Creative Commons licensed photograph courtesy of Flickr user michaelramallah.
The recent sit-in at the Cambridge University Law Faculty excited a range of emotions: passion and devotion to their cause on the behalf of the protestors, leading to an exhausted fatigue as the conflict reached its climax, to the evident curiosity and frustration of many of us [...]
Filed under: arabisraeliconflict, democracy on January 30th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Photograph from the Occupation Cambridge Facebook group
Of imminent importance at the moment is the student occupation of the Law faculty, and CUSU have called an emergency motion to debate the issue tonight.
In brief, a number of students have staged a non-violent sit-in on the ground floor of the Law faculty, and won’t relinquish their position [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on January 28th, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons user Muhammad Mahdi Karim.
When it comes to Israel and Gaza, I find it very hard to judge. Maybe this is because my judgment isn’t very good, or maybe it’s because judging well really is hard, and not enough people realize this.
Filed under: barackobama, hillaryclinton, jonathanbirch, middle east, middleeast, taliban, terrorism on January 26th, 2009 | No Comments »
I’m not going to say what I think about this week’s student “occupations” against Israel’s actions in Gaza, but I can’t resist dragging up this remark from a protester at the University of Sussex, quoted in The Guardian:
“The action has brought together socialists, Islamists and even students from the green movement who realise the detrimental [...]
Filed under: jonathanbirch on January 25th, 2009 | No Comments »
A group of more than one hundred Cambridge students are staging a peaceful occupation of the Cambridge University Law Faculty in protest of the situation in Gaza. The action is in solidarity with similar occupations at more than a dozen British Universities across the country, at which students are making demands of their institutions. These [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on January 24th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Photograph courtesy of Flickr user TallCJ.
Happy new year from Clare Politics! It is great to see the blog thriving, with more and more authors writing all the time - what with the current global economic crisis; the first black US president shortly to take office; Israel’s bombardment and invasion of the Gaza strip; and Russia’s [...]
Filed under: clarepoliticsnews on January 9th, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Samuel P. Huntington died on the December 24th 2008, aged 81; one of the most controversial figures in the history of international relations, whose legacy is a chilling reminder about the complexity of political science.
In the plurality of thought marking the end of the Cold War in 1989, Huntington’s book on the “Clash of Civilisations” [...]
Filed under: 9/11, foreignpolicy on January 8th, 2009 | 12 Comments »
Photograph courtesy of Nick Smith.
“For somehow we know by instinct that outsize buildings cast the shadow of their own destruction before them, and are designed from the first with an eye to their later existence as ruins” (WG Sebald, Austerlitz)
In celebration of the new-year my homepage (now Clare Politics of course – apple + d [...]
Filed under: environment, foreignpolicy, middle east, morganlewis on January 7th, 2009 | 2 Comments »
