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By Toufic Machnouk
Structural violence is the effect of a systemic imbalance in society that prefers the interests of some over others. Its dynamics are less visible than that of direct violence, where the causes are …
So far, Blair’s testimony before the Chilcot Inquiry has been seen as a largely self-incriminating affair, illustrating the extent not only to which Blair was willing to lie, or deceive himself and others, to go …
Dr. Nafeez Ahmed address a meeting in the House of Commons on the subject of social exclusion of Muslim communities in the UK. Co-sponsored by Dawn Butler, then UK Minister for Young Citizens and Youth …
Toufic Machnouk with Lord Norman Lamont & Ambassador Lincoln Bloomfield on Middle East Today talking about the new US Administration’s policy towards Iran.
On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the full text of which appears in the following pages. Following …
By Dr. M. Shaheed Alam
This book discerns in the history of Zionism the plot of a Shakespearean tragedy.
A small band of European Zionists enters the world stage in late 19th century, determined to …
No territorial acquisition resulting from the threat or use of force shall be recognized as legal. — Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Co-operation among States, General Assembly Resolution 2625 (XXV), 24 …
1 billion children (every second child) live in absolute poverty — UNICEF, The State of the World’s Children, 2005
The richest 2% of adults in the world own more than half of global household wealth — UNU-WIDER study …
Submission to the Parliamentary Committee on Communities and Local Government
The Government’s understanding of extremism inadequately analyses the core social factors behind violent radicalization, seeing these …
For the Arches Quarterly - The Crisis of (Post) Modernity: The De-Sacralisation of the Social, the Death of Democracy, and the Reclamation of Islamic Tradition
In early 2007, then British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, described the ‘War on Terror’ as …
Published courtesy of David Wasdell and The Meridian Programme
It is almost exactly four years since my provisional analysis of the feedback dynamics of the global climate system indicated the existence of a threshold or tipping …
Press TV: “Post Election Iran 2009, Special coverage – Show 3, Part 2 of 3″ – Interview with Timothy Towell (President of The Foreign Policy Group), Franklin Lamb (international lawyer), Toufic Machnouk (Institute …
The former U.S. Assistant Treasury Secretary speaks out against Barrack Obama as the G20 bandwagon hits London. Also with Toufic Machnouk of the Institute for Policy Research And Development and Carol Turner of the Stop …
By Ruth Blakeley, 3 April 2009
This book explores the complicity of democratic states from the global North in state terrorism in the global South. It evaluates the relationship between the use of state …
By Dr. Brett Bowden, 1 April 2009
The term civilization comes with considerable baggage, dichotomizing people, cultures, and histories as civilized – or not. While the idea of civilization has been deployed throughout history …
By Dr. Lawrence Quill, 26 March 2009
To perform an act of civil disobedience under present circumstances is an exercise in uncommon sense. Yet, what is the significance, if any, of such action? As …
In April 2007, five British Muslims were sent to jail, in each case for at least twenty years under anti-terrorism legislation. Their crimes were said to be heinous – planning to set off explosive devices …
Total global military expenditure in 2009 is estimated to have been $1.531 Trillion. The US is responsible for 46.5 per cent of the world total, distantly followed by the China (6.6%), France (4.2%), UK (3.8%), and Russia (3.5%).
— Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)’s 2010 Year Book
By Aisha Dennis and Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
According to British government officials, the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein systematically obstructed and undermined the weapons inspections programmes conducted by the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspections …
By M. Shahid Alam
Pakistan’s rulers and ruling elites may well be thinking that the wave of people’s indignation that started in Tunisia and is now working its way through Egypt, Jordan and Yemen will never …
By Dr. Naveed S. Sheikh, 30 March 2007
Studying Islam’s international relations, this title details the theory of pan-Islamism from classical to post-caliphal times and the foreign-policy practice of Saudi Arabia, Iran and Pakistan.
The Charter of the United Nations was signed on 26 June 1945, in San Francisco, at the conclusion of the United Nations Conference on International Organization, and came into force on 24 October …
The Crisis of Civilization is a documentary feature film investigating how global crises like ecological disaster, financial meltdown, dwindling oil reserves, terrorism and food shortages are converging symptoms of a single, failed global system.
Weaving together …
The Cutting Edge by Nafeez Ahmed
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