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so romantic: but NIMBY
Something American about it. That snappy walk, The way the gum is chewed. There is no end to the American ingenuity of shaping public opinion. Its post-Imperialism. There is always this incorporation of the “other” within a narrative that serves … Continue reading
motley crew: its Huck Finn time
Sympathy vote. The gang that couldn’t slingshot straight. This is a ridiculous story; equal parts situation comedy, black comedy and farce. It looks like warfare depictions from the fall of Constantinople. The idea is to show how courageous the Free … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Bashar Al Assad, Brown Moses blog, Damien Cave, FDR and Somoza, Free Syrian Army, Free Syrian Army catapult, Free Syrian Army slingshot pipe bombs, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, robert fisk, Syrian Civil War, Umayyad Mosque
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benghazi: boxes of rain
The road to 10,000 armed soldiers begins with a single step; a mere budgetary line charge and adjustment, a few supply planes and a small dedicated group of fighters who have to be nurtured through the embryonic stage to be … Continue reading
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Tagged American Special Operations Forces, American Special Operations Forces Libya, Christopher Stevens ambassador, David Frum, Edward Said, European Union Nobel Prize, Frans Hals, Frederic Wehrey, gene sharp, Hieronymous Bosch, Hilary Clinton Libya, robert fisk
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the resisters
To some, Sheikh Scapa is another terrorist, to others he is a martyr engaged in a holy act, pleasurable to Allah in taking out the enemy. Resistance, violent and deadly resistance being morally acceptable given the nature of Israel’s occupation … Continue reading
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Tagged Damien Cave, Efim Weinstein, Free Syrian Army, Judge Young-Gefer, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, mahmoud abbas, Mohamad Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood Egypt, robert fisk, Salam Fayyad Palestinian Authority, Saudi Arabia executions, Sheikh Nazem Abu Salim Scapa, Steven Plaut
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fill the void: the voidoid zone
Just another week in the Middle East. The U.S. is now hedging its bets on the Syrian Free Army, simply a little too wily and wooly and seem to be looking for strategic alternatives by splitting hairs between classifying moderate … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Daniel Pipes, Fill the Void Rama Burshtein, Free Syrian Army, Gary Cooper, Gustav Klimt, Kathy Evans, Lipa Schmeltzer, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, mahmoud abbas, Mohamad Morsi, Mursi Egypt, Nadim Shehadi, Omer Shatz We Are Refugees, robert fisk, Said K. Aburish, Salam Fayyad Palestinian Authority, Salman Rushdie, Syria Crisis Bashar Assad, thomas friedman
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hail to the chief
Theodor Adorno basic thesis was that repression and domination, were part and parcel, intrinsic to the functioning of liberal democratic societies as well as totalitarian fascist ones. The individual as mere exchange value, a commodity, or simple vending machine was … Continue reading
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