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The long and drawn out 2012 presidential election is finally over and President Barack Obama was reelected. Shortly after he was reelected, Obama launched another drone strike in Yemen — a harbinger of what’s to come in his second term. It is worth going through Obama’s foreign policy during the past four years in order to assess what he’s done and understand what the future holds.
Posted by Adam Hudson on November 12, 2012 in Afghanistan, Africa, Asia, Drones/Drone warfare, Empire/Hegemony, Human Rights, International Law, International Relations, Iraq, Irregular warfare & covert operations, Middle East & North Africa, Military-industrial complex, war economy, & war profiteering, Pakistan, Somalia, Targeted killing, War & Peace, Yemen
Tags: 2012 election, 2012 presidential election, Afghanistan, Africa, Barack Obama, China, disposition matrix, drone warfare, drones, empire, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Kill List, Libya, Obama, Pakistan, proxy war, Somalia, targeted killing, War, War on Terror, Yemen
As an African-American male, people have wondered why I chose to study Arabic and am involved in anti-war and pro-Palestinian activism. It’s an image that people are not used to seeing. However, if I were to just stick to fighting on so-called “black” issues, such as civil rights and poverty (which I do, as well), then people probably wouldn’t be so curious. To me, the connection between the black freedom struggle and working in solidarity with other oppressed people around the globe is crystal clear. However, not everyone sees it that way. The black freedom struggle and the struggle for Palestinian self-determination is part of a broader post-colonial struggle for global justice and human emancipation. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Adam Hudson on February 7, 2010 in Activism & Social Change, African/African-American history/politics/issues, Empire/Hegemony, History, Human Rights, International Law, International Relations, Israel/Palestine, Middle East & North Africa, Race/Racism, Radical/Revolutionary Ideas, War & Peace
Tags: anti-war, black liberation, colonialism, economic injustice, Human Rights, IDF, International Law, Israel, Middle East & North Africa, Palestine, radicalism, struggle, War, war crimes
I thought I would post a few articles about Israel’s war on Gaza that occurred a couple months ago.
“Tracing Gaza’s chaos to 1948” by Mark LeVine (Al-Jazeera, July 13, 2009). LeVine does a great job of tracing the roots of Gaza’s suffering.
“How Israel brought Gaza to the brink of humanitarian catastrophe” by Avi Shlaim (The Guardian, January 7, 2009). Avi, an Iraqi Jew, is a professor of international relations at the University of Oxford. He served in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and never questioned the legitimacy of Israeli’s policies. However, Israel’s actions in Gaza led him to rethink his view of Israel. This is a very insightful piece and provides a useful background to the Gaza attack. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Adam Hudson on July 18, 2009 in Activism & Social Change, History, Human Rights, International Law, International Relations, Israel/Palestine, Middle East & North Africa, War & Peace
Tags: Gaza, HAMAS, Human Rights, IDF, International Law, Israel, Middle East & North Africa, Palestine, War
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