Price | Counterpunch | 13 January 2006 The FBI has a long, ignoble tradition of monitoring and harassing America’s top intellectuals. While people ranging from Albert Einstein, William Carlos Williams to Martin Luther King have been subjected to FBI surveillance, there remains an under-accounting of the ways in which this monitoring at times