Articles by Paul Rosenberg
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NATO Summit Highlights Neo-Con/Neo-Liberal Overlap
Paul Rosenberg – Al Jazeera,
4 Jun 2012
As the general election phase of the American presidential election gets underway, the recent NATO summit serves as a potent reminder of just how little difference there ultimately is between the neo-con extremists who dominated US foreign policy under George W Bush, and the neo-liberals who run just about everything in the Obama administration.
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Paul Rosenberg – Al Jazeera,
1 Aug 2011
Prior to 9/11, the Taliban government in Afghanistan did not register very much on American radar screens, with one notable exception: when it blew up two colossal images of the Buddha in Bamiyan province in early 2001. But destruction of treasured artifacts isn’t just limited to the Taliban. There’s a right-wing politico-religious presence centred in the US, but with a global reach, engaging in similar practises, destroying religious and cultural artifacts as a key aspect of its ideology of “strategic level spiritual warfare” (SLSW).
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Paul Rosenberg, Open Left,
8 Jun 2009
In a discussion with Bill Moyers, Jeremy Scahill gives credit to Obama for recognizing the existence of a problem. In "Why Not A Progressive Foreign Policy? Part 1: The Military ", I wrote about a better way of combatting terrorism than bringing war to Afghanistan, and continuing to kill innocent civilians–a way much more consistent […]
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