(Preventing Palestine – A Political History From Camp David to Oslo. Seth Anziska. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2018.) In all my recent readings of history and current events, Preventing Palestine stands out as being […]
(Easternization: Asia’s Rise and America’s Decline, from Obama to Trump and Beyond. Gideon Rachman. Other Press, New York, 2016.) The premise of Easternization concerning Asia’s rise is a topic of prime importance for those following […]
There is a memorable passage from satirist Evelyn Waugh’s perhaps purposively unremembered political masterpiece “Black Mischief” (1932), in which Basil Seal, the chief Anglo architect of a modernization program in the fictional African island nation […]
(The End of the Myth – From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America. Greg Grandin. Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt & Co., New York, 2019) Much of current political news swirls […]
(Shadow Wars: The Secret Struggle for the Middle East. Christopher Davidson. Oneworld Publishing, U.K., 2016.) Written in response to the ‘Arab Spring’ initiated in Tunisia in 2011, Shadow Wars – The Secret Struggle for the […]
(The Plot to Attack Iran – How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Iran. Dan Kovalik. Skyhorse Publishing, New York, 2018.) Western mainstream media (MSM) typically present Iran as a degenerate […]
(Palestine – A Four Thousand Year History. Nur Masalha. Zec Books, London, 2018.) The Israeli narrative of a nation/state returning to its homeland after a fifteen hundred year exile required deft work by the David […]
(The Russians are Coming, Again – The First Cold War as Tragedy, the Second as Farce. Jeremy Kuzmarov and John Marciano. Monthly Review Press, New York, 2018.) The mainstream media continues to harvest all the […]
(The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World. Robert Kagan. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2018.) It is always an interesting ride to read a Robert Kagan book as it is a journey into […]
(War on Peace – The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Power. Ronan Farrow. W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., New York, 2018.) Members of the political corps of the U.S. writing about […]
(How the US Creates “Sh*thole” Countries. Cynthia McKinney Ed. Clarity Press, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia, 2018.) Whether you consider yourself already well educated on the U.S. empire or are looking for a starting place, “How the […]
(Bibi – The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu. Anshell Pfeffer. Signal/McClelland & Stewart, Penguin Random House, Toronto, 2018.) This morning I read online the current problems Benjamin Netanyahu is having within the Knesset […]
(Twilight of the American Century. Andrew J. Bacevich. University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, Indiana, 2018.) The histories of empires and the histories of war are generally written by the winner to put themselves […]
(The Biggest Prison on Earth – A History of the Occupied Territories. Ilan Pappe. Oneworld Publications, London, 2018) The history of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine is continued with Ilan Pappe’s recent work, The Biggest […]
(Ramzy Baroud. The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story. London: Pluto Press, 2018. Order it now) The Last Earth is a masterful weaving of personal stories into the full tapestry of a people, of individuals, torn from […]
Dear Friends & Readers, The success of my recently-published book: THE LAST EARTH: A PALESTINIAN STORY is heart-warming in many ways. Aside from the feeling of relief that years of research, writing and rewriting are […]
Reviewed by Jeremy Salt (Colin Andersen, Balfour in the Dock. J.M.N. Jeffries and the Case for the Prosecution. Bloxham, Oxon: Skyscraper Publications, 2017) J.M.N (Joseph) Jeffries was an outstanding British journalist whose book Palestine: The Reality […]
Reviewed by Wasan Abu Baker Dr. Rola Ghanem is a Palestinian contemporary novelist, from the city of Tulkarem. Her short story, Feelings Out of the Law, is a beautiful piece that creatively covers a significance […]
By Ron Jacobs Every once in a while a book is published wherein the text transcends the subject matter, lifting the stories between the covers into a place that is both revelatory and sublime; a […]
(The Other Side of the Wall – An Eyewitness Account of the Occupation of Palestine. Richard Hardigan.Cune Press, Seattle. 2018.) Four years ago, Richard Hardigan spent the summer months in Palestine as an observer for […]
Palestinian author, editor and journalist, Dr. Ramzy Baroud had embarked on a global book tour to promote his latest volume, ‘The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story.’ The first leg of the tour will take him […]
Reviewed by Wasan Abu-Baker (The Green Line. A novel. By Rola Ghanem) Dr. Rola Ghanem is a Palestinian novelist from the city of Tulkarem. She tells the story of her father through this novel which […]
Reviewed by Yasmin Ibrahim (Gaza: An Inquest into its Martyrdom. Norman Finkelstein. January 2018.) Norman Finkelstein’s opening dedication of his new magnus opus encapsulates his motive: ‘To Gaza, The Truth.’ Finkelstein is a serious academic […]
(The Balfour Declaration – Empire, the Mandate and Resistance in Palestine. Bernard Regan. Verso, London/NY, 2017.) With the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, a number of books have been published covering the topic in […]
By Vacy Vlazna “A Nazi is a Nazi he be a Jew or otherwise, and it is a false sentiment of the Jewish people to condemn Nazism and condone Jewish fascism.” Hashomer Hatzair, 13th March, […]
A new book unveiled this month sheds light on Israel’s covert operations of state-sponsored killings. The over 600-page book, “Rise and Kill First: The Inside Story and Secret Operations of Israel’s Assassination,” is based on […]
Reviewed by Vacy Vlazna (Ramzy Baroud. The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story. London: Pluto Press, 2018. Pre-order now) Dr. Ramzy Baroud’s new book, The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story is described simplistically as ‘non-fictional narrative […]
Reviewed by Vacy Vlazna (Inside the Battle of Algiers: Memoir of a Woman Freedom Fighter, Zohra Drif, Just World Books, 2017) “Colonialism creates the patriotism of the colonized. Kept at the level of a beast […]
Reviewed by Jim Miles (The Canada-Israel Nexus. Eric Walberg. Clarity Press, Atlanta, Georgia. 2017.) For a complex and critical examination of the relationship between Canada, Israel, Judaism, and Zionism, Eric Walberg’s new work The Canada-Israel […]
Reviewed by Jim Miles (A Half Century of Occupation – Israel, Palestine, and the World’s Most Intractable Conflict. Gershon Shafir. University of California Press, Oakland, 2017.) It is with trepidation that I read books published […]
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