THE WAR IN Iraq is not just about oil as is commonly believed and shouted angrily from placards all over the world. It is our continuing failure to take ideas and ideology seriously which leads us to this economic reductionistic and deterministic...
THE DISGUST we feel over the American-led attack against Iraq stems from the harm it does to our idea of international humanity and the notion of an international community of nations. The attack goes against everything we have ever been taught...
"CIVILISATION belongs to those who have it" is a remark from Chancellor William's authoritative study The Destruction of Black Civilization. The pathos and appropriateness of that remark came to mind in contemplating the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
"OUR GOVERNMENT has kept us in a perpetual state of fear kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervour with the cry of grave national emergency. Always, there has been some terrible evil at home, or some monstrous foreign power...
