Jul 23 2011
The omnipotence of Al Qaeda and meaninglessness of “Terrorism” By Glenn Greenwald, Saturday, Jul 23, 2011 07:24 ET … (updated below) For much of the day yesterday, the featured headline on The New York Times online front page strongly suggested that Muslims were responsible for the attacks on Oslo; that led to definitive statements on …
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Jul 22 2011
U.S. Blocks Oversight of Its Mercenary Army in Iraq By Spencer Ackerman, July 22, 2011 … By January 2012, the State Department will do something it’s never done before: command a mercenary army the size of a heavy combat brigade. That’s the plan to provide security for its diplomats in Iraq once the U.S. …
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Jul 22 2011
‘Haboobs’ Stir Critics in Arizona By Marc Lacey, July 21, 2011 … PHOENIX — The massive dust storms that swept through central Arizona this month have stirred up not just clouds of sand but a debate over what to call them. The blinding waves of brown particles, the most recent of which hit Phoenix on …
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Jul 22 2011
Remembering Dorothy Day By Robert Ellsberg, 7/21/11 08:19 AM ET … I met Dorothy Day in the fall of 1975 when I was nineteen. I had taken leave from college and made my way to the Catholic Worker headquarters in New York City, drawn by a number of motivations. I was anxious to learn something …
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Jul 21 2011
Why Reinhold Niebuhr matters now By Sam Haselby, Thursday 21 July 2011 12.45 BST … In the US, a Reinhold Niebuhr revival is underway. It received a boost a few years ago when Senator John McCain and then Senator Barack Obama both cited the theologian as an important thinker on the role of the …
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Jul 21 2011
The tragedy of imperial retreat By Tarak Barkawi, 21 Jul 2011 17:16 … Not so long ago, Western powers were doubling down on their commitment to Afghanistan. Dire warnings circulated about how the US “abandoned” the country after the Soviet retreat. This time, the West would stay and help Afghanistan achieve “stability”. It would withdraw only …
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Jul 21 2011
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKNpICMvtGQ[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKNpICMvtGQ Brilliant song for the Arab Spring by one of my absolute favourite Egyptian bands Iskinderlla. I had the absolute pleasure of attending their concert one month before the revolution began in Cairo. – Samah Sabawi Samah also provided the following translation: They say … What do they say? They stole our country The …
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