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August 6, 2009
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The Myth of Medicare for All
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Playing From Strength in the Middle East
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Privatizing the Airwaves
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Inside G.I. Resistance
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Did British Bomb Attacks in Iran Provoke Hostage Crisis?
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Israel's Campaign to Silence Human Rights Groups
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Gitmo as Hotel California
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A Jeremiad
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Alvaro Huerta
Hold That Dustbin! So Much for the "End of Racism"
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Pentagon to Ban Facebook and Twitter?
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Millions of Americans Pushed Into No-Law System by Colluding Banks
Anthony DiMaggio
Media Backlash:
Obama and the Settlements
Udi Aloni
And Who Shall I Say is Calling? A Plea to Leonard Cohen
Mike Roselle
See the Mountains of WestVirginia ... Before They're Blown Up!
Dr. Susan Block
Beat It!
Sex, Death and Michael Jackson
Roy Bourgeois / Margaret Knapke
School of Coups
Joe Bageant
A Yard Sale in Chernobyl
Dina Jadallah
Hiding the State
Dave Lindorff
Of Blue Dogs and Jellyfish
Martha Rosenberg
Grand Closings in Evanston: How the Recession is Hitting Illinois
Website of the Day
Why We Can't "Afford" Health Care
July 31 - August 2, 2009
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The Biden and Clinton Mutinies
Gabriel Kolko
Searching For Enemies
John Prados
The Intelligence Oversight Mess
Joe Bageant
The Bastards Never Die
Tim Wise
Rationalizing Racial Oppression
Carl Ginsburg
Frist First: Follow the Money (and Find the Plump Heart of "Health Care")
Michael Fox
The Honduran Coup as Overture
John Lindsay-Poland
Revamping Plan Colombia
Michael Winship
Pay-to-Play: Washington's Sport of Kings
Rev. William Alberts
White Men Can Jump ... to Conclusions
Andy Worthington
Judge Orders Release of Tortured Gitmo Prisoner
Steve Breyman
Counting the Unemployed
Cyrus Bina
Racism, Class and Profiling
Missy Beattie
Promises Ignored
Ron Jacobs
Into the Vapid:
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Willie L. Pelote, Sr.
Party of Concessions:
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Lucia Alvarez
Fall of the House of Kirchner?
Return of the Right in Argentina
Dave Lindorff
David Brooks' White Guy Nightmare
Lawrence R. Velvel
Madoff: What Should be Done Now?
Omar Barghouti /
Sid Shniad
United for Freedom and Universal Justice
James L. Secor
The Name of the Game is Wipe-Out
Belén Fernández
Zelaya in Nicaragua: Has Another Constitution Been Violated?
Jeffrey St. Clair
Frank Lloyd Wright in Hollywood: the Ennis House as Imperial Ruin
David Yearsley
Beauty in Dark Places: Berlin's Olympic Stadium
Brian J. Foley
Pre-Eating: a Threat to Restaurants Everywhere
Alan Cabal
Onward, Into the Fog: Thomas Pynchon's
"Inherent Vice"
Kim Nicolini
The Way War Feels
Lorenzo Wolff
The Way It Felt the First Time: the Jump Rope Magic of the Shangri-Las
Poets' Basement
Four Poems From the Chinese
Website of the Weekend
Obama's Ex-Doc Knocks ObamaCare
July 30, 2009
Patrick Cockburn
Victims of a Covert Tit-for-Tat War
Gareth Porter
Afghanistan's US-Backed Child-Raping Police
Saul Landau
Summer of Denial
Greg Grandin
Honduran Coup Over?
Diane Farsetta
Pentagon Pundits Get a Pass
Stephen Soldz
The King Case, the APA and the Missing Ethics Investigation
Alan Farago
Learning How to Survive in a Depression From "Weeds"
David Macaray
Cops and Labor Unions
Mike Howells /
Jay Arena
Volunteerism Will Not Rebuild the Gulf Coast
Christopher Brauchli
Oatmeal Envy
Website of the Day
Changing the SOFA
July 29, 2009
Carl Ginsburg
Our Crisis, Their Gain
Clifton Ross
From Tegucigalpa to El Paraiso: a Voyage From Curfew to State of Siege
Paul Craig Roberts
How Fake is the "Recovery"?
Franklin C. Spinney
Winning Hearts and Minds, Pentagon Style
James Bovard Lackawanna Six: Bogus Charges and Martial Law
Anthony DiMaggio
Health Care, the Media and Public Opinion
Bouthaina Shaaban
How Will Arabs Wake Up?
Greg Moses
A Catch and Trade Policy for Labor Costs
Wajahat Ali
No Racism in Obama's Post-Race America?
Gary Leupp
Beer Will Not Solve This
Ayesha Ijaz Khan
Musharraf, Imran Khan and Overseas Pakistanis
Website of the Day
Why Single-Payer Gets No Respect
July 28, 2009
Jean Bricmont
Bombing for a Juster World?
Uri Avnery
Obama, Netanyahu and the Settlements
Dean Baker
Right to Rent: a Remedy for the Foreclosure Crisis
Heather Gray
Stupid Cop Tricks: Driving Too Close to a White Female and Other Episodes in Racist Policing
Jonathan Cook
Can an "Arab Soul" Yearn for Israel's Anthem?
Winslow T. Wheeler
Beyond the F-22: the Future of Pentagon Reform
Belén Fernández
Thomas Friedman Does Afghanistan
Carl Finamore
The Hotel Workers' Kickass Local 2
Eli Jelly-Schapiro
Striking the World Cup
Harvey Wasserman
We All Stand Before Peltier's Parole Board
Website of the Day
Behind the Wheel
July 27, 2009
Ishmael Reed
Gates: Post-Race Scholar Yells Racism
Patrick Cockburn
Elections Shake Kurdistan
Roger Burbach
Hillary and Obama Nix Change in Honduras
Steve Breyman
Bomber Joe and Russia:
Why is Biden Channeling Cheney?
Ramzy Kysia
Gaza: On the Right of Resistance
Stephen Soldz
Will the American Psychological Association Renounce the Nuremberg Defense?
Raymond J. Lawrence
Sexual Hocus Pocus in the Episcopal Church
Greg Moses
The Color Line is Black
Binoy Kampmark
Swine Flu Panic
Kim Ives
Lavalas and Haiti's Student Union Unite
Website of the Day
Meet the Paid Assassins of Health Care
July 24-26, 2009
Alexander Cockburn
"A Damned Murder, Inc."
Clifton Ross
Surreal Honduras
Patrick Cockburn
Party of "Change" Challenges Old Guard in Kurdistan
William Polk
Report Card on Obama From a New Frontiersman
David Sterritt
Screening the Politics Out of the Iraq War
Ray McGovern
Hooded in Bush's Hood
David Lindorff
Cops Gone Wild
Hannah Mermelstein
"The War is With the Arabs"
Carl Ginsburg
The Actually Existing Health Care System
Helen Redmond
The Selling of Single-Payer Features
John Ross
The Song of the Guerrilla
Bill Simpich
Fair Play for Cuba and the Cuban Revolution
Mark Weisbrot
Learning From China on How to Beat the Recession
Lee Sustar
U.S. Labor in Crisis
David Macaray
Union Workers Forced to Accept Massive Cuts
Felipe Matsunaga
Obama's Slow (and Familiar) Dance With Cuba
Sara Mann
Why Health Care Will Kill My TV
Martha Rosenberg
Which is Worse? Germs in Our Food or the Antibiotics That Kill Them?
Missy Beattie
Cha-ching Culture
David Ker Thomson
Empty Nest: a Natural History of Now
Ron Jacobs
United4Iran, a Footnote
Stephen Martin
The Crying of Lots 1 Thru 50
David Yearsley
Psst, I Show You a Feelthy Gluck
Gilad Atzmon
Bruno: a Glimpse Into Zionism?
Kim Nicolini
Guilty Laughter in the Dark: Seeing Brüno Twice
Poets' Basement
Kakak and McLellan
Website of the Weekend
Dead Prez: Summertime
July 23, 2009
Jeffrey St. Clair
The Masters of Perfidy: AIG and the System
Saul Landau /
Nelson Valdés
Hypocrisy and the Honduran Coup: Term Limits Only Apply When Governments Help People
Jonathan Cook
The Reality of Israel's "Open" Jerusalem
Nadia Hijab
Israeli Warships in the Red Sea
Dave Lindorff
Living in a Police State: the Gates Incident
Laura Carlsen
21st Century Coups d'Etat
Steve Breyman
Bankers Beware?
Ellen Brown
How California Could Turn Its IOUs Into Dollars
Norman Solomon
Spinning Health Care
Jorge Mariscal
Youth Activists Demand Military-Free Schools
Website of the Day
Copy-Editing Sarah Palin
July 22, 2009
Bernard Chazelle
How to Argue Against Torture
Nikolas Kozloff
The Coup and the U.S. Airbase in Honduras
Carl Ginsburg
The Recovery, Phase Two
Clifton Ross
Back to the Future? Return to El Salvador
Anthony DiMaggio
Health Care, Media and the Case for Socialized Medicine
Michael Donnelly
The Whoppers Behind WOPR
Nadia Hijab
Memoirs of a Lost Arab World
Dedrick Muhammad
Structural Inequality: News Not Fit to Print?
Charles Thomson
Cronyism at the Tate
Alan Farago
Ted Williams and the Florida Keys
Website of the Day
Himmelstein: Howard Dean is a Liar
July 21, 2009
Sasan Fayazmanesh
The Iranian Election and Its Aftermath
Uri Avnery
Breaking the Silence on Israeli War Crimes
Dean Baker
Séance on Wall Street
Jonathan Cook
Team Twitter: Israel's Internet War
Dave Lindorff
Saving Private Bergdahl
Andy Worthington
Interrogating the Uighurs
David Macaray
Heat, Dust and OSHA
Carl Finamore
The Deferential Party
Harvey Wasserman
Cronkite and Three Mile Island
Walter Brasch
The Marie Antoinettes of Health Care
Website of the Day
Linebaugh: Magna Carta and the Commons
July 20, 2009
Pam Martens
Judicial Apartheid
Nikolas Kozloff
Honduras and the Big Stick: Obama's Bullish Behavoir in Latin America
Paul Craig Roberts
Threatening Iran
Deepak Tripathi
Obama's Policy on China and Iran
Ira Glunts
Netanyahu's Time Bomb: Building in the Vineyard of the Mufti
P. Sainath
Put Your Money Down, Boys
Binoy Kampmark
The Moon Landing and the Cold War
Stephen Fleischman
The First Anchorman
Norman Solomon
Cronkite and Vietnam: Beyond the Hype
Andy Worthington
Predictable Chaos as Gitmo Trials Resume
Ron Jacobs
Out of the Haze, Into the Darkness:
Recalling 1979
Website of the Day
Why Publishing Can't be Saved (as it is)
July 17-19, 2009
Alexander Cockburn
"Watch What We Do, Not What We Say"
Nikolas Kozloff
Chiquita in Latin America: From Arbenz to Zelaya
Joanne Mariner
CIA Apples: Bad at the Top of the Tree
Joe Bageant
America's White Underclass
Jonathan Cook
Israeli Road Signs: Wiping Arabic Names Off the Map
Saul Landau
Why So Much Sympathy for Madoff's Dupes and So Little for the Poor?
John Ross
Jurassic Fallout in Mexico
Sue Sturgis
Senator Sessions, Race and Impartiality
Anita Sinha /
Daniel Farbman
The Ricci Case and the Myth of Special Treatment
Peter Morici
Obama's Donut Economics
Pervez Hoodbhoy
Whither Pakistan? A Five-Year Forecast
Ramzy Baroud
Gaza and the Language of Power
Greg Moses
The Real Demand Crisis
Kia Mistilis
The Niger Delta Crisis
Missy Beattie
The Placebo President
David Ker Thomson
How Not to See: Things to Tell Your Eyeballs
James G. Abourezk
Evil Spirits: the Booze Strip in Indian Country
Paul Richards
Why Does Jon Tester Want to Log Wild Montana?
Dave Lindorff
Dark Days for Working People (With Three Small Rays of Light)
Marc Levy
Just Like Hanoi Jane
Matt Siegfried
The Good War Goes Hot
Stephen Martin
Panopticon Blues
Ben Sonnenberg
Sembène's Faat Kiné
David Macaray
Casablanca: When Melodrama Trumped History
Charles R. Larson
A Pakistani, Victorian Novel Celebrating Women
David Yearsley
That's Women for You: Abbas Kiarostami's Così
Lorenzo Wolff
Death Rattle and Roll: the Sound From England's Gutters
Poets' Basement
Payne, Anderson and Williams
Website of the Weekend
Hitler Learns of Sarah Palin's Resignation
July 16, 2009
Paul Craig Roberts
What Economy?
Afshin Rattansi Iranian Planes and the Hidden Toll of Economic Sanctions
Gregory V. Button
The Search for Environmental Justice in Perry County, Alabama
Evan Knappenberger
Profile of a Deserter
Michelle Bollinger
Why is Leonard Peltier Still in Prison?
Russell Mokhiber
White House to ABC News:
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Belén Fernández
Iranian Penetration, Oh My!
Alice Walker
What is Torture Like? A Letter to Obama
Nicholas Dearden
Paying the Climate Debt: the G-8's Troubling Model
Albert Osueke
Sotomayor and the Identity Mountain
Website of the Day
Sotomayor for the Prosecution
July 15, 2009
Manuel Garcia, Jr.
The Assassination Bureau
Vijay Prashad
A Political Recession
Dean Baker
Stimulus Arithmetic
Ray McGovern
Cheney Sweating Bullets
Jonathan Cook
Jenin's Model of "Economic Peace"
David Rosen
Shouts From the Gallery: the Sotomayor Hearings and the Culture Wars
Eric Walberg
Uighurs vs. Afghans: a Study in Contrast
Greg Moses
Three Dimensions of a Complete Stimulus Plan
Sousan Hammad
Decolonizing Israel
Binoy Kampmark
The Trial of Charles Taylor
Tracy McLellan
The Story of My Arrest
Website of the Day
11 Days in Saudi Gitmo
July 14, 2009
Eamonn McCann
The Emperors of Bombast: Bono, U2 and the Crisis of World Capitalism
Joanne Mariner
Obama's New Euphemism
Franklin Spinney
The Taliban Rope-a-Dope
Steve Heilig
Walking Mount Tam: an Interview with Gary Snyder
Ali Abunimah
Hamas' Choice
Dave Lindorff
The End of "Nice" Health Care Reform
Nikolas Kozloff
The Politics of Destabilization: McCain and Honduras
Ellen Brown
From Golden State to Subprime State
Alice Slater
How US Missile Defense Plans Sabotaged Nuclear Disarmament Talks With Russia
Ron Jacobs
Protest U.S. Aggression
Joe Allen
The Fight to Save James Hickman in Jim Crow-Style Chicago
Website of the Day
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July 13, 2009
Uri Avnery
The Essence of the Regime
Mike Whitney
The Deflating Economy
P. Sainath
How the World Depression Hits Orissa
Gareth Porter
A US / Iraq Conflict on Iran
Paul Moore
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Tim Wise
Off the Deep End: Private Clubs, Public Prejudice
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David Macaray
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July 10-12, 2009
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José Pertierra
The Cuban Five: a Cold War Case in a Post-Cold War World
John Ross
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Conn Hallinan
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Nikolas Kozloff
C Street Band: Sex Scandals, Moral Hypocrisy and the Far Right Agenda in Latin America
Clifton Ross /
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Gilad Atzmon
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Jim Goodman
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Christopher Bickerton
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Wendell Potter
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Dave Lindorff
CIA Lies: Why Isn't Congress in Open Revolt?
David Ker Thomson
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Anthony DiMaggio
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Raymond Lawrence
Michael Jackson as Sexual Pervert: the Calumnies of Peter King
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Stephanie Westbrook
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Kim Nicolini
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August 6, 2009
350,000 Immigrants Classed as "Without Religion"
Rabbis Ban Marriage for Israeli "Untouchables"
By JONATHAN COOK
Tel Aviv .
Two immigrants from the former Soviet Union staged a very public wedding in the streets of central Tel Aviv this week to highlight the plight of hundreds of thousands of Jews barred from lawfully marrying in Israel.
Nico Tarosyan and Olga Samosvatov chose to tie the knot in a special ceremony on Tuesday -- watched by family, friends and curious passers-by -- after Orthodox rabbis had denied them the right to wed.
The rabbinate says that Mr Tarosyan cannot prove he is Jewish according to its strict standards and therefore should not marry Ms Samosvatov, who is considered a proper Jew.
Mr Tarosyan, aged 34, who moved to Israel from Moscow in 1995, called his treatment by the rabbis “humiliating”.
“In Russia we were hated because we were Jews and here in Israel we are discriminated against as Russians,” he said.
An underclass of Jews has emerged in Israel since the early 1990s, when more than one million immigrants began pouring into Israel following the collapse of the former Soviet Union. Many were entitled to emigrate to Israel under the Law of Return, which requires only that they have a single Jewish grandparent. But the authorities -- keen to bolster the number of Jews in Israel’s demographic battle with the Palestinians -- also allowed some to arrive with little documentation or faked papers.
This set the new immigrants on a collision course with Israel’s Orthodox rabbis, who regard themselves as guarding the Jewish people’s ethnic and religious purity, said Ofer Kornfeld, the chairman of Havaya, an organisation that officiates at unrecognised weddings like the one conducted in Tel Aviv this week.
“Civil marriages are not possible in Israel,” he said. “So the rabbis get to decide who can marry and who cannot.”
Israel has passed control of all matters relating to personal status -- births, marriages and divorces, and deaths -- to rabbis belonging to the strictest stream of Judaism, Orthodoxy.
Havaya, said Mr Kornfeld, offered unrecognised, secular and non-Orthodox Jews the chance to marry in a ceremony that retained Jewish rituals while tailor-making the event to their own convictions.
Official figures show that as many as 350,000 Jews are classified by the rabbinate as having “no religion”, and are therefore unable to marry in Israel. Their only option is to wed abroad -- the marriage is then recognised on their return.
These immigrants face major hurdles in seeking to prove their Jewishness to the rabbis’ satisfaction. They must produce evidence that they have a Jewish mother or grandmother in a procedure that can be upsetting to those affected, said Mr Kornfeld.
“Many don’t even try because they know it’s a difficult and humiliating process that can take months or even years to complete and there is no guarantee of success.”
For a man, the rabbis demand that he prove he is circumcised and produce a birth certificate stating that his mother was a Jew, a proof many immigrants from the former Soviet Union have difficulty providing.
“It may help if you can prove that your mother spoke Yiddish or, if she is dead, supply a photo of her gravestone with a Magen [Star of] David,” said Mr Kornfeld.
Mr Tarosyan, a computer engineer, said that, although he failed to impress the rabbis, both his parents were considered Jews in Russia. In Moscow, he said, neighbours had daubed anti-Semitic graffiti on the family’s door.
Ms Samosvatov, 29, who immigrated from Ukraine with her mother when she was 15, said although the couple considered this week’s wedding in Tel Aviv to be the true ceremony, they were saving to travel to Prague later in the year to conduct a recognised wedding.
Mr Kornfeld said they would be following in the path of a growing number of Israelis. “About 6,000 couples wed abroad each year, often in eastern Europe. That’s about a fifth of all marriages.”
It is not only Jews classified as without a religion who are forced to leave the country, he said. Many recognised but secular Jews, who do not wish to submit to an Orthodox ceremony, tie the knot abroad, as do those marrying across religious divisions.
Israel’s Muslim, Christian and Druze citizens -- comprising nearly a fifth of the population -- have their own separate religious authorities who are given exclusive oversight of weddings.
Demands to reform the law have been growing for more than a decade, but every parliamentary bill on civil marriage has been defeated, usually following stiff resistance from the religious parties.
However, a new bill, approved by a ministerial committee last month, seems more likely to become law. It allows for a limited form of civil marriage that applies only to couples where both lack a religious status. Mr Tarosyan and Ms Samosvatov would not qualify as the rabbis consider one of them a Jew.
The religious parties were forced to agree to the Civil Marriage Bill as a condition for entering the government of Benjamin Netanyahu in the spring. The compromise was needed because civil marriage was the key platform of another coalition partner, the far-right Yisreal Beiteinu party of Avigdor Lieberman, the foreign minister, who is now facing corruption charges. The party draws heavy support from the Russian-speaking population.
The liberal Haaretz newspaper welcomed the bill as a “first crack in the religious monopoly” on marriage, but other observers have doubts.
Avirama Golan, writing in the same paper, warned that the law would apply only to a tiny number of couples and would in practice entrench the power of the rabbis, who before approving a wedding would still force couples to submit to lengthy and humiliating investigations to ensure that neither was a Jew.
She added that such couples would be forced into a ghetto, giving “birth to their shunned children who will marry among themselves and be registered separately in the communal records”.
The rabbis’ agreement to the reform, analysts point out, was possible because the bill maintains barriers preventing assimilation between the majority designated as real Jews and those the rabbis consider “without religion”.
Mr Kornfeld said the rabbis’ grip on marriage has continued even though nearly 70 per cent of Israeli Jews defined themselves as secular. Even among the religious, some regard themselves as belonging to the more moderate Reform and Conservative streams of Judaism.
Conversion to Orthodoxy is tightly restricted by the rabbinate, with only a few hundred people approved each year. Those converting are forced to adopt a strictly observant lifestyle for themselves and their children.
A general lack of sympathy for the problems of recent Russian immigrants was reflected in a survey conducted by the Israel Democracy Institute this week. It found that half of all Israelis polled believed that only those born in Israel could be a “true Israeli”. Conversely, only 28 per cent of Russian-speaking immigrants in their 30s saw their future in Israel.
Jonathan Cook is a writer and journalist based in Nazareth, Israel. His latest books are “Israel and the Clash of Civilisations: Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East” (Pluto Press) and “Disappearing Palestine: Israel's Experiments in Human Despair” (Zed Books). His website is www.jkcook.net.
A version of this article originally appeared in The National (www.thenational.ae), published in Abu Dhabi.
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