Middle East Panorama show on Resonance FM 104.4 Every Friday 14:00 - 15:00 London Time (GMT) Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh from The New Yorker magazine points out that the current situation in Lebanon is much like that during the conflict in Afghanistan in the 1980's – which gave rise to al Qaeda – with the same people involved in both the US and Saudi Arabia and the "same pattern" of the US using jihadists that the Saudis assure us they can control. An interview conducted by Hala Gorani on CNN. >> Listen to the interview 'The Deficits of International Law'. A talk given by Norman Geras from Manchester University at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, during Solidarity and Rights conference organized by The Euston Manifesto Group (in association with SOAS Centre for Jewish Studies). Professor Norman Geras is author of 'Marx and Human Nature', 'The Legacy of Rosa Luxembourg', 'The Contract of Mutual Indifference:...
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51