The following is in response to a guest editorial by [name deleted], in today’s “In my opinion” section of the Sentinel Record. The full text of his “Without doubt, a Christian nation” is included in the comments section below. There is also a passing reference to a short letter, also in today’s paper (and also in …
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Feb 05 2011
Pray for Egypt
John Sagherian, Regional Director for YFCI/MENA, sent an email from Beirut night before last. Attached was an earlier version of the report that follows, from his friend Nabeel Jabbour. Dr. Jabbour has just sent me an update, along with his permission to share it here on “Blues for Levantium Lost.” Regardless of the particulars (and …
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Feb 05 2011
Rules for a revolution
Every revolution has its rules. Ignore them and the fire will burn out By Neal Ascherson, Saturday, 5 February 2011 From Tahrir Square, television brings us two sorts of image. The close-ups of men mopping blood from their broken heads, cowled women shaking their fists at heaven, boys with dilated eyes shrieking that they will stay …
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Feb 04 2011
Ehna kullina Misryeen!
We Are All Egyptians By Nicholas D. Kristof, February 3, 2011 Inside Tahrir Square on Thursday, I met a carpenter named Mahmood whose left arm was in a sling, whose leg was in a cast and whose head was being bandaged in a small field hospital set up by the democracy movement. This was the seventh …
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Feb 04 2011
Useful gangsters
It’s not radical Islam that worries the US – it’s independence By Noam Chomsky, Friday 4 February 2011 16.30 GMT “The Arab world is on fire,” al-Jazeera reported last week, while throughout the region, western allies “are quickly losing their influence.” The shock wave was set in motion by the dramatic uprising in Tunisia that drove …
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Jan 16 2011
Pity the nation
The brutal truth about Tunisia By Robert Fisk Monday, 17 January 2011 The end of the age of dictators in the Arab world? Certainly they are shaking in their boots across the Middle East, the well-heeled sheiks and emirs, and the kings, including one very old one in Saudi Arabia and a young one in …
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Dec 31 2010
A theory of everything
Introductory note: This explanation of the current political scene in Israel can easily be adapted to help explain our own emerging fascism, and the rise of our own American Hezbollah, which will hereafter be referred to as “The Tea Party of God” on this blog. The emphases in the article are mine, not Mr. Strenger’s. Here’s hoping …
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