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openAwakening in conjunction with the University of East London is organizing a three-part event series on ‘The Tahrir Square Meme’ to be held at UEL's Dockland Campus.
Our first event is Rap and the Arab Spring.
The Long Revolution
The Long and the Quick of revolution Anthony Barnett
We live in revolutionary times... but what does this mean? Anthony Barnett
The precariat: why it needs deliberative democracy Guy Standing
The Long Revolution Raymond Williams
Occupy movement
For England's Sake!
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Jim Gabour Sunday Comics
James Warner Standing Perpendicular, as books do
Markha Valenta Inter Alia: religion, politics, culture
Paul Rogers on Global security
Li Datong on China from the inside
Mary Kaldor on Human security
Daniele Archibugi on Cosmopolitan democracy
Book - Fred Halliday's oD essays
The Drugs Policy Forum
Demotix: photo partner
BC Backpeddles;
BigC(RAP);
The Vast Majority Of Saddam's Victims?
They were the victims of Saddam. He ordered their deaths. He murdered them. To try and fob the blame on someone else is dishonest.
The Sanctions?
They were approved by the UN as part of the truce Saddam agreed to following his expulsion from Kuwait. He circumvented it as the Oil For Food Program Scandal revealed. He built 8 super luxury palaces while his own people suffered. (No, George Bush did not approve the architecture.)
Britain and Europe honored the sanctions. To ignore Saddam's role and fob that exclusively on the US is again dishonest.
The number of wars in l914 and l939?
You were flat out wrong about the number of wars ongoing at both times. To try and categorize them an anything but wars is for a third time dishonest.
The world was not perfectly at peace when both world wars started.
Iraq, WW1 and WW2? As with everything else you have written so far, you were either wrong, or so pent up with dislike for the US you were willing to bend facts to espouse your bias.
The Human Security Reports verify the declines in war and terrorism. That is something which British and European leadership failed to do when they ran the world. Thanks US.