Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
Just days after an alleged chemical attack killed and injured scores of civilians in Douma, Syria, the US, UK and France agreed in principle that international action is needed to hold the perpetrators to account. But they didn’t make clear how they would act while staying within the law. (…)
Every time Pakistan test-launches a Shaheen or India an Agni, subcontinental testosterone levels shoot sky high. The fiery plumes carry aloft a nuclear-capable missile that can lay a city to waste. Iranians, though not nuclear, have their Ashouras, Emads and Shahabs. As for the North Koreans, (…)
While I read conservative literature, I’m a creature of the left and I tend to believe that, if nudged in the right direction, enough of the American left can come together to unify the country around a cohesive strategy to weaken Islamic extremism. But there is much work to be done.
After (…)
What happened in Manchester feels horribly new because it targeted young girls in one of the places where young girls can be themselves to the fullest.
This morning, while the radio news talked of nothing but Manchester, my 10-year-old daughter asked me if it was still safe to go and see (…)
A Save the Children study says Syria’s mental health crisis has reached a tipping point, and that severe distress among children could cause life-long damage.
Children in Syria are suffering from “toxic stress”, a severe form of psychological trauma that can cause life-long damage, according (…)
An innovative study of aerial bombardment brings history, state power, civilians and human rights into a single frame.
The assault on Aleppo by Bashar al-Assad’s forces continues, with appalling consequences. It may even now be reaching a climax, aided by the Russian air attacks that are (…)
As the distinction between organised Isis terror and lone wolf attacks fades, we face increasing difficulties in predicting and preventing similar atrocities.
After attacks such as Nice, we demand answers . A requirement to understand is necessary both to protect ourselves in the future and (…)
What we witnessed in Nice was harrowing, and the response only adds to the tragedy.
Nice erupted into chaos Thursday evening after a lorry driven through Bastille Day crowds killed and wounded hundreds of onlookers. Visiting family and friends in Nice for the week, I had ventured out with (…)
How do we even talk about the horrific killings in Orlando, which left at least 50 LGBTQ revelers dead and more than 50 more injured in the middle of pride month? First we mourn. Then we rage. Then we hug our loved ones, especially our LGBTQ friends, comrades, and family members.
Then we look (…)
Frank Barat reflects on today’s attacks on his city, and argues that only more understanding can defeat terrorism and its root causes.
The second day of Spring in my hometown, Brussels, started like any other day. I took the kids to school and nursery this morning, then went to work. Or, (…)
In light of the Chilcot report released Wednesday, teleSUR re-publishes an interview with Arun Kundnani, one of the foremost critics of the war on terror.
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Daniel Bey – Maybe you could spend a bit of time explaining the ideological, the political and the historical roots of (…)
We must insist on the political nature of tragedy because politics offers the only way out of violence and injustice.
I am writing this the morning after a series of violent attacks in Paris that left over 120 people dead, and still it feels callous to even be writing about it. As much of the (…)
Julien Salingue lives in Paris and is a leading member of the New Anti-capitalist Party in France. He is a long-time Palestine solidarity activist and the author of La Palestine d’Oslo. He wrote the following comments after coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris on November 13 that left at least (…)
The years after September 11 are a powerful reminder that an “all-out war” on terror only creates more terrorism.
France is in mourning and in shock. We still don’t know how many people were killed and injured. In fact, there’s a lot we still don’t know—including who was responsible. The ISIS (…)
WRITING ON A century of violence since the Great War, as World War I was once called, could easily turn into a gallery of horrors or an awful, monotonous succession of wars and genocide, from the battle of Verdun to Baghdad, from the Armenian to the Rwanda genocide, passing through Auschwitz and (…)
War is becoming faceless. Warfare in general is becoming increasingly automated. There is a race to develop weapons that can be used without human intervention. Killer drones and robots are such weapons.
In the new war weaponry, there are already robots being deployed to battlefields. (…)
Robert Neer’s Napalm: An American Biography; Juliette Volcler’s Extremely Loud: Sound as a Weapon
Modern warfare changed on a Harvard soccer field in the summer of 1942. On July 4 of that year, Louis Fieser, head of the National Defense Research Committee’s “Anonymous Research Project No. 4,” (…)
Comment on “Chickens Roost in Woolwich”, by Margaret Kimberley (about recent killings in the UK) .
Margaret Kimberley draws our attention to war crimes committed by states: this is nothing new, as human rights organizations have been doing exactly this for decades and so did the Left whose (…)
A contribution for the Operational Law Seminar sponsored by Friedrich Ebert Foundation Manila.
An Overview
The majority of armed conflicts today occurs within the states and involves one or more non-state armed groups (NSAGs).
In 2005 Human Security Reports, only 2 inter-state conflicts (…)
Border Walls: Security and the War on Terror in the United States, India, and Israel. By Reece Jones. London: Zed Books, 2012, 224 pages, $29.95 paper.
BRAZIL, INDIA, ISRAEL, Saudi Arabia, the United States and several other nation-states are constructing or have constructed barriers near (…)
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