Category Archives: Middle East

Noam Chomsky on Egypt, Inequality, and Global Security-​​Statism

Global security-​​statism as an engine for inequal­ity in Egypt and the Mid­dle East.

3 February 2011 – 6:44 pm | By Benjamin Daniels | Posted in Corporations, Middle East, Security-Statism | Tagged , , , , | Comments (80)

Global Security-​​Statism

Vis­i­ble in Egypt.

28 January 2011 – 1:36 pm | By Benjamin Daniels | Posted in Foreign Affairs, Middle East | Tagged , | Comments (187)

In Defense of Israel

Israel is a nation-​​​​state. It was cre­ated by fiat to con­form to the atti­tudes about states that dom­i­nated the 20th cen­tury and still have a great deal of sway today: that an eth­ni­cally sim­i­lar group of peo­ple deserve, with­out ques­tion, their own sov­er­eign ter­ri­tory on the face of the earth. When Israel sets out poli­cies regard­ing …

1 June 2010 – 8:50 pm | By Benjamin Daniels | Posted in Foreign Affairs, Middle East, War | Comments (204)