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Recent & Selected Articles

This is a small sampling of articles related to international issues in the Connexions Online Library. For more articles, books, films, and other resources, check the Connexions Library Subject Index, especially under topics such as international relations, imperialism, human rights international, Iraq, militarism, refugees, U.S. imperialism, transnational corporations, and peace.

  1. Connexions Archive seeks a new home (November 18, 2009)
    The Connexions Archive, a Toronto-based library dedicated to preserving the history of grassroots movements for social change, needs a new home.
  2. Thirty years on, the holocaust in Cambodia and its aftermath is remembered (October 26, 2009)
    John Pilger recalls the stricken society he found in Cambodia in 1979 which he described in his epic dispatches and documentary, Year Zero: the Silent Death of Cambodia. He reminds us that the Pol Pot horror emerged from the bombing ordered by Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, and that Cambodia was again "punished" when its liberators came from the wrong side of the cold war and the Thatcher government send special forces to train the Khmer Rouge in exile.
  3. Fearsome Words? (October 14, 2009)
    We are so bemused by the lovely vision of peoples determining themselves, we cannot see that ethnic self-determination is, in the real world, a quest for racial sovereignty, not a bid to enter some international folk dancing festival.
  4. What Some US Reporters Don't Get About Brazil and the Honduras Crisis (September 23, 2009)
    Clueless desk editors like those at the New York Times titled these conflicts "Riots in Honduras." But you don't need to be able to understand Spanish to see and hear that, distinct from rioters, the young people of the neighborhood that came out and violated the military curfew to defend their neighborhood from this police invasion know and have memorized complicated political slogans and rhymes which they chanted in unison. "Riots" are disorganized explosions. This neighborhood, and others like it, however, have been forced by the realities of the coup to organize themselves to a greater extent than ever before.
  5. Crisis And Hope: Theirs And Ours (September 4, 2009)
    Overcoming the multiple crises means tearing down an enormous edifice of delusions about markets, free trade, and democracy that has been assiduously constructed over many years and overcoming the marginalization and atomization of the public so that they can become participants, not mere spectators of action.
  6. What's the Border Fence Good for? Subsidizing Mexican Scrap Metal Entrepreneurs (August 28, 2009)
    It was obvious from the very beginning that Bush’s push for a border fence was nothing more than a political show to boost Republicans' creds with their base.
  7. Looting Africa: Canadian Company Eyes Gold in Democratic Republic of Congo (August 20, 2009)
    A Canadian mining company is prepared to bring hundreds of millions of dollars in gold out of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one of Africa's most embattled and poorest countries. One expert says that to extract gold, the company will have to cut a deal with a violent African militia.
  8. Why The U.S. Government Hates Venezuela (August 4, 2009)
    Having lost in the realm of ideas, those supporting capitalism must compensate by other means.
  9. Confronting fears of Eurabia (July 20, 2009)
    Growing anti-immigrant and Islamophobic sentiments have been fueled by statistics that claim to show that countries such as Germany and France will have Muslim majority populations by the turn of the century.
  10. How the World Depression Hits Orissa (July 13, 2009)
    The recession in the West is having a profound impact on the deep rural interior of Orissa.
  11. Season of Travesties (July 9, 2009)
    Noam Chomsky criticizes the elections in Lebanon and Iran as being inherently flawed - unlike the "free and fair" election held in Palestine in 2006 for which the people were punished for voting the "wrong way". He tries to illustrate a general picture of the health of democracy and freedom in those areas which are of most concern to the US.
  12. Iran and Leftist Confusion (June 29, 2009)
    Why are some leftists siding with the Iranian rulers rather than the popular demonstrations against the regime?
  13. What the Left Should be Learning From Iran (June 19, 2009)
    There are those on the left who mirror neocon thought: They argue that since Washington is in opposition to it, Iran must therefore be considered a “good” government, worthy of solidarity. Others argue that if the Iranian state offers social programs and even if it only somewhat resists global capitalism then therefore its violent and authoritarian actions can somehow be justified, forgiven or denied.
  14. Grassroots Power and Non-Market Economies (May 1, 2009)
    People are organized across many sectors that have never chosen to step out into the popular movement before. For example, indigenous peoples in the last 10 years or so have made a determination that they could no longer organize just as indigenous but had to become part of the so-called anti-globalization movement.
  15. Support the Iranian people, oppose Tehran’s clerical fascism (February 9, 2009)
    Tragically, the leadership of the UK and US anti-war movements have been sleep-walking into making the same mistakes over Iran as they made over Iraq. They are silent about the regime’s despotism and oppression. Mirroring the neo con indifference to human rights abuses in Iran, they refuse to show solidarity with the Iranian peoples’ struggle for secularism, democracy, social justice, human rights and self-determination for national minorities. There is nothing remotely left-wing about this is sad and cruel betrayal. Put bluntly: it is collusion with tyranny.
  16. Abettors of war crimes will be held accountable (January 10, 2009)
    Taking action to bring perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity to justice.
  17. And Then They Came For Me (January 7, 2009)
    An editorial by Lasantha Wickrematunge shortly before he was murdered on January 8, 2009, and published three days after his death.
  18. Of Sowing and Harvests (January 4, 2009)
    Perhaps our word can manage to join forces with others in Mexico and the world and perhaps first it's heard as a murmur, then out loud, and then a scream that they hear in Gaza. We don’t know about you, but we Zapatistas from the EZLN, we know how important it is, in the middle of destruction and death, to hear some words of encouragement.
  19. Rosa Luxemburg's Shock Doctrine (May 10, 2008)
    Luxemburg’s discussion regarding capitalism and democracy speaks to the world we live in today. Imperial war, she wrote, shows capitalism in “all its hideous nakedness.” This bloody nakedness is not only essential to capitalist development, but depends on it. Indeed, it is the most cataclysmic and radical of all capitalist shocks.
  20. Broken Barricades: The Oaxaca Rebellion in Victory, Defeat, and Beyond (March 27, 2008)
    An analysis of the 2006 Oaxaca rebellion and its contradictions. Its diversity encompassed workers, indigenous groups, Stalinists, anarchists and others. Its weapons and tactics included general assemblies, strikes, barricades, mirrors and fireworks.
  21. The Most Wanted List, International Terrorism (February 26, 2008)
    Revealing the difference between America's use of the term "the world" and the conception which would actually include the entire globe, Chomsky demonstrates that if the "world's" voice were heeded, other terrorist concerns would likely top the agenda.
  22. Great Game II (2008)
    The US is playing the Great Game II from Estonia to Korea as a strategy to keep the Eurasian powers off balance and to preserve the ever-growing mass of nomad dollars from deflation and displacement.
  23. Why Israel? (August 19, 2007)
    A routine strategy of Israel’s defenders is to continually redirect attention to the human rights failings of countries hostile to Israel, or to catastrophes like Darfur that are used to argue the ongoing need for the sort of “humanitarian interventions” that provide cover for the advancement of U.S. interests. Yet the question of why Israel is being targeted and not some other country assumes, erroneously, that other countries are not being targeted. The reverse, in fact, is usually the case. Often, countries deemed acceptable for criticism by supporters of Israel are already subject to political and diplomatic sanctions by the U.S. and its tool, the UN Security Council – sometimes for acting in ways identical to Israel.
  24. Zimbabwean feminist speaks (June 1, 2007)
    If one looks at the experience of women in Zimbabwe and one looks at the role of the state in relation to women’s lives, the state has never had the interests of women at heart. Women are only considered citizens when the state has something to gain.
  25. What If Iran Had Invaded Mexico? (April 5, 2007)
    Noam Chomsky reverses roles and questions how America would respond if a threatening invader took over Canada or Mexico in a "liberation" attempt. Would America stand by quietly?
  26. On the US-Israeli Invasion of Lebanon (August 23, 2006)
    The supposed justifications for the invasion are a cynical fraud.
  27. Manifesto of the Third Camp against US Militarism and Islamic Terrorism (August 16, 2006)
    The human and genuine solution to the problem of nuclear weapons, to Islamic terrorism and its horrific crimes against the people of the world, and to the militaristic bullying of the US and Western governments lies in the hands of us people.
  28. The real aim of Israel's attacks on Lebanon (July 16, 2006)
    The real aim is to change the regime in Lebanon and to install a puppet government.
  29. Why an Economic Boycott of Israel is Justified (January 14, 2006)
    If singling out South Africa for an international economic boycott was defensible, it would seem equally defensible to single out Israel's occupation, which uniquely resembles the apartheid regime.
  30. It's Imperialism, Stupid (2005)
    Chomksy claims that when Bush proclaimed the presence of Weapons of Mass Destruction as the premise for invading Iraq, imperialism was, in fact, the genuine motivation.
  31. The Iraq Crisis in Context (March 12, 2003)
    A rogue state, heavily armed with weapons of mass destruction, openly contempuous of international law and the United Nations, plunges the world into crisis.
  32. Moral Truisms, Empirical Evidence, and Foreign Policy (2003)
    Noam Chomsky systematically discusses terrorism and "just war" in relationship to moral standards such as "what goes for others goes for us". He demonstrates that, according to US behavior in the past and this principle, other actors may be entitled to use terrorist strategy against the USA.
  33. America’s last taboo (November 1, 2002)
    The unspoken premise of the mainstream press is that no Palestinian or Arab position on Israeli police terror, settler-colonialism, or military occupation is worth hearing from.
  34. Israeli Violations of Human Rights (June 20, 2002)
    Speech by Professor Jeff Halper, Coordinator Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions. Halper focuses on the fact that "virtually all of Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands violates human rights conventions and especially the Fourth Geneva Convention that forbids an occupying power from making its presence a permanent one."
  35. Abandoning the Public Interest (October 7, 2000)
    The neo-liberal drive to cut red tape is costing lives. Exposing the hidden costs of deregulation and privatization.
  36. Reporting the Realities of Poverty (July 1, 1997)
    Review of Everybody Loves a Good Drought: Stories from India's Poorest Districts, by P. Sainath.
  37. Thinking About Self-Determination (1994)
    Does that familiar canon of the left, 'the right to self-determination', actually mean anything, or is it an empty slogan whose main utility is that it relieves us of the trouble of thinking critically?
  38. New World Order (April 1, 1991)
    Everyone is allowed to play the game, so long as it's according to the U.S. rules.
  39. The Exploitation Explosion (March 1, 1991)
    Female workers in developing countries are undervalued and underpaid.
  40. Ecology Watch (January 1, 1991)
    Poverty has been identified as a major cause of environmental degradation
  41. The Third World Debt: The Comforts of Newspaper Pie (January 1, 1991)
    Canadians are unaffected by the Third World, since most of it arrives in the form of newspaper headlines.
  42. Victims of the European revolutions (1991)
    European gypsy communities have historically been, and remain, the most marginalized social group.
  43. Looking for Democracy (December 1, 1989)
    Instead of sitting on the sidelines congratulating ourselves on how wonderfully free and democratic we are, we should be pressing for a radical democratization of our own society.
  44. Connexions Annual Overview: Development, International (October 1, 1989)
    the principle of `Thinking Globally, Acting Locally' can and must also be extended to acting locally on behalf of and in solidarity with those in other parts of this globe.
  45. Making Their Voices Heard (April 1, 1987)
    An account of international solidarity work in El Salvador.

Selected Websites and Organizations

This is a small sampling of organizations and websites concerned with international issues in the Connexions Directory. For more organizations and websites, check the Connexions Directory Subject Index, especially under topics such as international relations, imperialism, human rights international, Iraq, militarism, refugees, U.S. imperialism, transnational corporations, and peace.

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Selected Books and Book Reviews

This is a small sampling of books related to international issues in the Connexions Online Library. For more books and other resources, check the Connexions Library Subject Index, especially under topics such as international relations, imperialism, human rights international, Iraq, militarism, refugees, U.S. imperialism, transnational corporations, and peace.

  1. Asking The Earth
    The Spread of Unsustainable Development
    Author: Pereira, Winin ; Seabrook, Jeremy
    Periera and Seabrock, using examples from India, argue that Western colonialism destroyed sustainable development in the Third World.
  2. China in the Contemporary World Dynamic of Accumulation and Class Struggle
    Author: Goldner, Loren
    The Chinese ruling elite is riding the whirlwind precisely because its own necessary reforms are quite visibly setting in motion social processes that could completely overwhelm it, namely a working-class and peasant insurrection which would necessarily assume a truly socialist content.
  3. Democracy in a Neoliberal Order
    Doctrines and Reality
    Author: Chomsky, Noam
  4. Global Visions
    Beyond the News World Order
    Author: Brecher, Jeremy; Childs, John Brown; Cutler, Jill
    This book seeks to establish how our diverse globalizing world can be turned into a common home. The authors create a dialogue about the two types of globalization occurring in the world: globalization from above and globalization from below.
  5. Globalization from Below
    The power of solidarity
    Author: Brecher, Jeremy; Costello, Tim; Smith, Brendan
    When tens of thousands of protestors brought the World Trade Organization in Seattle to a halt in November 1999, it marked the "coming out party" for a new global movement. Globalization from Below: The Power of Solidaritydraws on the history of past movements and their own experience as activists to propose strategies for building this powerful coalition into a successful movement for global democratization.
  6. Hegemony or Survival
    America's Quest for Global Dominance
    Author: Chomsky, Noam
  7. Humanitarian Imperialism
    Using Human Rights to Sell War
    Author: Bricmont, Jean
    Since the end of the Cold War, the idea of human rights has been made into a justification for intervention by the world’s leading economic and military powers — above all, the United States — in countries that are vulnerable to their attacks.
  8. The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade
    Author: Ransom, David
    Ransom suggests that fair, environmentally-conscious trade is not only a viable alternative to unfair free trade, but that it is the way of the future.
  9. The No-Nonsense Guide to Globalization
    Author: Ellwood, Wayne
  10. The No-Nonsense Guide to International Development
    Author: Black, Maggie
  11. The No-Nonsense Guide to International Migration
    Author: Stalker, Peter
  12. The No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism
    Author: Barker, Jonathan
    An in-depth look at the nature of terrorism that discusses questioning terrorism, assessing it, the difference between state terrorism and group terrorism, morality and history, and war and politics.
  13. The No-Nonsense Guide to Tourism
    Author: Nowicka, Pamela
  14. The No-Nonsense Guide to World Poverty
    Author: Seabrook, Jeremy
  15. Relentless Persistance
    Nonviolent Action in Latin America
    Author: McManus, Philip and Schlabach, Gerald (ed.)
    There is in Latin America a tradition of "firmeza permanente," relentless persistence, which has enabled the people to preserve parts of their culture during five centuries of conquest and oppression.


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