Jul 25 2011
How the Deficit Got This Big By Teresa Tritch, July 23, 2011 … With President Obama and Republican leaders calling for cutting the budget by trillions over the next 10 years, it is worth asking how we got here — from healthy surpluses at the end of the Clinton era, and the promise of future …
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2011/07/25/taxes-have-to-go-up/
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. …
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2011/07/22/state%e2%80%99s-ad-hoc-foray/
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 …
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2011/07/21/parochialism-and-arrogance/
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 …
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2011/07/21/fig-leaves/
Jul 18 2011
The US love affair with drones By Ted Rall, 18 Jul 2011 07:39 … One of the pleasures of traveling through the developing world is that things develop. They change. There’s always something new. Afghanistan is, depending on one’s point of view, developing, deteriorating, or doing both at once. Example: Last August found me and two …
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2011/07/18/no-casualties-no-problem/
Jul 14 2011
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).
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2011/07/14/bastille-day/
Jul 12 2011
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 …
Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2011/07/12/nothing-ventured-nothing-gained/
