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Debate: the need to believe

By Jacques Bouveresse

Rationalists seem to believe that religion should be replaceable by something 
other than a religion. Their proposition has been countered by the argument of 
obligatory, indeed, automatic replacement, according to which anything that 
destroys religion, if it is not itself already a religion, is doomed to become 
one anyway.
http://www.forliberation.org/site/archive/issue0407/article010407.htm

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US Imperialism: Hegemony Unravelling ? I

By Giovanni Arrighi

The ?E? and ?I? words, empire and imperialism, are back in fashion. Their 
return is not due, pace John Ikenberry, to the advent of the ?American unipolar 
age? in which ?[f]or the first time in the modern era, the world?s most 
powerful state can operate on the global stage without the constraints of other 
great powers?.
http://www.forliberation.org/site/archive/issue0407/article020407.htm

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US Imperialism: Hegemony Unravelling ? I

By Giovanni Arrighi

In the conclusion to his major two-part essay on the new US imperialism, 
Giovanni Arrighi situates the contradictions of the current American ?spatial 
fix? for the problems of overaccumulation in the context of a longue durée of 
systemic cycles. Have Washington?s attempts to secure its world role through 
the invasion of Iraq instead hastened the rise of China?
http://www.forliberation.org/site/archive/issue0407/article030407.htm

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Jerusalem?s apartheid tramway

By Philippe Rekacewicz and Dominique Vidal
THE tram will not operate before 2009 but it?s already a presence across 
Jerusalem, and garish ads show it running beside the walls of the Old City. The 
strangest ad features a pensive Theodor Herzl; in his book Altneuland, 
published two years before his death in 1902, Herzl dreamed of an electric tram 
system as a symbol of the Jerusalem of the future.
http://www.forliberation.org/site/archive/issue0407/article040407.htm

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Time for a bi-national state

Ehud Olmert and Mahmoud Abbas may have affirmed that they want a two-state 
solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict, but it may be more promising to 
return to a much older idea.
http://www.forliberation.org/site/archive/issue0407/article050407.htm

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For Humanity's Liberation
Danish Feroze

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