more OpenDemocracy

As I noted previously, I'm coming around to the idea that part of what I want to do here is provide (and archive) links to essays and articles that provide a larger historical and political context to current events.

I made that note in the context of posting an OpenDemocracy link. Here are three more OpenDemocracy links I saved a couple weeks ago, that also hopefully also give some of that larger historical context. Let me know if you agree.

• American dreams, Iraqi realities
  Paul Rogers
  18 - 11 - 2004
  
  In Washington, post-election exuberance distorts what is really happening in Fallujah – and across Sunni Iraq



• Bush’s triumph: three ends and a beginning
  Fred Halliday
  17 - 11 - 2004
  November 2004 represents a decisive moment in global as well as American politics that demands an urgent response from concerned citizens everywhere, says Fred Halliday.
  



• The death of Arafat and the end of national liberation
  Stephen Howe
  18 - 11 - 2004
  The demise of the Palestinian national leader also marks the symbolic end of the anti-colonialist politics that dominated the “third world” after 1945, says Stephen Howe.