It’s official. We know now that there is nothing that will ever appease the nutters who desperately hate our President. Frenzied conspiracy theories have always thrived in the fertile imaginations of America’s fringy shadowlands, those dark, squishy places just beyond the edge of sanity. But in this topsy-turvy silly season, with abject nonsense cropping up all around …
Category: Foreign Policy
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2011/04/30/southern-weed/
Apr 28 2011
While the poor shrivel…
Donald Trump’s lunacy reveals core truth about the Republicans By Johan Hari, Friday, 29 April 2011 … Since the election of Barack Obama, the Republican Party has proved that one of its central intellectual arguments was right all along. It has long claimed that evolution is a myth believed in only by whiny liberals – …
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2011/04/28/while-the-poor-shrivel/
Apr 26 2011
The chessboard is global
The African ‘Star Wars’ By Pepe Escobar, 26 Apr 2011 13:54 … From energy wars to water wars, the 21st century will be determined by a fierce battle for the world’s remaining natural resources. The chessboard is global. The stakes are tremendous. Most battles will be invisible. All will be crucial. In resource-rich Africa, a complex …
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2011/04/26/the-chessboard-is-global/
Apr 25 2011
The only humane response
Guantánamo piled lie upon lie through the momentum of its own existence By Julian Glover, Monday 25 April 2011 … Let them read the documents. Let them try to tell us after that (as some still do, even now) that the Afghan war was fought well, and fought morally; that Guantánamo was a limited and …
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2011/04/25/the-only-humane-response/
Apr 25 2011
Hear me roar
Rebellion: Smashing stereotypes of Arab women By Soumaya Ghannoushi, 25 Apr 2011 13:28 … The Arab revolutions are not only shaking the structure of tyranny to the core – they are shattering many of the myths about the Arab region that have been accumulating for decades. Topping the list of dominant myths are those of …
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2011/04/25/hear-me-roar/
Apr 25 2011
Dungeons and dragons
What the Guantanamo leaks won’t reveal By Darryl Li, 25 Apr 2011 19:28 … In the coming days, many will pore over the Guantánamo files released by Wikileaks to find startling revelations or to justify pre-existing positions. But before diving in, it may help to reflect on a few things that may not be explicit …
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2011/04/25/dungeons-and-dragons/
Apr 24 2011
Fascists using religion
Justifying a banishment By Admiel Kosman, 12:02 24.04.11 … In one of the versions of the story of Hagar, Abraham holds a feast to celebrate the fact that Isaac has been weaned. At that event, as it is written in Genesis 21:9, Sarah catches sight of Ishmael “laughing.” This is a vague word, which our …
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2011/04/24/fascists-using-religion/