https://gowans.blog/2026/03/02/legal-illegal-the-question-of-whether-this-war-is-legal-is-the-wrong-question/2026-03-07T22:22:31+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2026/03/01/what-might-lenin-have-thought-about-the-us-israeli-war-on-iran-and-the-war-in-ukraine/2026-03-01T17:30:51+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2026/01/06/venezuela-and-the-imperialism-of-peace/2026-01-15T17:49:38+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2026/01/04/venezuela-and-the-imperialism-of-great-power/2026-01-04T19:47:16+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2025/12/30/the-historical-injustice-behind-palestinian-violence/2026-01-03T08:16:06+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2024/03/28/manicheanism-and-blindness-to-us-abuses-in-us-media-discourse-on-the-fate-of-isis-prisoners-held-in-us-controlled-prisons-in-syria/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/occupation-zones.jpgOccupation zoneshttps://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/al-hol_camp_syria_17_october_2019.jpgal-hol_camp_syria_17_october_20192025-12-21T22:46:24+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2025/12/19/what-globalize-the-intifada-does-and-does-not-mean/2025-12-21T01:53:41+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2025/12/07/the-us-national-security-strategy-2025-promoting-us-billionaires-stupefying-the-working-class-exploiting-allies-stifling-china/2025-12-15T19:45:42+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2025/12/09/why-does-genocide-happen-again-and-again/2025-12-11T11:14:23+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2025/12/04/how-aid-to-ukraine-harms-most-canadians-and-most-citizens-of-other-nato-states-and-what-to-do-about-it/2025-12-04T18:58:32+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2021/03/02/the-watchdogs-of-imperialism-and-the-uyghur-genocide-slander/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/uyghur_people_demand_freedom_with_flag_of_east_turkestan_in_front_of_the_u.n._building_in_nyc_e7b6ade590bee788bee4babae59ca8e7b490e7b484e881afe59088e59c8be5a4a7e6a893e5a496e9ab98e88889e6.jpgUyghur_People_Demand_Freedom_with_Flag_of_East_Turkestan_in_front_of_the_U.N._Building_in_NYC_維吾爾人在紐約聯合國大樓外高舉東突厥斯坦國旗要求自由2025-09-26T17:05:16+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2024/08/19/the-illegitimacy-of-both-israel-and-the-two-state-solution/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/israel-beachhead.jpgIsrael Beachhead2025-09-23T23:48:23+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2025/09/18/capitalism-the-us-senate-and-the-zionist-genocide-of-the-palestinians/2025-09-23T16:02:17+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2024/11/02/is-glorifying-hamass-october-7-attack-strategically-unsound/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/israel-beachhead.jpgIsrael Beachhead2025-08-28T17:03:42+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2024/05/31/on-the-palestinian-question-opportunism-has-a-long-history/2025-08-28T17:00:00+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2007/03/03/understanding-north-korea/2025-08-28T16:48:21+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2012/12/21/do-publicly-owned-planned-economies-work/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/gorbachev.jpggorbachevGorbachev is still widely admired in the West, but his popularity stops at the Russian border. A March 2011 poll found that only one in 20 Russians admire the Soviet Union’s last leader, and that “perestroika,” the name for Gorbachev’s move toward a market economy, “has almost purely negative connotations” https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/official_portrait_of_president_reagan_1981.jpgOfficial_Portrait_of_President_Reagan_1981The Reagan Doctrine was spelled out in a series of national security decision directives, or NSDDs. NSDD-66 announced that it would be US policy to disrupt the Soviet economy, while NSDD-75 committed the United States to trying to drive up costs in the Soviet economy in order to plunge the USSR into a crisis.https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/220px-soyuz_rocket_astp.jpg220px-Soyuz_rocket_ASTPSoviet achievements in space: The first satellite, first animal in orbit, first human in orbit, first woman in orbit, first spacewalk, first moon impact, first image of the far side of the moon, first unmanned lunar soft landing, first space rover, first space station and first interplanetary probe.https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/iphone.jpgiPhoneThe i-Phone. Produced by free enterprise? Guess again. https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/stethoscope1.jpgstethoscope1That US citizens had to pay for their healthcare was considered extremely barbaric in the Soviet Union, and Soviet citizens “often questioned US tourists quite incredulously on this point.”https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/recession.jpgrecessionEvery year, from 1928 to 1989, except during the war years, the publicly owned, planned Soviet economy reliably expanded, providing jobs, shelter, and a wide array of low- and no-cost public services to all, while capitalist economies regularly sank into recession and had to continually struggle out of them on the wreckage of human lives.2025-08-28T14:49:52+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2023/08/08/swapping-france-for-russia-in-niger-and-lenin-for-putin-in-edmonton/2025-08-28T14:18:35+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2023/08/09/socialist-china-and-its-many-illusions/2025-08-28T14:13:43+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2025/08/09/gilbert-achcars-gaza-absurdity/2025-08-10T16:54:23+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2022/12/07/a-brief-critique-of-anti-war-activism/2025-06-29T16:02:23+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2023/03/02/the-putin-club/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/updated-cwpjn-feb-days-of-action-768x768-1.pngupdated-cwpjn-feb-days-of-action-768x768-12025-06-29T16:00:57+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2025/06/11/nato-invents-russia-threat-to-justify-military-spending-increases-and-painful-budget-cuts/2025-06-11T18:28:59+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2025/03/12/the-arrest-of-mahmoud-khalil-un-american-or-part-of-the-us-tradition/2025-05-21T18:29:32+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2025/03/12/the-us-does-to-canada-what-canada-has-helped-the-us-try-to-do-to-other-countries-for-decades-rob-them-of-their-sovereignty/2025-03-13T00:58:58+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2020/05/16/if-you-think-the-coronavirus-lockdown-is-worse-than-the-disease-you-dont-understand-the-disease/2024-10-14T20:10:20+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2021/04/21/the-catastrophes-of-the-pandemic-are-the-catastrophes-of-capitalism/2024-10-14T20:07:56+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2021/05/04/do-communist-led-states-protect-public-health-better-than-capitalism/2024-10-14T20:07:30+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2021/05/29/the-politics-of-the-wuhan-lab-leak-hypothesis/2024-10-14T20:07:01+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2021/06/01/a-scandal-is-being-thuggishly-covered-up-by-a-regime-more-interested-in-propaganda-than-human-life/2024-10-14T20:06:31+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2021/06/05/we-need-an-inquiry-into-the-origins-of-the-pandemic/2024-10-14T20:05:59+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2021/06/07/washingtons-lab-leak-playbook-revealed/2024-10-14T20:05:35+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2021/06/09/how-deadly-has-covid-19-been-compared-to-the-united-states-major-wars/2024-10-14T20:05:10+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2021/07/14/weaponizing-covid-19-how-washington-is-using-the-pandemic-to-help-destabilize-cuba/2024-10-14T20:04:30+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2021/08/07/vaccine-imperialism/2024-10-14T20:04:01+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2021/08/18/the-moral-scandal-of-vaccine-inequality-has-a-name-capitalism/2024-10-14T20:03:37+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2021/08/26/the-covid-19-crisis-is-the-result-of-the-death-drive-of-capitalism/2024-10-14T20:03:15+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2021/08/26/as-an-anti-pandemic-tool-vaccines-have-turned-out-to-be-more-mirage-than-oasis/2024-10-14T20:02:53+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2022/01/13/the-killers-henchman-capitalism-and-the-covid-19-disaster/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/book-cover.jpgBook Cover2024-10-14T20:02:27+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2022/01/25/the-pandemic-is-done-except-for-the-burials/2024-10-14T20:02:02+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2022/04/13/the-mental-illness-of-anachronist-radical-socialism/2024-10-14T20:01:21+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2022/04/14/cheering-the-rise-of-yet-another-capitalist-empire-hurts-you-and-me/2024-10-14T20:00:52+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2022/05/02/eva-bartlett-and-the-pleasures-and-displeasures-of-independent-journalism/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/eva_rt-1.jpgeva_rt-1https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/eva_rt.jpgeva_rt2024-10-14T20:00:11+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2022/05/09/pandemics-are-not-inevitable-and-chinas-covid-19-experience-proves-it/2024-10-14T19:59:42+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2022/05/09/capitalism-and-the-covid-19-disaster/2024-10-14T19:59:16+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2022/05/13/socialist-china-or-capitalist-china-its-all-the-same-to-the-countrys-communist-rulers/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/musk-china.webpmusk-china2024-10-14T19:58:35+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2022/10/27/engels-anti-duhring-and-the-covid-19-calamity/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/deaths-attributable-to-covid-19.jpgDeaths attributable to Covid-192024-10-14T19:57:35+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2022/12/10/for-the-friends-of-socialist-china-a-very-bad-week/2025-08-29T03:18:26+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2022/12/28/people-should-be-awake-to-this-tactic-and-refuse-to-be-fooled-by-it/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/carlos-us-human-rights-825x510-1.pngcarlos-US-human-rights-825x510https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/24vid-china-medical-workers-triptych-cover-mediumthreebytwo252-v3.webp24vid-china-medical-workers-triptych-COVER-mediumThreeByTwo252-v32024-10-14T19:55:54+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2023/08/24/xi-jinping-and-his-republican-party-style-contempt-for-socialism/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/xi_jinping_with_macron_and_von_der_leyen_2023.jpgXi_Jinping_with_Macron_and_Von_der_Leyen_20232024-10-14T19:53:41+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2020/03/07/the-us-ways-of-waging-war-then-and-now/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/invisible-war.jpgInvisible warSanctions, economic firebombings, are not a humane alternative to war. They are war, even if carried out invisibly.https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/death-camp-ovens.jpgDeath camp ovensMumford: In principle, the extermination camps where the Nazis incinerated … helpless Jews were no different from the urban crematoria our air force improvised in its attack by napalm bombs on Tokyo.https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/korean-war-atrocities-bombing.jpgkorean-war-atrocities-bombingLemay: We burned downed every town in North Korea and South Korea too.2024-10-14T19:33:07+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2024/05/02/the-politics-of-defining-antisemitism/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/israel-beachhead.jpgIsrael Beachhead2024-08-20T15:51:10+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2024/05/21/the-israel-lobby-and-us-foreign-policy-a-realistic-marxist-view-vs-mearsheimers-realist-view/2024-08-19T21:50:49+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2024/05/29/is-hamas-a-terrorist-organization/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/khaled.pngkhaled2024-05-30T12:31:11+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2024/05/16/israel-is-a-class-issue/2024-05-17T17:06:35+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2024/05/14/the-israel-lobby-and-the-us-foreign-policy-establishment-are-largely-the-same-reflecting-the-complementarity-of-us-elite-and-israeli-colonial-settler-interests/2024-05-14T21:54:32+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2024/05/09/former-pentagon-chief-defends-israel-on-the-basis-that-in-war-the-united-states-is-even-worse/2024-05-13T11:10:55+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2024/05/07/the-bedlamites-in-paris-and-london/2024-05-09T20:34:16+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2024/05/07/another-victim-of-the-war-on-the-palestinians-the-crumbling-of-the-myths-of-free-speech-and-the-wests-moral-leadership/2024-05-07T17:05:54+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2022/01/21/sense-and-nonsense-about-ukraine/2024-04-18T01:15:22+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2023/10/26/beyond-the-shibboleths-of-the-israel-hamas-war/2024-03-11T19:23:10+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2021/06/26/why-washington-rejects-a-liberal-democratic-solution-to-the-problem-of-palestine/2023-10-27T14:51:35+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2023/09/13/the-war-in-ukraine-didnt-split-the-left-it-exposed-pre-existing-divisions/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/victorgrossman520x390.jpgvictorgrossman520x390https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/icm-split.jpgicm-split2023-09-15T16:56:37+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2023/09/12/colonizing-others-to-pre-empt-your-own-colonization/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/simmsputinhitler.jpgSimmsPutinHitler2023-09-14T21:24:46+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2022/12/19/there-are-no-lesser-evils-in-imperialism/2023-08-24T16:04:14+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2022/12/27/the-multipolaristas-theory-of-ultra-imperialism-doesnt-fit-a-multipolar-world/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/kautsky.jpgkautsky2023-08-24T15:55:35+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2023/02/16/speeches-about-a-nice-little-peace/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/waters-at-un.jpgwaters-at-un2023-08-21T14:55:13+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2022/12/02/is-the-communist-split-on-the-war-in-ukraine-an-echo-of-an-earlier-division/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/man-the-state-and-war.jpgMan, the state and warhttps://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/icm-split.jpgicm-split2025-02-26T16:16:21+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2023/08/16/from-lenin-to-bourgeois-pacifism/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/dresden.jpgdresdenhttps://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/tokyo-firebombing-ii.jpgtokyo-firebombing-iihttps://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/tokyo-firebombing.jpgTokyo firebombing2023-08-16T15:10:49+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2023/08/08/the-era-of-ultracheap-labor-is-under-threat/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/foxconn-121016.jpgfoxconn-1210162023-08-08T18:12:58+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2023/08/04/the-personal-and-political-agendas-of-tokyo-rose-and-other-world-war-iii-alarmists/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/tokyo-rose.jpgTokyo Rose2023-08-04T21:35:00+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2023/01/18/whats-wrong-with-the-argument-that-russia-isnt-imperialist-a-critique-of-desai-et-als-the-conflict-in-ukraine-and-contemporary-imperialism/2023-02-10T16:44:03+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2022/11/20/antiwar-activism-scientific-or-futile/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/f-35a_flight_cropped.jpgAerial refueling of F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters at Eglin AFB, Fla.U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters from the 58th Fighter Squadron, 33rd Fighter Wing, Eglin AFB, Fla. perform an aerial refueling mission with a KC-135 Stratotanker from the 336th Air Refueling Squadron from March ARB, Calif., May 14, 2013 off the coast of Northwest Florida. The 33rd Fighter Wing is a joint graduate flying and maintenance training wing that trains Air Force, Marine, Navy and international partner operators and maintainers of the F-35 Lightning II. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Donald R. Allen/Released)2023-01-24T15:39:27+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2023/01/20/can-france-still-afford-a-retirement-age-of-62/2023-01-23T02:14:25+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2022/12/05/would-a-just-peace-in-ukraine-make-any-difference/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/don_quixote_1955_by_pablo_picasso.jpgDon_Quixote_(1955)_by_Pablo_Picasso2022-12-05T16:45:00+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2022/11/30/whats-stopping-the-world-from-stopping-the-war-in-ukraine/2022-12-02T01:53:48+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2022/05/06/why-carlos-martinezs-and-the-multipolaristas-view-of-imperialism-is-too-simple/2022-11-21T01:42:20+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2022/05/12/why-china-is-not-socialist/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/flag_of_the_peoples_republic_of_china.svg_.webpflag_of_the_peoples_republic_of_china.svg_2022-11-21T01:28:35+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2022/06/18/the-real-cause-of-the-war-in-ukraine-capitalism/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/abc-of-communism-1.jpgabc-of-communism-1https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/abc-of-communism.jpgABC of Communism2022-11-21T01:27:30+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2022/07/09/the-last-true-communist/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/kke.jpgPre-election rally of Greece's Communist Party (KKE) in Athens - 03 Jul 2019Mandatory Credit: Photo by SIMELA PANTZARTZI/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (10327349b) Secretary general of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), Dimitris Koutsoumpas delivers a speech during the party's main pre-election rally at central Syntagma square in Athens, Greece, 03 July 2019. General elections in Greece are scheduled on 07 July 2019. 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lefthttps://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/redstar2.jpg2020-01-06T19:25:04+00:00weekly0.6https://gowans.blog/2020/01/05/soleimani-assassination-only-one-of-many-and-not-the-most-consequential-us-acts-of-war-against-iran/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/press-tv.jpgPress TVhttps://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/sardar_qasem_soleimani-01.jpgSardar_Qasem_Soleimani-012020-01-05T21:10:53+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2020/01/02/kim-jong-un-until-the-us-shows-its-interested-in-peace-north-korea-will-continue-to-build-strategic-weapons/2020-01-02T17:44:07+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2019/11/16/americas-enforcer-in-the-middle-east/2019-11-16T13:31:13+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2019/11/03/the-united-states-has-produced-very-few-anti-imperialists-noam-chomsky-isnt-among-them/2019-11-03T18:04:41+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2019/10/08/washingtons-we-demand-you-give-approach-to-dprk-talks-will-never-work/2019-10-08T01:33:16+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2019/09/20/israeli-election-makes-it-difficult-to-deny-the-character-of-israel-as-a-racist-state/2019-09-20T21:36:51+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2019/09/16/3983/2019-09-16T23:40:49+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2019/09/06/robert-mugabe-the-national-liberation-hero-who-was-demonized-for-trying-to-make-liberation-meaningful/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/mugabe_maduro.jpgmugabe_maduro2019-09-06T16:16:08+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2019/08/04/lust-for-profits-not-love-of-democracy-the-real-reason-washington-wants-maduro-gone/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/wilbur_ross_official_portrait.jpgWilbur_Ross_Official_PortraitBillionaire investor Wilbur Ross, currently serving as US Commerce Secretary, recently revealed Washington's plans for a post-coup Venezuela. The natural resources-rich country is to be turned over to corporate America.2019-08-05T01:31:24+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2019/07/26/once-again-chomsky-and-achcar-provide-a-service-to-the-us-global-dictatorship/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/achcarchomsky.jpgAchcarChomsky2019-07-29T20:06:51+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2019/06/17/if-iran-is-responsible-for-the-fuel-tanker-attacks-in-the-gulf-of-oman-and-it-may-not-be-it-is-only-a-reaction-to-washingtons-outrageous-conduct-in-the-middle-east/2019-06-17T01:24:44+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2019/04/08/trumps-support-for-zionism-includes-defining-us-jews-as-foreigners/2019-06-02T19:24:00+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2019/04/11/so-you-think-washingtons-long-war-on-syria-is-almost-over-think-again/2019-06-02T19:17:11+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2019/05/02/jacobin-stabs-venezuela-in-the-front/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/chavez-assad.jpgChavez Assad2019-06-02T19:00:12+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2019/05/13/even-if-true-the-new-york-times-secret-torture-prison-allegations-hardly-make-syria-a-rogue-state/2019-06-02T18:51:54+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2019/05/14/israels-independence-day-commemorating-the-dispossession-of-the-natives-and-rise-of-the-wests-outpost-in-the-middle-east/2019-06-02T18:50:28+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2019/04/23/why-the-united-states-has-a-special-relationship-with-israel-its-not-the-israeli-lobby/2019-04-24T01:35:44+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2019/03/27/in-recognizing-israels-conquest-of-golan-trump-reveals-the-truth-about-the-united-states-relationship-with-its-beachhead-in-the-middle-east/2019-03-30T15:46:03+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2019/03/17/rule-of-law-states-defend-israels-cold-blooded-murder-of-peaceful-demonstrators-while-trying-to-rob-venezuela-of-its-oil/2019-03-17T23:37:14+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2019/03/10/maduros-claim-that-washington-has-used-cyberwarfare-to-bring-down-venezuelas-power-grid-cannot-be-so-easily-dismissed/2019-03-10T23:43:33+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2019/02/05/in-venezuela-washington-with-canadas-help-plays-the-same-old-regime-change-game/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/no-coup.jpgNo coup2019-02-05T12:15:05+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2019/01/29/when-liberal-democracy-means-plutocracy/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/chrystia_freeland_in_ukraine_-_2017_cropped.jpgchrystia_freeland_in_ukraine_-_2017_(cropped)Canada's global affairs minister, Chrystia Freeland, says the liberal democratic world is under strategic threat.https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/newyorktimesfrontpage-15nov2012.jpgnewyorktimesfrontpage-15nov2012The New York Times says there's a specter haunting the West: the people's will.2019-01-29T17:41:46+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2019/01/26/chomsky-venezuela-statement-a-stronger-alternative/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/noam_chomsky_toronto_2011.jpgnoam_chomsky_toronto_2011https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/bolivarian.jpgbolivarian2019-01-26T14:27:06+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2019/01/24/us-led-efforts-to-overthrow-maduro-spurred-by-business-interests-not-democracy/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/chavista_10.jpgchavista_102019-01-24T23:15:22+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2018/12/30/the-us-war-on-chinas-economic-model/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/China.jpgChinahttps://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/washingtons-long-war-on-syria.jpgWashington's Long War on 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representative to the UN, Bashar Ja'afari2018-04-22T16:47:56+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2018/04/10/nonsense-about-syria-gas-attacks-reveals-us-ideology-of-tyranny/2018-04-22T16:46:46+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2018/04/11/syria-chemical-weapons-attack-the-facts/2018-04-22T16:46:06+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2018/04/08/eight-reasons-why-the-latest-syria-chemical-weapons-attack-allegations-are-almost-certainly-complete-nonsense/2018-04-22T16:39:30+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2018/04/13/understanding-korea-presentation-launch-stephen-gowans-7-05-2018-montreal/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/lancement-launch-stephen-gowans-768x994.jpgLancement-Launch-Stephen-Gowans-768x9942018-04-13T22:53:07+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2018/04/11/world-war-iii-what-it-is-and-what-it-threatens-to-become/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/trump-tweet.jpgTrump tweet2018-04-11T21:17:57+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2018/04/06/the-korean-conflict-reevaluated/2018-04-06T16:53:56+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2017/07/05/the-real-reason-washington-is-worried-about-north-koreas-icbm-test/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/dprk-icbm.jpgDPRK icbmhttps://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/dprk-icbm-test.jpgdprk icbm test2018-01-07T23:59:00+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2013/12/23/seven-myths-about-the-ussr/2025-11-27T02:34:45+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2017/11/06/the-us-led-war-on-yemen/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/washingtons-long-war-on-syria.jpgWashington's Long War on Syriahttp://www.barakabooks.com/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/joseph-votel-2016-04-29t154606z.jpgjoseph-votel-2016-04-29t154606z2017-11-19T23:54:54+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2017/09/15/patriots-traitors-and-empires-the-story-of-koreas-fight-for-freedom/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/final-book-cover.jpghttp://www.barakabooks.com/2017-10-03T01:33:56+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2017/07/11/the-myth-of-the-kurdish-ypgs-moral-excellence/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/kurds.jpgKurdshttps://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/iso.jpgISOIf the ISO existed in 1865.2017-07-11T11:29:47+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2016/07/02/on-canada-day-what-does-humanity-have-to-look-forward-to-not-what-canada-represents/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/mackenzie-king.jpgMackenzie KingMackenzie King, Canada’s wartime prime minister, admired Hitler, and hated Jews. Before the war, Churchill also admired Hitler, and sang paeans to Mussolini. The fascist dictators were admired, not only by King and Churchill, but by large parts of the British and North American establishment, for their ardent anti-communism. https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/bethunecanada_zps14274026.jpgBethuneCanada_zps14274026Norman Bethune2017-07-01T15:41:18+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2017/04/30/the-real-defenders-of-democracy-syria-and-the-struggle-against-the-international-despotism-of-wall-street/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/telesur.jpgTelesurIn an April 27, 2017 Telesur interview, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad argued that US presidents “merely implement” policies formulated by US “financial institutions,” “big arms and oil companies,” as well as “the intelligence agencies” and “the Pentagon.”2017-05-11T13:17:34+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2016/12/19/the-regime-that-isnt/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/washingtons-long-war-on-syria.jpgwashingtons-long-war-on-syria2017-05-08T12:57:02+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2016/10/22/the-revolutionary-distemper-in-syria-that-wasnt/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/pro-assad.pngpro-assadMass demonstration in support of Syria's secular Arab nationalist government, 2011.2017-05-08T12:56:01+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2013/02/16/why-north-korea-needs-nuclear-weapons/2017-04-15T12:59:03+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2013/11/09/the-revolution-will-not-be-televised-nor-will-it-be-brought-to-you-by-russell-brand-oliver-stone-or-noam-chomsky/2017-04-15T12:56:45+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2017/01/04/washingtons-long-war-on-syria/2017-04-15T12:55:10+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2013/05/21/what-the-syrian-constitution-says-about-assad-and-the-rebels/2017-04-15T12:52:17+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/11/15/polls-show-a-spectre-is-haunting-europe%e2%80%a6and-much-of-the-rest-of-the-world/2017-04-10T23:08:08+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/10/25/democracy-east-germany-and-the-berlin-wall/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/berlin-mural.jpgberlin muralCourtesy of Brendan Stonehttps://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/getattachment.jpgGetAttachmentCourtesy of Brendan Stonehttps://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/img_0612.jpgIMG_0612Courtesy of Brendan Stonehttps://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/img_0094a.jpgIMG_0094aCourtesy of Brendan Stone2017-04-09T17:03:45+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2014/12/05/why-assad-refuses-to-step-down/2017-04-09T16:56:01+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2015/12/12/suppose-a-respectable-opinion-poll-found-that-bashar-al-assad-has-more-support-than-the-western-backed-opposition-would-that-not-be-major-news/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/syria-poll-table-2.jpgSyria Poll Table 2https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/syria-poll-table-1.jpgSyria Poll Table 12017-04-09T16:54:36+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2015/06/27/rethinking-chemical-weapons/2017-04-09T16:51:13+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2016/07/15/allying-with-political-islam-the-united-states-tactical-alliances-with-al-qaeda-and-its-associates-in-syria/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/al-nusra_front_fighters_syria.pngAl-Nusra_Front_fighters,_SyriaThe New York Times reported on July 14, 2016 that the United States "has refrained from systematic attacks against the Nusra Front" because US-backed fighters coordinate with the outfit. The United States has also refrained from attacking ISIS, for example, in and around Palmyra, in order to counter the Arab nationalist Syrian government, whose removal remains Washington's top priority in Syria. 2017-04-09T16:47:43+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2017/04/08/cruise-missile-attacks-a-new-step-in-washingtons-long-class-war-on-syria/2017-04-08T23:02:08+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2017/03/13/pentagon-leads-over-300000-troops-in-a-rehearsal-for-an-invasion-one-week-after-the-white-house-announces-its-considering-military-action-against-north-korea/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/uss_carl_vinson_cvn-70_underway_in_the_pacific_ocean_on_31_may_2015.jpgUSS_Carl_Vinson_(CVN-70)_underway_in_the_Pacific_Ocean_on_31_May_20152017-03-13T18:12:12+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2017/03/07/washingtons-considers-military-action-against-north-korea-to-force-regime-change/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/b2-bombers-korea.jpgb2-bombers-korea2017-03-07T13:56:03+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2016/12/17/how-an-evidence-free-cia-finding-alleging-russian-interference-in-the-us-election-was-turned-into-an-indisputable-truth/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/york-headquarters-building-new.jpgyork-headquarters-building-new2016-12-26T22:04:56+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2016/10/20/our-sieges-and-theirs/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/aleppos-rebels.jpgaleppos-rebelsAleppo's rebels, members of the Al Qaeda derived Jabhat Fatah al-Sham. https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/manbij.jpgmanbijWreckage of Manbij in the wake of US coalition airstrikes, June 23, 2016 (AFP Photo/Delil Souleiman)https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/yemen.jpgyemenA woman rests on a bed next to her malnourished son at a hospital in the Red Sea port city of Houdieda, Yemen. Meanwhile, a U.S. Navy-backed blockade of Yemen’s ports has left much of the country, the poorest in the Arab world, “on the brink of famine. Reutershttps://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/mosul.jpgmosulThe US-led coalition has been bombarding Mosul for months. US Defense Departmenthttps://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/ramadi.jpgramadiMarket in Ramadi destroyed by US coalition airstrikes (Ali al-Mashhadani, Reuters)https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/kobane.jpgkobaneView of a heavily damaged neighborhood in Kobane, Syria, which had been targetted by a series of US-led coalition airstrikes. (Alice Martins — The Washington Post)2016-10-22T15:42:04+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2016/07/08/defiant-syria-on-a-journey-through-syria-a-canadian-anti-war-activist-discovers-the-countrys-resilient-spirit/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/defiant-syria.pngDefiant Syria2016-07-12T14:24:30+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2016/07/06/the-two-state-proposal-for-palestine-neither-practical-nor-morally-defensible/2016-07-06T02:40:07+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2016/07/03/the-jewish-colonization-of-palestine-and-the-recalcitrance-of-the-natives/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/leila.jpgLeilahttps://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/they-used-to-say-palestinians-fight-like-heroes-now-they-say-heroes-fight-like-palestinians-existence-is-resistance.jpgThey used to say palestinians fight like heroes now they say heroes fight like palestinians existence is resistance2016-07-03T23:32:14+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2016/05/31/is-the-united-states-credible-as-a-guarantor-of-international-peace-and-security/2016-05-31T01:14:18+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2016/05/26/north-korea-challenges-legal-basis-for-latest-un-sanctions-resolution/2016-05-26T14:41:24+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2016/05/04/pentagon-working-on-plan-to-convert-the-islamic-state-caliphate-into-a-us-backed-syrian-rebel-redoubt/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/special-forces.jpgspecial forcesUS Special Forces are recruiting and equipping Sunni Arab fighters to capture Raqqa, the capital of ISIS’s caliphate. Once captured, the territory will likely remain in the hands of the US surrogates and almost certainly won't be returned to the legitimate Syrian government. 2016-05-04T22:19:31+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2016/04/17/us-plan-b-for-syria-give-al-qaeda-more-powerful-weapons/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/latuff-syrian-rebels47.giflatuff-syrian-rebels47https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/syrian-rebel-4.gifSyrian rebel 4https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/syrian-rebels-2.jpgSyrian rebels 2https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/syrian-rebels-1.jpgSyrian rebels 12016-04-18T20:12:25+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2016/04/02/zionism-genocide-and-the-colonial-tradition-in-contemporary-syria/2016-04-02T21:02:55+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2016/03/06/why-un-sanctions-against-north-korea-are-wrong/2016-03-13T18:11:56+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2016/02/10/what-us-congress-researchers-reveal-about-washingtons-designs-on-syria/2016-02-23T00:01:00+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2015/11/28/aspiring-to-rule-the-world-us-capital-and-the-battle-for-syria/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/clinton-and-bush.jpgClinton and BushJoseph Stalin is reputed to be a monster for causing innumerable deaths as a consequence of decisions he took to defend the Soviet Union against multiple existential threats, not least of which was aggression by Nazi Germany. What category of monster, then, are former US presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, who, in the absence of a security threat from Iraq, chose to sacrifice the lives of numberless Iraqis in pursuit of the foreign policy goal of establishing US hegemony in the Middle East to facilitate the accumulation of capital by their country’s economic elite?https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/bill_clinton_3x4.jpgBill_Clinton_3x4What category of monster is former US president Bill Clinton, who, in the absence of a security threat from Iraq, chose to sacrifice the lives of numberless Iraqis in pursuit of the foreign policy goal of establishing US hegemony in the Middle East to facilitate the accumulation of capital by his country’s economic elite?https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/foreign_affairs_sept_oct_2010.pngForeign_Affairs_Sept_Oct_2010https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/council_on_foreign_relations_new_logo.jpgCouncil_on_Foreign_Relations_New_LogoThe Council on Foreign Relations is the major organization through which the US capitalist class establishes its agency and direction, becoming a class for itself. https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/wall-street.jpgwall-streetThere is a wealthy class that dominates the US state and the US government and runs the state in its interest and against the interests of the vast majority of people.https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/persian-gulf.jpgPersian GulfMuch has been made of supposed US reliance on the Persian Gulf area for petroleum. But while tremendous profits are made by US-based petroleum corporations that continue to dominate the petroleum industry in this region, the United States is not in fact especially reliant on petroleum imports from the Gulf.2016-02-09T22:50:12+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2016/01/10/us-role-as-state-sponsor-of-terrorism-implied-in-us-congressional-research-service-report-on-syria-conflict/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/syrians-rally-for-assad.jpgSyrians rally for AssadSyrians rally for Assad, October, 2011.https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/terrorist.jpgterrorist2016-01-24T01:18:21+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2015/12/23/the-man-who-got-libya-wrong-serves-up-the-same-failed-analysis-on-syria/2016-01-23T22:43:13+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2016/01/05/in-syria-petition-an-odd-left-abandoned-concrete-analysis/2016-01-07T17:08:42+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2015/11/02/violent-islamist-insurgents-or-rebels-it-depends-on-whether-theyre-helping-or-hindering-the-us-plutocracy/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/wall-streets-think-tank.jpgWall Street's Think TankLaurence H. Shoup, who has written a recent study of the CFR, titled “Wall Street’s Think Tank,” says the Council works on “how to expand profit-making opportunities for US corporations abroad, sometimes by working to weaken or overthrow governments that are standing in the way of expansion of corporate capital.” 2015-11-03T02:31:53+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2015/10/25/the-international-dictatorship-of-the-united-states-its-friends-amnesty-international-isis-and-the-nusra-front-and-enemies-hassan-nasrallah-cuba-and-ana-montes/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/ana-montes-mugshot.jpgAna-Montes-mugshotAna Montes: The prisoner of conscience you haven't heard of, and Amnesty International won't touch.https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/nasrallah.jpgNasrallahNasrallah: US foreign policy is driven by the owners of oil and weapons companies, not by human rights organizations. 2015-10-25T17:54:09+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2015/10/21/why-palestinians-attack-israelis/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/third-intifada-3.gifthird-intifada-32015-10-22T00:05:47+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2015/10/21/if-the-bbc-reported-on-the-royal-family-like-it-did-on-north-korea/2015-10-21T23:11:17+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2015/10/17/why-the-trans-pacific-partnership-equals-a-u-s-aircraft-carrier/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/tppcountriesmap.jpgTPPcountriesmaphttps://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/us_navy_090426-n-9988f-135_the_aircraft_carrier_uss_dwight_d__eisenhower_cvn_69_operates_in_the_arabian_sea_displaying_signal_flags_that_read_i.jpg090426-N-9988F-135US defense secretary Ashton Carter has says the Trans-Pacific Partnership is as important to him as another aircraft carrier. 2015-10-17T15:53:16+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2015/09/26/avoiding-the-failure-of-libya-us-strategy-in-syria/2015-09-26T21:33:05+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2015/09/26/visible-and-invisible-victims/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/gaza-dead-child-on-beach.jpggaza-dead-child-on-beachhttps://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/syrian-refugee.jpgSyrian refugee2015-09-26T21:32:30+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2015/09/26/why-conservatives-take-marx-seriously/2015-09-26T17:13:40+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2015/09/16/phyllis-bennis-antiwar-imperialist/2015-09-16T23:35:54+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2015/09/16/assad-talks-to-russian-media/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/assad-photo-620x330.jpgAssad-photo-620x3302015-09-16T15:36:56+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2015/08/29/part-of-the-imperialist-wests-line-of-march-hushing-up-and-profiting-from-saudi-aggressions-while-warmongering-against-russia/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/saudi-bombing.jpgSaudi bombingSaudi Arabia is waging a war of aggression on Yemen, which blatantly violates international law. The war involves an air campaign, and a naval blockade that has left one in five facing starvation. US warships assist in enforcing the starvation blockade and the Pentagon provides the Saudis with logistics and intelligence support. https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/saudi_troops_bahrain_032814.jpgSAUDI ARABIA TROOPS ARRIVE IN BAHRAINSaudi troops arrive in Bahrain on Monday, March 14, 2011. A Saudi-led military force crossed into Bahrain with Canadian-supplied light armored vehicles to suppress a movement for a representative parliamentary democracy. APA /Landov2015-08-31T13:02:39+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2015/03/27/syrias-bashar-al-assad-on-the-wests-quest-for-a-puppet-state-in-syria-and-its-phony-war-on-violent-political-islam/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/united-states-mother-of-terrorism-altagreer.jpgunited-states-mother-of-terrorism-altagreer2015-08-26T23:23:18+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2015/07/27/terrorism-from-damascuss-perspective/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/turkey-us-isis-syrian-conflict-birgun-gazetesi.gifturkey-us-isis-syrian-conflict-birgun-gazetesi2015-08-26T23:18:04+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2015/08/18/the-dung-heap-of-procedural-democracy/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/urbahns.jpgUrbahnsUrbahnshttps://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/krugman38__01__630x420.jpgKrugman38__01__630x420Paul Krugman2015-08-23T15:24:28+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2015/08/22/cubas-low-level-of-internet-use-not-a-policy-of-restricting-the-flow-of-information/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/cuba-computer.jpgcuba-computerhttps://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/internet-users-per-100.jpgInternet users per 1002015-08-22T15:11:00+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2015/08/18/us-s-korea-exploiting-dmz-mine-incident-to-divert-attention-from-anti-n-korea-provocations/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/korea-hot-spot-horizontal-large-gallery.jpgkorea-hot-spot-horizontal-large-gallery2015-08-18T23:18:45+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2015/07/21/we-want-what-we-had/2015-07-21T11:31:46+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2015/07/19/submitting-to-moral-blackmail-kristen-ghodsees-the-left-side-of-history/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/left-side-of-history.pngLeft Side of History2015-07-19T20:51:54+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2015/05/20/the-concept-of-wmd-and-its-use-against-syria-in-the-propaganda-systems-of-western-states/2015-05-20T01:51:57+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2015/05/14/new-york-times-complicit-in-spreading-false-syria-allegations/2015-05-18T18:12:32+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2015/05/14/western-hypocrisy-going-naked-in-the-middle-east/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/parasites.jpgParasites2015-05-16T22:43:42+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2015/01/11/promoting-plutocracy-u-s-led-regime-change-operations-and-the-assault-on-democracy/2015-04-08T21:06:57+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2015/01/27/south-koreas-police-state-wages-war-against-proponents-of-democracy/2015-04-05T20:12:42+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2015/01/15/puppets-vs-anti-puppets-why-syrias-assad-is-persona-non-grata-in-the-west-while-egypts-sisi-gets-1-3-billion-in-u-s-military-aid-annually/2015-03-30T14:02:52+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2015/03/02/nato-knew-its-intervention-in-libya-would-create-chaos-and-aid-al-qaeda-aligned-islamists/2015-03-02T15:03:31+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2015/02/04/saudis-use-leverage-over-oil-pricing-to-tempt-russia-to-withdraw-support-for-syria/2015-02-04T19:19:04+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2014/12/30/how-and-why-the-western-news-media-get-north-koreas-economy-wrong/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/article-2638213-1e49a60b00000578-489_964x641.jpgarticle-2638213-1E49A60B00000578-489_964x641Pyongyang. Source: Daily Mail, May 29, 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Canadian military officers in private...referred to the NATO jets bombing Gadhafi’s troops as “al-Qaeda’s air force”2012-12-31T21:38:18+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2012/04/12/the-uss-barbarous-policy-on-iran/2012-10-27T22:50:58+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2012/04/22/a-tale-of-two-rocket-launches/2013-02-15T01:39:38+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2012/04/28/the-message-of-the-charles-taylor-conviction-dont-cross-us/2012-10-27T22:50:10+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2012/05/06/gadhafis-crime-making-libyas-economy-work-for-libyans/2012-10-27T22:49:37+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2012/05/20/myanmar-learns-the-lesson-of-libya/2012-10-27T22:49:14+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2012/05/30/the-houla-massacre/2012-10-27T22:48:52+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2012/06/20/wanted-an-anti-low-intensity-warfare-movement/2012-10-27T22:47:20+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2012/09/15/the-struggle-for-hegemony-in-the-muslim-world/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/800px-confrontation_between_rebels_and_al-gaddafi_in_al_bayda_libya_2011-02-17.jpg800px-Confrontation_between_rebels_and_al-Gaddafi_in_Al_Bayda_(Libya,_2011-02-17)As they stormed government sites, the rampaging demonstrators chanted “‘No God but Allah, Moammar is the enemy of Allah’.” https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/aqim.jpgAQIMAl Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, which played a major part in the rebellion to depose Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, may have plotted the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi which led to the death of US ambassador Christopher Stevens, according to US officials. https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/muslim_brotherhood_emblem1.jpgMuslim_Brotherhood_EmblemThe idea that the Syrian uprising is a popular, democratic movement against dictatorship and for the redress of economic grievances ignores the significant history of struggle between secularist Arab nationalists and the Muslim Brothers, mistakenly minimizes the role of Salafists in the uprisings, and turns a blind eye to Washington’s longstanding practice of using radical Muslim activists as a cat’s paw against Arab nationalist regimes.https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/syria20salafis.jpgSyria%20salafishttps://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/muslim_brotherhood_emblem.jpgMuslim_Brotherhood_EmblemThe idea that the Syrian uprising is a popular, democratic movement against dictatorship and for the redress of economic grievances ignores the significant history of struggle between secularist Arab nationalists and the Muslim Brothers, mistakenly minimizes the role of Salafists in the uprisings, and turns a blind eye to Washington’s longstanding practice of using radical Muslim activists as a cat’s paw against Arab nationalist regimes.https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/414px-general_salah_jadid.jpg414px-General_Salah_JadidSalah Jadid, who Hafiz Asad overthrew and locked away. Jadid pursued an unapologetically leftist program, and boasted of practicing “scientific socialism.” The Soviets thought otherwise. Jadid came to power in a conspiracy and never had more than a narrow base of support. https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/al-qaeda-in-the-islamic-maghreb-qaida-aqim.jpgAl-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (Qaida, AQIM)Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, which played a major part in the rebellion to depose Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, may have plotted the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi which led to the death of US ambassador Christopher Stevens, according to US officials. 2012-11-08T19:54:19+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2012/10/26/in-innovators-we-trust/2012-10-28T04:41:10+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2012/09/10/dudley-do-right-gets-the-wrong-man/2012-11-23T15:26:31+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2012/08/24/the-un-general-secretary-and-the-one-percent/2012-08-31T04:38:37+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2012/08/23/the-dictator-you-didnt-know-about/2012-08-31T23:44:08+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2012/08/17/if-this-is-stalinism-count-me-in/2012-09-07T06:10:41+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2012/08/05/dissembling-concern-over-violence-un-general-assembly-takes-a-side-in-syrias-civil-war/2012-08-12T08:33:46+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2012/07/27/richard-seymour-hallucinating-revolutions-pacifying-resistance/2012-10-04T09:43:42+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/01/01/condoleezza-rice-gaza-and-zimbabwe/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/picture-png.pngpicture-pnghttps://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/imbalance.jpgimbalancehttps://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/richard_falk1.jpgrichard_falk1Richard Falk: UN human rights rapporteur barred from Palestinian territories for denouncing Israel's blockade of Gaza as a crime against humanity.https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/jenniwilliamsaward2007.jpgjenniwilliamsaward2007Jenni Williams: In Washington to receive an award for services to the empire.https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/condoleezza-rice-7.jpgcondoleezza-rice-7Rice: The monster.https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/nakba1.jpgnakba11948: Some 800,000 Arabs were forced or fled from their homes in response to a systematic program of ethnic cleansing by Jewish forces.https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/richard_falk.jpgrichard_falkRichard Falk, UN human rights rapporteur, barred from Palestinian territories for criticizing Israeli actions.https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/gaza3.jpggaza3Israel has killed 393 Gazans and wounded 1,650 in the last five days. It is targetting tens of thousands, according to The New York Times. A handful of Israelis have died from Palestinian rocket days in the last five years.2012-04-18T22:42:38+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2011/12/18/vaclav-havel-fought-to-restore-ill-gotten-wealth/2011-12-22T11:36:22+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2011/12/16/fall-1941-pearl-harbor-and-the-wars-of-corporate-america/2011-12-18T15:33:26+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2011/12/12/kindergarten-threats/2011-12-18T21:26:18+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2011/12/07/70-years-ago-december-1941-turning-point-of-world-war-ii/2011-12-07T15:03:42+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/05/31/turning-the-threatened-in-the-aggressor-media-distortions-in-coverage-of-north-koreas-nuclear-test/2011-11-27T00:04:13+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2011/11/16/seeing-the-us-everywhere/2011-11-18T03:35:57+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2011/11/11/in-libya-the-end-of-42-years-of/2011-12-15T09:21:21+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2011/04/25/glibert-achcar%e2%80%99s-fantasy-world/2011-10-31T13:26:18+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2011/05/12/nato%e2%80%99s-pr-firm-washington-branch/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/latuff_truth3.giflatuff_truthThe first casualty of the Libya war...truth.https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/latuff_truth2.giflatuff_truthThe first casualty of the Libya war..turth..https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/latuff_truth1.giflatuff_truthThe first casualty of the Libya war...truth.https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/latuff_truth.giflatuff_truthThe first casualty of the Libya war...truth.2011-10-31T13:24:27+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2011/08/22/in-libya-lies-and-imperialism-on-the-verge-of-victory/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/david-cameron-bahrain-007.jpgDavid-Cameron-bahrain-007British Prime Minister David Cameron, who has played a key role in the Nato war on Libya, greets Bahrain's crown prince in May, soon after Bahraini authorities, with the help of Saudi tanks and troops, violently suppressed a popular uprising . Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP2011-10-31T13:23:33+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2011/10/21/gaddafi%e2%80%99s-oppressions/2011-11-05T22:58:07+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2011/09/24/us-ambassador-echoes-cecil-rhodes/2012-11-26T20:27:29+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2011/09/05/why-the-u-s-intervenes/2011-09-25T03:47:21+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2011/07/26/who-is-killing-iran%e2%80%99s-nuclear-scientists-%e2%80%93-and-why/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/gholami20101231094708640.jpggholami201012310947086402011-08-22T16:30:42+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2011/08/01/obama-better-than-bush-yes-but-for-who/2011-10-22T23:29:52+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2011/08/08/socialism%e2%80%99s-agenda-time/2011-12-21T08:18:50+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2011/08/03/cuba-still-making-it-tough-to-screw-others/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img_0487.jpgIMG_0487Havana, 2011. Stephen Gowans.https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/img_0488.jpgIMG_04882011-08-08T22:46:28+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2011/07/01/military-interventions-progressive-vs-imperialist/2011-07-31T16:01:22+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2011/07/17/the-nato-world-order-africa-division/2012-01-04T10:19:49+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2011/07/06/the-responsibility-of-intellectuals/2011-08-04T14:26:28+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2011/05/25/the-zionist-project/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/pal_palestinian-loss-of-land.jpgPAL_palestinian-loss-of-landhttps://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/israel-palestine-map.jpgisrael-palestine-map2014-05-03T13:02:04+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2011/05/24/diana-johnstone-stephen-gowans-on-the-taylor-report/2011-05-24T23:49:58+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2011/04/27/nato%e2%80%99s-kosovo-air-war-redux/2011-05-23T13:01:06+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2011/03/11/in-egypt-a-new-guard/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/4356155943_db236a22581.jpgCleared for release by Joint Staff Public AffairsThe Pentagon’s poodle in Egypt, Lt. General Sami Hafez Enan (left) with Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staffhttps://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/4356155943_db236a2258.jpgThe Pentagon's poodle in Egypt, Lt. General Sami Hafez Enan (left) with Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff2011-05-19T14:02:21+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/07/17/obama%e2%80%99s-africa-speech-lies-hypocrisy-and-a-prescription-for-continued-african-dependence/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/fooled_by_obama_by_latuff2.jpgFooled_by_Obama_by_Latuff22011-05-11T14:52:38+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2010/08/09/women%e2%80%99s-rights-in-afghanistan/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/intern1.jpgINTERN~1Unlike Washington, which is willing to collude in the oppression of women if it benefits US enterprises, the Bolsheviks liberated the women of Soviet Central Asia from the grip of what they deemed to be barbaric traditional Islamic practices. Female seclusion, polygamy, bride price, child and forced marriages, and veiling were outlawed and women were expected to work outside the home to earn incomes to achieve independence from men.https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/saudi_arabia_-_women_outraged.jpgSAUDI_ARABIA_-_Women_outragedSaudi women are not allowed to vote, drive cars, or leave the house without a male chaperon, and when they do leave they must avoid men and cover most of their bodies. If they want to marry, divorce, travel, go to school, get a job or open a bank account, they need the approval of a male relative. A US troop presence in the Arabian Peninsula hasn’t put an end to these barbaric practices. https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/reaganmeetstalibanwhitehouse.jpgreaganmeetstalibanwhitehouseUS president Ronald Reagan fetes Mujahedeen “freedom fighters” at the White House. The State Department maintained friendly relations with the Taliban right up to 1999, when every Taliban official was on the US government payroll. Despite Washington’s alliances with religious zealots who enforced – and continue in Saudi Arabia to enforce – a barbaric patriarchal rule over women, the US media promote the contradictory idea that women’s liberation in Afghanistan can be entrusted to the United States. https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/time_cover_0809.jpgtime_cover_0809What happens if we leave Afghanistan? asks Time magazine. The news magazine’s editors would have shown a greater sense of history had they asked: Would this have happened had we not backed the Mujahedeen in the 1980s? Washington supported Islamic reaction in Afghanistan, recruiting and bankrolling tens of thousands of jihadists to overthrow a government that sought to liberate women from the misogyny of traditional Islam. 2011-05-11T14:48:46+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2010/11/14/wilayto-vs-landy/2011-05-11T14:44:21+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2010/03/12/the-revolution-will-not-be-assisted-by-the-icnc-the-counter-revolution-is-another-matter/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/hardy_bio-11.jpghardy_bio-1The ICNC's Hardy Merriman. Told Martin that the critics' case against the ICNC is baseless. Like Dick Cheney assuring a Bush supporter that criticisms of Bush fail to stand up to scrutiny and lack evidence.https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/zunes.jpgzunesStephen Zunes. Fronts for the ICNC in leftwing circles. https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/bio_ackerman_main_122x160_pszrnls8.jpgBIO_Ackerman_MAIN_122x160_psZRnLs8ICNC supremo Peter Ackerman. Runs Rockport Capital Inc., is an ex-leveraged buyout specialist, the former head of the CIA-interlocked Freedom House, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Just the kind of guy you would expect to be assisting progressive causes.https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/hardy_bio-1.jpghardy_bio-1https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/bush-saakashvili.jpgbush-saakashviliGeorge Bush with Georgia's president Mikheil Saakashvili: Rose Revolution activists too busy working to overthrow autocrats on Unlce Sam's regime change list to notice the autocrat at home.https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/brianmartin.jpgBrianMartinNonviolence advocate Brian Martin: Should have been tossed on the not-worth-the-time pile.2011-05-05T00:07:31+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2010/11/23/reply-to-peace-activist-stellan-vinthagen/2011-05-05T00:05:23+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2011/01/06/leftist-overthrow-advisor-lester-kurtz-%e2%80%9ci-talked-with-the-cia%e2%80%9d/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/gene-sharp-2.jpgGene Sharp 2Gene Sharp, the Clausewitz of nonviolence, who sees no trouble with the U.S. government spending money on overthrowing foreign governments. When Sharp was accused of advising right-wing Venezuelans on how to topple Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, the head of the ICNC academic advisory board, Stephen Zunes, sprang to his defense. Sharp is old and sick, Zunes explained. Besides, he has adopted a “transpartisan’ position that cuts across political boundaries and conceptions and (talks) to essentially anyone”. It used to be that leftist peaceniks were against the US government and other rightist forces. Now they advise them.https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/lester-kurtz.jpgLester KurtzLester Kurtz, another academic pony in Peter Ackerman’s ICNC stable. Kurtz talked to the CIA because they asked him to.2011-05-05T00:03:44+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2011/01/15/lester-kurtz%e2%80%99s-duty/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/cia_recruit_0327.jpgcia_recruit_0327Lester Kurtz, an exponent of nonviolent warfare who sits on the academic advisory board of the Council on Foreign Relations-linked International Center for Nonviolent Conflict says he felt it was his duty to meet with members of his country's intelligence community to discuss nonviolent resistance. The ICNC provides information on civil disobedience tactics to groups seeking to take power from foreign governments.2011-05-05T00:01:56+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2011/05/02/the-icnc-propagating-uncle-sam%e2%80%99s-narrative/2011-05-11T22:12:39+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2011/04/10/scholars-or-bamboozlers/2011-09-26T01:40:50+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2011/04/20/moralism-and-instrumentalism-in-peace-scholarship/2011-05-04T11:44:41+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2011/04/30/analysis-of-syrian-protest-movement/2011-05-01T01:17:44+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2011/04/29/edward-herman-and-david-peterson-on-peter-ackerman-and-stephen-zunes/2013-05-12T16:10:29+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2011/04/21/the-face-of-imperialism/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/1594519188_cf1502.jpg1594519188_cf150https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/1594519188_cf1501.jpg1594519188_cf150https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/1594519188_cf150.jpg1594519188_cf150https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/cover.gifcover2011-04-21T22:57:09+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2011/04/20/peace-on-our-own-terms/2011-04-26T08:55:50+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2011/04/17/in-libya-protecting-profits-from-an-outbreak-of-peace/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/110415_three_leaders_ap_283.jpg110415_three_leaders_ap_283Obama, Cameron and Sarkozy: On guard against on outbreak of peace in Libya.2011-04-28T12:36:11+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2011/03/17/what-of-bahrain/2011-04-13T16:32:15+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2011/03/18/intervention-in-libya-may-lead-to-more-deaths-not-fewer/2011-04-13T16:30:45+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2011/03/20/imperialism-or-barbarism-bahrain-doesn%e2%80%99t-count/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/stephen-harper-cowboy.jpgStephen-Harper-CowboyCanadian prime minister Stephen (cowboy) Harper: We're protecting civilians, but expect civilian casualties.https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/g_achcar_s1.jpgG_Achcar_S1Gilbert Achcar: Imperialism is anti-imperialist.https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/wallerstein.jpgwallersteinImmanuel Wallerstein: "There is not going to be any significant military involvement of the western world in Libya."2011-04-13T16:27:55+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2011/03/21/sanitizing-the-bahraini-crackdown/2011-04-13T16:25:36+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2011/03/28/looking-out-for-western-business-and-investor-rights-why-the-west-approves-military-interventions-to-topple-one-arab-government-and-prop-up-another/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/presentation1.jpgPresentation12011-05-24T14:04:20+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2011/03/29/achcar-turns-lenin-on-his-head/2011-04-10T12:56:01+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2011/03/09/libya-and-washington/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/latuff_obama_libya.giflatuff_obama_libyahttps://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/latuff_libya.giflatuff_libya2011-03-12T03:13:35+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2011/02/16/is-gene-sharp-superman/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/gene-sharp-2.jpgGene Sharp 2Did an octagenarian nonviolence scholar remotely mobilize millions of Egyptians to bring down Mubarak? If he did we've been misled about Clark Kent. He isn't Superman. Gene Sharp is. 2011-03-08T15:56:41+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2011/02/15/tahrir-square/2011-02-16T01:22:44+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2011/01/26/new-york-times-democracy-is-bad-for-us-foreign-policy/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/latuff_jan25_e.giflatuff_jan25_e2011-02-08T18:32:58+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2011/02/07/getting-perilously-close-to-truth-about-us-foreign-policy/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/latuff2.giflatuff22011-02-16T21:19:17+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2010/12/23/lee-myung-bak-heats-up-cold-war-on-korean-peninsula/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/russia-today.jpgDecember 23 interview with Stephen Gowans on Russia Today2011-01-01T00:15:10+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2010/12/17/seoul-and-washington-play-dangerous-game-with-korean-lives/2010-12-21T22:16:21+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2010/12/17/korea-washington-and-seoul-continue-to-stir-the-pot/2010-12-17T08:24:54+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2010/12/15/never-mind%e2%80%a6/2010-12-15T23:49:07+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2010/10/12/liu%e2%80%99s-nobel-prize-for-capitalism/2011-05-30T03:16:31+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2010/12/08/loving-the-destabilizers-hating-the-destabilized/2010-12-09T14:56:02+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2010/12/07/war-crimes-investigation-of-north-korea-ludicrous-beyond-words/2010-12-09T12:52:32+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2010/12/05/us-ultimately-to-blame-for-korean-skirmishes-in-yellow-sea/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/am06-2001-b01-0210-01.jpgAM06-2001-B01-0210-012011-01-30T04:53:46+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2010/11/24/wrong-country-blamed-for-artillery-exchange-on-korean-peninsula/2010-12-06T21:34:24+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2010/11/23/north-korea-attacks-south-korea%e2%80%a6or-is-it-the-other-way-around/2010-11-25T02:51:47+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/08/06/overthrow-inc-peter-ackerman%e2%80%99s-quest-to-do-what-the-cia-used-to-so-and-make-it-seem-progressive/2013-12-13T03:45:13+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2010/11/15/ignoring-the-untermensch/2010-11-17T21:30:07+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2010/09/25/the-far-right-has-a-ready-answer-does-the-left/2012-02-13T01:05:35+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2010/08/22/washington-comes-clean-on-iran%e2%80%99s-nonexistent-nuclear-weapons-program/2010-09-27T20:58:09+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2010/08/21/us-senator-comes-clean-on-zimbabwe-sanctions/2014-01-04T17:18:42+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2010/07/29/stephen-gowans-rt-tv-interview-on-the-cheonan/2010-07-31T03:09:53+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/03/29/criminalizing-self-defense-whitewashing-aggression/2010-07-25T22:58:03+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2010/07/21/the-real-story-on-north-korea-and-its-healthcare/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/blum2.jpgblum2William Blum: Every socialist experiment has “had life made impossible for it, by the United States and its allies.”https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/cumings.jpgIFUniversity of Chicago historian Bruce Cumings: “The US and South Korea demarcated a so-called Northern limit line unilaterally.” An incident waiting to happen.https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/margaret-chan-oms.jpgMargaret-Chan-OMSWHO chief Margaret Chan: Her assessment of North Korea’s healthcare system makes Amnesty’s look like a Cold War-era hatchet job. https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/robert-gates2.jpgrobert-gates2US secretary of war Robert Gates: Neglects to mention that North Korea’s “stagnation and isolation” may have more than a little to do with US economic warfare and the unrelenting threat of military intervention from the Pentagon. 2010-08-01T07:12:10+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2010/07/20/amnesty-international-botches-blame-for-north-korea%e2%80%99s-crumbling-healthcare/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/ghw-bush.jpgghw bushAmnesty International’s contributions to US imperialism are not unprecedented. In 1991 the rights organization claimed that Iraqi soldiers had thrown Kuwaiti babies from incubators, a hoax, perpetrated by the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States. When US President George H.W. Bush appeared on television to announce that he was readying for war on Iraq, he had a copy of the Amnesty report in his hands. https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/emblem.pngemblemWhile unstated, the implication of Amnesty International’s new report on North Korea’s healthcare is that DPR Korea is a failed state, whose immediate demise can only be fervently wished for (or worked toward.) The rights organization covers up the role played by the United States and its allies in undermining the conditions that would allow Pyongyang to fulfill the healthcare rights of North Koreans, and then blames the disaster on Pyongyang.https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/amnestyint1.gifamnestyintIf we recognize that “economic sanctions are, at their core, a war against public health” and acknowledge, as a former US president has, that North Korea is “the most sanctioned nation in the world,” it is difficult not to draw the obvious conclusion: that the crumbling of North Korea’s healthcare system is due to sanctions. How is it, then, that a new Amnesty International report blames Pyongyang’s “failed or counterproductive” policies, while saying not a word about sanctions?https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/amnestyint.gifamnestyintNot a word of the escalating sanctions regime against North Korea is mentioned in a new Amnesty International report on North Korea’s crumbling healthcare system, an omission so glaring as to resemble a report on the post-World War II devastation of Europe that says nothing of the string of Nazi aggressions that caused it. Amnesty blames the effects of six decades of sanctions on Pyongyang.2010-10-20T10:26:17+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2010/05/20/the-sinking-of-the-cheonan-another-gulf-of-tonkin-incident/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/uss_maddox_dd-731_port_bow_1955.jpgUSS_Maddox_(DD-731)_port_bow_1955In 1964, Washington claimed that three North Vietnamese torpedo boats had launched an unprovoked attacked on the USS Maddox, a US Navy destroyer, in the Gulf of Tonkin. The incident was used by US president Lyndon Johnson to win the Congressional support he needed to step up military intervention in Vietnam. No attack had occurred.https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/lee-myung-bak.jpglee-myung-bakSouth Korean president Lee Myung-bak is a North Korea-phobe who prefers a confrontational stance toward his neighbor to the north to the policy of peaceful coexistence and growing cooperation favored by his recent predecessors. His foreign policy rests on the goal of forcing the collapse of North Korea.https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/defense-minister.jpgDefense MinisterSoon after the sinking of the South Korean warship, the Cheonan, Defense Minister Kim Tae-young ruled out a North Korean torpedo attack, noting that a torpedo would have been spotted by radar, and no torpedo had been spotted. Intelligence chief Won See-hoon, said there was no evidence linking North Korea to the Cheonan’s sinking. 2010-09-14T06:00:40+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2010/05/24/from-one-apartheid-state-to-another-israel%e2%80%99s-secret-military-alliance-with-apartheid-south-africa/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/picture168.jpgpicture168Then Israeli defense minister (and now president) Shimon Peres, accompanied South African prime minister John Vorster, a Hitler-admirer who had been jailed during the war for supporting the Nazis and belonging to the fascist Ossewabrandwag, on a 1975 visit to the Holocaust memorial. Peres signed an agreement with Vorster’s government to establish a secret military alliance, and offered to sell Pretoria nuclear warheads.2010-07-18T13:19:04+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2010/06/25/it%e2%80%99s-the-regime-change-agenda-all-the-time/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/zimminediamond1billus1.jpgzimminediamond1billushttps://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/zimminediamond1billus.jpgzimminediamond1billusThe United States, Canada and Australia are abusing the Kimberly Process to frustrate Zimbabwe's efforts to estblish a billion dollar per year (or more) revenue stream from the sale of diamonds. The aim is maintain economic pressure on Zimbabwe to overturn the country's land reform and economic indigenization programs.2010-06-30T13:25:07+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2010/05/30/nonsense-on-north-korea/2010-06-22T02:58:45+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2010/05/15/russ-feingold-defending-the-top-one-percent-from-the-bottom-99/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/feingold1.jpgfeingoldUS Senator Russ Feingold has introduced new legislation to update a 2001 bill he co-wrote that has been used to cripple Zimbabwe’s economy. Feingold and others have tried to blame the effects of the bill on Zanu-PF mismanagement.https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/zim-flag.jpgzim flagZimbabweans want more than their own flag. They want control of their land and resources, too.) https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/feingold.jpgfeingoldUS Senator Russ Feingold has intrdouced new legislation to update a 2001 bill he co-wrote that has been used to cripple Zimbabwe’s economy. 2014-01-04T17:37:24+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2010/05/09/a-failed-systems-failed-promises/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/images2.jpgimagesMarx and Engels: While the irrelevance of Communist Manifesto was said to have been established beyond a shadow of a doubt when the Berlin Wall was razed to the ground, today it seems to be more relevant than everhttps://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/images1.jpgimagesMarx and Engels: a document whose irrelevance was said to have been established beyond a shadow of a doubt when the Berlin Wall was razed to the ground. Yet, today, it seems to be more relevant than ever;https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/images.jpgimageshttps://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/north_korea_by_latuff22.jpgNorth_Korea_by_Latuff2https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/north_korea_by_latuff21.jpgNorth_Korea_by_Latuff2https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/cuba___50_years_of_revolution_by_latuff2.jpgCuba___50_Years_of_Revolution_by_Latuff2https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/north_korea_by_latuff2.jpgNorth_Korea_by_Latuff2https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/to-do_list.jpgto-do_list2010-05-11T01:40:47+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2010/04/23/dual-injustice-is-canada-outsourcing-torture-in-an-unjust-war/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/600_malagarai_100419_225128.jpg600_malagarai_100419_225128Ahmadshah Malgarai, an Afghan who worked as an interpreter for the Canadian army in Afghanistan: “If the [Canadian] interrogator thought a detainee was lying, the military sent him to NDS for more questions, Afghan style. Translation: abuse and torture.”https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/ahmadshah1.jpgAhmadshah-Ahmadshah Malgarai, an Afghan who worked as an interpreter for the Canadian army in Afghanistan: “If the [Canadian] interrogator thought a detainee was lying, the military sent him to NDS for more questions, Afghan style. Translation: abuse and torture.”https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/438px-stephen_harper_by_remy_steinegger.jpg438px-Stephen_Harper_by_Remy_SteineggerCanadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper: Technically, there seem to be grounds for charging him, along with former defence minister Gordon O'Connor, current Defence Minister Peter MacKay, former chief of defence staff Rick Hillier and various others under both Section 269.1 of the Criminal Code and Canada's Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes Act..https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/salehp.jpgsalehpNDS intelligence chief Amrullah Saleh: Canada offered to provide him with advance warning of monitoring trips to his detention facilities. Advanced warning would allow the NDS to cover up evidence of torture before Canadian monitors arrived. https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/ahmadshah.jpgAhmadshah-Ahmadshah Malgarai, an Afghan who worked as an interpreter for the Canadian army in Afghanistan: “If the [Canadian] interrogator thought a detainee was lying, the military sent him to NDS for more questions, Afghan style. Translation: abuse and torture.”https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/xolvin.jpgxolvinRichard Colvin, Canadian diplomat who served 17 months in Afghanistan: “According to our information, the likelihood is that all the Afghans we handed over were tortured.”https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/cherry.jpgcherryDon Cherry, a pugnacious, inarticulate and bigoted blowhard, whose jingoist leitmotif is that Canada distinguishes itself on the world stage in two ways: by producing the world’s best hockey players and the world’s best soldiers. He has, ever since Canadian soldiers shipped out to Afghanistan, turned his Hockey Night in Canada Coach’s Corner segment into a platform for promoting unquestioning support of the Canadian military’s role in Afghanistan. 2010-05-27T19:55:27+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2010/04/15/the-nuclear-posture-review/2010-04-23T15:58:13+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2010/04/01/washington-post-north-korean-iranian-nuclear-capability-threatens-us-imperialism/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/index-of-economic-freedom.jpgindex of economic freedomNorth Korea, Cuba and Zimbabwe: Dead last on the Heritage Foundation’s index of countries that offer themselves up as profitable investment opportunities for US capital. Iran is also among the basement-dwellers. It’s no accident that the same countries are on Washington’s regime change hit list.https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/iindia-nuclear-arsenal.jpgiindia-nuclear-arsenalWashington portrays the nuclear programs of north Korea and Iran as threats, while preparing to export spent fuel to India, a country that refuses to join the nonproliferation treaty. https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/walter-picus.jpgWalter PicusWashington Post columnist Walter Picus thinks north Korea and Iran should be conquered before their pursuit of nuclear capability makes them unconquerable.2011-01-05T23:50:46+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2010/04/10/nuclear-posture-review-2010/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/the_real_obama_spread_it_out_by_latuff21.jpgThe_Real_Obama_SPREAD_IT_OUT_by_Latuff2US president Barack Obama has stayed true to form, obscuring his pursuit of his predecessors’ policies beneath honeyed phrases that create the impression of change, where no change of substance exists. https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/obama_nobel_peace_laureate_by_latuff2.jpgObama_Nobel_Peace_Laureate_by_Latuff2US foreign policy carries on in its characteristic imperialist and war-like manner, despite the elevation of a black Democrat, and now Nobel Peace Prize winner, to the highest elected office of the land.https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/the_real_obama_spread_it_out_by_latuff2.jpgThe_Real_Obama_SPREAD_IT_OUT_by_Latuff2US president Barack Obama has stayed true to form, obscuring his pursuit of his predecessors’ policies beneath honeyed phrases that create the impression of change, where no change of substance exists. 2010-04-30T14:40:01+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2010/03/22/the-ned-tibet-north-korea-and-zimbabwe/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/bush_dalai_lama2.jpgBush_Dalai_LamaThe NED calls the former feudal overlord, the Dalai Lama, seen here with George W. Bush, “a devoted democrat.” The slaves and serfs of the old Tibet might disagree.https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/bush_dalai_lama1.jpgBush_Dalai_Lamahttps://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/bush_dalai_lama.jpgBush_Dalai_LamaThe NED calls the former feudal overlord, the Dalia Lama, seen here with George W. Bush, a devoted democrat who shares America's deepest values.https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/ap_us_clinton_obama_women_courage_10mar10_480.jpgAP_US_Clinton_Obama_Women_Courage_10mar10_480Jestina Mukoko, center, honored in Washington by US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and US First Lady Michelle Obama for services to the empire for her role as a US government-funded regime change agent.2014-03-26T16:50:32+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2010/02/26/behind-washington%e2%80%99s-iran-policy-myths-and-reality/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/prevent_another_holocaust_bomb_iran3.jpgprevent_another_holocaust_bomb_iranhttps://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/prevent_another_holocaust_bomb_iran2.jpgprevent_another_holocaust_bomb_iranhttps://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/prevent_another_holocaust_bomb_iran1.jpgprevent_another_holocaust_bomb_iranhttps://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/prevent_another_holocaust_bomb_iran.jpgprevent_another_holocaust_bomb_iranhttps://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/prevent_another_holocaust_bomb_iran.gifprevent_another_holocaust_bomb_iranhttps://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/3-big_obama-poster_big.jpg3-big_Obama-poster_big2010-03-27T05:16:51+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2010/02/19/iran-myths/2010-02-19T23:54:48+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/11/03/when-electoral-fraud-is-met-by-congratulations/2010-02-17T14:33:16+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/11/22/dracula-censures-mosquito-for-feasting-on-human-blood/2010-02-17T14:30:44+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/11/23/the-bootstrap-theory-of-propaganda/2010-02-17T14:17:21+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2010/02/09/sophists-for-sanctions/2010-03-30T03:21:29+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2010/01/12/nobel-peace-price-winner-scorns-north-korean-peace-offer/2010-02-06T07:23:15+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2010/01/05/obama-and-new-york-times-working-to-give-solidity-to-groundless-iran-nuclear-weapons-charge/2010-01-05T01:13:39+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2008/05/04/william-blum-neo-malthusian/2010-01-01T17:51:46+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/12/31/the-limits-of-progressive-thought-a-review-of-donald-gutstein%e2%80%99s-not-a-conspiracy-theory-how-business-hijacks-democracy/2010-01-24T16:53:51+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/11/29/the-berlin-wall/2009-11-30T01:33:41+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/11/27/the-politics-of-the-u-s-envoy-for-war-crimes/2009-11-28T04:33:48+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/09/03/vilifying-the-victim-u-s-journalists-ling-and-lee-ignore-the-role-of-u-s-policy-in-impoverishing-north-korea/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/north_korea_by_latuff2.jpgNorth_Korea_by_Latuff22014-07-13T10:39:12+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/09/28/iran%e2%80%99s-acknowledged-nuclear-fuel-plant-and-israel%e2%80%99s-secret-nuclear-weapons-plant/2009-10-09T15:56:40+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2008/12/25/jestina-mukoko/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/dalai_lama_and_bishop_tutu1.jpgdalai_lama_and_bishop_tutu1Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who has called for military intervention to topple the Mugabe government, with another bogus advocate of peace, the Dalai Lama.https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/jestina-mukoko1.jpgjestina-mukoko1Anti-Mugabe activist Jestina Mukoko has been accused of trying to recruit a militia to overthrow the Mugabe government.https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/dalai_lama_and_bishop_tutu.jpgdalai_lama_and_bishop_tutuNobel Peace Prize Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who has called for the use of violence to topple the Mugabe government, with another bogus advocate of peace, the Dalai Lama.https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/jestina-mukoko.jpgjestina-mukokoAnti-Mugabe activist Jestina Mukoko has been accused of trying to recruit a militia to overthrow the Mugabe government.2009-09-28T14:13:13+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/09/27/iran%e2%80%99s-not-so-secret-secret-fuel-plant/2009-09-28T09:37:23+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/09/17/the-problem-with-nonviolent-regime-change/2009-09-17T23:07:19+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/09/07/a-wrecking-ball-of-imperialism/2011-12-19T17:21:59+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/08/11/peaceniks-for-imperialism/2009-09-15T22:47:58+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/06/21/guilty-as-charged-north-korea%e2%80%99s-conviction-of-us-journalists-ling-and-lee/2009-08-22T16:28:00+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/08/21/u-s-imperialism-hidden-in-plain-sight/2010-12-16T12:53:17+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/08/20/nonviolent-warfare-questioning-ends-not-means/2009-09-06T10:53:47+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/07/04/the-role-and-aims-of-us-democracy-promotion-in-the-attempted-color-revolution-in-iran/2009-08-19T15:01:38+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/07/24/united4iran-financial-and-corporate-interests-mobilize-the-left/2009-07-25T03:55:46+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/07/21/a-handsome-investment-opportunity-washington%e2%80%99s-plan-for-a-post-mugabe-zimbabwe/2013-05-15T13:53:39+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/07/06/zimbabwe-africa-and-neo-colonialism/2009-07-13T05:17:03+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/07/01/a-sober-view-of-iran/2009-07-04T18:22:04+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/06/16/iranian-electoral-fraud-a-sceptic%e2%80%99s-view/2009-06-22T18:20:07+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/06/08/washington-seeks-justification-to-return-north-korea-to-terrorism-list/2009-07-23T00:14:41+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/06/10/mollycoddling-mubarak-mugging-mugabe/2009-06-15T18:04:17+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/06/12/affinity-for-autocrats-or-national-independence/2009-06-14T12:41:46+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/06/06/north-korea%e2%80%99s-nuclear-test-reaction-to-danger-of-us-foreign-policy/2009-06-08T08:46:28+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/05/31/on-middle-east-obama-tries-a-new-tactic-but-goal-remains-unchanged/2009-07-15T01:09:42+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/05/21/an-acceptable-dictator-for-afghanistan/2009-05-21T22:38:12+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/04/30/cuba-and-the-real-battle-for-democracy/2009-05-04T04:10:30+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/03/16/learning-from-color-revolutions/2009-06-21T08:45:16+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/03/17/mamdanis-critics/2010-03-19T07:11:58+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/04/03/the-politics-of-the-new-york-times/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/ny_times_chi_fire_mhs.jpgny_times_chi_fire_mhsThe New York Times says there's a specter haunting the West: the people's will. 2009-04-21T21:04:10+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2008/12/30/cynicism-as-a-substitute-for-scholarship/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/zunes_265.jpgzunes_265Progressive scholar Stephen Zunes: Says Woza can by no means be considered American agents. The US government disagrees.https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/patrickbond1.jpgpatrickbond1Progressive scholar Patrick Bond: Hails Sokwanele as an independent left, seemingly unaware it is funded by the US government.https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/patrickbond.jpgpatrickbondProgressive scholar Patrick Bond: Celebrates Sokwanele as an "indepdent" left, seemingly unaware it's on the US government payroll.https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/horace_campbell.jpghorace_campbellProgressive scholar Horace Campbell: Confuses ZDERA with targetted sanctions.https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/mamdani.jpgmamdaniMahmood Mamdani: Criticized by progressive scholars for shunning crude anti-Mugabe sloganeering.2012-07-22T23:35:03+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/03/22/10th-anniversary-of-nato-assualt-on-yugoslavia/2009-03-22T13:35:36+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/03/16/the-concerned-africa-scholars%e2%80%99-enthusiasms/2009-03-20T02:26:17+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/03/01/obama%e2%80%99s-iraq-withdrawal-plans-and-moveon/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/justin_ruben.jpgjustin_rubenMoveOn's Justin Ruben: Complete nitwit or Obama confederate?2009-03-11T12:57:18+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/02/26/the-spider%e2%80%99s-web/2009-03-11T12:59:54+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/02/24/fletcher-where%e2%80%99s-the-substance/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/0_billfletcher.jpg0_billfletcherFletcher: Pious expressions of benevolence from a champion of causes no one is against2010-07-26T01:58:52+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/02/20/obama-the-evil-empire%e2%80%99s-pleasant-face/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/evil-empire.jpgevil-empire2009-02-23T04:20:01+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/02/11/the-criminals-are-running-the-court/2009-02-11T01:04:25+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2008/12/28/west-seeks-to-intimidate-mugabe-supporters/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/itayigarande.jpgitayigarandeItayi Garande: Talkzimbabwe.com founder targetted in Britain.https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/zvayi.jpgzvayiCaesar Zvayi: Zimbwean journalist targetted by the West.2009-02-01T00:58:27+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/02/01/washington-deep-sixed-kenyan-exit-poll-to-keep-kibaki-in-power/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/kibaki.jpgkibakiKenyan President Mwai Kibaki, favored by the US government in a December 2007 election, lost the vote according to a suppressed US government-financed exit poll.2009-03-20T18:57:30+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/01/30/fraser-institute-hack-way-off-the-marx/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/grubel.jpggrubelHerbert Grubel: Argument based on one fatal flaw and one absurdity.2009-02-22T16:10:40+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/01/15/where-are-the-r2p-advocates-now/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/r2p.jpgr2pThere are R2P campaigns to promote Western intervention in Darfur, Myanmar and Zimbabwe, but not in Gaza or the West Bank. https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/israeli-war-crimes.jpgisraeli-war-crimesCharlos Latuff https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/if-ever-there-was-a-group.jpgif-ever-there-was-a-groupIf ever there was a group in need of protection from war crimes, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing it is the Palestinians. 2010-07-20T16:22:18+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2009/01/03/gaza-a-little-context/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/jihad-massaker1.jpgjihad-massaker1https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/450-vs-4.png450-vs-4Figure 2. Comparison of number of deaths over the first eight days of Israeli air strikes.https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/landloss.giflandlossFigure 1. The encroachment of the Jewish state on Palestinian 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mistreatment by Israeli soliders intensifies Palestinian hostility.https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/jvp_frontpage_nakba.jpgjvp_frontpage_nakba1948 – the root of Palestinian hatred of Israel.2010-09-07T23:13:55+00:00monthlyhttps://gowans.blog/2008/12/20/venezuelan-goverment-on-zimbabwes-cholera-epidemic/https://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/mugabe-lukashenko-chavez1.jpgmugabe-lukashenko-chavez1Axis of resistance: Mugabe, Belarus President Lukashenko and Chavezhttps://gowans.blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/mugabe-lukashenko-chavez.jpgmugabe-lukashenko-chavezAxis of resistance: Mugabe, Belarus President Lukashenko and 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