Pamphlets
£2.00 each, available here
Where indicated, the texts can
be found online
- Pamphlets based on talks given to the Discussion
Group:
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- Islam and Politics
- A Reflection on the sources of political
legitimacy
- by Peter Brooke
- Argues that Islam is inseparable from the
struggle to realise a political ideal that may be unattainable.
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- What
is a dictatorship?
- by Wendy Toomey
- Behind every state is a state structure that
may not differ very much if the state is a 'democracy' or a 'dictatorship'.
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- Northern
Ireland -
Is it a religious conflict?
- by Peter Brooke
- An attempt to give a bird's eye view of the
history of religion in Ireland in its political consequences
from the Norman invasion to the Second Vatican Council.
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- Notes
towards a definition of Sin
- by Peter Brooke
- Christianity is based on a problem of Sin
and Salvation which is quite distinct from the problem of good
or socially responsible behaviour.
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- Lebanon
Another Velvet Revolution?
by M. Abdul Latif. An account of the historical background to
the conflicts that plagued the Lebanon through the 1970s and
1980s. Abdul Latif is an Iraqi currently living in Brecon. He
has lived both in the Lebanon and in Syria.
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- Notes towards a definition of 'Spirituality' by Peter Brooke. From 'Scientific idealism' at the
beginning of the twentieth century to the mediaeval Realist-Nominalist
dispute to the body-soul-spirit hierarchy of the Fathers of the
early Christian church.
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- The
Faith of an Atheist by Ian Milton.
Ian Milton argues that a sense of moral purpose and of the mystery
of the Universe can be be had without believing in God.
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- India
Spirituality and Reality Therapy or Breaking my rose-coloured
specs. by
Satya Claire. Satya lived for over ten years in India and outlines
both what she learned about herself and about the darker side
of Indian life.
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- The
Israeli-Palestinian conflict the need for a one state solution by Peter Brooke. The Palestinian effort to achieve
a separate state has only resulted in a process of ghettoisation.
Advocating instead a civil rights movement to turn the existing
Israeli parliament into the representative government of the
whole area, including the West Bank and Jordan.
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- Iran Lies and half truths from the
European Union by David Morrison.
Given the complete lack of any evidence that Iran is developing
nuclear weapons, it is the European Union and the UN Security
Cuncil, not Iran, that are acting in breach of international
law.
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- Other pamphlets in the 'Politics and Theology'
series
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- The
Left and the Algerian Catastrophe
- by Hugh Roberts
- Although the terrible events in Algeria during
the 1990s can be attributed to the policies of an essentially
right wing government, the left, both in Algeria and throughout
the world, has failed to develop an independent position capable
of addressing the causes of the crisis.
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- The Dishonest Case for War
by Glen Rangwala
It is now generally recognised that the dossier published by
the British government in September 2002 on Iraq's 'weapons of
mass destruction' was to put it at its mildest based on intelligence
of very poor quality. This pamphlet is a comprehensive critique
of the government's arguments published at the time by Glen Rangwala
who was later responsible for exposing the unacknowledged sources
of the so-called 'dodgy dossier' on Iraq's security network.
On
the origins of the 'Gulf War'
Essays by Hugh Roberts and Crown Prince Hassan
of Jordan
Argues that any possibility of a diplomatic solution to the 1990/91
crisis over Kuwait was sabotaged by a deliberate policy on the
part of the United States government. Also included is a transcript
of the interview between Saddam Hussein and the US ambassador
to Iraq, April Glaspie, widely interpreted as the American government
giving the Iraqi President a green light to go ahead with the
invasion.
Notes
on the role of Serbia in the Yugoslav Conflict
by Peter Brooke
An account of the Yugoslav conflict
as seen from a Serb point of view, with special reference to
the great Serb novelist and political theorist Dobrica Cosic.
- The El Salvador death squad option comes
to Iraq
- by Max Fuller
- Max Fuller notes the increase in group assassinations
that have occurred since James Steele was assigned to work with
the Iraqi 'Special Police Commandos'. From 1984 to 1986 Steele
had led the US Military Advisory Group in El Salvador ...
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- Introduction
to the Orthodox Church
- by Fr Geoffrey Ready.
- Fr Geoffrey, a Priest of the Russian Orthodox
Church Outside Russia, emphasises that the core of Orthodox teaching
lies not in intellectual arguments but in the experience of 'deification',
glorification or union with God.
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- Crying Wolf - Media disinformation and
Death Squads in Occupied Iraq
- by Max Fuller
- A detailed development of the case that many
of the assassinations attributed to Shi'ite militias in Iraq
are in fact the work of elements closely associated with the
occupying forces.
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