Category: Foreign Policy

Bastille Day!

Le 28 Juillet : La Liberté guidant le peuple (1830), Eugène Delacroix. Tableau commémorant les Trois Glorieuses et symbole de la France, de la démocratie  et de la République (analyse de l’œuvre sur le site du Louvre).

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I determine who is a Jew

Interview with Dr. Hajo Meyer [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGa4heNE-SA[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGa4heNE-SA Dr. Hajo Meyer is a Holocaust survivor and anti-Zionist activist. He has been conducting a speaking tour titled “Never Again For Anyone,” sharing his experiences of surviving Auschwitz and his perceptions of Zionism and the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land. This video is a selection of clips from …

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Nothing ventured, nothing gained

While this cautionary tale of power and corruption is specifically about the caliphate of Rupert Murdoch, it reveals much about how powerful men like former Vice President Cheney were able to coerce the CIA and others to spoon-feed and self-redact and “sex up” the intelligence needed to justify criminal wars.  With, of course, the willing cooperation of the …

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Buy a hybrid

Changing the way oil drives US policy By PJ Crowley, Saturday 9 July 2011 21.10 BST … Twenty years after we went to war over oil and ten years after 9/11, America has still not connected the dots. This is not about the intelligence community, but American politics, policy and behaviour. We still don’t see …

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Committed to the rule

My lost boy John Walker Lindh Frank Lindh, Sunday 10 July 2011 … John Phillip Walker Lindh, my son, was raised a Roman Catholic, but converted to Islam when he was 16 years old. He has an older brother and a younger sister. John is scholarly and devout, devoted to his family, and blessed with …

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Turning the sun backward

How the religious right distorts history By Susan Jacoby, 01:31 PM ET, 07/06/2011 … On the Fourth of July, the Today show featured an annual ceremony at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s home, in which hundreds of immigrants take the oath that makes them naturalized citizens of the United States. Such occasions are always moving, as I can …

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The Wörgl experiment

Largely forgotten now (or intentionally ignored), this cautionary tale is excerpted from Silvano Barruso’s account of the amazing, audacious Wörgl experiment.  Had it been allowed to continue, the world today might be a radically different (and better) place.  As Børre wrote this morning, “In this age of collective despondency, at least on the part of those of who remember …

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