Aug 23 2011

Ils sont les mêmes

How long before the dominoes fall?

By Robert Fisk, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 … The remaining Arab potentates and tyrants have spent a second sleepless night. How soon will the liberators of Tripoli metamorphose into the liberators of Damascus and…  [more]

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Aug 18 2011

End of a world

Lebanon bans smoking in public places

The Daily Star, August 17, 2011 01:45 PM … BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Parliament Wednesday endorsed a law banning smoking in all enclosed public places, including restaurants, bars, cafes and offices. The law was presented for…  [more]

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Aug 17 2011

Are you fired up?

Dear Yankee

By Paul Burk, August 2011 … Here we go again. As you know, Rick Perry, the governor of Texas, is contemplating a presidential run, which means that any day now, your boss will be sending you…  [more]

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Aug 17 2011

How such rhetoric performs

Mr. Mileikowsky and the “seal of Netanyahu”: the perilous encounter between modern nationalism and ancient history

By Hussein Ibish, August 17, 2011, 6:21pm … I may be trying people’s patience a little with my recent riff on nationalism in general,…  [more]

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Aug 16 2011

Manchurian candidate

The sad facts behind Rick Perry’s Texas miracle

By , Tuesday, August 16, 6:41 PM … Rick Perry’s Texas is Ross Perot’s Mexico come north. Through a range of enticements we more commonly associate with Third World nations…  [more]

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Aug 16 2011

Conservative solipsistic morality

Teavangelicals: in capitalism and free markets they trust

By , Monday 15 August 2011 12.21 BST … Charles Finney, the great 19th-century revivalist and evangelical, would have had a hard time preaching a revival in America today.…  [more]

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Aug 16 2011

A confused mélange

Fetishizing nationalism

By Hussein Ibish, August 16, 2011 … For those in the grip of its authority, a clearheaded understanding of how nationalist ideology actually operates seems extremely difficult. All contemporary nationalisms are based on constructed and imagined narratives…  [more]

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