Category: Politics
Heat – George Monbiot
September 4th, 2009, No Comments
Heat George Monbiot 277 pages including index published in 2006 Thanks to the climate change camp in London held this past week, global warming is back on the news agenda again. Despite the rear guard action fought by the Exxon-Mobile sponsored climate change denial groups, the media has sort of accepted the reality of it [...]
Killing Hope – William Blum
May 28th, 2009, No Comments
Killing Hope William Blum 469 pages including index published in 2003 William Blum is a veteran leftwing journalist, active since the 1960ties, who made his name leaking the name and addresses of 200 CIA employees back in 1969. Since then he has been working in relative obscurity until around the turn of the millennium when [...]
Inventing Ruritania – Vesna Goldsworthy
April 6th, 2009, No Comments
Inventing Ruritania Vesna Goldsworthy 254 pages including index published in 1998 What immediately came to mind when I picked up this book from the library was Edward Said’s cite>Orientalism. Where that book looked at how Europe created its image of the Middle East, Inventing Ruritania: The Imperialism of the Imagination looks at how the western [...]
Intifada – Zachary Lockman & Joel Benin
April 5th, 2009, No Comments
Intifada Zachary Lockman & Joel Benin 423 pages including index published in 1989 During Israel’s invasion of Gaza this January there was one of those stupid drummed up controversies that always happen whenever Israel’s engaging in warcrimes again and hence coming under foreign pressure. In this case it was Dutch Socialist Party member of parliament [...]
Dansen met de Duivel – Peter Rensen
February 28th, 2009, No Comments
Dansen met de Duivel Peter Rensen 167 pages published in 1994 Geert Wilders is far from the first racial demagogue to appear in Dutch politics; he’s just more succesful than most. His most recent predecessor was Hans Janmaat, who at his best only managed to get three seats in parliament with his party, the socalled [...]
