The Pretexts for War (2016)
The pretexts for war: think again.
The pretexts for war: think again.
The Dirty War on Syria has relied on a level of mass disinformation not seen in living memory. In seeking regime change the big powers sought to hide their hand, using proxy armies of Islamists , demonising the Syrian Government […]
Reports that US and British aircraft carrying arms to ISIS were shot down by Iraqi forces (Iraqi News 2015) were met with shock and denial in western countries. Yet few in the Middle East doubt that Washington is playing a […]
‘Geopolitics of the Syrian Crisis’ seminar at the University of Sydney, 17 September 2015
Any mature understanding of the history of other peoples, and in particular the former colonies, has to dispense with the absurd fiction of western ‘altruism’ and refocus on both imperial history and its most important anti-thesis, the right of peoples […]
This article presents the case for Australian war crimes trials, following Australian participation in the invasion of Iraq and the subsequent deaths of as many as a million Iraqi civilians. It focuses on jus in bello (war crimes) rather than […]