Review Essay
As we observe the fortieth anniversary of the Six-Day War of June 1967, there are few things to celebrate. One notable exception is the full exposure of the actual events of the Israeli aggression which hitherto have been carefully guarded secrets. In particular the frenzied attempts by the Israelis to sink the USS Liberty and…
Read Full Article...Chalmers Johnson ‘s War on the ‘War on Terror’ The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2004) by Chalmers Johnson Blowback: The Causes and Consequences of American Empire (New York: Owl Books, 2nd ed. 2004) by Chalmers Johnso Like several of Noam Chomsky’s recent books, Chalmers…
Read Full Article...Fooled Again? Hell, we were more than fooled, we were screwed. It is hard for me to review this book from the dispassionate stance of my day job as a social scientist. Perhaps such “objectivity” is not possible. Rather, I read the book as a vindication for a progressive activist who felt dumfounded on election…
Read Full Article...Fear’s Empire is one of several scholarly responses to the portentous historical moment of 9/11 and its political aftermath. In this insightful book the distinguished academic and political commentator Benjamin Barber presents an impassive analysis of the unapologetically truculent turn in American national security policy. Besides seeking to show why the current objectives of the…
Read Full Article...For thirty years Daniel C. Dennett has been creating a body of work that explores the relation of mind and brain. Each part of his theory has provoked conversation and controversy along the way. His general method of inquiry requires adopting “the intentional stance”; this orientation is one of those debatable objects in his tool…
Read Full Article...De te fabula narratur? Ferguson’s stated purpose is “to write the history of globalization as it was promoted by Great Britain and her colonies,” not to write yet another history of the British Empire (p. xxvi). Thus does he begin to intimate here and in related introductory passages that that Empire was but a factor,…
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2025: Vol. 24, No. 1-2
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2025: Vol. 24, No. 1-2
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