Articles by Riz Khan

We found 9 results.


Waging Peace [Part 1] (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Riz Khan – Al Jazeera, 4 Jul 2011

Must there be security in order to make peace? In a world fueled by war, could peace initiatives be the way forward? Prof. Johan Galtung and Amb. Alvaro de Soto give their expert views.

→ read full article

Waging Peace [Part 2] (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Riz Khan – Al Jazeera, 4 Jul 2011

Prof. Johan Galtung and Amb. Alvaro de Soto: In a world fuelled by war, could peace initiatives be the way forward?

→ read full article

Jesse Ventura: Clandestine US Missions
Riz Khan – Al Jazeera, 11 Apr 2011

Has the US secretly started wars and assassinated leaders? We talk to Jesse Ventura, the former governor of the US state of Minnesota, about his controversial new book, ’63 Documents the Government Doesn’t Want You to Read’. In the book, Ventura has published dozens of previously classified US government papers that seem to suggest Washington may have secretly provoked the Vietnam War, lied to the American people about the actual threat of terrorism and experimented on its own soldiers.

→ read full article

The Arab Uprisings: Intervention, Double Standards and the Affect on Democracy (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Riz Khan – Al Jazeera, 4 Apr 2011

Aired on Tue, March 29, 2011 – Panel with Prof. Johan Galtung, ex Israeli ambassador to the US Itamar Rabinovich, and foreign affairs analyst, author Mark Perry. Why are Western nations so keen to intervene in Libya and why are they not coming to the aid of other Arabs facing similar violence?

→ read full article

One on One – Johan Galtung
Riz Khan – Al Jazeera, 10 Jan 2011

Johan Galtung, considered the father of peace studies, discusses why he dedicated his life to waging peace in the world.

→ read full article

Slavoj Zizek – Are We Living in the End Times?
Riz Khan – Al Jazeera, 29 Nov 2010

Is the world ignoring the signs of the so-called “end times”? Renowned philosopher and critic, Slavoj Zizek, explains what he thinks is causing the downhill slide, and points to the faltering economy, global warming and deteriorating ethnic relations as evidence.

→ read full article

John Pilger on the Last US Combat Forces in Iraq
Riz Khan – Al Jazeera, 30 Aug 2010

US combat forces have left Iraq, but who should be held accountable for the invasion and occupation that has left hundreds of thousands dead? Veteran investigative journalist John Pilger joins the show to discuss.

→ read full article

Waging Peace: Interview with Prof. Johan Galtung (Part 2)
Riz Khan - Aljazeera, 19 Nov 2009

Interview with Prof. Johan Galtung and Amb. Alvaro de Soto. Washington-DC, Nov 16 2009. In a world of war and conflict, is the idea of waging peace naive? Riz Khan talks to two of the world’s leading voices on conflict resolution, Johan Galtung and Alvaro de Soto. Galtung, a Norwegian mathematician and sociologist, is also […]

→ read full article

MATTHEW HOH
Riz Khan – Aljazeera, 4 Nov 2009

Just last week, Matthew Hoh, the former US senior civilianrepresentative in Afghanistan, announced his resignation saying he nolonger saw the value in continued US involvement in what wasessentially "a 35-year-old civil war". Will the US send 44,000 more troops to Afghanistan as part of a counter insurgency strategy or will it instead opt for a […]

→ read full article