According to the Bush administration, the war in Iraq ended in May 2003, when the president pronounced mission accomplished from the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln. Yet, fighting, resistance, and American casualties continue.
Stephen Pelletiere argues that it is Iraqi suspicion of the Americans' motives-the belief that the United States is out to tear the state apart-that is fueling the current rebellion. Resistance in Iraq has become a national struggle, tied to the mood of Iraqis generally, as well as to anger fed by experiences of the whole people over the course of the last quarter century. Americans see Iraq as a failed state because they lack knowledge of those experiences and of Iraqi history. That is what Pelletiere has set out to remedy. Chief among his analyses is a brief history of the Iraqi army, focussing on the period of the 1980s and the Iran-Iraq War.
The war transformed the army, a change which largely escaped the notice of the United States. Pelletiere also discusses American intelligence about Iraq on the eve of the war, characterizing it as delusory and showing that, even after the invasion, intelligence did not improve. This has led to the deterioration of relations with the Iraqis and precipitated the current revolt. Finally, he discusses the clash between the so-called expatriates and native Iraqis and the part the Islamic Republic is playing under the occupation. Perhaps more critically, Pelletiere relates American behavior in Iraq to the wider sphere of U.S. Interests in the Persian Gulf specifically and the Middle East overall. In doing so, he positions the war as part of a larger geo-political struggle that encompasses not just the Iraqis or the Iranians, but the Israelis and all of the other client states of the United States in the Middle East.
Written by the author of the legendary 1992 expose of Bush the elder, this book works from a New Deal point of view. Obama is exposed as a foundation operative and agent of Wall Street finance capital, controlled by Zbigniew Brzezinski, George Soros, and Goldman Sachs. Obama's mother was an official of the Ford Foundation, the World Bank, and US AID. By all indications, Obama was identified for future political use by Brzezinski at Columbia in 1981-1983, during Obama's secret lost years. Obama has worked for the Gamaliel Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, the Woods Fund, and the Annenberg Foundation as a community organizer - a poverty pimp, a cynical opportunist who uses suffering people as a political commodity.
The foundation strategy is divide and conquer, pitting blacks against whites against Hispanics against Asians, to prevent any challenge to Wall Street. Racist provocateurs like Wright and Pfleger, along with Weatherman terrorist bombers Ayers and Dohrn, Obama's best friends, are cast in this mold. Rezko, Auchi, and Al-Sammarae represent the cesspool of Chicago graft and corruption in which Obama cavorts.
Schooled in Nietzsche and Fanon, Obama qualifies as a postmodern fascist. An Obama administration would strive for brutal economic sacrifice and austerity to finance Wall Street bailouts, and for imperialist confrontation with Russia and China.
In the New York Times bestseller The Late Great USA: The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada, Jerome Corsi proves that the benignly-named 'Security and Prosperity Partnership,' created at a meeting between George W. Bush, Stephen Harper and Vincente Fox, is in fact the same kind of regional integration plan that led Europe to form the EU.
According to Corsi, the elites in Europe who wanted to create a European nation knew that 'it would be necessary to conceal from the peoples of Europe just what was being done in their name until the process was so far advanced that it had become irreversible.' Could the same thing be happening here? Is American sovereignty doomed?Using dozens of documents secured through the Freedom of Information Act and his trademark hard-hitting interviews, Jerome Corsi sets out a chilling view of America's possible 'harmonized' future - one being created covertly, without voter input or Congressional oversight. Could our government's unfathomable position on illegal immigration be tied to the prospect of an integrated North American Union?
David Corbin, 'Aristotle's Politics. A Reader's Guide.' , Continuum 2009This book presents an accessible introduction to Aristotle's 'Politics' - a classic of political theory, widely considered to be the founding text of Western and Greek political science.
In the 'Politics', Aristotle sets out to discover what is the best form that the state can take. Similar to his mentor Plato, Aristotle considers the form that will produce justice and cultivate the highest human potential; however Aristotle takes a more empirical approach, examining the constitution of existing states and drawing on specific case-studies.
In doing so he lays the foundations of modern political science. This Reader's Guide is the ideal companion to this most influential of texts.' Continuum Reader's Guides' are clear, concise and accessible introductions to key texts in literature and philosophy. Each book explores the themes, context, criticism and influence of key works, providing a practical introduction to close reading, guiding students towards a thorough understanding of the text.
Pellegrin, 'A Companion to Ancient Philosophy', Blackwell Publishing 2008Part I: Early Greek Philosophy.1. The Beginnings of Science and Philosophy in Archaic Greece (Edward Hussey).2. Ancient Philosophy and the Doxographical Tradition (Jorgen Mejer).3. Parmenides and After: Unity and Plurality (Patricia Curd).4. The Concept of the Universal in Some later Pre-Platonic Cosmologists (Alexandefr P. The Sophistic Movement (Rachel Barney).Part II: Socrates, the Socratics, and Plato.6. Socrates (Donald R.
Minor Socratics (Fernanda Declea Caizzi).8. The Platonic Dialogue (Christopher Gill).9.
Plato's Ethics: Early and Middle Dialogues (Terry Penner).10. Plato's Political Philosophy: the Republic, the Statesman, and the Laws (Melissa Lane).11. Plato's Metaphysics and Dialectic (Noburu Notomi).12. Plato's Natural Philosophy and Metaphysics (Luc Brisson).Part III: Aristotle.13. The Aristotelian Way (Pierre Pellegrin).14. Aristotle's Logic and Theory of Science (Woflgand detel).15. Aristotle' Physics and Cosmology (Istvan Bodnar and Pierree Pellegrin).16.
Aristotle's Biology and Aristotle's Philosophy (James G. Aristotle's Psychology (Victor Caston).18.
First Philosophy in Aristotle (Mary Louise Gill).19. Aristotle's ethics (Michael Pakaluk).20. Aristotle's Political Philosophy (David Keyt).Part IV: Philosophy in the Hellenistic Age.21. Philosophic Schools in Hellenistic adn Roman Times (Thomas Benatouil).22. The Problem of Sources (Robert W. The New Academy and its Rivals (Carlos Levy).24.
Pyrrhonist (Jacques Brunschwig).25. Epicureanism (Pierre-Marie Morel).26. Stoic Logic (Katerina Ierodiakonou).27.
Stoic Ethics (Richard Bett).28. Hellenistic Cosmopolitanism (Eric Brown).PART V: Middle and Late Platonism.29. Middle Platonism (Marco Zambon).30. Plotinus (Luc Brisson and Jean-Francois Pradeau).31. What was Commentary in Late Antiquity? The Example of the Neoplatonic Commentators (Philippe Hoffmann).Part VI: Culture Philosophy, and the Sciences.32.
Greek Philosophy and Religion (Gabor Betegh).33. Philosophy of Lange (Deborah K. Ancient Medicine and its Contribution to the Philosophical Tradition (Pierre Pellegrin).35.
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Greek Mathematics to the Time of Euclid (Ian Mueller).