Articles by Rob Prince

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The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty: Preserving Western Domination
Ibrahim Kazerooni and Rob Prince – Foreign Policy In Focus, 24 Mar 2014

Despite the Western claim that the dispute with Iran over nuclear research rests on it, the NPT is largely a means of maintaining Western nuclear-weapons superiority.

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Military Humanitarian Intervention: The Shock Doctrine Applied to Syria
Rob Prince – Foreign Policy In Focus, 24 Feb 2014

What’s needed in Syria is not military intervention, but a global peace offensive. One must make a distinction between “humanitarian intervention” in times of war, and military intervention using humanitarian pretexts. The latter actually has a very long and sordid history going back several hundred years and has been used by virtually every colonial and neocolonial military intervention and massacre.

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Humanitarian Intervention: Destroying Nations to Save Them
Ibrahim Kazerooni and Rob Prince – Foreign Policy in Focus, 21 Oct 2013

Humanitarian intervention and pre-emptive military strikes go together like a horse and carriage. The notion of “humanitarian intervention” by former imperialist and now neo-colonial powers is as old as the hills. One can trace such pretexts back far in modern history.

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