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 …
Category: The Middle East
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2011/07/10/buy-a-hybrid/
Jul 08 2011
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 …
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2011/07/08/turning-the-sun-backward/
Jul 07 2011
One man’s terrorist…
Here’s a bit of modern Israel’s ancient history, excerpted from the August 13, 1949 issue of The New Yorker (thanks, Børre). This fascinating paragraph from “Letter from Tel Aviv” begins on page 59: … “The terrible thing about terror,” said my young intellectual German friend, “is that it works. We did not like the terrorists …
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2011/07/07/one-mans-terrorist/
Jul 07 2011
Consent of the people
Monsieur d’Nalgar: Think “Electric Slide” and you’ll get a sense of what the Dabke is to Arabs. I don’t think the English subtitles convey exactly the graphic nature of the lyrics, but if your kiddies understand Arabic, you might want to wait on this one… The author, Ibrahim Khashush, paid the ultimate price for this …
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2011/07/07/consent-of-the-people/
Jul 07 2011
None of this is new
The Road to “All Muslims are Terrorists” By Gefilte, 07 July 2011 … It’s been travelled before. Aside from the fact that real democracies don’t persecute their minorities, Jews are reminded in many pieces of scripture to never forget when we were “strangers in a strange land” (see the book of Exodus). Maybe this is …
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2011/07/07/none-of-this-is-new/
Jul 07 2011
Good reason to be afraid
The world owes a debt to WikiLeaks’ whistleblowing By Amy Goodman, Wednesday 6 July 2011 16.00 BST … Last Saturday was sunny in London, and the crowds were flocking to Wimbledon and to the annual Henley Regatta. Julian Assange, the founder of the whistleblower website WikiLeaks.org, was making his way by train from house arrest …
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2011/07/07/good-reason-to-be-afraid/
Jul 06 2011
The people’s technology
The new focus of Syria’s crackdown has seen similar bloodshed before By Robert Fisk, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 … History comes full circle in Syria. In February 1982, President Hafez al-Assad’s army stormed into the ancient cities to end an Islamist uprising. They killed at least 10,000 men, women and children, possibly 20,000. Some of …
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2011/07/06/the-peoples-technology/