The Arab world has undergone dramatic transformations in the past year. Tariq Ali assesses the people's uprisings and casts a critical eye on both US foreign policy and Western media coverage. He also considers the impact of developments in the Middle East and north Africa on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Immanuel Wallerstein's commentaries
Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World-System IV: Centrist Liberalism Triumphant, 1789-1914 UC Press, 2011
Popular uprisings continue to shake the Arab world; the Libyan conflict drags on; the Hamas-Fatah rapprochement suggests new directions for the Palestinian struggle. Immanuel Wallerstein comments on these and other developments; he also analyzes the current state of US power and global influence.
Eyal Weizman, Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation Verso, 2007
Eyal Weizman, "Lawfare in Gaza: Legislative Attack" openDemocracy
What can an architect tell us about Israel's mechanisms of control over, and transformation of, the Occupied Territories? In what ways are the territories an Israeli laboratory, and how might pointing to Israel's conduct as illegal be ineffective? Eyal Weizman contends that there is an architecture to the occupation that must be examined and condemned.
Panitch & Konings, eds., The American Empire and the Political Economy of Global Finance Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
What do the Israeli air strikes on Gaza have to do with the upcoming Israeli elections, with Egypt, and with Obama's impending accession to power? Beshara Doumani shares his analysis. And Leo Panitch contests the notion that the US intervenes abroad only in the interests of US elites.
